I call it "I Have No Paddle, and I Must Pong"

@corydonlapaz6803

Ай бұрын

"I Have No Ping, and I Must Pong"

@poppers7317

Ай бұрын

@StevieNockman It's great to hear that RedLetterMedia inspires you! Setting goals like reaching 3K likes on your video can be really motivating. Remember, the journey to achieving your dreams often involves persistence and hard work. Instead of just asking for likes, focus on creating content that genuinely resonates with your audience. Engage with your viewers, improve your skills, and let your passion shine through.

@Ensorcle

Ай бұрын

Perfection

@jaxxedup

Ай бұрын

Brilliant lol, also would it kill them to do like a series or movie adap of that game.... that game/story still goes hard to this day

@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277

Ай бұрын

So BulletBall?

"The whole time when we were talking about Pong, I was thinking about Frogger."

@rihardsrozans6920

Ай бұрын

Mike's dementia is ruthless and progressively getting worse

@mdihero

Ай бұрын

Mike only knows about video games because he saw it in a movie

@Proletariat12

Ай бұрын

rofl we can't just casually let him get away with that and move past it

@ELEKTROSKANSEN

Ай бұрын

'member that Seinfeld episode with Frogger???

@OrgaNik_Music

Ай бұрын

Yes, that is a thing that was said in the video

"I don't know how Pong works, but I'm writing the Pong movie" -Everyone in hollywood for the past 15 years

@sicksock435446

Ай бұрын

Literally every book adaptation the director can't help but brag about not reading the book.

@BackdoorBarnyard

Ай бұрын

"I don't have time to read the book. I have a screenplay to write."

@theraven268

Ай бұрын

@@BackdoorBarnyard Despite not taking time to redraft it

@mrlaz9011

Ай бұрын

you don't understand, they need all the time they have to snort as much snow as possible instead of actually researching. It's very important!

I love the sheer amount of tennis courts at Mr. Pongs house

@BradenKennelly

Ай бұрын

I didn’t even connect the dots the inventor of pong would naturally have a massive amount of real pong

@DM-kl4em

Ай бұрын

"It's so dense. Every single image has so many things going on..."

@DM-kl4em

5 күн бұрын

Haha. Also, when he answers the phone at 8:37, there is a statue in the background of a guy serving a tennis ball.

Not only did Mike not know how Pong worked, he forgot that *Ping Pong* existed.

@AugustBurnsSam

Ай бұрын

Ping Air Hockey

@pogglywoggly3292

Ай бұрын

The "dementia" is his cover for alcoholism. His alcoholism is the reason he can't remember things. He's his own arch-nemisis.

I love the touch of every single character smoking. Very period accurate

@FutureDeep

Ай бұрын

Even one kid is smoking.

@Cardiopazia

Ай бұрын

There is a marvel series "agent carter" I liked it, but is set in the 40-50s and you see their office is full of smoke....but nobody is actually smoking.

@williamdittmann9281

Ай бұрын

​@@CardiopaziaProbably for ratings reasons, or if not that for a company policy, iirc Disney doesn't like to depict smoking

@d3nza482

Ай бұрын

@@williamdittmann9281 Nah, smoking ruins skin and actors today think the bombs will never go off and they'll live forever if they eat healthy, occasionally drinking the blood of virgins.

They'd find some way to end it with the Pong ball shooting out into space with an after credits scene where it collides with the Space Invaders planet setting up the sequel where they track it back to Earth and come for revenge.

@DiestroCorleone

Ай бұрын

And it was a prequel to Pixels all along. Some retcons should be made, Sony's writers will work on the details.

@joshuahughes4704

Ай бұрын

Or there’s a bad ending where they deflect it into space but then it collides with the moon or the sun or something

@BIRDVOID

Ай бұрын

Fuckkkkk I was literally coming to the comments to write this

@scottneil1187

Ай бұрын

​@@DiestroCorleoneWhy involve Sandler and his talent vacuum friends though?.

@jimpanzee4063

Ай бұрын

@@BIRDVOID this was also my exact idea. I figured that some scientist would notice that while it moves through anything in it's path, the cube is adhering to the Earth's surface, so it must be effected by gravity. They then create a gravity gun or something and fire it off into space, where it eventually destroys an alien civilisation, who in turn trace the trajectory back to Earth. The sequel would be the subsequent invasion: Pong 2: Indepongdence Day.

"You can't just have 60 minutes of balls flying around" -Rich Evans, 2024

In one of the first scenes, one of the main characters should get upset. He keeps losing his high score on Pong and he can't figure out why. But then we figured out it was the cleaning lady unplugging it so she could plug in her vacuum.

@synth-wave_steve

Ай бұрын

I can’t tell if your talking about a dropped plot line or the writer doesn’t understand electronics But I love it

@Maldo666

Ай бұрын

Yes!

@inquisitivetelevisionsales2761

Ай бұрын

Chekov’s Vacuum Cleaner

@deetvleet

Ай бұрын

@@synth-wave_steve Did pong have non-RAM storage capabilities? I'm a zoomer and never been in an arcade

@Notme195

Ай бұрын

@@deetvleet A lot of old arcade machines would lose all their high scores once they lost power.

5:28 - Mike only remembering how Pong works after being reminded halfway through and then _"explaining"_ how Pong works in a way only Mike, a young child, or Beaker from the Muppets can...

@bbbnuy3945

Ай бұрын

hes off his dementia meds..

@d3nza482

Ай бұрын

@@bbbnuy3945 Which ones? Cocaine or meth?

@dukeofthedance8062

Ай бұрын

@@d3nza482 It's just whisky and too much beer.

that whole bit about the kids not realizing they're killing the trapped people is legitimately pretty unnerving. reminds me of Enders Game

@TheMarkoSeke

Ай бұрын

They also did that in Psycho Pass

@williamdittmann9281

Ай бұрын

​@@TheMarkoSekeAnd Lain

@dukeofthedance8062

Ай бұрын

Never saw the movie but in the book Enders Game, ya, that's a good call.

Edit: "Thanks for the link, it was very entertaining. I continue to be amazed that Pong has captured so much attention for so long." ^ Response from Al, the guy who created Pong. He *is* still alive, and he *does* live in a house in California. It's normal sized, not giant like one you illustrated. I sent him a link to this video. Really great guy. He co-founded.Atari, he's the only guy ever to be Steve Jobs's boss, and his name is on the patent for slot machines the way they're made these days. Until COVID shut everything down, he was helping run a tech education nonprofit.

@Popepaladin

Ай бұрын

That's neat, didn't know Al was that advanced.

@AlexanderPhipps

Ай бұрын

So if he ends up being the next guest on BotW, we know who to thank.

@Agentflit

Ай бұрын

Nolan Bushnell is still around too! Gotta have both of em in the film as cameos at least

@gsesquire3441

Ай бұрын

I refuse to believe "Al Alcorn" is an actual humans name.

@kostyasaushkin2450

Ай бұрын

Awesome!

The fucking Twin Towers lmao. Jesus Christ. The animation quality for this is so wonderful.

@TaCo0oCaT

Ай бұрын

The highest point you can imagine

@Vaporvice84

Ай бұрын

I hope your comment gets exactly 911 likes and NEVER goes any higher.

@MyChemicalBromance

Ай бұрын

The score is 9-1. If that ball gets past the towers it will never come again.

@simonsancartier7417

Ай бұрын

“Hey… has anyone done a horror version of a classic game?”… Mike pulls out a full fucking PowerPoint presentation with slides and shit

@puffd4nny

Ай бұрын

"Anyway, back to 9/11" from their Star Wars Holiday Special vid hits different now

So glad to see reigning star trek trivia champion Rich Evans get the animated portrayal he deserves.

@okeefe757

Ай бұрын

Such a realistic drawing and animation of Rich

@Amanwithbones

Ай бұрын

It’s funny how, despite Mike winning the previous Star Trek trivia game, we just collectively decided to ignore that entirely.

@robertwild9447

Ай бұрын

​@@AmanwithbonesThat was rigged and you know it!

@michaelterry464

Ай бұрын

@@Amanwithbones It's because Mike is a mean-spirited sore-winner, and he makes cheering for him impossible!

@SpaceWanderer03

Ай бұрын

⁠@@AmanwithbonesWe’ll see who’s the true Star Trek Nerd after eight more rounds.

The revelation that Mike was thinking of Frogger the whole time he was talking about Pong was the biggest twist of the movie

Jay's glorious locks live on, Rich looks like "moon landing" Kubrick, and Mike is the most sober he's ever been; the power and magistry of animation.

The nerd character(s?) realize that the machine only has so much RAM, so they have to cause a buffer overflow, which will either release them or kill them all. There's soooo much gore when someone gets splattered, and it disappears after a few seconds, that the criminal asks the obvious "So a bunch of us need to die, all at once, and then it'll crash?" Then it's briefly a purge/hunger games scenario as they all make and break alliances to kill/sacrifice each other. After getting ejected, the rest of the movie plays out as described.

@maxcoseti

Ай бұрын

So, like Circle but with Pong

@CosmicWaltz7

Ай бұрын

It could be that when one person dies, there's no slow-down, but they see two people die at once and the world stutters. So, they realize that if three or more people die at once, the game may break and theoretically they can escape. But, they have to decide who will die, and for an uncertain goal, and everyone that dies in the process of determining who to sacrifice is one less person taxing the RAM. For every non-sacrificial death, more sacrifices must be made to compensate. It's a losing game.

@radim279

Ай бұрын

But one of the kids in the real world accidentally downloads more RAM into the game, raising the stakes

@beepster991

Ай бұрын

A character will realize it's been created by a current Bethesda programmer and will simply wait for the game to crash.

@jbmcb

Ай бұрын

The original pong game wasn't digital, it was all analog. The fake nerd guy thinks it's digital and gets killed, while the real nerd guy realizes it's analog, changes the timing of the vblank so the pong ball stops.

Bruce Lee dies a hero.. trying to deflect a pong cube. My favorite touch in this animation.

@barnesguides

Ай бұрын

I thought for sure it was gonna be Robert Duvall and Space Shuttle Columbia paddling it out into space.

@tailsknuxfan101

Ай бұрын

Inspiring his relative, 'Chin' to follow in his footsteps

@Dr170

Ай бұрын

You either die a hero or play Pong enough to become a villain

@lilwyvern4

Ай бұрын

@@tailsknuxfan101 Chin blamed it on Red China and trained himself to stop it from happening again. When he heard about them turning Tong Xiao Ping into a super weapon, he remembered the devastation from the Pong incident and went on the warpath.

@PopfulFrost

Ай бұрын

Did we expect any less?

The movie opens with a montage of the characters knocking down bowling pins with bowling balls in the alley, foreshadowing their own death.

Wonderfully animated; and not only does it fit the conversation, it adds additional visual humor and gags to further elevate it without intruding on the original audio even a little. Sign of a genuinely skilled animator.

All these ideas you guys are constantly giving to Hollywood for free!

@evlofenn

Ай бұрын

@@notmethnx Hollywood don't got no giant axe either!

@MultiTaureanCalvinKevinDC

Ай бұрын

once the pitch was animated it belongs to redletter media. mike, rich and jay know exactly what they're doing. If any major studio uses the simplest story beat from this short they would be sued immediately by rlm.

@PopfulFrost

Ай бұрын

I mean, anyone who's seen a movie before can come up with this, that's the joke.

@spacemanspud7073

Ай бұрын

The "actors and filmmakers apologizing for the movie at the end" idea would be appreciated nowadays

@benjaminfisher5351

Ай бұрын

I am endlessly pissed that they don’t legitimately write scripts that get produced, or make another movie of their own! They are genius.

A Pong horror movie would be frightening, but could you imagine if someone was forced to watch a seemingly infinite supply of new additions to 70s and 80s movie franchises? Unspeakable terror!

@scottneil1187

Ай бұрын

Sounds like heaven to me.

@pnoptic

Ай бұрын

ENDLESS TRAAAASH

@TheLazySamurai

Ай бұрын

Panicking board member: "Our copyright is expiring on this 80's horror franchise! What do we do?" Older experienced board member: "Simple, take one of those random scripts that we bought in bulk, you know that ten thousand scripts for $20 deal that our CEO made back when they were just an aspiring middle manager... back when middle managers existed before being laid off for our bonuses last quarter? Just take one of those and replace a few words here and there to make it fit the franchise." Panicking board member: "But won't it tank at the box office?" Older experienced board member: "Who cares? If it performs poorly, its a tax write off. If it performs well, we start a bidding war for usage rights, and milk it for more cash."

@PopfulFrost

Ай бұрын

Pure nihilistic terror.

@102938475646665

Ай бұрын

Better than the horror of having to sit through the crap Hollywood churns out nowadays

I love this fantasy of making Jay tall lmao

This so entertaining! I'm really digging all the details and little synergies, like Mike's voice ticks and how everyone smokes cause it's the 70s and so on. Love it!

@RedLetterMedia

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@esotericVideos

Ай бұрын

@@RedLetterMedia It's weird seeing RLM be... seemingly... authentic.

I like how Mike just makes Wreck it Ralph with traveling through the surge protector.

@itsd0nk

Ай бұрын

The whole “traveling through the surge protector” cop out really annoyed me when watching Wreck-it-Ralph with my kids. But I guess, how else do you get to the other arcade cabinets or other devices besides this? It’s a tough nut to crack.

@benjaminthefox

Ай бұрын

​@@itsd0nk If they were modern games, you could just travel through the modem, but since the machines are all retro, power strip is the only option.

@mortrek

Ай бұрын

Wreck it Ralph kinda ripped off an old episode of Duck Tales, in that case.

I was waiting for the "I get it! Guys... we have to WIN." and then the crew starts pushing the left toggle up and down to defeat the program.

@curleyqreviews9793

Ай бұрын

We have to survive until one side scores 10

RLM "shooting the shit" is always more creative and thoughtful than most movies being made. Really annoying how creatively bankrupt the industry is right now. Indie film makers "could" do better, but a lot of them just create future BOTW content for this channel. So... I guess it all works out in the end.

I love how this hypothetical movie just keeps escalating and getting more silly

The Pac-Man shirt reference is an elite way to kick this off, dancing his way through the funeral. Well done on this, love the animation style too

@jameswells9403

Ай бұрын

You want me to do it winnie the pooh style?

@monoremu3200

Ай бұрын

MANNERS! Who needs them!?

@ShoRyuBarbie

Ай бұрын

Paddles, who needs 'em?

Rich Evans looking like Kubrick

@jkee9760

Ай бұрын

Kubrick looks like International Playboy Rich Evans

7:51 Was actually the perfect solution to the deflection mechanic. Every time it hits an object, the object gets deleted and also deflects. So the peril is getting things in front of it to change its course. And of course, trying to figure out the least destructive path.

This is why Red Letter Media are the GOAT they don’t shill and you get the best god dam quality in film making ideas ever !

Poor Mike and Rich, even the animators enlarge the attractiveness gap in favour of Hot-Jay.

These guys have always had a knack for pitching pretty decent movie ideas or those pitches being some of the funniest jokes they do, it's nice to see them leaning into it for a new series. This is just a fantastic idea and I'm excited to see more

the creator of pong having 5 tennis courts around his house is a stroke of genius

Pong already has a cinematic universe, of sorts. Every single game made by Bungie features the same hero and universe, including their inverted-color pong clone 'Gnop'. Master Chief is the pong ball, reincarnated. That's not even a joke, it's canon established in Marathon's hacked-together mess of a story.

@spookmeyer970

Ай бұрын

Marathon's story is beautiful. hush

@HighSlayerRalton

21 күн бұрын

Where can I read about this?

Gonna be thinking of the line "it's out" for a week.

The last time I was this early Rich Evans was only prediabetic

@cradiculous

Ай бұрын

Excuse me how dare you imply he's not a peak ideal male

@jesuslovespee

Ай бұрын

You mean he was a preemie with diabetes

@eatpant1412

Ай бұрын

@@cradiculous Diabeetus is an evolved state of man

@pogglywoggly3292

Ай бұрын

And Mike was still refusing to budge from step 11

After Credit rips off Raiders: a sad-looking Rich dollies the Pong cabinet into an endless govt warehouse.

@FutureDeep

Ай бұрын

They usually have top men for that but Rich is more of a bottom.

Jay’s casual “Mr. Pong” to Mike’s “the guy who invented pong”- And no one acknowledging how utterly stupid that is. I guffawed. lol, so stupid I love it.

I love that you left in the stuttering at 1:11. Hilarious.

@lowdownpapaya7292

Ай бұрын

Reminds me of smiling friends

Damn a ten minute animation of a silly conversation from the olds. So good, it must have taken a while. Really awesome.

The Spitballs Episodes are one of my new Favourites. I hope the rest of the RLM Subscribers will start to chersih them as well because i want to see more of them! Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden (yes that Berchtesgaden) in the Bavarian Alps

@mrmogford8117

Ай бұрын

Same here, love this format

I’m mad that I put this off for a week, this is golden.

I saw a man on a seldom travelled backroad the other day. He was sitting parked on his motorcycle drinking a beer and enjoying the sunset. He looked EXACTLY like a healthier Rich Evans

@averbalin

Ай бұрын

That was Daniel Evans, a Tulpa created by Rich during one of his diabetic comas. He roams the countryside helping the weak and innocent with a double barreled shotgun and his kung fu fists.

@munchjrgames942

Ай бұрын

Daniel "Poor" Evans

I hope you all make more of these! This was fun!

Absolutely love that because it's the 70s almost every single character is smoking.

Always amazes me that the guys' jokey half-arsed ideas are more compelling and creative than what the movie studios are coming up with.

It's always fascinating to watch RLM's Calvinball Method of Movie Creation™. Like watching sausage being made.

Mike re-watched Wreck It Ralph and said "what if this were a horror movie instead?"

@scottneil1187

Ай бұрын

More like Tron.

@pogglywoggly3292

Ай бұрын

Not a single holodeck reference... Doubt Mike is even aware of this... Jay probably just recorded him talking in his sleep, thinking it would be funny if they animated it. Rich is still laughing.

The most detailed storyboard ever made for presentation to a major studio. I can't wait for the release!

I figured a later plot detail would be that they have to go BACK into the game to get one of the pong paddles to deflect the pong ball.

Glad to see another animated RLM! Looks great!

Most entertaining 10 minutes of 2024 so far.

Top notch animation work! 🤯🤯

Do Pong Paddles Dream of Electric Pong Balls?

beautiful. I would love to see a haunted arcade series of shorts based like this.

This is really brilliant. I would 100% watch this as a new portion of their programming every time.

Mr. Pong's mansion having half a dozen tennis courts is a genius touch.

This reminds me of the classic Loren Bouchard animated shows. Just let the actors riff and then animate over it. Beautiful!

@jasondamron1766

Ай бұрын

Absolutely love Home Movies and Dr. Katz!

This started as a Pong Horror Movie and then became the Adam Sandler movie Pixels. In all honesty Pixels might actually be scarier.

It broke new ground!

Mike making a game adaptation while not knowing how the game works is pretty accurate to how older Hollywood adaptations of VGs were tbh

Holy crap, guys. This is the funniest thing youve done in years. I loved it!

Wee Zachary P does a bang up job on these. Well done, sir

I love these animated episodes and the crazy movie ideas. It's amazing what you guys have managed to do on this channel over the years, and I look forward to many more.

A movie idea that in 1994 would have sounded like a total joke but now 30 years later sounds like a breath of fresh air.

Please make more of these! I mean the premises are inherently silly yet honestly really engaging and interesting what u guys come up with. U guys have talked about how awful it is to actually make movies, but seeing u guys sketch out the plot like a writers room bouncing ideas back and forth is rlly fun

This was incredible and will be so under appreciated

The art style of these is fantastic

Fantastic! You guys have always been good but the little crazy tangents that you go off in during BOTW and HITB have always been great and to see this in animation awesome. This is definitely a direction you should be going towards in my opinion but regardless just keep doing what you guys love

This should have 4x as many views. They're wonderful. These pitch meetings are just too much😂. Loved the animation, too. Sub'd to the creator of the animation.

I really liked the animation, great job WZP!

Best birthday gift

@mrnomore666

Ай бұрын

С днем рожденья! Счастья, здоровья, семейного благополучия.

@Splitboltxful

Ай бұрын

happy bday

@thekrunkadidliacdude5033

Ай бұрын

Happy Birthday fellow RLM fan!

@aflatchestedyandere5483

Ай бұрын

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

An extremely generous portrail of Mike

This is even better than the last one. I hope you guys keep this collab up with WeeZackaryP!

If Pac-Man was smart, he'd just call Zak Bagans

5:50 the faces are so adorable i can't-

"it's like playing Air Hockey, Essentially." Mike Stoklasa on Pong 2024

I'm so happy they didn't stop doing these just because they don't seem to get as many views as their main stuff

Feels like Midnight Gospel kinda! Would love to see more!

It’s always fun to see little animated skits on KZread like it’s 2009 again.

I watch this video regularly just to hear Jay trying to stifle a laugh while responding, "yes. That's pong"

Please do more of these!!! I couldn't stop laughing! [Over the PA] "Help us; we're stuck in the Pong game!" 🤣

These are the best things you guys have done. So glad to see another one.

It's great how lifelike Rich looks in this

Thank you for existential thinking...when most shy away from anything but a retread.2 years and the laugh is still great.

I'm glad they gave a cameo to that lady with the giant afro in Malignant.

Now I want that PONG movie

👍

@RedLetterMedia

Ай бұрын

Fantastic job!

@dogwithashotgun574

Ай бұрын

Crazy good work. 10 mins of animation must've taken agess.

I still remember seeing some of WeeZacharyP's jerma videos from years ago, crazy to see him now do lengthy "main features" for RedLetterMedia. Keep up the great work!

3:49 that's the hardest I've laughed in weeks.

Glad to see a new animation video

Bro this was so funny

This is fkn hilarious, you guys are the undefeated masters at talking film nonsense. Please make this animated insanity a series, in this dark, bleak world of pain and suffering, RLM is among the two or three things that give me relief 👍🏻🖤🏴‍☠️

I love the animation! I hope this series continues

I KNEW THERE WOULD BE MORE

mike is to pong what kurtzmann was to start trek

That was great. I'd pay $15 for a ticket and $75 for a popcorn, soda, and a handful of jelly beans.

"Well, this is a period film, so he's still gonna be alive". Nolan Bushnell is 81 but still alive.