EDIT: Unfortunately, roughly 3 months after I posted this video Kevin DiCicco has passed away in Hospice Care. This video was a passion project for me, Air Bud was one of my favorite series as a kid and learning/researching about all the behind the scenes controversy, the legacy of the original dog, how Kevin was treated is something I found super important, that rarely gets talked about. Seeing the man who created this multi-million dollar franchise, who watched his dead dog get milked for 12 movies, spent the final years of his life living off of a fan funded gofundme to avoid homelessness and deal with illness because he barely made any residuals, all while Disney and Robert Vince were planning a grand multi-million dollar reboot. The situation is disgusting and I can only say that Kevin deserved so much better. Despite the campaign no longer being active, I'm leaving the link to his gofundme in this comment as a reminder of how he was exploited and abandoned by Disney. Support Kevin DiCicco! (no longer active) www.gofundme.com/f/help-air-bud-creator-kevin-dicicco-secure-assisted-living Support Me! www.patreon.com/c/u71566350 Would Love Feedback on this one! It's a new style and subject for me :) EDIT: Just going to correct some errors I made in the video here: - Buddy did not act the movie by himself. While they aren't credited on the wiki or IMDB there were 2 doubles credited in the credits which I just forgot to check (Although to my point in the video still less than future movies) - The 6th puppy is actually given away at the end of World Pup which just completely slipped my mind, this still leaves a couple inconsistencies (having 4 in Seventh Inning Fetch for example) and World Pup randomly having scenes with only 5 puppies before one is given away.
Now in general I feel like Guy talks about old movies is oversaturated but when its a guy that didn't originally do that then it's peak. like brutalmoose
Were you born during the baby boom? No? Then you're not a boomer. The Baby Boom refers to the significant, sudden increase in birth rates in the United States (and other Western nations) from 1946 to 1964, following World War II, creating the massive "Baby Boomer" generation. "Ok Boomer" was an insult directed at that generation by millennials. I'm not anti fun, I'm anti ignorance. I do clutch my pearls when I learn that biology doesn't even teach how or why identical twins and nonidentical twins are a thing. Education just keeps getting worse lmao
Disney really made a villain whose whole plan was to milk a dog for profit and then proceeded to make ten more movies where they milk the same dog for profit
the fact that THE Air Bud's human and best friend is in such a bad way medically and experiencing homelessness, and they wont help, while profiting from HIS best friend is disgusting.
But then they would have to confront the fact that they left the original trainer of buddy to go homeless and not give him a share of any of the movies profits because if it wasn't for him the movie franchise wouldn't fucking exist!
Mind you some of those puppies in snow buddies were offered up by real owners who were told they would be well cared for only to either be never returned or replaced with a new puppy like it was nothing
It is super messed up to kill an animal for a movie/ abuse neglect an animal. Especially if it is was beloved pet. Everyone always talks about these poor dogs or cats, which indeed is so sad. But there is also another messed up animal fate in a horror movie. In the og Friday the Thirteenth a snake got killed on camera. A real live snake. That is bad enough as is. But what makes it worse? It was someone's pet. One of the workers on set. They asked to BORROW his snake. He thought no harm would come to it. And they cut its head off....Imagine someone asking to borrow your beloved pet for a movie. You think cool. And then suddenly you see them legit cutting your pet's head off...
Then they literally made a villain out of their victim, Bobby Driscoll, in the Chip & Dale movie. I'm actually expecting they'll make a villain out of that one woman who died from a peanut allergy and her husband couldn't sue because of a contract on Disney+.
Learning they killed 5 real dogs and put countless others in abusive environments and then were allowed to continue production and then release Snow Buddies is unreal, and then they still allowed them to make further movies.
This is sadly the reality of most movies using animals up to the early 2000s. Don't forget when Disney intentionally drove Lemmings to their death in a staged nature Documentary.
@eeveefennecfox We weren't. This is a retrospective. Where in this comment are children who watched the movies and enjoyed them as kids shamed? Where in the video was that said?
It's kind of sick (in the bad way) that they made a movie where a Warlock tries to sacrifice 5 puppy souls, when Robert Vince basically sacrificed 5 REAL Puppies making Snow buddies.
"Niggle" is an old word meaning to annoy or pester someone. Yet not one person on the writing team or any of the actors said "Hey, this name is two letters away from something really really bad, maybe change it."
Saw that shit while reading Orwell’s 1984, made me do a double take and look it up cus the context where the word showed up pertained to children. Thank god it’s an innocent word and thank god even more we’ve practically phased it out of our vocabulary.
It's also very sad how the orginal Buddy died as well. Buddy had cancer. He had to get his leg amputated. The cancer eventually traveled to his brain and caused him to have seizures. It also traveled to his lungs. He died in his sleep eventually in 1998. But great video man
I like to think that the missing Air Buddy just turned out to be a dog that's really good at some other type of competition. "There's no rule saying a dog can't play Magic the Gathering!"
I'm old enough that I remember hearing about the real dog first, and the cute film he star'd in afterword. I remember loving the film as a kid. Then shrugging at each of the sequels.
@tristanjames9367 animorphs was a children's series written in the early 90s and a staple of the scholastic library and events in elementary school and even some actual libraries. What does that tell you about him and I for knowing this forbidden knowledge?
I saw a good quote somewhere that said children's movies should be allowed to make kids "uncomfortable" (to an extent) again - make them scared, sad, etc. I liked the first movie because of a cute dog! And basketball!! But I was also uncomfortable because there's animal abuse, grief over a dead parent, and child abuse. Plus the scene where he tries to let Buddy go still makes me tear up a bit (he gave up his Dad's basketball too!). But it makes the happier moments feel so much nicer. On a funny note, the Air Bud wiki lists the Species of Josh's dad as "Human (presumably)"
I don't remeber which author (it might have been Roald Dahl) said it but what he claimed was something along the lines that children can enjoy a darker story as long as it has a happy ending. For me personally kids movies/series that included darker stuff didn't detire me from enjoying it. I loved series like 'animals of farthing wood' (at times it's a cartoon where the different animals work together even though they are predator and prey while at other times it shows verry realistic deaths like a pheasant getting shot by a hunter or animals not surviving when crossing a road) and 'Watership down' (a story about bunnies that as an adult is packed full of WW2 references). My favourite disney movies as a child where Atlantis, Mulan and the Lion king which all are movies that include death but ended on a bright note.
I definitely think it's important to expose children to the entire range of emotions without pushing them too far. If they're introduced while kids are young, they'll learn earlier on what these feelings are from and how to deal with them in a healthy way while in a safe environment. Emotional skills are just as important as social skills and skills in education
10:23 I absolutely love the flying swan dive power slam he makes directly on top of this lovable little doggy. My man has no time for this Disney shit. He wants that dog DEAD
I knew nothing about Air Bud beyond "dog play basketball" so this was an absolute trip. What do you mean there's 12 movies. What do you mean the sports dog's puppies go to the moon and fight a warlock. What do you mean they killed multiple puppies through neglect.
That last one got me, I was like "oh, Disney killed 5 dogs by retconning the puppies again, surely--" No. Disney killed five real-ass dogs. What the fuck?
I remember seeing the first movie and then over the years seen how they tried to make this "franchise" with the sporst dog having sports dog puppies. Even as a kid I wondered why would a movie about a dog doing basketball would evolve into this thing we see Big Garf talk about.
Imagine owning a dog and having said dog sadly pass away and the company who made one nice respectful movie for him goes “yeah your dog is maybe d3ad but see-we need to make money” and creates garbage sequal and a spin off
I remember one of of the airbud movies but I don’t think I ever watched the original. I’m genuinely DISGUSTED that not only did someone write it into the plot that they would attempt to abandon this dog on an island in the middle of a body of water, with no food, shelter or anything, but that somebody ACTUALLY APPROVED THAT!! I have legitimately seen cases of dogs and cats who were found and rescued skin and bone, on the brink of death on little islands in bodies of water very intentionally brought and left there to die. It makes you wonder if this shit is why people think this kind of thing is an acceptable way to get rid of an animal! Horrible!
You see. Air bud was not a known thing around where I live. But I vividly remember Air Buddies was a randomly popular franchise, I watched them all the time thinking it was a spinoff of Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Imagine my surprise to finding out the "dogs go to space" movie actually was the 7th one in a saga that started with a real ass dog playing fucking basketball.
Same thing. Air Bud was a fun fact in my mind as a kid, something I told my parents that they shrugged of ("I swear a dog can play basketball" "Sure kid"), I did not know that there were earlier movies about him. I only saw his "puppies"
I love the extra santa paws movie where emotional whiplash is all over. The main characters are a recently orphaned girl who sings a song about her parents in heaven and an older orphan who's been abused and parentrifed her whole life. Santa gets dementia and nearly dies and santa paws sacrifies himself. You know, childrens christmas movie
I wouldn't call it whiplash really, that would imply it's got a lot of back and forth tonage, it's pretty much depressing throughout until the end. I kind of love it tho.
7:11 "He has to set Air Bud free." Bro he is a DOMESTICATED HOUSE PET. He is not a wolf, or a lion, or a bird that has to be returned to his natural habitat in the wilderness. Do these people think there are islands where wild golden retrievers roam free or something 😭
There are many ppl who'll abandon dogs out in the country. The ppl living there see it and posted about how the dogs search for their owners, they're confused, unprepared for the wild, they either become prey to wild predators or hit by cars. Bunnies and ducks are commonly adopted around easter then dumped in a park by summer. I'm in a few rabbit groups and it's not uncommon for people to post pictures of bunnies they see in parks to determine if they're wild or domestic. Even if domestic bunnies can forage and survive, they lack the coloration to effectively cameoflage from predators. Most shops won't sell ducks/bunnies in spring for the same reason many ethical breeders won't sell puppies at Christmas.
55:35 I feel like I keep hearing some variant of this story over and over, where a popular invention or work of media created by a humble individual profits the publisher/legal owner of the material while the individual responsible for it all doesn't see a penny of it, and worse is largely left to wallow in poverty while some other prick gets to make money off of their original creation.
22:36 why do some sequels like to jump to eugenics? "This character that showed talent in the previous movie was actually just born special and better than everyone"
Once you start making it about families and how the kids are going to be as good as the parent in some skills, the answer will always be genetics in the movie world. For example, George Lucas has to answer why Luke and Leia can use the Force. Answer: genetics. But how? Answer: midichlorians. Make little Ani the most powerful being with higher midichlorians than Yoda and shatter the notion that anyone can be a Jedi with enough spiritual, mental, and physical training and discipline. They even extend into the sequels with how Rey isn’t some nobody who can learn about the Force but granddaughter of Palpatine.
@alexanderchristopher6237 To be fair & give George Lucas credit: That was more so world-building than ruining 1977-1983 childhood dreams because Legends makes a clear difference between the Living Force(Jedi with midichlorians) & the Spiritual Force(All the supernatural stuff). If anything, it kind of symbolizes how the Jedi lost their way so bad that they only train those with higher counts & are of an age where they can't remember their families in order to remove attachments, rather than give anyone a chance to learn, which is probably the reason why the Sith were able to come back. I get people hated it, but this is like if too many children/people believe that the Titanic was fake because of both the James Cameron movie, & those crappy animated movies. But I agree with you on the sequels.
@splat-trainproductionsTo be fair, they did try to do the whole nobody thing with The Last Jedi. But due to the toxic fan outcry, that lead to folks bullying actors like Kellie Marie Tran off the internet, Disney basically did the whole Palpatine thing as some failed attempt at damage control.
The kid that plays Josh looks like he'd be a believable fighter pilot when he gets older. They should have had him become a test pilot like his dad and then Air Bud follows him to the flight school where they find out that he is a natural pilot, and then he ends up rescuing Josh from a crash in a death-defying stunt, because there's no rules against a dog flying a plane or whatever. I'm not saying it would be a good movie, I'm saying it's such an insane concept that it would be hilarious to watch just on its face. Plus, c'mon... he's called AIR Bud. It's right there in his name!
I keep getting harsh reminders that most cute silly animal movies from my childhood treated animals horribly and did not care to even memorialize the animals who died in the making of said movies. mainly referring to Snow Buddies which was probably my favorite movie as a small child. aswell as Milo and Otis. It's fucked up how many animals were(are) treated in movies.
My horror when I learned about all the injuries and passing of kittens and dogs in Milo & Otis... Watched that one a lot as a kid with my grandma. Homeward Bound is one where they actually avoided harming tho ♡
i might be misremembering but i recall reading that there's no conclusive evidence that Milo and Otis had a ton of animal cruelty, there was an investigation that couldn't prove anything. most of the claims of abuse come from tabloid magazines and testimonies of potentially dubious origin. There probably was at least some animal cruelty but idk how realistic it is to say they tried to sew piglets together
@MangasColoradas941 That is true, there is no conclusive evidence. but it's really hard to believe that absolutely zero animals were harmed or died in the making of Milo and Otis, whether or not the numbers claimed are true.
I'm not surprised Disney would milk a franchise to death, while in the process disrespecting a dead dog, get lazier with storylines and resort to CGI for puppies, make puppies talk, because "Aww cute", and also not support the original owner of the original Buddy, causing him to go homeless. But what's sickening to me, they killed 5 puppies and got 6 puppies sick to a disease, these were animals that they exploited for money under harsh conditions and ultimately killed some of them... Disney has always milked everything to death and had shady dealings behind the scenes, it's about $$$, nothing else.
Another classic case of Disney ruining a cute movie with endless sequels... Well, maybe with all the CGI they use they could finally get that "No animals were harmed." in the upcoming movie.
Honestly the jewel thieves had the least evil motivation, and junk car that falls apart just says they wanted the money and not to hurt the dog, but stealing a shiny rock is bad so they need to be clowned on A better side plot could have been a couple of guys who were put in a hard spot for whatever reason and through whatever course of events Buddy helps them resolve their situation. There isn't always a "bad guy" in every single scenario
A few acquaintances of mine have coined the term “air bud clause” as something to put in rules saying “just because it isn’t listed, doesn’t mean you’ll get away with disgusting stuff” because just because the rules don’t say a dog can’t play basketball, doesn’t mean it can
I'm absolutely stealing this term for when I'm DMing D&D and a player tries to argue that they can do something completely ridiculous just because the rules don't explicitly state that they can't. (like when a problem player i don't play with anymore wanted the whole story and party to be put on hold for weeks in-game, just for an elaborate and ridiculous scheme to make more gold, and not even more gold for the party but specifically for just them, all based on the fact that he gave his character proficiency in metalworking solely for the purpose of using it to make even more gold.)
@suiway When you say "metalworking solely for the purpose of using it to make even more gold," do you mean selling what they make, forging currency, or literally making more gold somehow?
@shinymetagross1666 Melting his own gold down and making jewelry to sell. Not a bad idea in theory, and he had the appropriate skill. But he really just wanted "number magically go up right now". I would have been willing to allow it if he had been at all reasonable about how it would happen. But he wanted to skip straight over the "how, where, who do you sell it to" and argued that because he had the skill the "how, where, who do you sell to" all didnt matter at all and he should just be allowed to *instantly and automatically* double only his share of gold *every time* he got any. I explained that if he wanted to, he could do it, but it wouldnt be instant and automatic at all, he would have to rent the local smith's forge, and he would have to take time selling what he made because they were in a tiny poor village, and that he probably wouldnt get exactly double in the end. He expected the entire party to wait around at the inn for weeks/months while he did so. They were not all cool with that, especially since he was still insisting it was ONLY HIS gold he'd be increasing. (He refused to do it for anyone else and said they should have taken metalworking like him if they wanted to do it) Eventually he decided not to and said that doubling his gold was the only reason he took the skill and that it was a wasted choice now. No one liked playing with him so he's not in the party anymore.
On snow buddies... I've been to Nome to watch the Iditarod finish. Those sled dogs are GROWN and LEAN. Genuinely, dog sledding is such a fantastic sport. It's a display of incredible prowess and trust between the musher and their dogs---in a big race like the Iditarod, there are required checkpoints where injured, tired, or sick dogs are dropped off and flown straight to the finish line so they can be cared for by volunteers until their musher is done. Competitors get disqualified if they miss these checkpoints or drop too many dogs, so they have to treat them well and the dogs never have to carry too much. They arrive at the finish line OVERJOYED. It's just so awesome and I actually despise that it's having its legacy sullied by Disney's carelessness.
I remember as a kid watching all the buddies movies (except super buddies) and none of the Air Bud movies, just because of what age I was when the movies came out
I had no idea air bud was a real dog, I came into this thinking that you were going to be talking about something along the lines of the first dog in the airbud movie saga had died and they just continued with different dogs. Which I ASSUME (idk for sure cuz no one watched those movies) that they swaped out puppies in different movies but that was simply because puppies don’t stay puppies forever That’s really sad that when you hear “air bud” you dont think of the cool real dog and instead we think of the trash talking puppy movies
21:21 Imagine being the Backup Goalkeeper on the US Women's National Team. You have trained your whole life for this, are part of legitimizing the sport of soccer as belonging to Women too. Suddenly your opportunity comes, the starter is Injured, you need to make a save in the penalty shootout. This is your moment to be the hero for your country. And the coach says "nah, we're putting the dog in"
I always treated the Air Bud Quintology as being its own separate thing from the “Buddies” movie. So we have three universes: The 5-Bud movies, the Buddies, and now, the “META” reboot.* There was another rumor it would take place in the OG universe, and that the kid we would follow would be Josh’s kid…. And possible spoilers… Josh is now dead.
Ok so I was fully aware that the Air Bud franchise had continued on for a disturbingly long time and lost any sense of meaning, but holy hell, I had no idea it had gotten THIS bad. Nor was I aware of the dogs that died! Air Bud holds a special place in my heart as a piece of my childhood, but thank god I didn't love it enough to invest in it. Edit- 56:15 No... NO! They're REBOOTING it? Who is this for?! NO! Let it die!
Fun fact, the world's greatest historians have unanimously agreed that never in history has the phrase "do it dawg" followed by intense moaning ever been muttered outside of that scene. This is facts and you can't disagree with facts.
I don’t think there’s any other movie franchise you can say starts with a movie involving sports and ends with a movie involving Aliens and super power rings
I honestly wasn't anticipating seeing a DOG BEING FOOTBALL TACKLED today. Edit: So basically the Air Bud movies devolved into that "The same five songs" meme.
I just realized that the actor of the referee in the first movie (and apparently 2 and 3) plays the scientist harvesting the sports gene in the fourth movie. Dude had one hell of a character arc.
I mean to be fair he saw a dog do amazing at sports and even saw him go on to the world championship type of stuff so of course he gotta find out how to give it to everyone so y'know. THEIR JOB WONT BE TAKEN BY A DOG-
A lot of kids movies/shows in the 90's always had heavy topics (A Little Princess, Matilda, Indian in the Cupboard). Compared to a "kids movie" nowadays. I kinda miss these movies with serious grounded topics that end in some sort of real life resolution that you could pull a lesson from. I can't pull lessons from underhand sex jokes and fart jokes. That's not the type of stuff I want my kid to think about after the movie is over. Also, Hi Bessie!! :3
I made this comment at the 8:32 mark. I didn't really watch Air Bud growing up, so I cannot account for the rest of these movies as being decent and learning lessons from.
The Little Princess was way better than A Little Princess. Father thought killed in war, making daughter a pauper orphan who now has to work at the fancy boarding school she was attending the day before. Mistreated by her former classmates, she retreats into a fantasy world, but also searches for her father, refusing to believe he's really dead.
Weird but the fact that in the quick google search about dogs eating pudding you put "no ai" it made me like this channel even more lol, ai is so everywhere its not that other people are trying to stop it
The first Air Bud movie is such a weird memory for me. I was the "I love anything and everything animal-related" kid and this movie came out only a few years after I was born, so I remember that I really enjoyed the movie and it was kind of a staple of my childhood along with the first handful of sequels. But at the same time I was definitely too young to really grasp much of the first one beyond "doggie plays basketball!" I definitely picked up on the vibes though. There was kind of a grounded melancholy, I guess, to it that I vividly remember being aware of but just never registered. The power of dog. Also holy shit I never realized the newspaper thing.
The existence of a sports gene is diabolical. And they just gloss over it? The implication that there are rare genes in the entire animal kingdom that makes them predisposed to be talented in any random field is crazy. Like is there a seamstress cheetah out there in the wild? Is there a gamer fish wasting its talents away, cursed to never touch a controller since it can only survive in water? Insane work
Disney capitalizing a dead but talented dog is the same equivalent of 'selling your soul to the devil (or Mammon of the Greed ring) for one billion sequels with one billion dogs impersonating a dead dog (either abused and neglected for box offices) in exchange for the vengeful ghost of said dog to chase you for the rest of your afterlife (you are the ball and you are gonna get dunked on).'
42:55 Ok but that robot arm one got me. I genuinely laughed pretty hard. The build up and the fact that they didn't say the line making you think it wasn't going to happen really made it better
I somehow learned "Snow Buddies" was bad for some reason (but didn't know why). But actually knowing 5 fictional puppies died made me feel bad about "Spooky Buddies".
loved this video. the cgi is horrifying and its absolutely disgusting that theyre going to make a reboot when the person whose dog theyre profiting off of is actively suffering. i'd love to see more content like this!!!! very fun watch, always love longer videos. crossing my fingers that it does well ❤️
I remember watching some of the santa buddies movies on tv when i was younger (i think we had one as a dvd as well), but honestly i clicked because the cat-eyed dog in the thumbnail was causing me deja vu. And then you explained the plot of spooky buddies and treasure buddies and I never had such a clear memory ever hit me so fast. Hearing about the things that went on behind the set was absolutely heartbreaking. Sheds some entirely new light onto those memories.
Not to be a downer, but i wish i could send this to my dad. He was a dog trainer, and the first dog in my life was a sweet golden retriever. This was a really insightful video, I can't remember the last time i thought of this old ass franchise. I hope it does great Garf, this vid kinda made my day.
Oh wow. learning that the pups died during the filming of air buds, really hits hard. I adored the movie as a kid. But frankly, I wouldn't put it past our mouse overlord to go that far.
My little sisters watched Treasure Buddies and the holiday ones so many times that I have a visceral unpleasant reaction from even reading the names lol
"Maybe 12 movies was a little ambitious for my first non-video game video" I don't know, I felt like you covered everything in detail. I really love your commitment to variety. You struck gold with Scribblenauts, and it's hard to convince people who showed up for one thing to stay for other things. But it worked on me! You seem to be putting a TON of effort into making these videos the most high-quality stuff you can. The Kung Fu Panda video blew up too, and definitely in no small part to your incredible grabber at the very start. The Mr. Ping moveset, followed by "in this game.... that's a B tier fighter" was nuts. So, after watching Scribblenauts, Kung Fu Panda, Mario Party (with some of my favorite guest stars), and herobrine minecraft, you KNOW I was ready to tune into some Air Bud.
I remember on one of the kfp movie disks that there was a little game where Poe shuffles 3 cups or bowls (I can’t remember) and you have to pick the one with a dumpling inside.
As someone who grew up watching air buddies and other talking dog films (pupstars), i do admit they hold a special place in my heart. that doesnt mean they don't suck, but i personally enjoyed them once upon a time. But 'the search for santa paws' on the other hand, is one of my favorite movies in this genre. Yes, it basically is just the movie Annie but with christmas BUT I LOVE IT SO MUCH!! Watch it.
Okay. Oh my god. I have such a bizarre relationship with this series that I mostly forgot I had until I watched this video. When I was a month away from turning 8 years old, my dad died. The absolute most distinct memory I have immediately following that experience, I watched Snow Buddies, obsessively, in my grandma's basement. And when I say immediately, I mean my grandma was still actively going through my dad's stuff and interrupted my marathon to gift me something she found in it for me. I watched it over and over again non-stop, from beginning to credits, back to back to back. I have no idea as to why in the slightest. I never watched the original Air Bud nor did I know the plot until now, and after those 2-3 days, I never watched Snow Buddies ever again. I also watched Spooky Buddies a few times, but not NEARLY as much. Your guess is as good as mine.
Whenever im feeling depressed i rewatch old shows or serieses that i liked growing up, almost to the point of obsession. There was a time growing up when i was so scared to die that i would think about death day and night and i felt that if i told anyone they would become scared too. But adventuretime was coming out on netflix at that time and i was able to obsessively watch those episodes to get my mind away from inevitability. Then it changed my perspective on death and made me hopeful. Theres something about GOOD tv that brings us out of the deathloop
I have a similar experience with another unrelated movie, while getting out of a drug addiction. Don Hertzfeldt's "it's such a beautiful day." I must've watched it like 20 or 30 times, and I've never watched it again since then. It's probably because it's just kinda comfortable when you're in some kinda hazy overwhelmed headspace to have something you like and to just know what's going to happen for the next hour or so.
im not gonna lie out of this entire franchise the only one i've seen is air buddies somehow and i loved it as a kid, but i had no idea about any of the other movies' plots and i did start tearing up over the air bud recap 😭 maybe its good i never watched it
thats because the only puppies who really mattered in the entire franchise was B-Dawg (how do you do fellow kids?), Rosebud (the one girl for the little girls [and probably got shipped with Shashta in the early online community days]), and Butterball (fart joke funny) Buddha and Mudbud were always just, there
I’m surprised nothing in the Space Buddies movie stuck with you because as a kid I was genuinely moved by Spudnick and Sasha (the space dog and boy duo that get separated when he’s sent to space) and the absolute lunatic villian isolated space man that attempts to keep all the dogs there with him.
As a kid I rationalized the humans changing as different dogs, same name and talent like a prized breeding line. and every buddies litter is just lazily named same as the last.
What’s also funny is that after Buddies there’s also another talking dog series after they decided the Buddies got milked to death, and so the Air Bud rabbit hole goes deeper with a separate series of 4 movies: Pup Star. Seeing that teir list, if you’re gonna cover Santa Paws at some point, you might as well cover Pup Star as well. Also yes. It’s directed by Robert Vince.
Rest in Peace to Kevin DiCicco, who passed away this week, still battling homelessness and respiratory failure 🕊 I loved Air Buddies and Snow Buddies as a kid in the early 2000s but didn't know anything about the behind the scenes and Buddy and Kevin's stories, it's actually insane
I remember really liking Snow buddies as a kid, like obvi as an adult knowing what they did to make it the reputation is tarnished, but silver lining that movie being so horrible probably saved more dogs than it harmed cause if it wasn't as bed Disney wouldn't have put the people behind these movies on a tighter leash
Okay, but when the Spikes Back movie came out, our vice principal LOVED it because he loved Volleyball and made the whole school watch it as the end of the year movie.
Thank you for using music from my animal sports anime volleyball game for the segment where air bud plays volleyball….. it warmed my heart to see them paired together
EDIT: Unfortunately, roughly 3 months after I posted this video Kevin DiCicco has passed away in Hospice Care. This video was a passion project for me, Air Bud was one of my favorite series as a kid and learning/researching about all the behind the scenes controversy, the legacy of the original dog, how Kevin was treated is something I found super important, that rarely gets talked about. Seeing the man who created this multi-million dollar franchise, who watched his dead dog get milked for 12 movies, spent the final years of his life living off of a fan funded gofundme to avoid homelessness and deal with illness because he barely made any residuals, all while Disney and Robert Vince were planning a grand multi-million dollar reboot. The situation is disgusting and I can only say that Kevin deserved so much better. Despite the campaign no longer being active, I'm leaving the link to his gofundme in this comment as a reminder of how he was exploited and abandoned by Disney.
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Would Love Feedback on this one! It's a new style and subject for me :)
EDIT: Just going to correct some errors I made in the video here:
- Buddy did not act the movie by himself. While they aren't credited on the wiki or IMDB there were 2 doubles credited in the credits which I just forgot to check (Although to my point in the video still less than future movies)
- The 6th puppy is actually given away at the end of World Pup which just completely slipped my mind, this still leaves a couple inconsistencies (having 4 in Seventh Inning Fetch for example) and World Pup randomly having scenes with only 5 puppies before one is given away.
Now in general I feel like Guy talks about old movies is oversaturated but when its a guy that didn't originally do that then it's peak. like brutalmoose
just donated, kevin deserves safety and health.❤❤
Thank you for shouting him out like that, he deserves what we can do.
Shame they probably won't give any money to him with their new film.
Were you born during the baby boom? No? Then you're not a boomer. The Baby Boom refers to the significant, sudden increase in birth rates in the United States (and other Western nations) from 1946 to 1964, following World War II, creating the massive "Baby Boomer" generation. "Ok Boomer" was an insult directed at that generation by millennials. I'm not anti fun, I'm anti ignorance. I do clutch my pearls when I learn that biology doesn't even teach how or why identical twins and nonidentical twins are a thing. Education just keeps getting worse lmao
What is interesting the face of both dogs don’t look the same
Disney really made a villain whose whole plan was to milk a dog for profit and then proceeded to make ten more movies where they milk the same dog for profit
Zoophisney
"Officer, I gave you all the clues"
Ayooooo
Oh no
It's Disney the dog milker 🐕 🍼
First we milk the cows! Then we get weird and milk the nuts! Now we get even weirder and milk.... Dogs!
the fact that THE Air Bud's human and best friend is in such a bad way medically and experiencing homelessness, and they wont help, while profiting from HIS best friend is disgusting.
I agree. Makes me soo pissed.
the comments about the situation makes me both sad and angry, so soooo much angry that they still got away with it for years ,srsly fuck Disney
This is so sad
Tbh I would much rather them make a documentary about the real air bud rather than trying to do a reboot
But then they would have to confront the fact that they left the original trainer of buddy to go homeless and not give him a share of any of the movies profits because if it wasn't for him the movie franchise wouldn't fucking exist!
@littleowl22778that’s crazy af if it’s true
@BusinessGuy-n3tit is, the original trainer of buddy is homeless and isn't in the best of health 😢
@littleowl22778A studio other than Disney, or a RUclipsr should make it
Mind you some of those puppies in snow buddies were offered up by real owners who were told they would be well cared for only to either be never returned or replaced with a new puppy like it was nothing
No matter what the death of a puppy is terrible but that’s HORRIFYING
Now that's just fucked up, happy we have gained somewhat more ethical/animal welfare practices when it comes to animal actors nowadays
😨🤢😭
Thanks, I hate it.
It is super messed up to kill an animal for a movie/ abuse neglect an animal. Especially if it is was beloved pet. Everyone always talks about these poor dogs or cats, which indeed is so sad. But there is also another messed up animal fate in a horror movie. In the og Friday the Thirteenth a snake got killed on camera. A real live snake. That is bad enough as is. But what makes it worse? It was someone's pet. One of the workers on set. They asked to BORROW his snake. He thought no harm would come to it. And they cut its head off....Imagine someone asking to borrow your beloved pet for a movie. You think cool. And then suddenly you see them legit cutting your pet's head off...
Them profiting out of a dead dog while his trainer goes homeless is peak Disney behavior...
Then they literally made a villain out of their victim, Bobby Driscoll, in the Chip & Dale movie.
I'm actually expecting they'll make a villain out of that one woman who died from a peanut allergy and her husband couldn't sue because of a contract on Disney+.
@superzilla784yeah Disney can fuck right off for all of that, not to mention their bringing generative ai to their streaming service!
@superzilla784The father who couldn't give his deceased son a Spider-Man gravestone.
That's so sad
people keep saying Disney this and Disney that ... WHO OWNS DISNEY 👃🏼🇮🇱💰 yall goofys are so scared of being called "antisemetic" over stating facts
Learning they killed 5 real dogs and put countless others in abusive environments and then were allowed to continue production and then release Snow Buddies is unreal, and then they still allowed them to make further movies.
Did the credits have the "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" disclaimer, i wonder...
@ຈິຕຕະຈິຕຕັງ 54:40 nooooope :( they put that the american humane “monitored” the dog action of this movie” yeah… UH HUH and did what?
It's like learning what they did to the dogs and cats in milo and otis.
This is sadly the reality of most movies using animals up to the early 2000s. Don't forget when Disney intentionally drove Lemmings to their death in a staged nature Documentary.
@JessicaFEREM noooo
"the air bud franchise refuses to grieve and continues to abuse" goes so hard dude i hope you're proud of that line
we were children back then and no internet,how were we supposed to know that shit was happening behind the scenes?
@eeveefennecfox We weren't. This is a retrospective. Where in this comment are children who watched the movies and enjoyed them as kids shamed? Where in the video was that said?
Feel free to apply that to Disney as a whole.
@eeveefennecfox Okay, but that's just not what's being argued at all?
It perfectly describes so much.
It's kind of sick (in the bad way) that they made a movie where a Warlock tries to sacrifice 5 puppy souls, when Robert Vince basically sacrificed 5 REAL Puppies making Snow buddies.
HUH
Wait WHAT? Can you fill me in on that, please?
@junkyard7013i think garf fills you in on that pretty well in the snowbuddies segment
@cosmokoboldOh, my bad. Haven't made it that far in yet
I love how all the kids aged in every movie but not the dogs. I think they’re immortal.
Must be a side effect of the "sports gene" hahaha
the buddies definitely weren't :(
"Niggle" is an old word meaning to annoy or pester someone. Yet not one person on the writing team or any of the actors said "Hey, this name is two letters away from something really really bad, maybe change it."
Saw that shit while reading Orwell’s 1984, made me do a double take and look it up cus the context where the word showed up pertained to children. Thank god it’s an innocent word and thank god even more we’ve practically phased it out of our vocabulary.
The CGI in space buddies was *so bad* I thought I was watching a leaked, unfinished version of the film when I saw it... as a child.
_I was stupid as fuck so I had a great time- still do, don't stop yourself from having fun._
@sisterfister7891 I think it’s hard to have fun with those movies but I did like some of them
Space buddies was my jam as a kid lol
say that again....
SPACE JAM?!?!?!?!
It's also very sad how the orginal Buddy died as well. Buddy had cancer. He had to get his leg amputated. The cancer eventually traveled to his brain and caused him to have seizures. It also traveled to his lungs. He died in his sleep eventually in 1998. But great video man
I like to think that the missing Air Buddy just turned out to be a dog that's really good at some other type of competition. "There's no rule saying a dog can't play Magic the Gathering!"
Or joining EVO tournament!
@hafirenggayuda imagine having a dog rock your shit in tekken. i'd leave on the spot
i'm pretty sure that's just green players
what if he's running for mayor
"There's no rule saying a dog can't run in politics!"
@dracodracarys2339 I mean some small communities to elect dogs to be ceremonial mayors of sorts so yeah.
By the way, R.I.P to Michael Jeter who played Norman. He tragically died in 2003 of an epileptic seizure.
(1950-2003)
Your telling me air bud was a real dog this whole time
You’re*
I'm old enough that I remember hearing about the real dog first, and the cute film he star'd in afterword. I remember loving the film as a kid. Then shrugging at each of the sequels.
@animorph17How old are you I'm like 20
@tristanjames9367 animorphs was a children's series written in the early 90s and a staple of the scholastic library and events in elementary school and even some actual libraries. What does that tell you about him and I for knowing this forbidden knowledge?
@tristanjames9367 hello 20 im dad.
I saw a good quote somewhere that said children's movies should be allowed to make kids "uncomfortable" (to an extent) again - make them scared, sad, etc.
I liked the first movie because of a cute dog! And basketball!! But I was also uncomfortable because there's animal abuse, grief over a dead parent, and child abuse. Plus the scene where he tries to let Buddy go still makes me tear up a bit (he gave up his Dad's basketball too!). But it makes the happier moments feel so much nicer.
On a funny note, the Air Bud wiki lists the Species of Josh's dad as "Human (presumably)"
The reason childrens shows are so babyproofed now is because of overprotective parents complaining that the kid cried
I don't remeber which author (it might have been Roald Dahl) said it but what he claimed was something along the lines that children can enjoy a darker story as long as it has a happy ending.
For me personally kids movies/series that included darker stuff didn't detire me from enjoying it. I loved series like 'animals of farthing wood' (at times it's a cartoon where the different animals work together even though they are predator and prey while at other times it shows verry realistic deaths like a pheasant getting shot by a hunter or animals not surviving when crossing a road) and 'Watership down' (a story about bunnies that as an adult is packed full of WW2 references). My favourite disney movies as a child where Atlantis, Mulan and the Lion king which all are movies that include death but ended on a bright note.
I definitely think it's important to expose children to the entire range of emotions without pushing them too far. If they're introduced while kids are young, they'll learn earlier on what these feelings are from and how to deal with them in a healthy way while in a safe environment. Emotional skills are just as important as social skills and skills in education
I agree with the main point, but I'm surprised no one's talking about that last part.
@wantedbird55srandomchannel28 I swear that wasn't there when I replied to the comment 😭
Knowing nothing about the Buddies series going into this, how on earth did they get there
They decided a dog playing basketball wasn’t cool enough and said “let’s put those golden retrievers in SPACE”
Wowie hypni
When a mommy dog and a daddy dog love each other very much...
Disney
I think by a rocket
Much like The Land Before Time and The Swan Princess, Air-Bud was one of those decent kid’s movies that did NOT need a truckload of sequels.
10:23 I absolutely love the flying swan dive power slam he makes directly on top of this lovable little doggy. My man has no time for this Disney shit. He wants that dog DEAD
Straight up. Good for him. This is for a City or State Championship. If the dog is on the field, he’s fair game.
Only thing it was missing was having the mule from earlier join the game and tackle the child as the cherry on top.
He could probably SENSE that the dog was gonna DESTROY other sports and tries to stop people from losing their jobs to the dog
@ShadowisHereandacreature he was a good man, he was trying to save the future!!!
Spooky buddies was basically the only Halloween movie I watched as a kid, and it makes sense because I was raised by a pastor lmao.
I knew nothing about Air Bud beyond "dog play basketball" so this was an absolute trip. What do you mean there's 12 movies. What do you mean the sports dog's puppies go to the moon and fight a warlock. What do you mean they killed multiple puppies through neglect.
That last one got me, I was like "oh, Disney killed 5 dogs by retconning the puppies again, surely--" No. Disney killed five real-ass dogs. What the fuck?
@naomikon_ That is HORRIFYING... I grew up watching those films.
Space buds is the only one I watched 😅
I remember seeing the first movie and then over the years seen how they tried to make this "franchise" with the sporst dog having sports dog puppies. Even as a kid I wondered why would a movie about a dog doing basketball would evolve into this thing we see Big Garf talk about.
They also got super powers
We were definitely more accepting of random criminals stealing talented animals as kids because of Team Rocket
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!🚀
Imagine owning a dog and having said dog sadly pass away and the company who made one nice respectful movie for him goes “yeah your dog is maybe d3ad but see-we need to make money” and creates garbage sequal and a spin off
Depends on if they get royalties for the name or not. THough something tells me theres no Royalties
@eightcoins4401pretty sure the owner went homeless
You can say dead. You aren't going to be taken out back and shot for saying a word children ages three and up should know.
@HouraisTeahousewho knows, zombies may take dead as a racist slur man
I remember one of of the airbud movies but I don’t think I ever watched the original. I’m genuinely DISGUSTED that not only did someone write it into the plot that they would attempt to abandon this dog on an island in the middle of a body of water, with no food, shelter or anything, but that somebody ACTUALLY APPROVED THAT!!
I have legitimately seen cases of dogs and cats who were found and rescued skin and bone, on the brink of death on little islands in bodies of water very intentionally brought and left there to die. It makes you wonder if this shit is why people think this kind of thing is an acceptable way to get rid of an animal! Horrible!
You see. Air bud was not a known thing around where I live. But I vividly remember Air Buddies was a randomly popular franchise, I watched them all the time thinking it was a spinoff of Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Imagine my surprise to finding out the "dogs go to space" movie actually was the 7th one in a saga that started with a real ass dog playing fucking basketball.
ok thank god im not the only one who thought this
LMFAOO
Oh my god I thought i was the only one im so glad im not 😅😭
Ugh don’t swear
Same thing. Air Bud was a fun fact in my mind as a kid, something I told my parents that they shrugged of ("I swear a dog can play basketball" "Sure kid"), I did not know that there were earlier movies about him. I only saw his "puppies"
When Josh left Buddy on the island it just reminds me of that one news story where a dog traveled 100km to bite its owner after they abandoned it
I love the extra santa paws movie where emotional whiplash is all over. The main characters are a recently orphaned girl who sings a song about her parents in heaven and an older orphan who's been abused and parentrifed her whole life. Santa gets dementia and nearly dies and santa paws sacrifies himself. You know, childrens christmas movie
Wait seriously??? Omg
@ShinePaw101 yeah, surprisingly heartwarming, santa paws almost got incinerated
I wouldn't call it whiplash really, that would imply it's got a lot of back and forth tonage, it's pretty much depressing throughout until the end. I kind of love it tho.
Even as a tween I thought that movie was a bummer
@reneflores5976A little girl delivers the line "Is Santa Clause going to die?" With such genuine heartbreak and conviction.
To be completely fair, Disney killed waaaaay more animals before Snow Buddies. So I was not surprised.
Just remember, "Like lemmings to the sea."
Shout outs to Perri; we don’t have the exact numbers, but dozens and dozens of squirrels died for that movie, along with some other animal.
7:11 "He has to set Air Bud free."
Bro he is a DOMESTICATED HOUSE PET. He is not a wolf, or a lion, or a bird that has to be returned to his natural habitat in the wilderness. Do these people think there are islands where wild golden retrievers roam free or something 😭
Kids are dumb, man
This whole part of this video sent me like wdym he has to "set him free" 😭😭😭😭😭
"Sorry Bobby, we had to send ol' Spot to the Golden Retriever Island where all the golden retrievers go to have fun and play with the other doggies"
@zekromfuryOld Yeller Zone
There are many ppl who'll abandon dogs out in the country. The ppl living there see it and posted about how the dogs search for their owners, they're confused, unprepared for the wild, they either become prey to wild predators or hit by cars.
Bunnies and ducks are commonly adopted around easter then dumped in a park by summer. I'm in a few rabbit groups and it's not uncommon for people to post pictures of bunnies they see in parks to determine if they're wild or domestic. Even if domestic bunnies can forage and survive, they lack the coloration to effectively cameoflage from predators. Most shops won't sell ducks/bunnies in spring for the same reason many ethical breeders won't sell puppies at Christmas.
why do i remember my brother and i being like 7 years old making fun of the "AHHHHH THE PUPPIES ARE GETTING AWAY" lmao
24:34 Omg that newspaper is dated 9/12/01 I think there was more important news than Tammy that day
That is a crazy detail 😭
What could be more important than Tammy?
@oddsmile1234 If you are serious, the 9/11 attack on the twin towers happened on 9/11/01...
@aaronmccullers384 I was not serious don't worry. I'm not young enough to not know about them.
I hope this was released BEFORE 9/11
55:35 I feel like I keep hearing some variant of this story over and over, where a popular invention or work of media created by a humble individual profits the publisher/legal owner of the material while the individual responsible for it all doesn't see a penny of it, and worse is largely left to wallow in poverty while some other prick gets to make money off of their original creation.
22:36 why do some sequels like to jump to eugenics? "This character that showed talent in the previous movie was actually just born special and better than everyone"
Once you start making it about families and how the kids are going to be as good as the parent in some skills, the answer will always be genetics in the movie world.
For example, George Lucas has to answer why Luke and Leia can use the Force. Answer: genetics. But how? Answer: midichlorians. Make little Ani the most powerful being with higher midichlorians than Yoda and shatter the notion that anyone can be a Jedi with enough spiritual, mental, and physical training and discipline. They even extend into the sequels with how Rey isn’t some nobody who can learn about the Force but granddaughter of Palpatine.
@alexanderchristopher6237 To be fair & give George Lucas credit: That was more so world-building than ruining 1977-1983 childhood dreams because Legends makes a clear difference between the Living Force(Jedi with midichlorians) & the Spiritual Force(All the supernatural stuff). If anything, it kind of symbolizes how the Jedi lost their way so bad that they only train those with higher counts & are of an age where they can't remember their families in order to remove attachments, rather than give anyone a chance to learn, which is probably the reason why the Sith were able to come back. I get people hated it, but this is like if too many children/people believe that the Titanic was fake because of both the James Cameron movie, & those crappy animated movies. But I agree with you on the sequels.
@splat-trainproductionsLegends is way better than Disney for sure
eugenics was about societal reproductive control, including forced sterilization. not a dog having a "sports gene", which is an unserious movie trope
@splat-trainproductionsTo be fair, they did try to do the whole nobody thing with The Last Jedi. But due to the toxic fan outcry, that lead to folks bullying actors like Kellie Marie Tran off the internet, Disney basically did the whole Palpatine thing as some failed attempt at damage control.
The kid that plays Josh looks like he'd be a believable fighter pilot when he gets older. They should have had him become a test pilot like his dad and then Air Bud follows him to the flight school where they find out that he is a natural pilot, and then he ends up rescuing Josh from a crash in a death-defying stunt, because there's no rules against a dog flying a plane or whatever. I'm not saying it would be a good movie, I'm saying it's such an insane concept that it would be hilarious to watch just on its face. Plus, c'mon... he's called AIR Bud. It's right there in his name!
I keep getting harsh reminders that most cute silly animal movies from my childhood treated animals horribly and did not care to even memorialize the animals who died in the making of said movies. mainly referring to Snow Buddies which was probably my favorite movie as a small child. aswell as Milo and Otis. It's fucked up how many animals were(are) treated in movies.
My horror when I learned about all the injuries and passing of kittens and dogs in Milo & Otis... Watched that one a lot as a kid with my grandma.
Homeward Bound is one where they actually avoided harming tho ♡
I refuse to believe any animals were harmed in the making of Milo and Otis. I reject reality.
i might be misremembering but i recall reading that there's no conclusive evidence that Milo and Otis had a ton of animal cruelty, there was an investigation that couldn't prove anything. most of the claims of abuse come from tabloid magazines and testimonies of potentially dubious origin. There probably was at least some animal cruelty but idk how realistic it is to say they tried to sew piglets together
@MangasColoradas941 That is true, there is no conclusive evidence. but it's really hard to believe that absolutely zero animals were harmed or died in the making of Milo and Otis, whether or not the numbers claimed are true.
Don’t swear
I'm not surprised Disney would milk a franchise to death, while in the process disrespecting a dead dog, get lazier with storylines and resort to CGI for puppies, make puppies talk, because "Aww cute", and also not support the original owner of the original Buddy, causing him to go homeless. But what's sickening to me, they killed 5 puppies and got 6 puppies sick to a disease, these were animals that they exploited for money under harsh conditions and ultimately killed some of them...
Disney has always milked everything to death and had shady dealings behind the scenes, it's about $$$, nothing else.
Another classic case of Disney ruining a cute movie with endless sequels... Well, maybe with all the CGI they use they could finally get that "No animals were harmed." in the upcoming movie.
Cgi? you mean AI right? Because god forbid effort goes into movies anymore
@Dondoki_ Nah. The Air Buddies Movies were made long before AI. CGI been used in plenty of movies to have the animals talking.
They were just doing a cynical take that Disney drops cgi to use ai instead @LucarioShirona
They're talking about the "upcoming movie" as like that new one in 2026
Honestly the jewel thieves had the least evil motivation, and junk car that falls apart just says they wanted the money and not to hurt the dog, but stealing a shiny rock is bad so they need to be clowned on
A better side plot could have been a couple of guys who were put in a hard spot for whatever reason and through whatever course of events Buddy helps them resolve their situation.
There isn't always a "bad guy" in every single scenario
A few acquaintances of mine have coined the term “air bud clause” as something to put in rules saying “just because it isn’t listed, doesn’t mean you’ll get away with disgusting stuff” because just because the rules don’t say a dog can’t play basketball, doesn’t mean it can
I'm absolutely stealing this term for when I'm DMing D&D and a player tries to argue that they can do something completely ridiculous just because the rules don't explicitly state that they can't.
(like when a problem player i don't play with anymore wanted the whole story and party to be put on hold for weeks in-game, just for an elaborate and ridiculous scheme to make more gold, and not even more gold for the party but specifically for just them, all based on the fact that he gave his character proficiency in metalworking solely for the purpose of using it to make even more gold.)
@suiway When you say "metalworking solely for the purpose of using it to make even more gold," do you mean selling what they make, forging currency, or literally making more gold somehow?
@shinymetagross1666 Melting his own gold down and making jewelry to sell. Not a bad idea in theory, and he had the appropriate skill. But he really just wanted "number magically go up right now". I would have been willing to allow it if he had been at all reasonable about how it would happen. But he wanted to skip straight over the "how, where, who do you sell it to" and argued that because he had the skill the "how, where, who do you sell to" all didnt matter at all and he should just be allowed to *instantly and automatically* double only his share of gold *every time* he got any. I explained that if he wanted to, he could do it, but it wouldnt be instant and automatic at all, he would have to rent the local smith's forge, and he would have to take time selling what he made because they were in a tiny poor village, and that he probably wouldnt get exactly double in the end. He expected the entire party to wait around at the inn for weeks/months while he did so. They were not all cool with that, especially since he was still insisting it was ONLY HIS gold he'd be increasing. (He refused to do it for anyone else and said they should have taken metalworking like him if they wanted to do it) Eventually he decided not to and said that doubling his gold was the only reason he took the skill and that it was a wasted choice now. No one liked playing with him so he's not in the party anymore.
On snow buddies... I've been to Nome to watch the Iditarod finish. Those sled dogs are GROWN and LEAN. Genuinely, dog sledding is such a fantastic sport. It's a display of incredible prowess and trust between the musher and their dogs---in a big race like the Iditarod, there are required checkpoints where injured, tired, or sick dogs are dropped off and flown straight to the finish line so they can be cared for by volunteers until their musher is done. Competitors get disqualified if they miss these checkpoints or drop too many dogs, so they have to treat them well and the dogs never have to carry too much. They arrive at the finish line OVERJOYED. It's just so awesome and I actually despise that it's having its legacy sullied by Disney's carelessness.
Me: He will never be ballin!
Air Bud:
Me: *spits out cereal*
God damn it. I didn't laugh at the first two fart jokes from Air Buddies but for some reason the space one fuckin got me. Why?!
I remember as a kid watching all the buddies movies (except super buddies) and none of the Air Bud movies, just because of what age I was when the movies came out
SAME
Same vro
For me it was the opposite, and stopped after the second one.
Same, I only knew Buddies, I never knew about AirBud until this video
Omg sameee
I had no idea air bud was a real dog, I came into this thinking that you were going to be talking about something along the lines of the first dog in the airbud movie saga had died and they just continued with different dogs. Which I ASSUME (idk for sure cuz no one watched those movies) that they swaped out puppies in different movies but that was simply because puppies don’t stay puppies forever
That’s really sad that when you hear “air bud” you dont think of the cool real dog and instead we think of the trash talking puppy movies
21:21 Imagine being the Backup Goalkeeper on the US Women's National Team. You have trained your whole life for this, are part of legitimizing the sport of soccer as belonging to Women too.
Suddenly your opportunity comes, the starter is Injured, you need to make a save in the penalty shootout. This is your moment to be the hero for your country.
And the coach says "nah, we're putting the dog in"
The dog not even a girl
13:52 that's a mule
glad im not the only one who thought this LMAO
its donkey!!!
33:05 I say it’s obvious buddy got divorced and lost custody of his kids so he married someone new and had new kids
I always treated the Air Bud Quintology as being its own separate thing from the “Buddies” movie.
So we have three universes: The 5-Bud movies, the Buddies, and now, the “META” reboot.*
There was another rumor it would take place in the OG universe, and that the kid we would follow would be Josh’s kid….
And possible spoilers…
Josh is now dead.
Ok so I was fully aware that the Air Bud franchise had continued on for a disturbingly long time and lost any sense of meaning, but holy hell, I had no idea it had gotten THIS bad. Nor was I aware of the dogs that died! Air Bud holds a special place in my heart as a piece of my childhood, but thank god I didn't love it enough to invest in it.
Edit- 56:15 No... NO! They're REBOOTING it? Who is this for?! NO! Let it die!
You can blame the curse of Choopo.
He has revived Liek 3 movies now 😭
Same! I loved the original Air-Bud movie as a kid, never cared for the sequels, but HOLY HELL was the story about the real Buddy depressing!
@JebKermana Who or what is Choopo?
@Geeky92yt that does deep dives on random franchises
@JebKermana Wait, what are all the ones he's inadvertently revived? I love his videos but I genuinely don't know 😅
11:30 - really? wet bandits and not team rocket? their whole thing is kidnapping talented anim -- i mean pokemon
Yeah honestly that’s fair loll
@biggarffan37 I'd say a combination of both.
@splat-trainproductions yeah also team rocket isn’t actually evil, they’re just doing their job lololol
Fun fact, the world's greatest historians have unanimously agreed that never in history has the phrase "do it dawg" followed by intense moaning ever been muttered outside of that scene. This is facts and you can't disagree with facts.
This is the fourth in depth lore analysis of air bud I have seen
bepis dog
What a beautiful world we live in.
I noticed the same thing sifhshd idk how I keep running into them
The algo thoughted you’d like this here go
The fourth?!
I don’t think there’s any other movie franchise you can say starts with a movie involving sports and ends with a movie involving Aliens and super power rings
44:10 AYO DID THAT DOG JUST C-WALK?!!?
yuh 😆
I honestly wasn't anticipating seeing a DOG BEING FOOTBALL TACKLED today.
Edit: So basically the Air Bud movies devolved into that "The same five songs" meme.
I just realized that the actor of the referee in the first movie (and apparently 2 and 3) plays the scientist harvesting the sports gene in the fourth movie. Dude had one hell of a character arc.
I mean to be fair he saw a dog do amazing at sports and even saw him go on to the world championship type of stuff so of course he gotta find out how to give it to everyone so y'know. THEIR JOB WONT BE TAKEN BY A DOG-
A lot of kids movies/shows in the 90's always had heavy topics (A Little Princess, Matilda, Indian in the Cupboard). Compared to a "kids movie" nowadays. I kinda miss these movies with serious grounded topics that end in some sort of real life resolution that you could pull a lesson from. I can't pull lessons from underhand sex jokes and fart jokes. That's not the type of stuff I want my kid to think about after the movie is over.
Also, Hi Bessie!! :3
I made this comment at the 8:32 mark. I didn't really watch Air Bud growing up, so I cannot account for the rest of these movies as being decent and learning lessons from.
The Little Princess was way better than A Little Princess. Father thought killed in war, making daughter a pauper orphan who now has to work at the fancy boarding school she was attending the day before. Mistreated by her former classmates, she retreats into a fantasy world, but also searches for her father, refusing to believe he's really dead.
@lauranolastnamegiven3385 Yeah, that's the movie I was trying to mention. Forgot the name.
Weird but the fact that in the quick google search about dogs eating pudding you put "no ai" it made me like this channel even more lol, ai is so everywhere its not that other people are trying to stop it
56:09 hi Bessie :3
the buddies series fills my soul with sorrow, those poor dogs not getting a single cent in payment
The first Air Bud movie is such a weird memory for me. I was the "I love anything and everything animal-related" kid and this movie came out only a few years after I was born, so I remember that I really enjoyed the movie and it was kind of a staple of my childhood along with the first handful of sequels. But at the same time I was definitely too young to really grasp much of the first one beyond "doggie plays basketball!" I definitely picked up on the vibes though. There was kind of a grounded melancholy, I guess, to it that I vividly remember being aware of but just never registered. The power of dog.
Also holy shit I never realized the newspaper thing.
The buddies movies were a staple in my house as a kid. Every Halloween and every Christmas
The existence of a sports gene is diabolical. And they just gloss over it? The implication that there are rare genes in the entire animal kingdom that makes them predisposed to be talented in any random field is crazy. Like is there a seamstress cheetah out there in the wild? Is there a gamer fish wasting its talents away, cursed to never touch a controller since it can only survive in water? Insane work
Got an ad at 35:20… perfectly timed to cut the mom off exactly halfway through the nanny’s last name 💀
Hi Bessie :3
WAIT THERES MORE THAN ONE AIRBUD MOVIE??? I LOWKEY THOUGHT THEY ONLY MADE ONE THEN JUST MOVED ON TO AIRBUDDIES 😭😭😭😭
I loved Snow Buddies as a child. I even had a plush of Shasta the husky. But now I just can't look at the film the same way ever again.
Disney capitalizing a dead but talented dog is the same equivalent of 'selling your soul to the devil (or Mammon of the Greed ring) for one billion sequels with one billion dogs impersonating a dead dog (either abused and neglected for box offices) in exchange for the vengeful ghost of said dog to chase you for the rest of your afterlife (you are the ball and you are gonna get dunked on).'
3:35 did these people think kids were incapable of handling more mature topics?
sadly a lot of parents think that
Then they wonder why their kids are incapable of regulating their emotions in a heathly way
42:55 Ok but that robot arm one got me. I genuinely laughed pretty hard. The build up and the fact that they didn't say the line making you think it wasn't going to happen really made it better
I somehow learned "Snow Buddies" was bad for some reason (but didn't know why).
But actually knowing 5 fictional puppies died made me feel bad about "Spooky Buddies".
I actually loved the space buddies as a kid, since you know, puppies
loved this video. the cgi is horrifying and its absolutely disgusting that theyre going to make a reboot when the person whose dog theyre profiting off of is actively suffering.
i'd love to see more content like this!!!! very fun watch, always love longer videos. crossing my fingers that it does well ❤️
1:57 this background music is from xenoblade chronicles 3, first mobius boss fight. 🤓
Did not realize as a kid how uncanny the CGI in the Buddies movies got.
I remember watching some of the santa buddies movies on tv when i was younger (i think we had one as a dvd as well), but honestly i clicked because the cat-eyed dog in the thumbnail was causing me deja vu. And then you explained the plot of spooky buddies and treasure buddies and I never had such a clear memory ever hit me so fast.
Hearing about the things that went on behind the set was absolutely heartbreaking. Sheds some entirely new light onto those memories.
Not to be a downer, but i wish i could send this to my dad. He was a dog trainer, and the first dog in my life was a sweet golden retriever. This was a really insightful video, I can't remember the last time i thought of this old ass franchise. I hope it does great Garf, this vid kinda made my day.
Creating a villain in the original movie that becomes a real life analogue for the studios is wild.
I thought this was a PNG tuber. Until I saw him move and about had a heart attack.
Oh wow. learning that the pups died during the filming of air buds, really hits hard. I adored the movie as a kid. But frankly, I wouldn't put it past our mouse overlord to go that far.
My little sisters watched Treasure Buddies and the holiday ones so many times that I have a visceral unpleasant reaction from even reading the names lol
The first Air-Bud is a cinematic masterpiece, it sparked my love for Golden Retrievers and dogs in general, it’s such a underrated gem.
"Maybe 12 movies was a little ambitious for my first non-video game video"
I don't know, I felt like you covered everything in detail. I really love your commitment to variety. You struck gold with Scribblenauts, and it's hard to convince people who showed up for one thing to stay for other things. But it worked on me! You seem to be putting a TON of effort into making these videos the most high-quality stuff you can. The Kung Fu Panda video blew up too, and definitely in no small part to your incredible grabber at the very start. The Mr. Ping moveset, followed by "in this game.... that's a B tier fighter" was nuts.
So, after watching Scribblenauts, Kung Fu Panda, Mario Party (with some of my favorite guest stars), and herobrine minecraft, you KNOW I was ready to tune into some Air Bud.
omg this is the kung fu panda fighting game guy?? i got recommended all the shorts about that a whiiiile ago
I remember on one of the kfp movie disks that there was a little game where Poe shuffles 3 cups or bowls (I can’t remember) and you have to pick the one with a dumpling inside.
As someone who grew up watching air buddies and other talking dog films (pupstars), i do admit they hold a special place in my heart. that doesnt mean they don't suck, but i personally enjoyed them once upon a time. But 'the search for santa paws' on the other hand, is one of my favorite movies in this genre. Yes, it basically is just the movie Annie but with christmas BUT I LOVE IT SO MUCH!! Watch it.
Okay. Oh my god. I have such a bizarre relationship with this series that I mostly forgot I had until I watched this video. When I was a month away from turning 8 years old, my dad died. The absolute most distinct memory I have immediately following that experience, I watched Snow Buddies, obsessively, in my grandma's basement. And when I say immediately, I mean my grandma was still actively going through my dad's stuff and interrupted my marathon to gift me something she found in it for me. I watched it over and over again non-stop, from beginning to credits, back to back to back. I have no idea as to why in the slightest. I never watched the original Air Bud nor did I know the plot until now, and after those 2-3 days, I never watched Snow Buddies ever again. I also watched Spooky Buddies a few times, but not NEARLY as much. Your guess is as good as mine.
Whenever im feeling depressed i rewatch old shows or serieses that i liked growing up, almost to the point of obsession. There was a time growing up when i was so scared to die that i would think about death day and night and i felt that if i told anyone they would become scared too. But adventuretime was coming out on netflix at that time and i was able to obsessively watch those episodes to get my mind away from inevitability. Then it changed my perspective on death and made me hopeful. Theres something about GOOD tv that brings us out of the deathloop
I have a similar experience with another unrelated movie, while getting out of a drug addiction. Don Hertzfeldt's "it's such a beautiful day." I must've watched it like 20 or 30 times, and I've never watched it again since then. It's probably because it's just kinda comfortable when you're in some kinda hazy overwhelmed headspace to have something you like and to just know what's going to happen for the next hour or so.
HOLY SHTIS THAT BEASTIEBALL MUSIC BECAUSE THE VIDEOS ABOUT ANIMALS PLAYING SPORTS HOLY SHIT
40:19 The director put himself in the movie
30:00 I got whiplash dude 😭
im not gonna lie out of this entire franchise the only one i've seen is air buddies somehow and i loved it as a kid, but i had no idea about any of the other movies' plots and i did start tearing up over the air bud recap 😭 maybe its good i never watched it
I loved Super Buddies RELIGIOUSLY as a kid and the fact that Mudbud was so irrelevant I don't remember what his power was is kinda funny
thats because the only puppies who really mattered in the entire franchise was B-Dawg (how do you do fellow kids?), Rosebud (the one girl for the little girls [and probably got shipped with Shashta in the early online community days]), and Butterball (fart joke funny)
Buddha and Mudbud were always just, there
@woobgamer5210 also known as the gangster one, the girl one, and the fat one
also it's budderball (like buddy but budder) very innovative I know
I’m surprised nothing in the Space Buddies movie stuck with you because as a kid I was genuinely moved by Spudnick and Sasha (the space dog and boy duo that get separated when he’s sent to space) and the absolute lunatic villian isolated space man that attempts to keep all the dogs there with him.
As a kid I rationalized the humans changing as different dogs, same name and talent like a prized breeding line. and every buddies litter is just lazily named same as the last.
What’s also funny is that after Buddies there’s also another talking dog series after they decided the Buddies got milked to death, and so the Air Bud rabbit hole goes deeper with a separate series of 4 movies: Pup Star.
Seeing that teir list, if you’re gonna cover Santa Paws at some point, you might as well cover Pup Star as well. Also yes. It’s directed by Robert Vince.
Holy hell i totally forgot abt Pup Star 😭 I watched the first 2 movies so many times when I was little
30:19 OWWW MY HEART-
Listen as a kid with weird taste i really loved space buddies, spooky buddies, and the first santa paws. Literally never saw or heard about Air Bud.
i love the miku cursor whenever it appeared
I can confirm that I saw this video in my recommendations/home page, for that bit about the algorithm.
Rest in Peace to Kevin DiCicco, who passed away this week, still battling homelessness and respiratory failure 🕊
I loved Air Buddies and Snow Buddies as a kid in the early 2000s but didn't know anything about the behind the scenes and Buddy and Kevin's stories, it's actually insane
I remember really liking Snow buddies as a kid, like obvi as an adult knowing what they did to make it the reputation is tarnished, but silver lining that movie being so horrible probably saved more dogs than it harmed cause if it wasn't as bed Disney wouldn't have put the people behind these movies on a tighter leash
You want real trauma when you look back on a childhood favorite movie, well I loved Milo and Otis as a kid
@flareonlover139 Only saw that when I was already like 15, don't remember anything about it besides that the ending was kinda depressing
Haha, leash
@flareonlover139 and there’s no proof anything happened with Milo and Otis
@BlueBraviaryGirl But is there proof that something didn't happen?
Okay, but when the Spikes Back movie came out, our vice principal LOVED it because he loved Volleyball and made the whole school watch it as the end of the year movie.
Thank you for using music from my animal sports anime volleyball game for the segment where air bud plays volleyball….. it warmed my heart to see them paired together