I LOVE HIM ALREADY!! The Amazing Digital Circus 1x02 Episode 2: Candy Carrier Chaos Reaction 

Mosco: Can I please have, Gummigoo? Glitch: Ha! No.

"The Utah teapot, or the Newell teapot, is a 3D test model that has become a standard reference object and an in-joke within the computer graphics community."

"Can Gummigoo stay? I really like him. He's kind of a cool character." 😭

10:23 That's the dev room, where the game's character models and other assets are stored and load from. Also, the teapots are a reference to the Utah Teapot, one of the first 3D modeled items made using bezier curves instead of using precise measurements. It's basically an in-joke between 3D animators.

"If I get people and NPCs mixed up, who knows what could... happen." That line from Caine is so haunting to me. We've seen how unceremoniously he gets rid of NPCs, if he ended up confusing a player for an NPC... what happens to them?

19:04 the Utah Teapot is one of the first digitized items. It’s sort of an in-joke for 3D animators.

Not sure Ragatha has a crush on Pomni, her body language is just like that to everyone, also because she’s legit a rag doll so her movements are really expressive, she also feels bad for Pomni for having a bad day, she just wants to help, also the creator said there would be now romance in the show, nor any ships will be canon

Games have an area under the map were they keep assets loaded, so that's were they ended up

Wee lass: *Wants GummyGoo to live* I have decided to trust you Caine: A horrible decision, really

That part with Caine unaliving GummyGoo so unceremoniously made me feel so much rage… Poor Pomni, and right after she found someone she could really confide in.

Glitch has said that there will be no canon shipping.

4:10 I think there’s definitely something to the idea of Ragatha as a chronic people pleaser. At the very least, she’s very invested in being liked.

The Fudge is 100% a Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure reference.

It surprises me how many reactors have no clue whose hands those are grabbing Pomni's. You'd think the hands of a Raggedy Ann doll, a ribbon, a random assortment of shapes, and a floating glove would be more recognizable. xD

As soon as the ep ended I went MUST......BUY.....GUMMIGOO.....PLUSHY!!!!!!!

I love how every single content creator i've watched so far has expressed interest in buying the gummigoo plushie bc of the episode lmao, truly shows the impressive writing of this show where we can fall in love with a character so quickly

My favorite part of this episode is the parallel between Ragatha trying to cheer up Pomni, and Pomni trying to cheer up Gummigoo, i have a feeling it was intentional to make Pomni understand and appreciate Ragatha's attempts more, which plays into the ending where she realizes she can actually count on these people and that they will care if she abstracted (going against her nightmare at the beginning where they didn't care).

The npc thing coming back, I feel it. That closeup on Caine. I think one of the characters might not be an actual person(besides Caine and Bubble. We already knew that) Edit:basically, I think Jax is an npc from some sort of farm world who snuck into the circus and pretended to be one of the humans that got trapped here. I feel he has the most evidence to be an npc, with Kinger the other option. I’ve also seen some people think a human was deleted when falsely thought to be a npc, so that could add to that theory

I'm reminded of a quote from The Good Place: "Don't worry, they're not real." "Well, they're fake people, but their _pain_ is real." 16:52 - They got those ARMA 3 vehicle physics in there. 16:59 - The teapots are probably a reference to the Utah Teapot/Newell Teapot. There's a hypothesis that they may also be a reference to the Russel's Teapot thought experiment, but that seems kind of a stretch. 18:40 - "Who knows what... could happen..." Oh no, Caine has _totally_ poofed a person before, hasn't he?

the teapots are actually a reference to the Utah Teapot, which is a 3D test model and has been referenced in multiple animated projects and is an in-joke in the world of animation. the Utah Teapot is actually very helpful in simulating shadows and lighting for testing purposes

The Gummigoo keychain figurine comes with a PSA warning to not attempt to eat, but also comes in candy packaging complete with a "nutritional panel" on the back. What could go wrong?

If you are still wondering about tea pots, look up the "Utah teapot", and was one of the earliest 3rd mesh models. It used to be in many of the early computer 3D graphic papers.

My theory, however mad it sounds, is that Zooble is an NPC that has managed to sneak into the circus. They’re not keen on the adventures, and they seem to be hiding from Caine in this episode. Sure, maybe they just want him to leave so they can do the funeral, but it kind of looked like Zooble was actively avoiding him at the end. Zooble is also an amalgamation of different bits and pieces, possibly falling apart/glitching now that Caine isn’t actively controlling them. This theory probably isn’t true, but after what Caine said about keeping track of who is a human and who is an NPC, I wouldn’t be surprised if at least one of the main cast was an NPC hiding in plain sight.

The teapots were just a nod to animation history. The Utah Teapot is a famous 3D model, the first 3D CGI model ever made (in 1975) without having to manually input every measurement. It's often used as a test model to this day, to check textures, lighting, or just to test rendering setups. As much as I love the speculation, I get the feeling the real answers to this show are simpler and more shallow than everyone's expecting. When they're revealed, I think a lot of theorizing fans will be disappointed 😅

That teapot model was the first 3D object ever made. It became an icon and it appears in many series and movies as a tribute

The hands that caught Pomni from falling in her nightmare were Ragatha’s, Zooble’s and Gangle’s.

Given that Bubble didn’t have the censor bar over his mouth, I think whatever he said wasn’t swear words. It was either super sexually explicit, or super problematic. I’m guessing problematic, given Caine’s “Bubble…you can’t say that” The teapots were Utah’s Teapots, an in joke with 3D animators. The hands at the end were everyone but Jax, because Jax didn’t attend the funeral.

its so cute how you relate a lot to pomni in your reaction and then elijah relates a lot to ragatha 😭😭

I legit had a moment when Caine Thanos snapped Gummygoo. I’m not ok

The Title: I love him already!! Caine: I'm about to BREAK your heart!!

I relate to Gummigoo. If you are "Nobody" , just make yourself "somebody".

I guess this episode taught us the following: - Pomni is a poor sweetheart. 😢 - Jax is kind of an a-hole. - POOR GUMMYGOO!!!! 😭😭😭

I felt sorry for Ragatha, she is the kindest character ❤

"Can't you just tag them?" I was wondering the exact same thing. Caine made the NPCs, or at least has a catalog of NPCs to pull from, so there must be a way for him to recognize them. I would also assume the NPC files differ from the player copies somehow, or at very least, they'd be stored in a different location, which would make it easier for Caine to figure out the difference.

T pose because that's how model character are created so its easy to see every member of the model, also the whole show is making reference to Game Developement (Glitch, t pose, AI,...).

Pomni goes missing Ragatha: where's my baby?!

Gummigoo is totally coming back. They gave him a whole unexplored backstory and he's even got his own plushie you can buy for crying out loud. They wouldn't do all that for a one episode character.

Kinger actually only pretends to be insane so he doesn't have to face the consequences of all the sins he's committed

the fact that they introduced a beloved character to just end them immediately makes me so happy! I was not expecting that!😂

20:55 if you pause frame by frame, you can see the hands of Kinger, Ragatha, Zooble, and Gangle (or at least her ribbon, haha). Cool foreshadowing that Jax is not even trying to help at all.

8:58 I think you're putting more thought into the worldbuilding than Caine did.

19:34 THANK YOU That was literally my thought

they have known each other for one day, and went through some trauma stuff, i hope its not a crush thing atm, i think ragatha is just nervous cause Pomni had a terrible experience and she wants to help ease that a bit.

Haven't watched the video, but I just wanted to recommend Netflix's 'Green Eggs and Ham' (or at least its first season), an animated show that's WAY to great for a Dr. Suess adaptation. It has great animation, compelling character arcs, hard hitting moments, action, and great humor. For some inconceivable reason, it's not often talked about, but that's one of the great injustices of this world. I think you would like it, Mosco, and I *know* I would like watching you react to it. In any case, I hope you're doing well!

Also, in case anyone hasn’t noticed, Zooble’s design is slightly different in this episode than in the pilot. Apparently, this going to be a running theme in the show

As for what Bubble said in the intro, his canonical reaction to being called cute is "(says every slur)" so sky's the limit.

I just recently thought of this i thought maybe this is similar to the coraline movie and like- caine sees people with "sadness" and stuff and gives them a whole different world but they cant leave and he just keeps them there til they abstract and then he looks for more?

Fun fact about the teapots, it's called the Utah teapot, or the Newell teapot which is a 3D test model that has become a standard reference object and an in-joke within the computer graphics community and using a teapot model is considered the 3D equivalent of a "Hello, World!" program. They've been around since the 70's and have appeared i many many movies and shows like easter eggs, like Toy Story and the Simpsons for example

The teapots in episode 2 of The Amazing Digital Circus are a CGI joke and a reference to the Utah Teapot, a 3D model used by developers to test lighting and graphics.

So first of all I'd like to say that gooseworx confirmed there will be no romance in the show. So ragatha and pomni having a crush one eachother is highly unlikely. Second of all, Pomni's body language indicates anxiety not a crush. So yes i do think you're looking too into this.

We loved Gummigoo as well. I think that's why they made a plushie of him.

If Caine has trouble determining real people from NPCs, and NPCs are very intelligent, could one of the main cast be an NPC?

Dunno if I’m just a softie or what but that bit where the hands grab Pomni hit home HARD. Instant tears

18:29 Looks like Dr. Manhattan disintegrated Rorschach. Poor Gummigoo. 😢

New theory: Isn't is suspicious how our protagonists sometimes do NPC stuff? Like Gangle changes moods with her masks, and Jax has a head that is gyroscopically stable in the car chase scene. Maybe they are all AI's, just more advanced. Maybe Caines purpose is to create and test new AI renditions, until one passes the Turing Test. Only something went wrong and he is now unsupervised for decades.

Glitch has apparently said shipping won't be a thing so nothing crush related by Ragatha

Jax is the main villain

I heard someone point out, that when Bubble gets censored it isn't the usual black bar with wacky sound, but just normal beep, which could mean she didn't swear, but said something so utterly heinous that they had to completely bleep it out

So far, from what we know, I don't think this is any sort of purgatory or anything like that in the traditional sense. From word of god, we know that Caine is an AI who was meant to entertain humans but is in a situation he was never intended to be in (with people who can't leave) and is trying his best but doesn't actually understand human emotions. I think the way the characters each have different issues is more a symptom of them being stuck there and trying to cope. We know that the office setting Pomni passed in the pilot actually exists in the real world and she recognised it. But it looked old and abandoned. We know Caine is somehow aware of that office, since he recreated it. Considering there are no bodies laying around, that implies that either their entire bodies are somehow sucked into the program, which seems unlikely, they're actually copies of the people who put on the headsets, which has a whole lot of horrifying implications, or someone or something is messing with their memories, in which case we can't trust anything we've been told or seen.

Hi, Mosco. Really love your reactions. This show keeps getting better with each episode!

RIP gummigooner The Aussie lad will be missed

My theory, which I actually believe, is that human-Pomni broke into the C&A building, which was apparently abandoned but mysteriously hadn't had the power cut off. Naturally, she decided to try the VR headset out of curiosity. I also think Jax was a programmer, internet troll, and hacker, which is how he's able to obtain keys without the other characters noticing. It's canon that they entered the Circus at different times, and Pomni is the newest; I think whatever project this was has officially (but not actually) been shut down by the time she discovers it. Also, I think Kinger was an entomology professor who was an early adopter because he hoped the VR technology could simulate exotic bugs in their natural environments, which would be fantastic for educating people about insects and how cool they are.

It'd be hilarious if the Gummigoo plushy came with a bag of confetti. Gummigoo: Before & After!

20:15 It looks to me like he's just rolling his eyes.

Someone else in the comments pointed out that games in real life usually keep their assets hidden under the map, and holy crap that made me realize that this show is GENUINELY teaching me some basic computer science. I have a math disability (yes it’s really a thing) so anything to do with numbers and “hard logic” stuff like coding, technology, computers etc. usually doesn’t come naturally to me. But this show is explaining it in a way that somehow makes sense LOL

Mosco: Don't you dare. Glitch: We dare

4:58 - Sounds like a certain someone's never seen "Meet the Demoman". Something to add to the watchlist, perhaps?

Theory: I think the reason Jax was being so pissy in this episode, and so dead set on choosing violence, and so disappointed when that option was taken away from him, might be because he was trying to use that violence as a cathartic outlet and a way to vent his own sorrows at Kaufmo's death. This whole episode, I think, may basically be him going through the "anger" stage of grief... In which case his carefree attitude in regards to Kaufmo abstracting in the pilot could have been him going through "denial"...

I like to imagine Bubble literally just made the beep sound, and that its not a censoring effect. XP

I would LOVE to believe its a crush, it would be very cute for pomni to have that happiness in her new life at least, but sadly glitch said there will be no shipping in this series

Also I totally called what would happen to Gummigoo. I saw it coming. But I can't wait to see him in any future episodes

Jax has a thing for keys, maybe he is trying to find a key to unlock something (Like a exit door)

i did a frame by frame and i saw the hands of gangle, ragatha and zooble- not sure if that means anything in particular though

"i hope he can stay" *cut to gummigoo getting obliterated*

R.I.P GUMMIGOO. And yes the mental health rehabilitation is actually a genius idea will be interesting to see the direction this show goes.

Someone has to point out how one of the lads suddenly rested his head on Gummigoo his back at 8:05 So random 😂

You're not just an overthinker, you're an obsessive compulsive overthinker.

Anybody else think of Miss Molly from "Bump in the Night" with Ragatha?

my main theory is that jax was just a child when he first got in the circus gooseworks mentioned hes the youngest, and if theyve been in there for years, its highly possible that he was just a kid!

Gangle sounds so much like Kristen Schaal (Mabel from GF and Louise from Bob's Burgers), every time I hear them talk I have to catch myself because I'm like "LOUISE!?" 😂💀

I wonder if the abtractions are fragments of the npcs that get deleted and are trying to reach the characters in the circus or are angry that they aren't real or something.

As I said during the new hellavaboss teaser *le-inhale* blade and spear! Shield and stone, to arms! (This time we hunting Caine) She smiled for real, this episode

I think we really need to watch the 3 episode too to really start to theorise. It was mentioned by the creators that episode 3 is really "something".

The animation and textures are so well done! I wanna get gummibears now

tea pots were the first transmitted 3d shape.

16:24 you see, the thing is…I think that’s gonna become a trend

Very Threw the looking Glass Pomni Feeling

In that case I can already imagine your furry towards Cain for what he did to GummiGoo

14:04 If that theory is confirmed, then the Digital Circus world is just a human version of Infinity Train

I don’t think they’re people apart of a mental health aid program. If they were, they’d give them a much more understanding host than Caine, who we’ve been told doesn’t understand human emotions. Definitely still on the train that they’re potential workers, or volunteers, for C&A who had their consciousness duplicated into the game. We’re even given a trailer for the game within the first episode.

As much as it hurt to lose Gummigoo, his merch would absolutely be bought the most and that, in a way, is genuis lol. In honor of such an awesome guy, of course we'd buy his plushie after all that. Well played, Gooseworx😭🤣

the fact you had to fastforward the entire teapot theorizing >w< i get the feeling there omg also i think the thing with Jax is that he's trying real hard to seem like he doesn't care despite it obviously affecting him, cue him not being present at the funeral, he can't let them see his vulnerable side (also the hands in that scene i think are everyone's except Jax's and Caine's) (and Bubble's but they have no hands so yeah)

Yeeeeaaaahhhh, I preordered Gummigoo the second I saw that too, but that tells me he's not gone forever. The fact they made him a plushie and the fact we don't actually see a dead body tells me he'll come back. They don't make plushies for character that don't come back or who don't have an important role in the story....also, as SOON as he gets here he and Pomni are sitting together.

I can't wait until they show that Ragatha was the puppet master the whole time. How she created the circus as a social experiment to see how humans would interact with genuine AI.

No matter which theory version: What if they are so connected to this world, so when they obstruct (Spelling?) its their real out of "game" body failing and dying, but instead of just disappearing, their in game consiousness gets twisted and run rampant. 😨

That little Bulbasaur on your Rukia POP Figure looks familiar.. Where did you get it by chance?

My problem is how easy it is to tell Gummygoo apart from the others. He's a anthropomorphic gummy crocodile with an Australian accent named Gummygoo. How is that so hard to remember for a computer program with enough alloted memory to store multiple human consciousnesses and create AI with the same level of awareness

Caine could copy Gummy's files into the digital circus and copy his code over

@16:19 Wee Lass: "can Gummigoo stay? I really like him!" 🐊 @18:31 Caine: "Hmmmm..... NO!" 🎊 R.I.P. 2024-2024.

Mosco getting emotional over the Gummiegoo plushie. 😢