Building Block World: The Console Wars

My VCR started malfunctioning right before I was about to record. See, I put my master tape in the VCR, and it started spitting it out for no reason, and the door stopped closing properly. And when my VCR detects that the door isn't closing properly, it just up and shuts itself off. I was lucky to have recorded this episode at all, honestly. For all these reasons, this is the last episode to be recorded on that VCR.

The cold opening was based on a dream I had sometime around 2013 where I was at a Subway restaurant and they had a multicade in the shape of a chair. Of course, it being a dream and all, I didn't question the shape of it.

The main segment of the episode was originally meant to be about Earl going grocery shopping, finding a commercial for vintage Bomb Pops (which, in my dream, were cake bars instead of popsicles,) going back in time to try them, and giving one to Penny. This scene was cut because I thought it was painfully unfunny and dragged on for too long, though the "customer service" bit was reused for a later part of the episode.

The real main segment was based on a dream I had sometime in 2024 where I went to a high quality restaurant that had the exact same features in the episode. The music playing was always FlashKit loops, more specifically the ones that were in the Multicades. Since I had the dream during the time that Piano Loop 3 by The D-Force was still lost, the giant LED billboard called it "You are Going to Get High" and credited Calpomatt for it, despite it sounding nothing like their work. With it being a dream of course, I didn't question it.

This episode reveals Earl's crush on Penny.

The fridge having soda, orange juice, and purple stuff is a reference to the old Sunny D commercials.

Penny questioning what the hell "purple stuff" is is a reference to the Robot Chicken parody of said commercials.

The segment where Earl explores YouTube is based on a dream I had in February where I learned that Greeny Phatom wasn’t the first of its kind, it was actually a ripoff of a webseries called “The MS Paint Speakonia Show,” which came out in 2005. It had the same exact intro, and I forgot what the episodes were like. The series was lost media, but I learned about it by watching an old 2005 video about a bunch of guys reacting to a ton of videos. One of the videos was the original Annoying Orange (which in actuality didn’t come out until ‘09). That video was part of a series that was still going, and I became a pretty big fan.

The aforementioned segment is currently the only one that takes place in 2005, whereas all the others take place in 1999.

During the premiere, the intro for the MS Paint Speakonia Show was met with quite a bit of backlash, due to it being a Greeny Phatom reference. Thankfully I reassured everyone that I still hate Greeny Phatom, and I always will.

Outside of "Weird Weird Videos," the thumbnails on the YouTube page are references to numerous things. Included are the latest episode of Crazy Compositions at the time, the pilot of Code Monkeys (an adult-animated series by G4 about a bunch of guys working at a twisted game company, the pilot was called "Dave and Jerry vs. the World,") the first episode of The Object Show (my very first series,) a Webdriver Torso video, and a video of the lost mobile port of Pac-Man Plus.

The third segment was based on a dream I had sometime in 2013 where I was at Chuck E Cheese's and they had a Rally-X arcade machine. It had a steering wheel instead of a joystick for some reason, and it made it really hard to play.