Chibi S2E13 Parent Teacher Conference & S2E14 Cannonball!
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At least one typo in each of the last two paragraphs last threadmark. Clearly my proofreading standards are slipping.
As foretold by a throwaway joke in Grimm Eclipse. Tai, with Qrow as backup, asks his children what they did "this time". Yang immediately goes full never-admit-anything, and Ruby frantically throws any abstraction she can think of under the bus. I wonder what actually happened.
"I'm sure it's not that bad," says Qrow as Ozpin invites the 'parents' into a lecture theatre in lieu of an office. What set budget? Cut to inside, where Tai is incredulous at how bad it actually is, whatever it actually is.
The good news, according to Ozpin, is that "the fire is finally under control, and the cats are expected to regrow most of their fur". So an incendiary noodle incident, then. Qrow sees fewer problems with this than Tai, kicking off an argument that I'm guessing will end with their parents being called.
Or 'just' a permanent rift between them, that fits the formula too.
Qrow and Tai soon exit the room, and the argument fades into the distance as Ozpin now addresses Ruby and Yang. Ozpin declares them to have been "punished enough", implied to be by having to deal with their household. Comedy increases as Ruby apologises for her parents' behaviour in a way that you'd usually see across the generation gap in the other direction.
{#18}
Sun is implied to be wielding this video camera. Eventually he works out what he's doing and gets it pointed at Blake. "Hey," says Blake, "I'm doing a beauty vlog, or, whatever. Why am I doing this?" Sun shouts that she's doing it "for the clicks!", which are everything. The clicks are not everything, you shouldn't do anything just to chase them, and I have definitely never-(looks at thread) ...uh.
Sun has no idea what any of these implements do and I suspect he's going to render this take unusable with all his freaking out.
...
So basically, what the h*ck did I just watch.
{#33: Ruby rides Zwei like some kind of severely undersized pony. I cannot even.}
Ruby (re)joins the rest of her team walking down a street and asks them what's really fun. I suspect it was meant to be a rhetorical question, but she gets at least one answer from each of them anyway. (Yang just summarises the Yellow Trailer.)
Ruby's idea of fun is apparently a surprise party for Pyrrha. The others all look concerned, and I'm with them - I've heard enough jokes (and non-jokes) about surprising people whose startle response is basically combat.
After we get a quick joke about Weiss not agreeing with Yang much, it emerges (diplomatically from Blake and less so from Weiss) that Ruby is "terrible at throwing surprise parties". I now expect a diegetic flashback to explain this.
Yep, here's one for Jaune. Jaune enters I think Team RWBY's dorm room to find Team NPR waiting there, Nora possibly already snacking on the cake. Ruby shouts "SURPRISE!" through a megaphone, blowing Jaune back into the hallway.
Oh, it's a montage! The banner reading ‹HaPpY BirThDaY JAUNE› has been hastily and poorly altered to instead address Yang (it's great); Teams RWB and JNPR all lurk, along with a cake the size and shape of a Beowolf (I think the animators just put some candles and glitter on the Beowolf model). Yang enters, is startled by the chorus of "SURPRISE!" (not through a megaphone this time), and reflexively shoots the Beowolf-cake. Somehow the resulting cakesplosion only affects Teams RWB and JPR. Nora has started eating what's left of the cake, while Yang is still punching it. Don't ask me how it's surviving that.
Montage continues with Professor Port finding a "mysterious gift" on the lecturer's desk. He starts pumping himself up about a secret admirer, only to open it and find a pop-up banner reading ‹YOU'RE OLD!›. After just enough time for the joke to marinate, Teams WBY+JN+S pop up at the desks (which looked unoccupied until now) for the obligatory shout of "SURPRISE!". And now the other possible bad ending of sudden sharp shocks: Port starts raising distress signals about his heart. Ruby absolutely does not help by using the 'distraction' to position herself with the megaphone. Port keels over. There is only time for Weiss to express distress before Neptune (I was wondering where he was) jumps in to use his weapon as an improvised defibrillator. Do not try this at home!
Montage ends. Team WBY are just death-staring their leader, whose defence amounts to the following weaksauce statement:
Chibi voice casts have gotten big: This one has fourteen.
Reupload alongside S2E12 Evil Genius:
The test pattern heralds the deletion of the entire skit about weapon tune-ups. I wasn't aware we were deleting Professor Port entirely.
So how much of the surprise party skit are we losing? ...Only Port's chunk, leaving Ruby's last line as an orphaned punchline.
Zwei plays lifeguard at the pool, because why not? Sun makes his way along the diving board as Jaune waits behind him. Penny wanders along and asks if they know where Ruby is; Sun claims he doesn't before completing his cannonball manoeuvre. Jaune explains to Penny what that is, poorly.
At Sun suggesting Penny should try this "cannonball" thing, Penny says she doesn't really like water. She reverses her decision immediately when Jaune says the magic word ("fun").
Penny is about to take this more seriously than dodgeball.
As Penny goes up, Jaune starts to realise the mistake he's made.
Ruby wanders along and asks if they know where Penny is; Jaune and Sun unconvincingly claim they don't know. Also starring Ruby unable to describe Penny in anything other than warm fuzzy generalities.
Ruby's suspicious interrogation is interrupted by the laser sight from above: Penny's coming back down.
The laser sight is way off: Penny was targeting the pool but lands squarely on Ruby's head. That's gotta hurt.
Penny, your everything-other-than-appearance seems to be misaligned.
{#8}
By what might just be a different pool (in Beacon's courtyard this time), Ruby is humming until Qrow walks up. He needs help sneaking snacks into a movie that it sounds like Ruby is also interested in seeing.
Tai asks Yang to spar. Yang, agreeing, makes a horrible pun of which Tai is very proud.
This skit is going to suck for students not named Ruby or Yang. Case in point, Blake. Okay, maybe not so much, here's Sun to express his interest in reading. Blake has been carrying a library card for him in case this day ever came. Very optimistic of her.
And now, Weiss, uncharacteristically beaming, in anticipation of something that's not coming. I told you so. She and I are both scheduling when we'll cry over it. Correction, here's the debut of Chibi Winter. Very stern, and lambasting, and other words to that effect. Well, if Weiss is okay with it, I guess...
{#17}
Cinder stands on a rock in that one clearing set and monologues to Team EMN+R and a crowd of Beowolves. As the camera finishes pulling back, two of the Beowolves wander off for some coffee (return of ‹REAL CHIBI BEANS›), complaining about Cinder's repetitive schemes, which is pretty strange to hear coming from the unintelligent kings of repetitive schemes. The score is now a rearrangement of Lusus Naturae (V4, but better known from Grimm Eclipse).
Their wake for a third Grimm - by Yang - is interrupted by the arrival of a Geist, frustrating the others. And rightly so, because it's seriously an airhead, damaging their stuff, generally tormenting them, and speaking in near-unintelligible internet memes from 2016/2017. It's a relief to all when the thing finally slinks off to be a "big part" of Cinder's latest nefarious plan.
The comedy here, in case you couldn't tell, is Grimm acting like office drones.
Reupload alongside S2E11 Movie Night:
On second observation of Pyrrha's imagination, Jaune is riding Zwei like some kind of severely undersized pony. Sometimes I really can't even.
Chibi S2E13 Parent Teacher Conference
As foretold by a throwaway joke in Grimm Eclipse. Tai, with Qrow as backup, asks his children what they did "this time". Yang immediately goes full never-admit-anything, and Ruby frantically throws any abstraction she can think of under the bus. I wonder what actually happened.
"I'm sure it's not that bad," says Qrow as Ozpin invites the 'parents' into a lecture theatre in lieu of an office. What set budget? Cut to inside, where Tai is incredulous at how bad it actually is, whatever it actually is.
The good news, according to Ozpin, is that "the fire is finally under control, and the cats are expected to regrow most of their fur". So an incendiary noodle incident, then. Qrow sees fewer problems with this than Tai, kicking off an argument that I'm guessing will end with their parents being called.
Or 'just' a permanent rift between them, that fits the formula too.
Qrow and Tai soon exit the room, and the argument fades into the distance as Ozpin now addresses Ruby and Yang. Ozpin declares them to have been "punished enough", implied to be by having to deal with their household. Comedy increases as Ruby apologises for her parents' behaviour in a way that you'd usually see across the generation gap in the other direction.
{#18}
Sun is implied to be wielding this video camera. Eventually he works out what he's doing and gets it pointed at Blake. "Hey," says Blake, "I'm doing a beauty vlog, or, whatever. Why am I doing this?" Sun shouts that she's doing it "for the clicks!", which are everything. The clicks are not everything, you shouldn't do anything just to chase them, and I have definitely never-(looks at thread) ...uh.
Sun has no idea what any of these implements do and I suspect he's going to render this take unusable with all his freaking out.
...
So basically, what the h*ck did I just watch.
{#33: Ruby rides Zwei like some kind of severely undersized pony. I cannot even.}
Ruby (re)joins the rest of her team walking down a street and asks them what's really fun. I suspect it was meant to be a rhetorical question, but she gets at least one answer from each of them anyway. (Yang just summarises the Yellow Trailer.)
Ruby's idea of fun is apparently a surprise party for Pyrrha. The others all look concerned, and I'm with them - I've heard enough jokes (and non-jokes) about surprising people whose startle response is basically combat.
After we get a quick joke about Weiss not agreeing with Yang much, it emerges (diplomatically from Blake and less so from Weiss) that Ruby is "terrible at throwing surprise parties". I now expect a diegetic flashback to explain this.
Yep, here's one for Jaune. Jaune enters I think Team RWBY's dorm room to find Team NPR waiting there, Nora possibly already snacking on the cake. Ruby shouts "SURPRISE!" through a megaphone, blowing Jaune back into the hallway.
Oh, it's a montage! The banner reading ‹HaPpY BirThDaY JAUNE› has been hastily and poorly altered to instead address Yang (it's great); Teams RWB and JNPR all lurk, along with a cake the size and shape of a Beowolf (I think the animators just put some candles and glitter on the Beowolf model). Yang enters, is startled by the chorus of "SURPRISE!" (not through a megaphone this time), and reflexively shoots the Beowolf-cake. Somehow the resulting cakesplosion only affects Teams RWB and JPR. Nora has started eating what's left of the cake, while Yang is still punching it. Don't ask me how it's surviving that.
Montage continues with Professor Port finding a "mysterious gift" on the lecturer's desk. He starts pumping himself up about a secret admirer, only to open it and find a pop-up banner reading ‹YOU'RE OLD!›. After just enough time for the joke to marinate, Teams WBY+JN+S pop up at the desks (which looked unoccupied until now) for the obligatory shout of "SURPRISE!". And now the other possible bad ending of sudden sharp shocks: Port starts raising distress signals about his heart. Ruby absolutely does not help by using the 'distraction' to position herself with the megaphone. Port keels over. There is only time for Weiss to express distress before Neptune (I was wondering where he was) jumps in to use his weapon as an improvised defibrillator. Do not try this at home!
Montage ends. Team WBY are just death-staring their leader, whose defence amounts to the following weaksauce statement:
Personally, I tend not to find death funny the majority of the time. But that's just me.
Chibi voice casts have gotten big: This one has fourteen.
Reupload alongside S2E12 Evil Genius:
The test pattern heralds the deletion of the entire skit about weapon tune-ups. I wasn't aware we were deleting Professor Port entirely.
So how much of the surprise party skit are we losing? ...Only Port's chunk, leaving Ruby's last line as an orphaned punchline.
Chibi S2E14 Cannonball!
Zwei plays lifeguard at the pool, because why not? Sun makes his way along the diving board as Jaune waits behind him. Penny wanders along and asks if they know where Ruby is; Sun claims he doesn't before completing his cannonball manoeuvre. Jaune explains to Penny what that is, poorly.
At Sun suggesting Penny should try this "cannonball" thing, Penny says she doesn't really like water. She reverses her decision immediately when Jaune says the magic word ("fun").
Penny is about to take this more seriously than dodgeball.
As Penny goes up, Jaune starts to realise the mistake he's made.
Ruby wanders along and asks if they know where Penny is; Jaune and Sun unconvincingly claim they don't know. Also starring Ruby unable to describe Penny in anything other than warm fuzzy generalities.
Ruby's suspicious interrogation is interrupted by the laser sight from above: Penny's coming back down.
The laser sight is way off: Penny was targeting the pool but lands squarely on Ruby's head. That's gotta hurt.
Penny, your everything-other-than-appearance seems to be misaligned.
{#8}
By what might just be a different pool (in Beacon's courtyard this time), Ruby is humming until Qrow walks up. He needs help sneaking snacks into a movie that it sounds like Ruby is also interested in seeing.
Tai asks Yang to spar. Yang, agreeing, makes a horrible pun of which Tai is very proud.
This skit is going to suck for students not named Ruby or Yang. Case in point, Blake. Okay, maybe not so much, here's Sun to express his interest in reading. Blake has been carrying a library card for him in case this day ever came. Very optimistic of her.
And now, Weiss, uncharacteristically beaming, in anticipation of something that's not coming. I told you so. She and I are both scheduling when we'll cry over it. Correction, here's the debut of Chibi Winter. Very stern, and lambasting, and other words to that effect. Well, if Weiss is okay with it, I guess...
{#17}
Cinder stands on a rock in that one clearing set and monologues to Team EMN+R and a crowd of Beowolves. As the camera finishes pulling back, two of the Beowolves wander off for some coffee (return of ‹REAL CHIBI BEANS›), complaining about Cinder's repetitive schemes, which is pretty strange to hear coming from the unintelligent kings of repetitive schemes. The score is now a rearrangement of Lusus Naturae (V4, but better known from Grimm Eclipse).
Their wake for a third Grimm - by Yang - is interrupted by the arrival of a Geist, frustrating the others. And rightly so, because it's seriously an airhead, damaging their stuff, generally tormenting them, and speaking in near-unintelligible internet memes from 2016/2017. It's a relief to all when the thing finally slinks off to be a "big part" of Cinder's latest nefarious plan.
The comedy here, in case you couldn't tell, is Grimm acting like office drones.
Reupload alongside S2E11 Movie Night:
On second observation of Pyrrha's imagination, Jaune is riding Zwei like some kind of severely undersized pony. Sometimes I really can't even.
