The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 2 Reaction

[@artud2158]

Fun fact: If you go to glitches account and click Community, scroll down and you’ll see the team eat some candy while Pomni is in the background putting a picture frame of Gummgoo next to Kaufmo

[@sovks]

That's a sad fact 😢

[@PotatoDude09]

Kaufmo*

[@arthurjeremypearson]

Kaufmo might be referring to Kaufman or Kafka. Andy Kaufman is a performance artist who got into comedy clubs as a comedian, but never intended to entertain the audience with jokes. One time, he started reading "The Grapes of Wrath" on stage and when the audience complained he wasn't being funny, he offered to play a record instead. Thinking it was music the audience said yes but when he started playing it, the record was just a recording of him reading "The Grapes of Wrath." So he was a comedian who didn't get laughs. Kafka wrote a book "metamorphosis" about a man who inexplicably transforms into a giant cockroach, with his mind fully intact but unable to move on his own very easily. So that was a man turned into a monster without his control.

[@jamesalexander5559]

To answer your question about the teapot, that teapot is a very important piece of history in the CG industry. It originates from the University of Utah and was created by Martin Newell for the University's computer graphics program. He needed a household object to show off the capabilities of the rendering engine the University created and his wife suggested that he recreate a teapot that they owned. Other University's from around the world would later use the teapot's geometry (since Martin provided the location for all the vertices that make up the teapot model) in their own rendering showcases. Nowadays the teapot is typically used when testing out things like lighting or texture materials in a rendering engine since using a "simple" model makes your testing and iterating faster. Or in some cases it's just used as a neat little reference. I don't know if The Amazing Digital Circus is using the original teapot model or not though since it's a little difficult to work with due to it's age.

[@forastero54321]

Thanks for that. I had absolutely no idea what the deal was with the tea pots. Makes their work a whole lot more interesting.

[@milesprower6110]

@@forastero54321 it was totally a moment like in that first episode from Rick&Morty season 2 when cat's were flying on the background xd

[@MattTOB618]

For example, Toy Story uses the model in the scene where Buzz disassociates due to learning he's a toy, playing tea party with two decapitated dolls.

[@jamesalexander5559]

@@MattTOB618 I totally forgot about that fact.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2]

Wow, thanks so much for this info 😀

[@samdavid5772]

If you don't know the history of 3d modeling then the teapots floating around may seem random. But it's because that teapot is the first object to ever be made in cg

[@Crocogator]

Gummigoo lives on in a veRY HIGHLY MARKETABLE PLUSHIE! PREORDER NOW!

[@ericjohnson6120]

a very NON-EDIBLE plushie

[@Crocogator]

@@ericjohnson6120 please do not eat the plushie

[@ThrashRats]

@@Crocogator WAITER! WAITER! MORE GUMMIGOO PLUSHIES PLEASE!

[@adamk-paxlogan7330]

Fr😂

[@Rubberman202]

@@ericjohnson6120 Perfect for *NOT EATING*

[@Geth-Who]

That end piece of music is called Not Alone. Valid.

[@faithrabbit4330]

"Submissive and agreeable" I laughed harder at that than i'd like to admit😅

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2]

😜

[@Golems_victory]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2 jax got my humor lol 🤣. I'm glad there's characters I can relate to so can others. Btw u guys are fun to watch 😎❤️👍🏻

[@TerryRWilliams]

There is literally 1 or 2 frames showing Jax show sadness before falling back into his own protective bubble just before kaufmo's funeral.

[@TheRhuen]

the sad thing about the funerals is, and maybe why Jax rolled his eyes at them, is they are basically writing off those people as "gone forever" when in reality their minds are lost in internal reflection chaos "abstraction" that caused their digital avatars to go "feral" and glitching. In reality such people could be treated, taken care of in a mental hospital etc...however Caine does not understand humans or their actual needs so treats them as "not players anymore" and just moves them out of sight and out of mind. So too bad a psychologist never ends up there and convinces Caine to set up a cozier and more mental health friendly environment other than dark wet pit. Which is made even worse when we remember Caine may be who caused Kaufmo to go insane, given Pomni's experience and what Kaufmo wrote on his walls. Kaufmo was tracking down the exit doors, going through them, possibly even going into the void only for Caine to keep bringing him back *Kaufmo wrote as much on the wall near with a drawing of Caine*, causing Kaufmo to become obsessed and keep trying and possibly planning a who knows how many attempts later in his room till he just completely lost it in how futile it was while believing he was just so close to escaping before Caine would pull him back.

[@icemagiciangh]

Little fact about the tea pots- they’re a reference to animating practice. They can help with understanding lighting.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2]

😎👍😀

[@IGN_OFFClAL]

I think your interpretation of jax is spot on. I even explain it the same way with GTA analogy.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2]

Seems like it's his way to not go crazy in there. Thus keeping him alive 🤔

[@theradiantdehd3997]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2I agree. There’s a moment right before Kaufmo’s funeral where it shows Jax’s expression fall into sadness and grief for just a split second before putting on a mask of being angry and leaving. It really does seem like he’s suffering but is lashing out at everyone around him to both hide his actual feelings and to keep himself entertained and sane. He is an outright dick though, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he turns into a tragic antagonist. Some people are claiming he’s outright evil in the second episode but that he was a funny jerk in the first, but I’d argue that his actions in this episode are pretty in line with the first, just played up slightly less for humor. He torments others to distract himself, and it feels more like he’s doubling down on his facade as it cracks, instead of actually getting much worse.

[@Crocogator]

Kinger, Zooble, Ragatha and Gangle are the ones that caught Pomni at the end. Jax is not there.

[@theradiantdehd3997]

Even though you wouldn’t expect them to be there regardless, neither is Caine and Bubble. Granted Bubble doesn’t have hands, and Caine doesn’t make much sense to be there, but Jax is definitely noteworthy.

[@kingrickda25th98]

Kinger wasn’t there, it just was the other 3 at the end.

[@Crocogator]

@@kingrickda25th98 Look again. He's there. He doesn't have arms so it's easy to miss, but his hand is there.

[@YuyuHakurei]

Kinger is not there. Gangle is the third hand. It's just a ribbon though. His hands are also pure white. They would be blindingly obvious if they were there because they'd be the only white hands. Thematically they should be there. Kinger prob thought more about pomni than 2 of the other 3 did. xD

[@cidrain]

I completely buy the theory that Jax is an NPC who managed to make Cain forget he wasn't human.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2]

😯 That's a fun theory 😀

[@Golems_victory]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2 I agree 😂 yeah imagine that was confirmed

[@ethank6406]

I think that ragatha is an npc cuz that would explain why she’s so nice and follows along with everything for essentially no reason

[@matthewquach2705]

Only problem with that theory is that he specifically makes a reference to Willy Wonka hence the line: "We're one tanker away from being Augustus Glooped", which is something only a human would know, so it's more safe to assume he's a hacker troll.

[@YuyuHakurei]

Ya theories like that probably don't really work for this series unless they are copies of real people. This is the kind of series that solidifies their basis like iron early. So there is no going against it. Lots of series do this, but they are often weekly shows. These wild theories pop up for things that take a long time to make. They will likely disprove this 100 more times in episode 3 and 4. It's too important to this episodes themes that they can't be npcs. Since it's about acknowledging the real people around you over the npcs.

[@icemagiciangh]

Do you ever wonder if Pomni can take her hat off, or if it’s on there as a permanent design?… I’m curious what her hair looks like

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2]

Hadn't actually thought of that before 😯

[@YuyuHakurei]

Most video games don't render faces or hair if you can't see them. By that logic no, but a future episode could address this if they ever took her hat off.

[@MBYui]

The scene with Pomni and gummigoo reminds me of that 1 scene in inside out a bit

[@kaylasilverstein4137]

I’m glad he at least made it out of the pit with her tho XD. Idk why but I feel like it would’ve been sadder if she had to just leave him down there the way Joy had to leave Bing Bong…

[@feralprocessor9853]

Right off the bat, Pomni is having an existential crisis.

[@SeroSaber]

The whole series is very fun with its animation and the whole idea of existentialism is fantastic with a balanced cast of people, but from what it comes after this is darker as the series will go, plus the gummygoo plush sounds fun!

[@feralprocessor9853]

Kinger got KNOIVES!

[@encyclochemeleon276]

The teapots are a reference to the I believe first ever 3d model and it’s kind of a joke in the modeling community

[@alessandroreyes3827]

R.i.p. gumigo. Althought he may have died his death wasnt in vain. From cain dialogue many people pointed out that it seems like a foreshadowing that cain did lost sight of who is an npc and who isnt wich means that probably someone in the cast is a npc.

[@Razgriz_01]

Either Kinger or Jax is my guess. Plot wist would be everyone else is an NPC and Pomni is the only human, which is the reason why she keeps ending up outside the map.

[@kantpredict]

Or he mistook a human for an NPC and snapped a human out of existence

[@Literallyjustmint]

Doesnt follow logically

[@theradiantdehd3997]

@@Razgriz_01I doubt it could be anyone but Kinger since he had been there the longest and would know they’re an NPC. Maybe he’s forgotten about that or he knows but refuses to tell so he has a friend, but I’m not convinced on the NPC theory. It could also be that Caine tried to snap an actual human out of existence or just a deep seated fear of his. I also think the theory that none of them are truly human, but are rather scans of the brains of people who put on the headset instead, and that they’re not entirely human.

[@theradiantdehd3997]

@@LiterallyjustmintIt does follow logically, there are just major plot holes. If Kinger truly was there first he would either have to be the NPC, have forgotten himself that they’re one, or is pretending to not know, and even then it would have to be whoever was next in line. There are also half a dozen other things that line could imply if anything at all.

[@TheRhuen]

An observation, I think Pomni doesn't fully realize their bodies obey toon logic and can't normally be hurt in these "games", probably because her first day there she saw Ragatha being hurt and was hurt herself thanks to the glitch caused by someone Abstracting. Its like first day being a toon and you step in "dip" so get gunshy about anything that would normally cause pain or death after that.

[@shimari5107]

People are what's going to ground Pomni, she was starting to crack until she was snapped out of it by the funeral being mentioned. Her nightmare at the beginning was about her being forgotten and insignificant, and the funeral helped show her that they matter to each other, hence everyone at the funeral reaching down and catching her from the fall in her nightmare.

[@minireaperYT]

Violent moment for a nice, cartoonish show? Oh boy, looks like Murder Drones was not enough to prep you for what to expect Glitch to do with their characters XD

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2]

True, and Murder Drones is something we have to get back to 😅

[@crosana01]

​@@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2Oh that makes me happy! I so love seeing reactions to Murder Drones!

[@Rubberman202]

It's funny, I liked the pilot for The Amazing Digital Circus, and while I was kind of obsessed with it for a while, it was mostly because I really liked the animation, and also I liked the potential the pilot offered. What I'm getting at is that TADC's pilot was already high quality, and yet I'm floored by how much more I liked the second episode; it had better writing, better character development, capitalizing on the already fantastic animation, voice acting, and music, and just really hitting you where it hurts when it came to Gummigoo. I was seriously not expecting to be this emotionally invested in this series after only the second episode, to say nothing of how shocked I am that the series would tackle such heavy subject matter in, again, only it's second episode. I'm... well, amazed. Count my a diehard TADC fan now!

[@menia_zovut_Kira_Yoshikage47]

Fun fact: On russian word "pomni" literally means "remember"

[@JosiahBriggs]

“I don’t even *REMEMBER* her name…” 1:27

[@magne7771]

imma just say it. I'd make it all of two days before I got Caine to leave a portal to Minecraft open for us. Like, "oOoHhHh nOoOoOo our WHOLE existence here is to sleep, maybe eat, and play video games? What a _nightmare."_

[@kaylasilverstein4137]

They might not HAVE Minecraft in their world tho lol. But if they do then this is literally the best idea lol

[@YuyuHakurei]

Video games are probably not gonna happen, but the adventures certainly are based on video games.

[@Frostflamethewolf]

The bubble in this episode of the amazing digital circus litterally just made my day i cannot stop laughing i definitely want the bubble to stay as a character in this show

[@johanstenfelt1206]

This was quite the Improvement from last Episode, how wild can this get? By the way, how about doing the Gildedguy Series or Epithet Erased too at some point? Anyway, about the Episode itself, I’d say having this Episode take place just the Day after the Pilot is pretty fair, since, assuming that they do Adventures every Day, this would be Pomni’s Actual First Adventure, since she didn’t actually partake in the one meant for her when she first arrived, even though like i said she was only part of it halfway, Also, it also made the Funeral Scene at the end feel more fitting, by the way about that Scene, I find it very interesting that Jax ended up not being part of the Funeral and who he was not featured amongst the Hands that prevented Pomni’s Metaphorical Fall, now that part could just be due to him not being part of the Funeral, but considering what the Curators has said about Jax, i think it’s a detail that’s worth keeping in mind for the Future. Anyway, with all of that now being out of the way, i am now left wondering: Will every Episode take place just the Day after the Previous One or could we expect Episodes to have at least a couple of Days in between them from now on? Will Pomni get out of the Adventure and into some kind of Out of bounds moment every Episode? If so, while that would be interesting, I would appreciate to see at least one Episode where Pomni stays in the Adventure all the way through, because I don’t think we need a Out-of-Bounds Moment every time to make a Episode worthwhile. On to of that, will Pomni bond with more NPCs in one way or another and will she end up having them learn something about themselves too? I also wonder if we’ll ever get to see Loo and Gummigoo again? Now, I am aware that the Candy Canyon Kingdom was probably just meant to be for this Episode, hence why it was sent off the way it did, still I would like to see some kind of Aftermath to what Jax did. Also, i wonder if we’ll ever get to a point in time where Pomni won’t stutter all the time or at least not when it counts? If so, i will look forward to see what might lead us there. Anyway, regardless of it all, this Episode has made me even more excited to see how this Show will play out, I can’t wait for more Episodes. What do any of you think?

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2]

Feels like not every episode will be the day after, though that would be interesting way to tell the story 🤔😅

[@johanstenfelt1206]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitive2 my thoughts exactly.

[@TriTonedTemplar]

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[@RubenDReyna]

Justice for Gummigoo! Lol

[@snowman9631]

Bethany 24:15 - 24:50 looks so defeated

[@Finaldraco3]

love they're reacting to glitch videos, mayne one day they could react to some SMG4 videos as well cause they're hilarious, but hard on which video to start, the arcs are pretty good

[@feralprocessor9853]

F in the chat for Gummigoo

[@ThyUseless]

Rip my boy Gummigoo it was all happy and in an instant he was gone

[@arthurjeremypearson]

Is it really murder if it's ai?

[@laurence4352]

there is deffinatley a broder agenda to Jax, I dont trust him. ALLSO! to answer your question: 18:56 The teapot is a refference to the Utah Teapot, itss a 3D test model thats used as a standard reference object and an in-joke within the computer graphics community.

[@Golems_victory]

Ep 2 was worth the wait XD even Jax and the fudge agree it’s not murder if it’s delicious XD 😜 I would know as the golem the devoured Spyro without his pesky plot armor XD 😜😂( idk it’s been a while might as well be silly 😜 😂)

[@Caldera01]

Not sure if this is a thing in every game, but at the very least many games have hidden Developer's Room, which contains every single asset the current map uses, which includes inactive NPC character model dolls. Some Dev Rooms also double as Admin Rooms where the game admin staff can meet up and gather and bring players to for a private talk down if need be. If you remember from Internet Historian's Fallout 76 video, there was a case of players figuring out ways to glitch into the Dev Room and stealing all the most powerful and expensive stuff over and over. As for how Pomni ended up there and got out of there in the first place, it was essentially a simple object collision glitch where the game's physics engine can't handle the collisions properly, which sometimes leads either into one of the objects launching at super speeds, or glitching through another object, or sometimes, the very floor of the map. For example GTA5 is notorious for all sorts of collision glitches, launches and warps. These glitches are sometimes easily duplicateable, which makes them useful for speedrunning, allowing players to move out of bounds, or skip through entire gameplay sequences.

[@RinioNightcore]

They should watch MurderDrones too

[@kingrickda25th98]

They’ve only reacted to 2 episodes so far. I hope they continue.

[@GhinUwU]

You guys should try watching murder drones again, good video ❤

[@Golems_victory]

I have a theory Caine is actually the villain of the series. XD that’s my guess

[@Chokah]

It's possible Caine's not exactly a villain, but more is trying to keep something running when he has no idea what's really going on himself.

[@Golems_victory]

@@Chokah I see what you’re saying bud. I kinda agree 😎❤👍🏻

[@kingrickda25th98]

Gooseworx confirmed that Caine is not the villain.

[@mrcoolman333]

Saw on GTLive and other places people were speculating Caine is meant to be Cain as in Cain and Abel. Purely from the C&A logo that appears in the pilot but it's an interesting theory

[@adamk-paxlogan7330]

W episode

[@kaiholeung903]

I think Jax has to be a sad character

[@kingrickda25th98]

Why?

[@kaiholeung903]

@@kingrickda25th98 because he know this place cant escape so he rather enjoy the violence and destruction but deep down his mind he still care the group😂

[@MadHatter_920]

I'm sure a million people have already said it, but this show is inspired by the short story "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". If you've never read it before, I highly recommend giving it a try!

[@Chamoe_l]

Waoss