Author Topic: Car Boys: Who Knew The Show Of The Year Would Be This? (Read 15889 times)

commandercool · « **on:** September 14, 2016, 08:39:01 PM »

I don't actually expect anyone to care about this, but if I can improve just one person's life by introducing them to this magical series it'll be worth making a thread. I've been trying to shove this show down the throat of everyone I know for like a month and most people just ignore me, but I have utterly corrupted one guy and now we just giddily text each other about stuff that happened on Car Boys all day.

Car Boys is a Youtube series hosted by Polygon and featuring Griffin McElroy (of My Brother My Brother And Me, The Adventure Zone, Monster Factory, Griffin's Amiibo Corner, etc. fame) and Nick Robinson playing the soft-body vehicle simulator BeamNG.drive, which is a "game" where you ruin cars and the universe. Described by the hosts as "vehicular guro", it starts as a gauntlet of cars having reprehensible things done to them by cannons, grinders, and dimensional tesseracts, but it gets crazier and crazier every episode as mods are introduced and the laws of reality start to break down.

Over time it turns from a show about demolishing sportscars to, well, this:

Edible · « **Reply #1 on:** September 14, 2016, 09:13:58 PM »

...carvangelion?

commandercool · « **Reply #2 on:** September 14, 2016, 09:28:39 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVi8llsYkhQ

(Is there a way to directly link videos in a post?)

Jq1790 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 14, 2016, 09:31:10 PM »

Quote from: commandercool on September 14, 2016, 09:28:39 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVi8llsYkhQ

(Is there a way to directly link videos in a post?)

Not for laymembers IIRC.

This sounds interesting from the writeup you gave so I might look into it though.

BT · « **Reply #4 on:** October 04, 2016, 12:38:13 PM »

Bump: I watched all 10 episodes that are out. It's fun when something starts fucking up, and you know something is gonna happen, but you don't know how it's gonna turn out until it does.

They also overused Claire de Lune all the way to meme territory.

commandercool · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2016, 01:23:52 PM »

Glad to hear you liked it.

Quote from: BT on October 04, 2016, 12:38:13 PM

Bump: I watched all 10 episodes that are out. It's fun when something starts fucking up, and you know something is gonna happen, but you don't know how it's gonna turn out until it does.

I mean, after a while you pretty much know what's coming.

Spoiler:

Quote from: BT on October 04, 2016, 12:38:13 PM

They also overused Claire de Lune all the way to meme territory.

This is one of those "I will never think of that song the same way again" things.

BT · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2016, 02:57:30 PM »

Latest episode:
https://youtu.be/d2taoU3G3KA?t=17m22s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai

If only I were a good artist...

commandercool · « **Reply #7 on:** October 07, 2016, 11:30:08 PM »

I... I should make that the wallpaper on my phone, shouldn't I? Might be too scary though, to open my phone and see that grim visage leering at me.

commandercool · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2016, 09:18:45 PM »

Ha ha ha my roommate started watching earlier apparently. Said he had to take a break after five episodes because it was "making his brain go numb".

Tamer Anode/Cathode · « **Reply #9 on:** October 15, 2016, 12:15:09 AM »

I started watching this earlier in the week, I have had to take breaks between episodes because I'm laughing too hard

commandercool · « **Reply #10 on:** October 21, 2016, 01:51:32 PM »

Well, now we know who the villain in Avengers 3 will be.

BT · « **Reply #11 on:** October 21, 2016, 10:41:52 PM »

Quote from: commandercool on October 21, 2016, 01:51:32 PM

Well, now we know who the villain in Avengers 3 will be.

My disappointment that Mr. red mechanical surprise wasn't implemented in the game yet was beyond words.

commandercool · « **Reply #12 on:** October 22, 2016, 03:24:20 AM »

I'm envisioning it now: the last episode is Dark Busto and Light Busto in functional Iron Man suits fighting it out with the newly implemented AI. Maybe each one has one of those big spiked flails in hand. It won't be intended to be the last episode per se, but since Nick and Griffin will inevitably be destroyed by the resulting battle there will be no other choice.

Unless...

Griffin is part of an "eternal podcast" called Till Death Do Us Blart where all of the involved parties have to watch Pual Blart: Mall Cop 2 every Thanksgiving forever. It's an eternal podcast because nothing can stop it, even the deaths of the hosts. They have to name successors who will replace them in the yearly recording when they die. Maybe it would be prudent for them to name Car Boys successors too? You know, just in case shit really goes down...

The Greatest Dog · « **Reply #13 on:** October 28, 2016, 04:40:45 PM »

Not gonna lie, seeing the sledgehammer teaser for the next video got me weirdly excited.

commandercool · « **Reply #14 on:** October 29, 2016, 10:29:41 PM »

I want that so bad.

It's too bad Nick doesn't always carry that flail with him anymore. That was fun.

Chaore · « **Reply #15 on:** November 03, 2016, 12:09:53 AM »

oh man i enjoyed going through this much more than expected

busto/10

commandercool · « **Reply #16 on:** November 10, 2016, 04:58:29 AM »

From the people who brought you Car Boys comes a new show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onzu_r-O7YA

Touch The Skyrim is a show where Nick and Griffin add a ton of new mods to Skyrim every episode until the game either breaks in half of becomes a fun video game. The results are... Yes.

BT · « **Reply #17 on:** December 02, 2016, 11:57:15 AM »

BT.exe has stopped working

commandercool · « **Reply #18 on:** January 18, 2017, 09:20:15 PM »

Griffin McElroy is on Forbes' "30 Under 30" list this year.

Just sayin'.

Thata no Guykoro · « **Reply #19 on:** January 30, 2017, 09:48:30 PM »

This was recommended for me by Youtube for some odd reason.

I clicked on it and decided to give it a try.

I marathoned the entire thing and eagerly await the next episode, it's wonderful. (also I've been trying to get my friends to watch it, but without success so far)

and i can never take clair de lune seriously ever again

commandercool · « **Reply #20 on:** March 20, 2017, 04:35:02 PM »

https://youtu.be/EiYV9FfbevA

This fan animation has been dubbed official Car Boys canon.

The Greatest Dog · « **Reply #21 on:** March 21, 2017, 05:25:44 AM »

It's so big, Nick.

I wish I knew a Nick person that I could send this to with love and affection, though.

Tamer Anode/Cathode · « **Reply #22 on:** March 28, 2017, 10:13:54 PM »

The Hatsune Miku bit at the end of this week's ep was absolutely golden. Every part of the delivery just worked together to create a stunning masterpiece.

commandercool · « **Reply #23 on:** May 05, 2017, 05:22:41 AM »

This week's episode was my favorite one in a long, long time. The cow sounds, the new powers, the ending... It was a jumbo-sized episode with jumbo-sized content!

The Greatest Dog · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2017, 04:54:45 AM »

I was not ready for the emotional rollercoaster that was this episode

It was a good drive.

commandercool · « **Reply #25 on:** May 19, 2017, 05:36:40 AM »

I knew it had to end some day.

See you space cowboy.

Can I get this series on Blu Ray? Like, no shit, I would pay A LOT of money for a fancy Car Boys box set.

Thata no Guykoro · « **Reply #26 on:** May 19, 2017, 06:29:51 AM »

That ending was beautiful. There's no other word for it.

I wasn't ready for my soft boys to leave me, but they couldn't have done it any better way.

commandercool · « **Reply #27 on:** May 20, 2017, 12:34:51 AM »

Does this mean we can have

Spoiler:

some day?

BT · « **Reply #28 on:** May 20, 2017, 08:08:58 AM »

"It's unfortunate, like, I didn't wanna be, like, a beam. I didn't wanna be a BeamNG. Is that what BeamNG stands for, Beam, Nick, Griffin, and we're two beams forever?"