What are UglyDolls? (books, box office flop and their scarier cousins)
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0:00 What and why is ugly dolls? The surprisingly wholesome origin story
2:35 Breaking down the guidebooks
15:36 Silly song time
16:24 The MOVIE
25:15 Post-movie book
27:31 Ugly Dolls wiki and crossover we all saw coming
30:45 one last fun fact for the road
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Giving the shopkeep their own little clone named "Minimum Wage" is peak character creation.
I just got the joke😅
MINIMUM WAAAAAAAAGE HYAA
@@polygawnPOLYGAWN????
@@jojounicorn4610 HI
Ngl, the Ugly Dolls could EASILY see a resurgence in comic form. If they released a quick webcomic through twitter, insta, tumblr, etc. like how Falseknees or shencomix does they'd fit right in with the internet. They already have dolls that they could sell of the characters and people love weird looking plushies and blorbos like the plushies itemLabel has. They have so much potential for a comeback.
There was multiple Uglydoll comic books that came out, with each story in those books being done by a different artist. The stories may not really be cannon, but most artists did well with sticking to the characters (unlike the movie).
CZcams seems to agree; I got an itemLabel advertisement at the end of the video.
@@saddlebag
What are they called?
@@agentkmr In order of release they are… Goin' Places, SHHHHHHHH, Eat Dat, and My Hero.
My dad has an ice-bat. We bought him when I was an infant and now he just chills out on the sofa in the living room.
Oh my gosh, I remember seeing Clumsy get compared to one of them in the Smurfs movie...
Ah, I see what you did there, lmao
I still have mine and got one of the updated ones from when the movie was released. Almost started crying when I found him and have been collecting whatever ice bat stuff I can.
As a kid; I remember seeing the Ice bat Uglydoll at Walmart and I thought he was the cutest thing ever. My mom hated that thing and refused to buy it for me; but my dad secretly got him for me. Now he’s hanging out with my squishmallows on the bookshelf.
Very wholesome
You’ve got a cool dad
I also thought they were cute but didn't stop getting more of them
All I remember from the movie is when so many people simped for Lou 😭
what 😦
Girl what whennn please tell me your lying😭😭😭😭😭😭
Yeah.
I remember seeing the billions of fanfiction that were made for him back in the day.
It was wild-
If I had a dollar for every insta profile picture of him during the movie days I could help my parents pay off their house dolls
What? He's like. A child.
I didn’t realize ugly dolls was a series outside of that questionable movie a few years back
same 💀
samee
6:43 going off the gaslighting doctor, she’s the really pretty girl bc she said so and her red eye make u believe.
Mind control is what I’m saying
Oooo wait I love this theory
I used to be obsessed with Lou a few years back. He's a really good villain tbh and is the only reason people like that movie lol
Ong, my first Introduction to this movie was through an edit of him on tiktok
the guide books feel like they're part of that genre of children's media that's effectively just "jokes that only an adult would really understand or relate to, but presented in a way that a child can find funny." like Peanuts, or The Looney Tunes Show.
Thank you for saving me from eating my food to subpar back up youtube content - you were really here for me in my darkest hour
So real, I have an hour long car ride I need to sit still for
the highest compliment to a youtube creator: telling them you watch their videos while you eat 🙇🏻♂️
Watching while I cook a frozen pizza. Truly a lifesaver
let me tell u i was pissed when they yassified moxy’s design in the movie. she was my favorite lil bunny creature as a child :((
Funny thing the moxxie in that film is actauly originally named gorgeous.
I'm wondering what the heck yassified means?
@@Chrisjbennett89
Identity theft?
Something I found funny is Babo's name is a korean word that means "stupid", that is likely intentional given Sunmin is korean
the only thing i remember about the uglydolls movie is that the antagonist is a queercoded drama kid. i think.
Played by a Jonas Brother no less
Okay so I think you’d really like big city greens it’s still going and it’s a more modern Disney show but it has a very one-liner joke style that’s really surprising along with some fun characters! I think you’d love Tilly and the Grandma!
OMG YESSSSS I HOPE THEY DO BIG CITY GREENS
Yes Grandma Alice is my favorite character ❤
BIG CITY GREENS OMFGGGggGgGG!!!!!!!!! THIS WAS A JUMPSCARE IN THE COMMENTS! /pos
Also Tilly's my favorite! She's literally so me..
@@ShellySwirl I KNOW!! big city greens literally never gets mentioned
YESSSS BIG CITY GREENS IS SO FUN
"I had somebody tell me to never say Dale again" i- I have no idea who could that be... (I'm sorry Athena yk it was all good fun)
HAHAHA I WAS HOPING YOU’D SEE THIS!!! That comment was so funny no need to apologize 🤣
*YOU?!*
@@agentkmr yeah, twas me
So proud of wage's transition, she looked so much happier post transition in the movie
I might not have seen it, but Wanda Sykes as Wage and Gabriel Iglesias as Babo were just objectively perfect fucking casting.
If Uglydolls gets a sequel it better be about the concept of clones existing
We need Minimum Wage in the sequel
Maybe they found out they were being lied to and killed their clones in a war?
i miss uglydolls, i had a HUGE hyperfixation on them when i was 13. I met a few friends through the teeny tiny Uglydoll community on youtube. I had an existential crisis over the definiton of ugly, and now over 4 years later i strive to make my art as ugly as possible, and to see the beauty in what society deems ugly. Ended up meeting one of the most toxic people of my life, as well as seeing horrific discourse surrounding Icebat Vs Lucky Bat. Good times!
Should be noted that Moxy in the movie was another uglydoll named "Little Miss Gorgeous", they just changed her name for the movie.
I always thought it strange that the Ugly Dolls in the movie weren't all that ugly, which seems counterintuitive to the point of the dolls.
I mean, as Athena brought up, they are disproportionate stuffed animals that somehow came off the same production line as a plastic fashion doll line.
So, yeah, forget being ugly, they were literal errors in the system.
The movie would have been more sincere if their opposition were teddy bears and other plushies instead of human dolls with a wholly different materials.
Like, I don't know how I'd react if a band of nude lifeforms with chalky-gelatinous flesh and no joints despite having skeletons came out of the woods and claimed to be fellow himans.
My interpretation was as follows:
Ox was different, imperfect and because he didn't fit the Institute's mold, he was labeled as "ugly"
Everyone else was doctor-model/artist-model, etc, doll, and Ox thought "I'm an ugly-doll"
That was his designation that he carried over Ugly-ville.
The Perfect Dolls were put under the regime of an egocentric doll that failed to truly understand the task a doll has. Lou said "a doll must look like this to be a children's doll", when all along the truth is: "a doll must be like this (a good person) to be a children's doll)"
So, I think the messages are:
it isn't your looks that give you worth, but your actions
And
People will label you ugly, but that isn't the truth.
“Ginormous breasts” was outta pocket 😂
i love how theres a character named wage and also one named minimum wage who is just wage but smaller
why is that such a good joke
The look Athena is doing for this video is adorable and she does a good job on these videos with information
The only thing I remember from this movie is Lou saying something along the lines of "I will run the gauntlet with you!" and some random person in the background yelling "I wanna run YOUR gauntlet, Lou!"
What the-?
My theory is that Uglytown is just the Otherworld from Coraline. After the other mother died, all the dolls she made came to life and took over. It certainly explains the moon.
the Moxy thing is also weird because she was originally designed to be Ox's sister! Reusing her character to retcon Ox no longer having a sister always made me so sad...this video was great!! Uglydolls is something I'm still super into even now as an adult, so thanks so much for taking the time to get into the nitty gritty!
I have the small version of Wage. Aka Minimum Wage. It felt fitting.
Omg NOT UGLY DOLLS! This reminds me of when everyone was shipping the blonde head villain with everyone! Even that boy with the ugly sign. 👏😭
I remember that as well
I think the meaning of the “thin and fat” joke is how people think they’re fat when they’re not
I was only 3 years old when 9/11 happened so I’m not surprised that Ugly Dolls are that old.
All of them give me "mom, come pick me up!" Vibes
Athena saying “freaky just got fabulous” is what I needed to hear today. I love MH!
I remember reading somewhere that movie Moxy’s design is actually from a different existing UglyDoll called “Gorgeous” but they gave her a totally different one’s name for some reason. My guess is it had something to do with the Poppy similarities since Trolls was so popular and wanting a more “main character” sounding name 🤔
Film Theory: "Moxy" is evil.
@@agentkmr??? How?
8:35
This is what happens when you cast a spell you dont know, Athena. You become snowgraved
19:04 I can tell this was edited in but then again, who remembers lucky bat? The cuter more superior bat is ice bat. She deserves more voicelines and screentime.
I wish ice bat was the main bat tbh
the fact that the worker clones that all look the same because they all have the same personality and have nothing unique about them is kinda deep
it also reminds me of that episode of spoungebob where he tries to be "normal"
Uglydoll and the Ugly Guides were the pinnacle of my childhood. I loved the goofy celebrations of crappy mundanity in the writing, and the overall comedic tone influenced me significantly. I collected tons of the dolls, and still have several, and I completely disavowed the movie once I learned how little it had to do with the Uglyverse as written in the doll tags and books.
Telling a kid that they’re clothes not fitting means they’re fat and that monitoring your body through something that trivial, knowing that preteen boys and girls are about to undergo puberty weight gain is just very… I can tell this book was pre 9-11 lmao
I remember I rented the UglyDolls movie a while back just to see why everybody hated it, had no idea the franchise had been around so long. However, I didn't remember anything that actually happened in the movie because I was on the verge of a mental breakdown when I watched it and was sent to a psych ward a few months later. So this was a good memory refresher I guess 😂
I was born not long after Ugly Dolls came out and yet I somehow managed to miss their existence entirely up until the movie 😭
I think I'm one of the few people that actually like ugly dolls before they became a movie franchise and to me, the movie destroyed everything I liked about it. I remember getting an ugly dolls book from the library at my school whenever I was in elementary school and I loved seeing your little comic about how ugly dolls originally was made by a couple who met whenever the (eventually wife) of the two came to the US from Korea to study abroad, and whenever she moved back to Korea they sent each other drawings back and forth of little creatures and then eventually she made one into a stuffed animal for him to hug during their long-distance relationship. They ended up making a company together and getting married only to completely scrap the cute and cuddly, weird aesthetic that they had for years just to sell it to a shitty mass-produced toy company. You used to only be able to find ugly dolls in specialty gift shops like beanie babies before they got popular, and the stuffed animals were really good quality and were really cute and most of them were unique because they were made in small lots. Now they're just garbage that you find in the Walmart discount bin. I just feel like they sold out and the company lost its heart. It's sad.
Musical Hell just posted a review of the Uglydolls Movie a couple of weeks ago and she addressed the issues that the movie itself has but also said that with a few more script changes the movie had the potential to be pretty good. I actually said in one of the comments that the movie should have had the human dolls be divided by two groups which are the Perfects and Imperfects. The Imperfects have various flaws such as two right hands or bad wigs/hair rooting and the Perfects don’t like to associate with them because they think that the Imperfects are too weird to hang with them and they make the Imperfects do all of the work. The Imperfects aren’t too happy about being made to be the labor but they aren’t miserable and they don’t hate the Perfects and want to be accepted by them. In comes the Ugly Dolls who unite both groups by organizing activities where they all have fun with each other and teach the lesson that you can have fun with those different from you if you ignore the differences.
PLEASE do Wild Kratts, I just know it would turn out amazing you cover these franchises in so much detail
7:28 this is literally me because Octonauts has some crazy lore
I love just looking at the Backyardigans plushies in the back of the video and immediately looking across my room to my own plushies up on my shelf, I feel so seen
I remember when I was in the theater watching this movie and when they said Glasses are an imperfection I came out of the theater and said to my mom “Am I ugly?” (Because I wear glasses)
Fun Fact: when I watched this movie with my younger brother, he liked the one song where the blond guy calls out everyone for being ugly. A few days later some friends came over and he called one of the girls ugly because she looked like one of the dolls in the song. The girl started to cry and left the house. I have not heard from her since
28:25 the one that looks like baby chewbacca that was punched in the face way too many times-- that one's going to appear in my nightmares
Zak Bagans, of Ghost Adventures fame, had a saga on his instagram stories where he adopted a Fuggler and took it on his daily errands. Oddly wholesome.
Random memory that came to me while watching this, I think my 5th grade language arts teach had either the ugly dolls or the fuggler dolls in this little cozy reading corner and they creeped me the heck out. I remember her taking such care and pride of those dolls and encouraged that if you were reading in the cozy corner, you'd grab one as a little reading buddy. So I just read at my desk to avoid the dolls with teeth.
7:22 Athena P vs Pthena A
I love the Uglydolls movie, obviously nothing ground breaking but it’s just a silly goofy fun with great music
I obtained some of these plushies a long time ago while knowing practically nothing about UglyDolls. Thanks for the overview. 👍
So happy to be early espically because Athenas comtent has helepd me get through the rough patches in life and made the good days even better
Is that a lumpy butt on someone's face? What's going on in that picture?
This means the world to me!!! Appreciate all your support
@@AthenaPOfficial You're welcome!!
7:24 oh god we've been called out- OCTOCADETS DISPERSE
i remember getting an Ox plush from the thrift store with the tongue and its only other eye gone. I didn't think of it much until my mom got a mini Ox dog toy for my dog, and right then and there i just looked at my Ox comparing mine and the new mini one side by side, wondering what adventures my Ox went on to lead to how he looked now and i almost cried at how little i cared for him compared to how much the previous owner probably cared for him
for the rest of my childhood until adolescence i treated that Ox so well he may as well have been royalty
The UglyDolls movie is super underrated, I'm glad to see you enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for a movie with good music, and the music in the movie was so good, I listened to it a lot.
I love this so much her personality is just so lively
I once saw Fugglers at a Barnes & Noble, and I couldn’t sleep for a while after because I thought they would pull out my teeth with pliers.
0:26
"Some of you watching were not alive during 9/11, but Ugly Dolls were!"
2:43
(SpongeBob transition card background with the text "Please enjoy the fucked up Uglyverse and all the ways these guides fucked up my self esteem" overlayed on it in a SpongeBob font)
5:26
"Now Babo isn't smart or courageous... That's the end of that sentence-"
7:16
"Athena, he isn't alive! He's not real!"
"Dude, we gotta work on you playing pretend if you're gonna stick around here!"
"Yeah, but I just wanted to make sure you know!"
'I OBVIOUSLY know! DON'T interrupt again! Sorry for the interruption, guys-"
"Day 123 of asking for Octonauts lore!"
"That is NEXT MONTH'S VIDEO! Let's appreciate THIS video! Let's focus on ONE VIDEO AT A TIME!"
"...AAAAAAAAAHHHHH-!!!"
"AAAAAAHHHHHH-!!!!"
8:16
"I have to make it to little Timmy's soccer game!"
8:34
"He turns everything he touches into ice!- oh, shit-" (Turns into ice)
24:41
"I turned my giant *ss head mole into a third eye, and I'll call her Athreena!"
Big comfy couch lore
Ooh, good idea!
I remember the books so badly. I checked them out of the school library all the time. I was heartbroken when they got rid of them
I had zero idea that this existed until the movie and found how fluffy was voicing a character in it and so babo He voices is my favorite character
I literally just got a Fuggler today and came back to this
Same! Never got one before but my friend had never seen one and fell in love, so I got us each one.
The way you say Dale sounds like you're saying Dalek. Like Dr Who Daleks.
Is there any other daleks?
Some people just cannot pronounce Dalek for some reason.
You can say that dear, don't let that person bring you down lol
i have one of these! i associate it w a birthday party i didnt like, in a pizza place that had a little arcade section (not smth big, just a few cabinets) and there was a "game" ?? themed around the addams family where you get "shocked" and you have to withstand certain numbers of "voltages" to win and for some reason it scared the shit out of me
I had a ton of these plushes, and i grew up with a few of these books and i adored and still adore these weird creatures, i remember watching the movie in theaters when i was around 16 i believe(going in knowing i wasnt going to like it since it is nothing like the original source material), and one of the things that pissed me off the most minus like everything else was Ice Bat touching the ocean and the entire ocean not instantly freezing lol
20:40
I’m clipping that “freak”
thank you for this video! I recently lost my UglyDolls singalong version DVD and it makes me so happy to see how much joy one of my favorite movies has brought you it made me feel a lot better about the whole thing and if I don't find the DVD I can just watch my favorite youtuber recap it, so again I say thank you Athena for this awesome video
please help me idk why but your evil giggle in the end bit made me absolutely CACKLE and HOLLER way more than it should have
this is the earliest I've been to an Athena p video, what an accopmisment!!
Lou was my gay awakening
I remember seeing those in stores! They terrified me
Dude I see those Fugglers and the TMNT ones whenever I go to Walmart. I’m tempted to buy one for my creature shelf but I know if I did my mother would never set foot in my bedroom again.
FUGGLERS!!!!!! I love Fugglers so much! I totally understand your reaction to them, but I think they’re adorable. I have a collection of around…35 - 40? I honestly don’t know exactly, I have a lot of them. I have a few of the little Fuggler-head keychains as well as some of the tiny little baby fuggler keychains. Seeing a youtuber I love talk about them was such a surprise!
was looking for a pro-fuggler comment 🙏🙏🙏I LOVE MY FUGGLER HES SO CUTE !!!
Fuggler sounds like a slur
God, 7:35 ish is just.... im a first grade teacher's assistant (who sometimes is a lead teacher thanks to scheduling) and i just feel like youtube comments must bring out the first grader in all of us.
My friends and I watched the Ugly Dolls movie in theaters when it came out! We loved it, partially because we were a group of teens alone in a full theater poking fun, but still.
I actually LOVEDDE this movie lmao
as a charli xcx stan i’m mad you didn’t mention the three pop girlies that voiced the spy girls (not actually mad obvi i just only knew of this movie because i knew charli voiced a character in it lolol)
Monster high’s tagline did start as “freaky just got fabulous” but after ghouls rule it become “be yourself be unique be a monster” and stayed that way even to this day
BRO I LEGIT JUST SAW YIUR POST THAT SAID IT WAS COMING AT 3 AND I FORGOT THAT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT TIME ZONES TOT I WAS SO CONFUSED WHY THE VIDEO WAS HERE EARLIER THAN THEEE
BUT REGARDLESS, SLAY!
Literally just texted my partner and said "BABE NEW ATHENA P VIDEO"
Their perpetually blank expressions in the book still makes me burst out laughing all these years later.
I was really into the movie and shipped Lou and Moxie. I want more pretty humanoid men x non-human women.
If Moxy is the Poppy in this world who is the Branch?
If ur talking about toy lines when’s the amiibo video 😅
Athena P vs Pthena A
i love the looks athena makes for videos also WHEN WILL WE GET OUR DOC MCSTUFFINS VIDEO??? WILL YOU EVER COVER ANGLEA ANDACONDA!? (this is a joke pls dont take seriously)
ATHENA HASNT MADE A DOC MC STUFFINS VIDEO?!? I SWORE I WATCHED ONE?!
@@hihi-kv8kv nope 😭😭
You and the things you speak of are the only things that have mattered to me for the past month. Thank you.
7:29 FORESHADOWING OCTONAUTS LORE!!!!
IM JITTERY RIGHT NOW
I remember liking this movie and the game series Fatal Fury at the same time. (Which was because Terry was added in Smash.bros) And like Dr. Doofenshmirtz idea of Cockroach Ice cream, I decided to combine the two franchises in my head. (It ended up LIKE Cockroach Ice cream as well)
my 21st birthday is in 3 days (the 6th) and I can’t believe they’re older than me. I remember them as a kid, but like, the late 2000s-2010s era. also minimum wage cracks me up
A "Some Assembly Required" lore video or a "Wild Kratts" video would be nice
ATHENA I LITERALLY BOUGHT ME AND MY FRIEND A FUGLER TODAY! Then I took my baby nephew to the store to get him and his brother diapers and he was hugging the fugler all throughout the store.
I got the rainbow one with molar teeth. I just loved the teeth. Named them Wretch after Frankenstein (named my BAB Francis Frankenstein so I couldn't just make it Frankenstein) and my friend named hers Benny.
i love ur content tbh u make my day lol can u do monster high next? (if u havent already)
The Movie UglyDolls is SO underrated. Its personally one of my favorite movies
Happy to be here a minute into this videos creation
What if a triclops and a cyclops have a kids, for the kid only have two eyes
I see those Backyardigans plushes back there.
FINALLY! OCTONAUTS!
7:16 - 7:37 i laughed so hard at this bit XD ALSO i saw an Ox plushie (6:16) at a yard sale and i forever regretted not getting it