Things I love here: the little flashes of Brennan almost, but not quite, breaking character, and Emily giggling like a kid who knows she’s in trouble but isn’t taking it seriously.
Tbh I thought the whole speech was funny up until that line which was uhhhhh heartbreaking, but like, still extremely solid character development for Sid and worldbuilding
"Is that a good thing?" "WHO LEFT THIS ON!?" Brennan's absolutely incredible, my god. This might be my favorite season of D20 yet, Murph's "Sorry, I ripped ass" bit from episode 2 made me laugh so hard it hurt
Man, just you wait for the newest episode... I had to pause so often during the casino scene because I was simultaneously sobbing, and laughing so hard that I couldn't breath. This season is truly just top tier
Emily was the one who said "Fuck Erotica Ann!" not really knowing what would happen next in the flashback, and Brennan teed off on it expertly. Brennan being a master of improv is so important to his genius as a DM
Being a socialist with enough theory under their belt to understand how capital works helps, too. Literally any socialist that's read enough Marx -- and a bare minimum level of improv skills -- could do pretty much the same skit; believe me, I've seen it before in person, and it's invariably more hilarious then. Brennan's ability to weave that into a narrative that provides depth and character development, right smack dab at the beginning of a campaign so as to set the mood appropriately, however, is the indicator of his real, exemplary skills, imo. He doesn't just understand his theory, he understands the *myriad influences capital has on the lives of those subjugated to it's hierarchical domination,* and he can weave that domination and inequity into it's own narrative hydra without succumbing to mainstream propaganda *ever.* His work is *unflinchingly* anti-capitalist, and frankly some of the *singlemost effective* direct action and agitprop for class consciousness that I have *ever seen.* If I ascribed to great man thinking, I'd be hard pressed not to laud Brennan as an institution of agitprop himself.
@@RosscoAW "I'm a libertarian! I believe in freedom, I believe I should be free to burn houses and eat people and makes money and that you all should be free to run away! This-is a cultured-political-philosophy!" --First D20 series villain
I dunno if this counts as Toxic... this seems more like a ceo who had an entire department shit the bed so hard that the company is about to be sued by Apple and Google at the same time.
@@jonsimpson6240 - yeah, this isn't remotely toxic. He's pissed as hell, but he's still explaining the rationale to WHY what they did was a bad idea. It's possible he's toxic on other points or as a person, but this is demonstrably not one of those cases.
Personally the "Swiss Army Wife" android wasn't a bad idea. A couple errors in execution though. 1. the all in one is good for budget buyers like small business owners/ small scale independent ship captains/ etc.. 2. make the cannon arm an add-on attachment not permeant. BOOM sold!!!
To be fair though, Max was right. Marketing totally shit the bed on this one. R&D delivered a solid product that - like you said - would've found a solid market with small businesses and entrepreneurs on a medium to low budget, but it was marketed to high end customers.
That's sort of the Capitalist Dystopian reality of the Starstruck world, corporations don't give a fuck about the everyman, they want people to buy the highest price, highest quality product for each task, not an affordable alternative that can get by perfectly fine for the average Joe's daily life.
@@K17U Which, one, don't want the functionality, and two, cannibalizes your sales of three specialty projects with one more versatile one that does none of the jobs to the standard expected. And the roller skates don't help.
It's funny because I'm not sure how many CEOs he's actually run into, given that Brennan is a staunch anti-capitalist. Obviously there's Sam, but he was more upper middle management until the parent company wussed out and he had to shoulder the burden of CEO-ing a company he could barely afford.
Fun fact: the company name is actually spelled Handy Andi. Handy Andy with a 'y' is the spelling of the name Brennan gave his Naddpod guest character's autonomous skeletal hand companion, as a reference to the android company from his mom's sci-fi universe. This also means that the name of Handy Annie, Emily's character Sundry Sidney's autonomous robot hand and reference to the hand companion from Naddpod, is a dense self-intersecting reference spiral that ABSOLUTELY freaks my bean.
@@nogoodcontentallowed8509 I think the spelling might vary in certain places but the Handy Andi spelling is the one that I think is canonical. I think "Andi" is spelled funny bc it's supposed to be short for 'Android' while "Handy" is just the normal Amercadian(English) adjective being used to describe said androids.
"I tried to engage the pleasure droid protocol, but as I became caressed by the assault cannon, I found myself rapidly leaving my state of arousal." I think that one might just be user error, because there is NOTHING hotter than the knowledge that my android companion can reduce assailants to a thin meat paste by sheer volume of fire _AND_ satisfy my primal urges simultaneously.
Agreed. The people who don't like Sundry Sidney are, simply put, weak bitches. There is nothing hotter than a fuck bit that could vaporize an assailant, or literally threaten you with a good time
He brings up a really good counter to the argument 'robots will replace us' with the line about not wanting a robot to do what people can do because we already have people for that.
@@brook_angel I'd argue that making something that makes art is itself a form of art. Besides, if I enjoy reading, it doesn't matter how well robots can read, I'm still going to read.
@@DanKaschel oh yea well. Tell that to the writers and artists who are in the process of loosing their jobs, homes and livelihoods. Just because you can make art as a hobby doesn't mean that we should replace creatives in the workplace :|
It was nice of Murph to give Zach a break and play the himbo for once. (There have been exceptions, like Lapin from Crown of Candy, but it feels like Zach is usually the one playing the himbo when the Intrepid Heroes play on D20)
I'm honestly just glad that Zach is finally playing an intelligent character. I absolutely love his collection of himbos, but oh boy is it gonna be interesting to see him playing the polar opposite
@@zeeperry1576 Thats diners though. they are the exception what i want out of a diner is to be able to get a burger/omelet/spaghetti at 3am. everywhere else needs to specialize
Well, if we're saying swiss army knife, yeah, those tend to be shit. But you can try prying my Leatherman out of my cold, dead hands. People LOVE a multi-tool.
@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong "Why carry a whole toolbox around to do a perfect job, when you can carry only one tool and still kinda get shit done? Leatherman."
Multi tools are great for doing basic shit when you don’t have anything if I need to screw or nail something in or remove a splinter I’m not using a multi tool I’m grabbing a hammer a screwdriver and a proper pair of tweezers
"as I became caressed by the assault rifle" really makes you think about the relationship between Sidney and Barry, honestly from the player reactions I think maybe Emily and Murph hadn't thought about that either?
@@breannaadams4058 Hmm? Yeah i know and I think it's super fun that they're flirting in game from the jump I just wonder if they had really thought about the machine gun as explicitly as Brennan described it.
@@undeadgoat I mean Emily and Murph's characters don't actually fall in love in like...any of the main d20 campaigns? Not that I don't think their characters ever would but when a guy like Barry says "I love you" it's more than likely platonic.
@@camillecolburn9492 Well there's a first for everything, I was like "aww I think this is the first time I've seen Emily horny for her husband's PC, normally she goes for female NPCs" "aww shit is this the first time I've seen a Murph PC flirt with another player character?????" "Ok droids and roids OTP"
Love that we see Emily writing in her book right after that, and later she mentions (trying to avoid spoilers) that the "I'm aspirational" bit was the first thing she noted for her character. I swear, Brennan nails the GMing so well, but the players also do such a stellar job of bouncing off of the ideas they all create together in unique and constructive ways. It's one of the things I love about watching Dimension 20
I think the CEO one here is the ultimate CEO video. Whereas most of the humor of the skits rely on us empathize with the CEO, as a representation of audience frustration, this shows that exact scenario but with an actual CEO, and the person we empathize with is the one who made the "bad" decision, and the result of that decision. The cruel capitalist who didn't see humans, and only sees objects is the antagonist in this sketch, and the punchline is Sundry Sidney blowing said CEO the fuck up.
I think given the multiple interpretations of "fuck", I think this line might count simultaneously as both libel and as an endorsement. So it's double plus ungood.
I don't usually watch full, main cast campaigns on D20, but every clip I've seen from Starstruck (plus the quaint backstory with Brennan's mom), makes me think this might be worth making an exception.
Swiss army knives (and multi-tools in general) are super useful when you have size/weight restrictions, but if I have to choose between a screwdriver and a Leatherman that has a screwdriver bit, I'm going to pick the screwdriver over the Leatherman. Brennan is a blessing and I click on any video that includes him.
It genuinely blows my mind, watching him work like this. Even the small thing of playing off the improvised line ("'Fuck Erotica Anne???' That made it in???") Just shows both how *willing* & *well* he can roll with the punches.
Yup I came here to say this. Of course you want that if you value people as complete beings. That line encapsulates exactly why the CEO is such a toxic ass. He doesn't just see the androids as disposable means to an end, he sees people that way too. I bet an amazing poet with a great garden at home makes the best fucking cup of coffee too. Sounds like a super nurturing person who takes care to do things well.
Hey! A swiss army knife is good **because** of the seemingly useless shit it has! Sure, you don't THINK you would need one of the four screwdrivers or bottle openers, but they are so specific that you would **never** buy them separately! And when you come across a situation where you need one you will thank your lucky fucking stars that you had it!! ...That said, being protected or assisted by a functional sex toy is a bit awkward, not gonna lie
i mean... is it? just swap out sci-fi for fantasy here. A succubus familiar that not only gives physical and emotional companionship, but will also organize your household affairs, do your taxes, and royally fuck up any unbidden trespasser into your wizard tower sounds pretty fucking sweet a deal. hell, just looking at real life: Yamato Nadeshiko. the classical epitome of japanese femininity. attentive, caring, competent, learned, available, and (most importantly) entirely fucking capable of busting out a naginata, putting on battle armor, and personally going to tell her father in law's army to not step one inch closer to your castle if they don't want all 9 months of her heavily pregnant fury descended on their bitch asses (extra points if anyone knows the historical reference). clearly, this was just a marketing SNAFU
@@badflamer No... Like... Yes, I agree that it is cool for **people** to be able to do many things. I wouldn't call a woman with a sex drive as "built to have sex" (firstly because it's rude, secondly because it's shitty) and a succubus is still a demon with agency, choice and freedom to do what they please. Obviously (as the engineer that gets fired explains) Sundry Sidney was built with some humanism in mind "Isn't that what we all want? To be good at everything?" but just from a product stand point, and what she is programmed (and thus, allowed) to do, I would see this as just awkward design. I see it a bit as having a sword whose handle is a vibrator or a gun that was also a fleshlight. I don't think I would feel amazing using that. All the other stuff at once is great! Even the roller skates! It's just that when it is a robot built by humans, the "and also, you can have sex with it!" gives me really male-gaze-y, uncomfortable vibes. It's kinda like when a female superhero gets a costume that is just fetish gear but has a cool concept; I'm like "yes, go off, love what this means and represents... Why the horny part, though?"
You just need good marketing. Make it your niche. Sure, you could go to _anyone_ for a cup of coffee, but does your coffee cup have a _personalized poem_ written on it!?
I feel like I've never gotten the full context for the campaign/world to explain what's happening here, but I kind of don't want to. It's wild to just see him go off like this and I love it
Someone should have suggested forming an LLC under the main companies umbrella, sell the copyright to the LLC, and have them sell the Swiss army knife Android as the economy option, and it doesn't even have the main company's branding anywhere on it. Basically just change the marketing campaign, get rid of the company logo, rename it and ship it. Send it to every Dollar General out there
Lex Luthor would disagree. His personal assistant was also a master assassin. Mercy I think her name was. Atleast in the Animated Adventures of Superman
Things I love here: the little flashes of Brennan almost, but not quite, breaking character, and Emily giggling like a kid who knows she’s in trouble but isn’t taking it seriously.
Look... I want you to know that I wanted to thumb's up this... but I didn't want to be the one to move it from "666".
@@christopherking6496 too bad
@@mariesyvian8187 excellent! Now I can thumbs up!
It’s him looking at everyone but Emily because he knows he’ll break, would gladly watch everyone in dimension 20 in a feature length comedy
I'm convinced that IS his real persona 🤣
"We're not selling people, we're selling androids" combines worldbuilding, character development for the player and comedy gold in one short sentence.
That line really ties the whole thing together.
Tbh I thought the whole speech was funny up until that line which was uhhhhh heartbreaking, but like, still extremely solid character development for Sid and worldbuilding
"Can anyone tell me why THIS- was _never going to work??"_
Well, clearly because you're marketing to COWARDS.
This is a top tier comment
assualtrons got people acting up for a reason.
somehow Emily just absolutely nailed the uncanny look of a humanoid android trying to comprehend this exact situation
"A plastered smile and eyes desperate for approval" pretty much sums it up.
++
"Is that a good thing?"
"WHO LEFT THIS ON!?"
Brennan's absolutely incredible, my god. This might be my favorite season of D20 yet, Murph's "Sorry, I ripped ass" bit from episode 2 made me laugh so hard it hurt
Man, just you wait for the newest episode... I had to pause so often during the casino scene because I was simultaneously sobbing, and laughing so hard that I couldn't breath. This season is truly just top tier
@@livvygoogle8468 That entire fight where they were escaping from everyone while being covered in hot pleasure putty was fucking amazing
@@logicaloverdrive8197 This whole season has just been so funny and incredible- so sad we’re almost at the end😭
"The only thing that could take us down was a trip to the zoo."
Emily was the one who said "Fuck Erotica Ann!" not really knowing what would happen next in the flashback, and Brennan teed off on it expertly. Brennan being a master of improv is so important to his genius as a DM
from this i can assume a vast majority of the ceo sketches are improvised, i am not surprised
The outtakes for the hardware store ceo is like 13 minutes of straight improv it's amazing "I wish you listened to less of the Joe rogan show"
@@Rylee_G please. Where can I find these outtakes
@@IgnatRemizov dropout!:)
@@Rylee_G I'm not ashamed to say I watched the entire huge video of Hardware Store Outtakes. That shit had me rolling.
The Oreo one is even better
Turns out, doing skit comedy for over a decade and just having somewhat of a giga-brain makes it easier to do things off the cuff.
Who woulda thought
Being a socialist with enough theory under their belt to understand how capital works helps, too. Literally any socialist that's read enough Marx -- and a bare minimum level of improv skills -- could do pretty much the same skit; believe me, I've seen it before in person, and it's invariably more hilarious then. Brennan's ability to weave that into a narrative that provides depth and character development, right smack dab at the beginning of a campaign so as to set the mood appropriately, however, is the indicator of his real, exemplary skills, imo. He doesn't just understand his theory, he understands the *myriad influences capital has on the lives of those subjugated to it's hierarchical domination,* and he can weave that domination and inequity into it's own narrative hydra without succumbing to mainstream propaganda *ever.* His work is *unflinchingly* anti-capitalist, and frankly some of the *singlemost effective* direct action and agitprop for class consciousness that I have *ever seen.* If I ascribed to great man thinking, I'd be hard pressed not to laud Brennan as an institution of agitprop himself.
@@RosscoAW "I'm a libertarian! I believe in freedom, I believe I should be free to burn houses and eat people and makes money and that you all should be free to run away! This-is a cultured-political-philosophy!" --First D20 series villain
I was in an improv club in highschool and let me tell ya that goes a long way for me when I DM.
@@RosscoAWit ain't that deep bro
Brenan was pulling off the toxic CEO so well, when he turned into the soft-spoken guy I kinda shook me, I thought someone else was talking
Well it sort of was someone else talking
I dunno if this counts as Toxic... this seems more like a ceo who had an entire department shit the bed so hard that the company is about to be sued by Apple and Google at the same time.
A lot of his college humor videos are him being a CEO which is why everyone was laughing.
@@jonsimpson6240 - yeah, this isn't remotely toxic. He's pissed as hell, but he's still explaining the rationale to WHY what they did was a bad idea. It's possible he's toxic on other points or as a person, but this is demonstrably not one of those cases.
@@GreyAcumen agreed. This is righteous fury if anything.
Personally the "Swiss Army Wife" android wasn't a bad idea. A couple errors in execution though. 1. the all in one is good for budget buyers like small business owners/ small scale independent ship captains/ etc.. 2. make the cannon arm an add-on attachment not permeant. BOOM sold!!!
To be fair though, Max was right. Marketing totally shit the bed on this one. R&D delivered a solid product that - like you said - would've found a solid market with small businesses and entrepreneurs on a medium to low budget, but it was marketed to high end customers.
@@K17U like trying to sell a sensible phone to someone who can afford an iPhone 12 pro, an iPad air and a mac desktop
Or make it transform like Lex Luthers cyborg bodygurad/assitant/driver Mercy's does
That's sort of the Capitalist Dystopian reality of the Starstruck world, corporations don't give a fuck about the everyman, they want people to buy the highest price, highest quality product for each task, not an affordable alternative that can get by perfectly fine for the average Joe's daily life.
@@K17U Which, one, don't want the functionality, and two, cannibalizes your sales of three specialty projects with one more versatile one that does none of the jobs to the standard expected. And the roller skates don't help.
He truly just improved his own scene while everyone watched and I loved everything about it
Sign of a great GM: Three characters have a conversation that engrosses the entire table and none of them are players.
Brennan plays CEO's so goddamn well i love it
It's funny because I'm not sure how many CEOs he's actually run into, given that Brennan is a staunch anti-capitalist. Obviously there's Sam, but he was more upper middle management until the parent company wussed out and he had to shoulder the burden of CEO-ing a company he could barely afford.
He had a lot of hospitality jobs RIGHT ON Wall Street, so yes, Brennan Lee Mulligan has met many iterations of this guy.
He's played a bunch of CEOs for a CollegeHumor as well. He's so good at what he does
When the whole damn crew is so chaotic that Emily doesn't stand out as being super extra chaotic you know you're in for a trip.
such a good season
AS IF BEING PLEASURED BY AN ASSAULT CANNON WOULD TURN ANYONE AWAY!
Proof positive they were marketing to the WRONG PEOPLE! Sundry Sidney would have sold out in DAYS at most if they knew who to actually market to. Lmao
should have added a suction function to the assault cannon
@@logicaloverdrive8197that would have been a real loadout blow out
Fun fact: the company name is actually spelled Handy Andi. Handy Andy with a 'y' is the spelling of the name Brennan gave his Naddpod guest character's autonomous skeletal hand companion, as a reference to the android company from his mom's sci-fi universe.
This also means that the name of Handy Annie, Emily's character Sundry Sidney's autonomous robot hand and reference to the hand companion from Naddpod, is a dense self-intersecting reference spiral that ABSOLUTELY freaks my bean.
Thank you!!! I knew I heard Brennans voice say "Handy Andy" before and couldnt for the life of me remember where
wait, i thought it was handi andy?
@@nogoodcontentallowed8509 I think the spelling might vary in certain places but the Handy Andi spelling is the one that I think is canonical. I think "Andi" is spelled funny bc it's supposed to be short for 'Android' while "Handy" is just the normal Amercadian(English) adjective being used to describe said androids.
Thus why she says "In reference to a now many ages lost and forgotten podcast"
@@abj6920 Yes, I clocked that reference, too. :D
I love this developed into Sydney's character growth 'I wasn't made to do everything, I was made to do anything'.
I love the fact that the nameless person who got fired became an important person.
Auma Liu!!!! Mommy!!
"I tried to engage the pleasure droid protocol, but as I became caressed by the assault cannon, I found myself rapidly leaving my state of arousal." I think that one might just be user error, because there is NOTHING hotter than the knowledge that my android companion can reduce assailants to a thin meat paste by sheer volume of fire _AND_ satisfy my primal urges simultaneously.
Agreed. The people who don't like Sundry Sidney are, simply put, weak bitches.
There is nothing hotter than a fuck bit that could vaporize an assailant, or literally threaten you with a good time
That last line sent me. XD The rage he delivered with "YOU WANT HIM TO MAKE THE BEST FUCKING CUP OF COFFEE!!!" was so on-point LMAO
He brings up a really good counter to the argument 'robots will replace us' with the line about not wanting a robot to do what people can do because we already have people for that.
Sort of. People *can* do everything but they certainly don't *want* to do everything.
But for some reason people are obsessed to make robots do the stuff we actually want to do. Like art.
@@brook_angel I'd argue that making something that makes art is itself a form of art.
Besides, if I enjoy reading, it doesn't matter how well robots can read, I'm still going to read.
@@DanKaschel oh yea well. Tell that to the writers and artists who are in the process of loosing their jobs, homes and livelihoods.
Just because you can make art as a hobby doesn't mean that we should replace creatives in the workplace :|
@@brook_angel should we also have kept all the horse & buggy drivers?
So glad to see the next installment of Brennan being a CEO.
Man, Brennan turns the entire DnD show into a show whose only purpose is for us to understand why he should be more often the CEO.
If the episode was anything to go by this might be my favorite season of Dimension 20. Also I think I'm in love with Barry.
"Barry! Barrys! Barry! Barrys!"
everyone is in love with Barry
It was nice of Murph to give Zach a break and play the himbo for once. (There have been exceptions, like Lapin from Crown of Candy, but it feels like Zach is usually the one playing the himbo when the Intrepid Heroes play on D20)
I'm honestly just glad that Zach is finally playing an intelligent character. I absolutely love his collection of himbos, but oh boy is it gonna be interesting to see him playing the polar opposite
@@Hey-Its-Dingo lol u beat me to it
Exactly why I prefer restaurants that specialize instead of offering every type of food out there
I'm the exact opposite. If a diner menu isn't at least 30 pages long I just walk tf out
@@zeeperry1576 Thats diners though. they are the exception what i want out of a diner is to be able to get a burger/omelet/spaghetti at 3am. everywhere else needs to specialize
@@zeeperry1576ah yes I too enjoy reading a short novel of food I will likely never try before I find something to eat
Brennan's "Skits of increasingly unhinged CEOs" bleeding into d20 gives me life
Well, if we're saying swiss army knife, yeah, those tend to be shit. But you can try prying my Leatherman out of my cold, dead hands. People LOVE a multi-tool.
You're GODDAMN RIGHT.
"Why do one job well when you can do ten jobs basically okay? Leatherman."
@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong "Why carry a whole toolbox around to do a perfect job, when you can carry only one tool and still kinda get shit done? Leatherman."
Multi tools are great for doing basic shit when you don’t have anything if I need to screw or nail something in or remove a splinter I’m not using a multi tool I’m grabbing a hammer a screwdriver and a proper pair of tweezers
"as I became caressed by the assault rifle" really makes you think about the relationship between Sidney and Barry, honestly from the player reactions I think maybe Emily and Murph hadn't thought about that either?
I mean, they're IRL married so I imagine they can't be too bothered
@@breannaadams4058 Hmm? Yeah i know and I think it's super fun that they're flirting in game from the jump I just wonder if they had really thought about the machine gun as explicitly as Brennan described it.
@@undeadgoat I mean Emily and Murph's characters don't actually fall in love in like...any of the main d20 campaigns? Not that I don't think their characters ever would but when a guy like Barry says "I love you" it's more than likely platonic.
Big Barry Syx seems like the kind of guy who would _go into_ a state of arousal when caressed by an assault cannon.
@@camillecolburn9492 Well there's a first for everything, I was like "aww I think this is the first time I've seen Emily horny for her husband's PC, normally she goes for female NPCs" "aww shit is this the first time I've seen a Murph PC flirt with another player character?????" "Ok droids and roids OTP"
Love that we see Emily writing in her book right after that, and later she mentions (trying to avoid spoilers) that the "I'm aspirational" bit was the first thing she noted for her character. I swear, Brennan nails the GMing so well, but the players also do such a stellar job of bouncing off of the ideas they all create together in unique and constructive ways. It's one of the things I love about watching Dimension 20
I love the dawning realization of the cast members
I’d love to watch an hour of Brennan just arguing with himself in different characters
Not only was his CEO convincingly harsh and cutting, but competent as well.
Felt like a return to his days as CollegeHumor's CEOs. "What are we _doing!?_ We're gonna go bankrupt!"
I have no idea what they are doing, but I'm gonna assume this is just a live-recording of their very professional, futuristic company meeting.
I think the CEO one here is the ultimate CEO video.
Whereas most of the humor of the skits rely on us empathize with the CEO, as a representation of audience frustration, this shows that exact scenario but with an actual CEO, and the person we empathize with is the one who made the "bad" decision, and the result of that decision.
The cruel capitalist who didn't see humans, and only sees objects is the antagonist in this sketch, and the punchline is Sundry Sidney blowing said CEO the fuck up.
Murph is channeling some big Matt Mercer energy with that hair.
Just saw it and WOW
@@grandpa6065 Yeah.
That's Murph????
Matt WISHES
I mean, for me personally, the roller skates would have helped out alot
The delivery of “FUCKED TO DEATH” makes me cry laughing every time for some reason
Is it technically slander to say “fuck erotica Anne” if I’m not mistaken. That seems to be her exact purpose, and you can’t call facts slander
In which case marketing would be directly endorsing the competition. The only thing a CEO would hate more than a lawsuit
I think given the multiple interpretations of "fuck", I think this line might count simultaneously as both libel and as an endorsement.
So it's double plus ungood.
2:38 first appearance of Sidney's mom
I don't usually watch full, main cast campaigns on D20, but every clip I've seen from Starstruck (plus the quaint backstory with Brennan's mom), makes me think this might be worth making an exception.
Just watched this three times in a row. Just love his energy and invention.
My favourite part is watching the cogs whirr as Brennan constructs a whole dysfunctional corporate world in a few fractions of a second.
Swiss army knives (and multi-tools in general) are super useful when you have size/weight restrictions, but if I have to choose between a screwdriver and a Leatherman that has a screwdriver bit, I'm going to pick the screwdriver over the Leatherman.
Brennan is a blessing and I click on any video that includes him.
“You’re fired.” Sounds exactly like Cave Johnson
All those college humor ceo skits were practice for this moment
All his years of CEO of your favorite company sketches finally paid off
The dead silence makes me realize how loud his voice has to be in that entire room
Exasperated CEO Brennan is my favorite Brennan
The timestamp is like 28:50 from ep 1 if anyone is curious!
Fuck it. Fine! I'll get a subscription to dropout. I keep binging these clips for hours on end. Might as well see what all the fuss is about.
:D I'm so happy for you
Literally the same thing I said to myself too 😅. The best part so far is being able to watch all the hysterical shows with my friends. 10/10
It was only after watching this 3 or 4 times that I realised Emily is playing as Sundry Sidney. That's her player character. That is hilarious 😁
The fact he said they weren’t selling people, and then compared a lower wage worker to his idea of androids says a lot about this world
I missed him doing stuff like this as sketches
I love that Brennan of his own admission has to stop himself from going on long winded rants like this, this is just regular Brennan
I was crying laughing when I noticed the ceo attitude while driving lucky there was no traffic at that time
It genuinely blows my mind, watching him work like this. Even the small thing of playing off the improvised line ("'Fuck Erotica Anne???' That made it in???") Just shows both how *willing* & *well* he can roll with the punches.
I just realise this whole scene was a reference to Brennan's CEO sketches... I'm dumb.
I love it when he just takes Emily’s sundry Sidney joke and just rolls with it
THANK YOU FOR CLIPPING IT!
Drawing on all his past CEO experience.
Brennan should really do a series playing various exacerbated CEOs.
Lol
Idk if you're being sarcastic but he did so that
@@Rylee_G I'm insulted at the implication that I haven't seen every single Collegehumor Sketch made by Brennan multiple times.
@@ryanhealy9026 sorry i can't tell when people are being sarcastic
The fact he had to take "FUCKED us" from 0 to 100 with "FUCKED to DEATH"
Your curations always bring me joy and then send me to Drop-out to watch more lol
Thank you 💖😊
Solidifies that we, as a culture, need more CEO skits
brennan as ceo is just so wonderful. excellent comedy.
knowing that his comes from someone who can seemingly do almost anything makes the even funnier
The coffee guy bit drove it home for me
The CEO is actually Brennan's spirit animal.
CEO went to space
I think people forget that Brennan has literally done a series on dropout titled a message from the CEO
oh yeah this was based on the ceo character, he improvised a lot in those videos. so good
Dude is a treasure
I actually would like to know that my coffee guy is an amazing poet with a great garden at home. Fuck me, I guess.
Aw
Yup I came here to say this. Of course you want that if you value people as complete beings. That line encapsulates exactly why the CEO is such a toxic ass. He doesn't just see the androids as disposable means to an end, he sees people that way too.
I bet an amazing poet with a great garden at home makes the best fucking cup of coffee too. Sounds like a super nurturing person who takes care to do things well.
I hope they do more of those CEO sketches, love 'em! :)
All the college humor CEO sketches just flooding out of him. Good work.
Hey! A swiss army knife is good **because** of the seemingly useless shit it has! Sure, you don't THINK you would need one of the four screwdrivers or bottle openers, but they are so specific that you would **never** buy them separately! And when you come across a situation where you need one you will thank your lucky fucking stars that you had it!!
...That said, being protected or assisted by a functional sex toy is a bit awkward, not gonna lie
i mean... is it?
just swap out sci-fi for fantasy here. A succubus familiar that not only gives physical and emotional companionship, but will also organize your household affairs, do your taxes, and royally fuck up any unbidden trespasser into your wizard tower sounds pretty fucking sweet a deal.
hell, just looking at real life: Yamato Nadeshiko. the classical epitome of japanese femininity. attentive, caring, competent, learned, available, and (most importantly) entirely fucking capable of busting out a naginata, putting on battle armor, and personally going to tell her father in law's army to not step one inch closer to your castle if they don't want all 9 months of her heavily pregnant fury descended on their bitch asses (extra points if anyone knows the historical reference).
clearly, this was just a marketing SNAFU
@@badflamer No... Like... Yes, I agree that it is cool for **people** to be able to do many things. I wouldn't call a woman with a sex drive as "built to have sex" (firstly because it's rude, secondly because it's shitty) and a succubus is still a demon with agency, choice and freedom to do what they please. Obviously (as the engineer that gets fired explains) Sundry Sidney was built with some humanism in mind "Isn't that what we all want? To be good at everything?" but just from a product stand point, and what she is programmed (and thus, allowed) to do, I would see this as just awkward design. I see it a bit as having a sword whose handle is a vibrator or a gun that was also a fleshlight. I don't think I would feel amazing using that. All the other stuff at once is great! Even the roller skates! It's just that when it is a robot built by humans, the "and also, you can have sex with it!" gives me really male-gaze-y, uncomfortable vibes. It's kinda like when a female superhero gets a costume that is just fetish gear but has a cool concept; I'm like "yes, go off, love what this means and represents... Why the horny part, though?"
I feel like a lot of people would be into the Assault Canon and Roller Skates in pleasure mode.
This could be one of the every ceo sketches
Yeah I cut it that way
Honestly I would like to hear some cool poems from the coffee Android.
You just need good marketing. Make it your niche.
Sure, you could go to _anyone_ for a cup of coffee, but does your coffee cup have a _personalized poem_ written on it!?
Improv genius. I love this man
I love how you can hear the echo. That's how spirited he is.
Tbh, getting a fresh poem on your coffee cup would be sick
I would love to know my barista has a lovely garden at home good for you man
Years of those collegehumor ceo sketches had brennan READY for this
Brennan got a lot of experience being an angry CEO from the collegehumor sketches
I am going to memorize this the same way i did Rick vs the president
I feel like I've never gotten the full context for the campaign/world to explain what's happening here, but I kind of don't want to. It's wild to just see him go off like this and I love it
i thought so too but it's so packed that almost any 3 minutes of an episode could be a highlight clip
Mans got practice from the ceo sketches 😂
"Fuck Erotica Ann" can be taken as just literal instructions, maybe they thought that legally cleared them...
Who ever thought a nerdy theatre kid from New York would be the perfect amount of energy and charisma for chaos. Rhetorical question; don't reply.
You can't stop me cop
Someone should have suggested forming an LLC under the main companies umbrella, sell the copyright to the LLC, and have them sell the Swiss army knife Android as the economy option, and it doesn't even have the main company's branding anywhere on it.
Basically just change the marketing campaign, get rid of the company logo, rename it and ship it. Send it to every Dollar General out there
The roller skates do it for me
Dayum he's good. Bigger than life.
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2:33 we now know that this was actually Sidney's mom sticking up for her baby! 😭
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Lex Luthor would disagree. His personal assistant was also a master assassin. Mercy I think her name was. Atleast in the Animated Adventures of Superman
Isn't he also like subpoenaed every week for his illicit dealings with every evil mf on the planet?
And in Young Justice, has a cannon arm! This model just needed a couple tweaks and marketed right.
In the comics she is actually an Amazonian.
I was literally JUST about to comment asking you to make this!!!!
Omgggg:D
Brennan putting that philosophy degree to use with the coffee guy analogy at the end, straight out of Sartre
I seriously hope this gets animated
And then ally became everything itself lol
this is still one of the most tragic character openings Ive ever seen
One of my favorite D20 moments! 🤣
Oh man... that was just so much fun!! 🤣😂