Squid Game Pitch Meeting

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Netflix has a massive surprise hit on their hands with the new South Korean series Squid Game, which has taken the world by storm. Over 100 million households watched the battle royale series and it’s absolutely taken over social media with its memes.
Squid Game definitely raises some questions though. Like how much is 42.6 billion korean won worth in USD? How is this cop so good at infiltrating an organization he knows nothing about? Was there every any doubt as to who would win the tug of war game? Why did Ali have to die? What is going on with those VIPs? Why did nobody try walking on the massive beams in the glass game? Why did Gi-Hun dye his hair?
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Squid Game! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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[@ScreenRant]

Which Squid Game episode would you watch multiple times and always enjoy?

[@DreamOfGermany]

Episode 6, I like the paaaaain

[@alena984]

Non cause I’ve never watched it

[@whitedragon9731]

The pitch meeting of it.

[@Kalypso_Belador]

The one with the glass bridge.

[@DanWilliamsKILLR0Y]

none of them

[@The-Rest-of-Us]

“How did the old man survive?” “By being off screen for a while.”

[@HarshGupta-zz9ur]

Was this written by GOT season 8 writers ?

[@The-Rest-of-Us]

@@HarshGupta-zz9ur In fairness they did have an explanation for this in squid game, so no hating, just thought it was funny :)

[@wikansaktianto9215]

@@The-Rest-of-Us No explanation, just off screen.

[@TheRestedOne]

If the point of the game was “Everyone is equal”, keeping the old man alive breaks that very baseline rule.

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@Octorocker743]

During the whole cop sub plot I found myself thinking “super easy, barely an inconvenience” as he basically played irl Among Us to astonishing success.

[@tims4502]

I was hoping he would do a backflip, snap the bad guy’s neck, and save the day

[@garavonhoiwkenzoiber]

He was a little sloppy on his venting, though

[@averagestudent1158]

Technically speaking, he would have blown the whole operation if not for his bad luck. Makes me wonder how is this super big organisation is still working from the shadows with their god awful security.

[@delsucksatgames4926]

The players played Fall Guys. The cop played Among Us. XD

[@KrillintheVillain]

@@averagestudent1158 he would've legit blown the roof off of that organization had he been faster

[@dynagaming2693]

"I don't like how this episode makes me feel." None of us did. None of us.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

I loved how it made me feel. Because 90% of things made after 2010 make me feel absolutely nothing. It was exceptionally well done

[@josephleiber9879]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Oh Il-nam spotted in the chat

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

@@josephleiber9879 Hey, thats not... Ok fair

[@josephleiber9879]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 😅

[@BadDubII]

made me sad lol

[@kal.august.yippee]

"A whole bunch of players are gonna die, and possibly a couple of Epileptic viewers at home as well." I died 🤣

[@CupcakeNumber23]

because you're epileptic?

[@fredericthomsen125]

Huge epilepsy warning for every single second of this video and for every single second of every video on KZbin

[@SovietReunionYT]

@@fredericthomsen125 What?

[@WillOfMyD]

Of epilepsy?

[@totaldramataco4961]

@@WillOfMyD yeah

[@Teague92]

"and where does the cop fall?" "Allll the way into season 2 if necessary" Perfection.

[@Teague92]

@cnmmd qiuoo Ryan George has the best takes on stuff. Better than Honest Trailers or other similar KZbin series

[@hannah1948]

@cnmmd qiuoo amen!!!

[@bumbr07]

into the sea.....son 2 if necessary

[@commandershepard5450]

Lmao this sent me.

[@SeanWheeler100]

He's not going to be in season 2. He's dead.

[@michaelcowart4760]

I'm literally only here for pitch meetings. Please never stop doing them they're TIGHT

[@hg_149]

Hopefully they're super easy, barely an inconvenience to make so we get tons of em lol

[@anthonysanchez4402]

Same

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

LOL, same.

[@jonathanmette8348]

Yeah yeah yeah!

[@LuisSierra42]

@@hg_149 ***SPOILER***** they are not

[@yelnik1070]

“Why’d he do it?” “Eh he was bored” I tried explaining it in another way that made more sense but that really is the perfect definition

[@computer_toucher]

That's what I liked about the ending. You expect a more complex kind of reasoning behind the thing, some attempt to justify it to us, but no, he and the other one percenters were just bored. So perfect.

[@Xolcm]

Still a better explanation than Kayaba Akahiko in Sword Art Online; at least Il-Nam HAD a reason.

[@angiewinchester3384]

I think him doing all this just because he was bored really brings the point home about the brutality of these games.

[@johans3164]

@@Xolcm anything had better explanation than....THAT

[@adamx9065]

@@computer_toucher Eh, that's what I really didn't like about the twist with Il-Nam. We already knew the VIPs funded the games for entertainment, so that scene didn't really reveal anything. It just seemed like a twist for the sake of having a twist, coming at the cost of undermining some of the emotional impact of episode 6 and creating the plot hole that Ryan mentioned.

[@ajwinberg]

"Solving things by licking things is tight." 🤣

[@chrismann9585]

I never wanna hang out with you!

[@wormspeaker]

I mean... it works on my wife.

[@A_Stereotypical_Guy]

​@@wormspeakerit sure does

[@luckoftheirish5662]

"The cop falls" "Falls where?" "All the way into Season 2 if necessary" Reintroducing a character who is obviously not dead in Season 2 is TIGHT!

[@Pscyon]

It's like when Gandalf fell into the sequel in Fellowship of the Ring.

[@PedroRodrigues-fh1ku]

and also very easy, barely and incovenience

[@luckoftheirish5662]

@@PedroRodrigues-fh1ku SUPER easy, barley an inconvenience.

[@spacewhale442]

no one saw ali die

[@platonicbuu7454]

and then he did a backflip and broke the bad guy's neck

[@ceilinh6004]

"Very angry playstation buttons" Yup. That IS what they are.

[@pmy643]

😂🤣😂

[@Dertro]

To be fair it took me until episode 6 to realize that the colored letters in the korean title card are the shapes in the squid game, and the masked dudes shapes are also the shapes of the squid game.

[@GD_Dripster]

Ryan George just makes that so funny

[@JC_Cali]

I both knew that when I saw them but didn't realize it till Ryan said it! Pitch meetings are tight!

[@ravenmorrigana1093]

First thing my husband said when he saw them was that they were the Playstation buttons.

[@robertgoodwin5671]

I was surprised there was no mention of the glass exploding and impaling/killing one of the people who won the game. I know she technically dies from another player, but she was a goner for sure after the glass exploded.

[@adamx9065]

Yeah, like what even happened there? Were there explosives hidden in the side rails or something? Some people were saying the panels were shot at with bullets, but that wouldn't cause the glass to fly like that. The closest panels to the three of them were all tempered glass too, so I don't understand how Sae Byeok got impaled that huge shard.

[@Kevin-cf9nl]

@@adamx9065 Yeah I'm assuming there were small explosives built into the rails for a big flash finish should anyone have been left on them. And they just didn't care too much about there being any consequences.

[@user-pz9ju6ss7r]

@@adamx9065 I was sure the glass panels had shattered because of the bullets. Machine gun fire could be heard there

[@andrewhopkins3397]

Given the repeated statements about how each event is supposed to be fair, her getting hit by the glass and not being treated at all doesn't make any sense. That clearly makes her be in an unfair position going forward.

[@user-pz9ju6ss7r]

@@andrewhopkins3397 Fair conditions were a lie from the very beginning. Age, gender and weight affect the result as well as the state of health. The involvement of that old man is an obvious significant interference in the game

[@RoshaFR]

I literally binged the show, just to watch the pitch meeting spoiler free.

[@kevinmckinnon8761]

Me too

[@LordGdawg]

It's a legit strategy.

[@Fu3g0.100]

Me three

[@kegsofvomitspit]

Several films I’ve watched passed before my eyes for no better reason than wanting to watch Ryan completely disassemble it later in a Pitch Meeting.

[@fuadyhidayat]

Exactly the same with me!

[@18grape]

"How do they realise that?" " *E G G* ." I love how absolutely no context is given 🤣

[@kpopnimation]

I don’t get it

[@royalpain9281]

@@kpopnimation have you seen Squid Game?

[@kpopnimation]

@@royalpain9281 no 😅

[@royalpain9281]

@@kpopnimation then watch it you’d get it if you’d watch it

[@lebensraummetal]

L'EGG! BBBBPTH

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

"With his smartphone, and unlike everybody in the games, this thing just won't die" This pitch meeting so so well written lmao

[@MinecraftIsLoveMinecraftIsLife]

1st reply on this thread. you are everywhere, dude. how many comments do you make in a day?

[@goji9892]

Why I'm I always early to this guys comments?

[@randomshenaniganery6697]

I see you in almost every video I watch at this point if I don't see your comment I will be extremely disappointed

[@DeepEnd2019]

Good. You don't have over 1k likes. Keep it that way

[@davidwilhite8639]

Unlike the show its meant to parody 🤭

[@AbhishekDe13]

I was rooting for Sae byok.. I was hoping against hope that finally, the show would show her being victorious even after being weakened by her injury and she would give a considerable part of the wealth to Gi Hun's mother and get her brother and mother and go see the island she always dreamt of going to, and remembering her friend who also had wanted to go with her. It was a cruel blow to see her end like that, when she was helpless and couldn't fight off the man whose life she just spared a few moments ago.

[@GalinaEv]

she is the only one who deserves to win, maun character is so unpleasent and even after everything he went though, still an asshole

[@the-engneer]

That ending would have been super cliche and ruined the whole thing honestly

[@helenemuscagorry244]

@@GalinaEv her and ali deserved to win, no one else

[@ErikaDali]

@@the-engneer Happy and cliché are not synonyms.

[@johnpreston230]

She had to die, would have been a terrible end otherwise

[@mikaross4671]

The detective story took me out of the game. He really did just murder someone immediately without even questioning them or knowing what was going on.

[@janebandoh7804]

I don't think killing someone during an investigation is allowed in South Korea or anywhere in the world for that matter. Maybe the squid game series screen writers thought that even if the cop knocked the guy unconscious and took his clothes,some people would still ask why the guy who was knocked unconscious didn't go back to work and report that someone knocked him unconscious and took his clothes.

[@PrivateJoker0119]

It was the VIPs for me, obviously the writer barely speaks english, it sounded like he used google translate and they just grabbed some american they saw on the streets

[@mikaross4671]

@@PrivateJoker0119 Oh my gosh, haha. Or just a really bad fanfic a 13 year old wrote.

[@CharlieBam]

His storyline was the weakest, but he wasn't a standard detective just working a case. He went rogue and was searching for his brother who had mysteriously disappeared into this shady organization.

[@DimitrijeBeljanski]

@@PrivateJoker0119 That's how people from all over the world felt when Hollywood tried to depict them with not even their people, but American actors :D

[@JFinker73]

"and there are VERY angry Playstation buttons watching everybody." Brilliant

[@johnjones7023]

Sony is piss

[@bestliutr]

There is only one X. Anyone noticed where it was?

[@juli197h]

LOL

[@HoDoBoDo]

@@bestliutr When they chose to leave the game, and press the X button.

[@bestliutr]

@@HoDoBoDo Yes!

[@quantum7046]

"And unlike everyone in the games, this thing just won't die!" LMAO BRUTAL!

[@kaitlinmcfadden7732]

Yeah, this was my favorite line! Ha!

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@Nekotaku_TV]

Good iPhone commercial.

[@xtremeskyman]

I want that phone battery

[@floraposteschild4184]

iPhones can be turned off. Might be a plan, if you're in a place with no signal.

[@Urotsukidoji1]

I will never, ever, get tired of Screenwriter guy saying "I don't know"..... makes me giggle every damn time. 😄

[@heavymellow333]

or "barely an inconvenience". lol

[@whocares9033]

Yeah yeah yeah

[@jojogacha974]

Or ______ is TIGHT

[@lorderik237]

"How do they realize that?" "Egg!" "What?" Love it 😂

[@robesch88]

Her?

[@hex3845]

What impresses me the most is how we knew exactly which team is gonna win during tug-of-war and still they made it so entertaining to watch.

[@roger_towny_jr]

Because the excitement wasn't from a question of "who" was going to win, but "how" do they win. The main character's team had 3 women and an elderly man against a whole team of 10 young fit men. That's what made it intense. It's the same with most kids shows. You know the good guy is going to win against the bad guy, but when you don't know how, it's still exciting.

[@TheDragonfriday]

You would always know main characters will win, like the guy said. It's all about how to achieve our.

[@hex3845]

We know they're gonna win by pulling the rope. There's no other way. What did it for me was the background music and how the scenes were paced. The "rhythm" of the whole sequence, if you will.

[@MinecraftIsLoveMinecraftIsLife]

@@hex3845 plus the old guy's strategy was epic.

[@julesmikell4198]

@@hex3845 they kinda won by not pulling it though

[@JDillander91]

There should be a Shark Tale cinematic universe. This is why executive guy got the job.

[@coolnerdlll6053]

Shark Tale doesn't deserve its own universe. We do not speak of Shark Tale.

[@JDillander91]

@@coolnerdlll6053 sad life.

[@crowwn649]

Shark tale, nemo, and dory kicking ass and getting lost.

[@solidhutyr1815]

Schaffrillas production would like to Know your location

[@kamenanew9867]

I was so not expecting the shark tale connection bits, that was great. Love this guy's mind.

[@chrissummers1556]

"Lots of players die! And also some epileptic viewers at home!" Hahahahahahahahaha Funniest bit in the whole video. Totally unexpected and very intelligently funny.

[@njerim.8534]

Right? 😂😂😂 This guy is gold

[@Segimaru]

Every pitch meeting is fantastic but this one was just spitting fire.

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

"Getting slapped around by a man in a suit is tight!" Okay, why not.

[@rsporsche]

But is he the slapper or the slappee?

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

@@rsporsche LOL, by the sound of it, he’s the slappee.

[@LuisSierra42]

wow wow wow....wow

[@MicukoFelton]

It is tight. When that man is Gong Yoo.

[@Artificial_Idiot]

It’s like the writer guy is getting used to it. That’s a good detail

[@kryssi8239]

“This guy runs a whole secret organization and doesn’t have a system in place to pay his rent” 😂😂😂 I just love how this gentleman is catching all the small plot holes we overlooked, simply brilliant!

[@pramitvyas3747]

Well that one kinda made sense, as it was implied that the guards, and thus maybe even the front man were also just being forced into this from a bad life

[@WordyGirl90]

I interpreted it as the brother being “called back” to the games to oversee them, because he received that box with a card. His place was tidy and not dusty. I think he’d literally only been gone a month tops.

[@kryssi8239]

@@pramitvyas3747 I got the gist of that, I only rewrote what the man said because the way he said was super hilarious

[@kryssi8239]

@@WordyGirl90 I understand that, I rewrote the phrase because the way he says it in the video is absolutely funny.

[@ghostderazgriz]

@@WordyGirl90 It is implied that this is not the first game he has run. I think the writers meant for the participants agreeing to end the games early to cause the game's runtime to extend which lead to the brother missing his rent payment but it's just such a huge oversight. Especially nowadays when literally anyone with a smartphone, a bank account, credit card, and an app, can automate their rent payment without overdraft.

[@RobertoBlake]

They glossed past the part where the protagonist is a deadbeat dad… 😅

[@SBzKillFrenzy]

Pitch meeting is more so about making fun of plot wholes. Him being a dead beat dad doesn't fit into it...and it's not funny.

[@CrazyRockwell]

Deadbeat dads are TIGHT.

[@CraftySouthpaw]

They touch on it briefly at the end.

[@sphjinx1448]

@@SBzKillFrenzy plot… WHOLES?

[@SBzKillFrenzy]

@@sphjinx1448 It was meant to be Purposely misspelled so somebody could come and correct me...giving me a perfect "Whoopsie" opportunity lol but it ended up with me having to wait a month for it lol sooo 🤷‍♂️

[@NotaRealScientist]

Episode 6 was heartbreaking. But the night fight was something else.

[@iampoch01]

The most heartbreaking in Episode 6 was the husband and wife who thought partnering up was a good idea.

[@OAcessoPublico]

Man, that was one of the saddest parts of the series. Tbh they going TOGETHER and AGAIN to a murderous game wasn't the brightest idea to begin with.

[@Yetaxa]

honestly it's frustrating that nobody considered the possibility that going in teams of two would mean they'd fight each other having avoided spoilers I felt myself wanting to shout at the screen that that was obviously going to be the case

[@radhiadeedou8286]

I still don't understand why everyone thought partnering with someone they trust and line was a good idea, they knew the game at that point, why didn't they think there was a 50/50 chance the pairs would be adversaries

[@Grasslander]

@@OAcessoPublico I didn't think about that. They obviously would not both go if they decided to join again, seeing how easily you die if you don't give an athletic performance. The husband would go.

[@morganross6399]

@@radhiadeedou8286 Nothing in the earlier games indicated that partnering would result in being adversaries. Just before it was the Tug-of-War challenge which gave them a false belief that you need to partner with someone who can help you win as a team. What would you personally do after the Tug-of-War? Without the benefit of hindsight, would you choose someone you dislike to partner with you?

[@hunterkiller1440]

Hiring unprofessional English speaking voice actors to do the dub is tight!

[@Healcraft]

watching any foreign language film/tv with dubs on is NOT tight

[@iguacu3517]

Watching someone's mouth move differently than what they are saying is so jarring for me, can't stand it.

[@Jebu911]

@@Healcraft Its weird how they like to do that in some countries. Im glad in my country only thing they dub are kids cartoons but that just doesn't matter.

[@pawelmazur8318]

Honestly, German voice actors are ON POINT because they've been doing it for so long and even they didn't do a A+ job on this one. It was more of a B-

[@swimteamizzle1114]

Just don't bother. Nothing wrong with subtitles.

[@mikeduplessis8069]

I get the impression episode 6 just about broke Pitch Meeting and they struggled a bit, for the first time, doing a comic send-up of the series.

[@seraphik]

"Oh yeah, a whole buncha players are gonna die, and possibly a couple of epileptic viewers at home as well!" 🤣

[@Dhavroch]

So true about the VIPs, seems like they just grabbed several expats living in Korea who’ve never acted in anything before

[@marcoswide]

I know at times I wasn’t sure if it was some kind of joke for them to be so bad at everything

[@wushu1984]

It was awful to listen to them try to ruin this great show

[@alexdewayne9392]

Yes. My only issue with the show

[@liamnicol9390]

Makes you wonder how people from other nations view our caricatures of them in American cinema.

[@comedyoferrors77]

They were so horrible. I thought maybe they were Korean actors trying to sound American.

[@crimsonshadow1649]

The other winner of Squid Game: "...with his smartphone, and unlike everything else in the game, this thing just won't die"

[@Ozymandias1]

It's a Samsung!

[@justaguywholikestosoundsma6760]

The other's phones were stripped

[@robertbeisert3315]

@@Ozymandias1 Little known fact, but Samsung wired the entire nation of South Korea into one massive contactless charger, so their phones never die. ... ... (Not really, kids. It's an amusingly exaggerated thought.)

[@loz1991]

The other winner?

[@crimsonshadow1649]

@@loz1991 it didn't die, so it also won

[@asterzerodog8971]

"Actually it's going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience" best describes the cop's arc for half of the show. Dude has bigger plot armor than the main character.

[@theduke9292]

4:55 I imagine it was because at the start there are waaaay too many people for bets to be effective. So by having them attend later once the numbers are whittled down they can make a more accurate bet. Imagine a horse race with 500 horses…no ones gonna bet. But if there were only 15 horse?

[@davidluchsinger7377]

Lol nailed it with the police detective subplot. He went from “this seems suspicious” to “might as well kill this guy to dig deeper” pretty fast.

[@BestAnimeFreak]

Yeah. First I thought, he just K.Oed the guy ... and then he just threw him overboard and I was like "wait ... did he just kill that dude?" xD

[@lionellyon543]

The guy did try to kill him first though

[@beewell1600]

well he did knew that they killed the first 200+ ppl...so

[@emp9413]

He knew it was real at that point obv

[@Lacota1375]

Kills a guy and puts on his uniform to sneak around? Must have played a lot of hitman.

[@veiregor]

"Whole bunch of players are gonna die and possibly some epileptic viewers at home too " 😂😂😂

[@aquila121]

Legit had to warn my friend with epilepsy about the timestamp range to skip when he mentioned being interested in the series. There were flashy/strobe-ish sequences in "The Dark Knight" that gave him minor issues, but I knew this show would be severely worse during the fight in the bunk area.

[@qureshizaid]

I watched it late at night with all lights turned off, you can guess what happened next.

[@jatilq]

".... what?"

[@sebastianmanthey742]

@@qureshizaid don't you mean: "You won't believe what happened next!!!11"

[@qureshizaid]

@@sebastianmanthey742 no.

[@his_majesty801]

Alternative ending: The cops sees that people are getting killed -> forwards his GPS location -> army arrives -> the end.

[@dreamer5959]

There was no connection on the island...

[@WordyGirl90]

…he tried to do that…

[@nxpy6684]

@@WordyGirl90 he could've done that a whole lot earlier if he alerted his superior about his plans from the beginning

[@popesuavecitoxii2379]

@@nxpy6684 he's the dumbest cop ever

[@espritdecorps5110]

It's the 'He just does a casual little murder" for me

[@armiya1134]

squid game: will it be hard to capture 456 people and take them to an Island without any one knowing? Korean police: that will be super easy barely an inconvenience.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

“Korean Police: that will be super easy, barley an inconvenience” While misspelling is the yeast of my worries, you might want to proofbread your comments before posting.

[@stevedore5830]

Lol

[@armiya1134]

@@TheRealNormanBates and btw thats least not "yeast"😂 lol

[@chaunceyphilpot3986]

Given they weren't captured, I mean yeah. Pretty easy when they all willingly come.

[@armiya1134]

@@chaunceyphilpot3986 yeh man agree whit ya still there where loops in the script

[@Jay501st]

Ah yes, Seong Gi-Hun, our protagonist who wants to be anything and everything *but* a father to his daughter.

[@Brad-lt2re]

Nice

[@LuisSierra42]

Sucking at parenting is TIGHT!!

[@DrMcFly28]

Oh come on, he bought her a nice gun for birthday and everything

[@killofilms4162]

But he returned to the game so that he can take care of his mother and daughter, he put his life on being a father

[@brandonwilliams6221]

@@killofilms4162 And then after winning…didn’t do either of those things. XD

[@TheWebsOfCorruptionNeverFail]

Binged the show with my cousin. Discussing about it afterwards, he remarked that the show seemed like it started off with just one Writer and they kept adding writers to the show as the Episode progressed till it peaked at the Marbles episode. Then they fired everyone and let the Corporate executives write a generic ending.

[@popesuavecitoxii2379]

It peaked when they all voted to go home. Most of the characters had no reason to go back, especially knowing it was extremely likely that they would die because there can only be one winner. The Squid Game is basically assisted suicide.

[@TheWebsOfCorruptionNeverFail]

@@popesuavecitoxii2379 I agree. They could have also replaced the Police Officer plot with the Gangster teaming up with the Yakuza to do a Katana Heist cause the B-Plot went nowhere and made no sense...

[@tabithaprovan957]

Just here for the neutral, or thoughtfully critical comments. Everyone was so into this all of a sudden it almost became its own form of sensory overload, and while I enjoyed and recommend it, I'm very surprised to see people call it original, or ignore its weak spots when they eagerly criticize flaws in similar works. This story is great, but absolutely not an original concept, not even by a longshot.

[@BEACH.LUVER101]

This one sketch carries the entire channel, hope he's paid accordingly...

[@ScenicFights]

This is exactly how I envision the Squid Game meeting. It's crazy how many people passed at first until Netflix produced it. I'm glad that they did. Sometimes you just have to take chances.

[@AliAhmad-zs4tw]

Man, have you SEEN the Netflix Pro Tips?!

[@Arigator2]

It's not a great script. It's the visuals that make the show. The first game is fantastic. After that it goes steadily downhill.

[@paradise_valley]

@@Arigator2 yep agreed, even as a big fan of the show, the script really isn’t amazing, and it’s even worse when translated. Really like how much of the creative decisions were executed however, and if anything it excels in functioning as an exercise in excellent and very cinematic filmmaking in television, as well as being extremely enjoyable entertainment, something which is unfortunately hard to come by these days.

[@Future_Imperfect]

Whats funny is how many people think this concept is new. There are like 3 movies I can think off the top that are like this that came and went without any main stream attention. Alice and Borderlands for one

[@stevenbrown1762]

I enjoyed the entire show. I didn't watch it in dubbed version I watched Korean with subtitles like a normal person. I enjoyed every bit of the show. Unlike some people I don't go into a show thinking about the script. I focus on the performance and nobody can say that the cast wasn't great

[@wolf-bass]

I am so glad that you also found the VIPs ridiculous! I felt like I was suddenly watching the Batman TV series from the 60s. After the first few times that they appeared, I always jumped ahead and skipped over their scenes! It was either that, or stop watching the squid games!

[@TF2Fan101]

BuRGeRs aNd MCdoNaLDs

[@MrEandc4life]

“And possibly some epileptic viewers at home as well” that made me laugh way too hard

[@879SCSP]

"After all those deaths, the people agree to go home" "Oh, so the series ends there? Well I guess we could sell it as a limited series" "Oh no, they come back" "OH REALLY"

[@wikansaktianto9215]

And then they recruit other for rebellion. So, Star Wars?

[@harveyjennings3729]

"Ah, voluntarily returning to a deadly situation from which you begged to be released and barely survived is TIGHT!"

[@Interestking]

@@harveyjennings3729 "Ohhh, learning that your life wouldn't be able to go on for long because your normal life is worse than the games is TIGHT!"

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

@@Onikage55 If they were American and died in an accident or got kidnapped or something, the US government would value them at $10,041,645.

[@Nameless82284]

Not all of them

[@chestertiggar3745]

"Cause you know You look like someone I might cast to play an Asian character in a movie" Never change Ryan

[@computer_toucher]

Please stop doing that

[@agusputraemassihombing6303]

@@computer_toucher No

[@ryanjanis9184]

@@computer_toucher Ok well no promises...

[@BurntMarioisreal]

Can you explain that joke please?

[@chromeorihara1949]

@@BurntMarioisreal The joke is about Hollywood whitewashing where they hire white actors to play Asian characters.

[@bluenta]

“Oh yeah a whole bunch of players are going to die and possibly a couple of epileptic people watching at home” he said that’s so casually lol

[@steamedbryce]

There are two things this channel did well: 1. Pitch Meetings 2. Absolutely dunking on the English dub of Squid Game

[@luxborealis]

There was a dub of the show?

[@jeffallanday]

@@luxborealis No. They just do subtitles. Dubs usually are hard to pull off well.

[@policerthought5649]

@@jeffallanday There was a dub of the show. By all accounts it wasnt very good 😅

[@frufruJ]

@@policerthought5649 A friend of mine said that he hated the show, that the acting was terrible etc. Turns out, he had watched it dubbed. It's sad how dubbing can absolutely ruin a show 😞 Yet, according to Netflix and HBO statistics, most people prefer dubbing 😞

[@Charmedsas1]

LMAO, the producer saying ''what is going on'' in a terrifying state is TIGHT.

[@merr5593]

“Ah, Solving problems by licking things is tight”

[@4plus20isHappy]

“Please stop.”

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

We’ve been demanding a “shark tales” pitch meeting for *years*, Ryan. Stop teasing us!

[@thiagoalmeida3234]

Oh, there is a shark tale cinematic universe?

[@charlesludwig8672]

I want a Hellraiser pitch meeting

[@pinkenbajedi2119]

I have been slamming squid game this week, just so I could come back and watch this! More excited for the pitch than the actual show.

[@Early2000sCringe]

"You look like someone I might cast to play an Asian character in a movie" I half expected a picture of Tilda Swinton to take Ryan's place for a moment

[@cukiblossom]

"The VIP's came close to ruining the while show" That's very accurate

[@hklegomaster]

Wait when

[@popesuavecitoxii2379]

they did ruin the show

[@djomla9999]

Their acting and dialogue was below porn level...

[@hklegomaster]

@@djomla9999 that’s what she said

[@danielbailey9049]

That commentary was dead on. I was laughing so hard I had to pause it 😂😂😂

[@anzor.nakayev]

Me: haven't seen any episode of Squid Game Screen Rant: Squid Game Pitch Meeting Me: Oh, spoilers from Ryan are tight!

[@pmy643]

I’m cackling 😂🤣

[@gonnhaze]

Ryan: Don't you think that actually understanding this pitch meeting without having seen the show will be hard? You: Actually, it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@anzor.nakayev]

@@gonnhaze for sure)

[@ashp5406]

And probably saved us bunch of hours of useless screen time....saving time is tight

[@TheDcapson]

I haven't seen it either, but I wasn't missing this.

[@mondler107]

These are just SO amazing! Never stop making them!!!!

[@doppio_77]

“That hurts me right here” “Wait… one of them is gonna die!” “I don’t like how this episode makes me feel” We know 😭

[@kgolomokwena6540]

“Where did he fall?” “Aaaall the way into season 2 if necessary “😂🤣😂

[@bambinocinefilo9702]

So satisfying to hear the word TIGHT more than once in a pitch meeting.

[@kjoc70]

Using a catchphrase more than once in the same video is TIGHT!

[@LuisSierra42]

Being satisfied with a pitch meeting catchphrase is TIGHT!!

[@adrianchatman5734]

Reading this thread and agreeing with catchphrases being repeated is TIGHT!

[@blackklash]

So satisfying to hear the word tight to describe something after 1996😂

[@malcolmcox18]

@@blackklash so what if your describing the female lower body part?

[@dereklynch5304]

How good is this show where the joking description of the marble episode gave me chills

[@mattsamples9002]

I love that the last joke is about the translation problem and my next suggested video was “10 mistakes in translation in squid game”

[@TimeBucks]

literally the funniest series on youtube

[@alpenjon]

What is literal about it?

[@DexgamingX]

@@alpenjon the fact that it’s the funniest series on KZbin

[@waelhassanmd]

@@DexgamingX literally!

[@VortechBand]

Well, Squid Game is kind a paint-by-numbers, but sure

[@Lewiss7423]

Starts the with word 'literally' Ends with one of the most subjective statements you can make.

[@fredrickodiniya6357]

"This team with the unimportant character loses" "Wow I did not see that coming"

[@missxspencer1538]

Everytime I saw a face I did not recognize, I just assumed they would die. And that was consistently right except for the marbles, the stepping glass, and the squid game

[@OneTopic]

*”Shark Game Cinematic Universe” inspired so much concern within me…*

[@danahousley-preaster2865]

Too freakin funny !! I love when you say," Suuuuper easy barely an inconvenience " I wait for it every episode lol

[@hardygal2]

“Very angry PlayStation buttons.” I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this. Before I knew that they were associated with Squid Game (which I haven’t seen yet), I was very much wondering why people were getting hyped up over three PlayStation controller buttons

[@farquoi]

you really really shouldn't have watched this before seeing it, it really spoils the fun by telling you that you're not suposed to know when you watch it

[@MarinaKalle]

"Oh ouch that hurts right here" .. Sums up everyone's feelings at every episode 😂

[@jorgemmc21]

This is THE BEST KZbin channel about movies. The pitch meetings are better than the actual movies/series!

[@shristiadhikari]

"licking things to solve problems is tight!"😂😂

[@JangaLangaBanga]

He's got a good point about the tug of war thing. Imagine a show where the unnamed characters would have actually won and then from that point the show's just about all the new people and all of the old people's problems are left unresolved- would be the point.

[@jordanwagner9249]

Basically what they did in the show Alice in borderland

[@hetoverseo3887]

@@jordanwagner9249 I actually liked how they had the guts to kill the main characters like that, people who had ambitions and dreams and made the protagonist learn how to value his life. Totally changed the pace of the series.

[@felynecomrade]

Only thing I can think of even kind of like that is Game Of Thrones, but that's because there are a few people on every side who are main characters.

[@rosestar1324]

You would have to be careful with that. If that episode is too late in the series, there wouldn't be enough time to reintroduce main characters for it not to be jarring.

[@ReddSquall]

@@jordanwagner9249 Thanks for spoiling it.

[@nisargu5300]

There is a big plot hole that everyone misses involving the way the cop infiltrated the place. It is physically impossible that he could have fit under that car with his massive balls.

[@masterYoshimistsu]

Fitting under the car is actually super easy, barely an inconvenience

[@dpretzer2304]

ha! that made me spit beer all over the screen!

[@Killer4fun]

No need for massive balls when you wear plot armor.

[@sidemachine]

I love these Pitch Meeting videos and this Squid Game one is one of THE best yet! HILARIOUS! THANK YOU FOR THIS!

[@kimjanek646]

Man, the Marble Episode really hit hard. I was like 😢😢😢 Right in the feels.

[@huawafabe]

You forgot to address the fact that they only won the tug of war game because the elevator took 15min to get up to like 10 meters max, so the old guy could explain the strategy :D

[@RGC_animation]

Prolonging an obviously short duration event is tight

[@sonoftheway3528]

maybe the old guy planned for that

[@noorkhalil638]

You need 15 meters to kill half the players and 25 meters to kill 100%. Since some were alive, we know that the max was 25 meters.

[@bestliutr]

@@noorkhalil638 99%. More than a fozen people in history have fall from much higher and lived.

[@jeffallanday]

You caught that too?

[@SHOW_Films]

Boss: So how does the main character win? Screen writer Guy: He does a backflip snaps the bad guys neck and saves the day!

[@rahanm7307]

lol

[@gani9176]

And in this case literally except the bad guy snaps his own neck

[@jasonlucas7845]

Which pitch meeting is that from already

[@brucelee1048]

@@jasonlucas7845 the first guy to write fiction

[@donkeykong8389]

He does a back flip and the bad guy stabs his neck and saves the day.

[@Freddiefresh12]

The Tug of War seen description was the funniest thing I have heard all week 😂

[@killerb187r.o.dstunna9]

As always you find all the holes in the show, that's what I love about this.

[@humanbeingdood]

"Take down the games instead of taking care of his daughter." Honestly this part was what I didn't like about the ending

[@victoriakaren2324]

Same

[@uno23sleep]

It felt tlike he was self-sabotaging his chance for happiness.

[@arthurtwa]

Many aspect of the final chapter were truly awful, rushed and not very well thought of. I still don't get how this series was so famous, it was mediocre at best.

[@Soft_Ghost]

​@@arthurtwa It's mainly the aesthetic that makes this thing famous. The writing is mediocre, but art direction is kinda nice. Also, it's meme worthy.

[@AirQuotes]

Yep but I was disappointed but not surprised as he's a bad dad

[@hopelessclown]

The VIPs actually mention that they have big screens at home that they can also watch the games on, they just came there in person to get a better view of the last couple games.

[@Krackerjax]

Yeah but thats like watching a football game on your TV at home, then going to the stadium to just watch the last quarter in person.

[@ToniGek]

@@Krackerjax No, it's like watching the World Cup at home until the semi-finals and final.

[@codyleslie478]

Yea but they still dont watch it in person they watch it on screens

[@phatlewt2932]

i wouldn't even bother watching anything until the finals of football tournaments so that part in the show wasn't unrealistic at all, it would've been better though if the vips were shown in the early episodes

[@TraceguyRune]

@@Krackerjax No that's like watching a football season on TV and then watching the Superbowl in person

[@MauryFuentealba]

Finally watched the series, just to watch this after, great as usual!

[@kojimo1313]

Pitch meetings are the perfect form of humor I've seen in years. Please continue to do what you do!

[@brooksmiller5597]

1:17 - THANK YOU! The whole show I was just waiting for the "X" character to show up to complete the playstation button theme

[@mikezinj]

You know theyre the shapes from the actual squid game they play, right?

[@NinjagoNoober]

@@mikezinj where is the X! I need the X!

[@aztn19]

No X Button, but the cop’s brother does wear a mask where he looks like Polygon Man so the PlayStation theme is still intact kinda 🤷🏾‍♂️🙃

[@jeffallanday]

The old man should have had the X mask then it would have been complete.

[@Sixtybolts]

Best line: 'Everybody's in a numbered tracksuit and there are very angry PlayStation buttons watching everybody.'

[@SHINeeKeyofLucifer]

7:13 Gold reaction

[@ORProductionss]

Theory: season 2 games will be different than season 1, and the main character who survived last game tell others he knows what will happen, but it later wrong when seeing that the games have changed 1:18 lol 3:05 lol 3:24-3:28 lol 4:43 lol

[@scottwagner2566]

“And unlike everybody in the games, this thing just won’t die!” Thank you! I can suspend my disbelief for a lot of things, but I have never seen a smartphone with a 6 day battery life.

[@RealFableFox]

Search for Black View rugged phone (60 days standby time). I haven't watched the series, but if he is investigative cop, there is good reason he might be using rugged military standard phone (so it can be used anytime - even in rain) and bit tougher (since he might rumble with suspect, don't want a cracked screen every time suspect throw a fight). A lot of rugged phone these days has a long battery life. If the character switch it off between use, then the battery should last longer.

[@armanke13]

I thought he must've turned off his phone when not use

[@Suhaan600]

*unlike

[@vedantphuse]

Energizer 20,000 mAh Phone 😂😂

[@Psychetwo]

Arief Rakhman yea so many people talks about his phone long life battery. Did they all forget you can turn off your phone and it will save a lot of battery.

[@chrisleneil]

“Egg!” Made me laugh WAY too hard for some reason.

[@Diispaceyone]

Just finished the series so I could watch this pitch meeting!

[@livii3278]

Hilarious, well done, and thank you for taking the time to create such a masterpiece!

[@silenthero2795]

"So we're not gonna explain that forgettable human organ trafficking scheme which is totally unnecessary and doesn't add to the plot?" "YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!"

[@amosonchari2324]

But it did! It helped a certain team cheat

[@AsiaDanceScene]

It was also to show that the rules applied to both the contestants and the angry PS buttons

[@dennygirldenise2550]

They were not trafficking them they were donating them

[@djrascal445]

@@dennygirldenise2550 They sold them to chinese buyers. They mentioned not getting full price because they only had one kidney.

[@missxspencer1538]

I was SO baffled by the inconsistency of the organ trafficking!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Grasslander]

Korean producer: "We should have the VIPs say 'fuhcking' and 'you fuhckwad' and so on a lot, because that's how they talk in the America. It's realistic!"

[@zeddwulfen7737]

I mean, it is. lol. Also they aren't all American which shows in their accents.

[@SurferMan127]

Are people dumping on the VIP characters and their role in the story? Their performances were not bad, in fact they are pitch perfect and exactly what they needed to be. Moreover their inclusion in this is a pretty critical component of the show’s allegory about inequality. They didn’t “almost ruin Squid Game.”

[@Grasslander]

@@SurferMan127 "in fact they are pitch perfect" That's a hilarious display of unique taste, thank you for that entertainment. The VIPs produced some horrible acting and over the top dialogue, that is universally recognized.

[@zacharygilmore1075]

@@Grasslander I thought the over-the-top dialogue was on purpose. These are trashy, disgusting billionaires after all. Not exactly meant to be compelling characters.

[@PrivateJoker0119]

@@zacharygilmore1075 you can make trashy billionaire type villains too by using smarter dialogues, their scripts and delivery is just trash

[@zbanul10]

Finally a pitch meeting I had to wait to watch cause squid game is the only show I haven’t seen that I wanted to before the pitch meeting

[@KingBattlon]

One of the best pitch meetings yet! Keep up the great work

[@jeffallen55]

"Why is the last game called Squid Game?" "Because of the shape of the arena." "So, the arena is in the shape of a squid?" "No, not at all actually. But we're going to pretend that it is." "Fair enough."

[@OhNoNotAgain42]

“The last game is Squid Game”. “That’s the name of the series!”

[@wikansaktianto9215]

"At first thought I was trying to name it Player Unknown Battleground or Among Us"

[@evankraabel5415]

Between this and Queens Gambit, I've cracked netflix's title formula: Just take a thing thats barely relevant to even the one episode that it is even in, and call it that.

[@commander3576]

If you rewatch episode one, in the beginning they explain why it’s called squid game and how it ties to the show. I don’t want to post spoilers but if you don’t get it from the first episode scene then that’s on you. They explained it and did it beautifully if I might say so.

[@evankraabel5415]

@@commander3576 I mean I saw the first scene of the show, but it had a very vague "this'll be important later" vibe. And it never was.

[@super_sonic181]

Not knowing what players did whole day while participating in 30mins games is tight.

[@TheKaurK]

Pretty sure they showed when they were sleeping, when they strategized, when they chatted away for fun, when they ate, even when they had to go tinkle, etc.

[@andycheung9760]

And was jumping on glass a common childhood game?

[@benjaminlore6633]

@@andycheung9760 i think it was supposed to be hopscotch

[@dv9239]

That would be like watching big brother

[@gamesturbator]

I just finished watching it. I cried in episode 6. It's one of the best series I have ever seen. Farscape is number one.

[@heatherl6107]

This tells me all i need to know and am so relieved i didn't watch the actual show.