the mcelroys play ball - mbmbam animation

[@3ghostsinatrenchcoat]

“Sometimes it doesn’t have to be we make up a whole fucking universe,” he said, not knowing he was in the baseball universe.

[@startush]

yeah i felt a little personally called out by that line

[@Dollop_of_Mayo]

we always love a good animation featuring our favorite boys Gridon, Trafic, and Jopston McRlwain

[@startush]

i’ve been giggling over Trafic all day

[@EKVoiceover]

The Hogs gotta eat, and we eating good with this animation!!

[@shockofthenew]

Your ability to build a whole piece of cinema around a relatively simple audio clip will never cease to amaze me!

[@startush]

thank you! gotta apply my film studies somewhere lol

[@funx24X7]

Sungwon Cho AKA ProZD famously did a reading of the Japanese baseball players meme referenced at 0:57. He was also a voice actor in Big Top Burger animated by Worthikids, _who also_ made the short Free Apple featuring Justin. This has been six degrees of McElroy brought to you by Rocket Money

[@shockofthenew]

Also Sungwon and the McElroys have both been on Drawfee a few times, and Drawfee have made fan art of Worthikids... if we can get Sungwon to guest on a McElroy podcast the venn diagram would truly become a circle! I haven't calculated the Brian David Gilbert axis yet but I feel it may be significant.

[@emilise284]

Sungwon, the McElroys, Drawfee, nd BDG have all been on Dropout projects!

[@Lavarpsu10]

@@emilise284 Dropout is the true central axis around which all neurodivergent chaotic introverted bisexual fandom revolves ❤

[@buttergeek9985]

@@shockofthenew BDG worked under the McElroys at Polygon shortly before they left and they were in a couple Jack box vids together

[@Magis_Ghast]

He also voices Senshi in delicious in dungeon, alongside Damien Haas from Smosh as Laos, who also was on Um Actually!

[@jacquiecotillard9699]

Umpire and Ballman furiously arguing via play signals is so choice. Like the platonic ideal of a baseball sight gag. Edit: actually had to dip back into this one for seconds- what cinematography! Between the jumbotron and int/ext of the announcer box and the reflections going on, ugh. Well done. Right over the plate, super clean

[@freyabees]

Incredible. Loved the organ rendition of the theme song at the end.

[@Rawrtato]

This is a masterpiece in every way. 0:08 griffin is a sports anime protagonist and I love that for him and you and also me

[@Rawrtato]

Your perspective drawings are also incredible, like 0:39 griffin is spectacular

[@lpBren]

everything about this is incredible also the fact that they havent won that ad read award yet is ludicrous

[@YorkJonhson]

You take a silly bit and you make a whole beautiful world out of it.

[@isabellas3167]

Travis doing the chicken dance in the background made my day lol

[@snowybookwyrm]

i love the reference to the american baseball names, its so good

[@AmphibiousGentleman]

RE: the airplane message at 0:09: maybe you don't _have_ to make up a whole universe, but we're glad you do.

[@freyabees]

What does it say? I can't read it no matter how hard I try

[@AmphibiousGentleman]

@@freyabees It says: "EMMA, THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE"

[@startush]

@@AmphibiousGentleman YOU'RE TELLING ON ME!!!!!!

[@Sudsyjellyfish]

I love these SHAPES!!

[@bluelilacfawn]

i dont see this mentioned as often but im so so so impressed by the quality of the subtitles. theyre so detailed, crisp, and professionally done. im infinitely jaded by the bland, no indication, unedited, ai generated subtitles by the majority of channels. that is, if they even bother at all. i love you forever and ever

[@Cudddlefish]

Another home run! Knocked this one right out of the park! Baseball!

[@lineetta]

this is so imaginative and wonderful

[@anemonemilyyy]

THIS IS SUCH A CLEVER INTERPRETATION!!!! FUCKONG INCREDIBLE BIT

[@startush]

lol thank uuuu

[@dylanbrannigan1632]

Grif on the stretcher is pure gold

[@jougjimmadome]

The solitaire is such a good detail

[@Gallant_Silver]

i'm glad they pointed it out, because i was also very impressed by such a quick and seamless ad-read

[@ruleofthree99]

THIS IS SO CREATIVE

[@gormauslander]

So excited every time I see one of these. They're my favorite animations online right now

[@startush]

aw yay! thank you 😊

[@Itsgriffeys]

God this kicks ass

[@AlegoCarmadein]

AMAZING 😭

[@jessicaalter5100]

I wish just once I could listen to a MBMAM ep with your imagination. It must be wild.

[@courtneychristine6357]

This is so cute!

[@ThatBenKraft]

Love this! The story separate than what they are actually talking about is always the best

[@startush]

thanks Ben :)

[@LuckySketches]

It's funny that they're playing against each other but all on the same team. The Hogs have a TRAITOR among them!

[@quiwi-art]

your mind's eye is so beautiful thank u for another banger

[@nicholasgarza951]

The quality of this animation is stunning! I especially love sequence with the whiffed pitched

[@analisesalas538]

LETS GO!!!!!

[@zach5539]

This is incredible

[@Zandalorscat]

I love this so much 🤣

[@andrewstockdale6084]

God this is so charming, I love the camera movement and the facial expressions

[@corinnwestfall]

AHHHHH i thought it was perfect and then the hecklers popped out at the end and now i’m actually dead on the ground

[@startush]

that latest live show was so perfectly timed for me!! plucked em right out of there

[@fioblah]

this is fucking incredible

[@ButlerOfTheC]

Incredible!!! ❤❤❤

[@Lavarpsu10]

This is incredible and brilliant! NOW BATTING, TOONNNYYYYYY SMHERRRRIIICK!!!

[@BucklingSwashes]

This is an instant all-timer among McElroy animations.

[@heidielizabeth3044]

you are truly one of the greats

[@ljonskar]

this is so good I love the McRlwains

[@theheathen42]

this is why I subscribed 🤣 absolutely brilliant!!

[@ghostblood-hw7zm]

SO GOOD AS ALWAYS

[@davidfalterman8713]

oh hell yeah another startush animation, we have been blessed!!

[@angelaquinton]

absolutely perfect

[@etcetc1]

That's the beautiful energy of these good good boys!

[@DaMaLoJo]

Another banger ✨

[@teenrobo3]

Amazing animation!

[@emilise284]

Love how smooth the throws and swings are!! The expressions are all pretty cute too

[@varsoonhks3211]

love how you draw these guys

[@harleypowell5274]

This is awesome! Thanks for making and posting this animatic!

[@startush]

thank you for watching! ❤

[@AchanCham_]

Absolutely incredible job. Very creative.

[@afwooshh]

This is so good! Can't believe I forgot to subscribe until just now

[@nekkidnora]

This is literally the best mbmbam animation in existence???

[@michaela765]

WAKE UP BABE NEW STARTUSH MBMBAM ANIMATION!!

[@helpyaboiout1211]

Absolutely fuckin delighted by this video!! The expressions, the baseball jokes, the details and all the little easter eggs, etc etc, I love it

[@jessdriscoll]

I love how you nestled that next video link into the billboard. I need to watch this a hundred more times to catch every joke.

[@rancidprince3133]

This is great lmao

[@jontee4free]

The cleanest part of that bit was the ANIMATION! Very good thank you

[@kirbymaster6764]

So so so amazing. The choice of clips is immaculate and obviously the animation is perfect like always! Thank you for blessing us 🫶

[@MechBlank]

another mbmbam banger by startush

[@DigitaIJustice]

They couldn’t help but create a world around a bit of

[@samuelcorbett8167]

Absolutely stellar work! This was super cool!

[@HeavyRayne]

This is amazing. Absolutely perfect style and everything 😭

[@slim_streams]

Your art has so much personality in it, this is some real quality animation

[@BlueKnightDragoon]

knocked it out of the park as always Startush!! ⚾️ animation as beautiful as ever, and i always love the little bits of audio you add to really make the brothers' bits come alive.

[@oriyatea]

excellent 😩🤌🏽

[@richardreid6515]

Amazing!

[@rampantvictory]

Incredible animations!! Wonderful art!! Such clever work! Support this artist!

[@saxmaverick]

This is why I throw my money at you every month. Absolute brilliance

[@startush]

It’s much appreciated Bryan!! It honestly helps so much to feel like my wips aren’t just shouting into the void lol

[@scarebears3359]

Aaaa this was delightful. My favorite part was when you animated griffin on the stretcher doing the little kicky legs

[@DragonFire381]

This is so good! Love the McRlwain shoutout

[@Martyr9991]

This was very Drawfee coded and I loved it.

[@abeesknee8306]

this rules :)

[@Oatmeal_Queen]

This is so stellar!! Thanks for sharing your work 🥰

[@arturgomes]

Hehe I loved it. Startush aways bats one hundred

[@faroshscale]

And here come our players...Sleve McDichael!

[@user-ld6th3vw8e]

right when I needed it most

[@Carlos-vn4ec]

this is so good it made me very happy thank you so much

[@nicegoodstylish]

This is really really really really really really really really really really really really good ❤

[@CHANNNGEPETE]

now that'sa what i call a da big game

[@Mcwollybob]

You put so much effort into this. I love how involved all of this is, if that makes sense. So many elements working together. I don't even think the audio at the very end was the same episode, yet you searched and made it work. Great job. I loved especially when Griffin was on the stretcher all smirky x'D

[@Mcwollybob]

Oh my gosh, I knew this had to be your animation!!! You made other animations that I commented on because of how well-edited, well-animated, and involved they were. I KNEW this animation had to be yours!

[@jick-a-jack]

ABSOLUTE BANGER!!!! 💥💥💥

[@rhymeswithmoose228]

Your faces are so fucking good

[@tuckingcrazy]

😭 love the warthogs reference #gonebutnotforgotten🫶

[@startush]

lmao ty chica see ya seafooding 😉💕

[@lizarding2078]

you created an entire universe....... holy shit............

[@birdieboy4309]

i’m a baseball, animation, and mbmbam fan this is a net positive (except for griffin who will be on the IL for the foreseeable future)

[@ironichamster8197]

Incredible

[@bennyfactor]

McRLWAIN baby

[@neilnull]

Yes yes yes 👌🏽

[@6p715]

Could be wrong, but is that the old Winston-Salem Warthogs logo & mascot? Hometown minor league!! Great video btw love your animation style

[@startush]

@@6p715 YES!!!! YOU GOT IT, I LOVE YOU!!!

[@startush]

god i miss the warthogs. still not over the rebrand 😞

[@6p715]

@@startush it’s not even a “dash” it’s a hyphen like what 😭 The warthogs were so much betterrr

[@karmapolice343]

Is Griffin asking us if we need a Dopter?

[@dsvwtrbeytnryune]

Grindon Mcrlwain

[@shawnaeatscats]

Justin patting his head and rubbing his tummy got me good Also, sydnee cameo?

[@stephenkelly7263]

Are you John Cena? Because I've never Cena video like this before

[@Dietchapstick]

More like mid mobile (I'm gonna start commenting about ads on videos)

[@Agnes.Nutter]

those end credits are so familiar looking... does some other animator use the same font? worthikids maybe?