Why 'Agent Cody Banks' Caused Shame for its Distributor

[@CyberStockholmSyndrome]

I can’t believe that the entire premise of this movie is “we need this child to seduce another child to save the world.” I really haven’t seen this movie in ages lol

[@GlennBRust]

Well good news! The sequel's the exact same plot.

[@CyberStockholmSyndrome]

@@GlennBRust 😑😑😑

[@ramenstitches]

Uh, no it’s not? The female lead in the sequel is also a spy. There is no seduction required

[@GlennBRust]

@@ramenstitches Oh, I misremembered that I guess.

[@earthbornparanian6252]

I remember this once airing on TV and my mom thought that premise of that sets a bad example. Then again she's one of those "no dating until you're over 18" type of people. Jokes on her since I still haven't dated anyone in my early 20s due to me being asexual.

[@littlebighead4482]

growing up is realizing how uncomfortable inappropriate most of our childhood shows and movies actually were

[@madeniquevanwyk]

Ain't that the truth

[@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin]

There used to be a guy in my building we nicknamed “Little Bighead”!

[@dinosaysrawr]

I'd actually love to see a video essay comparing the different eras of children's media and highlighting what was considered "kid-friendly" vs. "inappropriate" in each decade.

[@abbyz13]

@@dinosaysrawrdan schneider’s legacy honestly proves what is considered inappropriate still needs so much re-evaluating.

[@dinosaysrawr]

@@abbyz13 , agreed wholeheartedly! The early 2000s seemed especially topsy-turvy in their standards to me.

[@BenjaminGlatt]

So, clapping someone's ears is a really good way to rupture their eardrums. The censors were probably more worried about the risk of kids seriously injuring each other repeating what they saw onscreen than the graphic nature of the violence.

[@talkgoodenglish7500]

Yeah, it's dangerous and unlike the martial arts it's something that kids could actually do to each other

[@Confessor1917]

You know, when you've been Tango'd

[@kassemir]

This is a very common approach to these sort of things in Europe. Generally there's more of a concern about behaviours and actions kids could realistically copy and cause harm to themselves or others.

[@Paratet]

This was also one of the very many reasons pro wrestling was rated TV-14 in The States. Censors were more concerned with the simulated violence than all the sexuality and language lol.

[@nullskey8370]

yeah it’s really easy to accidentally make someone deaf, while pretending to know karate at worst there’s bruises maybe a broken nose, i don’t think even wrestlers do that move often ii think they stopped some time ago

[@LezbeOswald]

Hilary Duff casually strutting up to the villain and brutally murdering him in cold blood without a second thought is so fucking raw and they didn't have to include it at all. unironically best part of the movie.

[@bowenarrows7819]

The wind in her hair like on a catwalk. The gleam in her eyes

[@jessicajean-louis5979]

Love how they had all these “professionals” show him how to talk to women and not one of them was a real woman

[@jones4106]

This movie caused my childhood girl scout troop to violently break up and split into two different troops who never spoke again. I'm still haunted by just the tension and stress of that time to this day when I think about this movie.

[@TheScaredLittleScholar]

what happened?? I’m intrigued

[@RabbitReads]

GORL WHAT

[@okflowerhead909]

Details please!!!

[@saddesklunch2544]

You must know you can’t just casually drop that and then NOT tell the story, right?!

[@belles_library]

We're going to need some more information omg

[@emo_penguin420]

The way the kid shakes that empty milk carton onto his empty bowl of cereal really came off as dystopian and unsettling to me lol ☠️

[@bubblegumrose777]

I saw that! It looks very strange. Probably should have done a reshoot.

[@bikesarebest]

Best part of the film hands down

[@woagnya]

That child has not eaten in days

[@BenChurchill76]

That drove me nuts! Like...he's not human. Or he likes his milk chunky, LOL. Has that actor never eaten cereal with milk before? Gives off "Yes, I'm a real human child" vibes.

[@Cyanmoon1]

Thanks for calling out the ableism! I am disabled and every single one of my needs is a human need. None of them is special. The word 'special' in the context of special needs or special ed is othering and patronizing. Better terminology is to talk about 'accessible education' or 'adapted education.'

[@---nobody---]

I love the term accessible education, because that's really what it is, making adaptations to ensure education is accessible to all and everyone is able to recieve an education, no matter what level that is.

[@lindseyjackson7490]

i feel like it could be interesting if Natalie was the main character who was really good at science stuff, and the movie was about her trying to rescue her dad

[@CyberStockholmSyndrome]

I had such a HUGE crush on Frankie Muniz as a kid. Watching Hilary Duff kiss Frankie AND Aaron Carter made her public enemy number one in my tween mind.

[@madeniquevanwyk]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@lilangelarishi]

Samesies~ I was like the Bee Movie meme of Ken screaming, "[HILARY DUFF] IS LIVING MY LIFE"

[@hanner8830]

Frankie Muniz was my neighbor back in 1992 or 1993 😂 I don’t remember much from that time except I definitely remember an instance where I told my friends that he was mean to me 😂. This was way before he got famous, so to me he was just another obnoxious little boy my age.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Is it wrong of me to want Nick to get into Clip Show-ing Teen Choice Awards from that era?

[@afterdinnercreations936]

It was so bizarre seeing him advertise a male-pattern baldness medication

[@RabbitReads]

“boys will be boys” should only be reserved for boys playing frisbee on the beach in front of me while i’m high on shrooms

[@alfuncoot4887]

i love the “eaten by scarab beetles” reference, considering that secondary evil dude is arnold vosloo, who played imhotep, the mummy from the 1999 movie! awesome video, as usual

[@madeniquevanwyk]

Yayyy someone else got it lol

[@eldrichnemo9312]

I adored Vosloo in The Mummy so this makes me so sad to see him reduced to secondary henchman

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

He deserved better.

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

I need ppl to know there's a movie from like 2019 that rips off Cody Banks but it has a dog as the spy. It's called Agent Cody Barks and I have no idea why it's real

[@NickDiRamioTV]

lolll thats insane and sounds like something i would dream when sick

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

@NickDiRamioTV lol the parts I've seen are definitely a fever dream

[@bookshelfhoney]

That's amazing, why would they make such a movie I love that

[@lauryntonio]

2019!?!!!!!! 😭 WHOS THEIR target demographic???? that's SO funny to me

[@frankiesayspanic]

for nicks sanity, i think they should do a clip breakdown on a GOOD movie. tell us all the things they do right, how they subvert expectations and use lighting well and what not. it would be really interesting and…i don’t think he can take another shitty 2000s tween movie

[@tombboy1436]

i’m really interested in that idea

[@Pipkiablo]

There was a similar scene to the ice cube death involving bacteria that dehydrates you to death in seconds in contaminated water in a Jackie Chan movie that came out around the same time as this film, and I want to know what the hell movies in the early 2000s were doing because I still have trauma from watching Agent Cody Banks and The Tuxedo as a kid.

[@AnnaKin]

The entire time I was thinking how weird the cartoon villain looked, but I was like, "Be nice... be nice... that's his face." But the second Nick said he was in brown-face I felt so vindicated, haha.

[@lizdee3243]

My one memory of this movie is watching it in silence with my oldest brother while our parents and other brother had a screaming fight upstairs. It seems like the deep-seated awkwardness and dread whenever I think of Agent Cody Banks was perfectly suited to the movie after all

[@fuzzycatbutts]

Maybe this is awful, but I'm really curious what they were fighting about lol

[@ambriaashley3383]

Aww hope you’re doing all right ❤

[@allisonmccune9556]

I’m so sorry honey. It is crazy how we remember and associate things from years ago.

[@allisonmccune9556]

@@fuzzycatbutts I love your username!

[@fuzzycatbutts]

@@allisonmccune9556 Thank you! 🙂

[@bethschueffner5425]

i cannot tell you how badly i needed a 45 minute nick diramio video today. thank. you. 😭❤

[@trey8872]

You and me both!

[@Sabs_222]

Same! 😩

[@xletragedyx]

I can't stop thinking of him as Rick DiRameeo since that Def Noodles roast video 😢

[@irishecker]

@@xletragedyx LOL same!

[@jacksampsonforever]

Kind of amazing how many movies from this time period aged REALLY bad. Thank you, Nick

[@justinwatson1510]

This is America, nothing in our culture ages well because we are still mostly shit. Once we seize power from the white supremacists in charge, we will start producing media that ages well

[@Pipkiablo]

It was an especially bad time for action and horror movies too...everything was PG-13 so that they could sell as many tickets as possible to teenagers with a special 'unrated cut' DVD version you could buy where it was just the same movie but now there's uncensored boobs in it.

[@zitronentee]

considering it was badly rated even at that time, we can safely say that the critics were right.

[@DokkaChapman]

The ear slap may have been removed due to an incident in the UK a few years prior where the same move was used in a Tango (soft drink) advert. Kids started copying it in the playground to the point where some had perforated eardrums, leading to the ad to be removed from television.

[@jamesrobbins1243]

I, too, recognized the mom from Dead Like Me. Instantly. What was not mentioned is how the mom in Dead Like Me was an absolute evil villain. So horrible, that I'm still, years later, impressed by that actress for her ability to make us despise her so much.

[@patrickrichardson2518]

The "ear slap" you latch onto is a very real brawler-ish technique known as "boxing the ears." There's a whole bundle of nerves there on both sides and a hard strike can cause a lot of pain comparable to a broken nose or groin strike. More severe injuries include permanent deafness, chronic vertigo, tinnitus, general pain, and possibly other neurological problems like persistent black outs.

[@natsmith303]

I once went to some theme park attraction where they put volunteers from the audience into a short film with blue screen. The antagonist was someone in a Pink Panther costume, so when they asked for someone to catch him, I felt like it was obvious that the character would be Inspector Clouseau. So I raised my hand before they'd finished the sentence. And that's how I came to play Agent Cody Banks snowboarding down a mountain. This was *well* after even the sequel, so I have to imagine the attraction wasn't updated often, because who was supposed to be jazzed about Cody Banks at the time?

[@nunnaurbiznez8815]

The bravery of the man with brown face wearing a white turtle neck is unmatched.

[@auntiefish4192]

The double ear clap would’ve been a problem for the BBFC because of a soft drink. In the early 90s there was an advert for Tango Orange where a man in orange body paint slaps a man in a similar fashion. We all copied this in the playground, of course, kids apparently got their eardrums perforated and the ad was pulled. It was a whole thing. So the BBFC would have been specifically sensitive to that specific move. Mind you, they also had a weird thing against martial arts too. In the 90s TMNT was known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles over here, for fear that the word Ninja would warp our fragile little minds.

[@LezbeOswald]

if i had to guess, i would assume they wanted to block any violence that children could (theoretically) replicate themselves.

[@bubblegumrose777]

That was when Mikey got a grappling hook instead of a weapon.

[@chelseamuradanes2898]

Yay!!! Was literally just thinking " ugh! I need me a nick video!" Thank you Nick!!! Love you boo! Stay cool out in this heat.

[@NickDiRamioTV]

omg thank you so much i hope you enjoy!

[@trey8872]

Same! I’ve been on a rewatch binge while I patiently wait.

[@kilibubblecata6266]

@@trey8872 my life

[@abracabadass]

I loved this movie as a preteen. How any of us managed to rearrange our brains after growing up like this, I do not know.

[@teacupolous]

GUYS. Nick singing “maybe it’s brown face” nearly killed me. God damn he is so funny.

[@BlondeEyes7]

Was literally having a meltdown and opened KZbin for something to calm me down and ta-da, the clouds parted and Nick was here to save me with his calming yet upbeat voice. Hero.

[@fromlissawithlove]

Meltdowns are the absolute devil sent straight from Dante’s inferno, lol. I hope your day gets better! ❤

[@hazel1245]

"Clear plastic bag that says ice on it incorporated" made me laugh so suddenly and boisterously that I startled myself 😳

[@Rose_from_UK]

The dehydrating corpse was truly horrific, that would’ve kept a few kids from sleeping I’m sure. 😮

[@Fuffydud]

It accidentally imitated a decaying corpse really, really well.

[@Listening_Books12345]

As a child who saw the original Indiana Jones movies when I was about 6 or 7, I would not be at all surprised if watching a human body melt/dessicate rapidly into a corpse fucked with some heads. Melting Nazi faces were in my nightmares 😵

[@Rose_from_UK]

@@Listening_Books12345 me too! I was about 10 I think and was terrified

[@REALBeezle]

legit.... i was 11 when i first saw it, and it was the cause of a phobia i suffered from for 16 years; i only just started actually recovering from it last november, and i coined the term for the phobia (liomenoprosopophobia, which means "fear of melting faces") a couple years ago because i felt so alone in it and felt like there needed to be a word for it. after that, i created a website to help other people with the phobia.

[@IndigoFireFandubs]

We went to the Lizzie McGuire movie in theatres which came out at the same time as Agent Cody Banks, and both had Hilary Duff of course. So when the opening titles of Lizzie McGuire started with unusually tense music and "Hilary Duff" in a bold metallic font with flashing police lights, we legitimately questioned if we accidentally walked into Agent Cody Banks until the film's title showed up 😂

[@astridmyst]

I absolutely love watching these old kids movies get torn to shreds for how terribly racist, homophobic, ableist, and so much else as they need to be. It's also fun to see these old movies I watched as a kid again. I really especially love that Nick mentions ableism. I still in movies today see basically no disabled representation. I am so passionate about pointing things out like this within new and old movies. I really want to make a youtube channel actually o-o

[@tea4nihilists]

you should do it! i feel the same way and plan on doing just that!

[@astridmyst]

@@tea4nihilists Yeee good luck to you!

[@theobservantsome9095]

Go for it!!

[@astridmyst]

@@theobservantsome9095 I might haha seems a few people would be interested :)

[@astridmyst]

@Jack-px8lf Thanks. Hmmm I'm not quite sure what you mean by that but hey you always could make a video about it.

[@dylnpickl846]

As a formerly chronically suicidal child, I am both shocked and unsurprised by the finger gun joke... I loved this movie as a kid and watched it many many times.

[@ltamha]

Nick, your timing is immaculate as ever! I was discharged from a mental health unit this morning and this is my first night back after over 5 weeks. I'm curled up with my dog and Nick has posted, all is well :).

[@nkita7363]

Good luck in your journey! Proud of you for seeking help that’s one of the hardest parts sometimes ❤

[@ltamha]

​@@nkita7363thank you ❤ I really appreciate your kindness. Stay safe and well lovely :)

[@AmyPieterse]

Stay strong! ❤

[@sashie253]

you got this, girlie💪🙏❤️✨

[@madeniquevanwyk]

Sending every good vibe to you and your doggo

[@ninoassaiante5325]

I never trusted big ice, and now my suspicions have been validated. Thanks Agent Cody Banks!

[@elizabethwillis885]

As I’m sitting here, I’m thinking, “Nick would look amazing with frosted tips” Can you tell I graduated high school in the year 2000?

[@esme_melody]

so true growing up as a middle eastern american in the early 2000s was so weird bc so many of the villains in the kids' movies/superhero movies they showed us at school or summer camp were depicted as 'vaguely middle eastern' / 'oriental' (shoutout edward said)

[@pleaseshutup7053]

How is that weird

[@retropockystick]

Every time I hear Nick tell someone off (namely bullies in teen movies) I can just hear his inner child/teen getting sweet sweet validation

[@bobbiwithani7396]

Omg. I'm only to the locker room scene & this movie is nuts! Honestly, it makes more sense looking back at the awful jokes youtubers made 15 years ago & are now canceled for. So sad this stuff was normalized.

[@andrewkoster6506]

"i'm not a groomer, i'm just a CIA handler"

[@loribethartist6353]

I needed this video today! I took in 2 sick puppies this week and one died 😢 I’m cuddling up and nursing the one one back to health, so I appreciate the content! Her name is Violet and she is an Australian shepherd/schnoodle mix. I would love some good vibes sent her way 🫶

[@closuitm]

I’m so sorry :( thank you for taking care of them

[@sashie253]

Good vibes sent your way doll❤️✨✨😇😘

[@MegCazalet]

It is so good of you to have taken them in. I’m so sorry one didn’t make it, but at least it had loving hands taking care of it! Me and my dog will be sending love and strength over the secret psychic dog network. My sweet dachshund Sophie, my little girl, passed away unexpectedly and out of the blue at the end of May. My husband was so desperate he tried CPR, breathing into her mouth, trying to give her his breath. It’s horrible to even think about that morning; it was extremely traumatic. I’m looking for a grief counselor because it has messed me up so badly. I feel for you and am also so grateful for you. ❤❤❤

[@glitterbitesback]

Trying to save an animal is just as good as successfully saving one. Violet sounds freakin’ adorable and thank you for your work! Aw. Schnoodle.

[@nataliejarosz9360]

Sending them her way! My condolences 💗

[@randomplayvideostore]

I love how reading the phrase "child-on-child sexual abuse" aloud appeared to literally exhaust his spirit for a moment. XD

[@DeathnoteBB]

I mean yeah it’s CSA…

[@honestlynotsponsored]

That seems like an appropriate response tbh

[@randomplayvideostore]

@@honestlynotsponsored I mean yeah, it's just fun to see xD [Edit for context: I'm talking about his reaction. I can't see my own face when I react to something. I'm reacting to a reaction.]

[@thewingedsiren9366]

​@@randomplayvideostore...Maybe fun isn't the best term here. I think relatable is more poignant. Hard similar feels; my soul is just so tired of this crap. Kids learn these things from adults. Really feels like, can we please just level up already?

[@randomplayvideostore]

@thewingedsiren9366 okay, I don't think this was all that necessary. This is reading too much into me commenting on something that still made me laugh from something I saw on screen, whatever kind of response it was.

[@BrandonSurfsNow]

Just came here to say that the opening scene with the car save is to show that Cody Banks is “exceptional”. It’s just to validate that he’s gifted so it makes sense for his character going forward. I randomly did a study on this in film school which is why I chiming in.

[@Whateverrrr96]

My dad loves Franky because he's a race car driver now and he's actually really really good at it; wins tons of races and will probably qualify to be in Nascar soon.

[@MonaLyssa33]

Dead Like Me is such an underrated show. You should do a series on its awesomeness. 😉

[@UnmedicatedWaters]

Nick mostly does movies so he should review the dead like me movie! Everyone wins

[@UnmedicatedWaters]

Nick mostly does movies so he should review the dead like me movie! Everyone wins

[@cowardlycurry]

This movie was kinda yikes, but it still holds a special place in my heart bc Frankie Muniz was my first crush in like 1st grade, and also I have a cat named Keith David (after his role in Coraline) and I joke I named him after the CIA director in this movie 😭

[@arareanddifferenttune3130]

Lol on first reading I understood this as Frankie Muniz was in Coraline and I was like WHATTT??? 😂😂

[@krissybee123]

@@arareanddifferenttune3130same i was like “wait Frankie Muniz was in Coraline????” Lmao

[@krissybee123]

@@arareanddifferenttune3130same i was like “wait Frankie Muniz was in Coraline????” Lmao

[@krissybee123]

@@arareanddifferenttune3130same i was like “wait Frankie Muniz was in Coraline????” Lmao

[@StevieDecks]

10:10 just realized one of the villains in this is Imhotep AKA the Mummy

[@lllaaauuurrraaa]

Nick, if Malcolm in the Middle paid you to call him "conventionally attractive" I think you need to disclose it as a second sponsorship.

[@emperorgrogg]

Aww I think Muniz is pretty adorable (your comment did make me laugh though)

[@lllaaauuurrraaa]

@@emperorgrogg Oh he's definitely adorable! I actually felt so much kinship with him as Malcolm, because I was also a nerdy, uncool, unremarkable-looking tween. (lol it sounds like I'm dunking on him again, but I swear it's a compliment this time!)

[@dondon8025]

i can confidently say, while not perfect, Alex Rider is a MUCH better "spy kid" genre of media! They actually did a much more loyal TV adaption of the books too! i was cackling when Nick went in on the "special ed" rudeass comments. always great to see someone point out shitty moments that were treated as "okay" back in the day

[@cwahlb1]

WHAT i had no idea they made a tv show for alex rider. i read all those books

[@luthebong]

When I started watching this video I didn’t expect witnessing you slowly losing your mind but I’m here for it. I cried laughing, my neighbor came over to ask if I am okay and we rewatched this video together. She’s your biggest fan now and we have a six pack from laughing. Please do the sequel so I can strengthen that bond with my neighbor

[@SpaghettyLuvsU]

Aww I love that :D

[@emilyrln]

That's so sweet!!

[@artsumeshae]

The Mandela effect is me thinking Nick already did a review on this movie 😂

[@itsQUINNderful]

Dude same. IVE SEEN IT BEFORE 🙊

[@8bitdaydreams]

Omg I remember getting this on DVD and watching like 4 times in a row. Lol so nostalgic. Thank you Nick for covering it!

[@TJRune]

Agent Cody Banks, the only agent they don't care to out with his legal name even though he's a teenager who stands no chance of defending himself and his family. Prime writing. They didn't even give this literal child a code name.

[@riverrile]

Never saw this movie, but "Malcolm in the Middle VS Imhotep" was the last thing I expected.

[@genesiselaine]

i took some time off but i’m BACK to rep for hairspray (2007). you may have heard of her 🤭

[@elodee3]

the double ear clap thing can actually make someone permanently deaf and they didnt want kids mimicking it - I understand the ratings call there

[@lauryntonio]

Nick you're a lil older than I am so sometimes the kids movies you cover were just a window out of the time I was obsessed w movies (Luck of the Irish ir that one with Danielle Panabaker) but agent cody banks? i made my dad take me to see it. he never let me choose another movie again after Agent Cody Banks and the Pokémon movie. and to this day (im 28 😭) he's still extremely hesitant to watch a movie i recommend bc ive "historically bad taste" and he's not wrong but the fact that he's been saying that bc of decisions i made when i was like 5??? amazing so excited to relive a movie so near and dear to me as an adult and with one of my favorite channels everybody wants to talk abt Smart Home - no one remembers cody banks 😤

[@lauryntonio]

WOW did NOT expect there to be so many rancid bigoted jokes LMAO. Im almost in disbelief that the backlash for the special ed jokes was as severe as it was considering how commonplace the term was at the time (absolutely disgusting how media latched onto that) WELP. as an adult, my dad was right to ban me from choosing the movie going forward. except he was wrong about the Pokémon movie, that's still good.

[@enbdedrick1295]

Oh lord not the nanobots. This scared the absolute shit out of me as a child. This and the death scene in mystery men😱😱😱

[@YourFavoriteSociopath]

I spent the entire summer before high school learning 3 separate instruments just so I could take marching band, concert band, and orchestra so I wouldn’t have to take gym. It worked too! And now I can say I play the flute, viola, and clarinet lmao

[@audsdacity]

Nooo, Nick, you've unleashed the Cold Ones into our dimension by revealing the super secret ice recipe! May god have mercy on our warm-blooded souls

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

I'm a younger millennial and was talking with my PT who is an older millennial and we discussed how normalised it was to call things "gay" or "retarded" and how so many messed up ideas were fed to us by the media we consumed. We had to unlearn so many things and it sucks (or, it's "totally gay" as high school me would have said)

[@CharlieSimmer27]

nick i truly laugh out loud watching every vid of yours, idk how "scripted" they are but you're so effortlessly hilarious! not only that but your makeup looks amazing

[@kaitlynrauch3454]

The ear clap is cut out because there was at one time a Fanta Ad in the UK where someone did that to another person. Children started doing it on the playground and it was bursting children's eardrums or causing head injuries. The ad was banned and now you cant show ears being clapped to children.

[@spectre9340]

The plot of this movie doesn't even make sense. Wouldn't this girl want to do anything and everything to find her dad that's been taken hostage somewhere? Had she been the daughter of the bad guy, it would make sense why they needed Cody to get close to her and deceive her this entire time. Also, I feel like if they just wanted Cody to get invited to the party so he could snoop around the house, they could've just had their regular agents do it since they already sneak into _his_ house in order to do all the chores

[@HossBossman]

"I gayed my way out of gym class" is a line for the ages. no idea why this was recommended to me but goddamn this was hilarious.

[@AV-uo6qh]

Great video as always, also wanted to say that your makeup looks nice! I think if you extended the outer wing, you would get more of the “siren” look, which you’re already leaning into a bit with the inner corner. It’s been so fun watching you, your channel, and your makeup skills grow and evolve! Keep up the amazing work 💜

[@subhajitdeysarkar9724]

I used to love watching this movie as a child. I was wondering how come I don't recall the inappropriate innuendo laden scenes. Then i remembered that I watched it on tv and the Indian censor board censors the hell out of everything. I usually hate the censor board but for this movie i would say that was a good call. Also, the stereotype about the Asian characters is really sad because a lot of these actors are forced to take up such humiliating caricature-ish roles because those are the only roles available for them.

[@ilyssasimsek4608]

This movie made me avoid ice cubes for most of my childhood because of that badly animated death scene

[@kathrynsinger3198]

The way this movie altered my relationship with ice for YEARS as a child.

[@mightymeatymech]

34:54 these two on the scooter segway things is making me cry of laughter 😭😭

[@akastardust]

I'm at "that's the mom from DEAD LIKE ME" part. It'd be interesting to do a deep dive on the series from the *amazing* start to the nosedive it eventually took, and there was a movie. Never saw that.

[@BarkleyBCooltimes]

Finally, someone else who understands the effort us ice enjoyers go through.

[@izznt]

Oh I loved dead like me. One time my mom flipped out when I was at her place and wanted to watch it, she saw the rating and flipped. The same woman who refused to turn off final destination even though I was crying and 8 years old.

[@eggedbread]

NICK THIS IS THE MOST WILD THING TO HAPPEN TO ME, I WAS JUST READING ABOUT AGENT CODY BANKS ON WIKIPEDIA AND I GOT BORED SO I OPENED KZbin THEN SEE THIS???? im so legitimately flabbergasted.

[@sterlingross919]

29:49 damn that kick was so powerful it didn’t even need to hit the guy for him to fall down!

[@natalierose13]

Whenever I see Keith David in a kids movie, I can’t unsee him in Requiem for a Dream.

[@senadrin]

I remember wanting to see this so bad as a kid old media is craaaaazy

[@daltonwoods7436]

What cracks me up in addition to the conspicuously empty cereal box at 4:20 was the fact that he then proceeded to pour the milk into the bowl like it was also cereal

[@gothboithick]

something about the way he shook that milk was very unsettling to me lmao

[@1000huzzahs]

"I didn't choose this career, this career chose ME!" Buddy I have some bad news about the CIA and informed consent

[@private755]

I was like “wow Ian McShane’s spray tan is out of control this movie. .. oh.. oh.”

[@thatcarmenkid]

Arnold vosloo (Imhotep in the mummy) just being a background character 4 years after the mummy😭😭

[@eveperez6929]

living for the eye makeup 💕

[@NickDiRamioTV]

tysm! I was so unsure of this when i first saw myself on camera loll

[@awarlockunkindlyborn1353]

Barely related, but when my 100 year old blind great grandpa was in the hospital, he would reach out and put an arm around his nurses to identify who they were. He called them "the fat one" and "The skinny one." Oh God. 😭

[@ronaldderosa]

“They are playing poker…. At a kid’s party. Whatever.” 😂

[@SirChubbyBunny]

This is another one of those movies I remember watching a good amount as a kid, yet I couldn't tell you a single major plot moment apart from the ice cube thing.

[@moonbeam0099]

Can you maybe do the classic Hairspray from the 80s with Divine? That film thrilled me to no end when I was in middle school.

[@mister.wednesday]

Yaaaayyyy! New Nicky D video! My favorite part of the week!

[@NickDiRamioTV]

You're the best!!

[@AmyPieterse]

Same!

[@CharlessMovieChannel]

I never knew I needed Nick roasting that "Special Ed" Character/Line until now. Never change Queen.

[@amityislandchum]

The little brother SHAKES the (obviously empty) milk carton to pour milk on his cereal. Once again, how do these actors never know how to simulate normal human behavior?!

[@please_im_a_staaar]

I can't get over the fact that the villain's henchman (The Mummy guy) wears a silver velour tracksuit. I'm sorry, but only Brad Pitt and Paris can pull that off and not look like a soft toy. ☠️

[@RabbiJoeInJerusalem]

The T.S. Eliot joke would make a lot more sense if it were George Eliot, right?

[@Noellep]

yeah, it kind of feels like that's what they were supposed to do....

[@REALBeezle]

may i suggest possiblly taking the image of the villain's face melting out of the thumbnail? that particular image caused me to develop a phobia of melting faces at 11 years old (which was before i ever saw raiders of the lost ark) and i suffered from that phobia for nearly 16 years. i'm more comfortable with simply visualizing the image now at 27, but i can't quite handle seeing the actual image yet - so if you could take it out of the thumbnail and put a trigger warning with timestamps for when it shows up in the description/pinned comment or something, that would be great

[@sideshowmob]

If you have a phobia directly related to this movie, the trigger warning is the title of the video. Maybe it's not for you.

[@REALBeezle]

@@sideshowmob okay, you have a point, but this phobia extends to more than just the one in this movie. it's all m*lting faces that trigger me. and given the fact that this particular movie is rated PG (which it shouldn't be, even without the m*lting face), anyone watching for the first time isn't going to expect it to turn into a horror movie for 3 seconds. i posted the comment so those people can at least have a choice. also yes, i did go searching for agent cody banks related videos; but in my defense, i was trying to give myself exposure therapy by simply listening to any videos that came up (the audio is also triggering in its own way, so i was taking baby steps). so when i came across this one, i got triggered. not just for personal reasons, but because others who haven't seen it yet will be traumatized, or others who have will be triggered. both groups of people won't have a choice in the matter, as long as nick keeps the thumbnail as it is and doesn't provide a proper trigger warning.

[@sideshowmob]

@@REALBeezle Exposure is great for phobias but be sure to have professional assistence so it's effective, and not just re-traumatizing. Wish you the best, phobias can be really debilitating

[@REALBeezle]

@@sideshowmob thank you 🙂 i haven't started any sort of therapy yet, but i am going through the system right now; hopefully, i'll be able to get professional help specifically in this area, as well as others

[@BlackKraya]

Part of me just wants to chant Imhotep, Imhotep, Imhotep, when that one bad guy appears.

[@X._.COCO._.X]

Just getting an ad to rent or buy "knight and day" which is just the adult version of Agent Cody banks but with Tom Cruise as adult Cody banks and Cameron Diaz as adult Nataly

[@kyleighwhitsell6233]

I wonder if the production company was trying to capitalize off the success of Spy Kids which came out just two years before.

[@CurveTheRain]

All this was so much easier than disguising an adult as a party caterer. 😂

[@UndercoverNoodle]

I have a fond memory of sitting down to watch this movie as a kid and eating 13 corn dogs in the process. 😭 I still don't know how I didn't manage to throw up.

[@deenora596]

Seeing hillary duff actress smirked after shoving that ice into his mouth knowing itll kill him… ??? Good lord

[@BigEyedAsian_]

I met Frankie on his way to film this. They were on their way to Canada and they stopped at the McDonald’s in my hometown. He was nice, this was racist. A lot for me to unpack as a young POC. My mom, rightfully so, hated this movie after she took me to see it

[@Yodi.]

I loved ‘Dead Like Me’! It was such a good show!