It's no wonder everyone's obsessed with Gwimbly. A PS1 era game character who hasn't had a game in over a decade from a company that refuses to do anything with it? We've all had a favorite game like that at some point.
There was the Christmas episode, and the Brazil episode so not really a two year hiatus. It just takes time to make episodes of a show with Gumball-esque mixed media.
Funnily enough, this seems to further support the episode's theme of letting forgotten characters have their chance to shine. Hell, it's even what Adult Swim is built on in the first place, reusing Hanna Barbera characters from the 60s for their shows, because they had the rights!
I'm surprised that Smiling Friends made homage to the line of video game mascots outside of Mario and Sonic with Gwimbly. With the likes of Gex, Bubsy, Earthworm Jim, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dargon, and many more. Good job, Smiling Friends.
I love the weird and uncanny animation styles they incorporate into this show. It’s like what Flapjack and Courage the Cowardly Dog did, but now it’s coming back to make us uncomfortable in adulthood instead of childhood.
@dylansharp8471 You’re making me feel old if you’re too young to remember those shows. You’re missing out, go through Cartoon Network’s old shows from the 2000s and 2010s. I also recommend Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and Chowder.
@MEBOEFEBOE what do you mean? I grew up with Gwimbly on ps1, and Gwimbly 2: Creamy Capers is a classic and inspired dozens of platformers after release.
I remember Gwimbly as the first DLC in smash bros, his frame data was insane and has no reason to be this overpowered, but the CEO didn't want his ip for any next games from the franchise and Gwimbly was sadly never to be seen again I'm glad he had a side cameo in Smiling Friends, you deserve it. your games were goated
When adult animation is exceeding better than children’s animation. Seriously, children’s shows have the most hellish fandoms (Bluey, Loud House, etc.), but shows like Breaking Bad are chill.
It's actually pretty cool that gwimbly is supposed to be a Smash Bros Brawl character, hat part I had no idea not to mention he had his own games that's pretty damn cool.
I remember when Gwimbly was slated to do that crossover with Crash Bandicoot and Spyro in the canceled PS1 title, "Spryo, Crash and Gwimbly in Greatest Heroes All-Out Defense Force", where they had to stop Ripto, Dr. Neo Cortex and Count Gruxia from opening up the demon realm and releasing the darkness upon the world (in the English localization, this would've been changed to your garden variety "take over the world plot"), but the game got canceled after Insane Ground Breaking Games was bought by Nintendo, similar to how Rareware got bought by Microsoft from Nintendo.
This episode is such a brilliant takedown of all these game companies that just sit on iconic IPs. Banjo, Rayman, Conker, Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxter, Castlevania, F-Zero, etc. are all franchises that are long overdue for new entries, but their owners refuse to do anything with them. At least Banjo and Castlevania made it into Smash
What makes Gwimbly a great character is that he is a representation of Video game series like Banjo Kazooie, Mother/Earthbound series, Fzero, Metal Gear, Castlevania, Rayman and more don’t get any new game for years in their respective companies and Video games companies poorly treated them, as a big gamer myself this is so accurate.
I used to play gwimbly adventures all the time so many memories of coming home from school in the 90s and collecting all the creamed corn cans and shooting the iconic gwimbly gun.
I can just hear Zach at the Season 2 pitch meeting. “Hey Micheal! What if we made a character like Graggle Simpson that definitely always existed. And we named him Gwimbley and he went ‘Ooo ooo oooooh!’”
Not alot of people actually know this but Gwimbly 3D was like the 4th game in the series. Thr original was called Gwimble and was kinda a cult classic on the NES. Although the character design changed alot bewteen then and the critically acclaimed Gwimbly 3D so it's a bit of lost knowledge. Also if I remember correctly his little sidekick wasn't a thing until Gwimbly 3D cuz they wanted to have a partner that could relay story to the player. Man I love those games. Wish they'd make a new one!
Gotta give love to Hoolopee, the guy who animated Gwimbly, and has plenty of other PS1 style animations under his belt on his own RUclips channel, including 2 Pipes, which features a cameo from Zach as well!
Despite the fact that I never even heard of Gwimbly or knew Jack-Diddly-Squat about him until watching this video, I never knew he was already thing. When I saw the Thumbnail, I thought it was some made up Character and I was still wrong about that.
I’m so happy to see Gwimbly, when I played Gwimbly 3 I was stuck in the Count Groxia boss fight with my brother it took us 4 times to beat him! But Gwimbly 2 is the goat forever!
People seem to forget the hidden PS2 Gem when Gwimbly had his edgy phase It was a GTA game with Gwimbly, Mr Centipede and 5 other characters and the gang called themselves the Gwimboys Good times, Twas a silly and over the top game like saints row but better written than the modern saints row games
I’m having a crisis where I remember seeing a Gwimbly funky pop somewhere, but I can’t discern whether it was in an actual video or I had a fucking dream, and this is further pushing me down the tunnel of madness
I mean while he confuses me, I can't hate some weird hero no one asked for is letting people appreciate animation and the mascots of the past. My respects go out to this odd thing he is.
Everyone loves Gwimbly ❤
Gwimbly is love, Gwimbly is life
i wuv it
This was smiling friends it a adult show
What it a adult show
U comment on all ur videos lol
Gwimbly is the new Graggle
Why did you call him Gwibly?
@@USSR_uttp wdym?
Damn right
@@USSR_uttp his name is Gwimbly
Y'know, you're not wrong.
It's no wonder everyone's obsessed with Gwimbly. A PS1 era game character who hasn't had a game in over a decade from a company that refuses to do anything with it? We've all had a favorite game like that at some point.
COUGH* COUGH* GEX
Holy...
PARAPPA THE RAPPER?!
Something similar happened with pikmin, but it finally another game
Rayman……….
rayman 🥲
I'm so damn glad we're finally getting season 2 of Smiling Friends.
The two year hiatus was absolutely DREADFUL.
They probably spent 1/8 of that time making the 3D assets.
was it really that long?
@@PrincessRoses308 In fact, yes.
There was the Christmas episode, and the Brazil episode so not really a two year hiatus. It just takes time to make episodes of a show with Gumball-esque mixed media.
Agreed
Gwimbly actually had a cameo in the n64 game worm odyssey too
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Well, *that* explains why he looks kinda rocky.
Worm Odyssey was on the SNES, it was the first game to have rumble controls.
@@CoolKidMethew sorry I was thinking of worm odyssey 2
Funnily enough, this seems to further support the episode's theme of letting forgotten characters have their chance to shine. Hell, it's even what Adult Swim is built on in the first place, reusing Hanna Barbera characters from the 60s for their shows, because they had the rights!
Same they have rights
I'm surprised that Smiling Friends made homage to the line of video game mascots outside of Mario and Sonic with Gwimbly. With the likes of Gex, Bubsy, Earthworm Jim, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dargon, and many more. Good job, Smiling Friends.
He's pretty much a hybrid of Wild Woody and Rayman
Scot the wooz
"Dargon"
What about banjo and conker
I love the weird and uncanny animation styles they incorporate into this show. It’s like what Flapjack and Courage the Cowardly Dog did, but now it’s coming back to make us uncomfortable in adulthood instead of childhood.
I think TAWOG did it best in a kid's show. More than just easter eggs or cameos, but actual main characters in wildly differing styles
Agreed. I was more put off, if anything, by the scene with the big buff dude bullying Charlie (even if he did deserve it kinda)
Flapjack and Courage?
@dylansharp8471 You’re making me feel old if you’re too young to remember those shows. You’re missing out, go through Cartoon Network’s old shows from the 2000s and 2010s. I also recommend Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and Chowder.
And Codename Kid’s Next Door
It was absolutely insane Smiling Friends got the rights to use the character.
Is this satire lol this vid is a joke gwimbly is from smiling friends loll
@MEBOEFEBOE what do you mean? I grew up with Gwimbly on ps1, and Gwimbly 2: Creamy Capers is a classic and inspired dozens of platformers after release.
I like ur pfp
@@YourLocalDucky194 thanks dude
@@Smiles3110 ive only played Gwimbly 64
I like the confirmation that Charlie was once a homunculus and Pim was a tadpole. The weird little stuff like this being a running gag is great.
i like how you stole this comment from the smiling friends season 2 teaser
🤖
I remember Gwimbly as the first DLC in smash bros, his frame data was insane and has no reason to be this overpowered, but the CEO didn't want his ip for any next games from the franchise and Gwimbly was sadly never to be seen again
I'm glad he had a side cameo in Smiling Friends, you deserve it. your games were goated
I'm surprised you didn't mention the April Fools with the Smiling Friends as puppets.
the greatest and most anticipated crossover of all time
I'm happy Gwimbly is back in the spotlight after 20 years!
When adult animation is exceeding better than children’s animation.
Seriously, children’s shows have the most hellish fandoms (Bluey, Loud House, etc.), but shows like Breaking Bad are chill.
For all I know, the Superjail fandom has been real quiet since 2018.
crazy how children show fandoms have the most vile shit while adult animation is like super chill
just shows which one is superior
@@jakalamgdhazbin hotel fandom lol
Man does a fandom really affect a show
What's wrong with blueys Fandom? Also, bluey is for all ages, not just kids...
Gwimbly the goat
It's actually pretty cool that gwimbly is supposed to be a Smash Bros Brawl character, hat part I had no idea not to mention he had his own games that's pretty damn cool.
Gwimbly looks like if crash bandicoot got hit in the face and rotted in a pool of hot water
He was also in Learning with Pibby.
I respect that
Welcome back Graggle.
Great to see you again
I remember when Gwimbly was slated to do that crossover with Crash Bandicoot and Spyro in the canceled PS1 title, "Spryo, Crash and Gwimbly in Greatest Heroes All-Out Defense Force", where they had to stop Ripto, Dr. Neo Cortex and Count Gruxia from opening up the demon realm and releasing the darkness upon the world (in the English localization, this would've been changed to your garden variety "take over the world plot"), but the game got canceled after Insane Ground Breaking Games was bought by Nintendo, similar to how Rareware got bought by Microsoft from Nintendo.
This episode is such a brilliant takedown of all these game companies that just sit on iconic IPs.
Banjo, Rayman, Conker, Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxter, Castlevania, F-Zero, etc. are all franchises that are long overdue for new entries, but their owners refuse to do anything with them. At least Banjo and Castlevania made it into Smash
This is literally a late April Fools joke.
It is
Gwimbly struck a nerve with everyone still waiting for their old favorite franchise to get revived
I loved the Corn Cavern level music from Gwimbly 3.
It's Graggle all over again and i LOVE IT!!
Exactly what I was thinking...
Except he only wasn’t on the Simpsons
But everywhere
For Gwimbly
(Not Graggle)
@@PrideEepy64 HE HEH HEEEHHH
@@TadanoYam Yep
Man, I'd love to pay to get Gwimbly to do his iconic victory dance.
ooo ooo OOO!
Gwimbly is exploding into popularity.
I will never forget when i was randomly surfing on a website in 2005 and there was an article about gwimbly 3g for playstation was announced
What makes Gwimbly a great character is that he is a representation of Video game series like Banjo Kazooie, Mother/Earthbound series, Fzero, Metal Gear, Castlevania, Rayman and more don’t get any new game for years in their respective companies and Video games companies poorly treated them, as a big gamer myself this is so accurate.
I'm glad you mentioned Rayman, because he looks like a character who'd have been in Rayman 2: The Great Escape
RAYMAN MENTIONED
I genuinely felt bad when he found out his friend had died.😢😭
Same here
America has a ******* fentanyl crisis
Used to have the Gwimbly: Theif of Glimbos Gold on the PC. Great Cutsecenes, difficult to speedrun. 90s classic!
I used to play gwimbly adventures all the time so many memories of coming home from school in the 90s and collecting all the creamed corn cans and shooting the iconic gwimbly gun.
Dont forget his boss battle in Crash Bandicoot 3
Yeah! That was awesome!
I can’t believe I didn’t know this guy existed until now
I can just hear Zach at the Season 2 pitch meeting. “Hey Micheal! What if we made a character like Graggle Simpson that definitely always existed. And we named him Gwimbley and he went ‘Ooo ooo oooooh!’”
I had no idea this was based on a real game. Neat.
No this is just a late April fools thing
And thus how a 32-Bit character had brought the community together ^^
Can't believe people forgot this iconic character he is an old time classic
I never knew that i would see him again, he was as forgotten as pokepark has been :]
Gwimbly has been in bomb rush cyberfunk (as a mod)
It’s not april fools anymore so I believe you
So this is what I never know. Gwimbly was a legend Thank You Zach and Michael for bringing back Gwimbly
whats insane is that someone actually preserved gwimbly's first game ever too, which is dope.
Not alot of people actually know this but Gwimbly 3D was like the 4th game in the series. Thr original was called Gwimble and was kinda a cult classic on the NES. Although the character design changed alot bewteen then and the critically acclaimed Gwimbly 3D so it's a bit of lost knowledge. Also if I remember correctly his little sidekick wasn't a thing until Gwimbly 3D cuz they wanted to have a partner that could relay story to the player.
Man I love those games. Wish they'd make a new one!
Gwimble (1989) was the first one on NES
Congratulations on 1.17 million subscribers
im pretty sure the prolapse was post his fame but he's always drawn with it in what is suppose to be him in his prime
Its a tail, not a prolapse
@@cherriemaesicad8830sure buddy
This is seriously awesome 😂
Hoopolee did a great job animating this lovable throwback to the early PS1 days. I hope we get a full game featuring this guy.
Gotta give love to Hoolopee, the guy who animated Gwimbly, and has plenty of other PS1 style animations under his belt on his own RUclips channel, including 2 Pipes, which features a cameo from Zach as well!
Okay I'll do my victory dance ooo ooo
Indie scene really be holding him on a high pedestal like it’s 1998
Gwimbception
Gwimbly is love Gwimbly is live
Despite the fact that I never even heard of Gwimbly or knew Jack-Diddly-Squat about him until watching this video, I never knew he was already thing.
When I saw the Thumbnail, I thought it was some made up Character and I was still wrong about that.
Gwimbly just made his appearance in my invincible crossover series vs Anissa
Graggle 2 has officially released
gwimbly
Petition to make Gwimbly an actual rated M video game in the style of classic rareware like Cokers Bad fur day.
When I first saw Gwimbly it wasn't even in the show and I already knew I liked him.
How have I missed this? I must research this till I get to the deep end.
I’m so happy to see Gwimbly, when I played Gwimbly 3 I was stuck in the Count Groxia boss fight with my brother it took us 4 times to beat him! But Gwimbly 2 is the goat forever!
so we're all just pirating the first episode out of severe impatience huh
I would trust random mediafire links on twitter with my life
People seem to forget the hidden PS2 Gem when Gwimbly had his edgy phase
It was a GTA game with Gwimbly, Mr Centipede and 5 other characters and the gang called themselves the Gwimboys
Good times, Twas a silly and over the top game like saints row but better written than the modern saints row games
I gotta gut feeling someone's gonna make a fan game of gwimbly
Everywhere i go, i keep seeing his face.
I think i know who animated gwibly its a very reconizable artstyle from a guy called holoope
Yeah it's him
I don’t do my iconic victory dance for nothin’
Ok I guess just this once I’ll do it for nothin’
Oh shit, thanks for the credit! 1:32
BRO THAT FANAMDE BOXART LOOKS SO GOOD
Live, Laugh, Gwimbly.
Scoot over graggle, GWIMBLY is in town!
Man I thought this was a fever dream! I remember a promotion for gwimbly 06. Man that was interesting.
Man I remember when gwimbly and sonic showed up at the end of smash brawl and they beat the crap out of tabuu. Those were the good days :)
the gwimbly lore is bigger then we think
Gwimbly looks like a 2-week-old banana.
And yeah, I’m Klogg from the obscure 90’s PC Adventure game, The Neverhood!
I need to watch S2 Ep1! But I can’t find it anywhere!!
He appeared all over my feed :,)
1:29 it says smiling friends in the corner and in the super smash it has the smiling logo
I love how adult swim cartoons raise awareness and support towards "hated" stuff
Hated in context of treatment by the groups, like companies
I’m having a crisis where I remember seeing a Gwimbly funky pop somewhere, but I can’t discern whether it was in an actual video or I had a fucking dream, and this is further pushing me down the tunnel of madness
It was fanart
@@MEBOEFEBOE thank you
Gwimbly has always existed, just like Graggle Simpson.
they should meet each other!
Man, I remember when the online servers were up everybody was destroying everybody when gwimbly was introduced as DLC in brawl
Scripulous fingore walked so Gwimbly can run
I mean while he confuses me, I can't hate some weird hero no one asked for is letting people appreciate animation and the mascots of the past. My respects go out to this odd thing he is.
Gwimbly is love. Gwimbly transcends life. 🥹
Imagine what will happen if he hits the public domain 😅😂
The company he worked with was 100% Valve 0:10
Never knew he existed i tought he was just a random character with PS1 model
Who could forget his iconic victory dance! Ooo ooo ooooo
Wait, is this just gaslighting?
No, you're probably just going crazy
internet is trying to do its own berenstein bears effect with Gwimbly
He was always there. We just never knew. I will now always hear the words: oh oh oh!
It's always been Gwimbly.
Nicktoons UK recently aired the SpongeBob episode ‘Mid Life Crustacean’, which is the banned episode in the USA.
I feel like this whole meme feels like a long April fools prank taken seriously and i love it lol
I thought we all knew this. They got the creator of Gwimbly to model him!
The real reason the unlock method in Smash Ultimate is so easy is because they made Gwimbly’s unlock method impossible to balance it out.
Corporal Shephard... (Unlike G. Freeman and Barney Calhoun, he was left in the void since 1999.)
Gwimbly is the new Graggle. 4 Real 4 Real.
1:10 Gwimbly