well... technically humans eat meat from animals, that doesnt count. But when I eat the body I have preserved under my basement for the last 15 years it now does. smh society
I always thought this episode was freaky. Especially with how it turned out those maniacs were all robots with a hunger for metal. And that alone... Led to their demise...
This scene was actually pretty scary in context the way it ends. The family turning on each other after realizing they're in fact all robots as they begin to cannibalize each other.
The worst part to me was not the robot violence, but, the fact they genuinely did not seem to know what they were; they were shocked to find out they were metal, but the hunger soon overrode that horror in their minds. Imagine that for a moment. Imagine being a self aware, intelligent zombie who did not know you were dead. and feeling familial love and togetherness taking a back seat to the gnawing, devouring hunger.
@@nathaniellopez4460 Marvel Zombies did the best possible thing you could do to a zombie story to bring back the horror of the familiar becoming toxic. They made the zombies sapient enough to remember who they were, too hungry to stop themselves, and expressive enough to convey the horror of it all.
You should watch the episodes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command with NOS-4-A2 in them Robot vampire who feeds on electricity. Not nearly as gruesome as this, but they still got away with a lot
It really does go to show how Evil Aku is. Like he obviously created these robots to destroy Jack's sword. And so he had them programmed with an overwhelming desire to eat metal. and at the same time made them think they were real people and not robots. So the second they realized they were made of metal, their desire to eat overwhelmed their programmed "love" for one another and they turned on each other.
I can definitely see that, especially how it's shown that Aku's scientists have nutjobs. Remember X9? He was programmed to feel love because his old man, having a few loose screws, found the idea amusing.
I dont think these were made by Aku, but they likely were made by someone who either did it for giggles OR their purpose was to sabotage small towns and villages by destroying/eating their tools.
I lean on the side that these were not made by Aku. Maybe at the most one of his scientists who was being funny. He had whole divisions and races that likely had free time to do as they pleased so long as the did not cross lines on his terf. These robots were likely just set free just because and Jack runs into them. There is plenty of evil in the world apart from Aku…
Even if they were Aku's robots, I don't think he would take kindly to them eating his own robots. Nor would he like it if they started eating other instead of Jack's sword. He'd be like "No, you fools! You suppose to be eating the sword, not each other! Aaahh, whose stupid idea was it to program them this way?!"
Dude this is actually terrifying in so many levels, imagine some one in the street get a small cut, and everyone that is close by, just by seen the blood on the guy, just suddenly feel like eating him....
Wasn't there a vampire movie where in a scene a human man was bitten to death by vampires, but then the vampires became humans and then it happened again and again until the only thing left are three vampires that become humans...
@@technoraize2715 yup, i remember that movie. They all turned human cuz cure was heated vampire blood. Ngl i know i wouldn't have thought of it either cuz who would want to be a guinniepig for those tests when there is so low of chance for it to work.
Funny thing cause this episode was made into 3 parts where each main antagonist Jack dealt with were all colored red. The giant worms, The Metal Eaters, (Duh) and that Gargoyle.
@@kidprime6863 He also apparently instead of having them be fueled by nuclear fusion generators or something like that thought it'd be funny to have them be seriously dependent on a horribly inefficient source of power i.e. must eat metal regularly or else run out of energy and 'die'/shutdown.
@@kidprime6863 I'd wager that. They're meant to stay on junkyards or landfills and scavenge for metal to rip apart and break down into more usable forms.
I think the saddest part here is the fact that none of them actually knew what they were. Makes you wonder what happened to them before they ran into Jack.
Agreed. The fact that they just appeared out of nowhere makes it more bizarre and unsettling. They seemingly had no backstory and no connection to the rest of the episode; they just showed up, ate each other, and had the episode move on without them.
"We'll make it robots to make it less violent" *the robots are sentient with skeleton like apperances under their skin, covered in a blood like red color*
I know Jack says they're just nuts and bolts, but this was pretty damn freaky. Really pushed the limits of robot brutality/violence in the show. Michael Bay should take notes
I love moments like 0:57 where shots like this can look really graphic for a sec with the red coloring but immediately after, the well placed cartoony sound effects remind you it's not as graphic but still doesn't kill the tone. Pretty amazing tbh
This scene was absolutely terrifying when I first saw it as a kid. Samurai Jack really pushed the boundaries of what could be shown on Cartoon network... Cannibalism, sadism, drugs, mafia, alcohol, poverty, violence against women, slavery, abuse, gruesome deaths, severed bodyparts, body horror, etc. These are just some of the issues Samurai Jack deals with! Fantastic show, it's one of my favorites! None of this would fly in a modern cartoon.
@@shadowpillar2483True, especially since the lower arms resemble a radius and ulna, and the hands look somewhat anatomically similar to a human hand (in terms of bone structure, that is).
The fact that they made the Metal the color red just makes it that much more gruesome since without our own skins we too would be bright red from the blood with our body exposed. This show is metal af
Therapist aku: Sooooo. Jack. Can you tell me what happened? Samurai jack: (Explains the situation.) Therapist aku: Thats messed up even for me... Samurai jack: Tell me about it.
Therapist: So, what happened? Jack: I fought a family of robots dressed as people, they where programmed to eat my sword, but I accidently sliced off the mask of the mother and they started canibalising eachother after each of them revaled metal. Therapist: What in the Kentucky Fried F-
I was watching this as a child. Now 20 years later i was looking for this episode. I was terrified for 20 years ago. I can understand why ! Cannabilsm is the answer
The better question what kind of insane vile devoid of any good dark soul would have made them and why? Other than Aku being bored and thought metal eating robots is a neat idea.
As a kid I loved it ! Making the skeletons out of a red coloured metal made it look so close to human flesh/ meat. It scared me but o knew it is for the better as the "bad guys" were attacking each other and not Jack.
I'm pretty sure that even if Samurai Jack was "robot censored", Genndy Tartakovsky was actually trying to _evade_ censorship here in his own way. Sure, he had to make them robots, but notice that the metal eaters' metal parts immediately below their fake skin wasn't colored, well, _metallic._ They're colored *blood-red* or *flesh-like red.* And notice that by 1:02 practically all human clothing fake skin is gone while we see all 4 metal eaters.
The creepiest part about this isn't the red color of the metal being reminiscent of flesh, or even that they're cannibalizing each other. It's that, for all intents and purposes, they thought they were normal living beings in a family. The creators of Samurai Jack got past the violence censors because they used robots instead of blood and gore, but if you're like me and see "violence" as beyond blood and gore, as applying to any "living", i.e. showing signs of sentience, entity, this show is hella dark.
This scene stuck with me for years, but I was too young to fully understand what was fully going on and the nuances behind it.... coming back to it and it’s so much more haunting than my young mind capable of comprehending! Which is good, that’s really good story telling.
Yeah, looking at it now this scene would be SUPER messed up if it wasn't robot censored. But yeah, robot family cannibalises each other was honestly pretty shocking
I Imagine The Donbrothers Kicking The Metal-Eaters Robot Butts, While The Noto Trio Don't Care For What Is Going On. Sonoi: Metal-Eating Cannibal Robots, Seriously? Aku Really Needs Something Better Than Machines. Sononi: I Knew Something Was Fishy About Them When They Saw This Guy's Sword. Sonoza: Whatever, Let The Donbrothers Handle These Scrapheaps, Not Our Problem, Though.
You would think these Metal Eaters would be programed to know that they're robots and programed to not eat each other or themselves. And here I was thinking they were just metal eating mutants.
@@kidprime6863 Or whoever created them was simply a complete lunatic. Which wouldn't be far-fetched at all considering how crazy the world of this show is.
I recall reading about a theory that most of the enemies Jack faced were not robots but living beings and this episode being the center of it. I don't remember the whole thing but the jist is that Jack had severe mental damage after all the things he'd been through seen, and done. This specific episode was cited because what Jack saw here was so horrific the only way he could move on / rationalize / justify it was by convincing himself that they were robots and not people. A fun and twisted theory at the end of the day but ga damn after I rewatched bits of Jack struggling against himself in the last season it came back to mind.
I actually do like that theory. Though we do have to official word from Tartakovsky that they used robots so they could get away with doing really gruesome stuff
I don’t think this theory works as well for the first four seasons. At least depending on how far the scope of the theory goes. Jack clearly faces some robots have have non organic weapons attached to their bodies, while being more durable than humans to that’s one thing. Others do seem to be conveniently disguised as living beings onto to reveal mechanical components, which I’d assume the theory would apply to. The issue gets muddles however when It’s shown robots are capable of being Just as self aware as a living being is, with Jack lamenting the destruction of innocent robots. So I’m not sure how much less shocked Jack would be regardless. By the 5th season that sort of morality gets more complicated..where he does seem to hold human/organic life with more reverence than robots.
This show is crazy, I just started season two and so far there's been dancing cage girls in a club, crucified dogs, involvement with the mafia, and plenty of pseudo-gore with robots such as in this scene. It's no surprise to me the final season was on Adult Swim instead of Cartoon Network, early 2000s really was a different time for what was considered kids TV.
Watching this scene where they eat each other was just so freaky and disturbing to watch. Even though they’re robots who have a hunger for metal,just ended up eating each other is close as we can get for cannibalism in a kid’s cartoon.
For some reason this didn't bother me as a kid. Back then it was like "Ha! Jack outsmarted them to take each other down". But looking at it now it's just... kinda creepy... Guess this really was a kids show :D
It's like now we understand the horror here of a family that just straight reverts to cannibalism the moment they find out that they were robots all along. And the fact that their skeletons were red just shows the horrific symbolism taking place, like YIKES they showed this to US as kids.
I felt they were robots of some kind when they kept eyeing the sword. And then once we got to this part, well, my thoughts were "well that problem sorted itself out. Still pretty freaky."
Outside of this segment's twist being pretty WTF, the entire episode frustrated me. If you forgot, this was the episode that two 3 short stories. The first one was about Jack trying to guess a two headed serpent's riddle in order to get home (it was the "you meet two guards. One always tells the truth and the other lies" riddle.), this episode with the metal eaters, and the last segment was the one with the trapped fairy. I have never been as frustrated with this show as I was after that first segment's ending. After Jack gets the riddle right, he get swallowed by the serpent and realizes there was no "magic portal" to take him back to his time, and it fades to commercial. So after the commercial break, I was expecting to see how he got out of the serpent's belly, but it started with this segment. As much as I loved Samurai Jack growing up, I always hated how some of the episodes ended on cliffhangers, and you the viewer was expected to draw your own conclusion as to how Jack got out of that crazy situation. Still a good show though.
Well for this one he kinda just walks away as the cannibalistic robots are eating each other were he later at some point learns about the fairy trapped by the gargoyle and then attempts to free her so he can get one wish back home.
@@nathancurnutt8074 Yeah. I get the reason why. He either had to cut his way out of the stomach or go out the back way. It would have been humorous to see, but censors
Censors: "Okay, your main character can slice people up with his magic sword, but ONLY if all those people are robots. That way, none of the kids will be traumatized." Genndy Tartakovsky: "Aight bet."
i can tell you if this was made during the uncut season, they would have not only been cannibals, but what would have caused them to turn on her was the smell of blood coming from whatever wound jack inflicted on her
I love how there is absolutely zero context throughout this entire episode. First we started off with a magic worm who wasn’t actually a magic worm and then Jack gets eaten. Then we see Jack somehow escaped which we didn’t see how he did that and he sitting by a campfire in the woods. Then he encounters a family supposedly lost in the woods who want to freaking EAT his sword and they turn out to be metal eating robots and they start cannibalising each other. Then it jumps to Jack rescuing a thicc thighed fairy who’s trapped in a castle by a gargoyle so he can make a wish to go home. Idk what kinda drugs Genndy was on at the time, but my head was hurting so much watching trying to follow with the story lmao
Those were in my opinion simply multiple scenarios put together in the form of several shorts combined into one episode. Sort brings the idea that things like these are what he has to encounter several times.
"Hey bob, i cranked the sword hunting robots' love of metal up to 15. Think i should program them to avoid the rest of the family in case their casing gets cracked" "Naw, they should be ok. Whats the worst that can happen
A bit of theory crafting here, what if these robots were infiltrators Aku would send to blend in to communities to research and determine targets for the army, robots that think they're real people. These ones were ones abandoned by the robot army, with the self repair protocols trying desperately to keep them online, but needing metals to repair the decaying systems. Or, something much darker, robots in this series were always weird to me (yes I know the simple answer is they were trying to please network censors but role with it). Maybe a lot of the robots we see are formally people and creatures who get transformed into cyborgs in order to fight off age and illness, eventually becoming just a machine in a facsimile of what they originally were. These robots may have had the same process done to them as punishment, and either can't accept that they have been made into machines or simply don't remember, to them they are just normal people possessed by an all consuming hunger for metal.
I think the most horrifying part about this scene is that their instinct to eat metal is so strong that, despite their fear, the instant they see it it overrides their self-preservation.
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Jack is just like
"Yeah, that's too messed up for me..."
“I can handle a lot of weird stuff…but I think this crossed a line at some point.”
I agree!
He actually even looks at the severed hand in what can only be pity, before glaring up at where he suspects Aku is watching from.
He's like "well this has gone too far"
@@Victor-056 Aku be like, “Hey, I didn’t pick them! In fact, I didn’t see that coming either.”
Robot cannibalism. Just as terrifying as organic cannibalism.
Existe una diferencia
They can t scream but they can eat
Even tigers have the decency to kill before they eat
Ever heard of MURDER DRONES? It's not really cannibalism but well cute robots who kill each other for reasons.
Even Jack had to look away
well... technically
humans eat meat from animals, that doesnt count. But when I eat the body I have preserved under my basement for the last 15 years it now does. smh society
I always thought this episode was freaky. Especially with how it turned out those maniacs were all robots with a hunger for metal. And that alone... Led to their demise...
It's also ends in a funny way,Jack is like K I'm just going to leave now
@@carlcarlson3396 Yeah. I always loved that. Its like "Nothing to say. I'm out of here."
@@MatthewTheWolf2029 Yeah he knew to stay out of this family drama
Some kind of cannibalistic robots. So freaky and you get “Creepypasta” vibes
@@fictionverse7292 also the robots being red doens't help with the situation
This scene was actually pretty scary in context the way it ends. The family turning on each other after realizing they're in fact all robots as they begin to cannibalize each other.
Is the girl voiced by Jennifer Hale?
I actually remembered getting scared when I was a kid.
That was so mess up
@@tiberiusvirus9342 is the girl voiced by Jennifer Hale?
@@joshuasebsebe1047 She is. 🥰
The worst part to me was not the robot violence, but, the fact they genuinely did not seem to know what they were; they were shocked to find out they were metal, but the hunger soon overrode that horror in their minds. Imagine that for a moment. Imagine being a self aware, intelligent zombie who did not know you were dead. and feeling familial love and togetherness taking a back seat to the gnawing, devouring hunger.
Reminds me of Marvel Zombies, When Spiderman turns into a zombie and eats both Mary Jane and Aunt May
@@nathaniellopez4460 Marvel Zombies did the best possible thing you could do to a zombie story to bring back the horror of the familiar becoming toxic. They made the zombies sapient enough to remember who they were, too hungry to stop themselves, and expressive enough to convey the horror of it all.
That's played with a lot in werewolf stories. And not just Twilight, I promise.
love how they managed to do a cannibal family horror story in a kids show by making them robots.
Red colour also to make it look more organic
Yup. Too often, especially in the early 2000's, are robotic enemies a solution to depict violence and gore without "killing" anything organic.
You should watch the episodes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command with NOS-4-A2 in them
Robot vampire who feeds on electricity. Not nearly as gruesome as this, but they still got away with a lot
Makes no sense otherwise, why would they suddenly cannibalize each other?
@@RisingFlag100it makes sense. Maybe this clip did not detail the context of the episode
It really does go to show how Evil Aku is.
Like he obviously created these robots to destroy Jack's sword. And so he had them programmed with an overwhelming desire to eat metal. and at the same time made them think they were real people and not robots. So the second they realized they were made of metal, their desire to eat overwhelmed their programmed "love" for one another and they turned on each other.
I can definitely see that, especially how it's shown that Aku's scientists have nutjobs. Remember X9? He was programmed to feel love because his old man, having a few loose screws, found the idea amusing.
These robots don't seem to be Aku's goons, they seem more like a certain race of robots
I dont think these were made by Aku, but they likely were made by someone who either did it for giggles OR their purpose was to sabotage small towns and villages by destroying/eating their tools.
I lean on the side that these were not made by Aku. Maybe at the most one of his scientists who was being funny. He had whole divisions and races that likely had free time to do as they pleased so long as the did not cross lines on his terf. These robots were likely just set free just because and Jack runs into them.
There is plenty of evil in the world apart from Aku…
Even if they were Aku's robots, I don't think he would take kindly to them eating his own robots. Nor would he like it if they started eating other instead of Jack's sword.
He'd be like "No, you fools! You suppose to be eating the sword, not each other! Aaahh, whose stupid idea was it to program them this way?!"
In a alternate universe, the whole series isn’t robot-censored
What is the name of this episode?
@@joshuasebsebe3919 Episode XV: Jack Tales
@@lol0ajo and that girl is she voiced by Jennifer Hale?
@@joshuasebsebe3919 i think so
Try the Primal cartoon. Same people, similar vibe, horrific in parts.
I remember seeing this for the first time and I still think it's the creepiest moment in the shop's history.
its up there. probably top 5
I think the shadow demon thing jack fights is ten times worse
You mean “show”?
@@nqk_0662 You know Jack's name but not Aku's?
@@minecraftyeli NO THR OTHER ONE ; that was hunting a old tumble and it was terrifying
Dude this is actually terrifying in so many levels, imagine some one in the street get a small cut, and everyone that is close by, just by seen the blood on the guy, just suddenly feel like eating him....
Wasn't there a vampire movie where in a scene a human man was bitten to death by vampires, but then the vampires became humans and then it happened again and again until the only thing left are three vampires that become humans...
@@technoraize2715 i think it was in "Daybreakers".
@@noskes1 Oh yeah! That's the movie! T
@@technoraize2715 yup, i remember that movie. They all turned human cuz cure was heated vampire blood. Ngl i know i wouldn't have thought of it either cuz who would want to be a guinniepig for those tests when there is so low of chance for it to work.
@@zuziiice8907 Oh yeah, the cure was discovered when a Vampire was sent flying out of his car, was burned by the sun then plunged into the river.
Jack: "clearly this situation is wrapping itself up, im gonna head out now"
Jack: "On a side note: Never speak of this, again"
Imagine if jack just started walking away while they were eating each other
Jack was like "I am sure there is a lesson here but I'm out"
Jack: I'm sure there's a lesson in here SOMEWHERE. But this is frankly too weird and I'm just gonna walk away. VERY QUICKLY.
I think it to control your appetite and dont be a robot cannibalism obviously
Jack: Aku, you have a missed up way having robots eaten themselves from Metal. *Walk away from a missed up moment.*
"You can't have horror without blood and gore!"
Samurai Jack: "Hold my beer"
All psychological horror, philosophical horror, every scary children's villain: Hold my beer.
To be fair, the red coloration of these unskined robots bears and uncanny resemblance to exposed flesh.
Hold my sake.
@@JageshemashFTW I think Dextors lab was the training bra for Genndy needed when making unique robots????
"Hold my hot water, please."
You know something is disturbing when Jack of all people is afraid to keep looking...
I love how they made the metal red to make it look like flesh.
Imagine them as human cannibals and this episode aired in season 5 let that sink in…
Especially when you consider blood does smell and taste metallic
@@onetopicissue 💀
Yeah, that's the scariest part of all of it. Without the color choice, this scene wouldn't have had nesrly the same impact!
Funny thing cause this episode was made into 3 parts where each main antagonist Jack dealt with were all colored red. The giant worms, The Metal Eaters, (Duh) and that Gargoyle.
The closest thing cartoons ever got to canibals.
Pretty sure this counts as canibalism.
If we count anime, the choices widen. AoT counts as one.
You never heard of Looney Tunes?
@@slashbash1347 doesn't count. In Looney toons everything is played for laughs.
What about VoRe?))
Jack:...great. My nightmares have been lacking cannibal robots lately.
Jack: I'm never forgotten that the robots eaten themselves from Metal.
One of the scientists built a family of cannibalistic metal eating robots? Why? He was....funny that way.
And he apparently didn't program them to know they're robots and not eat each other
@@kidprime6863
He also apparently instead of having them be fueled by nuclear fusion generators or something like that thought it'd be funny to have them be seriously dependent on a horribly inefficient source of power i.e. must eat metal regularly or else run out of energy and 'die'/shutdown.
Get drunk one weekend and watch the wrong set of horror movies .
@@navilluscire2567 Either or they were originally designed for disposal of inferior metals
@@kidprime6863 I'd wager that. They're meant to stay on junkyards or landfills and scavenge for metal to rip apart and break down into more usable forms.
I think the saddest part here is the fact that none of them actually knew what they were. Makes you wonder what happened to them before they ran into Jack.
Yeah youre right and we dont even know who even created them
@@arielruh7773 Aku probably
Agreed. The fact that they just appeared out of nowhere makes it more bizarre and unsettling. They seemingly had no backstory and no connection to the rest of the episode; they just showed up, ate each other, and had the episode move on without them.
"We'll make it robots to make it less violent"
*the robots are sentient with skeleton like apperances under their skin, covered in a blood like red color*
Jack has seen many things on his journey, but this tops his list.
I know Jack says they're just nuts and bolts, but this was pretty damn freaky. Really pushed the limits of robot brutality/violence in the show. Michael Bay should take notes
The last sentence of your comment is the best part. 😂🤣
Transformer movies had really brutal kills
What are you talking about
Then season 5 came along.. Ironically toning down the violence despite more blood and gore.
I love moments like 0:57 where shots like this can look really graphic for a sec with the red coloring but immediately after, the well placed cartoony sound effects remind you it's not as graphic but still doesn't kill the tone. Pretty amazing tbh
Also, the female robot at 1:02 has complete cone/spike boobs lmaoo
The blood red feels so raw it makes it super creepy really and them looking like a bunch of a merged creatures eating themselves is a surreal feeling
Jack: okay that was weird even by my standards?!
Jack: And this is now added to the reasons why Aku must be obliterated
This scene was absolutely terrifying when I first saw it as a kid. Samurai Jack really pushed the boundaries of what could be shown on Cartoon network...
Cannibalism, sadism, drugs, mafia, alcohol, poverty, violence against women, slavery, abuse, gruesome deaths, severed bodyparts, body horror, etc.
These are just some of the issues Samurai Jack deals with! Fantastic show, it's one of my favorites!
None of this would fly in a modern cartoon.
He just like "I am so done with the future"
Silver the Hedgehog be like.
When i was a kid i was left speechless after watching this episode it was just really terrifying seeing robot cannibals eating each other
Samurai Jack had a couple of episodes that are pretty creepy by every standard.
This is samurai Jack every Monday night
The fact that their endo-skeletons are also red just makes it worse
and their skinless limbs look suspiciously like a degloved human arm.
@@shadowpillar2483 I think Dextors lab was the training bra for Genndy needed when making unique robots????
@@shadowpillar2483True, especially since the lower arms resemble a radius and ulna, and the hands look somewhat anatomically similar to a human hand (in terms of bone structure, that is).
They didn’t even know that they were robots themselves.
And Jack was just so done at that point.
The fact that they made the Metal the color red just makes it that much more gruesome since without our own skins we too would be bright red from the blood with our body exposed. This show is metal af
Was that pun intended
@@AureoAmbrosia if not its even better
hmmm yes, the floor is made out of floor.
@@MalcolmNessGrangerman stfu hes just analyzing a part people mightve overlooked
Therapist aku: Sooooo. Jack. Can you tell me what happened?
Samurai jack: (Explains the situation.)
Therapist aku: Thats messed up even for me...
Samurai jack: Tell me about it.
Therapist: So, what happened?
Jack: I fought a family of robots dressed as people, they where programmed to eat my sword, but I accidently sliced off the mask of the mother and they started canibalising eachother after each of them revaled metal.
Therapist: What in the Kentucky Fried F-
Jack's fucking faces while they tear each other apart had me dying.
I remember seeing this a long time ago......looking at it now.....yeah, still as creepy now as it was then.
I was watching this as a child. Now 20 years later i was looking for this episode. I was terrified for 20 years ago. I can understand why ! Cannabilsm is the answer
The better question what kind of insane vile devoid of any good dark soul would have made them and why?
Other than Aku being bored and thought metal eating robots is a neat idea.
as freaky as this moment was
nothing will beat the chaos of that haunted house episode.....nothing
As a kid I loved it !
Making the skeletons out of a red coloured metal made it look so close to human flesh/ meat.
It scared me but o knew it is for the better as the "bad guys" were attacking each other and not Jack.
I'm pretty sure that even if Samurai Jack was "robot censored", Genndy Tartakovsky was actually trying to _evade_ censorship here in his own way.
Sure, he had to make them robots, but notice that the metal eaters' metal parts immediately below their fake skin wasn't colored, well, _metallic._ They're colored *blood-red* or *flesh-like red.* And notice that by 1:02 practically all human clothing fake skin is gone while we see all 4 metal eaters.
So this is where Jack came up with the, "Nuts and bolts" excuse.
They ate eachother like cannibals
Well at least Jack didn't have to get his hands dirty.
The creepiest part about this isn't the red color of the metal being reminiscent of flesh, or even that they're cannibalizing each other. It's that, for all intents and purposes, they thought they were normal living beings in a family.
The creators of Samurai Jack got past the violence censors because they used robots instead of blood and gore, but if you're like me and see "violence" as beyond blood and gore, as applying to any "living", i.e. showing signs of sentience, entity, this show is hella dark.
In novel
Jack think try are robots
This scene stuck with me for years, but I was too young to fully understand what was fully going on and the nuances behind it....
coming back to it and it’s so much more haunting than my young mind capable of comprehending! Which is good, that’s really good story telling.
Yeah, looking at it now this scene would be SUPER messed up if it wasn't robot censored. But yeah, robot family cannibalises each other was honestly pretty shocking
Love how even Jack was like "Ok I'm officially creeped out"
i think the creepiest part on this is the fact their metal shell is red as meat,you can totally picture what this would be like if they weren't robots
Jack's look at the end.
"So, THIS is where my life is right now..."
You know for a fact they would be human cannibals if this show got onto adult swim sooner
Samurai Jack: It’s okay, I didn’t need to sleep tonight anyway…
2 weeks later he forgot it
I just imagining that Spear the caveman from Primal in his Hulk monster form can smash, destroy all the metal eating family and tear them all apart.
Badassery incarnated.
I Imagine The Donbrothers Kicking The Metal-Eaters Robot Butts, While The Noto Trio Don't Care For What Is Going On.
Sonoi: Metal-Eating Cannibal Robots, Seriously? Aku Really Needs Something Better Than Machines.
Sononi: I Knew Something Was Fishy About Them When They Saw This Guy's Sword.
Sonoza: Whatever, Let The Donbrothers Handle These Scrapheaps, Not Our Problem, Though.
You would think these Metal Eaters would be programed to know that they're robots and programed to not eat each other or themselves. And here I was thinking they were just metal eating mutants.
Them being ignorant of their own nature as robots *made of metal* really sells the horror of this scene as they turn on each other.
@@navilluscire2567 That's one huge programming flaw
@@kidprime6863 Or whoever created them was simply a complete lunatic. Which wouldn't be far-fetched at all considering how crazy the world of this show is.
@@poochyenajones1362 Or their creator had a sick sense of humor
@@kidprime6863Or in Dooferschmidt's words: well that was a stupid design!
Producers: "Do you think it will scare the kids?"
Gendy Tartakovski: "Kids? This will give the parents nightmares"
Some scientist was having a really bad day to make these guys.
*They were...funny like that...in a fucked up kinda way.*
Not one of their better ideas
I recall reading about a theory that most of the enemies Jack faced were not robots but living beings and this episode being the center of it.
I don't remember the whole thing but the jist is that Jack had severe mental damage after all the things he'd been through seen, and done.
This specific episode was cited because what Jack saw here was so horrific the only way he could move on / rationalize / justify it was by convincing himself that they were robots and not people.
A fun and twisted theory at the end of the day but ga damn after I rewatched bits of Jack struggling against himself in the last season it came back to mind.
Given that he ends up developing a rather solid case of paranoid schizophrenia later on, I say this is a good theory
I actually do like that theory. Though we do have to official word from Tartakovsky that they used robots so they could get away with doing really gruesome stuff
Censorship and Jack/ cartoon network are mostly child or below teen ages.
I don’t think this theory works as well for the first four seasons. At least depending on how far the scope of the theory goes. Jack clearly faces some robots have have non organic weapons attached to their bodies, while being more durable than humans to that’s one thing. Others do seem to be conveniently disguised as living beings onto to reveal mechanical components, which I’d assume the theory would apply to. The issue gets muddles however when It’s shown robots are capable of being Just as self aware as a living being is, with Jack lamenting the destruction of innocent robots. So I’m not sure how much less shocked Jack would be regardless.
By the 5th season that sort of morality gets more complicated..where he does seem to hold human/organic life with more reverence than robots.
Then it is all good
Takes "cannibalizing machine parts" to a whole new level.
This show is crazy, I just started season two and so far there's been dancing cage girls in a club, crucified dogs, involvement with the mafia, and plenty of pseudo-gore with robots such as in this scene. It's no surprise to me the final season was on Adult Swim instead of Cartoon Network, early 2000s really was a different time for what was considered kids TV.
To think someone deliberately design robots to eat metal to the point of eating their own types
This episode always freaked me out so much as a kid, but I completely forgot about this scene!! This makes it even more horrifying.
Watching this scene where they eat each other was just so freaky and disturbing to watch. Even though they’re robots who have a hunger for metal,just ended up eating each other is close as we can get for cannibalism in a kid’s cartoon.
The worst of all is that they did not know they were robots
That's a pretty dumb programming flaw
For some reason this didn't bother me as a kid. Back then it was like "Ha! Jack outsmarted them to take each other down". But looking at it now it's just... kinda creepy... Guess this really was a kids show :D
It's like now we understand the horror here of a family that just straight reverts to cannibalism the moment they find out that they were robots all along.
And the fact that their skeletons were red just shows the horrific symbolism taking place, like YIKES they showed this to US as kids.
I felt they were robots of some kind when they kept eyeing the sword. And then once we got to this part, well, my thoughts were "well that problem sorted itself out. Still pretty freaky."
pushing the limits of what you can show on CN love it
It's messed up how they don't know they were robots as well.
Honestly, this scene disturbs me a lot more now than it did at 8 years old...
Gendy specifically made their metal red for a reason. They knew what they were doing
This was a vaulted memory for me. Jesus Christ how horrifying
I always tough of this as a very underated episode.For some reason I always found this episode scary when I first watched it.❤
I like how the simple fact of them being robots is suppose to take away from the horror
1:12 Meaning, “This is going to haunt me for the rest of my life.”
That episode traumatized me back then in my childhood.🫣
Same here
Jack didn't even do much, homie was flabbergasted
My opinion darkest moment in the entire series
Man I remember seeing this once as a kid and boy howdy was it just plain Bizarre
The series evolved very well into an adult swim Toonami show.
Outside of this segment's twist being pretty WTF, the entire episode frustrated me. If you forgot, this was the episode that two 3 short stories. The first one was about Jack trying to guess a two headed serpent's riddle in order to get home (it was the "you meet two guards. One always tells the truth and the other lies" riddle.), this episode with the metal eaters, and the last segment was the one with the trapped fairy. I have never been as frustrated with this show as I was after that first segment's ending.
After Jack gets the riddle right, he get swallowed by the serpent and realizes there was no "magic portal" to take him back to his time, and it fades to commercial. So after the commercial break, I was expecting to see how he got out of the serpent's belly, but it started with this segment.
As much as I loved Samurai Jack growing up, I always hated how some of the episodes ended on cliffhangers, and you the viewer was expected to draw your own conclusion as to how Jack got out of that crazy situation. Still a good show though.
Well if it makes you feel better it's pretty obvious how he got out, but it wouldn't be appropriate to show him cutting out of the stomach
Well for this one he kinda just walks away as the cannibalistic robots are eating each other were he later at some point learns about the fairy trapped by the gargoyle and then attempts to free her so he can get one wish back home.
@@nathancurnutt8074 Yeah. I get the reason why. He either had to cut his way out of the stomach or go out the back way. It would have been humorous to see, but censors
Yes Jack, isn't this a cannibalism?
Jack is all like: what the hell did I witness?
Censors: "Okay, your main character can slice people up with his magic sword, but ONLY if all those people are robots. That way, none of the kids will be traumatized."
Genndy Tartakovsky: "Aight bet."
This was the creepiest episode of all of the Samurai Jack episodes.
Jack’s expression at the end just says “I was not ready for today”
i can tell you if this was made during the uncut season, they would have not only been cannibals, but what would have caused them to turn on her was the smell of blood coming from whatever wound jack inflicted on her
So this how you get away with cannibalism. Neat.
I always thought this particular episode was messed up. Looking back now... yeah, still is.
I remember be horrified of this eposode as a kid and couldn't watch it. Seeing it now as an adult it still shocks me.
I love how there is absolutely zero context throughout this entire episode. First we started off with a magic worm who wasn’t actually a magic worm and then Jack gets eaten. Then we see Jack somehow escaped which we didn’t see how he did that and he sitting by a campfire in the woods. Then he encounters a family supposedly lost in the woods who want to freaking EAT his sword and they turn out to be metal eating robots and they start cannibalising each other. Then it jumps to Jack rescuing a thicc thighed fairy who’s trapped in a castle by a gargoyle so he can make a wish to go home. Idk what kinda drugs Genndy was on at the time, but my head was hurting so much watching trying to follow with the story lmao
Probably just another adventure
Those were in my opinion simply multiple scenarios put together in the form of several shorts combined into one episode.
Sort brings the idea that things like these are what he has to encounter several times.
At this point Jack is so fed up with future's horrors that he just looks tired waiting for this to end.
You have to give the ambient music team a reward. Its so good in scene like thid in all of Samurai jack
I like Jack's "I'm so done with this shit," face at the end.
They're specially dyed red to make it look like they're covered in muscle and blood, aren't they?
Jack: Okay….. What the Hell? I gotta head out.
This freaked me out as a kid and still does to this day
Jack must have prayed the same prayer as Voltair:
_"Lord, make my enemies ridiculous."_
"Hey bob, i cranked the sword hunting robots' love of metal up to 15. Think i should program them to avoid the rest of the family in case their casing gets cracked"
"Naw, they should be ok. Whats the worst that can happen
A bit of theory crafting here, what if these robots were infiltrators Aku would send to blend in to communities to research and determine targets for the army, robots that think they're real people. These ones were ones abandoned by the robot army, with the self repair protocols trying desperately to keep them online, but needing metals to repair the decaying systems.
Or, something much darker, robots in this series were always weird to me (yes I know the simple answer is they were trying to please network censors but role with it). Maybe a lot of the robots we see are formally people and creatures who get transformed into cyborgs in order to fight off age and illness, eventually becoming just a machine in a facsimile of what they originally were. These robots may have had the same process done to them as punishment, and either can't accept that they have been made into machines or simply don't remember, to them they are just normal people possessed by an all consuming hunger for metal.
I think the most horrifying part about this scene is that their instinct to eat metal is so strong that, despite their fear, the instant they see it it overrides their self-preservation.
This is the top what the heck moment in the show for me
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The fact that they are red robots always made this even more disturbing for me
This fukt me up as a kid, whoever came up with cannibalistic robots was crazy asf😂
Blame Genndy Tartakovsky, The Man Who Created The Show.
i like that the robots are red internally so it looks like flesh
very nice and creepy detail
Seeing the robot look red It helps you to imagine if it was flesh.
Samurai jack's face was all like "good grief". I love it.