Why Is There So Much TRAUMA In Steven Universe?!

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]LARS, GET OUT OF THIS CAR. This whole friend group IS AING MINEFIELD. LARS CAN'T GET ONE word out of his mouth without instantly being punished for it.

[00:00:10]Every conversation with these people is a boxing match.

[00:00:28]How's it going, boys, girls, and squirrels? AND WELCOME TO THE VERY first episode of I think I put on the wrong Gizbot today. I'm looking at myself in the monitor, and this Gizmo does not work with this shirt. It's too many grays. You completely lose them in it.

[00:00:44]Now, am I going to get out of my chair and walk actually three feet to my display of 40 other Gizmo necklaces?

[00:00:54]Absolutely not. Do I look like a guy who solves his own problems?

[00:00:59]YOU THINK I'D RATHER FIX SOMETHING I'm upset about than complain about it?

[00:01:03]Well, YOU THINK I'M A GUY WHO SOLVES his own problems? YOU THINK I'D RATHER FIX SOMETHING I'm mad about THAN COMPLAIN ABOUT IT? NEWS FLASH, BOZO. HOW DO YOU THINK I ENDED UP BECOMING A REACTION YOUTUBER? YOU THINK I WANTED TO BE DOING THIS? NO. I wanted to make movies AND SHORT FILMS, BUT INSTEAD I FOUND OUT IT WAS MORE PROFITABLE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S. UM, BY THE WAY, IF you want to check out some of my short films uh and complain about those here, I'll put the link to my short film channel down below. That's right. I've had a short film page for a couple YEARS NOW, AND I'M JUST NOW DECIDING TO PLUG IT.

[00:01:39]BUT THAT'S BECAUSE I'M FINALLY PUTTING MORE films onto it. So, check out the link in the description below if you want to either find out I'm talented or roast my ass for not being as such.

[00:01:50]Anyway, the episodes we're watching today are so many birthdays and Lars and the cool kids. So, everybody got their tissues ready? I don't know why, but I have very distinct memories of my feelings towards both of these episodes.

[00:02:05]I don't remember what happens in these episodes, but I remember feeling personally attacked by them.

[00:02:12]Specifically, so many birthdays. I think it's a sad one. I don't know. I think this is a real bummer of an episode. I have a feeling this is what got me fully on board with like the traumatic side of Steven Universe. Giant woman got me on board with the hype half of it. This is when I was like, "Oh this this can get sad, huh?" And you know what? I think Lars and the Cool Kids is also pretty ruthlessly sad, too. What was with the show and hitting you with a double dose of the same emotion each week? Couple weeks ago, we got the Silent Hill episode sandwiched next to the body horror one. NOW, WE'RE GETTING A DOUBLE SHOT OF trauma this week. You can't JUST MAKE KIDS SAD HALF OF THE TIME. YOU GOT TO GIVE THEM A FULL 22 MINUTES OF TRAUMA. BUT FINE, WHATEVER.

[00:02:59]I'LL GET through the trauma because what didn't kill me as a kid is profitable for me as an adult. But first, we've got to talk about today's sponsor, Raycon.

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[00:04:35]>> I found it.

[00:04:37]>> What manner of magical alloy is this?

[00:04:41]>> It's a burrito.

[00:04:42]>> I felt that. There's nothing worse than unwrapping food that's been baking in its own decay for weeks. When I was in college, I had a protein shake bottle with an airtight lock on it. And I used to just forget about it in my car for days on end. And when I'd finally find it, like weeks later, I'd be so afraid of the horrors that awaited me behind that airtight lock that I'd end up just throwing the whole thing directly into the dumpster and buying a new one. I did that to like four different $30 protein shake bottles. And honestly, I'D DO IT AGAIN. A week old bottle of protein shake is like a brick of uranium. YOU CAN'T JUST BE EXPOSING LIKE THAT TO OUR ATMOSPHERE. YEAH, IT WAS a waste of money and plastic and CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEATH OF OUR PLANET, BUT NOT AS FAST AS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I OPENED THE THING.

[00:05:36]>> HUH? What's this? It kind of looks like you guys and my mom. Oh, Steven, that is us.

[00:05:43]>> OH, THESE ARE STELLAR FITS. I'd love to see a spin-off series of the gems in just a bunch of random ass time periods.

[00:05:51]I love taking a fantasy concept and throwing it into like a totally unique period of history. We've been doing it a lot with vampires lately and it's always sick. Sinners is vampires during the 1930s. Castlevania Nocturn is vampires during Revolutionary France. Do more like that. Predator did it recently with Predator Killer of Killers. That was also sick. I want to see a pirate figure out how to deal with the Terminator, you know? Let's just keep doing ideas like that.

[00:06:22]>> Why is everyone dressed like old timey people?

[00:06:25]>> They are old timey people. Wait, but that would mean how old are you guys?

[00:06:31]>> Steven, they're immortal aliens that can fuse with each other. The fact that they're old is not the most shocking thing here. Also, you live in a giant stone temple that looks older than the concept of civilization. What did you think was going on here?

[00:06:46]>> Much older than any human. Does that mean you'll live forever?

[00:06:50]>> No. No. We don't age, but we can still get hurt and die.

[00:06:54]>> I feel like that means they could live forever, though, right? Can they only die from injury? Like, if nothing chops their head off, will they never die?

[00:07:03]Like lobsters? I don't know if that's true. I'm not going to look it up, but I have heard that lobsters are essentially immortal. I have heard that lobsters only weakness is combat damage.

[00:07:14]And I'm no MARINE BIOLOGIST, BUT FOR SOME REASON, I'm inclined to believe it.

[00:07:20]>> How do you find a cake big enough for all those candles?

[00:07:23]>> We don't really celebrate birthdays.

[00:07:27]>> Why not?

[00:07:28]>> I wish he asked how they're birthed. I feel like that's a very natural and respectful follow-up question. I know them not celebrating birthdays is like a cultural thing, but I also wonder if it's because they just come out of the womb as 30-year-old women. I'm sure we find out about it eventually, but my theory is that there's one massive crystal somewhere and a new gem will just intermittently like spill out of it fully grown. Maybe there's multiple crystals in multiple parts of the galaxy. I don't know. I actually do have a lot of questions. It turns out like is each gem completely unique or is there like a giant pearl somewhere? Not like the human pearl, like the stone and then pearls come out of that, you know? I should have used like garnet or something INSTEAD BECAUSE ALSO PEARLS COME FROM CLAMS. NO, I'm getting to the bottom of this. Pearls are organic gems produced inside the soft tissue of living shelled m. What?

[00:08:26]WHERE'S THE CLAM THAT BIRTHED PEARL? It never occurred to me THAT PEARL IS THE ONLY crystal gem that isn't just a rock. This show better give me one big cosmic OFF CLAM. LET ME KNOW IN THE comments if you're equally pissed about this as I AM BECAUSE I'VE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THIS AND I FEEL LIKE the fandom hasn't either and I've just cracked something huge.

[00:08:50]>> Go. You will remove that this instant.

[00:08:55]>> Here a I'll use it all the time.

[00:08:58]>> WHY WOULD YOU GIVE HER A WEAPON? STEVEN SAW A FIGHT BREAK OUT AND HE WAS LIKE IT'S TIME I CHOSE A SIDE. IT'S FOR the pinata.

[00:09:06]The pinñata is an artifact from ancient Aqua Mexico.

[00:09:11]>> They keep saying Aqua Mexico. What does that mean? Am I missing something about the lore of this world? Is Mexico like Atlantis to these people? Like it sank into the ocean one day and the rest of the world is the same as ours? BECAUSE THAT'D BE PRETTY SICK. I'D LOVE IF STEVEN UNIVERSE'S Earth was identical to ours except Mexico was inhabited by myrr people.

[00:09:37]>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BONK. STEVEN, that is a brave look.

[00:09:43]>> YEAH, BECAUSE HE GOT TO BE BRAVE TO LOOK AT IT. Why does he look like he's about to go shoot up a hospital? Th This is the MOST DERANGED CLOWN LOOK I'VE ever seen. He looks like the most WASHED UP ALCOHOLIC ITALIAN VERSION OF A clown since the Joker movie. Also, switching gears entirely, why does Steven look huge? STEVEN LOOKS JACKED IN THIS TANK TOP. HE LOOKS LIKE HE COULD RIP a gorilla in half. This tank top makes Steven look like one of those guys from the 1920s who used to just take cannonball shots to the gut for like profit.

[00:10:18]>> Why did Pearl throw butter out the window?

[00:10:21]>> You did what? to see a butterfly.

[00:10:25]>> I never did that. Steven, >> that is the best response to a joke I've ever heard. She took that so personally.

[00:10:33]By the way, Pearl, jokes are lies. WHAT?

[00:10:36]YOU REALLY THOUGHT BANANA WAS KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR 11 TIMES IN A ROW BEFORE ORANGE SWOOPED IN TO MIX THINGS UP?

[00:10:42]>> Do you like pie?

[00:10:44]>> I do like pie.

[00:10:46]>> Well, you're in luck. I baked you a pie.

[00:10:49]>> Oh god, Steven, don't do this. I sure hope nothing happens TO IT.

[00:10:54]>> STEVEN, YOU GOOPY SON OF A YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS.

[00:10:59]>> YES, me too.

[00:11:01]>> Whoops.

[00:11:02]>> STEVEN, PLEASE.

[00:11:06]>> WHOA, STEVEN, I've got you.

[00:11:08]>> OH, THANK GOD. OH MY GOD, I CAN BREATHE AGAIN. OH, THANK goodness Pearl got to enjoy the pie.

[00:11:16]>> You almost fell right on that.

[00:11:19]See, Pearl, it's funny.

[00:11:23]>> They should have killed you the moment your hands turned into cats.

[00:11:27]>> Nothing against children. Children?

[00:11:30]Everyone gets to have birthdays.

[00:11:33]Seriously, give it a try. You're never too old. We're just too big.

[00:11:37]>> Steven, stop trying to force YOUR CULTURE ONTO THE GEMS. THEY HATE THIS >> WHAT if even I'm too old? No way. You totally fit.

[00:11:49]Oh, my bad.

[00:11:50]>> Steven is literally impossible to hang out with. DUDE'S LIKE, "HEY GUYS, GUESS WHAT? I've decided YOU ALL REALLY WANT to do this thing, AND IF YOU DON'T, I'LL SWITCH GEARS HARD AND HAVE AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS ABOUT IT. THEY'RE JUST aliens who don't want to celebrate their birthdays. This is nothing to grapple with their own mortality over.

[00:12:18]Oh, Onion, so young.

[00:12:20]>> OH GOD, NOW HE'S TURNING INTO HOBO JOHNSON. All these parties starting, these birthdays don't feel so warming.

[00:12:26]They're feeling more like a warning. Do I like them anymore? Hardly. Is that Is that a good enough Hobo Johnson for the two people who listen to him along WITH ME? I LOVE HOBO JOHNSON. GOD, look at Steven. Now he's dying IN REAL TIME. WAY TO MAKE THIS ALL ABOUT YOU, BUDDY. BUT A BOY ON THE cusp of manhood can't spend the whole day whackering. I need to take control of my life.

[00:12:52]It's time to get a PROPER JOB.

[00:12:55]>> OH GOD, NOW HE'S TURNING INTO KIP FROM HEATED RIVALRY. I don't have a Kip rap, unfortunately. You'll you'll have to forgive me for that. What a glow up.

[00:13:04]What a transformation from bedroom pop indie artist to curlyheaded Henry Cavil.

[00:13:16]Two of the usual, please. I've had quite a day. What the is going on with you, Steven? PICK AN AESTHETIC TRAJECTORY. YOU HAVE GLOWED UP AND DIMMED DOWN SO MUCH OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE, YOU MIGHT AS WELL BE A LIGHT BULB. ACT LIKE AN ADULT, cuz one day, if you don't, everyone you know is going to grow up without you.

[00:13:36]And you won't have little Steven to pick on anymore because I'll be a grownup, too.

[00:13:40]>> Jesus Christ. There's that so many birthday sauce I was looking for. That hits especially hard as a man in his late 20s who still buys action figures and watches cartoons. The scariest thing about this episode is knowing that you could go from looking like Henry Cavill in his prime to an 80s standup comedian like that.

[00:13:58]>> Steven Quartz Universe and I WANT THAT DONUT RIGHT THERE.

[00:14:04]>> SIR, are are you okay?

[00:14:06]>> I'm old. Definitely call the police.

[00:14:09]This dude's cosplaying as and screaming about how he's your friend, Steven.

[00:14:15]Make sure he didn't kidnap him. I need to reverse this. I need a reverse birthday. The king costume. Will you help me into my birthday suit?

[00:14:27]>> CALL THE POLICE.

[00:14:30]>> YOU KNOW, Steven was right. This is fun.

[00:14:35]You don't have to keep wearing that stuff. It makes me feel important.

[00:14:40]>> That was sweet. That was a weird cute little moment. Can we explore that a little more, please? I'd love if this show explored some kind of insecurity Garnet, for some reason, has about feeling unimportant.

[00:14:52]Especially considering that she gives off the vibe that she is the most important one in the group. That's I I just love to unpack that for like a full episode if you guys don't mind.

[00:15:05]Good as new, right?

[00:15:08]>> Thanks, guys. But I guess this suit's all out of birthday magic.

[00:15:13]>> Jesus Christ, Steven. You're going to make your FRIENDS WATCH YOU DIE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO CELEBRATE YOUR dumb Earth tradition, >> Pearl. Get over here.

[00:15:22]>> I can't. For Steven.

[00:15:26]>> Oh, look. I HAVE WHAT? UM, >> GREAT PARTY, STEVEN. EVERYONE'S CLEARLY HAVING A BLAST. This This is so spiraled out of control.

[00:15:39]This is just the most amount of drama.

[00:15:41]It's like a regular show episode. This is the most amount of drama for something that should have just been a conversation with mild conflict.

[00:15:50]>> Nothing happens to Oh, Steven. He is.

[00:15:56]>> Are you trying to kill him faster?

[00:16:00]>> Hold on. Garnet better step things up because Pearl is catching up. That fa THAT FACE IS ALMOST WORTH TWO POINTS.

[00:16:06]You know what? I really have a feeling that Garnet is supposed to have three.

[00:16:12]And I know this is cheating, but I feel I feel like this is correct. I feel like at one point I was like, remind me to do another tally on Garnet.

[00:16:20]Amethyst is in the lead by one and then Pearl and Garnet are tied. Which is crazy news for Pearl. Keep in mind this ranking system has absolutely no no rubric or foundation in logic. This is just whatever I remember I have the board.

[00:16:37]>> Garnet.

[00:16:41]>> I thought violence would be the answer.

[00:16:45]>> Jesus Christ. Garnet. In Garnet's defense, violence has only ever been the answer leading up till now. This is a great episode. This is a hysterical episode because it's so sad. And that's my favorite kind of bit. I love when something is so over-the-top sad that it becomes funny. Her just picking up Steven and silently shaking him and being like, I didn't know what else to do. Gold. Gold. Incredible stuff.

[00:17:16]>> Yes. Why else would you throw us all those parties?

[00:17:19]>> Oh my gosh, you're right. I am pretty great. Nice. We got the egoomaniac back to his normal age. How do we make sure this never happens again? Like the next time Steven gets insecure or has another crisis about his own mortality, is this all going to happen again? It's not like an item did this, this was his own powers. You know what? I usually wait till the end of the episode or the end of the video to give my rundown on the episodes I watched. I'm going to do like a review right now. This is a great episode. It does have that secret Steven Sorrow sauce that I was hoping for. And it's also really funny. It's funny because it's so sad. Steven Universe as a concept is so interesting. Not as a concept, but like this is not the first episode where they've tackled with like the fear of that children have with growing up too fast. The dude working at the Frybo restaurant went through it.

[00:18:18]Steven's going through it now. And it's interesting having watched or currently watching or on High School Host Club where Haruhi, the main character of that was forced out of her own childhood because she lost her mom and felt like she had to like take up the mantle as a motherly figure in the family. Steven's an interesting contrast because that hasn't happened at all with him. He is so relentlessly a child and hasn't seemingly let the death of his mom affect that which is really beautiful. And it's cool to compare him to another anime character. He reminds me more of Luffy than Haruhi. It's like a foil to Haruhi and a com a compliment to Luffy because Luffy from One Piece's whole deal is that he's living in a world where everyone's taking really seriously and he's just this cartoon Bugs Bunny ass character bouncing around and being like, "No, you can still have a smile in a cruel world and overcome the cruelty of it." So anyway, I I like this episode. It's harrowing the older you get and really sad the older you get, but it's also really funny. I remember when I watched this in my early 20s, this was actually sadder. I think now I've like come to terms with the fact that I'm aging rapidly and it's now just a lot funnier to me. But I remember when I saw this, I was like, I got to show everybody this is like high cinema And speaking of high cinema and Oron High School host club, would you like to see me react to that show along with Hell's Paradise, Food Wars, Blue Lock, the Ghost Stories dub, an extended edition of K-pop Demon Hunters, an extended edition of How to Train Your Dragon.

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[00:20:34]>> This doesn't look good at all.

[00:20:37]>> Whoa, cool.

[00:20:39]>> Steven, DON'T GET NEAR THAT STUFF.

[00:20:42]>> STEVEN'S HERE. You have to.

[00:20:44]>> That was the most accurate representation of an embarrassed child I've ever seen. You know when you're walking down the street and you trip and you try and catch yourself and you do a little dance to make it look like you meant to trip the entire time.

[00:20:57]No, nobody else. Okay, moving on.

[00:21:02]>> What is that stuff? It's the moss that Rose Quartz raised on the hill.

[00:21:06]>> My mom planted this stuff.

[00:21:08]>> Why was Rose Quartz growing moss? This is way more cottagecore than I could ever keep up with. This is way beyond my whimsy expertise. I almost asked if this is a thing people actually do. And then I remembered I met multiple real life witches when I was in college who would absolutely grow moss.

[00:21:32]This is why I get up in the morning.

[00:21:39]Bro, I've seen you pull entire swords out of your head with no effort. Why did you have to cast a whole ass jutsu to make police tape?

[00:21:45]>> Getting me a pee. Getting me is a Hey, is that Lars?

[00:21:51]Lars?

[00:21:53]>> Why now?

[00:21:54]>> Got a high FIVE FOR YOU.

[00:21:55]>> NO SHOT. Lars is embarrassed of Steven.

[00:21:58]Yeah, Steven's an embarrassing guy. I'm embarrassed of Steven, but I'm not Lars.

[00:22:06]LARS CRIED AT A WRESTLING MATCH a couple of episodes ago because the mean wrestler was mean to him. AND THAT WRESTLER WAS STEVEN.

[00:22:16]>> I don't spend my whole life at work. I do other things like standing against this wall. What does it look like? Looks like you're doing a lot of nothing.

[00:22:26]>> DAMN, HE CLOCKED your ass. Lars Steven's out here dealing wisdom.

[00:22:30]>> Excuse me. You want to get a fresh pizza right out of the oven, but you don't want to seem too desperate, right? Well, there's no need to be ashamed. Just walk right in and ask. For a second, I thought Steven was speaking in metaphors, and I thought it was pretty cool. And then I realized he's just literally talking about pizza. This dude's not dishing out as much wisdom as I initially thought.

[00:22:51]>> He opened the door and there was doggy dew everywhere.

[00:22:54]>> That's nasty. I don't like nasty stuff.

[00:22:56]>> Get a load of Super Onion over here.

[00:22:58]Look at this Code Leoko character. I can't tell if this is a new character or if Onion just went Super Saiyan 4.

[00:23:05]>> Hi, my name's Steven.

[00:23:08]>> Buck Dewey.

[00:23:09]>> They call me Sour Cream.

[00:23:11]>> Sour cream looks like what would happen if Shaggy Rogers collected all of the Chaos Emeralds.

[00:23:16]>> Check out my shirt.

[00:23:17]>> Oh, that snake is nasty.

[00:23:19]>> Oh, yeah. I hate snakes.

[00:23:23]>> Oh, what? That's too bad. Some snakes are pretty cool. Lars, every interaction with these guys is a test, and you are failing 100% of them. Also, what are you so stressed out about? One of THEM IS NAMED SOUR CREAM. HOW COOL COULD THEY BE?

[00:23:37]>> HEY, this car is really cool, Jenny.

[00:23:40]>> It's just a delivery car from my dad's lame shop. Makes me smell like pizza.

[00:23:45]Where to y'all?

[00:23:45]>> Why is everybody parrying all of Lars's responses? This one's not even his fault. Don't parry his compliment. JUST BE LIKE, "THANKS. I LIKE THE WAY THE PEPPERONI BRINGS OUT my eyes.

[00:23:57]>> I beat all the G's in there like 3 million times.

[00:24:01]>> No way.

[00:24:02]>> Yeah, me too.

[00:24:04]>> No way.

[00:24:06]>> Honestly though, I'm just exaggerating to sound cool.

[00:24:09]>> SHUT THE UP, SOUR CREAM. LARS, GET OUT OF THIS CAR. This whole friend group is a MINEFIELD. LARS CAN'T GET ONE word out of his mouth without instantly being punished for it. Every conversation with these people is a boxing match.

[00:24:24]>> I love babies. WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT? A baby. Gonna kiss it.

[00:24:32]Way too long. Way too much of a smooch.

[00:24:36]No adult man should ever give a stranger's baby three m worth of a kiss.

[00:24:42]>> I like his policies on babies.

[00:24:44]>> Man, he never kisses me like that.

[00:24:47]>> That's rough, bro.

[00:24:48]>> It's not rough. The lack of daddy kisses in my life made me who I AM.

[00:24:52]>> LET LARS LIVE.

[00:24:54]>> BUT IT'S ACTUALLY a lot less cool than you'd think. Why don't we just go have some more fun at the boardwalk? Steven, stop being lame. Let's check this place out.

[00:25:03]>> Lars, these people suck and they hate you. This is not worth dying by Moss over.

[00:25:09]>> I'm not that slow.

[00:25:12]>> Hey, what are you doing, man?

[00:25:17]Steven is taking this so seriously. I like how in Steven's mind, he just let three people die and he's just trying to save Lars from sharing their fate.

[00:25:34]>> I like how logically Steven just let three people die and now he's trying to save Lars from sharing their fate. Jesus Christ.

[00:25:41]>> Wait, your mom Guys, hang on.

[00:25:50]>> This is pretty heavy, guys. These people just wanted to swim in a lake. I don't know if them crossing some police tape means they deserve to drown in moss.

[00:25:59]>> If something went wrong today, it would be because of you. Now I'm never going to be friends with these guys. All because of your weird mom.

[00:26:09]>> OH, HOLY STEVEN SNAPPED. LOR'S COOK. Steven's about to throw his ass into the moss.

[00:26:14]>> What do you know about my mom? I didn't even get to know MY MOM.

[00:26:19]>> OH, THAT WAS A BANGING LINE. THAT was a brutal comeback. That Lars is never Lors is never recovering from that.

[00:26:30]Hurry.

[00:26:32]>> I'M GETTING STUCK.

[00:26:35]>> OH, don't give up.

[00:26:37]>> This should count, RIGHT? THIS MIGHT as well be the top of the hill. If I died by this much of a technicality, I'd be so pissed, >> Stephen. What?

[00:26:49]This sucks. Oh, >> you know what, Lars? This does suck. All Lars wanted to do was make friends. And now HE'S GOING TO DIE BECAUSE STEVEN DIDN'T WANT TO TELL ANYBODY THAT the lake they were swimming in was lethal. How did we even get here?

[00:27:08]>> Well, Steven thought that Lars drove us here.

[00:27:12]Our town was super cool.

[00:27:14]>> Who gives a Why would you WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH these anyway?

[00:27:18]They don't like you. They don't LIKE THE THINGS YOU SAY. THEY SUCK. THEY SUCK WORSE THAN DYING BY MOSS. AND THAT WAS Lars and the cool kids or whatever. They suck. What an obnoxious friend group. If you're in a group of friends where you have to walk on eggshells around anything you say, get a new group of friends. God, it was exhausting just to watch him try and navigate. And it's weird that the message of this episode was that he still wants to be friends with him. And he didn't become friends with them because he started being more himself. Like, it's not like he was posing at first and then acted like himself at the end. It's that Steven vouched for him and also lied. So, what's the message? Lars was punished for nothing and then rewarded for nothing. Great, great stuff here, everybody. If nothing else, this episode endeared me more towards Lars than I was originally. I remember not loving Lars that much as a character growing up.

[00:28:25]I like these guys less, so there's something. Anyway, as always, let me know in the comments what you thought of these episodes. Let me know what else you'd like to see me react to in the future. And I will see you guys next time.

[00:28:45]Barely ten in the crowded view.