Red Letter Media Animated -The Pong Horror Movie
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2024
- Also known as Spitballs, in this episode the guys go off on a weird tangent after seeing a zoomer wearing a Pac-Man t-shirt. Instead of Super Mario Bros. or Sonic the Hedgehog, what if Hollywood cashed in on the video game movie revival trend with a feature film about the very first video game... PONG! HOW EXCITING WOULD THAT BE?!? WHAT AN AMAZING IP TO EXPLOIT WITH ENDLESS POTENTIAL!
Special thanks to the brilliant WeeZacharyP for his inventive animation! Enjoy, friends! - Zábava
"The whole time when we were talking about Pong, I was thinking about Frogger."
Mike's dementia is ruthless and progressively getting worse
Mike only knows about video games because he saw it in a movie
rofl we can't just casually let him get away with that and move past it
'member that Seinfeld episode with Frogger???
Yes, that is a thing that was said in the video
I love how it starts as a clever horror concept, turns into a fururama episode, and eventually devolves into Pixels 2.
You're right, the 'deadly giant pixel that can't be stopped but is moving very slowly' bit does feel like a Futurama episode lmao
How is it like Pixels? I never saw either of those trash fires
Pixels 1-2, i mean. Futurama rules
Pixels 2 doesn't exist, he's saying they created it in this video.
"Video game but real life" is the entire point of Pixels, and RLM did that concept in this video.
@@PyrotechnicMooseIV Aqua Teen Hunger Force
"I don't know how Pong works, but I'm writing the Pong movie"
-Everyone in hollywood for the past 15 years
Literally every book adaptation the director can't help but brag about not reading the book.
"I don't have time to read the book. I have a screenplay to write."
@@BackdoorBarnyard Despite not taking time to redraft it
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
I didn’t even connect the dots the inventor of pong would naturally have a massive amount of real pong
"It's so dense. Every single image has so many things going on..."
I call it "I Have No Paddle, and I Must Pong"
"I Have No Ping, and I Must Pong"
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Perfection
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
So BulletBall?
I love the touch of every single character smoking. Very period accurate
Even one kid is smoking.
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.
@@CardiopaziaProbably for ratings reasons, or if not that for a company policy, iirc Disney doesn't like to depict smoking
@@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.
And it was a prequel to Pixels all along. Some retcons should be made, Sony's writers will work on the details.
Or there’s a bad ending where they deflect it into space but then it collides with the moon or the sun or something
Fuckkkkk I was literally coming to the comments to write this
@@DiestroCorleoneWhy involve Sandler and his talent vacuum friends though?.
@@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.
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...
hes off his dementia meds..
@@bbbnuy3945 Which ones? Cocaine or meth?
@@d3nza482 It's just whisky and too much beer.
The boys have invented Wreck-It Ralph and Pixels.
Did you mean Tron?
The film where a guy gets sucked into a supercomputer where he has to compete in bloodsports based on arcade games like Snake and Pong?
Now showing "This is my Pong story", written, produced and starring Adam Sandler
‘Tron’ meets ‘It Follows’ meets… I don’t even know, man…
And that one Futurama episode that Pixels ripped off
RLM "Tron buts its a horror movie". Just like they were making fun of It's a Wonderful Knife "It's a Wonderful Life but its a horror movie"
Not only did Mike not know how Pong worked, he forgot that *Ping Pong* existed.
Ping Air Hockey
The "dementia" is his cover for alcoholism. His alcoholism is the reason he can't remember things.
He's his own arch-nemisis.
that whole bit about the kids not realizing they're killing the trapped people is legitimately pretty unnerving. reminds me of Enders Game
They also did that in Psycho Pass
@@TheMarkoSekeAnd Lain
Never saw the movie but in the book Enders Game, ya, that's a good call.
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.
I can’t tell if your talking about a dropped plot line or the writer doesn’t understand electronics
But I love it
Yes!
Chekov’s Vacuum Cleaner
@@synth-wave_steve Did pong have non-RAM storage capabilities? I'm a zoomer and never been in an arcade
@@deetvleet A lot of old arcade machines would lose all their high scores once they lost power.
The fucking Twin Towers lmao. Jesus Christ. The animation quality for this is so wonderful.
The highest point you can imagine
I hope your comment gets exactly 911 likes and NEVER goes any higher.
The score is 9-1. If that ball gets past the towers it will never come again.
“Hey… has anyone done a horror version of a classic game?”… Mike pulls out a full fucking PowerPoint presentation with slides and shit
"Anyway, back to 9/11" from their Star Wars Holiday Special vid hits different now
Bruce Lee dies a hero.. trying to deflect a pong cube. My favorite touch in this animation.
I thought for sure it was gonna be Robert Duvall and Space Shuttle Columbia paddling it out into space.
Inspiring his relative, 'Chin' to follow in his footsteps
You either die a hero or play Pong enough to become a villain
@@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.
Did we expect any less?
"You can't just have 60 minutes of balls flying around" -Rich Evans, 2024
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.
That's neat, didn't know Al was that advanced.
So if he ends up being the next guest on BotW, we know who to thank.
Nolan Bushnell is still around too! Gotta have both of em in the film as cameos at least
I refuse to believe "Al Alcorn" is an actual humans name.
Awesome!
So glad to see reigning star trek trivia champion Rich Evans get the animated portrayal he deserves.
Such a realistic drawing and animation of Rich
It’s funny how, despite Mike winning the previous Star Trek trivia game, we just collectively decided to ignore that entirely.
@@AmanwithbonesThat was rigged and you know it!
@@Amanwithbones It's because Mike is a mean-spirited sore-winner, and he makes cheering for him impossible!
@@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.
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!
Thanks!
@@RedLetterMedia It's weird seeing RLM be... seemingly... authentic.
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.
So, like Circle but with Pong
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.
But one of the kids in the real world accidentally downloads more RAM into the game, raising the stakes
A character will realize it's been created by a current Bethesda programmer and will simply wait for the game to crash.
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.
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!
Sounds like heaven to me.
ENDLESS TRAAAASH
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."
Pure nihilistic terror.
Better than the horror of having to sit through the crap Hollywood churns out nowadays
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.
The movie opens with a montage of the characters knocking down bowling pins with bowling balls in the alley, foreshadowing their own death.
All these ideas you guys are constantly giving to Hollywood for free!
@@notmethnx Hollywood don't got no giant axe either!
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.
I mean, anyone who's seen a movie before can come up with this, that's the joke.
The "actors and filmmakers apologizing for the movie at the end" idea would be appreciated nowadays
I am endlessly pissed that they don’t legitimately write scripts that get produced, or make another movie of their own! They are genius.
I like how Mike just makes Wreck it Ralph with traveling through the surge protector.
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.
@@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.
Wreck it Ralph kinda ripped off an old episode of Duck Tales, in that case.
I love this fantasy of making Jay tall lmao
the creator of pong having 5 tennis courts around his house is a stroke of genius
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
You want me to do it winnie the pooh style?
MANNERS! Who needs them!?
Paddles, who needs 'em?
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
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.
Marathon's story is beautiful. hush
Where can I read about this?
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 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.
We have to survive until one side scores 10
Gonna be thinking of the line "it's out" for a week.
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 !
After Credit rips off Raiders: a sad-looking Rich dollies the Pong cabinet into an endless govt warehouse.
They usually have top men for that but Rich is more of a bottom.
Poor Mike and Rich, even the animators enlarge the attractiveness gap in favour of Hot-Jay.
The last time I was this early Rich Evans was only prediabetic
Excuse me how dare you imply he's not a peak ideal male
You mean he was a preemie with diabetes
@@cradiculous Diabeetus is an evolved state of man
And Mike was still refusing to budge from step 11
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
Same here, love this format
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.
I love that you left in the stuttering at 1:11. Hilarious.
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.
I’m mad that I put this off for a week, this is golden.
Absolutely love that because it's the 70s almost every single character is smoking.
Rich Evans looking like Kubrick
Kubrick looks like International Playboy Rich Evans
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
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.
Daniel "Poor" Evans
The most detailed storyboard ever made for presentation to a major studio. I can't wait for the release!
Most entertaining 10 minutes of 2024 so far.
It's always fascinating to watch RLM's Calvinball Method of Movie Creation™. Like watching sausage being made.
I hope you all make more of these! This was fun!
I love how this hypothetical movie just keeps escalating and getting more silly
Top notch animation work! 🤯🤯
Glad to see another animated RLM! Looks great!
Mike re-watched Wreck It Ralph and said "what if this were a horror movie instead?"
More like Tron.
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.
Mr. Pong's mansion having half a dozen tennis courts is a genius touch.
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.
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.
Always amazes me that the guys' jokey half-arsed ideas are more compelling and creative than what the movie studios are coming up with.
This reminds me of the classic Loren Bouchard animated shows. Just let the actors riff and then animate over it. Beautiful!
Absolutely love Home Movies and Dr. Katz!
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.
This was incredible and will be so under appreciated
Mike making a game adaptation while not knowing how the game works is pretty accurate to how older Hollywood adaptations of VGs were tbh
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.
It’s always fun to see little animated skits on CZcams like it’s 2009 again.
Wee Zachary P does a bang up job on these. Well done, sir
An extremely generous portrail of Mike
Holy crap, guys. This is the funniest thing youve done in years. I loved it!
The art style of these is fantastic
These are the best things you guys have done. So glad to see another one.
I absolutely love this. I hope you guys continue to do animated stuff cause this is great!
I really liked the animation, great job WZP!
Best birthday gift
С днем рожденья! Счастья, здоровья, семейного благополучия.
happy bday
Happy Birthday fellow RLM fan!
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
Do Pong Paddles Dream of Electric Pong Balls?
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!
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
Feels like Midnight Gospel kinda! Would love to see more!
This started as a Pong Horror Movie and then became the Adam Sandler movie Pixels. In all honesty Pixels might actually be scarier.
I love these animated shorts. Keep it up guys!
Yessssss I love these, I was wondering when y’all would drop another one
👍
Fantastic job!
Crazy good work. 10 mins of animation must've taken agess.
It broke new ground!
I could genuinely watch a million of these. Please keep making them
This is absolutely amazing! Had to stop in the middle to comment 😅 love the animation, the pacing, editing, please do more of these! Just fantastic! And a genuinely great idea for a horror movie!
5:50 the faces are so adorable i can't-
Glad to see a new animation video
I love the animation! I hope this series continues
I'm glad the animations are back! I enjoy them the last time and this one didn't disappoint either.
It's great how lifelike Rich looks in this
Now I want that PONG movie
this was a joy to watch, really hope we get more c:
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
I KNEW THERE WOULD BE MORE
i love this person's jerma animations so it's awesome to see them branching into other faves of mine like rlm! awesome animation and idea, i could watch another 30 of these for real lmao
This is legitimately one of the best videos I’ve seen in a very long time
Bro this was so funny
mike is to pong what kurtzmann was to start trek
I absolutely love Redlttermedia. Thank you Mike, Rich and Jay.
This was awesome, well done to everyone involved in the making.