The Year Cartoon Network Got Really Obsessed With Thumbs

[@riversongpond2212]

Okay I'm going to be real, I though the thumb wars thing was something I hallucinated after watching Spy Kids too many times. The fact that it was on Cartoon Network and not on KZbin shocked me, so I must have also watched it online at some point after seeing it air on TV. Wow, thanks for the vid.

[@KoolKittKat4679]

Sane here, I just thought it was a fever dream I had as a kid.

[@jacobhenn1504]

@@KoolKittKat4679 I am having so many fucking neurons fired right now that have not been touched in forever, this is amazing

[@DrLiam-fg6wd]

I thought I was dreaming too man, it was so strange.

[@errorloadinginformation5429]

Why do I also vaguely recall watching it on KZbin? 😂

[@eggsbenedict7586]

Lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllpllplllllllplppllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllpoooo

[@PajamaPantsStudios]

That scene where he says “Luke, I am your MOTHER!” Has been a core memory for me. It’s damn near essential to my being and I haven’t the foggiest understanding WHY

[@Biotechnick]

SAME!

[@dylanklinge9966]

Maybe they used that scene to promote it because I cannot remember a single thing about the movie except for that scene.

[@randommexican6676]

I'm glad someone remembers this.

[@BigGnome]

No joke: as a kid, I was obsessed with the thumb wrestling show and even had the Evil Ira character as a Halloween costume once. Guess how much other kids at school recognized it (I'll give you a hint: it's a number that's less than one). Anyways, good to know that the show an embarrassing childhood memory was associated with wasn't even that good in retrospect.

[@pieofgods1244]

Regret

[@conkcreatbb]

you and i are kindred spirits

[@thephony1651]

I can’t believe half a kid recognized that costume, poor guy

[@spinosaurusstriker]

You deserved it after disrespecting this masterpiece

[@habanta]

I feel like everybody forgot TWF existed and you're single-handedly bringing it back out of our subconscious.

[@kammaliek]

i think about twf like every other day

[@lavaninja1042]

I remember there was a game online for it.

[@inkchariot6147]

I vaguely remember Thumb Wars

[@thecomicsario]

Somehow I never forgot it. And it's always been something that I joke about with my friend group lmao

[@koalatea9960]

the show has been haunting me for years now because ive never seen anyone ever talk about it

[@partyinthecloudkingdom]

the green frankenstein most people are familiar with is actually a copyrighted version of his appearance. the story itself is public domain, but the image of green frankenstein with bolts in his neck isnt, so people cant have theirs look like that without paying royalties or breaking copyright law

[@connorbeith3232]

I'm guessing green Frankenstein is owned by Universal?

[@partyinthecloudkingdom]

@@connorbeith3232 yup!

[@itsClaptrap]

its kind of like the Winnie the Pooh incident, where the old illustrated novel Pooh is royalty free and can be used in anything, HOWEVER if you put a red shirt on it then its Disney's Pooh and you'll need to pay royalties to use it.

[@80sDisneyFan]

That's probably the reason why Frankie in G3 Monster High is more blueish and doesn't have neckbolts (although Universal used to distribute movies based on Mattel (the company that makes MH dolls) properties).

[@Lantern_Light]

my family legitimately enjoyed thumbwars when i was a kid. Legitimately quotes from it entered into our common vernacular.

[@LoanRepresentative]

TWF is considered a cult classic in latino america. I'm an adult and I've met several adults that still laugh about TWF. It only happened during commercial breaks for us from what I remember. TWF is probably what got me into JoJo.

[@insertnamehere672]

That and also I think that Correll Latin voice actor was the same one that voiced Jake in Adventure Time

[@chronospammer2073]

How did TWF get you into JoJo exactly?

[@LoanRepresentative]

@@chronospammer2073 well, basically, you first think of a thumb as a man, then make it sexy, then take them out of the ring but they are still fighting with their powers, and there you go, that's JoJo

[@gamerule18]

So do they like quote it or is it somewhere Where do I find it, I mean. I wanna watch it in good español latinoamericano

[@Uay778]

I remember waking up early as a little kid when nobody was awake and I watched frankenthumb in the dark on my living room tv. You just brought that memory up from the murky depths of my mind

[@zegonwicked6761]

Its criminal that you don't have more subscribers with the amount of quality in this videos

[@vvond62]

As one of three kids who watched Nicktoons Network, I cannot tell you how surreal it was seeing TWF not only transfer from Nick to CN, but even become part of Cartoon Network's identity for a brief period of time. I thought I was going insane.

[@em-ai-kay-ay]

If Bat Thumb had been made this year they could have written a parody song called "thumb-thing in the way"

[@BakerM8_]

I’m so glad I found your creator clash story on tiktok because I’m loving your content and would never have found such gems if it weren’t for that. You my good sir have earned a long time fan and I can’t wait to watch you grow.

[@catswellthecat7855]

I remember loving TWF as a kid! My brothers and my dad would all watch it together, it was an event we looked forward to each week. My brother still remembers that, but he doesn’t remember the Star Wars parody one. I do though, it scarred me as well. There was a scene where Luke’s family gets murdered and in this universe it means they got “clipped.” The scene of that still bothers me to this day, the nail was cut down the center. It makes me feel uncomfortable just typing this. I was legitimately worried that scene would be in this video and had to keep glancing away just in case. Really enjoyed this video and the Total Drama one, I thought this was a much larger channel than it is due to the quality on those being so good. Anyways it’s larger by one sub now keep up the good work!

[@FrozenLavaDragonProd]

Yo! As a kid the I thought the Thumb Wrestling Federation was such a rad show! It's wild that you are the first person I have ever seen acknowledge the existance of this show! 😁

[@GleamingGarmore]

I was one of the kids who was exposed to 6Teen for the first time with the halloween special. I was 7. For years I thought “Thats what 6teen is. That horror movie I watched as a kid.”

[@johannliebert2870]

I remember watching this on YTV in Canada. When I moved I forgot about this show entirely until I saw Mucha Lucha on Cartoon Network, but then I forgot its name. I only remembered it like a year ago and luckily found a lot of clips. Thanks for making this video and spreading awareness of this show!

[@El_Shadowick]

I swear I remember one night when I was a kid, I was about to sleep and saw Bat Thumb was about to air so I stayed up a bit cause I was curious and I saw the two thumbs in bed and I just went to sleep and felt uncomfortable and never saw it again so I wasnt sure if I just went insane one night or not

[@Sundorwave]

I saw Thumb Wars and I remembered liking it. It being made by the Odenkirk makes a lot of sense if you've seen Kung Pao Enter the Fist.

[@sterlinsilver]

I found a full boxed DVD set of all the thumb shorts in a closet of my house left by the previous owners. There were 6 shorts in total I'm pretty sure. There's thumb wars, bat thumb, frankenthumb, the godthumb (a take on the godfather) the Blair witch thumb, a take on the Blair witch project, and my personal favorite, thumbtanic- a play on titanic where it gets taken over by a gigantic spider

[@Demomandan]

I remember looking up the noods online and I didn’t even know what they were supposed to be. I asked my older cousin “what are noods?” To which he gave me a ver concerned and confused look.

[@Demomandan]

I also remember watching the zombie episode of 6teen and being very confused when subsequent episodes lacked any surreal elements except when they watched the Ron the rent a cop music video

[@FrancisR420]

when they say "possibly airing in 2022" I just picture the guy who wrote the script in 2010 going and updating it every year like a vision board

[@veto_5762]

I remember loving twf a lot as a kid, literally the best live action thing cn has produced and i guess i never get tired of it because they passed them during commercial breaks in my region

[@colt1903]

I dunno why, but I loved these thumb things CN did. They were such good... "Dumb Entertainment" I guess. They felt like they were just made to get you to smile, but not understand wtf you're smiling at, if that makes sense. Like some kind of Eldritch Comedy, lol.

[@judahgregory1030]

It’s good to know that we all had essentially the same childhood. I remember all of this when I was kid. Years later I remembered this and looked up all the Thumb movies on KZbin and loved them because I was 13 and that was the height of comedy at the time.

[@fraserking4747]

Oh my god, somebody else who remembers TWF! I assumed it was some weird fever dream or some show nobody else watched, since nobody I’ve talked to here in the UK remembers it, but now I’m validated by a guy on the internet over a weird thumb show!

[@rylee9086]

I DO NOT SELL LIGHTERS AS MY FAMILY WAS KILLED IN A BAD FIRE ACCIDENT

[@dumbdead8835]

I love how I can just randomly see an 50 min long video deep dive on how Cartoon Network liked thumbs for a whole year. The internet is truly something special

[@prench]

holy shit i remember this phase and it's been stored in my mind this whole time like "was that thumb wrestlers show a thing?? was it a short or what??" so i was stoked when i saw your tdi video and you showed the thumbs i was like woww then at the end you mention you made a video all about it and im like stoked!

[@VivecAlmalexia]

I just came to the horrifying realisation that TWF was part of my childhood that I never remembered until halfway through this video

[@SpiralPoli]

CN: Thumbs Nick: Feet Gee I wonder if one of Disney's cartoon airing blocks is gonna start having an affinity for ears.

[@Nakia11798]

I suppose they already have dumbo

[@SpiralPoli]

@@Nakia11798 TRUE

[@asrieldreemurr8059]

Dumbo _Hmmmmmmmm. . ._

[@LC-ng7hw]

I thought this was a fever dream, I remember being WILDLY UNCOMFORTABLE when they looked up Leia’s dress… I was like 10, I didn’t know why they were doing it but I knew it was wrong

[@brennanperry8001]

I'm really glad I didn't just imagine thumb wars as a kid. Like I remember seeing it on the TV literally once for like 5 seconds, but it was so bizarre that it's burned in there. No joke, I told my parents about it, and they thought I was telling a weird joke, because they thought "oh, star wars with thumbs would be thumb wars, that's cute" but I kept insisting it wasn't a joke, but they had zero clue what I was talking about.

[@FancyGermanTea]

Freaky little hooded creatures is probably a reference to in the actual script where they are called Dirty Little Jawas at nearly every mention.

[@TwiggyArmstrong]

I remember the Thumb era. I was addicted to TWF when I was a kid. I bought the book they made and I made a mini wrestling stage as they had on the show. I remember playing the game they had on the CN website at the time. It was awesome. I always thought Frankenthumb was a dream I had, but I'm glad to know I wasn't crazy.

[@kevingluys3063]

I vaguely remember that from when I was a kid, and mostly just remember being annoyed and slightly unsettled by it.

[@MrTruedragonknight]

I remember being confused by the first episode of 6teen

[@quiyoma3730]

9:18 Wow that must be where Joe (Due who made the dog of wisdom anim) got his iconic *yEeEs*

[@owenmccullor5063]

That thumb fighting flash game just unlocked so many nostalgic memories

[@conkcreatbb]

the thumb wrestling one was actually my favorite thing on cartoon network, i looked forward to seeing it every day and i remember putting it over adventure time

[@Manoto17]

There’s so much grain in this video you can use it as sandpaper.

[@Darkshine1234]

I'll take an obsession with thumbs over Nickelodeon's foot obsession any day

[@flirtycyclops]

I just wanted to say that your videos have really helped me with my anxiety and sleep issues, something about your style and voice is so charming and calming to me. I hope your channel grows :)

[@immensewraith7613]

Mentioning the thumb movie unlocked so many memories in my head and so much confusion about what was and was not spoofs, robot chicken, and just some commercials that I never figured out until now, Thanks man

[@ROBOHOLIC1]

The red bar at the bottom of the thumbnail got me thinking I already saw this so I ignored it for months bruh

[@samjeffery8112]

Grew up with all 6 thumb movies on DVD. They hold legendary status in my household. My brother and quote them regularly to this day

[@We_silly]

Who remembers the game on the website?? Such a throwback I even got some of these thumbs covers

[@octopusteeth2490]

I used to own the book, and read it every morning going to school until the spine wore out, splitting the book in half.

[@sharplizardclaw]

Oh my god I was obsessed, for one of my birthdays my parents gave out the thumb masks as party favors, after I knew that you could buy them I collected ALL OF THEM

[@t.j.fountain3414]

I... LEGIT thought that I hallucinated Thumb Wars as a kid. I remember it so vividly, but I thought "no way this was real"... well, good to know it was-

[@runicrune5207]

my embarrassing secret is that everything i know about starwars is from Thumb Wars and the lego starwars series

[@mollynattans9859]

I would say 2008 started my puppet trauma but then I remember baby Einsteins

[@Aster_Risk]

I feel old the way this is being talked about. I'm only 31, but these thumb films were the best when I was growing up. Everyone I hung out with loved them. Hearing you call them bargain bin parodies stings my little heart. Edit: Awww. Nevermind. You liked it!!

[@quentin6778]

Holy crap this brought back so much nostalgia, the frakenthumb was being aired when I was at my grandparents i only remember waking up to the last 10 mins of it and being very scared for some reason lmfao.

[@Aulmait]

I'm Brazilian and I watched all the episodes of TWF and it would go by early in the afternoon right at my snack time and the dubbing was very funny

[@dracovixen2620]

I could have swosh there was a mission impossible thumb movie on CN too

[@NexLegacyAccount]

I have unapologetically loved these movies since I was a kid and I'm so glad to see them finally getting some love. They're hidden gems.

[@raddaradda8682]

I remember the thumbs from watching Diamond and Pearl. I thought I'd never heard of the thumb wars, but that block brought back some deep memories

[@jaysaturna]

I remember seeing the original movies at Hollywood Video on VHS as a kid and being deeply put off by the box art. Had no idea it ever made a comeback on CN.

[@BinglesP]

41:20 Of course the thumbs say "Among Us"-

[@VibesReverb]

I remember the thumb wrestling thing being called “wrestling thumb federation” but them changing it and I assumed some higher up noticed the “wtf” joke and got mad

[@bowsmed]

I never forgot TWF and I never will, I was so strongly fixated on it when it was a thing that it actually has an impact to this day on how I make my own characters. I've made characters for stories, roleplays, and game concepts I've yet to do anything with that are on some level based on TWF characters. Also I remember the flash game on the CN website that was basically glorified rock paper scissors was actually weirdly addictive

[@catmaniac8x]

Man I just knew about Batthumb/Thumbtanic/etc back in my middle school years (think around 2004-05), I didn't have proper cable at this point and didn't realize they took the thumb thing and RAN WITH IT

[@propane_salesman]

Thank you. This memory has been haunting me for over a decade.

[@Eli-akad]

My favorite times as a kid I remember this phase all to well. Sum of those thumb shows had sum “grown up” humor 💯💯

[@henryblack1925]

I was obsessed with these thumb parodies on KZbin, even before they were aired on TV. Bat-Thumb my FAR my favorite

[@tri-crab]

Honestly, I vividly remember seeing that BatThumb sex scene as a kid

[@Jhawk913]

This needs more attention

[@unionfischer7941]

Colonel Cossack or whatever his name is being played by Sean Schemmel (VA of Goku) is a weird piece of information I enjoy having

[@anthonyfisher9413]

I've seen Kung pow enter the fist more times than Any other movie! Steve is an underapreciated unrelated Odenkerk. And Jimmy neutron is good too. Guy was ahead of his time

[@chiefavagef0x837]

8:40 I gotta f**king Star Wars - Fortnight ad right after that line dafuq?!? 😂

[@higginswalsan]

I was a Thumb poser growing up, I was interested in the wrestling and kept up with the tournament despite not catching a single episode and was morbidly obsessed with the thumb movies despite never watching them because Bat Thumb had a disclaimer saying it wasn’t for children

[@Squishy876]

This original run of thumb movies was in the 90s and I loved them. The Blair Thumb holds up

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

I never saw these on CN, but my sister used to rent the Thumb movies on VHS constantly. The image of Darth Vader flipping open their cloak, revealing a pink dress and saying "LOKE, I AM YOUR *MOTHER!* AND NOW, MAMMA IS GOING TO GIVE YOU A LESSON IN MANNERS!" has been burned into my brain because of it lmao

[@Iwidelyoutliveeverything]

you unlocked long suppressed memories with frankenthumb

[@ElRiki77]

bro i remember as a kid playing thumb wars on the cartoon network website. idk why but that shit was actually pretty fun for a CN flash game

[@coopernut]

I'm so glad I got to be a part of this... adventure? This PHASE in Cartoon Network👍

[@pink_disaster8330]

omg i still quote the thumb war wrestling thing with my brother to this day and this is the first time someone else even acknowledged it's existence

[@Scrat-rs5ud]

Remember Team Smithereen? The show aired on Disney XD alongside "The Secret Life of Suckers" (or "Suckers" for short) and the cast featured Thrill Kat, Whoop, Brave Little Francis and Stunt Pig, who perform crazy and dangerous stunts. It was crazy, honestly. Does anyone else remember seeing this show? I saw this as a young child about years ago

[@Hipick3]

I loved the part where the Thumb said "It's Thumbbing time" and then Thumbed all over the place

[@justanotherglorpsdaymornin5097]

I remember making sure I would catch TWF three afternoons a week at my nan's as a kid. The size of the space it holds in my memory makes the fact that I could have only seen it for two months (I went swimming every saturday morning so I would have been completely unaware of the crushzone) almost unbelievable.

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

I remember watching these and I loved them. I remember the Frankenstein thumb version and it stuck with me for years after

[@RocketDakota]

i remember this because me and my sister had the luchador masks that came in Happy Meals and would use them in thumb wars.

[@MidnightMilkMan]

Thanks for mentioning out of Jimmy's head offhandedly, I have had vague memories of that for years and for the life of me I could not remember exactly what it was

[@BredBoy1]

I pretty sure the yoda puppet is a boglin puppet

[@blizzymcguire69]

you should watch steve odekirks other absurd movie “kung pow: enter the fist” its insane and shaped my childhood.

[@Shroomerdoob7]

i have every thumb movie on dvd like blair thumb or bat-thumb or even thumb wars and seeing this on my for you page really suprised me

[@mollyhursh6222]

I grew up watching the entire thumb movie series as a kid, seeing all this as an adult is W I L D

[@Rybread52]

The Pokémon DP bumper unlocked a perfectly preserved memory I completely forgot I had

[@boarragnarok6798]

I remember thumb wars very fondly. But that Yoda puppet would also scare the shit out of me now if I were to watch it at night.

[@Rhin0beak]

I remember thumb wars vividly because of the “I am your mother Joke” my single digit age self loved that joke. The thumb wrestling bit however is definitely unlocking memories for me

[@mk-aka-morgan8386]

I need to watch that Batman thumb movie with my sister 😳 Esspecially since she love the barnyards. I even bought if for her birthday a few years ago lol.

[@bigheaded7494]

¨Who i sthis video for?¨ me thats who

[@leatheryfoot6354]

I saw Thumb Wars one time on a pirated bootleg DVD inside of a Dollar Store and it immediately unlocked a deeply repressed memory that I thought would never be uncovered.

[@daleksec01]

I remember watching thumb wars, tumbtanic and frankinthumb as a kid, and the thumb wrestling, I actually got a magazine as a kid that had little things you put on your thumb to make it into the characters

[@DigitalEWhore]

I so distinctly remember watching Thumb Wars with my brother, specifically the scene where Loke comes home to find his aunt and uncle are killed. The blood caught me super off guard, and as a 5 year old star wars fan whose exposure was 1-6. Not the old clone wars, not the comics, not the books, not the games, just the movies that are relatively tame blood wise

[@just-a-squishstudios]

You just unlocked a memory that was buried deep in my soul. I don’t know how to feel remembering this.

[@annahowe4575]

this is AWESOME! love the effort and quality, you totally deserve more views! i love the topic and id love to see you cover other similar topics

[@milopond]

the thumb wrestling show was genuinely something i care about a lot as a kid

[@bulgna]

Oh my God you just unlocked a big chunk of my childhood I couldn't remember

[@rustys0rcerer702]

Oh my god, I had completely forgotten about thumb wars existing. I remember having terrible nightmares about those movies as a kid. And for some reason the only joke I remember was the tongue touching thing