I think my favorite part of this video is the idea that Olive Garden’s social media manager is just calling the to-go line of a single random location to tell them about the new engagement pasta idea.
I'd like to imagine it's the social media manager of an Olive Garden fan account that accidentally got the Twitter checkmark and assumes that means they were accepted by the company lmao
The original pasta maker here! Reading through these comments and fucking cackling at the fact my proposal ended up as a fucking animation (great job btw; mad respect for animators). If anyone wants an update, my fiancée talked to me about it and I was very chill with it. I am very neurodivergent so I have no right to be upset as a picky bitch. 😂 My partner likes all the other things I made, so I see that as a win :). For context with everything, we had our first kiss at the beach I proposed on. I asked my partner what her favorite food was at the moment and they said the butternut squash pasta her dad makes. Unfortunately, her dad couldn’t find the recipe when I asked, so I tried one online. And that’s how we ended up here lmfao
Aw that’s really sweet though! And yeah classic ND move I did the same of literally learning enough Spanish to ask my in laws recipes from my husbands Lita’s sisters since she has been gone since before we were together and it’s some of his most comforting meals. There was uh….lot of evil kitchen experiments 🧪 many failed biscuits, mole and etc 😂. I’m sure they loved like the effort and like sentiment! I know even as a ND person my self my husband will try and make food that my Dad always made special for me and my Dads a great cook so I feel bad he has to try 😅 plus he has poor spice/salt tolerance because my Dads Vietnamese, home boy living and dying 🫡 by the sodium intake 😂. I’m always just happy because aside from my Dad and grandma, my husbands is the only one who ever made and effort or cared enough to ask my preferences and didn’t want to force me to eat or feel bad about textures and etc. When I started eating meat again after 14 years he even started cutting up my chicken because the texture grossed me out so much. It still does 😅 but it makes it much more tolerable. In general he’s just a very gentle person ❤. So even if he fails at making steak au poivre, sticky buns or anything else it’s always nice to cook together. It’s what I did with my family and learning together is pretty much what we do through life lol 😅 we’re terrible at putting together ikea furniture and lab partners but we’re great life partners lmao 🤣
To be fair... Trying to compete with "My Mom's Spaghetti" type recipes... is EXTRMELY ballsy... and by a random internet recipe? You might as well have handed yourself the 2nd place trophy yourself.
you didn't NEED to give the asker pretty tattoos, but the fact that you not only did but went into the effort of maintaining the tattoo continuity for the whole video gives me such respect for you as an animator
Attention several commenters: gaslighting is not the same as just being deceptive or disingenuous. It's only gaslighting if you're trying to deceive the person in a way that is intended to make them think their perception of what is real or true is actually wrong, even though they were correct the whole time. Pretending to like pasta that you actually don't like is not gaslighting. Convincing your partner that they have never actually liked their own pasta would be gaslighting.
Thank you because seriously the internet has deeply watered-down the term. I swear the internet just decided that gaslighting and lying at the same thing
I work in a restaurant with a lot of young adults and the internet-learned terms that are being thrown around can be a lot. If a guest says they ordered salad when they actually ordered fries, most of the staff would accuse the guest of trying to gaslight them. Sometimes a flub or lie is just that, they're not all manipulative psychos who want you to question your reality.@@DeathnoteBB
@@DeathnoteBB People like to use terms that make them sound smarter or more legitimate, and the internet makes it easier to spread them around without fully understanding them.
@@nickdrescher1210that actually is an example of low level gaslighting. The guests aren't lying or trying to fool the wait staff they're actively trying to convince them their perception of reality and memory is wrong, aka that the guest never ordered the wrong thing in the first place
I think the best thing to do is to serve a different, better pasta at your wedding reception because wedding pasta is more powerful than engagement pasta
My suggestion: slowly alter the recipe until it’s the kind of pasta you like. Like, “Oh this is great, but you know what would make it even better? Some rosemary.” & then a few months later, “Hmm… I think we should add less celery next time.” & even later “What if we let the sauce simmer longer, & get thicker?” Ship of Theseus that shit
Get a label maker and slowly cover up the ingredients in the recipe you don’t like with ingredients from the recipe you do like, change the proportions, etc, until you’ve made the recipe your own
@@rednaxelA11 “what do you mean? It looks just about the same to me. Tastes as good as the day we got married!” “No, I’m sure this is different…” “Honey, I’m concerned about the way you’re insisting on this. I think maybe we should talk to the doctor about this next checkup…”
I adore skull shirt wife and strawberry dress wife eating out of hello-kitty bowls, their living life right. Also that camera turn at "hey hot shot" was amazing!
3:00 In baby terms, Mastodon is twitter but without Elon Musk. Techies will hit you with "it's decentralized!" and "it's federated!" but all you really need to know is that it's twitter.
I'm so here for these butternut lesbians. Also, so glad to add another geo animatic to my rotation of geo animatics to watch obsessively and repeatedly
We've been on a Butternut Squash ravioli kick, we got Rana brand first, which is... Larry David's Pasta Brand? Maybe? I can't look it up quite this moment but I think that's who it is Edit: I'm stupid... It's not Larry David, ffs, it's Giovanni Rana. He makes good Butternut Squashta I'll tell ya that
you have been doing these for years now. and you have never, not once, faltered in your effort to ensure that everyone depicted who is not one of the boys is reflective of all the neat kinds of people that there are. and I just really appreciate that.
mastadon is an open-source social media platform which has been gaining traction lately on account of every corporate-owned platform turning into a pile of excrement that is also on fire
wait why am I not subscribed to you? did I get unsubscribed somehow? did I just falsely believe I was subscribed to you this whole time? Either way let me fix that!
0:55 As a Siobhán not living in Ireland I rarely see my name used as like an example name so anytime I see it in the wild my monkey brain lights up and I just sit there like “Ooo Ooo That’s MY name!! That’s my name and my name is Siobhán!” Like a baby
WTF, I looked at my recommended and saw this and thought "wait, I haven't seen one of their MBMBAM videos?". Turns out this is brand new. Good to see you posting again! Love all your stuff
You can always say you love the effort/thoughtfulness of the original engagement picnic, then "work together" to slowly improve it over the years step-by-step until it's closer to your original favorite recipe/something you both love.
I hate the idea that "gaslighting" applies to completely zero risk stupid situations where really the intended outcome is to avoid confrontation and/or preserve feelings. Gaslighting is intentional manipulation that ultimately makes the other party question their reality or believe that they cannot trust their own perception. Creating a stupid silly situation because you don't like engagement pasta is not gaslighting.
The internet latching on to the term "gaslighting" has really sucked hard. Note I don't say LEARNING the term because that implies knowing what it actually means. Same goes for most psychology/therapy terminology, really.
I really don't see what the big deal is with just letting them know! Like... Just tell your fiance, hey, I really appreciate the lengths you went to on our engagement, it shows you care a lot about me to try and get this thing right, but can we change the recipe? The only bad thing I can see is, if as Justin said, that's the version they like better. I also wish there was a breakdown about what was different about it. Is it the cut of the noodles? Is it the sauce? Is it Tajin? Why is this not as good? Relationships are about communication!
Man, they gotta PRAY their fiancé doesn’t hear this. 😂 You can’t really play off that there must be someone else who had engagement butternut squash pasta on the beach.
@@Erhannis its a joke show for jokes the advice is almost never actually helpful so anyone who hears a joke and takes away gaslighting as a serious option already had some shit to unpack that’s not on Travis
Social media right now feels a bit like the end of that Simpsons episode where Lisa runs her own newspaper. Crush monopolies, lose a bit of the monolithic "connection" that came with having one or two big social media places, and let the bigguns die from the outside-in like a gelatinous sea creature drying out on the sand
I am so happy to see a new Geothebio video. I've binged every one of your mbmbam animations in the last month and many of them many times. Thank you for doing the gods' work
So happy to see a new video from you!!! I was like, legit worried about you! I hope things are going well for you. I love the twinkling eyes of the crabs and the can of Pug Root Beer. I gotta get me a 12 pack of that! And of course your expressions and shirt patterns were just great!
That whole bit about "it's going to come out eventually?" Hard truth. You never want to tell someone you love that they cooked something they don't love, ESPECIALLY when it's keyed to a special moment, but if you have to keep eating it, they're going to eventually notice you don't like it. Cooking the same dish and tweaking it is the best way to go. Source: 13 years of very happy, very educational marriage.
I am only now discovering that "tajin" is a lime-flavoured hot sauce. I thought they were being Cool about saying Tahini, and the moment Justin started telling me to put sesame butter in my pasta was the moment I became sure he was insane or just old
The actual answer is to go along with it for a while (maybe a couple of weeks) then excitedly turn to them and say how you find this pasta recipe and it’s amazing and that you want to show her, then phase out her recipe for your own, and it’s not disregarding her efforts but growing and evolving together, each one adding their own bit, it’s a wholesome ass way to avoid shitty food;)
I can't believe it took me 6 days to see this video when I watch your animatics so regularly that they're always in my recommended, no matter how many times I view them. I've now realized that I wasn't actually subscribed, so I've fixed that issue! I love everything about this and I would do just about anything to possess 1) the fashions of literally everyone represented in this entire animatic and 2) those laptop stickers
