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Well, if that's what you're after, you've jogged my memory of some old news:
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Chibi S3E13 Cousins of Chaos & S3E14 Nefarious Dreams
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Chibi S3E13 Cousins of Chaos
Today we will be playing up (flanderising?) Penny's innocence and naïveté: she skips into the clearing, sees a Grimm (gnawing on a bone), and declares it to be a "fluffy friend". Ozpin tries to stop her from patting it. Success TBD. How funny would it be if that were Zwei in a Grimm-suit?
Penny asks why. Ozpin begins a full-on Dr Seuss spoof, complete with striped Cat-in-the-style hat. The Grimm just lets him.
Minor transition to the stand-up comedy stage, where Penny appears to have given the Grimm the mic. I was thinking this might have been an instant subversion, but it's just a continuation.
After Ozpin's rebuttal he dumps Penny and Grimm both down the stage trapdoor onto the common room couch. Ozpin has decided to meet Penny halfway by matching his rebuttals to what she's saying instead of deploying blanket refusals.
And now to a lecture theatre. Poor Jaune, forever the chew-toy. Literally this time.
And now, in the library, the Grimm eats a very Seuss-esque book that Penny was offering. She looks disappointed. Also Ozpin was reading Ninjas of Love in the background, or some other book with a similarly sized fold-out illustration.
Back to the clearing, rendering it unclear whether any of this was actually happening, as opposed to painting the medium of the dialogue. Ozpin gets first line this time, brutally undercut by the Grimm offering Penny a flower. Penny takes Ozpin's advice, and they depart, in varying levels of sadness.
The Grimm gets some still-rhyming monologue, in a voice familiar from past talking-Grimm skits, and proves Ozpin utterly wrong. I conclude that most of that dialogue was definitely just medium-painting.
It is, in fact, those two Grimm, because here's the other one to try to repair the situation a little bit. It fails, and we finally get a tiny little lampshade hung on the rhyming.
{#18}
Jaune attempts to cross the street. It doesn't go so well, because episode title is a stereotypical biker gang of Sun, Neptune, and for some reason Ren. Jaune isn't run over, but he looks addled by his brush with death. Correction, he's just a massive fan.
Ren leaves the possibility open that the "cool gang" only formed today. Sun tells Jaune that only "bad boys" are eligible for membership, which strikes me as a callback to about two seasons ago and therefore implies Zwei in our futures.
Or maybe it's just a montage of (telling of) petty acts of rebellion:
At my local supermarket, sometimes when it's quiet, only the express checkouts are open, so you have to go through there regardless of how many you have. I don't think that's what Neptune means, though.
That's gross. Everyone else on set agrees with me.
Jaune scrambles to come up with his own petty act of rebellion. Eventually he goes with:
I reckon he might have a bad time riding a motorcycle if he's not. Anyway, Ren is intrigued by the extra layer of mystery on the rebellion, and they endorse him.
Jaune declines to shake Sun's hand. Sun reckons this is a "rebel move", either as a secret test of character or just something he didn't think of. I reckon Jaune just managed to remember Sun's preferred brand of petty rebellion.
The biker-gang atmosphere is soon punctured by Neptune reminding Sun about his "skin cream". I don't know if motorcycling around in the wind can actually dry out your face, but it wouldn't shock me if it were true. While the three senior members are over there moisturising, Jaune manages to accidentally push one of their bikes over, and it takes out the other two, domino-style. That's going to put a hole in the biker-gang image.
Oh, it got worse, the pushed-over bikes all exploded. Who did the safety testing on these things, Roman Torchwick? Surprisingly well-animated fire. For the cherry on top, Ren says his library book was in his bike. You're telling me those had storage? And what were his non-immediate plans w.r.t. returning the book?
No ad for Nomad of Nowhere at the start, but here it still is at the end.
{{Wiki says there was, apparently, a credits joke exclusive to the Rooster Teeth website. I guess that's lost forever.}}
Chibi S3E14 Nefarious Dreams
After the success of the skit from two episodes ago where Team JNPR were all dreaming, here's the Team CEM+R edition in their darkened dorm room. Where is this darkened room, anyway? Is it some back room of Torchwick and Neo's previously-seen hideout? Is it a Beacon dorm room with a dramatic lack of illumination? Is it something else entirely that I've forgotten about?
First, Torchwick. He strides (alongside Neo) through Vale wearing a hat made of gold and carrying an equally gilded weapon. Also money grows on trees (never mind the effect on inflation). Also here's Cinder wanting to help move the wagon containing his pile of money, and generally not being difficult like Cinder usually is. Neo still hates her. Mood. Torchwick is not obviously followed into the outside world by any evidence, but I might have missed it.
Poor Emerald has a dream-Cinder who has finally noticed her.
Mercury gets to dance (to the tune of Shine [V2]), and dream-Cinder appreciates it. I got a chuckle out of Mercury demanding a foot massage when both knew equally well how little use that would be.
Neither Emerald nor Mercury have manifested any dream-items either, so I think the show's not doing that any more. But there is this weird thing tucked in near Mercury's pillow. What is it? I've got no idea. Do I have to turn up the video quality? (squints harder) It's the h*cking sockpuppet. I really can't even.
Anyway, Cinder's dreamscape. Everyone else has had a less dismissive dream-Cinder, so I'm not sure whether Cinder will be extra-dismissive of her dream-companions, or comedically reveal that she subconsciously wants to let them in. Or something else funny I haven't thought of.
I'll file that under extra-dismissive: Cinder has dreamed herself up a team of three more of herself, and finally gained the full Fall Maidenship. One of them is wearing two sockpuppets: The cycle is probably about to repeat. Yeah, now they're all getting into a fight about being the most evil and dreaming-Cinder is going to Maiden them all out of existence, right? ...Apparently not. Being Cinder, all three agree to mutiny, and Cinder has to snap awake to avoid the beating.
"Maybe these guys aren't that bad," muses Cinder. Right on cue, Mercury sleep-talks. So much for that revelation.
{#40: Yang motorcycles. She's actually having a great time.}
Return of the escape room, last seen in S2E20. Ruby and Yang wait outside. Ruby is a little concerned about how long Tai's been in there; Yang just turns it into a self-deprecating joke.
The real joke here, aside from callbacks to Yang's escape style, is Tai refusing to ask for or accept help.
No, the real real joke is that this is the only way that Tai thinks he can get some time to himself. Based on what little I know about parenting, it might even be true, which is the best kind of joke.
Honestly I was impressed they pulled so many rhymes together so well.
This is one of those lines that kind of gives me the feels Ren thinks Jaune is kind of hot.
Also I agree on Sun being gross and our checkouts tend to be similar, the fact Ren is a member amuses me he's so bland but also so down for anything and committing to the bit.
Jaune: Why did I explode?
I always assumed their name was team cinnamon.
Also interesting how all their dreams relate to Cinder, but only Emerald's is not terrible XD
Also its funny that "Seeking mother figure" is not how I initially took Emerald's perceptive on the relationship, though the phrasing is hilarious even if the gag is sad. Also recalling a friends RWBY AU's where Cinder's backstory involved leaving behind a daughter to go serve Salem but being real sad about it and still caring about said kid even post series series and such. Keep in mind this was all conceived around V4.
Cinder's "Bleh!" is so expressive XD
That relies on him doing any parenting XD
Or he just has his original feet in his dream?
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Who even knows. Although this isn't even the same team, having Torchwick instead of Neo.
To be fair, Cinder's dream contains Cinder getting vanquished, even if it's more Cinders doing it.
Hmm. Does Mercury dream of biological feet? It would help him be a foil to Yang, so I can't rule it out.
Chibi S3E15 Play With Penny & S3E16 RWBY Dreams
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Chibi S3E15 Play With Penny
Team RWB+J freak out a bit at the sight of a giant monster. And by 'giant', I mean seriously giant. (It is seen only in shadow, and that shadow quite resembles the Chibi Beowolf, probably due to asset reuse.) Blake snarks at Jaune a bit as Yang wanders into view, which I initially misinterpreted as something very much antithetical to Bumblebee.
Yang, being chibi Yang, is all up for punching the giant monster even as she's fully aware of the likely ineffectiveness of doing so. ("I'm Yang! Let's fight!") Yep, it's not very effective.
Everybody but Ruby starts dropping hints about silver eyes. I am increasingly convinced that this is foreshadowing the Leviathan at the end of V6. I am even more convinced once Ruby says under her breath "Season finale, can't do it yet.", but with fewer spaces.
Jaune tries to invoke the laws of the narrative to summon help. Cue Zwei. Zwei is also not very effective: Weiss admires the wisdom he displays in fleeing immediately.
Next to appear from stage left is Penny, in the mood to play a game. Ruby takes a rain-check, citing giant monster. Penny is not one to be stopped by such petty inconveniences as giant monster, taking the thing down in six seconds flat. Yes, I counted. Ruby is dragged off to go play a game, in no mood to object to Penny about anything for any reason. I wonder why.
Jaune tempts fate, and gets Team WBY+J conscripted by the Shopkeeper to help clean up the mess resulting from the giant monster fight.
{#41: Oobleck blurs back and forth before settling in front of the camera to fix his glasses.}
Back to the lecture theatre, where Oobleck exposits to Team RW+J about "lifehacks". This can only go poorly for someone, probably Jaune.
Oobleck declares (after getting Ruby to shout "I'm sorry for thinking!", oof) that "there are no shortcuts in life!". To this I say, every time I have implemented an idea that I first thought of as a "lifehack", it's gone badly, so I'm with Oobleck on this one.
Oobleck continues on to (loudly) advise Weiss to do what she habitually already does, and tell Jaune to "laugh in [mortality's] face" while demonstrating on him how to grab it by the throat. This is literally a very in-your-face lecture. He then sculls some more coffee, reveals that this is the return of the PSA, then does an impression of a caffeine-powered rocket. Weiss muses that "he's not coming down". Oobleck zips past the windows to prove her right.
{#42: You thought you were safe from Cardin? So did I, but here he kicks Jaune off a skateboard. Jaune was succeeding, even.}
Cardin wanders through the clearing, batting rocks at innocent wildlife. What or who will he karmically anger?
Sounds like it'll be Qrow. ...Yep, here's the man to punch Cardin out. For added comedy points, the cartoonish animals circling his head to indicate being stunned are all Qrow-style crows.
The test pattern does not herald the end of the episode; instead we cut to one final shot. It is nighttime now, and Cardin is still out cold. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Now we cut to an ad slide for unexpectedly not Nomad of Nowhere, instead it is Camp Camp's Halloween special episode. (checks upload date) 14 October, so it kinda makes sense.
Chibi S3E16 RWBY Dreams
A butler walks up to a noodle stand and orders one bowl of plain noodles. Shopkeeper provides noodles, and Klein savours the smell. Where is this going?
This is a joke where each of Klein's alters wants the noodles differently. I'm already tired of it.
As I expected, Shopkeeper gets fed up with him.
{#33}
It's time for the next instalment of Team Dreams, now featuring Team RWBY. And maybe Zwei, he's here too, for some reason trying to get onto Weiss' bunk instead of accosting Blake. Maybe he wants to be let up to Ruby's bunk?
Anyway, Blake is dreaming of a world where people swim through the air. This makes only slightly more sense in Neptune's case. Anyway, along air-swims a fish, and Blake takes a bite out of it. She should not have. Poor Blake.
Yang dreams of being a rebellious teenager. I psychoanalyse that she's feeling the aftereffects of needing to grow up really fast to basically parent Ruby. Fittingly, the lead authority figure who tries to stop her is Tai; Ozpin, Port, and Klein are also there, and for sister-parent reasons Winter completes the set. Somehow this culminates in Yang riding Bumblebee (the bike) through the air with a rainbow trail to the sound of air horns. Ah, the sound of air horns, that takes me back. Yang is clearly letting her memes be dreams. For some reason the fish accompanies her, also leaving a rainbow trail.
Blake only managed to manifest her nausea at the "bad fish", but Yang has manifested her sunglasses as she also sleep-talks.
Meanwhile, you will be shocked to learn that dream-Weiss is being the best at being in a lecture theatre (complete with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference) - until it turns into a nightmare as Oobleck certifies that she's learned everything. Didn't we do this joke already? (checks) Apparently not. Anyway, his phrasing prompts all her fellow students to turn on her, including several behind the camera, two of whom I can positively identify as Sun and Nora.
As Weiss writhes in intellectual agony, we shift to Ruby, with a note that Zwei managed to climb onto her bunk. Dream-Ruby rides Zwei around the clearing like some kind of severely undersized pony, as has been extensively foreshadowed - until she's ejected and bounces off something. For maximum surreality points, the something is non-chibi Ruby, who looks extremely uncanny-valley when surrounded by chibi. All involved think that the other two are adorable. The situation soon develops not to chibi Ruby's advantage: non-chibi Ruby declares her intention to "squeeze you 'til you pop!", and chibi Ruby does not have the speed or firepower advantages and cannot escape this fate. In the background, Zwei has caught that fish; I'll have to recheck Weiss' dream for it. {{The wiki assures me it's there, but I still can't see it... Anyone have a timestamp?}}
Chibi Ruby awakens; her suffocation was caused by Zwei getting cosy on her face again. I'm told some folks have pets that do that. Personally, my family's cats never do, but they liked to get cosy on my legs, which woke me up, so I've been in the habit for years of shutting the door so that they can't - much better for my already-endangered sleep. Ruby might be having similar thoughts, admonishing Zwei on the frequency with which he does this. For maximum comedy, she'll unintentionally awaken the rest of the team? ...No.
The credits ad slide this time is more abstract, for RT First membership (now a dead letter) and the V6 trailer. I recognise its accompanying music from the Rooster Teeth post-credits outro from I think V6, which would have been around this time, and then we get the end of that to tie it together.
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I love normal Ruby's delight at Chibi-Crescent Rose.
The fish pokes up from the desk at 2:50 on Weiss's left side, our right.
Everything is foreshadowing XD
Love how expressive they made Zwei.
Penny aggressively friending Ruby >;3c
He tried those, they indeed did not work out.
I love how you can see how they stretched his arm so he can keep it around Jaune by looking between their heads.
Low key I almost would have wanted this to be Raven's Chibi Debut. If she'd had one!!! :'(
Yeah this is one of those jokes that is like, theoretically funny, but gets really repetitive and mostly relies on rankling others. Kind of feels like it might work better if he was preparing his own meal and constantly getting pissed off at the others ingredients.
People make terrible fish, but sadly, so did the fish.
existential intellectual ennui!
Love chibi Ruby's "I'll cut you!" and "Betrayed by my own cuteness!"
