The Weird World of the Men in Black Animated Series

[@filipvadas7602]

This show basically feels like every idea the writers had for the world of MIB that were too short or too simple to be the plot of a full movie. Honestly, I'm glad this show exists as sort of an extension of the lore

[@Colby2D]

@@filipvadas7602 yeah I’d love to ask the creators someday if they ever consulted about lore things like that or the aliens first meeting the men in black

[@safebox36]

The Men in Black movies are a great example of an adaptation that ignored almost all of the source material and just did its own thing. The comics were all supernatural and conspiracy theories like a hollow earth, ghosts, shapeshifters, etc. While the movies just stuck to aliens because it was more believable for the secret government body angle.

[@serenitymoon825]

K was also a huge asshole in the comics if I remember correctly. Been almost 20 years since i read them

[@Colby2D]

That’s really interesting, I wonder if K in the animated series acts more like the K from the comics

[@Diwasho]

The movies mainly ignored all the paranormal creatures outside of aliens but they did retain much of the premise and how the MiB organization operates. The first film even kept several lines from the comic verbatim, like the "swamp gas from a weather balloon" one.

[@zephyrr108]

Its almost the same thing. They just toned it down. And took ghosts out.

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

19:22 J says "remember those Twin Towers" because earlier in the episode he showed the towers to K as evidence that he wasn't in the 50s anymore (J asked "what's the biggest building in New York" and K replied "the Empire State Building" and J was like "not anymore, look")

[@Colby2D]

I totally forgot about that little point, I think I was just so distracted by him bringing them up, thank you for noting that

[@NCHProductions]

everytime a MIB movie is announced, inside me always wish its plot be something from the cartoon series but always end up a huge disappointment. multi million dollar movie just can't live up to the style of the cartoon show.

[@Colby2D]

@@NCHProductions Totally agree. I definitely wish L had more of a role in the movies, and it’d be really cool to have a more central antagonist like Alpha.

[@Diwasho]

This show was unironically the best piece of Men in Black media IMO. I recently rewatched the first film and honestly it's nowhere near as good as I remember, the plot is still decent for the most part but so many of the dialogues and jokes are juvenile and cheesy. The tone is all over the place, for the most part it comes off as childish but at times it gets super dark, like whenever the bug kills somebody, especially Edgar and the pest exterminator. Not even the original comic had any deaths that looked quite as brutal despite having very reserved tone with sarcastic and dry humour. For this reason I find that the animated series finds the perfect balance between the movie and the comic in every aspect, it's never too dark or too kiddy, the humour is surprisingly clever despite the show targeting a younger demographic than the film and the dialogues are never cringey. The episodic nature of the stories feels like the comic but the writing is actually good and inventive. MiB TAS seriously takes the best of both worlds and elevates everything about this franchise, sad how underrated it is.

[@Colby2D]

I’d be inclined to agree, I definitely like the show a lot more and watching the movie right before the show it felt like it’s a great example of 90s movies action and structure, but definitely feels a little dated and flat in other ways. A great premise and hits all the story beats, but definitely not my favorite

[@jb888888888]

The weirdest part was the final episode, when J's mom tracked him down and forced him to move with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.

[@Colby2D]

Carlton turned out to be an alien in this timeline

[@nubeyazul]

This was the better timeline, so much better extension of the franchise than the movie sequels.

[@Colby2D]

I feel I’ve heard 2 being the most popular but most comments say they don’t like anything after 1 which is interesting. I’ve only seen 1

[@mr.bootsmann4842]

Yeah...MIB, Extreme Ghostbusters, Godzilla, Jackie Chan Adventures was one of my favorite cartoon stuff...The creators of this shows are so underrated.

[@Wandermidget]

It's such a shame you can't watch this series in its entirety legally anymore, because the 3rd and 4th seasons (as well as the first 2), which never got a physical release, were taken off Crackle. How dumb. And then companies want to punish us for pirating or streaming.

[@Colby2D]

@@Wandermidget I would’ve been pretty annoyed if this video had copyright issues, cause like who are you hiding the show from anymore lol

[@negadoge]

This is why we love pirate sites

[@rushmaverick1923]

I’m glad my nostalgia with shows that I grew up with, like Men in Black, kicked in way before Streaming services started making money off of it. Scoured the Internet and downloaded all the episodes from shows that I grew up with from my childhood that they don’t show anymore, so I could always watch them whenever I wanted to. Before they tried to make us pay to recapture our childhood memories.

[@jmd810]

Why they don't make kids cartoons based on movies not made for kids anymore? Where's my John Wick cartoon?

[@Colby2D]

I would love that that would be really fun fan art to make like John wick character sheets for a show

[@Diwasho]

The MiB movies were more kiddy than you remember. They're really weird because the producers seemingly wanted to appeal to the adults with the stoic suave 007 themes of the organizations while simultaneously trying to appeal to the kids with the gross out cartoon alien gore stuff and fart jokes, which ends up alienating the adults in the end.

[@organicketchup5171]

Or a 'Terrifier' cartoon, where Art is a goth-y brother and sister's naughty secret friend?

[@r.babylon2885]

I imagine the John wick show would cover him globe trotting, but he has laser guns, or is recruited to stop assassins

[@SuperXzm]

I honestly think that John Wick cartoon would be less bizarre than Rambo

[@JZBeasty]

LMAO The flipped image after "You're marrying the one on the right?"

[@TheZackofSpades]

20:00 gotta give that sucker a timestamp it was so smooth 😂

[@Colby2D]

Lol I debated flipping it from the start but I said “nah KZbin poops always show the original before they edit it” lol

[@MetalPcAngel]

And it's so sad, because a lot of the episodes have so much potential to become standalone movies and made you go and wonder what was going to be MIB 2 or MIB 3 to only be Disappointed when these movies came out and just outright completely ignore the lore that the cartoon had. Hell, the whole Alpha being a running villain and having so much back story withe K, that was so good.

[@Colby2D]

Yeah I feel like they made K a bit more cartoonishly deadpan and eccentric here which actually made the dynamic work even better

[@XSilver_WaterX]

Also abusing so much naivety of J that the writers forgot he was a MID-TERM police officer in the first film?! Dealing with bigotry and outsmarting the criminals. Entirety of season 1 was painful following J's shenanigans.

[@Colby2D]

@@XSilver_WaterX yeah the timeline is definitely a bit awkward like it’s J’s first day on the job it seems but also L is here

[@Raytheman581]

@@XSilver_WaterX J was still good in S1 even with that. He saved K a time or 2, but at least it got better as time went on and J at least wasn't a weakling on the show.

[@XSilver_WaterX]

@@Raytheman581 Yeah, he adapted in huma term unlike K who pulled so much plot-magic from his suit, it's almost believed he's the real honcho of Division 6 and Zed is the face for the aliens?

[@Morgil27]

I remember when the second movie came out being disappointed that they didn't have any characters from the cartoon in it.

[@Egalemanly]

Fun fact about the MIB Movie , the final villain Edgar design have multiple beta designs , one of them was by the late Yasushi Nirasawa 韮沢 靖 , a famous Tokusatsu and video game artist , who work are Kamen Rider Blade , Kabuto , Den-O monsters . Garo Monsters , Gokaiger Monsters ( AKA Power Rangers Super Megaforce ) Shin Megami Tensei , and some redesign of Devilman , and Monster figures , his work is very detail , with a asymmetrical design philosophy , his design of the MIB Edgar is on the MIB Wiki , its very Kamen Rider Kabuto kaijin like , the final design for Edgar is just a bug

[@Colby2D]

I just looked it up, that’s so cool! Kinda reminds me of evangelion or dragon ball, so it makes sense the influence tokusatsu media would have on those

[@Egalemanly]

Yes

[@SammEater]

Really?! Damn, I always thought MIB had a cool tokusatsu vibe.

[@bashengatheblackmanta7003]

Men in black is a franchise that work better as a tv show. If ever they decide to do a reboot,they should do a live action tv show

[@QMMarc]

To be honest, thinking back, this is the best MiB thing after the first movie. Feels like an episodic format is more interesting than all the world-ending stuff that was in the sequels. Also sorta closer to the comics if you really stretch it.

[@Colby2D]

I’ve always preferred tv format to movies, so I’d be inclined to agree

[@MuddyTimms]

Use to watch reruns of this when it was on the Hub Network during their late night block. Thankfully you can still watch it on KZbin.

[@apeman505]

Oh man, I've been trying to track down a DVD copy of the animated series for years, it used to be my favorite show back when it aired. If it's on youtube, I'm totally going to watch it again! Apparently the movies were based on an obscure comic book series where MIB agents would deal with the supernatural, and instead of neuralizing witnesses they'd kill them.

[@Colby2D]

The first season at least is on KZbin! Not sure about the others but I’m sure there’s some ways to find them or at least make a dvd from online sources

[@Elementa2006]

This show was a better sequel to the first movie than the actual film sequels.

[@Colby2D]

Tv series based on movies have always made me appreciate the movie more, like I didn’t care much for the Jimmy neutron movie until the show came out

[@fallouthirteen]

It's a little bit like the original Ghostbusters cartoon (The Real Ghostbusters, like a plot of one of the episodes explains the new jumpsuits as being replacements since the movie ones absorbed a lot of psychokinetic energy from the Gozer fight). Takes place from after the movie, then the sequel movie is like "nah, we're going to ignore that stuff".

[@Truekingr6]

In Mexico during 2003, we would have men in black. the mummy and the mask cartons running everyday...until they weren't 😢

[@Colby2D]

I forgot about the mummy cartoon too!

[@pablocasas5906]

Speaking about Mexico, all of the Men in Black movies were dubbed there and the dub actors who voiced J and K in the movies reprised their roles in the animated series

[@Truekingr6]

@pablocasas5906 oh my God. That's even better. It's been years since I watched it in Spanish.Good times.

[@jupreindeer]

This series is definitely like an extension to the movies. A must see to any fan. In fact, I think every episode has been preserved here on KZbin. In fact, I think this came out at the perfect time, when children's entertainment could go almost anywhere while tiptoeing through their Y-7 rating. Very creative and well written. I mean, in one episode, a grown man is basically nude. Why? Gotta go watch.

[@Kinuhbud]

Loved this show when I was kid. I never watched that many episodes, but I tried. the intro song was always killer

[@user-nm1si5xk7o]

Please cover those shows you mentioned. Extreme Ghostbusters was great, and the voice cast for it was phenomenal. Godzilla, the animated series was also solid.

[@Colby2D]

I’ve heard great things of extreme ghostbusters, would love to cover sometime

[@zigfaust]

I actually did a rewatch of the entire series earlier this year. Not only does it hold up, it's a "even better with time" thing. The references, the wordplay, the homages to other sci fi. I got NONE of that as a kid. Hell, this could run on Adult Swim if you add a smidge more gore and swearing.

[@Colby2D]

I definitely feel the same way, I’m like wow I just thought this was boring as a kid but now i chuckle at most jokes

[@marlowemichaelson1366]

I haven’t watched the vid yet but just wanted to let everyone know that the intro song to this show SLAPS.

[@herbertraffi]

So thats means the mib ps1 game that scared me as a kid is actually based on that cartoon. I can see the resemblance on the 3d cgi and the player portrait on the hud may be from the show, i need to replay that 20 years later.

[@Colby2D]

That’s funny, I didn’t play it but I was scared by similar so I’m sure it would’ve gotten me. Maybe I’ll stream it sometime

[@herbertraffi]

@Colby2D outside aliens being already kinda scary, the very first level its on horror ride on a theme park.

[@treytison1444]

I feel like the writing for Men In Black was way better than a kids show deserved. Some episodes felt a bit like a rehash of others but others were wildly original.

[@Colby2D]

Definitely, there’s a lot of sad or mature plots like even k and his dad is kinda depressing to think about

[@BJI82a]

I really want this series to come back and have a what if version as well.

[@pablodelgado7919]

The MIB animated series intro goes hard almost 30 years later

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

Something that hhas always intrigued me about the Men in Black cartoon is that the amount of founding members of the organization is different from what they say in the first movie. In the time-traveling episode they say 5 humans made first contact with the aliens but in the film they where 7 (or maybe 9, I don't remeber correctly but I know it was more than in the show). My personal fan theory for years was that the episode 10 villain already had successfully eliminated some of the agents before J could use the brain-enlarging device that allowed him to remember previous timelines; another theory is that the _Men in Black_ movies seem to also exist as movies in the world of the cartoon, so maybe an screenwriter just changed the number on a whim or something

[@Colby2D]

Yeah I wonder if they were like “9 would be too much to show let’s just do 5” or if they even knew there was a set amount of founding members, like I’d love to know if they had the script for the movie when they were writing the cartoon

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

@Colby2D the show's first season was very consistent with the film so I wouldn't be surprised if they had the script to work with. In that case they probably thought 9 characters where too much to introduce and then kill off in a single 20-minute episode

[@radioactivebirdj.1845]

It feels crazy that the original MiB is a 90s movie, as someone who grew up with the franchise but wasn't born until 2001. Do films still have this kind of staying power? Like are there kids out there right now watching Mad Max and shit from the mid 2010s?

[@radioactivebirdj.1845]

Post note: Forgot that Mad Max is actually way older as a franchise too. Probably should have picked a better example

[@SammEater]

Nope. There is nothing in this modern era of Hollywood that stays in the minds of people years after release like any movies up until the mid 2000s. The closest thing to that are the MCU films and even then half of them aren't that memorable without being connected to another film.

[@TheRealBlackarrot]

"The Quick Clone" is one of the best M.I.B. episodes, which there were a lot of!

[@Colby2D]

Definitely a lot of great episodes at least in season 1, really love the formula of the show

[@djpegao]

My head canon is that they tried to use Alpha as the MIB3 villain but couldn't make a way to integrate it to J's backstory so they swapped it for Boris The Animal, and then tried to do the same with MIB International, but since there was no J or K it reslly wouldn't make sense to have Alpha without them, which is a shame because he's one hell of a villain Also: _Why does the Alien on ep9 looks like Fry from Futurama?_

[@Lampent12]

24:20 Bro, that doesn't mean you have issues, it means you have a heart 😭

[@RoninCatholic]

Huh, Xtreme Ghostbusters and Godzilla the Animated Series were also by overlapping staff? That...explains a lot actually. Yes, there is a definite vibe shared across all these shows (can't speak for Jumanji as I didn't watch that one but did watch all the others mentioned and liked all of them).

[@Colby2D]

@@RoninCatholic yeah it’s kinda funny a lot of the movie to show pipeline on this network had a similar staff

[@RoninCatholic]

@@Colby2D Once you're proven to be awesome at something, that helps land jobs doing that awesome thing again. And this lineup is too consistent not to be based on skill and insight.

[@travismiddleton8218]

Huh had no idea Man in Black had a animated series. Thanks for the review. Will check it out

[@Colby2D]

Thanks for checking it out! It’s definitely one I forgot about

[@negadoge]

If crying at Bye-Bye Butterfree means i have issues... then i dont want to be normal. Bye-bye butterfree isn't a sad story, but everyone sees it as a sad story because Butterfree leaves the team at the end of the episode, however... It's not the last time we see that same Butterfree. In fact, he returns multiple times. Its actually quite a beautiful story about how relationships grow and change with time, butterfree was with Ash from being an egg and the fact that Caterpie grew up with ash from hatching means that its a story of parents and growing up. Ash was zeen by Caterpie as a father, and the fact that his "father" wanted him to be happy made Ash a father without realizing it. When Butterfree flew away, he took with him charished memories and hard-earned love of the being that regardless of being a completely separate species was his loving father.

[@Colby2D]

Absolute facts, thank you I love it

[@teletubbie-chan9061]

Also also the creators also worked on the batman (2004 and completely underrated)

[@Colby2D]

I haven’t watched it, but I plan to sometime sooner than later

[@aliastheabnormal]

MIB the animated series is considered an alternate continuity from the movies. As K is still an agent and L never left. Even though the events of the movies happened as shown when the Bugs return for revenge. Also Men in Black 2 debuted in 2002 while the cartoon ended in 2001. Which is where it is revealed that L went back to her job.

[@Colby2D]

I would have been sad as a kid if after watching the entire MiB series I go to see movie 2 and they said L was gone. Kinda interesting it was 5 years between the first and second movie too

[@takanabanana]

*plays the jaws theme* "this sounds like a puppy taking its first steps"

[@Colby2D]

😭 it’s really hard to get a feel for the track underneath because of all the voices, I need to find an isolated track of the audio

[@takanabanana]

That's fair. Would definitely be nice to have the OST available somewhere

[@Greatdictator]

I really appreciated the mentions of the music in parts of the episodes, feel like thats a thing a lot of ppl overlook when looking at shows like this. Also just glad to see this show getting some more love

[@Colby2D]

Thank you I appreciate it!

[@level3xfactor]

I LOVED the first movie and this cartoon when I was a kid! I hope you cover the rest of the series!

[@Colby2D]

Will definitely come back to it sooner than later, I missed the first movie growing up but had the GBA game of all things lol

[@chaosmachines934]

12:14 this ep its my favorite for introducing me to the most underreported bad guys ALPHA its the demon lord .

[@the-NightStar]

I liked the part where you didn't even bring up the original Malibu Comics series that the movie was based on or try to determine how much of the original comics had any part in the show.

[@BJGvideos]

Apparently not much at all

[@SammEater]

Considering how the cartoon focuses more on the alien stuff of the films instead of the paranormal stuff from the comics I say that not mentioned them makes no difference.

[@buddyzilla4557]

Parasyte has a live action sequal show now with a big part of the focus being on a secret agency that hunts the body snatchers down, so it basically has come full circle with Men in Black as its similar to a more dark version of that franchise.

[@Colby2D]

That’s really cool, I loved the anime so that would be fun to watch sometime

[@buddyzilla4557]

@Colby2D I need to finish it. I watched the first several episodes. I think it's about an hour long for each. The effects are overall pretty decent if you curb your expectations. It has followed new characters so far and takes place some time after the events for the first story. They do start to reveal a little bit more about the Parasytes and how they function so if that was something you liked kept ambiguous from the original, I want to give some warning. They introduce some biological weaknesses and aspects that make it a little easier for the plot point of the government group trying to hunt them down.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

29:00 Bigotry is illogical at base, giving even an excuse is point defeating.

[@fallouthirteen]

Eh, those points lose something when it's towards something that is a VERY real threat (in universe). It's like when X-Men tries to use it with mutants. Like there's an X-Men comic about a kid who develops a mutation that instantly atomizes every living being in a mile radius and has no way to turn it off. I think Wolverine's regeneration is the only thing letting him get close and I think he just euthanizes the kid because there's nothing that can be done.

[@JurassicRod]

I'd love to see you cover the Zilla and Extreme Ghostbusters cartoons too.

[@Colby2D]

Will probably have them uploaded in December, their seasons are pretty long so I’m chipping away at them now!

[@JurassicRod]

@@Colby2D Awseome!

[@JulioAnt2000]

Extreme Ghostbusters and Men In Black were my freakin jam

[@Colby2D]

I’ll definitely have to check out extreme ghostbusters

[@Rixec2]

One of the great things about a series is you get plenty of room to build on the lore of a property.

[@elmoisred616]

I'm not sure if this is true, but I read that a lot of the cartoons plot elements were taken from the comics, which the movie itself was based on. MIB was a comic first before the movie

[@Colby2D]

I definitely need to look into the comic plots more to see. I’ve never been a big comic fan but it would be good to read to see how the series may have been influenced, probably more than the movie

[@pauly1k]

0:21 fresh of breath air? 😂

[@archerelms]

*nods sagely*

[@2gfranklin]

Course of! Else would say it you how???

[@jamquick5298]

Gorillaz fanz are used to it

[@SultanSamet]

This and Godzilla knocked it out of the park. Music, vibe, story and expansion of the world - perfect. There was also Extreme Ghostbusters and like you said Jumanji - but Godzilla and MIB were just perfectly done.

[@Colby2D]

Definitely plan on covering humankind godzilla and ghostbusters sometime though they were a little before my time it’ll be fun to see

[@BJGvideos]

This show was a lot of fun. A later live action series called Warehouse 13 has similar vibes, two agents and their handlers dealing with weird artifacts while we slowly get details about the organization behind it all. Have you ever heard of a show called Cyber Six? It aired on Fox Kids and it's based on an Argentine comic about a superheroine trying to have a peaceful life while avoiding the agents of her evil creator. It had a sudden ending and despite fan outcry for a second season, never got one.

[@Colby2D]

I haven’t heard of Warehouse 13, but Cyber Six has always been at the top of my watch list, especially because of the theme song

[@BJGvideos]

@@Colby2D oh yeah that's a great one But DEEEEEP in my heart, I feel love so aliiiiive~~

[@ZRtheHedgehog77]

After looking at this show be sure to maybe talk about the cartoon Beast Wars, or ReBoot.

[@Colby2D]

Reboot is high up!

[@jeremy1860]

Kudos to Jeff Kline for making so many great TV shows out of movies back in the day :)

[@Colby2D]

Really love the structure of the shows he made, they have a definite formula but work well within them

[@billboxbox]

I miss the old shows like MIB, Godzilla, Extreme Ghostbusters. They had heart, charm, and just kicked ass. Also, I need the music list for your background. I swear I heard something from Pangya.

[@Colby2D]

I will try to make one, I use a few different pangya songs: bunny picnic, navy blue memory, breeze

[@archerelms]

Since he's having memory issues, I feel like "do you remember those towers" is a reasonable question Also idk I feel like people ask "do you remember" instead of "do you know" for other things too, especially if there has been time since the last time they might have seen them or been there. Like "do you remember that diner with the orange booths?"

[@Colby2D]

@@archerelms that’s a good point, I suppose I say remember more than I think🙂

[@AbsoluteTravisT]

I always remember that episode because it has an earlier moment where K stares at the towers, which felt strange as a post-2001 kid watching it, but the point is he's got the mind of a teenager, if K is as old as Tommy Lee Jones he was a teen in the 50s/60s, before the towers were built in 1973. J says 'remember those towers' because he's only just seen them.

[@fallouthirteen]

And it's been a while since I've seen the episode, but I'm almost certain it was brought up earlier as some kind of point, hence the "remember".

[@RetroPixelLizard]

The series Is way better than the movies, yet to read the original comics though. They never bring up Agent X (Yet the crappy game by Gremlin Interactive has Agent X as a secret character.) 11:37 If you want to see what's under Edd's hat, it appears In the food fight flash game If I recall.

[@Colby2D]

I played the gameboy advance game but I remember very little about it, but I could never make it far in it. I never knew there was a comic before working on this video

[@zenoblues7787]

That game wasn't made with the involvement of the creators. So what's really under the hat is still a mystery.

[@nopenop1495]

On the subject of the villain in Head Trip syndrome; bigotry itself is illogical, and one cannot logic themselves out of a mindset they didn't logic themselves into.

[@Colby2D]

That’s a good point I was probably more surprised how he would know what an alien was. I guess people were more aware of aliens in this universe than I thought

[@nopenop1495]

@@Colby2D Good point; I recall David Cross' character from the first movie slipping through the cracks for long enough to show up in the second and help J and K with their mission; he gets neuralized for his trouble, though.

[@mastatheif9909]

The ontro song was such a banger that I remebered it from the VHS take

[@dexterthoma867]

Dude, you have Pokémon issues. Those are very valid issues for those of us in the Pokémon community who have been there since the beginning so don’t say you have issues without expecting me to back you up emotionally.

[@Colby2D]

I was scared when I read the first sentence I was about to get flamed for putting too much Pokémon music😭 I really love that episode though for real, that and the one where they got snowed in together really get me

[@dexterthoma867]

@@Colby2D I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t crying at a certain Pokémon movie myself, so I know exactly the pain you’re feeling when it comes to watching certain episodes

[@BJGvideos]

​@@dexterthoma867A certain movie...would it happen to involve a Luxury?

[@sakiamira]

30:27 Dang core memory unlocked. before this video, THIS SCENE was what I remembered from the show. I was very little watching it yet I still enjoyed ut

[@KittRidgeway]

What the... I thought I dreamt this series on a Saturday morning!

[@skootergirl22]

I do remember they had mpreg on this

[@marcelohidalgo7420]

I dont remember a lot from the show itself but it has one of the hardest openings of american animation

[@yungefetv6263]

I’m so glad to see this video on my feed. I loved this show growing up and I feel like no one I know remembers it

[@Colby2D]

Thanks for checking it out! I never really saw it growing up but people wanted me to watch it after I made videos on Jackie Chan adventures, I really like it!

[@mitspeiler]

I remember one halloween on kids' wb, the original network this aired on, they did a special where they edited screencaps from their various cartoons to weave a narrative about building a monster. They had pokemon on that network as well so the creature wound up having a jack-o-lantern body, alien tentacles for a head, and pinsir jaws for arms. The men in black episode they aired that day I remember being genuinely scary too. I miss the little programming block specials

[@Colby2D]

That’s interesting, sounds kinda like the CN Invaded special that spanned multiple shows

[@mitspeiler]

@Colby2D stuff like that was fairly common actually! When fox kids rebranded into the foxbox they had this whole mystery story that played out where an anonymous villain was giving orders to the villains from the various shows. Turned out it was Wayne from the Cramp Twins using a payphone

[@BrandonSwinney-j2v]

@@Colby2D I remember seeing the kids wb sock party and road trip specials (the sock party I just saw the initial bit introducing it, while I did see some sections of the road trip through different kids wb shows, or at least the ozzie and drix segment and the intro)

[@MrRedkid555]

Burger King gave the brain neuralizer as a toy, when the movie launched.

[@fallouthirteen]

Yeah, they had a line of toys, it was like 2 "prop" items and 10 "figure" items. The other prop one was this keychain "alien detector" that had either a thermal or pressure sensitive pad that changed color when you put your thumb on it. They were explicitly MIB Animated Series branded though, not specifically movie.

[@michaelsriqui7898]

At some point, I would really like it if you would cover The Mummy: The Animated Series, I remember really liking it but my memories of it are rather fuzzy and no one else seems to have covered it.

[@nopenop1495]

I feel like I willed this video into existence because I just started rewatching this show the other day.

[@Colby2D]

I received your message

[@TheTbf96]

19:30 if i remember correctly, K forgot about the twin towers since they werent a thing when he was a teenager and J told him about them, K even shortly after saw them. Thats why he said "Remember"

[@Colby2D]

Yeah there was that and arguing which building was the tallest in New York

[@NetNaviFan2]

OMG I remember that episode of the Teddy bear thing that scared me as a kid! This show had a lot of creepy and ugly designs.

[@quinbatcheller5805]

I remember watching this back in the day. There was some great cartoons in the 90's.

[@Colby2D]

Definitely

[@maxacorn]

the bounty hunter's name isn't treblor. it's buzzard. zed said so when they did a background check on him and call him that name ever since.

[@Colby2D]

I thought buzzard was more of his alias

[@KnightFerrocous]

This show to me is the real sequel to the first movie. The other movies don't have the heart of the original while this show does. A similar show it would be cool for you to cover is Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends. It aired around the same time but I watched it as a kid from a set of DVDs I got from Walmart for like $3. Its got some stank on it and I haven't watched it in 20 years but I remember liking it just as much.

[@Colby2D]

I’m writing it down now, I’ve been wanting to make a video about aliens in cartoons for a little while, so I’ll definitely check it out if I get more rolling on that video idea

[@MusicaKenith]

I see your feelings on the biggotry episode. That's accurate to real biggotry. Sometimes the motivation is just, they're aliens and some people just believe they're not welcome here. Even at a young age when I saw it, it hit close to home.

[@foxbox6686]

Was that Pokémon Battle Revolution music I hear in the last 4 minutes?

[@foxbox6686]

It was!! It was the reception desk theme!!!

[@Colby2D]

Yes thank you for noticing😎

[@Morgil27]

Alpha was by far the best thing in this show. Even in the final season, which was a steaming pile of shit, the episodes with Alpha were still good. He was just such a great character and villain.

[@yaraaltro]

it's quite funny how I met so many amazing flicks through their animated media XD

[@Colby2D]

Yeah I wonder how much of the show was supposed to be an advertisement, for the dvd sake, or for the sequels

[@Raytheman581]

I remember this as a kid, never saw all of it and now when I wanted to go and watch it can't even watch it all legally. Guess I'll use my tried and true place to watch.

[@kingkazma3246]

I remember the episode where they meet more accurate looking versions of themselves.

[@buddyzilla4557]

The movie had a TV show..and the TV show had a Gameboy Color game. I had it. It was weird and a bit stiff but not awedul for the time.

[@Colby2D]

I had the one on gameboy advance, didn’t know there was a show thought it was just based off the movie lol

[@buddyzilla4557]

@Colby2D I honestly had no idea there was a GBA one as well. I was surprised it even had a one game. Looking it up, it seems it may have been to capitalize on a more comical, cartooney genre. If you are not aware, the movie was based on a comic book run. It was similar to TMNT or The Mask where the transition to Movie/TV made it lighter and more family friendly. The comic was itself based on the Men In Black urban legend myths. The organization actually would cover up all types of supernatural incidents in the comics, including ghosts and demons. Apparently there WAS. A MIB movie tie in game but it was for Windows and was a survival horror to omage the comics a bit more. The "The Series" games brought it back to the tone the movie and show had.

[@Ramk0core]

About episode 3. Maybe you watched a version that was cut off for some reason? I do remember a scene where it was shown that Frank the alien pug swallowed the device because he was carrying it...well, like a dog. Then the commotion from the squirmish with the alien terrorist and the agents in Gibb's shop startled Frank, causing him to accidentally gulp it down. Now, I can't find the series anywhere, so I can't 100% confirm whether that's how the scene played out or if there were different details here and there, but I do remember a scene that made it clear Frank swallowed it, before it was explicitly told to us later.

[@Colby2D]

I watched it on KZbin but I remember seeing a scene where Frank talks about having it now, but I guess not seeing him actually eat it and all the chaos of the scene I probably missed one of the lines. That, and I just assumed he’d like put it in a pocket or something lol

[@buddyzilla4557]

30:56 - This could have been a subtle refrence to Jacob's Ladder. Through the movie, Jacob is dating this much younger woman who is trying to help him relax and get his mind off of the weird shit going on. The twist is that we learn Jacob is dying/dead. This is an in between world in his mind as he died and prepares to move ontot he next life. The "monsters" he sees are just beings whos roles are to help break down the cognative identity and attachment a perosn had to their life to move on. Those accepting and ready perceive them as helpful angels while those who cling to their life and resist the truth see them as demonic threats. The only oen who Jacob sees as good is his therapist who explains this to him but in reality they are neither. They are simply just what they are to do what they are supposed to and everything else is a projection of the individuals mind. The barrative he was living was not accurate to his real life and the younger woman never existed outside the purgatory. She was a creation of Jacob's subconcious to slow the process and keep him tethered to the world he knew. She would take him out to places like night clubs and tend him with simply earhtly pleasures so he wouldn't let them go in persuance of the truth. She woudl randomly show up when he was getitng closer to do this and sadly her last appearence was cut. This is pretty commonly viewed as the one mistake in editing. It is rught before Jacob moves and on shows him reject her. She then turns into a copy of Jacob confriming her identy all along. Maybe it was viewed as too heavy handed but I think without it it was a little too vague with everythign else going on. The version of L being an attractive and calming image for J to put his subconsious self defences/the alien to, works for the character and aligns with what Jacob did.

[@franknova987]

Used to watch it in Español dub when i was a kid, it was great fun ^^

[@Colby2D]

I like K’s voice in the Spanish dub, it’s a lot more suave which makes things he does a little more funny

[@KHFMcAwesome]

It’s funny, I remember watching this cartoon and enjoying it but literally the only thing I can remember from it is a joke from the final ever episode where The Worms end up with the US president and make him rename the country the United States of Coffee. It REALLY made me and my sister laugh, probably why it stuck with me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@whatwho5244]

I forgot i watched this show until you played the intro

[@Colby2D]

The part with the aliens dancing while lined up in the wall on the theme song will be stuck in my head forever

[@danielvasquez7951]

This was one of my favorite series

[@SwiftGundam]

Episode 10. Few facts off like how J's new high intellect makes him immune to the chances. He has no TK abilities here. And the human didn't buy the time device but stole it Jeebs. You're also thinking too rational on the bigot, in how he has no real reason to hate aliens. For the most part, hate crimes aren't really rational, there doesn't always have to be an external emotional factor to why they are the way they are. The guy discovered MIB and aliens are real, and he doesn't like that aliens are on Earth, that's all there is to it. In a way, it also makes him a human supremacist as well as anti-alien. Honestly, take away the time travel element, and this episode would've still been J's time to shine as dealing with a human, especially an intolerant bigot, is something he is far more experienced with than K.

[@ninjamalec]

MiB and Godzilla are great Fox Kids memories

[@Colby2D]

I’m watching through the godzilla show, I haven’t seen it before

[@ninjamalec]

@Colby2D It's a great watch. Definately gets to a point where you expect a crossover.

[@OtakuJuanma2]

Most people: wait there's a cartoon of MiB?! 90s kids: wait there's a movie of MiB?! (Apply to Robocop, Back to the future, Beetlejuice, Ace Ventura etc)

[@Colby2D]

That’s really funny, I only had the men in black gameboy advance game and didn’t really see the movie or show

[@wolfkniteX]

And the 90's American Godzilla.

[@OtakuJuanma2]

@wolfkniteX "Etc" is there for a reason. The Mask, Ghostbusters, Dumb and Dumber, anyone who was a kid in the 90s can make an endless list.

[@scormern]

In the 90's I watched the movies and the cartoons, well most of the cartoons.

[@OtakuJuanma2]

@scormern Shhh don't let it show how you're missing the joke.

[@chaosmachines934]

1:59 i am with you OMG they don't do cool stuff like this anymore such a shame

[@maxordman4100]

I love this cartoon and the first season a lot. Funny thing though is I remember it starting out with a different episode that I never liked a lot because they showed Jay leave the agency over a misunderstanding that was mostly ridiculous and then he goes back to stay with his aunt Rose and even though she was bitter at the start, she was so sweet in the later scenes and I felt sorry for her when Jay returned to the agency. Now I mostly avoid this episode but I’m used to seeing it on the season one list so I was surprised when you didn’t mention it. The first season does have a lot of amazing episodes but this is one story that I always skip myself.

[@Colby2D]

Interesting, I’m assuming it’ll be part of season 2 I’ll have to be on the lookout for it

[@Sonicfalcon16]

I remember watching this thinking it was the coolest thing and I never saw the movies it was based on

[@Colby2D]

My experience was similar but with the gameboy advance game instead haha

[@ShaDHP23]

The perfect combination of X-Files and Cowboy Bebop.

[@Colby2D]

That is a very interesting way of looking at it, it does kinda have a pace and format like bebop now that I think about it

[@0z0nedwellerproductions5]

37:15 this alien is actually based off the Maquette Rick Baker made that was going to be the Original Design for Edgar the Bug in the first MIB movie, but it was rejected for not looking enough like a bug, this version of Edgar was also used for the figure in the first movies toyline, but slightly revamped

[@Colby2D]

That’s really interesting! I like that design with the long legs. I almost feel like it looks more bug like and the final one is more human like in a way

[@0z0nedwellerproductions5]

@Colby2D yeah me too, as a kid I used to have the OG figure, in the comics they also use that design but make him green i think

[@Colby2D]

@ that’s cool, I want to check the comic out sometime soon

[@ConnL]

All this talk about 90s movie tie in shows just made me remember, there was an animated show about Brendan Frasier’s The Mummy that I remember liking. I think it came out on KidsWB. Check it out? 🥺

[@koboldqueen3055]

"i struggle to understand this random human bigoty" Yeah bigotry is like that a lot of the time.

[@Colby2D]

That’s fair, I think I was more confused how they knew of aliens, like I wasn’t sure if normal humans even knew aliens existed since they neuralyze people so often,but yeah they definitely made a good point of showing his actions didn’t have much logic behind them

[@koboldqueen3055]

@@Colby2D I always got the impression they were crazy and the whole aliens being real was a coincidence. like Christians hating wizards in harry potter, they clearly don't know they are real they just happen to be right in their existence. wish I could find an example that didn't relate to a slimly transphob. But this is something you see in secret world stories a lot where some groups believe that x thing is real and are completely wrong about everything but their existence.

[@Sigismund697]

I actually remember the Jumanji show Specially an episode where the main characters are stuck on some labyrinth and the antagonist keeps repeating the same riddle Something on the effect of "try as you may from your destiny escape, and the door without a door you'll never cross" At the end the characters manage to corner the antagonist who reveals he got that riddle when he got stuck inside Jumanji but couldn't solve it, prompting him to trap other players to try and solve it In the end it everyone gives up and it turns out that was the solution, giving up I don't think I've ever seen a show portraying giving up as a lesson

[@Colby2D]

I think I’ve been confusing watching jumanji and zathura for years now that you’ve mentioned this…

[@Sigismund697]

@Colby2D the show (Jumanji) was actually super fascinating since it actually went into the lore of who created Jumanji and why Allan was the only person that couldn't leave whenever they solved an episode's riddle

[@DebitAdams]

I watched this as a kid and enjoyed it.