Ramble: The Anti-Jenny Awards

Wait, you didn't like The Book of Henry? I agree that it's kind of insane, but I find it to be a beautiful subversion of the "sick kid" movie. I actually adore the film, and I want to watch it again now

Shay Olin Parker

This is so not anything to do with the video but PLEASE what is that blue book/dvd/something in the bottom right corner of the video?? I've been staring at the blurry title the entire time trying to read it and I feel like my brain is broken. It doesn't even matter but I've been staring at it so long I'm going insane

SJ Matt

Today I learned that Jenny would refer to me as a “coasterhead” (derogatory) 😞

Brian Weidemann

"Why are you pranking service workers that are like, working at McDonald's of all places? They're already NOT having a good night." I replayed this a few times for peace of mind even though it's been eight years since I worked at McDonald's.

Lexie Lou

omg i resonate so much with the lobster/crab/shrimp thing, i feel so so sad when i see those lil friends getting eaten, it enrages me even more when people see like, live PETS like my partners crayfish and shrimp that they raise, and make stupid jokes about eating them. it makes me want to start commenting that kind of shit about peoples dogs or cats until they realize how fucking rude it is and stfu ._. like even in a country where people might eat dogs or cats i can imagine it is still rude to joke about eating one that is kept as a pet

Valentine

I'm actually so shocked you don't like dinosaurs lol, me and all my friends love it *also you may have been too young to realize, but throughout the show it included a lot of more leftist beliefs so it's not that surprising that they would end the show with a 'call to action' about climate change

Hannah Liller

The not liking cold and sunny offended me so much I felt I needed to comment.

John Buisman

You talking about the Dinosaurs episode where the boss eats the mammals unlocked a memory for me in which I too was traumatized that I had successfully repressed. So that's fun.

Brando

I know Jenny drinks sodas but I pictured her as an only drinking water with lemon or lemonade type girl. Love that root beer is one of her faves though. Yes finally someone agrees with me that ed, edd, and eddy was the worst for the same reasons i have. Since you mention it we still getting that knott’s video?

Robert Romero Jr

I feel like Jenny in general is always the person that remembers that strange obscure thing you experienced in as a child, whether it be a strange direct to video children's short, a book, or anything else

Tuesday Sellers

I would never have guessed that 1) someone else read Seven Spiders Spinning or 2) that it was written by the same author as Wicked??

Tuesday Sellers

I was in my early 20s when Dinosaur the series came out in ‘91 and I also hated it. I thought it was repulsively ugly and unforgivably stupid. I didn’t watch enough of it to notice the meanness, or that horrible plot that would have made me gasp in shock as an adult (and I was already a vegetarian then too.)

LKB

my family only watched chicken little once when i was a kid and all i remember is a chicken, aliens and everyone i was with agreeing it was the worst movie we’ve ever seen

Darius

Oh shit I'm all about tootsie rolls - and then she further dissed paydays, which are one of my favourite things about visiting the US

Kevin William Walker

Everyone thought I was a monster but cutting my rootbeer with milk was great for the mouthfeel and flavouring - like a diet root beer float

Kevin William Walker

The way she knew IMMEDIATELY too. Like an absolute genius level of humor

Elaina

I laughed so hard when you said boy Lamily looks like the Alcatraz prison break dummies.

Abigail

Your recollection of Mama Mia sounds like a fever dream. I love it. My ultra horrible secret is that I don't like Jim Henson's stuff outside the Muppet Show. It scared me as a kid and gives me the heebies as an adult. I can admit it's cultural importance, but the terror of seeing the Dark Crystal on the big screen as a kid has never really left me. Makes me feel like I've watched a Kubrick film, just... heebie central.

Hazel Davis

Jenny Nicholson likes Dollywood... whew!

Melanie Unwin

I can’t believe someone else knows Seven Spiders Spinning, I’d half convinced myself I hallucinated it. If I remember correctly, I think the spiders fell in love with the girls??? They unthawed from ice (?) and the girls were the first things they saw. Which made it even MORE upsetting as the spiders were brutally murdered one by one. They just wanted to be loved…

felldragons

I know exactly what children's book you're talking about with the gross bugs inside the sandwich - I had the same one and it was like a core-memory. Made me very untrusting of foods like that

Rigmarole

i wonder if jenny has seen that live-action sequel to the Arthur trilogy made by the same guy where it's about a french guy who is a mega fan of the arthur movies and he and his friends go to a house that was a filming location of the movies or something because they know he loves it so much. and then they start getting murdered danganronpa-style. and it's starting Luc Besson's own daughter and apparently she can't act and it absolutely bombed at the box office. FunkyFrogBait on youtube has a short video on the movie!!

air_infector

YES, Jenny! The Dinosaurs sit-com scared me so much as a child. I ran away whenever it was on screen. Dinosaurs plagued my nightmares. Lately my girlfriend has been re-watching the whole series, and I have had to very firmly state that I will NOT watch it with her. You summed it up so perfectly-- nothing about that family of dinosaurs is trustworthy, and they've always made me feel such a deep sense of unease.

They sell hot chocolate at hockey games, it is kinda cozy. Except that it feels like a Roman gladiatorial game with hulking dudes in armor slamming into each other at high speeds and the slapshots crashing into the boards

Glad I never watched Dinosaurs, always just gave me creepy vibes and I absolutely despise Alice in Wonderland, as a child it really unsettled me just how mean and creepy everyone was to this girl that was just lost. In high school we had to watch Alice in Wonderland (for geometry class??) and it was still just as unsettling. Just such an infuriating movie, I still get so uncomfortable with the little baby clams getting eaten by a creepy man fish? Idk something along those lines. BUT i love atlantis and also dinosaur the movie

Dinosaurs was so creepy! And did have weirdly dark sets which I've never heard anyone mention. I remember my mom also thought it was creepy so we never really had it on, but the little that I saw definitely made me feel uneasy. I was also incredibly disappointed by the Ella Enchanted movie (I unfairly had a grudge against Anne Hathaway for years because she was always in the movies that didn't live up to my book-reader standards), and more recently thought that Luca was surprisingly boring (and had lazy animation) given all the praise I'd heard for it, so I felt very seen by this video!

Katie

When I was a kid I was scared of asparagus because there were these evil plants in Zelda 2 that vaguely looked like asparagus. I refused to eat that cursed vegetable for years because of a video game design choice. Jenny saying she doesn’t like asparagus makes child-me feel seen.

Melanie

dinosaurs was a terrible show

Teijo

(Although I'd say it's unlikely) I'd love to know if Jenny ever watched Mamma Mia 2. Mammia Mia is a film I watch once or twice and was kind of fond of in spite of myself. I'm also not a huge fan of jukebox musicals with songs I'm familiar with, while I'm a man and don't want to speak authoritatively to her other criticisms, I can certainly see where she's coming from, and the cinematography, editing and even sometimes choreography ranged from not great to non-existent. Oh, and a lot of the characters couldn't really sing. I love ABBA, though, so, like I say, I remember it vaguely fondly despite all its flaws. Mamma Mia 2 is, by a mile, the silliest film on my list of favourites of all time. The jukebox element was helped by the fact that I didn't know at least half the tracks because they had to dig much deeper into the back catalogue, Lily James was a hurricane of charisma and, like, if ever a film didn't need to try AT ALL on a technical level to turn a profit, it was Mamma Mia 2... but they tried so hard. There's ambitiously shot scenes, the editing is bordering on perfect in some of the musical numbers. It makes me cry... twice... every time (and there have been a lot of times - I probably watched it six or seven times during lockdown). It's a little self-aware in a way the original wasn't. So, I mean, Jenny's never going to read this but if you went into Mamma Mia as an ABBA fan and were disappointed, it's at least worth a go. There's a staggering amount of earnestness to what almost anyone would expect to be a shameless cash grab.

Kav

I feel very validated that someone else hates the "take something important to you and carelessly throw it around for fun and comedy" trope. My loathing didn't spread to monkeys, but that trope always felt mean spirited and anxiety inducing.

Lauren Woodring

I watched so much dinosaurs during quarantine that seeing real actors with human flesh felt incorrect

The skin crawling you describe about Dinosaurs is so on point. Here is my attempt at a description: It's like your skin is coated in some sadistic, freshly refrigerated, honey-jelly combo. After which you're placed into the hot car from Titanic, just after Jack and Rose left. Finally, you are stamped and rotated between the velvet seats and the humid glass over and over until you beg for mercy.

I also hated Dinosaurs, the sitcom. I'm maybe 5-10 years older than you, so I was at the age where I had to babysit for children who inexplicably did like the show. I always found it off putting and unfunny. (I'm an OG patreon but just missed this video somehow)

Loretta Pontillo

I had such a low tolerance for gross out stuff as a kid that most things on the Cartoon Network were a no go but I hated edd Ed and eddy SO MUCH. I never understood why people liked it and I hated when the boys in my class would do impressions of the characters with their dumb stupid voices. I can still hear kids in my fourth grade class saying buttered toast the way one of them did. Revolting.

Libby

I hated Dinosaurs SO MUCH. Scary. Mean. Crass. Dirty. That baby was the worst. I find adults doing children’s voices could really be wonderful, but the guy that did the voice of that baby was annoying and terrifying at the same time. I’m was so glad you hear you feel that way because I’ve always felt alone as well!!! I know I’m late to the party on this, but I am a new Patreon member!

I HATED Dinosaurs! My father ordered us the series on Netflix, because we were huge Muppets and Labyrinth fans. I remember he was so excited when it showed up in the Mail. But I was too young for it at the time, and I remember thinking the characters were super disturbing, and the plot was bizarre and equally disturbing. There was an episode that established once a dinosaur reached a certain age, they were ceremoniously sacrificed to the Tar Pits in a weird form of ritualistic puppet dinosaur murder. I still think about it.

Maddy

In defense of coning: at my school anyway kids would order ice cream and then when it was being handed to them they would grab it by the ice cream and then just walk off with a fistful of soft-serve.

Caroline

Nope. Hated Dinosaur as well. It didn’t traumatize me but I do remember that baby being one of the first times that I felt that someone who didn’t understand me was trying way too hard to market something directly to me.

Kevin

I just YouTubed the scene in question and I am afraid it might actually be a very good scene ethically speaking and trauma may have been the intended result

My late mother forbid us from watching Dinosaurs for a litany of vague reasons that can be boiled down to "that show has bad vibes." And that's not mere anti-dinosaur bias, because we were very much a Land Before Time household. So I too am glad the Dinosaurs are all dead as hell. May their fossils rot in their Cretaceous era graves *spits on the ground*

My friend raved about The Ella Enchanted book, I had forgotten that conversation, I should read that pronto. I had also forgotten that Dinosaurs was a Henson production. It's so far off the classiness of, say, The Storyteller, or most anything they were doing in that era, I can't really group them together in my mind.

Kavi Montanaro

i really disliked luca as well, glad we're on the same page there. we have similar taste in general. i did like elemental at least a little tho, if only because i thought the romance was decent and i was watching it with my gf.

(Children of Time is a sci-fi novel featuring spiders)

LS

i would commit various crimes to see a book accurate ella enchanted adaptation (though i know it would never compare to how i imagine it in my head)

Cecile

French person here, I LOVED Arthur et les Minimoys, it has a lot of problems (including the director) but why people hate it ???!!! Why ???

Just catching up here: THANK YOU. Thank you for bashing the Ella Enchanted movie. I still get so mad thinking about how it destroyed the book. I had a very similar experience taking my family to it. That movie deserves all the anti-awards.

Nadia Wheeler

all these comments abt monkey hate is making my soul ache 😭😭 primates are my special interest and they make me very happy,, i understand monkey fears are common though. still bumming me out a little 😞

joseph merz

i wish u liked monkeys :( good video tho

joseph merz

I feel like I'm incapable of disliking monkeys due in whole to watching Zoboomafoo constantly as a kid.

I absolutely hated the dinosaur tv show. I remember being assaulted by the ads during all of the other shows, too. The plaid shirt the dad wore. The in diapers way they walked.

Mariel

YES TO MONKEYS BEING THE WORST! They also seem to be in diapers a lot in movies and tv for some reason?? Which is then new levels of terrible because its a mix of them being too human, and also that nauseating "funny" baby character that is in fact, not funny. Not a coincidence that apes were like the mascots of the NFT/Crypto scence.

Arisa C

Also, I’m pretty sure I remember and had blocked out the memory of the episode you mentioned. *shudder*

Sirona

OMG JENNY, thank you for beautifully articulating what a horrific, nauseating show ’Dinosaurs’ was. I was feeling compelled to leave a commiseratory comment even before you requested them. You absolutely nailed it.

Sirona

I came to North America AFTER shows like Dinosaur and Rougrats were all the rage, and seeing it without nostalgia for it, they just look ugly

For the record, I also hated the series Dinosaur as a kid just from when it would randomly come on and the dialogue seemed mean and boring and the design was indeed gross as if it was shot with the same camera as Texas Chainsaw Massacre. People said I would “get it” when I got older but I’m glad they were wrong.

Anemone Plenary

like, 2-3 years ago I matched on tinder with the lammily dolls guy (i had no idea what they were at this point) and he told me all about how great his dolls are like 4 times and then I unmatched him LMAO but thank you for unlocking that memory, I had completely forgotten about him until noe

Katrina Gluch

I literally cannot deal with monkeys I say it all the time. If I lived in a climate with monkeys all willy-nilly I would simply pass away

Sabrie Colbert

Not me having diet root beer as my favorite soda :(

George Hodulik

I for one felt so vindicated by your dislike of six flags magic mountain it’s so miserable and all my co workers always wanted to go cause cool coasters. Also if you ever wanna play a horrible god awful game there’s a full relatively higher budget Arthur and the invisibles video game and it’s so so horrible but maybe one of the funniest games I’ve ever seen.

my least favorite MLP line is G4 simply because if I tell an unassuming citizen that I collect MLP, they immediately assume I'm talking about Friendship Is Magic. and I resent that

Hearing Jenny think for a second as she tries to think of what boy Lammily reminds her of before going: "—When the convicts escaped Alcatraz prison—" is quite possibly the funniest sharp left turn I've ever heard a sentence take. I've never been so bewildered, confused, and laughed so hard at once.

Reed

Never heard of Lammily before now and now desperately trying to find an archived interview of all the derisive things the creator said about Barbie

Xylia Stargazer

Lammily is such an awful name for a doll, too.

Kim P.

Thanks for the great ramble, Atlantis slander and all. I feel like the Dinosaurs show was not intended for children. I don’t recall the fluffy creatures ep (maybe repressed, lol) but I do remember the one where the daughter was handed a death sentence for her round-earth theory, and declared that she wanted to be executed via throwing her off the edge of the flat earth. She was proved right when they walked around the entire globe and ended up back where they started. But uh, yeah, the concept of executing a child for having independent thought isn’t great kids’ TV.

i saw Arthur and the Invisibles when it came out and remember liking it but i was also 6 years old. great memories of playing it at recess with friends who had not seen the film (messing w pinecones, hanging upside down on the monkey bars so our hair looked like the movie)

I do NOT accept responsibility for this

Jenny Nicholson

I watched Arthur and the Minimoys because of this video and I think I may never forgive you

Luke Beall

i feel like an Arthur and the invisibles video might be fun

Kaivalya Hariharan

ok, but honestly the experience of loving the book Ella Enchanted to the point where you convince your family to watch the movie, only to be embarrassed and disappointed is something I will never get over as a child, and I FEEL bad, bc now everyone talks abt how great that movie is, but I can never wipe away the pain of watching it that first time

I emphatically agree that monkeys suck as animals lol

Zach Varnum

The second Jenny mentioned Dinosaur, the only episode I could remember from it was the one where he eats the little creatures. I was going to comment about how disgusting it was watching their little tails being slurped into his gross dinosaur mouth, then she mentioned that exact episode. I'm glad I wasn't the only one traumatised by it.

I really cracked up when you claimed Sondheim is easier to sing than the pop music in Mama Mia. Respectfully disagree, let’s say 😂

August

I never watched Dinosaur, but I remember seeing pictures from it and feeling a sense of forboding, which apparently is justified as it sounds like the worst thing ever.

I didn't *hate* Dinosaurs as a kid, but the older I get, the more bewildered I am that it ever existed. What a strange show. I only really remember the baby and his one joke, but I was so young, I didn't really get it. But everyone thought the joke was hilarious.

Cynethryth

I'm shocked that Escape from Tomorrow wasn't your least favorite movie

I'm late and also someone probably already said this but if anyone wants to experience Arthur and the Invisibles without having to watch the whole thing Toddintheshadows has a great bit on it as part of his Cinemadonna series. It's in the cameos video.

Marina Vollin

Yes yes yes, Dinosaurs was very depressing to me as a child and I hated the baby. Thank you for this.

I grew up in SoCal going to Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm. I didn’t go to Magic Mountain until I was a teenager they had the summer concert series in the 80s because I was completely uninterested in attending an amusement park that wasn’t themed & decorated.

LKB

so glad I see all my hockey fans talking about how hockey isn't cold. Jenny I promise it can capture the cosy vibe you're dreaming of. also it's fun

Em

Wow, I looked up Luc Besson and that story is hella crazy

B Hair

maybe it's the flannel on the dad, but i felt exactly the same way

I feel validated on the Magic Mountain. Growing up in Southern California MM always felt like a busted bootleg Disneyland. They practically gave away tickets in the 90's I'd always see on soda cans you could like trade empty soda cans or something for Magic Mountain tickets.

Krista Frauenfelder

boy Lammily kinda reminds me of E.T.....

Selina

"shrimp are kind of grosser because their pose makes it look like they're curled up and afraid" I fuckin lost it

Monkee Toupee

2. Hockey games are not that cold, maybe like 50-55 degrees in the stadium? And if you wear a jersey those things are toasty. I've never seen anyone wearing mittens at an indoor ice rink though. It's pretty fun :)

boobookeys

1. Boy Lammily looks like that Tumblr post where someone skinned an Elvis animatronic and wore his face lmao

boobookeys

I never watched Dinosaurs. It reminded me of Roseanne, and I was already super uninterested in Roseanne. A dinosaur version of it sounded even less interesting to me.

Mel T.

ella enchanted hate is so funny to me, one of my college film professors was the director for the movie haha

simrell

hershey park theming is pretty surreal, i remember a ride with romeo & juliet overtones about a peanut butter boy and chocolate girl. they were humans, not globs, and heirs to their respective Candy Conglomerates. weirdly high-concept, especially because (iirc) those characters were one-offs for the ride and not, like, beloved characters at the park. enjoyed it though

the Six Flags near me growing up had a Bugs Bunny kids' play house/palace thing, where my friend and i caught strep

I grew up near Six Flags St Louis, and your discussion of the poorly themed rides and badly integrated IP is spot on.

Jenny: If there's one book I'd burn, it's this children's book about spiders in food. Me: So not Mein Kempf?

Christine Govas-Robert

I was thinking anti-Jenny awards would be things the anti-Jenny would think are great.

Eric

popping back in to say I thought of another anti-awards. Taking awards back from people that didn’t deserve them

Aimee W

It was a bad way to end a kid's show, especially a comedy. Reminds me of the ending for HIMYM, since it didn't fit the feel (or the character arcs) of the rest of the series. I personally didn't mind it as much for Dinosaurs, just because I was already an adult at the time. And the way it went over the top on the cause-and-effect thing was a bit humorous and fit the way they had done other things in the series; it was just darker than usual. Anyway, it still left me saying, "Huh? That's how they end the series? Weird."

Dan Black

I went to six flags in new Jersey as a kid and i remember the looney toons stuff, mostly i remember these tubes that shot out air that hovered balls over them

Sentient Puffball

One of my favorite things to do when watching the patron vids is to guess what video Jenny is working on now based on the props she has in the back.

Sam Cotter

Jenny gets it! I have to admit, though, that it never really occurred to me to compare myself to Barbie because Barbie was plastic and had a hollow head, which is obvious when you accidentally pop one or two of them off. I can't remember exactly how it happened, but the heads are definitely hollow, and that's even more unrelatable. I also felt the same way about people who criticized me or teased me about my weight. They were unrelatable, and I figured they also had hollow, empty heads. I never actually popped off any of those to check, but I just figure.

Tracy Christenson

she addresses this in her reasons to hate disney video, under reason number bad activism EDIT: July 2021 ramble from 15:50

Jack

always happy to hear jenny’s opinions on dollywood! thats my home park, i used to go all the time as a teenager.

Creamer

Jenny: I wasn’t aware of my body when I was a child so Barbie wasn’t an issue me: wow god i wish that was me :( Jenny, 2 seconds later: But plus size Barbie has merit because fat kids don’t get to not be aware of their bodies me: :)

Sarah G

Speaking of disliking wholesome pranks, I hate the "wholesome catcalling" where they're just saying funny/nice things. It's still talking to people on the street who didn't ask for it!

Alexandria Ritz

I know it wasn’t the point of this vid, but I was also meat-adverse/vegetarian as a young kid and continue to be vegetarian as an adult, and I really related to a lot of the takes in this video. I was the only vegetarian I knew as I was growing up so it is interesting to hear what experiences others in the same boat had.

Sage

Not trying to sound harsh as I haven't seen the movie, but...does having queer subtext make it better?

Rebekah White

my jaw actually dropped when Jenny said she didn't like Luca, I'm curious to know if she picked up on the incredibly queer subtext, or if she turned it off too early for that! no hate to her of course!

Adelina

Hockey is not that cold. If you have a long sleeve t-shirt you might regret not bringing something more. But it’s possible to get too hot and remove layers for a couple minutes.

Chrombus

Oh my god I feel so seen when you talked about that Dinosaurs episode. That one made me cry and gave me existential nightmares as a small child. It made me nauseous and the way you describe the characters making your skin crawl is exactly how I feel! No one gets it when I try to explain lol.

Finally another person who hates monkeys and mamma mia!

Miranda Kanowsky

i can sleep soundly knowing you hate bunch a crunch in your popcorn but i am also disturbed that you dont like monkeys :(

6:15 - I'm glad you (Jenny) liked Dollywood. I wanted to go there, and now I want to go even more! 15:36 - Absolutely agree; I hate monkeys! (I, too, include other primates who aren't technically monkeys.) Chimps, especially, are vicious and horrible. So many species are also literally dirty poo-flingers. 29:48 - I probably agree on L3, because of the political stuff they tried to roll in. But I really like K-2SO, because he's the perfect combination of C-3PO's statistical and analytical intelligence and R2-D2's sass and social awareness. 34:45 - YES, I *HATE* prank videos. If you take them at face value, why would you treat your family and friends that way? But it's especially obvious they're fake when the friends/family still "fall" for it every time and never stop trusting the pranksters. If someone pranked me even once, I would be cautious and never fully trust them ever again.

Dan Black

Ive seen both the American cut and the pervert cut of arthur, i dont know why. Theyre both so awful. The main thing i remeber about it is how dissonant the dub was from the lip flaps and also madonna was the voice of the love interest...??

Sewing Savage

I totally get hating Dinosaurs, especially when that was the most vivid episode you remember. I have an honest fear of non-muppet puppets, so much so that "my Dinosaurs"-equivelant trauma is so gutpunching I hate to even utter it's title, I'll just say it's an 80s fantasy thing that involves puppets but is not Jim Henson and I hate it so. I'm actually deeply afraid of things with faces, animatronics and costume characters from my childhood as law -but not stop motion movies which is odd because I reguarly watch claymation/stop motion stuff that would have kept me up for weeks if I saw it as a kid like it's nothing now...so maybe I'm not the best judge...oh well.

Franki Lew

Literally all these takes are based, from the awful intersexist barbie to the monkeys. It me.

Franki Lew

Whenever people are impressed that I know a lot of ABBA songs idk if I should tell them that it’s because of the A-Teens 😂

Hanna Hays

Ha Thats funny. I would say Luca and Elemental were my favorite of the pixar or disney animated movies since what I would consider the last great one which was Coco.

zach spencer

the assumption that i don’t know sally corp 🤨

Lily

Okay this isn't very interesting, but my first job was actually at Magic Mountain, and I worked there at the time that the Justice League dark ride went up. I think I was able to ride it before the park opened on the first day the ride was open, so that was cool. The park is super gross, and they treat their employees terribly. I still get random checks in the mail from various class action lawsuits that have been filed for their mistreatment of employees, so that's fun! I recently went to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA, which is about an hour from where I live now, and I was BLOWN AWAY that a rollercoaster park could actually be beautifully maintained, and pretty impressively themed throughout the entire park. They even have multiple dark coasters similar to Space Mountain, which is a favorite of mine so I loved them. Highly recommended, if you've never been!

i can send you a link to watching the show if you want

The most interesting of that tik tok trend was the one where the guy was talking about how his aunt invited everyone in the family to her house for Thanksgiving before dying the morning of, and how they had to celebrate it with her in the house because they couldn't get the guys to pick her up because of the holiday lol

Andrew Ward

Butt ugly Martians was my Serendipity-I have been trying to find this show for years, I had already given up. I watched one episode when I was maybe 6, and fell in love with the Martians. I have been trying to remember what this show is since I was like 18, you just changed my whole night omfg. Thank you SO much.

Taylor Calloway

Wow. She drinks a lot of soda.

JD Rasco

The hatred/fear of monkeys comes from that one episode of Wild Thornberries. You know which one.

Babs

jennys doll in the background made me think of this but my least favorite barbie movie is princess and the popstar i have such a vendetta against it and i hate what they did to "to be a princess." i have to admit that the song at the main climactic moment is really good tho

Maddy

My friend and I went to watch the Arthur original cut after this video and we were flabbergasted when the dad ran inside afraid of the African men

The Dinosaurs show was and is horrifying to me; also, I would constantly listen to the audiobook of Ella Enchanted as a tweenager and was not pleased to see what the movie did with it; lastly, although I am a peanut butter consumer and fan of the PB Cups, I fully agree that the Reese’s “peanut butter” is some variant substance.

Amelia McLean

I hated Dinosaurs when it was on, i think i was in middle school.... but it was redeemed in my mind somewhat after it was heavily featured in Some More News: The Movie, which is, incidentally, the best movie of the last 4 years. Maybe ever

Joel Keene

I have spent years telling people why monkeys creep me out so much. A lot of people seem to get where you're coming from when you explain it to them - they're eerily too human and too clever. Keep spreading the good word, Jenny. Down with monkeys.

James Hanson

Omg yes I also had the book that was shaped as a sandwich with bugs in it! I thought of it as soon as you started describing the seven spiders book because it was my absolute least favorite book as a kid and I couldn't believe when you started describing it haha. It was called Sam's Sandwich or something like that and it was about this mean boy making a sandwich full of bugs to give to his sister and it's obvious in retrospect that I, a little girl who was terrified of bugs, was most definitely not the target demographic lol

Rae Abigail

I already knew I was a fan of yours Jenny but your love for the A*Teens really put it over the top for me into pure fondness.

Alexandra Ewing

I had the same exact experience with the Ella Enchanted movie, lol. I used to listen to the audiobook all the time.

i could listen to jenny talk about mlp all day 💕 I know almost nothing so I love learning about the previous generations

Girafarig

Seconding you and everyone else RE: hating Dinosaurs; I remember being so grossed out by the whole look of the show as a kid and I can't comprehend people's nostalgia for it

Jane Mahoney

Has there ever been a more damning critique than "I think Boy Lammily looks like the Alcatraz prison dummy heads made out of paper mache and hair clippings from the prison barber shop"?

Betsy

My mother loved Dinosaurs and especially the baby, she thought it was the greatest thing ever, which always made for an uncomfortable half hour if it came on while I was visiting. 🤦

Xofer

I always despised Dinosaurs. Not with the same incredible burning passion Jenny seems to have, but it just seemed like a shameless rip off of The Simpsons but without being the slightest bit funny, clever or appealing on any level. There were a lot of shameless attempts to rip off The Simpsons, but most of the successful ones were at least funny in their own right (Family Guy, et al). And yeah, visually it had this sort of grimy quality which was also unpleasant. And oh god, that %$# baby

Henry

Sam's sandwich! My parents still have it, and the pizza version too. My kids love them both and always ask me to read them when we visit, even though half of the flaps are missing 😅

Libby Williams

This is a very haunting story

Jenny Nicholson

I hated the Dinosaurs show mostly because I hated the stupid baby character so so much.

Liz Jones

I have a vivid childhood memory of trick or treating at a nearby house that belonged to a friend of my dad's. He invited us into his porch to wait while he grabbed something candy-adjacent for us (I don't think he got many trick or treaters, as his house was pretty out of the way, which further added to the ambiance of impending spookiness). From where I was standing in the porch, I could see into his living room. There was a very strange looking show playing on the TV that I had never seen before (which I found out years later was called Dinosaurs). The baby dino was there sitting in his high chair, his nearly toothless maw flapping, his eyes bugged out and glassy. To my child eyes he looked like a wad of chewed up bubblegum. It felt like something I wasn't allowed to be seeing. I felt like something was very wrong. Seeing that critter was the most disturbing thing that happened to me that halloween. The whole happenstance is seared into my memory.

Munchy Lunchco

Aside from the multi-layered white savior narrative this movie has going on the Minimoy princess character design is weird because she's like a sassy elf maiden and every other member of her species is like a Norfin troll or a troll from the Rankin Bass Hobbit movie wearing unsexy clothing, she's wearing skintight leather pants and a bustier made out of a leaf that shows off her midriff and she's framed in an uncomfortable, leering way. The part where there's the buff Masai warrior guys who kneel down before the protagonist and are like "only you can save us, 10 year old boy" feels like something from a 1940's adventure serial as well as the plot where his grandfather in an African explorer outfit saved them by teaching them about irrigation. How the black-coded Minimoys are portrayed is also pretty uncomfortable, too

Ted Koutz

I feel exactly the same about peanut butter and I have never met anyone who agreed with me. Peanut is okay with chocolate but peanut butter flavoring is gross and peanut butter cookies are gross and once in a while a pbj sandwich is fine. And Reese's cups aren't really peanut butter. Preach.

mickey mosher

Ya'll the original cut of Arthur and the Minimoy's is on Youtube for free! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA7RCFVXW1k

Altinia Holdings Inc

much more steely & focused since becoming a First Order officer 😬

Shred Cadmium

Excellent take on The Dinosaurs show. I don't think I remember any episode as much as that one when the boss eats. I stopped watching the show around that time and only saw the final episode because it became a thing to watch finale episodes. Yes! Reeses cups have that gritty powder, but it works. That eating spiders book sounds beyond dreadful.

Dundough Breadbox

I was not expecting to learn about Alcatraz and paper mache heads, but I welcome this knowledge! The small G5 MLPs remind me of GI Joe (the 80s ones) or Star Wars. Being jointed and having molded hair, they have an action figure vibe. I skip a lot of them because, yeah, same characters over and over, but I saw a set with G3/G5 Minty (brushable), so that's on my wishlist. (There's also a cartoon episode with G1 Minty. Strong Minty rep.) I never watched the Dinosaurs sitcom because the character designs grossed me out, especially the dad and the baby. I just googled them to refresh my memory and they're worse than I remembered.

Monica McFadden

Your Ella Enchanted take makes me feel so seen. I read the book like 30 times as a kid and was SO UPSET by the movie. I actually recently went back and reread the book—genuinely still super enjoyable, holds up great

Anna Hicks-Jaco

I've always loved Dinosaurs, but man alive I would not ever consider it a kid's show and it's bonkers it was marketed that way. I think it's fairly intelligent and surprisingly progressive given its vintage, but it's also not at all something I'd want anyone younger than like 14 watching

Thomas Hartwell

giant porg has never looked so decisively at the camera in any other video, i think hes discovered that hes being filmed

momotomo

Thank you for the Ella Enchanted rant! I see so much love for this movie online and it must be from people who watched it as kids without having read the book. I remember having the same experience as you in the theater, sitting there horrified at what they had done to one of my favorite books.

Tzivia Kleinbart

one more vote for traumatized by Dinosaurs

Molly Ingalls

I've never been more saddened to hear six flags magic mountain to be the worst park, but it's true. There truly is like zero theming, and the food there is all sooooo bad. I think if you're into thrill rides most are pretty good, but for a while they had some really bad ones (Viper, Green Lantern), but yeah with that being like the closest park to the home I grew up in, it hurts.

Dahlia

DINOSAURS was the one TGIF show I never watched. I watched all the others they threw at us when ABC had us locked in the grip of the TGIF lineup. But I instinctively drew a line in the sand at this one, and never dared cross it.

Samir Roy

You never hear the air conditioner until it's too late.

Who Are These People

and you’re right! that show scared me so bad. 😭

god’s favorite sacrificial lamb

omg, jenny, you’re literally that tweet that’s like “i was never into ed edd and eddy as a kid…even then i knew something decidedly unchic was afoot.”

god’s favorite sacrificial lamb

Oh my god they had the maze with the giant carrot punching bags at Six Flags Over Georgia and it has been an almost primal memory for me- along with riding the Mindbender and deciding I never wanted to ride a roller coaster ever again

Stephanie Carrin

I dunno if there's a theme park worse than Elitch Gardens in Denver. It's downtown and hemmed in on all sides by the rest of the city so it feels tiny, tiny, tiny. The light rail stop is disgusting. I've been there once and all I did was take pictures of typos on their signs and have an undercooked personal pizza. They do have a Meow Wolf attraction, though... but I didn't see it.

Mireille C

my local theme park M&D’s in Scotland is definitely the worst theme park in the world 0/10 do not recommend

Georgie

Following on the Knott's Berry farm trivia, here's a fun article about their abandoned Jungle Land: https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/abandoned-theme-park-near-disneyland-18176797.php

Ham

I would be so hyped about a potential Europapark video! I visited on a school trip when I was 16 and me and my freinds had great fun posing in different lands and taking photos like we were on this massive continential tour. We went at Halloween and they had a massive pumpkin spider display, as in a spider made of pumpkins. Would highly reccomend.

That male Lammily doll looks like Conan O'Brien.

I watched this, and then decided to dive into the backlog of patreon videos and landed fully randomly on "Things I think are true but aren't." Less than 5 minutes in, the topic is Seven Spiders Spinning 😅 Loving this accidental thematic consistency

JessJeverage

i don’t know about anyone else, but i cannot hear the air conditioner

erin 🤸‍♂️

I rewatched Dinosaurs for the first time since I was a kid last year and I agree with everything said. Earl particularly is so unlikeable, but he's always framed as the character we're supposed to relate to. Also agree, the neighbour Brontosaurus was the best character!

I would love an Arthur and the Invisibles video!!!

Jamie

I had the exact same experience with Ella Enchanted. I consider it a huge sign of growth that I've come to appreciate it as a separate entity. But in my heart of hearts I still bitterly resent it.

Jamie

ELLA ENCHANTED the best girls’ book

also I would do anything for you to make a video about Lamily so thank you for the tangent lol. I saw a quote where he was like “Barbie looks harsh and mean. women should be soft and kind.” 😬 say you’re intimidated by a baddie and go.

Minnie

I was also just telling my friend the other day how monkeys are uncanny valley scary and I don’t fuck with monkeys. they’re like a creepy little man.

Minnie

i hated the dinosaurs show so much. The puppets and vibe was so viscerally unpleasant, i hated even seeing the show. I can’t say for sure if i saw the same episode you described, but the feeling you described about the really dark and just mean tones? I completely remember that exact feeling. Ugh. The most “ugh” show ever. edit: It’s so wild, i don’t think i’ve ever seen anyone say anything negative about dinosaurs, it’s only ever brought up to point out how ahead of it’s time it was, or whatever. Glad to see so many people here hate that god damn eyesore of a show 😂

Jesus

i live near washington DC and the reason i could never move to california is because i couldn't live somewhere that doesn't have an 'actual' winter, if you know what i mean? i love cold and would feel deprived without a season where it gets below freezing every day. i hate heat so much (as you can imagine, i'm in hell right now x_x), so 'cold and overcast' is my type of weather

Austin F

Okay sorry to comment twice in a row, but I know your worst pizza that you’ve never had. Rhode Island red strips. Bread and sauce, no cheese, room temperature. We have great pizza in RI (lots of Italians), but for some reason red strips are “our” pizza.

Devin Beliveau

Cool and sunny is literally the best weather. Shorts and hoodie stans unite!

Devin Beliveau

But Jenny did you know that Six Flags Discovery Kingdom started as a theme park in Redwood City called Marine World that had cool Dinosaur animatronics: https://youtu.be/ghHcul2sKW8.

Will Huynh

also, if we go by the logic of your curse, one of those 'mysterious' parks is going to be exposed as being run by the mafia and disappear that night without a trace

Austin F

i never got the hype around it either (but i'm also a guy - although i know some other gay guys do like it). amanda seyfried's cover of 'i have a dream' is amazing and iconic though i'll give them that

Austin F

omg was G3.5 the one with the weird cartoon tie-in with the baby horses where their mouths didn't move when they spoke? idk if you'll see this, but i'm wondering if you ever owned it. it's such a strange artifact of the 2000s to have with you physically

Austin F

finally i feel like i’m not alone hating mamma mia. it really seems like everyone loves that movie

ignacia maría

AH I hated that Ella Enchanted movie so much!! I also loved the book so much as a kid, and I was so excited for the movie- and it actually came out right before my birthday. So for my birthday party I invited all my friends over and we had a fairy tale themed party, and then we all went in our costumes to go see the movie- and I hated it so much!! And none of my friends had even read the book, so they all really enjoyed the movie and were talking about how great it was, and I was just sitting there fuming. Also my dad loved the music and he ended up buying the soundtrack and would play it all the time. So I was unable to escape the reminder of the movie. Hearing you talk about the Ella Enchanted movie unlocked these visceral, suppressed memories, but I'm glad I wasn't the only one who loved the book and did NOT like the movie lol

April Feldman

I remember arthur and the invisibles being one of my favourite movies as a kid I even had the video game lmao I need to revisit it

Dylan Clarke

I support content creators keeping their AC on. They shouldn't have to melt!

Chase Cargal

I always hated characters being eaten by things whether, implied or graphic depictions, I just hate concept. Hearing your summary of parts of that book made my stomach turn. While on the subject of things we don't like I need to vent about The Witches. I hate that movie - not for the infamous transformation scene but for when the main evil witch steps on her fellow witch who's accidentally been turned into a mouse. Ok, I managed to typed that. Just a sick and disturbing moment - sorry to bring it up. That movie can stop existing rn ty.

David A Behlman

Oh, that's cool! I didn't know it went in that order! Although it makes sense why Diet Coke ended up being the only one that kept the recipe. I live in fear that they will decide to screw with the Diet Coke recipe or condense it in with Coke Zero, but I think maybe it has enough loyal adherents that they know better.

BestStressed

I also rewatched all the songs from the Donkey Kong cartoon a few weeks ago. Glad to see I’m not the only person on the planet who thinks highly of them. Alnd as someone who also hated the Dinosaurs tv series, the video and comments have been very cathartic. I don’t know if I’ve ever agreed with Jenny on anything so much. I was nodding in agreement with every sentence of her critique. Truly a very disturbing show and it’s good to finally hear something other than endless praise for it.

Matthew S. Dentice

If I remember right, Coke decided to make the Diet Coke recipe completely from scratch because food science wasn't good enough yet to make something sugar-free that tasted like classic Coke, and Diet Coke ended up being so popular they decided to base New Coke off of it.

Evan Chappelear

Now that she mentions it diet root beer DOES just taste like watered down root beer. That's what's been wrong with it this whole time. The worst movie I think I've ever seen fits basically all of Jenny's criteria. No compelling characters, practically no story, no themes, and the only scene I ever think about I think about in the same way I remember going to the dentist and needing two needles' worth of numbing agent because the first one didn't take. I think of it in horrified bewilderment over how a scene *that long* has *that little* actual content. Also to make things worse it stars Ronald Reagan and is very racist. It's called This Is The Army, it was the highest grossing film of 1943, I hate it terribly, don't watch it. I watched Dinosaurs a lot as a kid but not all the way through and never since, I think she might be right about this one.

Dan Gibbins

Yeah... I'm not entirely sure which was first, but, yes, "diet coke" and "new coke" were based on the same recipe! And "coke zero" was based on the "classic coke" recipe!

Gnome Choomsky

I mean, I didn't like dinosaurs overall, but sometimes it was based af! 🤣 https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxmZlF7wrxdKVNyvq32sr6nZ3BmVNXVgUk

Gnome Choomsky

Can't see if anyone already posted this, but Diet Coke and Coke really are different sodas! Diet Coke is made from the New Coke recipe that they tried to introduce across their line. There was a huge outcry and they went back to the original recipe... except for Diet Coke.

BestStressed

Speaking of credit songs, I would kill for like, a Patreon download of the Evermore one. It's SO GOOD and I walk around singong it all the time 😂

COTF Creative

Always a pleasure to find another person betrayed by the Ella Enchanted movie after adoring the book

Three Memes in a Trenchcoat

Came in excited to watch new Jenny video, came out lowkey traumatized after searching about the dinosaur tv series, seeing the already horrifying animation, and listening to the gruesome description of what happened in the finale….. How is this a kid’s show…. 😭

tofu nugget

what's funny is it's not even a kids show, it's an adult sitcom that's just relatively pg like the simpsons

Holly L

I HATED Dinosaurs. It was so ugly and boring. My parents would always want to watch it as a family and would never accept that I hated it because “it’s a kids show!” We still have family jokes based on lines from the show and I resent them every time they come up.

MJ Crom

trust me, la ronde manages to be the worst amusement park in the world

Amanda Moreira

You may have just massively improved my social media experience because when the Depp/heard trial was going on I was aggressively not interesting every single post that I saw because it was all too triggering, and it felt like my entire feed was consumed with that content. Now I will go forth with the knowledge that I have to aggressively swipe away to escape.

Alex Andra

gold goes well with brown. groundbreaking

Aimee W

I haven’t really started the video yet but I have to say your eyeshadow looks exactly like how I did mine for an entire year in middle school (because it was on the back of the “for brown eyes” eyeshadow palette I got for my birthday)

Aimee W

loved your commentary on six flags magic mountain! man i really wish those more coaster-heavy parks went harder on theming lol. there’s so much missed opportunity! things like characters, docking music, sound effects etc can really flesh out a ride and enhance the experience. at one of cedar point’s areas, frontiertown, they’ve got two coasters called maverick and steel vengeance that are fully incorporated into the lore of the land (explained here if anyone is interested! https://youtu.be/62dzOopXzCc). such an awesome use of backstory to make the two rides all the more memorable. thanks for another great video jenny. safe travels!

Somewhat of a coasterhead here, and you're right about Six Flags. It's not a pleasant experience. Even tho I like coasters, when I visited southern California, I ended up enjoying Disneyland way more than Magic Mountain because it's so much of a better experience overall. Honestly that experience made me start caring way more about theming. Coasters are fun but they don't make a good overall package.

Steph K

I swear I remember that book with bugs under the ingredients. I think it was shaped like a pizza box and the different toppings had bugs and stuff under them. Oddly, I remember enjoying the concept of the book. I thought it was creative

Heather Hollands

I grew up with MLP G3, but I only have very vague memories of G3.5. I think I must have erased it from my mind, because I looked up the ponies and oh boy do they look deformed lol!!

Max

i didnt hate dinosaurs per say, but i definitely found it unsettling and didn't like watching it as a kid.

Rice G.

Jennergy, if you will

Katherine Allen

The extremely expensive Star Wars Hotel souvenir precariously perched on top of a giant Deutsh mushroom in front of a horse desk covered in Furbies, Ponies and a tree with a face is pure Jenny Energy.

Diana.H.

haha i was so obsessed with arthur + invisibles as a kid! couldnt say i *liked* it as it was bad and strange and kind of ugly, but i was fascinated by it and remember watching it a lot. i guess just trying to figure out why it was so bad and weird!

I had the sandwich-shaped picture book with the bugs too! It was called Sam's Sandwich so naturally I was given it as a kid. There was also one shaped like a box of chocolates, a burger and a pizza

Sam Hetherington

I feel like we still got your MLP hot takes. Yay! And I too remember the giant carrots in Six Flags. My sister and I running through them is a happy memory. :)

Joy Wood

So the Knott’s Berry Farm video is officially off the table?

Aramis Calcutt

First time I was given alcohol in high school it was tequila & diet root beer. Safe to say it's my least favorite soda too lol

srahhh

Omg I was also an Ella Enchanted book bitch in a world full of movie praisers.

srahhh

When you brought up Dinosaurs, I just thought “please, don’t mention the episode with the two creatures.” And then of course… I really do think about that all the time and it’s still upsetting to me. I think there was a denouement where the main dinosaur family finds the two children of the creatures, and I think there was a male and a female so it’s supposed to be uplifting like the species can continue, but… even past the decidedly gross implications, even as a kid I knew one pairing is not even for a species to continue. Definitely a disturbing moment for my childhood, too, and no, I don’t think it contributed to my being a vegetarian, either.

S G Matthews

AND their joker animatronic shot me in the face with an air cannon, so that was kinda cool

They’re also really heavy in the “shooter” style rides and showed off all the different types of “guns” they’ve made and it was kinda weird

I'm so relieved to know someone else felt betrayed by Ella Enchanted. I LOVED that book and felt so ashamed after watching the movie.

Katie

I live really close to Sally Dark Rides in Jacksonville and did a tour of it about a year ago, and Jenny’s totally right that it’s a “tell me what your budget is” kind of place.

omg I've never met someone else that was into A*TEENS haha. I had the same experience - I thought they were just genius songwriters haha.

Youtubers always talk about background noises in their videos that I can never hear

Jordan Cannon

I love coffee but “coffee-flavoured” stuff is gross. It’s the flavour of the absolute worst stale instant coffee. And even worse than that.

Aramis Calcutt

I loved Arthur and the Invisibles as a kid, I had the Nintendo DS game and everything, but I haven’t revisited it since then. This is the first I heard of the extended cut though and oh my god was I just dying laughing at Jenny’s name for it 😂

Val Stanton

I felt the same way about the Ella Enchanted movie. I was the only one of my sisters who read the book, and they loved the movie so we watched it all the time.

Erin Nye