The Reel Rejects - HAZBIN HOTEL 1x04 "Masquerade" Review WOW | Poison | Loser, Baby

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Starting point is 00:01:30 Plus, I was like, how could it get raunchier, really? Like, how could it animation? And then, yeah, this just made, like, it's dealing with really, really effed up, traumatic, like, horrible things. That was a while that they were able to pull that off. I don't even know how they did that. I feel like usually with shows that are special, that start off is so comedically heavy, you don't get your real serious thing until, like, a special. episode later season you know and totally the way they have managed to i don't know how to it's

Starting point is 00:02:10 been like this like a like a little wave that has gone into elements that get more serious over time because it it doesn't feel like it's out of this realm for the show to go there because that seat has always been there like from the very from the pilot you know not not episode one but the pilot this whole idea we're talking about reform and the way the reform is happening is by uncovering who people really are underneath the surface right because someone like charlie she has always seen that at the end of the day they are souls and there are people under before there was the darkness there was light and that darkness has clouded that light and who that light is is who these people really are and she wants to like unpack that so all this like cliche trust

Starting point is 00:02:58 are not going to be the trick. So it is through form via of connection. It is through form of just being honest with yourself and dealing with the current reality. It's why I love that loser's song because it is just them affirming the truth and accepting that and being okay with that. And instead of trying to be like, no, you're not. Don't do that. Don't think this. It is just about being like where you are right now and that's okay. Yeah, radical acceptance and practicing that. It's like if you've made the choices you've made and you have to live somewhere you are living right now what's the point in further judging that

Starting point is 00:03:32 and further punishing yourself when the choices you've made are already punishing you enough. Yeah. And I think that it's like two different sides of the same coin with the two of them as we're seeing the gambling versus the sex working

Starting point is 00:03:48 and like selling your soul to somebody and not having power over your body, your choices, whatever it is just can't believe that this show that started the way it did was able to tonally shift so so uh seamlessly because they painted such when we've talked about previous episodes this world building we're just in different pockets right like it's not like this felt like a different world this just felt like a little different corner of hell and we've seen other corners of hell and my last the last episode we watched remember my question

Starting point is 00:04:26 are like what's going on with Lilith what's going on with the devil radio man what's going whatever not one of my questions was like what's up with angel dust and the bartender yeah and so I didn't think that's what I gave a crap about as much and then they were like oh here's why you should care and I'm like oh you right I do care now thank you for telling you why I should care you know it's not it's not where our minds were going going into episode four and then they were just like no this is what we want to do with episode four. It kind of reminds me of, this is such a weird one, but did you see the last of us you did?

Starting point is 00:05:02 Because you have that sick shirt from it, so I know that you watch the show. The episode where we go to Nick Offerman's character. And I didn't play the video game, obviously, but it's like, it's just such a standalone episode moment that breaks off so early on in the show that I'm kind of like, whoa, that was balzy and risky that that's what you guys want to do.

Starting point is 00:05:23 And this kind of, for different reasons, felt like that. where this they're like they're making this choice and they probably know this means they could lose some of their audience and they could gain the respect of the people who stay even more because what a bold decision this was that was wild that was a wild TV episode yeah because this gets to uncomfortable terrain yeah truly this gets to serious this is serious business right here we're talking about like all kinds of levels of abuse of power and ways that are very degrading and dehumanizing and also play on very realistic thing that's the thing is like they they they as much as they like oh it's cool animation and they they do some things with uh making them hellish

Starting point is 00:06:08 characters still feels like very real because at its emotional core the characters the way they're uh i don't mean this in just in an animation sense it's just the uh figuratively speaking the the way they're illustrated and the way the dynamics are illustrated is it's scary it's intense because it feels like real you know and i i respect it so much because there's all the episodes i've been like we've been saying i feel there's like something deeper here but i don't know if we're just going deeper or if we're just supposed to accept that are we thinking more into it than the show and then you get to this you're like no this show is 100% been deeper this entire time and And I love that it respects the audience enough to go far past just being, you know, fun, musical comedy and go right to and do something like this to make it more human.

Starting point is 00:07:01 Like take a character who just was kind of this one-note joke and really make them more human over time. All of them were. Like all these characters, we've gotten to know everyone at this Hasman Hotel so much better now. Yeah. And with all different genres spliced through in to keep it engaging focus. And then you get a song like that, which is like a real, it has that like 80s pop song flared to it like a movie moment. But if it feels, it was serious, it was moving. You're like watching the visual like, man, this is disturbing.

Starting point is 00:07:33 Yeah, I love your point going back, though, about how we kept being like, oh, there's so many layers here. But then you're like, is that those accidental layers or those layers just like me extrapolating from this? But then they show us this. and you know they've planted every single one of those seeds. They know exactly what they're doing, which I think is just, yeah, it's unbelievable. Yeah, this show has my attention. Well, there's no show like it.

Starting point is 00:08:00 No, no, this show has my attention because as somebody, I know I started this in the pilot saying this, I watch 115 plus shows every single year. So to get, to really have my attention and be able to be like, I've never seen anything like this. And I've never seen anything like this. You know, it's like, first, it's like on the surface, it feels like nostalgic in the way it's just drawn, but the way the world gets more fleshed out. Not bad. I was just drawn that way.

Starting point is 00:08:27 Name the movie. She's a, she's a... God, I know it. And the red dress. It's half animation, half not. Frame Roger Red. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:45 Gave it away there. I was like, well, it's either space jam or who frame, Roger, rap. I'm that bad. I was just drawn that way. Anyway. Oh, Betty. Peep, poop, bo-peep, bo-peep. Oh, my God.

Starting point is 00:09:00 First of all, that girl's name is Betty Boop. And the other person's name you're trying to say is little bo-peep? Who's the girl who says it? Is it a rabbit? That was Jessica Rabbit who said it? I don't know. I think so. I don't know a call.

Starting point is 00:09:13 But, uh, yeah, a beautiful episode and great, your musical. Oh, and then the last thing, like, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, you go first. No, you go first. No, it's okay. I already forgot my, no, because I fucked it up. No, no, no, you just go. Uh, I don't remember either now. We've been here a lot.

Starting point is 00:09:36 Oh, I remember. Oh, I remember. Oh, I remember. All right. Go, go, go, go, me. I was worried at first in this episode because I thought they were, I didn't know if I was going to enjoy their stance on sex workers. Like, I thought they were being judgmental, the show, for the first part of this episode. I didn't know where they were going with, like, the fact that they were, that, like, he was doing this.

Starting point is 00:10:03 And it seemed like this show was looking down upon it. But really what they were doing was putting us in the perspective of the, um, the, the princess and bringing us into like oh save your mode and that was not where we needed to be this is just like the reality of this guy's situation yeah i mean it's like i think obviously there's that stereotype when it comes to sex workers of yeah they're all just damaged people you know it's not true right so that's what i was thinking that they were showing but that's not what was happening which i was glad about no and it actually exposes a commentary on a different side of real world stuff you know that is very tragic and and harming and harmful and uh and and it

Starting point is 00:10:56 actually works within genre of because this is such a throwback vibe to like you know the 30s to 50s of those old kind of like hollywood starlets who would be like abused and used and used and and tossed around and stuff. So I think it still works within the framework of the genre that it riffs, the time period that it really rifts on. So, yeah, I thought, that was excellent, man. I was moved to stairs, by the end. That was really touch.

Starting point is 00:11:25 It was really good. Really, really good. I'm stoked for however many episodes we have left. We got toast. Just two? Two years. So Roxy and I, we watch five today? Pilot, one, two, three, four, five episodes of all.

Starting point is 00:11:40 And then we got two to do when they are. And they drop at the same time. Yeah. So did they release these two at a time? We don't know. I have no idea. Hollywood. Weird release schedule.

Starting point is 00:11:53 Anyway, guys, what did you think about this episode? Is it one of your faves where you move to? Leave your thoughts down below. Catch you for episode five and six. Later, dudes. Boom. Chase Gardner! Chase Gardner!

Starting point is 00:12:12 Happy New Year, Chase Gardner. Man, boy, if I know Chase, and believe me, we know each other really well. No one knows Chase like you. I know exactly what your New Year's resolution is going to be for the year 20, 24. Yes. All right. You are going to collect as many. Gnomes as possible.

Starting point is 00:12:41 Yes, you need a hobby. Become a gnome collector. You need a niche. Because the next person that ticks you off. Oh, all right. Let's say, and if I know Chase, he's very easily perturbed by the most, the slightest shit that happens in public. All right. Let's say you're, you know, waiting in line at your nearest 7-Eleven.

Starting point is 00:13:08 and the person's just taking fucking forever to check out or you're just like come on man I've been here for a while seriously who brings change anymore yeah why is he counting and giving exact change

Starting point is 00:13:24 how big is your coin jar at 7-11 swipe your credit card you have ass or wallet I could see this is building up in you oh and there it goes now you've made a mortal enemy and you've got to follow this person to their house. This person who owns a house who

Starting point is 00:13:40 apparently pays in change. I know. Wild character. They are just a penny pantry. Very precise finances. So they say you're falling around home and then what do you do with all your gnomes? They wake up in the middle of the night after you ding-dong

Starting point is 00:13:56 ditch them. They wake up to display of no- every imaginable gnome. Out in their front of the yard horrified. Taring up at them. it's the ultimate

Starting point is 00:14:10 ultimate challenge just to get back yeah and if that doesn't work how scary would that be that would be horrifying to come out and just see like a bunch of inexplicable gnomes yeah I thought about this for days yes it would be it would be

Starting point is 00:14:26 worse than that goosebumps there's like a bunch of them and they're alive but I mean like I don't know even if they weren't alive just like the thought and I don't know it's like you wouldn't want to turn your back plus if it doesn't work you could just grab one and club them over the head with it.

Starting point is 00:14:40 That always works. This chair makes me a very bendy person. Ooh, is your yoga chair. That's your flexa throne. I have been very, I have been stretching. That's good. It's good for you. Stretchy 24.

Starting point is 00:14:54 Yeah, you get this. Let's back, John. You do. That could be your thing again. You can shoot it in portrait and put it on TikTok. And be like splits reactions. My Instagram can just be like, I'm going to do the split.

Starting point is 00:15:08 Let's here. I'm going to go to the store and do the splits. I'm going to go to the splits. That's a funny answer. That would be really great. I'm going to church. I'm going to do the splits. And the thing is, the more you grow that.

Starting point is 00:15:23 You know, some shit would like that would just take off for no reason. You would. And the thing is you would be able eventually as it picks up to write off trip after vacation. I'm going to do the splits of the Eiffel Tower. I'm going to do my splits in the leading tower of Pisa. I'm going to do my splits. In the catacombs below Paris. Or do my splits in an ancient monastery?

Starting point is 00:15:45 I'm doing my splits at the Make a Wish Foundation today with some sick kids. It's a split. Because that's what the algorithm favors. It's just, yeah, pick a lane. I think you just got to do it in a public setting and just don't announce it. It's just like, I was going to just, like, don't make a deal. Let me just do that random dude. Flash mom of the splits.

Starting point is 00:16:05 This is you. It's one guy. If I could just get to a point where I could, like, how when I was really young where I could just fall into it at a moment's notice, just like fall. I used to be able to jump, tuck my knees and then fall into this split. I was like so obsessed with doing

Starting point is 00:16:18 the splits. So if I can get to that point again, or I'm just out in public, I'd just get the reaction from me, like, bam, right off. And then every like seventh or eighth one, you do a front split. Oh, just to mix it out. I'm not everything good at the front. I'm really

Starting point is 00:16:36 trying to get it. Okay. That's good. I've got an older, the part of my body that's gotten the more stiff. I have clicking shoulders. I've clicking shoulders and I have really stiff hips. So I've been stricken a lot of random hip stretches. Anyway, Chase, this is because of you. Don't steal this idea from your shout-outs.

Starting point is 00:16:58 I now have a new Instagram page to work on those. Yes. That'd be a hilarious Instagram. You just got to get the right name. It's got to do the splits. Where are two splits? How to split. It's got to be something so simple.

Starting point is 00:17:09 It's stupid. Like splits, Greg. Greg splits. Gee splits. Splitsy, co-a. Oh, yeah. Do the splits, Jays. And then I could fight some other subscribers do the exact same take.

Starting point is 00:17:34 We should clap. We should do it. We got to meet him somewhere to do it. splits and then yeah yeah find somebody who does like splits and then you guys can team up and then find someone who does cartwheels to like do a cartwheel behind you do those like VR things that people do they circle around and it's like a million of me doing this and then you could do you there's so many collab opportunities and they would all be like three second videos but you you could like grow like a whole ass circus surrounding

Starting point is 00:18:02 it would be a funny ass instruments dude that would be really funny And it's the perfect, it's easy to do, sort of, it's easy enough to do, it's easy to capture, it's quick, it's not messy, it doesn't get away of anything. Everyone would be like, this guy doesn't do any work. All he doesn't do the splits. We're like, I'll have you, no. I have to maintain a flexibility. I worked very hard to get to the point to doing splits. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:28 And it's something I've been maintaining from a young age. And now I have to work really hard to make sure I can still do the splits. I, for you, for your entertainment. Just so I could walk into Denny's and do the splits. And they get a free moon's over my hammy. Dude, the perks, man, the perks. Thanks, buddy. Love you.

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