The Evolution of the Landgraab Family in The Sims 

What Kayla really means when she says she’s a history major.

I once had Johnny Zest knock up Nancy Lamdgraab before I read his biography and realized he was the shunned lost Landgraab son.

Fun fact: in Brazil, Landgraab was translated to " I-want-everything-thats-yours"

Theory: Johnny Zest's real name was Malcolm before Nancy and Geoffrey kicked him out and renamed their second child after him. This would explain why the Sims 4 is SO different, having evil traits(after all wouldn't you be mean if you learned you were born and named just to replace someone else?) , meanwhile Johnny Zest and Sims 3 Malcolm are both "ambitious" and have other generally nice traits. Although Sims 3 Malcolm was a bookworm and "Johnny Zest" dropped out of school, Malcolm was often ignored by his mother, meaning he may have lost interest in traditional things like school and taken up trying to be funny and loud to get her attention. Somewhere along the way he realized that even though his mother still couldn't make the time of day for him, he enjoyed being funny so much that he traded books for laughs.

‘I now play the sims for a living’ honestly how I aspire to be no lie

In San Myshuno, in the uptown district, there's both Alto Apartments and Landgraab Apartments. Both are the biggest apartments in the game, THEY'RE STILL ENEMIES Y'ALL.

It would be funny to have Johnny Zest date Holly Alto to really upset the family that disowned him.

My favorite thing about the Landgraabs has always been evicting them out of their mansion and spamming motherlode until I had enough simoleons to move in

Theory: Johnny zest WAS Malcolm once they disowned him and had a new kid to replace him which is why he turned out so bad, he couldn't deal with having to be perfect

Simsie: “the altos don’t exist in the sims 4” Holly Alto: Excuse me!

The whole thing revolves around Johnny. Lemmie 'splain... Johnny, still a teenager, decides he wants to become a comedian for a living. Geoffrey wants to see his children become successful, and isn't thrilled by his son's aspiration. The road to stardom is an arduous one, and neither talent nor hard work is a guarantee of success. He'd be more willing to let it slide however, but Nancy is having absolutely none of that. There's no way the heir of the Landgraab family is going to make a mockery of their name. Landgraabs are kings, not jesters like the Altos. They argue about it again and again until one day the yelling is particularly loud, maybe some furniture gets tossed, and Johnny takes off on his own. He moves in with an aunt and uncle outside of Oasis Springs while he finishes school and then strikes out on his own to follow his dreams. They're poor and life is hard, but he's alive for the first time. He's no longer judged for his love of making other people laugh, and the crushing weight of Nancy's constant pressure to be perfect has lifted from his shoulders. Johnathan Landgraab has died, but in his place Johnny Zest is born. It's at this point where The Sims 3 takes place. Now... Angry and despondent at the loss of her heir, Nancy's darker side begins to take hold -- the part of herself she channeled to become so successful in business. Cold, calculating, and without compassion. Her previously legitimate real estate dealings start to lean into greyer areas of the law, and before long she's using her massive bank accounts to launder money for the mob. Malcom, grieving the loss of his big brother, beset by puberty, and being heavily groomed by Nancy as the new heir to the Landgraab legacy, becomes increasingly spoiled and mean. The once sweet and loving child learns to wield money and influence like a sword and shield to cleave through his enemies and fend off the repercussions. Meanwhile, Geoffrey can practically feel the change in his wife, radiating from her being every time he lays next to her in bed. Sliding into the sheets at night is like opening the freezer door. Worse still, her new business associates seem about as legitimate as a five simoleon designer handbag. His son is changing too, and certainly not for the better. He starts to keep a closer eye on Nancy, partially because he cares and he's worried about his wife, and partially because he thinks she's up to no good. Once he learns about the true nature of his wife's new business partners, he knows what he has to do. Nancy nearly had a stroke when Geoffrey told her he quit his high paying job as a doctor to enroll in the police academy. He still loves his wife, she's the mother of his children after all. But just because he won't help put his wife in jail doesn't mean that protection extends to the mob goons she deals with. He'll take them down one at a time if he has to, but somehow he has to peel these leeches off of his wife before she gets in over her head. Time goes on, Geoffrey rises in rank at his new job, finally becoming a detective. Having the brains and education to become a doctor is a boon in most any career, plus he seemed to have a knack for knowing when and where to be to catch low-level mobsters doing less-than-legal things. Nancy has been busy as well, using her power and prestige to earn the esteem of the /real/ power players in the criminal underworld. As he makes his way to the middle of his professional ladder, she nears the apex of hers. Nancy was ready for the big leagues -- mob-run casinos. This new opportunity to make loads of money forced the Landgraab family to move, and what's the best place for a wealthy family to live that's also near lots of casinos? Oasis Springs, of course. Nancy assumed it would take a lot of convincing to get Geoffrey to move, especially with the tension his new job had caused in their household, but Geoffrey was oddly excited. What she didn't know is that he'd been doing some digging in search of his estranged son, and had found Johnny was living there. Geoffrey hadn't told Nancy of course, since she refused to even speak her son's name since he left, but as a father, he hoped to reconnect with his oldest child. So the Landgraabs pack their things, sell their mansion, and TP the Alto's yard on their way out of the neighborhood. Begin The Sims 4. Will Nancy continue to rise to new heights of wealth and power, or will she fly too close to the desert sun and go down in flames? Will Geoffrey be able to bring back his wife from a life of crime, or will his pursuit of her mob associates cause her to also be put behind bars? Will Malcom return to his former self and stop being such a dirt bag? Download the Origin Game Launcher and purchase The Sims 4 to find out! The Sims 4, only $49.99 at the Origin Store (plus an additional $699.99 in DLC)! Errm... Sorry for that last bit, I got a little carried away. Ok, so maybe I got "a little carried away" three paragraphs of hypothetical Sims NPC backstory ago, but I'm a nerd so you should expect these kinds of things.

I amways saw Nancy just jogging with her sunglasses. Every. Single. Day.

Kelly: I’ve got Sims 3 open. Me: *clenches* Kelly: I’m gonna go ahead and open Sims 4 at the same time. Me: *clenching intensifies*

I have a legacy family that started with my sim marrying Johnny Zest and now i'm horrified that I've been playing with secret Landgraabs for two years...

When the Goths are the Actual OG sims 🤷😂

Whew I Used To Evict The Landgraab’s For Their Mansion 😂

everybody: 19-10 = 9 kayla: 19-10 = 7

Johnny zest might not have been mentioned at all in the Sims 3. But there are definitely little hints that the producers were thinking about a fourth family member. For example one of the dining tables has four chairs, one of the tables outside has four chairs, the movie room has four chairs, the bar has four chairs, and one of the bedrooms has the exact same colorway of Johnny's s outfit in The Sims 4.

sims 4: tell joke about sunset valley everyone who hasn’t waited an hour for the sims 3 to load everyday when they came home from school: I wonder where sunset valley is?

So is nobody gonna talk about how little Malcolm has blue eyes but teen Malcolm has green eyes?

"This is the Sims 3. She doesn't run at all" I felt that in my soul.

What if Johnny Zest is the original Sims 3 Malcolm?! Geoffrey and Nancy disowned him, then had another kid and named him Malcolm, too. Acting as if the original Malcolm never existed.... 🤔 #thatstherealtea

Nancy: Is a criminal Geoffrey: But mama I’m in love with a criminal

4:23 "It's just the two of them and their one son" *sad Johnny Zest noises intensify*

Holly Alto is in 4 as an unplaced library townie from Get Famous.

we love a historian😭💘

I’m so stupid I didn’t realize the name “Landgrab” was a play on how they have all of the land and are super super rich

Simsie: Landgraab Family are one of the most icon families of Sims series. Goth family: Are we a joke to you?

Yeah, TS4 family trees and relationship panels are lame. Like cmon EA, I could use UI Cheats to set them up in like 10 minutes myself.

Coming for Plumbella’s entire career (just kidding I love them both)

“Are you seeing it now Mr.Krabs” 😂😂 you’re perfect for that

I feel so old lol. I’ve been playing The Sims since 2000. I was 11 when it came out lol.

My theory has always been that the 'Malcolm Landgraab' from the sims 3 was actually Johnny Zest, and they disowned him and had a new kid and just named him the same thing bc that's very funny to me, and that's why sims 4 Malcolm is so different lol

After seeing this I used MCCC to "fix the wrong" Johnny is officially back on the Landgraab's family tree in one of my save files and he has become a famous comedian with a beautiful wife, who has helped him reconnect with his family. Nancy and Malcolm have been a bit standoffish, but Geoffrey is happy to have his first born back in the family.

Confession time: I got TS4 on sale and never liked it. Whenever I say I'll play the Sims I refer to Sims 2 or Sims 3. 4 isn't technically bad but its biggest weakness is the fact that 3 had an open world and all those options to change your furniture, clothes and so forth.

Idk why but when she showed the 2nd bedroom from sims3 and she said "it could be the parents' room, but maybe it is Johny's old room" it felt creepy, spooky, weird, idk its a weird feeling I have

I used to ONLY play the Alto family in The Sims 3 😂 Also I'd love to see you compare Don Lothario and the Calientes from 2/3/4!

use this comment as a "I didn't know Jonny Zest was secretly a Landgraab" button

I still haven't forgiven malcom for taking my scooter in Bustin' Out lol.

A Thought: Maybe Nancy did something to the Alto family in TS4 which could explain why she became a criminal, why “Malcolm” turned evil when he grew up, and why Holly Alto is the only Alto in TS4 and why she she hasn’t been placed on a lot. Also it could explain why the Landgraabs have changed from their more traditional styled home to something more modern (because on the Sims wikia i think says something about the Landgraabs hating how the Altos want to modernize everything). But who knows I’m probably just looking waaay too deep into this lol. This is a good video and I would love to see the Caliente family next please 🙏🏾

I never realized how deeply invested someone could get into the history of The Sims but I’m loving it

What I was thinking during this video: Wow simsie must have a really good pc for having the sims 3 and 4 open at the same time 🤔😂

"But that's just a theory!" *A GAME THEORY-*

I’m 19 and I have literally been playing Sims since the Sims one, I remember figuring out how to make them woo hoo and showing my mom and she being like, “is this game appropriate for your age”? hahaha

You can 't see his family trees because sims 4 og base game didn't come with family trees

like, i love the sims 4 and all... but this just shows how much less effort(?) they put into sims 4 😅

I gasped when she said Johnny was their secret son like how in my years of playing did I not know that.

let’s not forget the iconic Goth family and Caliente sisters

its no his and hers offices, it's "I dont want to be near you" studies

Kayla: btw if you didn't know Johnny zest is the landgrabbs kid Me: **spits out drink** WHAT?!

The Landgraabs and Goths are so iconic in the sims™

In the sims 2 there was a feature where you could see the sims memories. It was cool. I wish ts2.had better graphics

Plumbella and Lilsimsie need to collab 👌🏼🤠🤩

Nancy Landgraabs sims 3 outfit was just iconic.

Kayla:Thats just a theory Me: *in low voice* A game theory

I've played all Sims versions and Sims 3 was a special kind of rough. I spent so much time playing Sims 2, but I guess it's what you know and love growing up as a kid that ties you to the game

If you play The Sims 2: Bustin' Out, Malcolm Landgraab is also a bit of a shit like his Sims 4 counterpart. The plot of the game is him basically being the landlord of the entire town and repossessing items from every household. You're the main character that's helping them out and your end goal is to live in Malcolm's Mansion.

A theory: Malcom in the sims 3 is actually "Johnny Zest," and then they had a second son and when they disowned "Johnny", they renamed the second son Malcom to make them feel like they hadn't lost their eldest child, which made new Malcom resent his parents and become evil?? Or, in my sims 4 games at least, Nancy is known to have her fair share of men. If I go onto their family after playing another family for a few sim weeks she always has other relationships going on. So what if she got pregnant and had a secret son but didn't raise him, but when they disowned "Johnny" they adopted the other son so it looked like Malcom never left!? (I know, far fetched haha)

In my language they translated "Landgraab" into "I want everything that is yours" lol, best translation ever 🤣.

I'm new to Sims 4c and the second you said Johnny Zest is a Landgraab I realized I royally messed up because I totally made Johnny and Malcolm get married and have a baby in my game 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

One time, my sim was really poor and couldn’t afford the penthouse I wanted. So I moved the landgrabbs in her house and she got $300000. I bought the penthouse and ditched the landgrabbs. Best way to get money in the sims 4 😂

Simsie! Holly Alto is in Get Famous

Theroy: When Johnny was kicked out, they wanted to hide from everybody else they had a son so they moved out to Oasis springs recently and are still furnishing

This just makes me really wanna play the Sims 3 again! 😭😭

I was obsessed with TS3. It was THE game of my adolescence. I miss it!

The Landgraab's and my Sims 3 family have a pretty rough history with each other that I most definitely didn't initiate by coming into their home and starting fights with Nancy Landgraab because I didn't like her hair.

wowww you did an amazing job on the re-build in Sims 4. the way you recreated the shadowy studies is impressive!

I started playing the first Sims game when I was 6, and instantly fell in love. Didn't get to play the Sims 4 until recently, and I'm hooked

Since Malcolm is a child in ts3 and Johnny was most likely a teen, Nancy kicked Johnny out for quitting high school. That is why he isn’t seen in the household in ts3.

Conspiracy: Nancy & Geoff left their lives in Sims 3 because Nancy saw an opportunity to take a lot of money from her business so when the cops got close, they moved to another country... Johnny wanted to turn them in and that’s why they disowned him and turned Malcolm evil because he feared the same would happen to him. Nancy became a high ranking criminal with the organization that she originally stole money from because of her cookie cutter image and Geoff is working as a detective to make sure the locals never hear about their past! Johnny followed in hopes of saving Malcolm but without the Landgraab money, he can’t return to his previous home and is stuck close by watching their families evil past take over Malcolm’s once bright future.

I feel so old! I remember waiting for the expansions for The Sims... like the first one... the original! 20 years later, I'm still a Sims addict!

Nancy in sims 3 reminds me of regina george but as an adult

Kayla as an 11 year old: Hm imagine playing this game as a job YEARS LATER: Kayla plays the sims, has met the gurus and makes money from it -- Achieving dreams 2019

In the Sims 3 XBOX360 Malcom is an adult and is married to Hannelore Landgraab and they have a son Adrien???

“Are you seeing it now mr Krabs”

I once played with them in sims 3, and I literally had been playing for two hours at most and Nancy caught on fire from being outside for too long right in front of Malcolm. Chaotic to say the least.

please make more of these videos! i love looking back at sims 3 families and seeing how far they’ve come.

Petition for Kayla to do a Sunset Valley LP?

You are so fun to watch talking about the sims!!! I was playing the first Generation of sims when I was 6 yrs old, then I enjoyed so much the sims 2 when I was 12 yrs old. Then sims 3 later on and sims 4. I have to say that Bella Goth was my favorite caracter of the sims 2.. I have so many good memories about it! Thx for making theses videos it remember me the good old days.

So funny revisiting the Landgraab house before I got into it. No swimming pool, no crypt, no assortment of deceased spouses, and Geoffrey hasn't moved out with Summer Holiday instead. And Malcolm hasn't grown up and got Eliza Pancakes pregnant with twins!

I gotta check this sims history out never knew 4 was a AU fanfic turned game 🤣

no one: not a single soul: kayla: well im a history major so-

I had the sims bustin out when i was 7 . I am now 26 and I've played EVERY single sims game there is . Its so crazy how they have all of these mods now ! and the graphics now are soooo awesome !

You can't ever truly possess the hatred Malcolm Landgraab deserves until he's repossessed all your belongings in The Sims Bustin' Out

Okay how is malcolm the same age as Mortimer goth

In the sims 4 we have Holly Alto tho, but I don't know if she if from this kind of Alto :D

Lmao exactly when she’s talking about how both Nancy’s have a special place in her heart I look at the recommendations and it’s her video on how she tried to ruin Nancy’s life

Oh gosh, this makes me feel old. I remember getting the The sims 1 CD from my uncle as a birthday present... and I played it so so much. (And then after that I played The Sims 2 up until I got Sims 4 like three years ago. I never played The sims 3.)

Hey, Kayla Plumbella has made family histories about tons of families like the Villareals, Landgraabs, and a few others. They're really interesting you should watch them!

I love your sweater, such a good color!!

I’m playing with the Langraabs currently. Nancy left her man for my sim. They now have a lovely daughter named cherry, and my sim gets to live in a massive house that he didn’t have to pay for!

Catching up on vids and finally watched this one. I love your history style videos!

What a sec... isn’t Holly Alto part of Sims 4 Get Famous? Isn’t she a descendant of the Alto family? 🤔

In my opinion this just shows that the Sims 3 is a better game than the Sims 4 overall

I actually got the Sims 3 for my 10th birthday in 2009. Alongside Sims 2, both of them have a really special place in my heart. I still remember the first sim I created on Sims 3!

Omg I never Johnny was part of the langrab family I ended up getting him married to one if my sims they have made a lovely family so the kids grandparents are the langrabads 😂😭

My boyfriend found this game on sale for .25 cents yesterday!

Anyone else think sims 4 Geoffrey looks like Bill Gates 😂

fun fact Sims 1 released on 2000, takes place in the year it was released, 2000 Sims 2 released in 2004, takes place 25 years later, 2025 Sims 3 released in 2009, takes place 25 year prior to sims 1, so it takes place in 1975 and I did notice that most of the houses and the sim's dressing style in the game actually had the 1970's feel, not including the appliances in the house which can vary...

Honestly whenever I see ts3 videos I almost cry because I miss everything so much!! They had favourite colours, food, and a zodiac sign too! Like come onnnnnn!