Cooking Mama and the Mama-verse 

i always heard “you’re not mine” instead of “do not mind,” like i genuinely thought she was saying “ur not my child anymore” cuz she was disowning u for ur bad cooking💀

I can still hear “wow! Even better than mama!” Perfectly in my head as if no time has passed

Mama really named her kids “Strawberry” and “Apple” 😭

I will never forget the “DO NOT SHAKE THE BABY” message that would pop up on babysitting mama. That raw chicken baby scared me.

mama is definitely 'do not mind!' theres also phrases like 'donmai' in japanese usually mean 'dont worry' so she is just being encouraging and telling you to keep going and isn't disowning you LOL

i think cooking mama is genuinely the reason i’m doing catering in college

It's honestly interesting when you get into proper story of cooking games, from cooking mama simply being about a mother who has a happy family with a pet to Papa Louie that has coins that literally can warp someone through universes (it gets even more confusing from there) I just love them now just as much as I used to

I thought Mama was saying “do not cry” like you were about to sob over your mistake and she was calming you down

The Cooking Mama and Science Papa beef is a fantastic piece of lore. I love it so much

Never played this but I can see my dad and older brothers being like, "Why don't you play the real life version and make us dinner?"

Can we also talk about the response to the PETA game? Mama just wants guests to feel happy, and leave her table well fed. She would cater to anyone's taste or preference of meal and has a ton of recipes for anyone to enjoy. That's such a nice press release and not at all what I expected. It's so pleasant and warm.

I never knew I needed Mama scathingly insulting her ex Science Papa, but now I do

My sister and I were JUST reminiscing about the DS Cooking Momma and we both heard “You’re not mine,” as if our mistake was so bad she was disowning us as her child. Like no child of mine could possibly be so terrible at this!

That CallMeKevin baby punting clip was so unexpected in this context but exactly what I was thinking about the whole time you were talking about it 😆

Is kinda ironic that I discovered Cooking Mama trough Peta's parody, and even more ironical is that I really liked it when I was a kid 💀

Maybe this is not everyone’s cup of tea , but maybe Cooking Mama can have its own VR game I’d imagine many people would have fun playing a type of game like that :D

I like the style of content you make. It's not all in-your-face, and is more chill. Amazing content for listening too and watching, the editing is charming!

the phrase "do not mind" is definitely correct, since in Japanese people very often say "no mind, no mind" as in "pay this no mind/it's no big deal!"

Cooking Mama will always be one of the games I always will respect. The game keeps it's charm of feeling like you're playing decades ago, and the game doesn't shove ads in your face. It's worth spending money on.

I love Cooking Mama a lot! I've actually cosplayed her before pre-pandemic at a local anime con, complete with a basket of homemade cookies I gave out on the con floor and during a panel. So many people wanted to hug me and get pictures, it was so fun.

She 100% says don’t mind. The game being from Japan, and the phrase being commonly used there [along with her accent and pitch] I can say pretty confidently that she’s saying don’t mind and they just didn’t switch the audio from the original Japanese version. As for the off looking babies, they’re designed to have big round heads and large eyes on purpose as that is part of the chibi style they were going for. Loved the video and found it very interesting!

In Japanese, a common phrase used to encourage someone when they’re doing a bad job is ドンマイ (donmai), which is from the English phrase “don’t mind”.

I have the memory of Mama just freaking out when I completely failed but when I went back to playing it last year, she didn't yell or freak out or anything. Also, I would run around my house yelling "WOW, EVEN BETTER THAN MAMA!" for a full year for absolutely no reason.

Have you ever played SpongeBob's Beach Party Cookoff for the DS? It's basically SB Cooking Mama and is everything you'd want.

I very much appreciate you adding the clip of Kevin lovingly taking care of his son

"Do not mind" is actually a weird thing in Japanese, where even though it's taken from English, it doesn't mean the same thing. It basically means "no worries" xD

the original cooking mama was my favorite game when i was little, i would play it for hours and hours. i also remember gardening mama, i remember there being a place where you could dress mama up which of course i loved as a kid...

i just enjoy how the "mama-verse" is a thing

Ahh, Cake Mania, a staple of my childhood. Cake Mania, plus Diner Dash were my first childhood views into the stress of customer service.

I remember playing Cooking Mama and Cooking Mama Cook Off, and I was aware of Gardening Mama, but camping, crafting, and babysitting mama were completely new to me, I had no idea they existed before this video

To me it looks like when you make a mistake and Mama’s eyes go fiery, she’s not angry; she’s determined and protective. She says she’ll help you fix whatever you messed up right next to her, and her stance is one of confidence rather than frustration. I don’t think she’s upset with the player at all!

I will never forget my little brother crying so hard one day and when I asked him why it was bc "cooking mama has fire in her eyes" which still makes me laugh

I saw this, trying to find a video worthy of my chip snacking, and I found this video. A 20 MINUTE DREAM JELLY VIDEO ABOUT COOKING MAMA Thanks for making my day better whenever I get that notification saying that you uploaded :)

the way I was so jealous of my school friends who had cooking mama on their Nintendos. I was out here with imagine babysitter 😭 I just wanted to cook fake food like all the other kids 😂

Glad you brought up Papa Louie! I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Papa games. My personal favorites are Papa's Scooperia and Papa's Cupcakeria.

I love this video so much!! This might be TMI, but I'm recovering from anorexia and during my recovery I've been playing a lot of Cooking Mama for the 3DS (Sweets Shop specifically) and as silly as it sounds - it has helped me in my relationship with food! I was always a huge fan of the series. Thank you for bringing attention to these games!!

cooking mama 3: shop in chop was literally my childhood, i still hear the title in my head every now and then. i remember mama’s anger when i fucked up the eggs, and her praise when i chopped the carrots good. thank you mama, for inspiring my love for food🥰

cooking mama got a chokehold on me

The vibes of your videos are so good. Great stuff to chill out to and learn about random shit.

I replayed cooking mama cook off recently just to dick around and it's the perfect example of wii motion control difficulty curve. They're difficult but in a game like cooking mama it's something that gets easier the more you use it. The most important thing I keep telling people is that a lot of wii games really don't like sudden movement; you can be fast as long as you aren't sharp or sudden

I remember seeing a let's play of Babysitting Mama back in 2012. The controls were so sensitive and Mama kept telling you not to shake the baby, even if you didn't. It was very frustruating.

my mom got me science papa for wii after she saw how much i loved the wii cooking mama. i don't remember enjoying it much, it was pretty confusing even for someone who was very good at cooking mama wii

omg for the longest time i thought mama would say "you're not mine" in the wii game and it made me SO upset because i thought she was disowning me for being so bad at cooking 😭

Ok but Mama tearing into Science Papa is so funny and its not even all that out of character?? Like have you ever _met_ a stay-at-home PTA-type mom? They can roast you in ways that will utterly change you as a person.

I genuinely learned how to cook and cut some things from playing so much cooking mama growing up. To this day I cut onions and wash rice just like mama taught me hahaha

Fun fact: while there might not be a TV show for cooking mama, there is a miniseries called cooking mama world. It never aired on tv, and instead was watchable online via RU-vid (official uploads are now gone, but there is a recording of all of them,) and they were featured in Let’s Cook, one of the mobile games.

For YEARS I thought the Peta knockoff was the real game because my only exposure to the franchise ever was JackSepticEye playing that version. I was a little traumatised as a kid, and definitely didn't understand how anybody could like the series until I found out that the Peta game he played wasn't the real Cooking Mama :')

I'm looking at Cooking Mama Cookstar gameplay and reviews *right now* and you posted this, what a scary coincidence lol. Honestly sucks that the whole permission and licensing shenanigans happened with Cooking Mama Cookstar at all (added that the game is mediocre too). I'd love a new Cooking Mama game made specifically for the Switch, but I feel like Office Create would never make one especially if they're still profitting off the mobile game. I unironically love and played the hell out of the Cooking Mama series on the DS so much, including its spin-offs as a kid lol.

My mind was blown when you mentioned that she says ‘do not mind’ because me and my siblings. Always thought she said ‘eww not mine!’ 😂😂😂 I think I like our version of it better, so many hilarious memories attached to those incorrectly heard words 😂

It might be slightly embarrassing to admit but Cooking Mama is easily one of my favorites videogame series! I played all the DS games and actually learned many skills, especially with the crafting one (some crafts do double as full tutorials and it was awesome for little me at the time). It's only thanks to Cooking Mama if I enjoy making delicious meals so much💖 Edit: my dad, being a huge nerd, got me Science Papa too and I loved that game as a kid🥺 I loved getting all the weird requests through mail

The peta knockoff was my first and probably only introduction to the cooking mama franchise, so I’ve subconsciously assumed cooking mama was a graphic and violent game for almost my entire life. I didn’t know it was a knockoff so I was so confused when you were talking about how wholesome this game was lol

I never grew up with cooking mama, but I did grow up with a game called Sarah's cooking class. It was like cooking mama except Sarah didn't really give you advice. She kinda just stood there while you tried to get your cursor/mousepad to move fast enough for the timer not to run out. There's like millions of games where you could cook soups, cakes, etc. Personally my favorite games were the ones where you could make cookies and decorate them afterward.

I remember when I was little my mom got me cooking mama 3 as a spring break gift. I remember looking through the instructional booklet and crying at the warning “if you have epilepsy consult your doctor before playing this game” because I was like 7 and didn’t know what epilepsy was but my mom assured me I was fine. Also the shopping minigame scared me

i got cookstar pretty much right when it came out, it had some issues before updates, but it’s fine now. The vegan mode doubles the number of recipes, so i don’t really think there’s a problem with the amount of content. the apple arcade game is a lot better than i expected it to be!! only having certain ingredients/tools every day works really well for an app. lifelong cooking mama player so im right btw

The Call Me Kevin clip was the first thing that came to my mind when you mentioned Babysitting Mama. So happy you included it 😂❤

LMAOO I THOIGHT THE PETA PARADY WAS WHAT COOKING MAMA WAS WHEN I WAS LITTLE CUZ I PLAYED IT ON SOME RANDOM GAME WEBSITE ON ACCIDENT 😭

as soon as you started talking about babysitting mama i immediately thought of callmekevin punting the baby across his backyard 👍

When she said "You're not mine", I thought she was disowning you as a student for making a mistake

Omg my older sister had babysitting mama, I have heard “no no no do not shake the baby” more times than I should have

Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals was my first and only introduction to the franchise so needless to say, his was way more wholesome than I thought it would be

I love watching your videos on my big screen TV. They're always such a comfort to watch! Thank you for the amazing content.

Another video in my playlist: Every Dream Jelly video, so this awesome channel doesn’t get lost mediated in 100 years

Mama roasting her rip-off and adding more lore to the series at the same time is a energy I want to achieve in my life

Your editing is amazing! Your videos always get me hooked into the weirdest things lol. I love the little gags as well! What software do you use?!

Who else thinks Papa's Freezeria is the best game on Cool Math Games

I loved cooking mama as a kid, it was my first video game I really played. I played the original one the most, but I got the crafting one later down the line. I just loved how satisfying making the food was and I still enjoy playing the game nowadays

I used to work at a used video game store and once we got in a copy of Babysitting Mama with the Baby and everything. Had to work for a good five months with that thing staring right at me until someone finally bought it 😂

Fun fact, "Ichigo" and "Ringo" are the Japanese words for "strawberry" and "apple" respectively! Her children are named after fruit!

I always thought she was saying “you, not mine” as if to say that it was MY mistake and not hers in broken English bc it wasn’t her first language

I remember being in my cousins living room on the wii trying to make food for cooking mama and when one of us failed hearing, “Do not mind!” we’d mimic it because we thought it was funny. So yeah, “Do not mind!”

I recently found your channel and I love your videos!!! It hits a very specific spot in my brain and I just love everything about your content!!

As an avid anime enjoyer with years of experience, I can conclude that she did say "Do not mind."

I came across the Peta Cooking Mama game on some flash game website when I was younger. Idk if it was because it was completely divorced of the Peta website, but I absolutely did not get the message they were trying to put across. I remember having a bunch of fun plucking the turkey, and it started my love for cooking games. So...

i love mama !! thank you for another wonderful trip down memory lane

Ahh I just found the kind of channel my soul has been craving for..... Thanks for the amazing high quality content!

Im a 23 years old dude and cooking mama showed me the magical world of cooking, now its my hobby and i want to be a chef someday

I am so happy to have found a community and a content creator that was (or still is) into all of these virtual cooking adventures. I honestly sill sometimes install games like these or pull out my DS for nostalgia's sake

last year I bough again all the mama ds games and it feels so good. also this video makes me feel so good like hearing someone talking about cooking mama for 30 minutes sounds so satisfying, thank you

Thank you for this video! The wiki part with all the episode names is so funny because I had totally convinced myself Gardening Mama had a whole story tied into it somehow. I bought the Cookstar game on the Switch expecting some sort of story or level system and I was sorely disappointed. I hope gardening Mama comes back one day because those were definitely my favorite games of the series!

she does say do not mind!! and the fire in her eyes is supposed to show her determination to help you improve, not anger

Ngl your videos encapsulate my childhood really well, XD ngl they're hella relaxing to watch

I always saw Mama as not just a literal mama, but a cooking class teacher too

I thought she said "You're not mine" as if your cooking was so bad she disowned you.

I'm such a fan of your content Jelly! 💗 Cooking Mama makes me feel so nostalgic.

19:17 this quote had me instantly subscribe! Your content is awesome!

Just found your video from a RU-vid recommendation. It's been so long since I played Cooking Mama. Time to dust off my DS, thank you for covering Cooking Mama! If you can, I would love to see you cover more cooking/food themed games.

I actually met cooking mama through the PETA game and it traumatized me (like I’m vegan now but not because of this game). I always thought cooking mama was evil because of that lol

Soooo much nostalgia. I LOVE cooking mama. I had all of the main series and sweet shop.

I love your content so much, I think you might be one of my favourite youtubers! For me, the cooking mama games are cozy and easy, Mama praising me just feels nice and the food looks delicious.

ty for unlocking a core memory for me with the beginning games intro :)

I find Mama paradoxically intimidating, almost entirely because of the flame eyes. It implies she feels rage. Not just frustration, but rage. If I mess up the mini game I won't just disappoint Mama, I'll ANGER Mama. Literally everything else is meant to portray her as the pure spirit of goodness, but that ONE animation pulls back the curtain and shows she's human too. And it scares me.

Thank you for including the Kevin Kicks a Baby clip

Downloading cakemania!!! Omg what memories have you unlocked.. love it!!!

the intro just brought back a lot of memories. i used to play so much cake mania and cake factory as a kid, and i had completely forgotten about it until just now

What I take away from this video is Mama is an underrated gaming girlboss and should definitely be celebrated more,

I always heard clear as day "do not mind!" Great video! I LOVED cooking mama on Wii and never realized she ventured into other interests

u kno its a good day when dream jelly uploads

This video now made me start fully collect every cooking mama game's

I loved Cooking Mama and Gardening Mama for the DS Lite! I had no idea about the other games though, surprisingly. The DS game mechanics is definitely the superior one, it gives you the most control of actions and also freedom to draw/decorate more easily :) I 100% agree with the energy of playing this game though!! Being so close to getting through a level at a higher difficulty and messing up only to hear that horrible tune that accompanied her flame eyes! The FRANTIC, way-too-hard smashing of the stylus on the poor screen to chop as fast as possible. It really was little girl peak Gamer Moments! Something that was also super cool about the game was that it kept the original dishes even for a western release. I wasn't familiar with the majority of the dishes either by name or in general-- I'd definitely never heard of Squid Balls before! Even the concept of having "hamburger" on a plate not as a sandwich was odd at first. It was really cool seeing an overview of how food foreign to me is cooked. :)

I'm so glad that you included that one Kevin clip