Monkey Wrench Ep1 - The Ghost Egg
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youtube is doing this series dirty for not recommending it enough
Agreed
Facts
Facts this deserves the views
This is my favorite CZcams cartoon honestly
fr broi
It’s an actual atrocity that this isn’t getting more attention, it’s so well animated, designed, voice acted, everything is divine 😭
Yea NGL this is much better than amazing digital circus. Better dialogue, better pacing, better story, better jokes... I'm sure I could go on but anyway... The discrepancy in views and popularity between those two is nothing but absurd.
@@DivineBanana well I think the digital circus deserves love- I’m not going to disrespect one artist for the sake of another- that’s not cool. But i still definitely agree this deserves just as much love.
@@aoikuma2337 it absolutely deserves love. I just think it's overrated, and I see how what I said seems harsh, but I really don't mean to bash it. I like a lot of things about it, the animation is great and character designs are fun, but I don't think it's any better than the countless other animation that get a fraction of the views.
And personally I just found this to be far more entertaining, idk I just get bored watching digital circus, despite the fact that I can appreciate that it is good animation. I just like this story better, I find it more unique and interesting. Just my personal opinion. No disrespect intended whatsoever!
@@DivineBanana oh i apologize then- with all the unnecessary hate going around for tadc I didn’t understand you were just critiquing it. Though I still love both equally, I completely agree this was far more interesting and entertaining 💗
@@aoikuma2337 I love it too and I'm happy so many great Indy animations exist in CZcams! Again I apologize I really didn't mean it - in the future I will work on uplifting the less popular works instead of trying to drag down the more popular stuff, I can see how I came off as rude there.
CZcams hates animations
And Hitler hates jews
Why would you think so?
@KnightQQ rpm is like 1 dollar for alot of hard work.
@@EddyTheLion Wooow..
Plus they never show awesome shit like this on homepages so they go un noticed
The fact that Tyneen is more jazzed about meeting Karra than she's mad about losing the bounty LMFAO
"Ms. Karra wait! sign my pecs!"
Fan girls gotta fan
I’d be jazzed to meet Tyneen tbh
I love Shrike so much i wish Spanish was real
yeah, me too. I wish it was common as well
Squids are cool too but unfortunately all things beginning with the letter S don't exist :(
On an unrelated note my Sister just dematerialised from this reality.
Spanish and Sisters are real.
@@55twintv39 I'm not convinced.
@@OdaSwifteye
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"all sleep's good until you wake up amigo!"
WELL SAID BUDDY, WELL. SAID.
That's a mood if ever there was one.
💀💀💀💀
Truer words never spoken!
Who ever made the captions deserve a raise
You took the manic energy of EarthWorm Jim and placed it in a character that is actually competent. The second I saw his face and heard his voice, I got nervous that he was just going to be the annoying funny man, but no. You made him into a really fun character with a voice that fits his fits of mania.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw the thumbnail. Reminds me of a lot of Doug TenNapel's work, and that's a good thing. I love Earthworm Jim.
@@upinarms79 That's actually why I skipped over it the first two times it was suggested to me.
It's not that I don't like zany, it's that it needs to be done right and most can't do it right.
But this... this does it so right.
"NooOOoo"
"Pleeease?"
"NooOOoo"
"Pleeease?"
"NooOOoo"
"Pleeease?"
"NooOOoo"
[ S U M M O N S D E M O N ]
"Yes Mother"
Still my favorite example of random humor done right. This series is amazing.
Kind reminds me of smiling friends
The most normally spoken "Yes Mother" had me dying
ERE ere ere ere
23:59
The "Yes Mother" was the most normal thing he said the whole episode and I love it
I will watch Monkey Wrench no matter how many times it's reuploaded. It's so good, and deserves success
My exact thoughts
Agreed. Need more merch too.
I couldn't agree more
Honestly I’ll root for any animations on CZcams BUT this one deserves so much praise
@@buizcuitchomper6921 Hell yeah! A Minecraft and Rayman fan! 😎
Whoever did the subtitles needs a raise immediately! It added alot more soul and character to the show
I like the way how monkey wrench is dofferent from other shows, doesn't focus soo much on profanity
and it doesn't rely on sex jokes either like Helluva Boss, I mean, I love that show but it can be a little much, especially during scenes that are supposed to be more serious.
@@katylepetsos7512well the first one went into the comedy side like they both didn't get anything, and it is a good thing that it is not so overrated
@@linedoltrainerchannelgammi2247yeah, honestly, I definitely want it to get more attention, but not to the point where we have a bunch of content farms like Digital Circus (oh poor Gooseworx)
That's why I kinda prefer this over Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel. The animation is just better, the writing is funny (and it doesn't rely too much on swearing), and the lore feels deep despite not there not being much revealed yet.
@@wobblewokgaming655 while it is revelaed in the beginning and the end
20:27 After all the screaming this guy does that barely audible "noew :(" really just tickles me.
One thing I hadn't quite noticed before is how Beebs seems to genuinely be having a good time during the first encounter with Ricket and the gang, even teasing them a bit at the end. Which ends up following on the second encounter.
Despite looking like the "gentle giant" character, he's actually a bit more complex than he let's on, he enjoys the action just as much- he's just a biiit more responsible than Shrike. I love the way the *characterization* of the characters is presented in subtle ways like that!
And the fact he's a bit more concerned with the merc company than Shrike.
While cashing in on the bounty would net them a lot of money, breaking contract would definitely not help them move up on the board.
@@Oni_Manga_Land Its true! and I like how you can either take that as him "not breaking contract because it goes against what he belives in" and "not breaking contract for the sake of keeping a good reputation for the job", it might as well be both for him.
I love Beebs as a character. He's kind and sweet, but he can also put up a fight! And he's capable of looking at the bigger picture when Shrike can't.
23:07 this comment somehow made me notice the one gun he reloaded is lit up around the.... screw shape at the end of the gun, but the other he pulls out isnt lit up and misaligned
12/10 details just help show the effort baked into things
Read 1:40
I've no doubt the easiest way to obliterate your career as a merc is to sell out the person who hired you. Plus, being known as the guys who turned down a bounty worth 10000% of what your contract was paying you would SERIOUSLY help your reputation!
Such a nice detail that the characters that have lived with no gravity for a while is used to it while the rest aren't.
“Why… why didn’t you hit them?”
“We don’t have any eyes.”
😭😂
My favorite thing about this first episode is how efficient and natural it makes a lot of the exposition. A quick line or two between a pair of characters and you INSTANTLY get where they stand with each other. The entire Scratch scene is probably the best example of this. You could probably take that scene out of context and show it to someone and it'd stand on it's own as a self contained short.
Which one?
First encounter
I like how Shrike's threat rating is only a 5 out of a max of 10 but when push comes to shove he proves to be incredibly capable. With quick thinking he basically had Kara cornered. If he was only able to keep his mouth shut he would have had her and he'd have been able to sequester Nobert back to his terminal.
That's why he's a 5 out of 10. His whole knucklehead persona severely holds him back.
just lends room for character growth c:
Indie animation will save the industry. But we need to support the creators. SPREAD THE WORD!!
hell, even Disney can't make such quality anymore, in fact, they aren't even trying.
Hmm
Would make sense if this production wasnt a thinly veiled plagiarism xD
@@kierancreighton96 source ?
@@ARKWOLF20000 its mostly just bebop
@@kierancreighton96 there's more to plagiarism than conceptual similarity
I *highly* reccomend watching with subtitles, especially in the first encounter with Scratch, the montauge, and in the final fight scene.
21:14 “ *Ricket crying like a BITCH* ” Is one of my favorite quotes from the episode, *and its not even said outloud*
I also love the smiles (:
There also a bunch of hidden text, references, lore and other stuff to find in the backgrounds that you have to pause for
Unrelated to the comment, but that POG he does tho
@@typryor2227heres a great example, at 18:12 beebs shows a dissatisfied expression at shrike for cursing them and does a silent "im sorry" expression
@@typryor2227just pay attention to beebs face
God the animation is just amazing, the smears, the expressions, it's just oozes late 90s early 2000s fun.
Still one of the best indie cartoon pilots out there
I loved Monkey Wrench more than Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel.
@@draguOdoT what about helluva boss or hazbin hotel
@@seanpvs101moviesproduction3agreed
both of those shows suck@@redsonic7rickoverload560
eh lackadaisy and murder drones takes the cake for me but this one is still reeaaally good
3:40 "HopeUPausedToReadThis" yes. I did.
19:53 Love that brief “Could you NOT!”
It's nice to see that Monkey Wrench has it's own channel on CZcams now rather than having all the episodes on Zeurel's main channel, i have a feeling this series is going to blow up soon enough because it's too good to be left underrated!
youtube's algorithm: well yes but actually no
@@NoppyOwOsoon... that WILL be fixed.
@@youngspecial64maybe on next episode!
@CoringaLOUC0 yeah... hopefully, more of Kara can bring more attention to these sucka's.
I really want this to succeed and be up there with helluva boss in popularity
Then we need more furry and gay drama in the series. Or at least the pirate queen back 😄
@@chocoholicbatloverstudios we need to get Saberspark or other animation reviewers to talk about this masterpiece
Same
@@dmorfo4359*RWNJTVGNT4WKJT* ssshhh. you'll alert the twitter horde.
@@Foxthatisaplush hush you aren't funny
(16:50) The sign flashes "Come to your g ay rim" love using broken signs for hilarity.
If anyone else wants to see it, you have to pause and use the '' keys to navigate frame by frame.
What a time to be alive. When indie studios are creating far superior shows than any network.
yeach, at this point its a shock that they’re still around with stuff like this for free on youtube, streaming too.
It's cause they got corporate breathing down their necks...
@@stonethemason12 YES, ABSOLUTELY. It shows in teen titans go especially. What used to be a somewhat good show has been turned into brain-rotting mush because they started pushing for weekly episodes and it pretty much just became too much.
“Chester dies :(“ whoever made the closed captions deserves a raise ❤😂
8:58 Well, that explains all the movie villains who are bad at shooting.🤣🔫
This feels like Earthworm Jim.
Rewatching these a million times. The animation is a treasure. The effort put into this is unbelievable. Yall notice the subtitles? I love the little things they did!
Give Monkey Wrench credit: they accepted a dangerous contract for a fraction of the worth of the bounty, then proceeded to succeed on the assignment despite being assaulted by numerous hunters, to only be denied signage when an ELITE ASSASSIN interferes... and even then, only barely!
I'm willing to bet that Shrike is BEYOND mad at himself for letting himself get distracted and costing him and Beebs the bounty.
22:44 honestly, i kinda like Shrike's monologue while confronting Kara...
It's not even a competition, this is EASILY the best indie animated series I have seen.
Beats out all the others by MILES
It's just nice to see an indie cartoon where the characters actually like each other and aren't swearing every two seconds :P
The audio rebalancing helps this SO MUCH.
Might just be the best animated series on YT. Excellent job on this series so far, the entire team deserves all the praise! Good luck and godspeed to you all.
This show is incredible wtf! CZcams saturates it’s audience so much with helluva boss and digital circus it leaves shows like this in the dark
That’s not their fault. That’s CZcams fault.
"Why didn't you hit them?"
"We.. we don't have any eyes."
Lmao that had me rolling, hilarious setup.
Scratch is the best cherchter of all time
Day 1 buying his plush
That entire last 10 minutes was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a hot minute
It's SO funnier with captions on, rewatch the whole thing with them if you haven't already.
@@noahhamilton5974 EYYYAAAARRRRRR is here!
EYYYYYYAAAARRRRRRR is dead :(
This show deserves all the love and attention it gets.
Whoever voiced Nubert deserves at least 20 oscars- the NoOoOoOOoOo was perfect
That was Joshua "Zeurel" Palmer, the main writer and animator of the series himself. Also, Queen Potoo is voiced by his wife, Ashley Palmer
I just noticed on rewatch how through out 20:36 till 21:05 if you pay attention to shrike's guns, you can see the bar go down showing hes running out of ammo, nice detail
Edit: even at 22:16
This series deserves so much more love and praise, I wish YT supported projects like this more
the subtitles are so friendly :)
The series itself is turning out to be pretty good, and the voice characterizations by Jacob Barrens as Shrike Sanchez & Jean-Francois Donaldson as Bulldog Browns certainly help.
This makes me want to try that 15 cheese atomic supreme pizza
what i love about this show much more than helluva boss is the fact it nails both character and story plot without needing to be overly profane while keeping a steady and consistent pace, not make 100+ antagonists and dump them the next episode never to be seen again.
I know right?
@@gallibon1319 yeap
god yes, helluva boss is good, don’t get me wrong, and was a wonderful step for indie animation, but the writing and character progression sucks
@@Nonexistin EXACTLY THIS
@@Nonexistin loona do be hot tho 😏
Hola shabos, apoyen este jalesote de animacion, saludos :D
Potente el show, chingon que tenga 3 capitulos y se actualize seguido
Si vine profesor y hasta le traje unos mentolados.
Follame
Vale Valeriano
Hagan Colaboración mi Neguis
This feels like a fever dream crossover of Cowboy Bebop, Ratchet and Clank, and Final Space. And I’m all for it!! 🎉
I've noticed Indie animated shows on CZcams tend to be a tad hit-or-miss due to inexperience. I'm grateful that the folks making this show clearly know what they're doing!
Damn the audio mixing in this version is QUITE a bit better. I caught a whole ton of jokes that went totally over my head on the first watch. Definitely supporting!
Love Tyneen, shes a badass dino lady
2:05 “Who is this this is?”
I just now realized this line is probably a reference to the vid “Lard ass”, very nice call-back!✨
Any excuse for a rewatch!
Oh hello
Dude why the fuck is this comment so burried you literally composed the ost
This new audio just made me realise how ABSOLUTELY VITAL it can be at times.
The scene where they’re all fighting feels so much more jumpy and faster by simply making the laser gun sounds louder, it’s amazing!
Can I just say the subtitles on this are immaculate ✨✨
I know betraying the guy who hired you is an easy way to nuke your career as a mercenary, but shoutout to Beebs for turning down a bounty worth roughly 10000% of what he was getting paid just to uphold a crazy bird-man's contract.
SPOILERS:
Even though they technically failed, I really hope that kinda integrity helped their reputation.
Man the new revamped sound effects really help giving the actions scenes the impact they so deserved, really cool tweaking around in this one
aww I'm back from watching episode 2 and I love the detail that Shrike mentions that he doesn't like the dark, and there is a night lamp in his room 2:15 😭😭
I came from Just Stop’s video and I'm so glad I did. This first episode was hilarious, fun, and action-packed. This was an amazing experience and CZcams should recommend it to more people who love the animation sphere
Note that @17:11 the poster shows an example of a (executed) Terran male and female and it says to execute the species on site!!! VERY IMPORTANT!! Also, on caras Device she pulls up the crate that shrike and bulldog get from the law in episode two end it says Target: secondary Green location, unknown. She also pulls up, shrike and bulldog as a secondary target as she’s looking at the primary target, which is Nobert Potoo.
@17:11 it’s very important to notice the sign behind bulldog, see the green part of the solar system?
This show is genuinely one of the best on CZcams rn and it needs more attention
Seriously hope you get all the funding you need. Fantastic series and I love the characters especially Beebs.
GHOSTTT EGGG!!! That sucks youtube is doing this series dirty. You deserve a better platform
I love the semi-episodical nature of the episodes, like the box being so far the most important plot device
Fun Fact: the coordinates Nobert gives in the beginning are the irl coordinates for Area 51
Looking forward to seeing this new channel grow. Im digging the balanced audio too.
I WILL miss seeing Saberspark's "This is too good for the likes of CZcams" comment though 😅.
The amount of effort put into the closed captions...
You NEED to watch this with subtitles
This series is even better with subtitles! I think it’s so unfair how much work they put into this project but barely get any views, it’s by far one of the best animated series on CZcams I’ve seen yet!
It's unbealivable how underrated this show is, I've been watching the two episodes that'd been uploaded over and over again for like 3 months now and everything just keeps fascinating me, sadly I don't have much money to support the series as much as I'd like to, but I just hope we can watch this project grow and become what it deserves to. Thanks to the creators for making this unforgettable piece of media.
Heres some stuff in this episode I found to be worth noting for theory craffting or generally interesting and I plan to do this for each episode. Please support the creators! So to start of heres what the secondary target profiles told us about our protagonists
Shrike Sanchez
Height: 6'3" / 192cm
Weight: 125lbs / 57kg
Age: Unknown
Species: Unknown
Threat rating: 5/10
Notes: Target heavily favours long range combat. Useless in close range combat. Take out first to have an easier time taking down the much larger threat Bulldog.
Bulldog Browns
Height: 8'12" / 272cm
Weight: 800lbs / 362kg
Age: 32 galactic years
Species: Walrinian
Threat rating: 9/10
Notes: Target heavily favours close range combat. Take out Sanchez first to have an easier time taking down this massive opponent.
The pictures are also interesting as they help show off their personalities
Shrike's is in the moment and goofy, showing his incompetence and love of pizza. Whoever made his description didn't care too much or Shrike is surprisingly under the radar, but I think it's the first.
There's slightly more detail about Bulldog and it treats him as a genuine threat. His picture helps to show him as a gentle gaint with his soft exertion and posing, making the photographer look small.
Someone called 'Primary Red' is mentioned in the news on the scrolling text with a statement about how they hope there won't be another disater when the league of aligned worlds is mentioned, leading me believing their connected.
Just before Bulldog shuts off the news we see a large bounty was issued by the Potoo empire, presumably the one everyone was after.
A white circle, presumably the 'Ghost egg', is orbiting the planet and its moon based on a drawing seen the background they were speaking to Nobert
Tyreens blind minions seem extremely sturdy.
Scratch might be the 'Precious sardine' bounty hunters we can see on the ranking list
This should get picked up by adult swim it's too good to not have more episodes
It really (Redacted) me off that I didn't get notified of this series. This one episode was such a good time and fun to watch with the humor, the characters, and the world it's building. Tomorrow I am gonna watch the other 2 episodes. I really hope more people check this out cause this is genuinely good and brings me such joy to watch.
I'll take any excuse to watch this masterpiece again
episode 3 is out and i'm taking that as another excuse.
I LOVE that comic-book adjacent artstyle, and the humor, I will continue to watch, with growing interest
That screaming guy looks like a Smiling Friends character...
*credits* Oh! That would be why!
What a neat series, can't wait to binge it when I should be working!
ive watched this 2 times and only just now realized they are saying "ghost egg", not gostag.
That makes so much more sense
this series is such a piece of work, now that it has its own channel it makes me more excited knowing how committed you guys are to this project! keep it up!!
SOMEBODY JUST GIVE SQUIDWARD HIS DAYUM PIZZA FIX. 🍕
*Help* 💀
Really love this series. Mixes, action, drama, suspense & comedy very well. This really needs more eyes on it.
really hope the algorithm will be nicer to this series, it's so cool to see indie animations on this site, especially one as fun as this one.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU HIT THEM?"
"We... we don't have any eyes."
"Oh... oh yeah."
LOL! Also, Dayum, Tyneen and Kara are FINE!
I’ve laughed more in this one episode than the entire season of Hazbin Hotel
Watching this while your parents fight goes so hard
21:25 wtf Charlie from the hit show Smiling Friend’s little brother
18:12 if you pay attention to beeb's face he slowly turns to shrike, like shrike cursed them by saying "How much you wanna bet Scratch or Tyneen drop in at the last second"
The captions tho- 🤣
*ricket crying like a BITCH*
How has this not become super popular?
Seriously this was an amazing good episode. The animation and voice acting was awesome.
Honestly its a damn shame that youtube isnt recommending this enough, and an even bigger shame that it wasnt on glitch x. This is easily my favourite indie animated show on CZcams so im leaving a mandatory engagement comment.
Keywords:
Animation, indie animation,the amazing digital circus, hazbin hotel,glitch productions,helluva boss
Genuinely one of the best Indie series being produced currently. So much effort and care put into each episode. One of my favorites! I’ll watch it no matter how many times it gets reuploaded!!!
CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED
commenting for the algo gods
Now this is CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED! This is better than most actual animated shows nowadays, and even though that aint saying much, this is still a masterpiece.
this brings me back to the feeling of watching cartoons as a kid, you managed to capture some of that magic
Every time I watch this episode, I notice more small details that didn't need to be added. On this watch through of this episode, I only now saw that the remote Beebs used to turn off the TV magnetizes to the dashboard to prevent itself from floating away, due to them not having A.G. (Artificial Gravity).
It’s criminal this show isn’t getting more attention!
This was an awesome episode and Kara is now my favorite cat assassin, I hope we see more of her.
Funny that I accidentally came across this series and now I love it