OCTONAUTS LORE (what are these creatures?) 

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In the US version of the show, they gave Peso a Hispanic accent, and they were so real for that. I will never not see Peso as Hispanic. In case anyone didn't know, they often make American English dubs of British preschool shows, and vice versa, so that small kids don't pick up the "wrong accent." This results in characters gaining accents and replacing terminology.

"His name is Peso NOT Pound!" Had me rolling. I fully agree with this fact.

The fact that the octonauts survived a full dose of cone snail venom is proof they’re beyond superhuman, that stuff is LETHAL

4:15 Them basically saying, "This wasn't intended, but you're free to interpret the character however you want!" was a very cool way to address the mistake.

Octonauts and The krat brother's was the sole reason why I knew way more about animals that I should have as a 5 year old

A reminder to everyone that it the vegimals Christmas special, Shellington found mystery eggs that began eerily singing at midnight right before they hatched to reveal an animal he'd never see before and responded with "Oh. Well I guess I'm a father now."

Me and my sister did this thing last year where we would put on octonauts on Netflix and mute it so we could make the characters say whatever and my sister was quasi and said “SHELLINGTON I FOUND YOUR ONLYFANS”

Honstly, Shellington's family is the most adorable thing about Octonauts. Anytime Shellington, Periwinkle, Pearl, or the vegimals are on screen, you have to repress a squeal

As an autistic person, octonauts was THAT SHOW for me

I remember when I heard Peso in the British sub, I literally CLUTCHED my pearls. HOW DARE THEY RECOLONIZE MY CHILEAN KING

I saw someone refer to this show as "Star Trek for four year olds" and I think that sums it up PERFECTLY

I love that all of the characters have very unique personalities and even phobias. We need more shows that don’t treat the audience like idiots and write actually complex characters, stories, and of course awesome facts

I love how close the Octonauts are with each other and genuinely feel like a family. I feel like with most kid shows they always make the main characters fight each other for conflict and always use the excuse of “the power of friendship” to make up when they don’t seem to be friends at all. I would give everything to go on an adventure with the Octonauts because I know they’ll treat me like one of them

Fun fact wearing an eyepatch over a functional eye is likely historically accurate with the most likely theory’s we have using pirate and raiders logs and general educated guesses, it’s because the bellow deck of a ship was really dark most of the time so a captain would wear an eye patch over one eye and then swap the sides over so their eye that is already adjusted to the dark was out making it so they were able to adjust on the fly for anything!

40:54 Headcanon: Dashie advised her against joining the Octonauts because it’s hella dangerous and she doesn’t want her girlfriend to get hurt by becoming a literal ocean first responder! She wants her gf to live her own life and follow her own dreams and not be burdened by getting stuck in natural disasters and watching fish die everyday (They’re long distance and love each other very much)

Octonauts, Wild Kratts, Go Diego Go. All of these animal based shows are near and dear to me. Octonauts and Wild Kratts I have grown up with since kindergarten. They both debuted while I was in kindergarten and I have stilled watched them both into my freshman year of college. You do not know how much it means to me to see all these fellow Octonauts lovers, these animal lovers, here in the comments section. I know this comment will likely get lost the way a water droplet gets lost in an ocean, but every drop counts and is precious, helping to sustain life. Let’s sustain our ocean of a fandom together.

Hearing that Peso isn’t Latino in the British dub was distressing. One of the reasons he’s my favorite character is because he reminds me of my dad who happens to be a Latino doctor. (My dad and I used to watch Octonauts together, so the similarity was especially obvious to me.)

Octonauts used to be the goat before Sofia the First and Jake and the Neverland Pirates came around

Well, it's implied that Barnacles is less afraid of tight spaces in general and more nervous about being in tunnels specifically, so maybe I can forgive that. As an aside, Shellington gets called "Swimmington" at one point lol. And Ryla does appear in Above & Beyond from time to time

37:03 here's a "fun" fact, depending on your definition, but while penguins don't have teeth in the traditinal sense, their mouths are full of razor sharp spikes that serve a similar function, including on their tongues. Because nature is horrifying sometimes.

Oh girl, YOU want to show to explore that no one else is brave enough too? Well, I got five words for you.... Netflix's. All. Hail. King. Julien. I DARE you to figure out the lore of that delightful batshit of a series

Athena being shocked about someone being both a photographer and a computer programmer Me who's a photographer and a computer programmer: Uh... hi?

Octonauts was so big for all us autistic kids, but my parents loved it because were Australian, so like, learning to swim at 1 and put in waves where tourists die by five. Taught us to respect the ocean, and treat its creatures with a healthy fear. When captain barnacle got stung by a jellyfish, I learnt to avoid jellyfish at all costs, a lesson that was beneficial when I stumbled across a box jellyfish while running around rock pools. Those things are deadly, but I was safe- I didn’t cover it in sand because I’m not a monster and I backed away carefully. Also it made me get a special interest in sharks (how dare you call the great whale shark a whale) and memorise like every shark ever. A marine biologist came to a book festival once with a port Jackson shark egg,,, she was playing this game of ‘guess what this is’ and it was clearly supposed to be the impossible question, but I, 4 years old and autistic af, confidently answered and talked about how the corkscrew is used to keep them in place and how cool it is that sharks give birth to live young and lay eggs and the marine biologist looked at me like I had grown horns lmao. Apparently I was the first person who wasn’t a marine biologist to know that she’d met. Anyway yeah octonauts. Also I’m sorry but British peso is my childhood and the idea of clips from this video having American accents is genuinely making me cry a little I wish I was kidding. But I’ll watch because your comments are interesting. Also sharks are so cool! They’re awesome! I used to have 10 little floaty sharks that were a bunch of species and I would take them down to the section of the river that meets the sea and go up to the kite surfers and explain them to them before getting scared and running back to this rock where I would lay them out by different traits and resort them.

The Gup Z instantly became my favorite Gup when I realized it was both Power Rangers and Ultraman reference while ALSO giving off P.R.A.W.N. Suit vibes

when i was a tween i had a huge crush on shellington. i drew this one piece of fanart that i now cherish dearly of him lying on the ground like a damsel in distress as my mary sue self insert defends him from the walruses from s1e4. maybe the crowning jewel of that sketchbook

30:51 headcanon: the reason why he was ok before was because he felt more comfortable knowing that he could get out of that tight place or better yet, he was with his crew and that they had his back

Peso is literally the best. Being Australian we understandably got the British version and Peso in a posh kinda accent is soo good.

The date it's leaving Netflix has been moved to May 17!!🗣️🗣️🗣️

Not only are Cone Snails one of the most venomous things in the ocean, they can shoot their "harpoons" faster than you can blink.

Fun fact: This show taught me everything I know about sea creatures. Including some I didn't even know existed until watching this show

this show is what taught me how to pronounce humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, and made me more of a marine biology nerd

Honestly the octonauts is an example of how awesome a kids show can actually be, like damn this show did not need to go as hard as it did

All we know for sure, is that Octonauts is a meme gold mine.

Ah octonauts. I half- forgot this show existed, But thanks to them, got a love of the ocean, and now I work at an aquarium. So technically, Octonauts helped me get a job.

23:54 I guess our boy Kwazii already claimed the One Piece. no wonder Luffy hasnt found it despite searching for almost 3 decades

I think the fact that they’re constantly escaping death-defying situations in an otherwise low stakes series explains a LOT about my taste in media now lmao

My dumbass brain's 1st thought was "Turnip!! :D"

Give the creators credit for having the ability to turn some of the most nightmare inducing sea creatures into adorable friends. Like the long arm squid.

This and transformers rescue bots are my comfort show and I absolutely adore Peso and how he grows more confident as the show goes on. And I100% believe that Tweak being able to glow in the dark is a reference to a scientific study that injects jellyfish dna into rabbits embryos and as a result, the rabbits offspring glow green under black light. Alsoooo if you haven’t already, plsss pls checkout the tumblr tags for octonauts because the headcanons, AU, Fics and fanart are amazing and can get real dark sometimes.

I cannot explain how much i fucking love shellington guys 😭😭😭😭😭😭

My favorite episode was the spook fish one. Peso kept getting scared when the fish in question gave him his name. "What's your name?" "Boo" "AH! You freighted me" "I'm sorry. Didn't mean to scare you." "It's alright. So, what's your name?" "Boo." "AAHH! You did it again!" "I'm sorry" "It's okay, but what's your name?" Boo! Boo! Boo! BOO!! My name is Boo! I'm a spook fish"

As a gigantic Octocadet and the ruler of a dedicated Octonauts cult, I thank you so much for making this video. Now I have something bite-sized to send to my friends to get them into Octonauts. WE MUST EXPAND THE COMMUNITY!!!

Man, we need this show back on Disney Junior!!!

Paw Patrol got NOTHING to this gargatuan team of DEITIES and they know it. But Wild Kratts... now THAT'D be battle worth spectating! Now we'll never stop singing SPECIAL REPORT for at least 6 months, and I'm here for it!

I CLICKED AS SOON AS I SAW

taking care of weird ass animals that almost kill you is just field biology, i wouldve loved that show as a kid

ive seen the entirety of the four seasons of this show at least 3 times because my little brother was OBSESSED and it kept me engaged even if i never got the hang of the outro 😫. 🦅

Interestingly eye patches were not always used to cover up a lost or dysfunctional eye. There were also used so that the covered eye would always be adjusted to the dark so when they went below deck with less light they didn't have much issue still seeing because they'd switch the patch

I remember this show to this day due to a running joke amongst my family that started when I first watched the show when I was young. I, for whatever reason, stated that if I were to ever have children, my firstborn would be named Turnip. My family continue to bring this up every now and again, never letting me forget this show.

athena constantly saying 'twink' instead of 'tweek' is just so athena

P.O.V Captain barnacles after surviving the literal end of the world a million fucking times: "I'm fine, how are you?"

In the ever immortal words of a weirdly Christian lion "do not site the dark magic I was there when it was forged" deadass I never even picked up on the lore I was more obsessed with the fish

Congratulations! You just summoned a whole fandom.

The way you segwayed into that ad actually caught me so off guard I sat there mouth agape and just watched.

I remember one episode where barnicles is left alone with tunip on the octopod and is anxious the whole time, helping the vegimals cook to distract himself. I don't know if it was an episode or just in my head. And my Favorites are between shellington and kwazzi. I honestly shipped them at one point in life. Same with peso and kwazzi. I searched ao3 and wattpad for octonauts fanfics. 😅 Anyways I love your theories and your content. ❤❤❤

I am just here to say this is the show I first remember staying all night watching. Little me watched all the seasons out plus At Least the polar bear special. Dad really walked past the living room and did a double take lol.

19:55 Oh shit Peso’s related to those bastards. For those who have no idea what I’m talking about Adelies are the horniest animals alive, they will force themselves on injured females, babies that have fallen out of the nest, corpses, the ground itself, hell, researchers have found sticking a females severed head on a stick with stickers for eyes was enough to get an male Adeli in the mode.

I don’t think anyone will see this but the reason captain barnacle was a twin and his sister has twins is because polar bears have cubs in sets of two

The Octonauts are definitely more funded than nasa but a lot less staffed wich is probably why they hire anyone

Athena, if you see this, THANK YOU for covering the only lonely monster book! I had a lot of the same questions, especially about Tweak glowing in the dark although I wish the series gave more of an explanation.

I was a soprano, prized in my high school choir, selected to sing the highest of notes, and even the notes I hit in my long teenage history were not higher than the octave I hit just now when I said, "Athena P is doing OCTONAUTS?!"

Bro I swear, Athena is like the people's princess of RU-vid

Fun fact the original artist and writer also designed the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympic mascots, which is very obvious after you look at the trio. Also makes it even more odd that the mascots didn't get a TV show like previous mascots. ..

This series was my SHIT as a kid, and is one of the shows I seriously used to occasionally watch while being a teen/young adult,as someone who loves sea life it's definitely awesome,I even remember my local sea life aquarium had a exhibit on the octonaughts with live sea creatures,great video!

The creators of this show made the design for the 2010 Olympic mascots, and that is awesome

I remember being so fucking gay for kwazii when I was a kid and he still being my ideal kind of man now a days

I remember watching Octonauts when i was younger but it's very vivid, though i never knew they had a US dub. Also i think you should do a video on the numberjacks, those villains were nightmare fuel.

Athena: **Trying to do a sponsership** Me: **Focusing on how good of a pun "Smellevision" is.**

Octonauts is a show for preschoolers and yet I’m almost 26 and I would still sit down and watch every episode in a row if I could.

You should do a Monster High lore video. Like, for a brand that’s only a little over 10 years old, it’s already rebooted itself thrice and has accumulated a TON of lore. For example, did you know that Draculaura was actually adopted by Dracula during Roman times and he only changed her into a vampire because she was dying of the plague?

I actually loved this show as a kid. Like so much. I had every plushy and figure set and a replica of the ship. I pretended to be the polar bear one. He was my hero.

“And I’m glad for her don’t get me wrong, I just miss barnacles.” EXACTLY MY ISSUE WITH THE SPINOFF AUGH

Man, time for 45 minutes of laying in my bed, watching a video about one of my favorite childhood shows, and wondering where all the time has gone since my innocent youth. Anyways, while I’m here, may I suggest Wild Kratts?

The cone snail gave me actual, literal nightmares as a kid. I’ll always have this show to thank for that.

Headcannon: Have I watched any of this show since I was a kid? No. But if he was always with someone when he was in the tight spaces, maybe that helped him through it? And when he was alone, it brings him back to the idea he would possibly die alone?

I would love a lore video on doc mcstuffins or possibly totally spies

FUELING MY SPECIAL INTEREST. the octonauts fandom deserves so much love and its one of my favorite shows ever. my friend literally sent me this saying "here you would like this" and yes, im so normal (lying) i *NEED* the books and merch.

hearing the "explore! rescue! protect!" from the intro gave me SO MUCH nostalgia also seeing the toy at 16:24 reminded me of when I had octonauts toys as a kid

you have no idea how much 5 year old me was OBSESSED with this show. it is everything to me.

Octonauts was my favorite tv show when I was little, this is kind of nostalgic for me

I used to watch this show when I was little and my dad has told me time and time again that “ it’s just Stargate Atlantis for kids”

My favorite part is all of their characters in general. Captain Barnacle's fear of small spaces from a traumatic experience as a kid. Peso's kind spirit and his experience helping a baby octopus/squid find it's way home (and his family). Kwazi's energy and family dynamic. And I can't think of any more but you get the point. I like the characters.

Peso’s named being replaced with Pound sounds funny

I have heard of cone snails because I was warned of them when snorkeling the Caribbean. Yes they are real, yes they are terrifying, and yes, the venom is (while not too likely) potentially fatal. Sleep well! :)

“Buttlovers, to your stations!” Made my heart warm with that reference❤

I loved this show so much, especially Peso, I have lived penguins since forever, but he alao had my favorite personality ALSO THE BOOKS CAME FIRST, I THOUGHT THEY WERE BASED ON THE SHOW🤯🤯

5:40 equivalent to “SOAP, SOAP, WHAT IS SOAP”

I remember mishearing the GUP-C and GUP-E, so for a while they were the Gup-See and Gup-Ees respectively. But I do know what the humuhumunukunukuapua'a is because of this show, and how to properly pronounce it. Thanks, Octonauts.

31:29 Ya’ll the way Athena confidently said TWINK instead of TWEAK had me rolling 40:24 not to mention SWIMINGTON 😭 Athena out here renaming the cast slay

I love this show with every fiber of my being. When I was younger, this show had me hooked. I fell out of it around the age of 8, only to see it on Netflix and started watching again at the age of 10. I freaking love this show.

A personal head cannon that I have is that Quasi back in his pirate days was a sort of vigilante Robinhood expiry, he only attacks and pillages the ships of the other pirates that attack and pillage the innocent ships, and help rescues all of the other ships that are in trouble to the confusion and fair of those clomides who think that they're going to die and instead this pirate crew give some metal attention to the rest of their abilities fixes their ship and leave some with gold, i also imagine that when quasi first joins the Octonauts keep starting to give the ocean creatures gold because he thinks that's going to help because it helps it is pirates days

Ah yes, the show that taught me how to say (please correct my spelling if I got it wrong) humumunukunukuapua'a.

Octonauts is genuinely a good show, I watched it for years as a child and I still occasionally watch episodes today with my young siblings. This show really taught me things about friendship, marine life, and how to better help the ocean. It’s just so great. Also, as a person, I’m literally just Peso. Like, there is no freaking difference. Except the whole, him being a penguin thing. I wish I was a penguin.

5:27 This is my favorite little tidbit turned skit 😂 turned ad 🤯

This was literally my favorite show. I made my Mom get me up early to watch it.

This show actually raised me. Made me as autistic as I am today. I was recently tested and got the 99% in naming animals because of this show. It’s so amazing to me and the lore is wild to me. Also I think they made Peso Hispanic in the American version because they wanted to give them all different accents due to where their species is more commonly found. And no one lives in antártica. People live in South America though and have penguins and its belived he may be a penguin from south americas though it is not specified. Like I said. This show shows my autism

I'm on my knees, begging for you to cover Miles from Tomorrowland Lore, that show is so entertaining to me, and I really need more people to talk about it. I'm still so mad that they stopped this show.

i love that all pirates are cats in this show. i feel like out of every animal that could be a pirate, it would probably be cats... except my cats, because they're fat and afraid of everything, lol.

That cone snail episode is crazy to me, because in real life cone snail venom causes muscle paralysis and even paralysis in the heart muscles almost *immediately* after being stung. Meaning the Octonauts would have died within mere MINUTES of being stung. Yet they do everything they can to make sure this death trap is safe and sound. The ocean doesn’t deserve them.