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Marvel's Hit-Monkey
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J. Scotty and special guest Blake Geilenfeldt give their thoughts and impressions on Hulu's Hit-Monkey!
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Introduction to Hit Monkey
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On another exciting entry of animation deliberation, we are tackling another Marvel series, not Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Marvel straight up, and that is Hulu's Hit Monkey, the 10-episode series that just dropped. I'm excited to get right into that with a special guest right after some ads we have no control over. So do not go anywhere. If you do, you might have a red-faced assassin coming after you, and I'm not talking about myself.
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Sing along if you know the words. One, two, three, it's time for animation deliberation. A conversation and a celebration of our favorite action animated series. Yeah. Yeah. I love the participation. Thank you.
Guest Introduction and Holiday Chat
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Speaker
Welcome back to Animation Deliberation. You just heard me, Jay Scottie, your host, singing the theme song. But joining me there at the end might have been an unfamiliar voice for some of our listeners. I've got a very special guest with me today to discuss Hit Monkey, and that is Mr. Blake Geilenfelt. What's going on, Blake? Thanks for being here. How are you? Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm doing great just at a much needed Thanksgiving break from school.
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back in the regular swing of things and I'm doing great.
Holiday Season Content Overload
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Thanksgiving break is always kind of funny because I don't know for other people how much of a break it really is because a lot of people you have to spend time with family, getting ready for Christmas, and then just eating all that food. But then you talk about inordinate amounts of food. I feel like this holiday season we've got inordinate amounts of content.
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And that's just not animation stuff. I mean, Hawkeye just dropped and all that. So I know we've gotten a little bit behind on some of the stuff that we're covering. But I was really pleasantly surprised with Hit Monkey. So excited to get into it. Definitely. Yeah. Before we do that, I did want to introduce you a little bit to the audience.
Stranded Panda Network Shows
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We are a part of the Stranded Panda Network. So we've got a lot of great sister shows on the network, including Source Pages, a reading collective, which just did, well,
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I'm getting ahead of myself here. Let me talk about Binger's Assemble, the podcast that always covers the latest and greatest franchise movies that are dropping. And you joined the Spark co-host Brian V. Klein and Haley Hobbs to tackle the Ghostbusters movies. So you just kind of got your feet in the water as far as podcasting goes and you're going from one show to the next, so.
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Yeah, we just did the first two Ghostbusters in preparation of Ghostbusters Afterlife. And then we just like last week, I think, did Ghostbusters Afterlife. So that's.
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available for you if you've seen the movie or if you haven't and just want spoilers, I guess. And then kind of preview, I'm going to be joining BVK and Haley Hobbs again. Covering the one more day storyline. There we go. OK. In preparation of Spider-Man, No Way Home.
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Okay. Okay. I knew there was a reason I brought up source pages outside of just Haley and Brian being the host of that and doing Ghostbusters. I knew there was another reason. Okay. So you've got that coming up. And then it is worth mentioning if you guys are missing Zuhair in talking about just like Thanksgiving and everything else going on and just the insane amount of content.
Zuhair's Absence Explained
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Zuhair has got a lot going on. He might be on assignment right now. I don't know. He said something about some blood money.
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Vendetta a trip to Tokyo. So we'll see. We'll see what happens there. All
Blake's Favorite Animated Series
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right. And I guess last little thing, as far as introductions go, is why don't you just kind of tell people, you know, what some of your favorite animated series are and just some of your influences as a fan of animation? I think it's safe for me to say. Just knowing you as well as I do, that you're a fan of Avatar, the last airbender, correct? Oh, yeah, I.
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I watched it growing up and then, um, you know, last year I kind of noticed it was on Netflix. So I gave it a rewatch and love it so much more. Um, legend of Cora. I, I tacked that on at the, at the end, you know, grew up with cartoons, SpongeBob and, um, adventure time, all, all the,
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Um, I still haven't watched young justice, but it is on my list. Okay. Uh, so having not seen young justice, you won't get a joke that I was going to make, but that's, that's good. I will just say, uh, one of the characters on young justice is noted for not liking monkeys. I was going to say we're going to be at odds like at this episode, because I love hit monkey hit monkeys. My favorite character on the show, which is, you know, uh,
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appropriate given he is the titular character.
Hit Monkey's Style and Humor
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Yeah. Avatar is one of those series. We've been, people have brought it up so many times and it's only a matter of time. We are going to cover it, but I want to give it the due diligence. It's such a celebrated and beloved series and there's so much there that I don't want to not do it justice. I want to give it the proper time. With the Netflix adaptation and the works and whatnot,
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See what we can make happen as far as that goes. But yeah, definitely one of the greatest animated series of all time. Sweet. Yeah. All right. Well, let's let's just talk about Hit Monkey before we get like super spoilery that not that I think that there are any like insane like world breaking spoilers or anything like that. But just what are your your overall impressions? Did you think it, you know, hit the hit the mark and carry it all the way through? What's your feelings?
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Yeah, right, right off the bat. It was just fun to watch. Kind of the style that it gave me was like so if MODOK for for those of you that have seen MODOK, if that's kind of comparable to robot chicken and the style of animation slash claymation. Hit Hit Monkey really gave off archer vibes. Oh.
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100 percent like yeah the the same same animation style same like attitude even Yeah
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I think you could say Jason Sudeikis' character Bryce, who's kind of like the hit man. And he's kind of like the voice for hit monkey in a lot of ways because hit monkey is like an actual monkey. He's a Japanese macaque or snow monkey. I'll probably refer to him as snow monkey more often, not to be too juvenile, but I don't want to be saying macaque too often on this podcast. But he pretty much is Sterling Archer. And he obviously undergoes kind of a
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transformation and a journey of self-discovery along the way. But yeah, I would say Archer's a huge influence in terms of the animation style and just the vibe and the demeanor. But I also get vibes of, I don't know if you're familiar with either of these series, but Afro Samurai, no.
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Okay, so the thing with Afro Samurai was very much the same in the fact that you had both characters were voiced by Samuel L. Jackson but the protagonist barely ever spoke like he said a word or two at the most and he kind of had this guy in his shoulder that was like talking way too much and cracking wise and all that and then obviously with like the warrior on a vendetta mission it's very similar in that regard. There was one other series I
Violence and Humor Balance
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kind of likened it to. Oh, yeah, Kill Bill, the animated sequence out of Kill Bill. That's not a series, but that's a Quentin Tarantino film. Have you seen Kill Bill volume one? I have not. Oh, OK. All right. Well, I won't spoil that too much, but there is an animated sequence out of that that deals with all the stuff that we're talking about, like Japan, assassination, hitman and all that stuff. And the violence is over the top.
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I guess we can talk about that aspect of it. How did the violence hit you? Because we've covered a few different series on this show with it being a focus on action animation. You haven't seen Young Justice, but we've talked about how that one's a little bit more tame. But shows the gore when it needs to, but not in a way that's going to give kids nightmares. And then we obviously have Invincible, where there are people that stopped watching Invincible because it was too much and understandably so. But I feel like this one kind of met somewhere in the middle where
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You did get those really satisfying like gory moments if you wanted to see that and wanted a lot of bloodshed. But it's so over the top that it's like played to comedic effect. And I don't think it's going to scar anybody. I yeah, I I definitely agree that it's in the middle. Yeah. But more towards the invincible side. Like, yeah, sure. There that's there. There were some scenes. I don't know. Are are we going into?
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Yeah, we can we can dive into spoilers now. I think we've kind of talked about enough. Yeah. The one scene that like is really engraved into my brain was the like when they're going down the highway, being chased by Lady Bullseye. Oh, yeah. And this guy who like just got a new job, he's trying to impress his boss, deliver balloons, make a kid's birthday.
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like just trying to do good in the world and then he gets like crushed. You know who that guy was, right? No. So it was a reoccurring joke that they had kind of going throughout the series. You saw this guy like every two or three episodes, but anytime like Hit Monkey went on a major massacre,
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He was the one guy to survive by just like sheer luck or whatever. And he always wanted to die at the end. He was like, please kill me like me. OK. And then the paramedics would resuscitate him at the last minute. So yeah, I didn't catch that. That's so much better. But still like the guy laying there without any of his limbs. Right. Like. Yeah.
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I mean, don't get me wrong, I loved Invincible and like the gore doesn't bother me. Sure. But like that one that one scene stuck out more than more than any of them, I think.
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Oh, really? Okay. Interesting. Yeah, I think I do. I kind of relate with you and I sympathize with that guy, but he was kind of played to that effect. It was just like, how much can we put this guy through? And that just kind of speaks to like the nature and the tone of the show.
Mentor-Mentee Dynamic
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It is a little mean spirited, but not in the same way like MODOK was and like you compared MODOK to
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Robot Chicken. And that's actually worth mentioning when these shows were first being developed for Hulu. The plan was to do Modoc, Hit Monkey, Howard the Duck, and then a couple of other series and then have them all team up and call them the offenders. So yeah, with it just being adult animation and being a little more offensive, it just it just kind of makes sense. And it's a shame that we'll never get to see those other series. But I will say, I think this series just
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did a better job overall than MODOK did. And I think just the reception, the conversation going around, it seems like everybody's kind of on the same page as far as that goes. Yeah, I I think the story was more there like MODOK was more kind of like slapstick humor, less like like there was a continuous plot for the most part, but
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There that wasn't the main focus, whereas like. Hit Monkey, you knew from like episode one, maybe episode two, pretty much exactly like. I guess what the point of the story is. Or at least at least you thought you did towards towards the end, it got a little dicey.
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Yeah, there were some some zigs and zags in the story and we can kind of like start to talk about the story and the plot itself and what worked and didn't didn't work. But I think the strongest aspect of the show were the two main characters were Hit Monkey and Bryce and their relationship and like, you know, them kind of being the odd couple when they first meet like it's.
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It's kinda funny i think about when i first watched the first episode i feel kinda dumb but i didn't pick up on the fact that like the main monkey that had an issue. With bryce being there was going to be our monkey like i didn't pick up on that until way too late so and then you know i'm just i'm going through the full process of him taking them on is like a.
00:13:41
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a mentor and mentee relationship and then hit monkey gets convinced that he's actually a demon and doesn't want anything to do with him and actually rejects this hitman lifestyle and goes back to nature and tries to ingratiate himself back into nature and with those monkeys and that was some of the most heart-wrenching stuff for me when you it's a testament to the show that the fact it's a
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non-human character. I mean, he's a primate, so he's capable of a lot of emoting still. And we have the character of Bryce, you know, vocalizing a lot of stuff. And then I will give credit to the voice actor Fred Tatiskior. He's the man is incredible. He's sounding more like a monkey than an actual monkey. A monkey, but like
00:14:27
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with actual emotion from scene to scene, like to to do an accurate voice of a primate and give it emotion. Right. Right. Is is is off the charts impressive, I think. Yeah, I would I would love to see what he was doing in the booth. I hope they do like a behind the scenes at some point in time because I need to see that. And I don't know if he and Jason Sudeikis were like, got to see each other at all that.
00:14:53
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I hope so. Yeah. I will say I was really impressed with Jason Sudeikis and his range. I've always liked him as an actor. I haven't seen Ted Lasso in a pop. A lot of people are probably like screaming in unison right now that I haven't. I'm one of them.
00:15:08
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It's so good. I know it is. I know it is. I need to see it. But I'm thinking like outside of like Cleveland show and the Angry Bird movies, I can't really think of like too many vocal performances from him, but I was really impressed, especially like towards the end when
00:15:25
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we got like his full backstory about what happened to his family. And like that line that he first said to hit monkey in the pilot episode, like you pick up a gun in anger, you're never going to put it back down. Just like having that come full circle is a really a really riveting and grounding performance. And I think it's it's kind of what makes the show.
00:15:44
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Yeah, that just the the interweaving stories of like even the similarities of the two of them and with the like hit monkeys kind of. Oh, what's it called in the in the animal world, the not elder, but like.
00:16:06
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Alpha male? Yeah. Yeah. The, like, the alpha male as kind of a third ghost that you see every now and
Themes of Rejection and Belonging
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then? Yeah, sure. That's a good point. Yeah. I really liked that part as kind of a balancing force for him. Yeah, yeah. Agreed. He's got, you know, his ties back to his tribe and his way of life there. And that mentor was very much like a pacifist. He was the one that, you know,
00:16:37
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When hit monkey brought up the fact that they should have left Bryce there to die He was the one that said that's not our way. Mm-hmm. And yeah, well, but then at the end The the like final conversation that he had with the with his his alpha monkey He left him with basically saying you're Forever not gonna be one of us right, but you're also not gonna be
00:17:08
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a human, rejected from both sides while helping both sides. I can't remember the exact quote that he gave, but it was really poetic, a lot better than I could say it.
00:17:25
Speaker
No, no, I think you're doing a fine job getting the sentiments that were there because it's reminding me of that scene. And yeah, it is pretty heartfelt. It's like it's exactly what you said. It's a creature with this good intention and wants to actually protect those that he cares about. And yeah, it's being rejected from all sides. It's being rejected from his tribe or any other tribe of monkeys. It's being rejected from society. And then eventually it's being rejected by a Kiko.
00:17:52
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who was like the one human that you thought he was going to have something with. And then it forces he and Bryce to really be that tribe together. And that really spoke to me because I mean, what is life about other than like finding your tribe and whatnot? And shout out to the Stranded Panda. That's right. Yeah.
00:18:10
Speaker
But all that being said, we've been talking a lot about these two main characters, which is appropriate given the fact that it is Hit Monkey. But let's talk about some of the side characters and the other plot that was happening there. So we did have some pretty big names, Olivia Munn and George Takei, basically portraying these politicians. They seem like altruistic politicians that are trying to make change that are just
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sieged by political corruption and obstacles on all sides and Hit Monkey kind of provides the opportunity to change the trajectory of this campaign and eventually make them the winners.
Plot Twists and Character Dynamics
00:18:53
Speaker
But you kind of alluded to it. That's where the plot kind of zigs and zags and you find out allegiances weren't exactly what they were and some of the enemies that we thought we were facing the whole time were actually pawns and whatnot. I think some of that was executed better than
00:19:06
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other parts of it, but yeah, what are your thoughts as far as all that goes? I really liked Spooky Ghost Chick. Yuki. Yeah. Yuki. I like that her allegiance was. Strictly and always just for the good of Tokyo. Mm hmm. Like.
00:19:33
Speaker
She didn't care politics. She didn't care anything else. She, she was just like. Yeah. And, and after they sat down and had a conversation, uh, all like in that back alley, uh, she, she was like, yeah, I, uh, like we can.
00:19:56
Speaker
basically make this work. Yeah. Yeah. And I love the fact that the show focuses on like a monkey as the main character. And then the one male character that we really focus on is a piece of crap. But then we're surrounded just by all these badass women. And Bryce even said it in the first episode. He's like, yeah, if I'm going to get killed, it's not going to be by some leader of a B team with love handles. It's going to be by a badass woman or a group of badass women. That'd be cool.
00:20:23
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so yeah you got yuki lady death not lady bullseye i wanted to call her lady death strip but lady bullseye that you mentioned before and then there's um that that cop what was her name haruka i think so she's kind of yeah she's kind of the
00:20:42
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We talk about all this political corruption and the police even being embedded and whatnot. She's kind of like the heart and soul, whereas even like Hit Monkey himself is tainted by his violence and his anger and the impulses that he's given into. She's kind of like the one good through line that we can kind of like latch onto. I think it's supposed to be her and Akiko, but Akiko obviously goes on a very different path towards the end.
00:21:10
Speaker
That's one of the parts of the show that doesn't work for me as well. I don't want to be super negative, but I will say majority of my critiques do focus on the character of Akiko, unfortunately. I think Olivia Munn did an excellent job voicing her and bringing her to life.
00:21:26
Speaker
But I didn't really buy where she ended up at the end of the series with her taking Lady Bullseye's mask and becoming the new Lady Bullseye. Obviously, she has beef with Hit Monkey, and that's understandable and whatnot. But I don't think they gave that the necessary time to really, really work for me. But outside of all that, the one thing that I thought was really weird about her character
00:21:51
Speaker
is the animation style. I felt like she was animated differently from every other character on screen. Like she almost looked like she was like in a different show. I don't know if you picked up on that but
00:22:06
Speaker
I kind of got that vibe. Okay. She was much more simplified in everything. Her eyes were bigger. She had a much more angular jawline, lesser facial details and stuff like that. And I think it was an attempt by the animators to try and make her more pretty by having less details and wrinkles and stuff like that.
00:22:23
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But it didn't work for me. It kind of felt like I don't know if you ever saw those like old insurance commercials, but it reminded me a little bit that anytime I saw her, I was getting like that kind of vibe. So and it persisted throughout the whole whole series, which was just kind of weird. I wonder if like they gave her to like a specific character animator and they were just kind of on a different page from everybody else. But I don't know. Well, and they went the complete opposite route with the
00:22:52
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lady cop. I am bad with names. Yeah. Yeah. Um, there's a lot, there's a lot of names. You don't spend a ton of time with them. So
00:23:02
Speaker
Right. The they for the animation, they gave her like acne and a bunch of a bunch more details. True. That were like really noticeable. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure why they decided to go that way, but it's pretty minor. Great. You were saying with the new lady bulls eye.
00:23:28
Speaker
That you didn't think it was, it was merited that she like took up that mantle. Yeah. I just didn't know how much I bought it there at the end. Yeah. I mean, if they're, I know there's not, but if like, if they take this story any further, um,
00:23:53
Speaker
I guess I, I don't know there's not a season two, but there's probably not a season two probably. Yeah. Just cause you know, Disney took everything over. Um, but I would like to see the training take a lot longer. Yeah. Like, cause she, she can put on a mask all day and do, do makeup and whatnot. That's fair. Like,
00:24:23
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Yeah, that doesn't automatically give you abilities. Yeah, that's fair. It's not like we saw her like hit something with a bullseye right off the bat. So who's to say she doesn't put on the mask and get laid out the second she walks out the door? I mean, I don't think that's going to happen. But I think I think her like righteous anger towards towards Hit Monkey would give her almost almost more of a like an antihero kind of vibe.
00:24:54
Speaker
Yeah. Because it's such a like a moral dilemma because he he had decided that he wasn't going to kill the prime minister. Yeah. But that whole scene is what's so heartbreaking. And that's why I just I get a little frustrated with the Kiko because, yeah, you see Hit Monkey make the right decision. It's the fact that Shinji
00:25:19
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took Haruka's gun and wanted to blow the back of her brains out. So Hit Monkey did what he had to do to save Haruka. And when Akiko sees that and she calls him an animal, she's like, what did you do, you animal? And just hearing that in her voice and having seen this relationship progress and just see it break down so quickly, really, really is heartbreaking. I can't help but think of the cat
00:25:44
Speaker
Like I kind of want to know what happened to the cat other than the cat scurrying off into that crack on the wall after the place got blown up. I don't need to know anything else about that cat. It's a cat and the dialogue that was portrayed was the most cat-like dialogue that I've ever seen. Like every scene that dialogue pops up from the cat it was like
00:26:11
Speaker
He put guns in my litter box. Or just general disgust, vague disgust. It's kind of funny how they build up to it, because you had the dialogue boxes with the other snow monkeys communicating together. But then as the series progresses, you actually have the cat start having these conversations with Hit Monkey. And then I think about later on, you had that owl.
00:26:38
Speaker
that he sees in the woods later on. He's like, what happened to my family members? He's like, I ate them and spread their remains all over the valley. And it's kind of like it's poignant in a way because it seems like that's the circle of life. That's what's supposed to happen. But the way he says it so matter of factly is kind of like rude.
00:26:54
Speaker
Well, and that was like the last thing that, that you saw the owl saying was like circle of life, dude. Yeah, exactly. Basically like get over it. Like pretty much, pretty much. Uh, I guess talking a little bit about, uh, you talked about a Kiko's righteous anger. And then before that Yuki, how she has this sense of honor, just wanting to, um, protect Japan. And I will say that's one of the three lines that, um, feels pretty authentic.
Marvel Character References
00:27:22
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to the setting of Tokyo in Japan, even with like characters like Silver Samurai. We only got him in the one episode. But yeah, he is chauvinistic and kind of over the top. He is his his thing is protecting the prime minister. That's what he's there for. And I'm not it's not a character that I have a lot of exposure to. But the main exposure I do have was that Wolverine film that took place in Japan. And I know a lot of people felt like the Silver Samurai was the worst part of that film.
00:27:49
Speaker
I thought that's who that was. I was going to ask, but it felt like it was the same.
00:27:57
Speaker
Yeah. It was silver samurai. And then the guy with the electric feet that hit monkey first encountered in like the fight ring. And then later on at the end, that was fat cobra, who is somebody that I have no exposure to whatsoever. I imagine he must be a mutant would be my guess. I guess. Yeah. Listeners out there, if you know who fat cobra is, let us know what your favorite fat cobra run is.
00:28:23
Speaker
If it's on Marvel Unlimited, I promise I'll read it. Yeah. Yeah. I will say I did like how the the show did a great job of actually plugging like the graphic novel at
Action Sequences and Animation Praise
00:28:33
Speaker
the end. I like notice if I stayed through the credits, it's like you'd like the show. Go to your comic book store or Marvel Unlimited right now and like check out this run. Hit monkey bullets and bananas or bananas and bullets, whatever it was. So yeah, I definitely want to check it out. So so what do you think of the like underground fight ring in the prison?
00:28:53
Speaker
I liked it. I was fully on board for everything. It kind of reminded me of Shang-Chi and some of the similar fight rings that we've seen like that in the past. But yeah, it's just worth mentioning again just how fluid the action in this show is. And you get to see a lot of different power sets on display and with all the ghosts play at work and stuff like that, there's a real
00:29:22
Speaker
Visual continuity, it's all really well done and I enjoy it quite a bit. I will say, I think I can tell that it's like almost entirely animated in Flash.
00:29:36
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Cause I noticed they're like, when you have like dialogue scenes and stuff like that, the camera does like small panning and stuff like that. But the character models really outside of like their shoulders kind of like moving back and forth a little bit in their head, bobbing to do whatever the scenes steamed, seemed to stay pretty stagnant. But then when you transition into action, I'm like always really impressed with like the multiple, like where the camera's moving. And you have like, um, especially when hit monkeys running with like a lot of momentum and like flying through guys, you have like,
00:30:03
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the background moving in one direction, the foreground moving in the other, and it just creates this really high energy and sense of motion and momentum. It reminds me a little bit of Gindy Tartakovsky's stuff. He did Dexter's Lab, the Clone Wars micro series. I don't know if you've seen Primal.
Final Recommendation
00:30:23
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To summarize my thoughts and just where I land on this series is I
00:30:28
Speaker
I really highly recommend that if you were on the fence at all about Hit Monkey on Hulu. Like we said, it's not a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it's definitely worth your time. If you're a fan of action animation, any of the series that we brought up, Archer especially, I do think if you like Afro Samurai, that's going to satisfy that itch as well.
00:30:47
Speaker
Yeah, just check it out and let us know what you thought. I know Zuhair's got a lot on his plate these days, but he does want to check it out. So we will probably treat this one similar to the way we did Masters of the Universe revelation where Blake and I will do this coverage, but then we'll give you guys the opportunity to send us all your feedback and then bring Zuhair back in to tackle all that stuff. What about you? What are your final thoughts on Hit & Lucky, my friend?
00:31:13
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's just a fun story. Action packed, heartfelt. A monkey in a suit with sunglasses like. Dress to the nine. Like it's it's just it checks all the boxes for a show I would watch. Yeah, agreed. Not that most people listening even know me, but it checks all the boxes for me.
00:31:42
Speaker
Very good. Very good. I can say in good confidence that you got good taste. You listen to our show. So, I mean, heck yeah. All right. I have to give a very special thanks to our special guest, Blake Geilenfeld, not only for appearing on this episode of Hit Monkey coverage, but also for helping me to introduce a brand new segment to the show. This is where we're going to rank
00:32:06
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are impressions of the show and or the episode that we're covering. So Blake, on a scale of yeah to yeah. Where do you land with Hit Monkey? Who is Hit Monkey? Let's see. I'd give it about a yeah.
00:32:29
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OK, all right. We're getting a little bit of an elevation in the octave there, so I think that translates to what we say in like an eight and eight point five. Something around there. OK, it's it's definitely high, high quality, but. But yeah, so it is one of our favorite action animated series. All right.
00:32:51
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Well, I guess it's worth mentioning. I did just mention Masters of the Universe Revelation. So I know we've got a few listeners out there that's out and they've watched it. I've been in communication with Brian V. Klein as well as Dale Morris, our resident He-Man expert. And it's just a matter of scheduling. We will get some coverage of that out there for you soon.
00:33:12
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And then we'll resume our regular Young Justice coverage very soon as well. So Blake, you mentioned you've got the spark stuff that you're going to be doing. What was that for again? Yeah, so we will be covering the no or one more day. Yeah, the one more day storyline for preparation for no way home. OK, sweet.
00:33:40
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So I think the way that Brian and and Haley like to have stuff out, that should be available sometime like mid December. OK, probably. I'm not speaking for them. I'm not promising anything. I don't think any of the listeners of this show will hold and keep you beholden their schedule. But you'll set on animation deliberation is going to be.
00:34:10
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You'll likely be able to listen to our coverage on the week of the, what's that, the 17th? The drops, yeah. Yeah, so early that week, maybe mid that week, I'm not
00:34:31
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for sure. But yeah, coming up in the next week or two, keep an eye out for that. And we did just do Ghostbusters, as I said, up at up top. So yeah, check out all the fun stuff. Very good, very good. For my purposes, I do want to plug the Star Trek universe podcast. They are covering an animated show of their own Star Trek prodigy that is airing on Nickelodeon or the Paramount
00:34:59
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Plus app, I think they call it Paramount Plus. Yep. OK. Yeah. So they are covering that week to week. And then I'm sure towards the end, maybe we'll have Matt come on to give his his overall thoughts on the season, since he knows a hell of a lot more about Star Trek than I do. So.
00:35:18
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All right, I think that's going to cover it for this week. Go out and watch Hit Monkey. Enjoy the holidays. Stay well, and I will say that in place of Zuhair. And keep tuning in. That's T-double-O in IN.
00:35:33
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