The ADORABLE UNHINGED HORROR of The Amazing Digital Circus! - A Review, Theory and Analysis Video!

[@blackdemonknight]

Gooseworks has confirmed that despite Caine's penchant for taking humans captive and tormenting them through hilariously deadly circus games and tricks, he isn't actually evil, just obliviously mischievous

[@jakalder]

It’s actually confirmed that Caine is not evil, he’s just an AI who wants to help but cant figure out how.

[@ianjordan8964]

Yeah I've heard him described by others as am from I must scream but instead of hate its obliviousness

[@Knosek]

It's honestly so much better that he's not evil

[@pogi7665]

And he actually can't escape from the circus, because he only exists just there.

[@JoshucaVA]

He no that's a theory

[@jessederosiers2184]

If I'm not wrong gooseworx, the director of the show actually did confirmed it

[@reyslothman9227]

When Kinger asked Zooble if they saw a game show is probably a reference to one of gooseworx’s earlier works Little Runmo.

[@blueandthecrew]

And also Elain the bounty hunter

[@reyslothman9227]

@@blueandthecrew I forgot about that

[@MegapixelMendoza]

Kinger is just the Gooseworx fan base who has seen all of the insanity Gooseworx released

[@thetwooofs763]

10:53 is the time stamp btw

[@AcetheGoober]

yea when i rewatched i realized that lol

[@Magicghost23]

It’s a good thing the indie scene is keeping animation alive after netflix pushed its the downstairs.

[@Thispersonisreal]

Warner bros literally kicked a cripple off a flight of stairs too

[@SethBatty-b9y]

Kingston sane Grandpa

[@jaco8822]

​@@Thispersonisrealnickelodean locked the doors with 50 gaurd dogs outside of them.

[@corllengatu]

Heh, the gameshow after a character gets eaten by something is a sort of Gooseworx trope that happens MULTIPLE times in her other animations. Kinger has moments of 4th-wall breaking or odd clarity amidst spacing out and twitching paranoid insanity.

[@pigizoid9924]

lil runmo 9:12 timestamp

[@tigerfire8985]

I have a couple of theories for this 1:Pomni isn't the real Pomni. She's a digital copy of her human counterpart who's possibly unaware of her existence and the same going for the rest of the cast 2.The office space is traveling through the computer's files with the void being the desktop

[@Popcorn58999]

Yes ❤

[@jebus4261]

That first theory actually makes a lot of sense, it would explain why there are no unconscious/dead bodies next to the headset, unless someone is intentionally removing them which seems kind of unlikely. EDIT: it would also explain the coincidence of Pomni arriving immediately after Kaufmo abstracted. Maybe all of the characters were digitally “recorded” at around the same time, but only arrive whenever there is an open spot caused by someone abstracting?

[@jekblom123]

She recognized her desk at the office.

[@tigerfire8985]

@@jebus4261 I'm going into this assuming I'm wrong. If she was transferred into the digital realm I would assume her body was digitized as well (Ala Scooby Doo Cyber Chase.) The way I envision it is she just found it, the headset scanned her mind, made a digital ai clone that believes its her, and that thinks she's trapped.

[@tigerfire8985]

@@jekblom123 We don't know if it's her desk or not

[@samueltrusik3251]

I love Kinger, he is not only traumatized, but genuinely mentally injured, with memory issues constantly popping up. He is a constant well of potential knowledge, hidden beneath tons of insanity and the remains of the original happy-go guy he was.

[@Knosek]

And that's why he's the most resistant to abstraction

[@catbatrat1760]

Also, as jittery as he is, he's also a surprisingly nice and friendly fellow.

[@lilithhyde1592]

Like Simon from adventure time.

[@seanmcfadden3712]

A detail I noticed that makes Kinger sadder is a door with a darker coloured Kinger like face crossed out. Kinger is a white king, so there was a black king who's no longer around as his counterpart. Could they have Abstracted, and could that be why Kinger is so jittery?

[@DJSlimeball]

​​@@seanmcfadden3712I think Kinger just replaced them, but also they're a queen piece, not another king.

[@ghillieguy52]

I liked seeing kinger oscillate between losing it and being totally upbeat, maybe his positivity is what has allowed him to be around the longest.

[@charlesvattimo4674]

I think Kinger has stuck around due to his waned attention span. Sure, he’s easily startled and confused, but he never dwells on any dreadful idea nor fixates on anything stressful. Kaufmo lost himself due to his fixation on escape, but Kinger’s poor memory would let him forget any anomalies he witnesses.

[@mynameispat_]

the "you didn't experience a game show in there, did you?" line is a reference to gooseworx's previous work, where the idea of a character getting swallowed by another character and experiencing a game show happens two separate times in two unrelated cartoons: little runmo and elain gets adopted. edit to add info: some people have speculated that this means that kinger must be aware of the other gooseworx "universes" but i really don't think it goes that deep, it's just a reference that fans of her previous work would catch and nothing more

[@battybuddy]

Actually it was Elain the bounty hunter. Elain gets adopted is the sequel to that. XD

[@jordanhunter3375]

For the time being, I'll assume Kingler either meant "game over", but his warped mind jumbled up his vocabulary, or he has an intense interest in game shows as well as insect collections.

[@battybuddy]

@@jordanhunter3375 I just assume ALL giant monsters that eat you have a gameshow inside them that you see if you’re in there too long. XD

[@Pootissue]

I noticed this too. Glad to see im not the only one

[@DARKANDGRIDDY1984]

dude, i thought nobody knew that lmao

[@connormarchand6302]

I love the fact that Jax is written so well I don’t think more people realize how tight of a right rope U need to walk in order to write a funny A-hole with having them come off as obnoxious these days

[@lucaskebow8368]

It unfortunately didn’t work for me. He comes off way too hard as tumble morally-grey sexyman bait imo

[@vi0let831]

@@lucaskebow8368 Lol fr

[@D.Wolf6030]

I think he’s funny but definitely obnoxious

[@iSmartMan1]

I actually disagree that Pomni taking the exit door meant she was being selfish and abandoning everyone. It's entirely possible that she had selfish intentions, and her reaction certainly suggests as much, but the same decision could have been made with altruistic intentions. If the exit door was real, she could have found the place where everyone else was trapped and do something to free them, or found someone who could get everyone else out through the door. Oh, and let's not forget, going through that exit door and being dumped in The Void was probably the fastest way to get Caine's attention! Even if she didn't know it would happen, there's no denying that going through the door got them help a lot sooner than they would have otherwise.

[@signedzulu7637]

Exactly! Not to mention it was previously established that these doors are anything but permanent. Showing up in random locations and disappearing as soon as they’re touched. If you see an exit door you need to take it IMMEDIATELY.

[@nessmarie6044]

@@signedzulu7637 not to mention she's barely known these people for a day. when ur in a horrifying situation where you're trapped in an inescapable prison that'll eventually drive you insane, i think it's p reasonable to take the first opportunity to leave

[@jamesverner9132]

Um honestly yes canie did appear because he needs to protect the void but pomni didn't know that would work. You also assume she would tell random people in the real world that five strangers are trapped in a video game. We don't know what she would do if she got out but the option to keep running away and not tell anyone anything was still an option.

[@iSmartMan1]

@@jamesverner9132 I already said that Pomni's reaction to Ragatha afterwards probably implied that she had selfish intentions when she went into the door. I'm just arguing with the assertion in the video that going into the door at all without letting anyone else know is inherently selfish.

[@xavierdiaz1776]

Also I'm pretty sure anyone there would have done the same thing. Last time she saw the door she didn't get a chance to investigate it and might not get another chance, its fair to be a little selfish and not want to lose out on a chance to escape purgatory or whatevers going on. She barely knows them and didn't ask to be here.

[@Phillylove100]

My biggest problem with Ragatha shunning Pomni is like…why? I mean yeah as the audience we know that Pomni abandoned her. But Ragatha doesn’t know that, as far as she knows Pomni went to get Caine’s help and came back with Caine and he helped.

[@catbatrat1760]

I thought she was just exhausted.

[@jordanhunter3375]

I will have to look back at the episode, but iirc Ragatha drags herself up to Caine, Caine fixes her, THEN Caine apologizes for the exit door. Which, if only they switched around rhe order of events, Caine mentions the exit door just before Ragatha appears, it would makes sense ro think that Ragatha overhears Caine and automatically concluded that Pomni found the exit door and almost left her and the others behind, or even worse, gotten herself hurt.

[@adonii8364]

I think it's bc Ragatha knew that Pomni didn't even mention her because she had to drag herself to Caine. He can teleport anywhere instantly and would have went to get her had Pomni said something and since it's her first day and she had been going on about an exit Ragatha probably concluded that Pomni ditched her to try and leave

[@mightyradish9672]

The way I saw it she just felt guilty that Pomni had such an awful day, and pomni felt guilty she sorta left her behind

[@Regfife]

She went to stand right beside Pomni, which I think counts for something...

[@SleepyWhistles]

I love pomni, she's just having a existential crisis the whole episode, 11/10 show XD

[@leondejesuscm4369]

Dude it's pomni..... D-did you not watch the pilot

[@TheLogreal]

Pomni*

[@YorkJonhson]

She's a good egg. Needs a hug.

[@ItsMeTylerrr]

You’re all wrong, it’s XDDCC

[@tarat428]

@ItsMeTylerrr that’s correct it is XDDCC

[@trampauline121]

One thing off about Ragatha tho that Pomni notices is her comment: "I'm sorry your first day here was pretty bad." Meaning that the characters believe that they are in here for the long haul and try to make Pomni as "comfortable" as possible. You can see Pomni's reaction to that line was more horrified than empathetic. She refuses to see herself as one of them just yet as she is still fresh in the reality she entered. So when she saw the exit after everyone mentions that "we can't find an exit", you have to understand that you have to grab an opportunity for an escape because you don't know the next time it will appear. It's not a selfish choice but a choice of survival. It's like a lifeguard quote i love hearing about. A lifeguard uses the body of the person he is trying to save as a shield to protect themselves if they slam into the rock in the storm. Sure, the victim's body will be worse off but the lifeguard needs to do it bc if they use their own body to protect the victim, both will drown.

[@katiesquid]

My current crackpot theory is that the designs of the circus members reflect what they were like before they joined the circus. Ragatha let people hurt her (emotionally and physically), Gangle would hide their real emotions with more positive ones, Kinger thought highly of himself, but in reality was very weak. And Zooble didn't have a strong sense of identity (which was confirmed by gooseworks!). I'm a little unsure about Jax and Pomni, but i'm sure if we get more episodes, i could come up with something!

[@arandomthingintheabyss2062]

For jax from theory I've seen the tldr of them all is he a guy who had to repress his hate and now that he in here he lets it all out

[@Agiven32]

While this is plausible the fact no one can come up with a valid reason for jax being a smug rabbit tells me it’s probably not a close theory

[@arandomthingintheabyss2062]

@@Agiven32 it kind of in the name a jackass jackrabbit

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

Literally the only reason I'm watching the show is because if there's one thing I'll never get sick of, it's characters going insane. I want them to see how long they last before final screw comes loose and all hell breaks loose.

[@ADudeWhoDo]

Jack’s name might also be a reference to the Jax game, which is an old toy with some pieces that some kids use for a real nasty trap, which could allude to Jack’s tendency to find amusement in the pain of others.

[@catbatrat1760]

Really? Interesting! I looked up "jax game" to find out what you're talking about. Do you mean "jacks", those little metal triangle-point things?

[@W3Rn1ckz]

Who's Jack?

[@ADudeWhoDo]

@@catbatrat1760 yes, though it showed up as Jax when I looked it up.

[@GlassesIncorp47]

If you look at the hallway scene, there is a door of a queen chess piece. She could be a lover or sister of Kinger, which could explain his mental state, but it's unfortunately crossed out, implying she's been abstracted and in the cellar. Also the stomach game show is a reference to one of Gooseworx's works, Elain the bounty hunter.

[@justaperson4656]

She's a black queen though, so by rules of chess they're enemies

[@EngineerRiff]

This review is more existential than the show it’s reviewing

[@xpro718]

I swear I saw u somewhere in a comment section

[@minidreadproductions2566]

YOU.

[@junjiecheng4431]

you've bene nothing but a Thorne in my side

[@dronesflier7715]

If you enjoyed Digital Circus, you might also enjoy Murder Drones (as you’ve already mentioned) also made by Glitch with Liam Vickers. It’s one of my favorite series! Also Digital Circus shares a lot of properties (eg game-warping) with Meta Runner, GLITCH‘s first animation project.

[@johnermactavish1162]

Watching murder drones now. These guys are KINS at 3D animation that is smoother then any known substance known to man and facial expressions. My GOD it is unreal how quick and human they nail faces.

[@dronesflier7715]

I agree, they really picked up talent fast.@@johnermactavish1162

[@calvineagar1863]

Glitch is on par with the giants like Disney and Netflix right now. They might not have the money, catalog or reach, but they've got enough passion and commitment in their shows to outshine them all. They're doing an online expo pretty soon with a whole host of indie creators, and Murder Drones is a must watch!

[@nuIlsky]

imo glitch is much better because 1. Creativity 2. Good lore 3. Almost all of the main cast characters are enjoyable 4. No one gets left out (besides zooble but im sure we will see them more in future episodes) 5. Cool effects and "villains" ex. Cyn, The absolute Solver effects, the ragdoll and game glitch animations in the amazing digital circus 6. Attention to detail like codes that appear for barely a couple frames in murder drones

[@Just_Fungus]

10:54 I believe when Kinger asks Zooble if she saw a gameshow while inside the monsters gut it was a reference to Runmo, another of GooseWorx's animations. In that short the protagonist (Runmo) gets eaten by a monster and inside its stomach there's a wheel of fortune that either makes the stage fill with stomach acid or barfs him out.

[@DragonFruitJuice-fb1yy]

OH, COME ON!!! I JUST MADE A COMMENT LIKE THIS AND I SAW THIS ONE!!!

[@Trainboi1983]

@@DragonFruitJuice-fb1yyleave it

[@inkblooded1058]

Y'know, I wonder how much of Ragatha's good attitude is spawned from her intense denial. Because she *is* in denial. She's pretending like everything is okay, but something I noticed is that particular motion where she swings her arm in front of herself. She does it three times that I can recall: While comforting Pomni the first time about getting her head together, once after her breakdown in front of Kaufmo's room, and again while trying to center Pomni's head and convince her to get help. I think these are key moments for her, where she's stamping down her own trauma and anxiety for the benefit of others, and I predict we might see her break eventually and get really, really rude/mean. But I think that's part of what makes Ragatha so likeable: she's doing her best, not just for herself, but for those around her. She knows that trauma dumping and stress won't solve anything, but I think she still needs to find a healthy middle ground. Would that a damn *therapist* put on that VR set; these tiny toy traumatites need one. And on Jax, I'm convinced his attitude is just him lingering too long in the Anger stage of loss. He's riding Schadenfreude *hard* to keep himself sane, at the expense of everyone around him, taking joy in their suffering to lessen his own pain. And my theory for Caine and his "spoiled" comment is precisely what we see at the end of the episode; that beyond the Void is... the backside of a computer screen. A screen that leads out into the one place Caine can see - the same play he designed his "exit" to look like. A cheap, run down, empty office building. The spoiling is simple; they are trapped and escape is less than a hope. It's a pipe dream. It's possible that they're even caught in a recursive loop at this point; a simulation that exists within itself, like a snake eating it's own tail.

[@leondejesuscm4369]

Caine has been confirmed to be just a really smart ai he is not bad its just that he doesn't understand "human emotions" so much

[@maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337]

Fun fact, when going across the hallway of character rooms, multiple of said rooms have X marks over the characters faces, likely those who’ve been Abstracted One of them we can see looks a lot like Kinger but as a dark brown queen piece instead Perhaps Kinger arrived at the same time as someone else and he’s crazy because he lost them and doesn’t want to lose himself?

[@averagecolaenjoyer]

To be honest, The Amazing Digital Circus reminds me a lot of Hazbin Hotel. You've got this big incredible thing that the show is named after, an omnipotent being who wears a red suit, a girl who's paranoid with everything and everyone, and a tall lanky jerk played by Michael Kovach? That's the exact definition of Hazbin Hotel.

[@jeremy1860]

Glitch have made one Hell of a good first impression with this new pilot 😊

[@Era_Playz255]

9:19 "He's a jack rabbit, and a jack-[REDACTED]!😃" 12:36 the entire time I saw Caine on screen during the pilot he reminded me so much of Bill Cipher and I LOVED it. I love characters with a "cipher personality" as I call it.

[@annanaiyaparker5816]

What's the redacted part? "Jackrabbit and Jack-" what?! I was gonna say "off" but think it sounds wrong 😅.

[@thelunchking4069]

I always think of Jax as Sans and Bug bunny as one character With the more calm relaxed nature mixed with the devious prankster act At least thats what i think Also the constant toothy smile

[@1dontknow1]

Yeah he gives me sans vibes too

[@SmartGamer1234]

I think one of the several things that makes this show so good is the deep existential crises that are so shallowly buried. These concepts are so complicated and yet the show seems to find a simple way to make you somewhat experience that without all the thinking. I have thought about this stuff for a long time and have come to some terrifying conclusions about life, and this show encapsulates that mildly well. Also the show is *really* funny. “Be quiet I can’t hear the escalator” XD

[@minthalo20]

I just realized that gameshow talk at 10:54 with Kinger has to do with Little Runmo, an animated film that Gooseworx made.

[@lilyaka9194]

One of the cutest moments Ragatha had in this is when she’s glitching out and she says she understand if Pomni doesn’t wanna help her 🥺

[@somesillylittleguy]

10:53 I want to point out that this is just a refrence to one of Goosework's older animations, Little Rummo.

[@Rootofevil24]

This looks like it could be a really fun experience

[@0g0dn0]

I personally DO count the moment where Jax knocked Kinger and Gangle into the hole as redeemable. No, he never stops being a jerk, but at the same time he does get them out of harm's way by getting them off the main floor and into the heart of Gloink Queen's nest, a creature far less likely to harm any of them than the Abstracted Coufmo. At the very least, he's taken on a role in the world of the Digital Circus, one that's harsh but sometimes necessary. Caine is a manic but clueless AI trying his best to keep things moving, Ragatha is a sweetheart softening the blows, and Jax is bringing the cold hard truth, and not for nothing, but he seems to be coping with life in the Circus a lot better than his peers.

[@itsbombervr8611]

Gangle is by far my favorite character, her character introduction was absolutely adorable

[@Cure_Hana]

Small correction about Zooble: they’re supposed to be referred to with “they/them” pronouns. I don’t think they’re coded as nonbinary, but Zooble’s profile states that they have not idea what they’re supposed to be, or even what gender they are. Jax technically refers to them as male at one point (“He’ll be fine”); though I’m guessing it was either a misread in the script, or Jax just didn’t care enough to correct himself.

[@justaperson4656]

Jax seems to not care about gender... At all, to be honest. He refers to Gooble(? Spring person) as a guy originally, then "ladies first". Jax just doesn't seem to care

[@Cure_Hana]

@@justaperson4656 When did he call Gangle a guy?

[@justaperson4656]

@@Cure_Hana 13:14 ish, "sup fellas"

[@thewoodpeckers655]

What I really love about the pilot is that aside from a few scenes, if you REAALLY want to ignore the horror elements, and just be like “haha funny rabbit man throw bowling ball and hits sentient chess peice square in the chest”. I like the horror too much to want to ignore it tho, but I still really like the duality of the show.

[@Dzidane16]

I just recently finished watching the episode in the available spanish dub, and the thing that stood out for me (as lore/theory wise, not performance wise), is when Kaine was in the restaurant, when he received the alert in the watch, he claimed, instead of "getting spoiled", that "ella arruinará la sorpresa!", which means "she will ruin the surprise!", I don't exactly know what to do with this detail, but I tought it would good to leave it here for people who are into the theory-crafting here

[@Yipper64]

9:57 the fear is the interesting part. He is a rabbit after all, a prey animal. I think the idea of his character is he puts on this tough, above it all, persona, because deep down he feels like a helpless scared little bunny.

[@ToonNoah]

the "game show in a monster's gut" joke is actually a really obscure reference to a small gag in one of gooseworx's previous works "Jumpmo" where the main character, Jumpmo, has to participate in a game show in a monster's gut in order to escape getting digested.

[@Justin-ul7fh]

Jumpmo? I thought it was Runmo

[@TomMalkonsen]

I noticed that Kinger loves insect collections, like LOVES them, so that gave me a little suspicion that Kinger isn’t all that he’s cracked up to be, I think he remembers parts of his past life, I mean in the scene with the gloinks queen he’s sounds almost excited when saying “An insect collection?!?” Maybe before he got trapped in the digital circus he had an insect collection that he loved? Or maybe I’m overthinking this entire thing

[@TycoonTitian01]

Adorable unhinged horror is the best way to describe this series

[@joshblackwell8632]

I do recommend Murder Drones & Meta runner by Glitch Productions but i can't recommend their series "Sunset Paradise" to you because only people that follow Meggy's story from Glitch's original channel "SMG4" would understand that series regardless cute and interesting it is.

[@LycanMOON]

I would say sunset paradise can work on its own,just without context you lose a lot of charm from meggy's character that would be already established for long time fans

[@catbatrat1760]

As someone who loves Sunset Paradise but is an occasional viewer of SMG4 at best... yeah... :/ I do kinda wish that they tried harder to give us a bit of context.

[@ghostkaiser1716]

I need to go into that game and give everyone a hug, because they ALL need one.

[@AlphaPizzadog]

My only knowledge of the show before watching was that Kevin Temmer worked on it, and if you've seen his animations you can tell many of what scenes he works on. (Like the one where Zooble strangles Jax, his expression is totally his style)

[@harlleygurrola8394]

I saw TADC two days (?) ago: great Show, great characters, great Adventure: so much intrigue and Mystery! So many questions, so Little time

[@tylerlyons1812]

Dude, I fell in love with this show so quickly.

[@_Muser_]

We all did, pal

[@MrKiller392]

1 thing I loved, is how other crew members represent each of stages of grief. It's kinda obvious, that Gangle, Ragatha and and Zoobie are depression, acceptance and anger. Jax is also mostly acceptance, cause he's just gets all noncense happening as something normal. And Kinger seems to be bargaining. He's not angry anymore, but more like, confused, still trying to fin a way to live like this. And with Pomni going throught Denial whole episode, turning into Anger at last scene, we have full set of stages. It's interesting to use it to think, that it can help us to know when others got in world. Most likely Jax and Ragatha were 1st one, joined by Gangle, Zoobie and Kinger later on.

[@jacketofdiamonds]

Kinger is specifically stated to have been there the longest

[@GeoSaber_]

So fun fact about the Game Show thing Kinger was talking about Its a reference to one of Gooseworx's other animations called "Little Runmo". At one point the protag gets eaten by a monster but there's a gameshow inside said monster's stomach. Said gameshow is called "The Gastral Giveaway"

[@jacketofdiamonds]

Also Elain the Bounty Hunter. In which Elain is eaten by Gop Donsterly, the criminal she's pursuing, and promptly experiences a game show.

[@user-Phoenix125]

15:00 wow dude, that is a very horrifying thing to think about. Seriously, that is scary to think about.

[@isaacengelking3259]

I am glad that I was not the only person who noticed Raggitha's eyes playing pong with her nose.

[@ztsquid3000]

I hope you packed your bags, everyone, because we're going on a trip. 🤪

[@TheBeaverFiles]

On our favorite rocket ship?!

[@duncanvisdavis1907]

I am surprised you never watched Murder drones it's 2 things you really love. Beautiful animation from an indie studio and an adorable romance bast of two odd balls. Also, you forgot to mention Kevin temmer tunes. The head animation guy. He is also a content creator and his style is shown everywhere so LOOK AT HIM.

[@just_jaz6370]

I am so excited for season one it's crazy

[@emilypurrentiss]

Pomni is not “selfish” or “deserving of being shunned” for taking the first opportunity she saw to leave this nightmare she was just thrust into. She has no idea what is going on. She has no idea who any of these people are. They are not her friends, she doesn’t know them (yet). Why would it be her responsibility to ignore the possibility of leaving this place she might otherwise be stuck in for the rest of eternity in favor of helping some random ass people she doesn’t know? But on another note, Ragatha is also my favorite character so far. I absolutely adore characters like her, the sweet, nurturing ones who try their best to take care of everyone around them even if it’s at their own expense. Probably because I see myself so much in characters like her.

[@sarafontanini7051]

The "gmeshow in the gut" gag is possibly a reference to Gooseworx's other stuff (little Runmo and Elain The Bounty Hunter) where the titualr characters get swallowed by a giant thing and experience a weird gameshow.

[@Ikigai_Composes]

10:53 that's a reference to little runmo, an animation gooseworx made!! there's a part where runmo gets eaten and is in a game show thingy :3

[@Stardust440]

9:17 “He’s a Jack rabbit and he’s a jack-“ KZbin put and advertisement here, perfect timing honestly.

[@Trainboi1983]

*IT DID FOR ME AS WELL!*

[@EngineerRiff]

I can’t wait for the next episode, but I’m not sure how long it’ll take to make

[@catbatrat1760]

Same :) :(

[@Destroyer_V0]

There certainly is some behind the scenes content that shows us some stuff that has been done to help speed up future production. Like animated walk, and run cycles for all the chars, in addition to facial animation presets. So probably sooner than we think, but not soon.

[@catbatrat1760]

@@Destroyer_V0 Really? Where did you find those?

[@Destroyer_V0]

@@catbatrat1760 Gooseworks has his own youtube channel, you can find some of the stuff there.

[@liarliarplants4hire]

Finn: “He’s a Jack rabbit & Jacka-“ [Gets hit by shield] Captain America: “ Language!”

[@d.w.2766]

10:53 It's a reference to Gooseworx's other project called "Little Runmo" In which Runmo gets swallowed whole and has to compete in a game show :))

[@Ikigai_Composes]

yayaya!! i made the same comment and im liking yours so hopefully this gets known :3

[@d.w.2766]

Thx! :))@@Ikigai_Composes

[@the_godbodor7026]

Gangle is my favorite character, just cause I feel so bad for my precious little theater friend. As you said, I really want a plush or something of Gangle, even if it would be impossible thanks to how her body is built.

[@Abobziel]

10:53 you may have a point here, but something i havent seen anyone else mention here is how this is a reference to gooseworx’s previous works, specifically little runmo, since in that animation the titular character is eaten by a monster and experiences a gameshow inside its stomach. Idk, i just thought that was neat trivia i havent heard anyone else mention yet

[@ThatGuyRNA]

Don’t forget elain the bounty hunter with that gameshow aswell

[@michaelnelson1127]

Honestly, the main reason I checked out this show was because I heard that Caine is voiced by the Autarch of Flame himself. But either way, I loved the pilot and am eagerly waiting for the show proper to start. Also, don’t feel bad about not seeing Murder Drones yet. I haven’t either. Also also, 16:05, did you steal that joke from Silver Keyblade?!

[@Trainboi1983]

I think it was from tawog,the episode where Darwin has a sneeze and sneezes acupuncture needles all over mr small and gumball,and gumball deflates and says “I can smell dancing and taste purple”

[@HeraclesN-fp1bw]

I definitely can’t wait to see more of this series with Kinger (voiced by Sean Chiplock), Caine (voiced by Alex Rochon), & Bubble (voiced by Gooseworx herself), but if you like some more indie series Murder Drones, Lackadaisy, & Monkey Wrench are great to check out

[@therandom442]

The "did you experience a game show in there" is a reference ti when lil rumo when into the frog kings stomach and there was a wheel... i think

[@DaSilverIngot]

11:22 couldn’t agree more, I literally just wanna give her a hug, she needs her comedy mask fixed NOW. I just love her some much but also hate all the ways she’s just bullied in this episode, like, poor gangle.

[@Trainboi1983]

I can agree sooooooooooo much,she needs glue

[@ryzone4254]

By the way, CAINE is also a Linux software from 2009. Since everything is happening digitally, there could very likely be a connection. At the quarters, you can also see a mouse on a door (and another character on another door, but I can't clearly see who an X was painted over. I think this suggests that at some point there were at least two characters who were already abstracted. When Kaufmo was sent to the basement you saw two more abstract designs there, I think these were in the doors that had a red X on them. You can also see many wooden mannequins (in the restaurant at Caine's, on the doors of the quarters); Here I think that these are the Npcs that Jax was talking about at the beginning (1:09 in the original video). I'm also convinced that Caine isn't evil, my theory is that he just can't help the characters out of the world for some reason, but does his best to make their stay there as pleasant as possible. He organizes games to pass the time, but does not force anyone to participate (Original 6:35). He also gives the characters food, rooms and works on an "exit", although somehow that wasn't entirely true since this exit didn't really lead to the outside world. Pomni (помни) is also the Russian word for "remember", which also plays into Pomni's loss of memory upon entering the world. I also think that Pomni's memory loss is progressing, which may be why she hesitated to open the exit door when Kaufmo chased her; because she had no memory of that door anymore. You can see from Kinger, who is said to have been there for a very long time, that over time you lose your mind there, but in my opinion you rather tend to lose your memory. Kinger sometimes just screams after looking at Gangle for a few seconds; I don't think Kinger is just crazy, as is supposedly portrayed in the episode; it looks more like he has some very advanced stage of dementia. Just as Pomni loses her memory, this probably happens to more or less everyone over time.

[@Billyblue98]

7:02 I think the interesting thing about this moment is that Ragatha probably doens't know 100% that Pomni essentially left her to suffer Neither Pomni nor Caine say it outright, but Caine talking about the exit doors (I'm pretty sure *after* Ragatha walks next to Pomni) at least implies it. So she has an idea, but it's not like. . . out in the open just yet.

[@sssspammywammy8319]

10:52 I believe the whole "gameshow" line is a reference to runmo, a popular animation made by gooseworks where a character literally experiences a gameshow in a monsters stomach

[@herostar8974]

Fun Fact: Pomni Is a European Word For "Remember"

[@jakalder]

European is not a language, your thinking of Russian. By say it’s a European word you are suggesting the many languages in Europe all have the word pomni in which in all said languages means Remember.

[@herostar8974]

More Specificly Slovenian

[@sino3318]

another amazing video man!! would love to see a list of your favorite indie animations, i've been looking for more of 'em!

[@DragonFruitJuice-fb1yy]

10:53 He was referencing a video that Goosework made called "Little Runmo"! So basically, Runmo got eaten and then there was a "Wheel of Fortune" kinda game in their stomach, and there were different prizes on the wheel and one school, and if it lands on the school, the stomacha acid would rise up, it happed twice in a row but then Runmo got out! I think that's what happend, I last watched it A WHILLLLLEEEEE ago!!!

[@BrodyDoesSomething]

Great review. Btw, when kinger asks zooble if she experienced a gameshow, its most likely a little runmo reference. Little runmo is something gooseworks made a while back.

[@dungusbungus559]

Possibly an Elain the bounty hunter reference too!

[@chaoticsilver8442]

15:37 "Is this whole show a commentary on the dangers of escapism, and how leaving our world to go into another will lead to more problems and mental trauma in the long run?" This is just personal speculation, but I don't think so. In fact, I think it's literally quite the opposite. About how we *need* escapism to stay happy, healthy, and sane. If you spend all your time, energy, and life focusing and obsessing about one thing, you're bound to break. That's what happened to Kaufmo. He focused so much on the thought of an exit, not leaving his room for long enough to write all he has on his walls. Long enough to completely abstract. Would he have abstracted if he had just taken a brief break from his mission to figure out the exit, to just enjoy one of Caine's little adventures? Replace Finding an exit with... any relatively important thing that someone may obsess and focus on too hard for their own good... A project of some sort, for example, or focusing on doing all they can to impress their boss to hopefully get a promotion. Sometimes, it's best to just step back, take a break... Maybe escape into a fun little adventure, or just take a nap. You can continue working on it when you've had a moment to clear your mind, and enjoy yourself a little. It's all well and good to keep trying to find an exit. To not just give up, and accept there's no escape, that you can't win... But if you spend every waking moment purely focused on that task of finding the exit, you're going to end up completely breaking down. At least, that's how I interpret things. Ragatha literally told us that Caine's adventures were something to keep their minds healthy and stimulated. And that's essentially what those adventures are. Distractions. A bit of escapism. Pretending you're in a world where Gloinks are a real problem you need to solve for a little bit, rather than just having nothing to distract you from the reality that you may never escape the circus. So, I do not think one of the core messages of the show is that escapism is bad. Not when escapism is literally one of the main tools Caine uses to keep the characters sane. Though, of course, all things in moderation. There's definitely the obvious 'completely falling to escapism and never facing your reality can also be bad' moral in there too. After all, if you do nothing but enjoy Caine's adventures, if you do nothing but enjoy the escapism, then you're just never going to be looking around for that exit. And as hopeless as things seem, we all know they're definitely never going to escape if they completely give up on trying. After all, the attitude that put man on the moon wasn't just 'it's probably just impossible... let's just go home, and play some board games or whatever to distract ourselves from the fact that we are trapped here on this planet Earth with probably no possible escape ever.'

[@blueseamonkey4558]

11:45, I feel called out

[@flopcartman]

I absolutely loved how this show is based off one of my fav books, "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"

[@ineskoch3927]

9:12 my favourite carackter is the one with da mask cus i feel bad for her gettin "bullied" by jack and i like shy /diffrent charackter but i respect every oppinion all carackters are gret EXEPT jack CAN U STOP BULLY MY GOSH DAMN GIR-

[@xN1ckname]

The gameshow kinger was talking about was actually a reference to one of gooseworx's animations, called little runmo! There's a scene at about 9 minutes in in that animation, where the runmo gets eaten by a royal monster, and there's a gameshow inside.

[@brightbulb1647]

You need to do a video like this for Murder Drones!

[@roseflood1612]

At one point, we see a logo with the initials C&A written on them. This could be a refference to the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. I think the big reveal is going to be there was originally a second AI called Abel, that acted as an antivirus of sorts. Somehow they got deleted (perhapse at the hands of Caine, like in the Bible) and Caine is steadily falling apart, with no idea how to operate things by himself. (Side theory: I think Jax may have been a prisoner in the real world, wich could explain why he's so anatgonistic to everyone else. This would also explain why he's so accepting of their predicament, as he has so much freedom in the Digital Circus).

[@arandomthingintheabyss2062]

I wonder what able would look like maybe a set of ears and nose

[@superstorm393]

10:52 Pretty sure the "game show" is just a reference to Little Runmo, which does have a game show in a stomach in one scene

[@J.P._Star]

10:55 This part may actually be a reference to another horror style video Gooseworx made called runmo. 📢 SPOILERS AHEAD FOR RUNMO 📢 Close to the end, Runmo gets eaten by the king-like entity getting swallowed into his stomach game-show, where you hit a block and a wheel spins,nit landed (al beit a bit rigged) on stomach acid twice before landing on death, runmo thought this was HIS death, when in reality, it was the kings.

[@JayCamm]

Finally! A great analysis. I'm glad bro acknowledged two things. 1. Gangle is the absolute best! 2. That Jax is a play on the word Jacks (Plural Jack) which means Jackrabbit, and Jackass.

[@animo358]

Dude you're overthinking it. Nothing about Caines body language had him pinnable as lying about the door. He wouldn't bother trying to keep them all mentally stable with Adventures if he didn't actually care. He's just following and evolving his coding. He has to run the show, no one can swear, that's kinda it for what he was more than likely originally programed with. Everything else is his own evolution alongside the guests.

[@minnion2871]

Well about Kinger, I noticed that he keeps mentioning an "Insect collection" and then later Jax mentions that he may or may not have left a centapede in Ragatha's room.... (I wonder if Kinger has a bug collection that was stolen by Jax, and then stashed in the rooms of other housemates...)

[@mozzapple]

Kinger asking Zooble if she saw a gameshow in the monster's gut was a reference to a previous animation made by Gooseworks called Little Runmo.

[@ImTheGuy]

I'm really glad your review ONE. Love to see it

[@d1egomon194]

It hasn’t even been half a week and it already took over the internet

[@lunathecutest6652]

at 11:03 in the video where Kinger asks Zooble if there was a game show inside the Gloink Queen is actually a reference to goosework's other animations where the main character gets swallowed and then gets put into a game show such "Wheel of Fundus" from Little Runmo. I highly suggest watching her other work, its amazing!

[@Eelektrossfan]

I know this is kind of unrelated to the theme of the video but props on using meat circus for background music, love that song

[@sula1014]

FINALLY I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR VIDEOS LIKE THIS tysm ❤

[@the_godbodor7026]

I'm shocked you of all people never watched anything from Glitch. Of the three shows, Meta Runner, Sunset Paradise, and Murder Drones, I feel you should definitely check out Murder Drones as it is just amazing. Murder Drones has six episodes out as of now with two more left for this first season.

[@cerabond7650]

One indie show you should look at is an oldie, but a one hell of a goodie, Madness Combat. the series is basically just one big bloody and gorey John Wick fight scene that has been stretched out to the point of losing it's own mind, with zombies, glitched out abominations, demons, there's even several points where the protagonist fights actual literal Jesus! It's one hell of a ride and I think you should give it a watch and maybe even cover it some time.

[@rexevans5477]

have a nice day

[@themalcontent100]

11:12 they are potentially the game creators being punished by an ai that they created, making sure they suffer as he suffered. This is based on the novel I have no mouth and I must scream.

[@timelordacaelus5959]

10:57 I think that part is actually a reference to one of Gooseworx's other animations, one "Little Runmo". Just go watch it and you'll understand... 12:30 Someone in the show's production (I forget specifically who) said on their socials that Caine is a case of an AI that is both naïve and lacking in understanding humanity, and is not actually malicious. And a lot of people seem REALLY eager to jump to that conclusion...

[@BoxDemon9656]

How did it take me this long to notice he uses the bfdi mouth

[@gamermeme1783]

The game show inside the beast was a reference to one of gooseworx old work