I Watched Bleach for the First Time, All of it. 

If Shinji would quit explaining his powers immediately after he uses them, he’d probably lose a lot less

Seems like you've been watching the series, solely from story and battle perspective. There is so much more in it that just that, because Bleach is exploration of themes and characters. The very abilities that characters possess are basically psysical manifestations of who they are inside. The battles are not just swinging swords, but clashes of the different characters. And there is reason for why Ichigo have only single sword technique. It's because he doesn't know anything about himself, which reflects in his poor ability arsenal.

Well one thing that I want to point out is about the lack of variety of powers you mentioned. It is because Bleach is different than other shonen anime. Here to get more power you have to get to know your sword and create a bond. Ichigo got his bankai in 3 days when others get it in 10 years. He forcefully got stronger. Normally, to get real strength you have to get to know your zanpakto well, talk with it, meditate. The longer you are like that, the more powers you get. Shinigamies spend hundreds of years to get there - thats how they have variety of moves and powers. That's why capitans have more options in attacks and powers. And because Ichigo doesn't know Zangetsu that well, doesn't talk with it often and doesn't know about himself, he is stuck only with Getsuga Tensho. That makes bleach different from other shows. You can't 'simply' get stronger just from training, you have to also dedicate yourself to understand yourself and your sword.

I think bleach doesnt get much love because people look at at for the wrong thing. I love bleach because everything is connected when you start to think about it and its mind blowing

Btw Ichigo didn’t just get an increase of power from orihime. At that point he was already stronger than grimmjow but he was holding back not to scare orihime since she was scared of his hollow powers because of her brother. So Ichigo then went all out and overpowered grimmjow

They did set up the Gentei Kaijo in the previous arc, Renji says Lieutenant Class and higher get sealed to 20% of their power so as to not adversely affect the World of the Living, Ikkaku being a 3rd Seat didn't have this so he was at full power from the start. Also Ashido is actually a filler character, along with the Menos forest. It's probably the best Filler in my opinion as it doesn't intrude too much, doesn't overstay it's welcome and Ashido is a really cool character

I just rewatched bleach without filler ~200 eps, props for getting through all the filler

A lot of stuff gets cut/changed in the anime adaptation. Which is REALLY bad for a series like Bleach that relies on Kubo's subtlety to set up important payoffs later. The reason Ichigo is able to beat Grimmjow so easily when Orihime tells him not to get hurt anymore is because he was significantly stronger than Grimmjow. When he started using his hollowfication, he dominated Grimmjow up until he bodyblocked the projectiles from hitting Orihime, where he sees that she's scared of his hollow powers, so he starts paying less attention to the fight itself, and loses some of his resolve, but when Orihime reassures him that she isn't scared of him, his mind is calmed, and his resolve is strengthened, placing him back to 100%, so he's able to beat Grimmjow. The 69 on Kensei's chest is because his name in Japan is "六車 拳西" which has the kanji "六" in it, which is 6. He is captain of squad 9. He is 6 of 9, thus 69.

46:29 Anime did her dirty with this scene. I re-read this part of the manga last week she did NOT say Ichigo's name nearly this much 💀

Aizen's impact on Ichigo, him being the orchestrator of all the events of bleach and his philosophical depth is what makes him one of the greatest villains in anime. Hard disagree.

Honestly, the manga conveys everything so much better. Kubos use of negative space is very absent from the anime and I feel like that alongside the censorship takes away from the experience.

The thousand year blood war animation is outstanding, and the music is straight burgers.

I watched the anime up until The Aizen reveal and then switched to the manga and I could not be happier. I hate saying this but the manga really is way better in just about every way. The art is better, the pacing is better, the character interactions are more fleshed out, and to me it has a lot more impact because of Kubo's signature negative space

I just realized I absolutely love Bleach’s power creep because it’s not just bankai v2 and v3 etc, you have different factions, different types of power, different forms of releases with the espada and shinigamified hollows, the shit always made sense in terms of the world, everything was a branch off another. Even fullbring made a lot of sense like yeah maybe not everyone can be a shinigami but there’s a whole spiritual realm so who’s to say humans can’t draw a little from it? I absolutely love bleach

Pesche being voiced by Dio and having the same blonde hair just makes him better

I would disagree about Ichigos lack of powers since it is due to being part of his character. And the thoughts on Aizen. I believe Aizen setting everything up is great, it puts hopelessness into the reader like Ichigo, and makes him that much more terrifying.

The man told me to comment monkey or something so here I am. But honestly this video was a treat to watch and listen to start to finish. I love video essays but combined with your humor and personality it just makes the whole experience so much better. Bleach looks fantastic and I very much would like to get back into watching anime after the hiatus I took after my ex and I split, we bonded over a lot of anime and it’s been hard to watch it but kind of tired depriving myself of this pleasure. Anyway keep up the excellent work Toeknee, always a treat to watch any of your vids.

arrancar when use reseruction: kenpachi when hold blade with both hands and takes off eyepatch: this is pure hype

I’m glad you aren’t turning away from your other types of content, I was scared you were going to only do For Honor content 😊

This is such a good video. Really enjoyed it. Glad to see you enjoyed Bleach as much. I may have some disagreements but overall Bleach love is always a W. This last arc is my fav so I hope you will enjoy it too. And if you ever wanna experience Bleach again, I would recommend manga (unless you don't read manga generally). Waiting for next one

As much as I commend you for taking the time to go through the series I feel like you should definitely make a follow up/acknowledge the people making some really good points: 1. Ichigo's abilities aren't complete 2. The storytelling and themes are often represented by abilities, character traits, clothing, dialogue, backstory, nuance (such as inspiration and external references) By the way it's sounding you haven't considered any of this. At the very least from now on, you should make your intentions clear from the start. (It's evident from your explanation on anime you've *started* watching but becomes muddled when you begin showing us your ever expanding repotoir of anime experience). I feel that will help alleviate some of this confusion, especially if you don't intend on interacting with this type of discussion.

Ichigo and Isshin do not have the same powers... its more like that ichigo never used his own powers until tybw ep 13, he couldnt develop own shinigami powers, because he didnt trained with a original zanpakuto instead he got a kind of copy of his fathers, because his fathers powers fused with the hollow inside ichigo.

What i really like about ichigo as a main character is his origin, like him gaining power ups and then later you get to know how good of an origin story he has so all of that makes him my favorite.

2 YEARS???? I got to episode 153 in 3 days

Orihime's character arc is way better in the manga. The anime butchered her character, they made her say kurosaki kun way too many times.

If you’re interested I definitely recommend you read the manga. The issues you have while I don’t think all would be alleviated by reading the manga most would. For example Ichigo doesn’t get a boost from Orihime telling him to not get hurt anymore he was holding back that entire fight with Grimmjow because of her trauma with her brother.

Bleach's anime suffered from horrendous pacing, each episode covered roughly 4-6 chapters on average. Since back then weekly anime was the norm the amount of chapters to episode ratio was the cause of all the added filler, strange spacing and exaggeration of some scenes. Which ruined the pace of the series even misinterpreting characters. Still glad you enjoyed the series, bleach will always be one of my favorite series faults and all.

Great video it was nostalgic seeing bleach again

"The don't get hurt" power boost is explained in the end chapter drawings kubo does. Ichigo is restricting himself cuz he's afraid of his power and he knows orihime is too so when she reassures him he just walks grimmjow

You've done it! I'm watching Bleach now 😂 I loved the video dude, it was great to veg out and watch

just wanted to say, I heard "The days when my mother was there" in the background. My personal favorite song from P5, and honestly way underrated. Great taste, and good job on the video.

Amazing video and commentary, I was shocked when I saw you didn't have over 100k subs.

I liked what you said About most of bleach but the two that stood out was the orhime and aizen comments, I feel like you didn’t really look at orhime a character or powers and just focused on how annoying kuroskai kun was (which is the anime fault) and for aizen, I feel like you missed his whole charcter apart from the I plan everything aspect, there’s much more to his charcter that again I believe you missed because you didn’t like the I plan everything thing, I also feel like you missed out on a lot of things like why vasto lorde happened, ichigo powers (it’ll get explained in tybw), abilities, also some concepts in bleach, and so on but overall I really liked your video tho

Mayuri vs the arrancar is so much disrespectful, mah dud made the guy suffer for thousands of years in a moment.

i respect you for surviving through the bount arc and many other filler arcs. you are a true hero

I appreciate the edit for video this long. I laughed many times man

Great reciew, one problem, ichigo didn't learn bankai because he is the mc but because youruichi was with him, she is a captain and she saw kisule learn bankai in a compareable amount of time so she has experiamce in that field, and ichigo is special, no spoilees for those who havent watched tybw

I got into Bleach years after it finished airing. It took me just under a month to watch all the episodes. Hearing you say it took you 2 yrs to finish it was surprising to me. I was hooked from the the first episode of Bleach. Once i finished the anime, i read the manga. So i was waiting fking yrs for bleach to come back

Great refresher for those that watched years ago and are just starting TYBW.

Zanpakuto rebellion arc was absolutely amazing, yes it is a little bit longer but its so worth watching its unreal

I’m a die hard bleach fan and even I didn’t watch all filler bro props to you also orihime stayed one of my favorite characters the whole series don’t know why I just fw her

That's a lot of dedication, well played.

Watched this to recap the show Ended up really enjoying the video toeknee

The persona music, bleach, great vid

Bleach just gives me a different feeling man. Can’t wait to see some of the scenes in TYBW animated

43:48 I know its a bit late but the reason the chose the number 69 for Kensei is that his name has the Japanese character for 6 in it and he leads squad 9. I know this because he is one of my favorite characters despite Kubo wanting to kill him off every five minutes.. Hope this helps

monkey It was great to recap the show, I watched it when it originally came out and had to wait 10 years for TYBW! Very much enjoying it though and I hope you are too!

also i always say it but the violent in the vasto fight is the best thing to grace my ears since I was born on this earth

THANKYOU FINALLY someone talks about that one minute long scene of Yoruichi just emptying bowls. I recently rewatched bleach and that scene was just pain.

when orihime says dont get hurt ... its her showing she is not afraid of ichigo and is accepting him ... thus ichogo doesnt hold back his power due to his fear of also rejecting his hollow powers thats what i understood from that fight

Can't wait till you review the TYBW Arc because it wraps everything perfectly with a bow... my favorite anime

I love how in soul society arc we see Aiken and like no one remembers him the entire series but once he switches up everyone starts remembering him just lurking in the captain meeting at soul society arc and him being the main antagonist is kinda crazy

06:53 - he looks like a cardboard girl from MiB entrance exam. The most non-suspicious guy and probably the 1st to hit the bucket, seeing as the mangaka didn’t even give him any memorable features, only glasses and friendly demeanour. Yeah, they got me with this one too, ngl =)

Lol your comments about Aizen monitoring and controlling everything Ichigo did really grinded my gears. On the contrary with the blood war arc everything tied up quite nicely and Bleach finally makes sense. And it only feels natural that Aizen was pulling the strings. It doesn’t invalidate things Ichigo had done at all. You just fail to see the real point of Ichigo’s journey

One of my favorite parts of the Fullbring Arc was in the fight between Ginjo and Ichigo where Ichigo uses the "thousand image" thing, but then ACTUALLY SWINGS HIS SWORD during it.

When I saw the first bleach filler I was like what the hell there was just a amazing fight

The new arc is gonna be good

There is a lot of stuff cut and changed in the anime but I believe that Aizen's plans and motives will make sense to you in the new arc, glad you enjoyed it!

The character tier list is perfect

Such a well-made video man, thanks 4 puttin this one together 🐒

6:50 well, apparently you saw Kyouka Suigetsu and didn't even know 💀

this man dislikes aizen controlling alot of moments? its like the whole point of his character

Took me just over a month to watch Bleach and *most* filler and it’s definitely top 2 and maybe not even number 2 for me. Great vid ❤

One of the best 👍. Thanks for this wonderful review

if you enjoyed the show this much than I recommend you reading the series. It's a much more solid and way more enjoyable experience than watching the show and I honestly think that you'll value some characters more after you've read Bleach

Inoue is actually a much better character in the manga, for some reason the anime studio decided to make her more stupid and even straight up deleted lines of dialog she had in the manga to flesh out her charterer, witch is why most anime only fans think Inoue is a "flat" character for 80% of her time in the series. She was never represented properly. The anime studio also decided to add in Ichigo x Rukia moments that never existed in the manga, witch pissed off the author of the series Kubo. Kubo said multiple times he never intended Bleach to be a romance series, and alot of fans believe him setting Ichigo up with Inoue was Kubo's way of giving a big fat middle finger to the animation studio for altering his story in the beginning. That's why Inoues "capture" in the Hueco Mundo arc, along with her kissing Ichigo in his sleep kinda seems like it was shoved into the story last second. Because it kinda was just to spite the animation studio for them trying to make Ichigo x Rukia a thing for nearly the entirety of the Soul Society arc when Kubo only wanted them to be friends. Kubo really told the animation studio: "nah fck you, he's with the red head now... and just so you cant edit it out, BOOM! its now a major f-ing plot point for the ENTIRE next arc... Bite me."

I liked the Bount arc alot! thank you for making this video :))

Thought you didn't give credits to many top notch moments 😣😣but still you covered this anime pretty nicely 😭✨✨....glad that bleach is getting back to it's original hype and recognised greatly!!!!

Really love the video! Although Aizen is an interesting character to discuss because I completely disagree with your take on his twist and him knowing everything. To me the twist where everything was planned by him is what makes him one of the best Shonen villains of all time. First, you think it takes away from all of Ichigo's achievements and I simply can't disagree more. The reasoning is the same as to why I don't hate the twist where Naruto and Sasuke are reincarnations of the sons of the Sage of Six Paths like so many do. Neither twist ruins or recontextualize previously amazing scenes. Just like how you can ask "Where was the Sage of Six Paths every time Naruto and Sasuke nearly died before", you can easily ask "Why didn't Aizen step in all the times Ichigo nearly died". Now besides the obvious answer of the mangaka not thinking of it at the time, both twists have built in explanations. In the case of Aizen it's simply, he didn't care. Ichigo was an experiment, to see if Aizen could create an enemy to match his power. If Ichigo died, he'd likely either continue his plans or try again with another person. Even with the information presented in TYBW (won't say what to avoid spoilers for whoever reads it), this still holds up. Aizen did it once, he could do it again. Second is the toll this takes on Ichigo. Between what happened to Uryu in Hueco Mundo while he was in his Vasto Lorde form, Ichigo is having it rough. He has a lot of despair to get over and not a lot of time to do it before Aizen wins. This adds to the tension. Finally, it makes Aizen's defeat at least more satisfying for me. You mentioned how you liked how OP Ichigo was in that moment and I agree, but what makes it better for me is that this is what Aizen wanted and it came back to bite him. While he didn't kill him, Ichigo was his experiment and he still lost because he genuinely thought nobody could beat him. As for him knowing everything, that's what I like. Until he goes god with the hogyoku, Aizen has nothing physically imposing about him. It's his intelligence and the fact that he knew these people for so long that makes him scary. Yeah, him saying 'I know' every other sentence can be annoying but that's up to the person in question. It personally didn't bother me

Saw u upload this vid 2 weeks ago and decided fuck it I'm just gonna read bleach so I can watch the video. And here I am 2 weeks later all caught up now reading TYBW. Hopefully you'll upload your thoughts on that when it's all finished, loved the vid

I just watched this entire thing damn your videos are bangers

Shiro Sagisu dropping pure bangers only, Clavar La Espada, ¡Hola Arrancar! and honestly the whole Los Noches OST is just some of the hardest OST I’ve ever heard

I actually liked the bounto arc compared to the zanpakutou rebellion arc...

2 years? Damn, it took my a month to watch it all 💀

lmao the yoruichi eating scene had me and my friend laughing so hard, it was just out of nowhere and was A FULL MINUTE of nothing

The Aizen twist was one of the most iconic moments in all of anime, from the "soft spoken gentleman revealed to be master manipulator" to "everything you did from birth was part of my plan" to "running your hand through your hair for instant bad boy hairstyle" have all become well established tropes in the industry!

It's amazing how you did this video while COMPLETELY ignoring Kuchiki Byakuya! Dude! He's the characters whose arc was the best! Dude becomes a better brother, better captain, has awesome dialogues with Ichigo... The main character in the Zanpakuto Rebellion Arc... You didn't mention his "betrayal" nor his badass fight with Kōga. Everything he comes in to save/help Ichigo and the rest of the Karakura team. The whole Lost Agent Arc fight with Tsukishima?!? He was the only one who got cut and YET still stuck by Ichigo's side! Do you have something against Byakuya?

Aww sad you skipped the part right after Aizen used his shikai and fooled Shinji and the rest.

this video actually inspired me to pick it back up. i finished from the hueco mundo arc to the newest episode of tybw in a week.

Nothing but the Rain really helps understand Aizen's behavior toward Ichigo. I hope you review TYBW too, I really like your presentation

Whatever the reason for it Ichigo only having one proper move was a completely deliberate choice. In the same author's previous series zombiepowder the main character uses 5 different named techniques in 27 chapters. So it wasn't because he was too lazy to come up with moves. He wanted ichigo to only use one. More evidence for that is whenever ichigo uses a different move he only uses it for one fight and then never again. The random powerups during fights in bleach i feel are a bit unfairly judged too. In the soul society arc they're the most prevalent and least excusable which is ironic considering to anyone who doesn't like the show that's the best arc yet its riddled with issues worse than the others. Anyway take his battle with grimmjow for example. That wasn't a random power up. If you look at the fight before ichigo gets hit by those elbow spikey things grimmjow has he fights completely evenly with grimmjow and even has the upper hand in some moments. At the end of the fight he catches grimmjow's hand and thats supposed to be really shit because he got a BS powerup but near the beginning of the fight he already catches grimmjow's hand another time. So why was he getting his ass beat towards the end of the fight then? First minor reason. He took the elbow spikes to protect orihime. Which injured him. Maybe hearing orihime's voice got the adrenaline pumping and he overcame it for a bit. But the main reason which is impossible to tell in the anime is that ichigo got the first ever DE-power of friendship. When orihime looked afraid of his hollow mask ichigo became weaker. At the end of every chapter in the manga there's one page with a little sketch. For this chapter it was some entity with a hollow mask (representing ichigo) being chained up. Then in the next chapter when orihime gives her motivational speech the end chapter sketch is the entity breaking through the chains. I would address some other points but I know this is already too long for people to bother reading. To sum things up though as others have said the old anime did some honestly dumb as shit decisions. In many aspects it was such a horrible adaptation. And some issues will be resolved in the final arc which is being animated currently. If you have watched the new anime you already know that ichigo's original bankai wasn't a real bankai. So its not so bad he achieved it so quickly. Bleach is, like most others a series riddled with issues. But many of the complaints are either unfair, or are just as prevalent in other series, even the ones people call masterpieces. I'm not sure why it gets given a harder time than the others it's often compared to.

damn you had the patience to watch the filler arcs too? you know you didnt have to suffer through them lmao. regai and zanpakuto are the only ones i watched after i finished the series and they are pretty good for filler, but I rest my case. After seeing both mediums I have to say I much prefer the bleach manga but im glad you enjoyed one of my fav shonen aot. The anime adaptation of the war arc looks STELLAR and I hope you have a blast with it.

I completely forgot about the Bount arc, my memory skips straight from SS to the Arrancars, desperate to forget that fucking horror of a filler arc.

Invading army arc is really good man you tripping the fights and character build up was soooo good you tripping

I would love to watch all of this but im also interested in watching the anime on my own so.... shit

"Monkey or something" This video was great. I watched Bleach only once and from then on, I'd just revisit the manga or just watch old clips. The anime was quite the journey, especially seeing how the art steadily changed over time as Kubo refined his art style in the manga too. Other moments not mentioned I liked: -Byakuya's change after the Soul Society in how he embraces Rukia as his pride in his Zommari and Tsukishima fight -The lengths Uryu goes to for his friends given how badly the Soul Reapers did not just his race, but his family, which he also had a lot of pride in. -Rukia and Renji being able to piece their relationship back together (as Renji knew her longer than her bro BYAKUYA) and their gratitude to Ichigo given how much regret there'd be if things went as planned. -The Squads having different battle philosophies that aren't objectively right, but aren't objectively wrong either. -Ulquiorra finally understanding "heart" before dying (shame that the anime didn't adapt his backstory) -Ichigo's heart to heart with his dad early on, when he couldn't fathom why he wasn't blamed for his mom's death -Ichigo's sense of responsibility coming full circle with the Fullbringers after they got his power and go off, knowing the degree of accountability to take cuz Rukia did it for him with her powers Other FILTHY moments: -Komamura shoving a Cero down an Arrancar's mouth -Momo getting ran through by the hypnotized Captains worse than pornstar's day at work -Said captains being cut down by Aizen EZ -Shuhei cleaving Findor's head after splitting the Cero with Kazeshini -Kenpachi oneshotting Pocket Watch Dude -Tatsuki punching Ichigo's face through a window for not explaining why her best friend wasn't around -Byakuya killing Tsukishima (not just the finesse but the fact that Byakuya would kill him even if he was his close friend) -Yamamoto punking Nanao with his Spiritual Pressure saying he doesn't have time to teach her to breathe -EVERYTHING Grimmjow did to Ichigo in their first fight (my fave was spin kicking Ichigo out the sky for the finesse... but the "Standing Here I Realize" barrage was tragic) -Orihime getting backhanded by Yammy in the park -Byakuya cutting his own limbs so they wouldn't be manipulated by Zommari -Rukia and Renji tag teaming to beat the crap outta Ichigo when he gets down or leaves them out the loop (comedic filth) -The "Good Morning Ichigo!" hits -Ulquiorra destroying Uryu's arm so he couldn't shoot arrows -Gin showing Ichigo that despite being one of the earliest Zanpakuto debuted (back when they were more so modified weapons) he will still blitz him -Gin's Zanpakuto details with his Bankai name (Kamishini no Yari = God Killing Spear) showing his drive to kill Aizen, and the nuance of its dust nature showing how close he was to Rangiku (whose Zanpakuto was ash) -Stark snatching Orihime from Ichigo and Kenpachi like a walk in the park -Yumichika offscreening Shuhei in Soul Society (in retrospect, explaining why he looked even better after fighting him after we see his full Shikai) -Aizen stopping Ichigo with one hand -Ichigo stopping Aizen with one hand in their final fight

I watched it recently over 3 months. The first saga was absolutely brilliant

I work nights so during the day I watch anime. I wasn't sure if I wanted to start watching an anime that was that long so I kept putting it off and I finally decided to give it a go, it took me about 5 months to watch all the non filler arcs then I went back and watched the Zampocto rebellion, Captain Amagi and the Rayguy arc (I believe that's anime only) then rewatched a bunch of my favorite episodes over again except really any from the Bount arc (I didn't really like that) and finally TYBW came out!! I never read the Manga and had no idea Bleach was considered on of "the big 3", I believe it's the best of the big 3!

I don’t get how you don’t like Vasto Lorde transformation setup. It’s so emotional. To each their own

Wow. Surprised to see Orihime so low. She isn't my favorite either, but as a Bleach fanfiction writer, most complaints are about her not getting enough screen time. You're a brave human specimen.

I love how they totally immersed the viewer during the Bount arc….. could really feel the life being drained from you.

Love the stray music

Monkey or something

Loving the video but i had to say, who the fuck thinks anything much less his Vasto Lorde form reveal was bad? I have never seen anyone say anything negative about this fight, by the contrary most praise it as one of the best fight and moments in the entire series and in shonen stories in general, sounds more like you personally dislike Inoue so much that anything that is at all related to her you associate as something bad even though it clearly isn’t. Idk just seems really weird considering the scene makes all the sense int he world, why else would ichigo wake up from death or near death for then? Just because? Because he has a really strong dream or interest in continuing the battle? Of course it would be one of his friends crying in despair for him that would be the catalyst for such a transformation and moment. Otherwise great video, didn’t expect you would enjoy parts of the fillers, even I don’t remember much of them fondly despite being interested in the franchise and world/world-building.

I am so happy that Dazai is your favourite anime character... very few people know about BSD...

The grimmjow fight made sense it not like ichigo got a power boost from inoue, he was just stronger than grimmjow to begin with. When he saw inoue scared of his mask it broke him mentally

Man puts Inoue at the bottom of the list. Me: immediate dislike. 😂 It's the Anime's fault for doing that 'kurosaki kun'. It's the same for me, with hinata in Naruto.

Look I'm pretty sure you're a nice enough guy in a lot of aspects, but it's hard to see that when you treat Orihime like she's garbage, even though she doesn't deserve it. The worst the people treat her this way is that they actively ignore her best qualities as a character, not ever realising that her inability to fight on the level of her friends is not what gives her value.

When Ichigo becomes a Vasto Lorde. Gd that was something that just blew my mind, I wish we could get it to happen again

Monkey Definitely thought that I was not going to watch This video due to its length. I don't even comment on videos. But going through this, brought back so many memories and reminds me why I loved this show so much a decade ago