The Rise and Fall of Disney's Greatest Sitcom 

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Horace spending the whole show randomly loving Bridges only to fall in love with a woman named Bridget was one of the most satisfying pay offs I could have asked for

Wallace and Clyde being super villains who make money off the merch of superheroes will forever be the best unspoken joke this show ever made

Allen’s actor becoming an NFT bro , getting convicted of attempted murder, and claiming he has PTSD as an excuse sounds EXACTLY like the character

"Skylar" said on the "Kaz and Oliver" Podcast that the only reason she was chosen for the role was because she had gymnastics on her resume, meaning she could do the flips, she had literally never acted on a show before this. It gives me the vibe of those movie adaptation musicals where they hire someone because they sing really well but can't act to say their lives.

The fact that Kaz has nine siblings, all with names that start with K and one's name is just the letter K, has lived rent free in my mind for years

Alan's actor promoting NFT's is honestly just the most in-character thing ever.

Horace used his power to save 3 unknown people, it's implied Alan accidentally killed 3 unknown patients. Horace used his power to save the people Alan killed. /j

The fact that Bradley Steven Perry and Jake Short now have a podcast together is just so wholesome and proves why this show was so great. Their chemistry and humor works great off screen as well. It is called "Hit the Brake"

Everyone’s talking about Alan promoting NFTs but not about how he tried to KILL a man 😭

I can't explain it but Alan being into NFT's is extremely in character

The 1950's villain being called "Red Scare" will forever be my favorite throw-away gag.

i was getting a tour of a med school when the tour guide said something along the lines of "every doctor has watched at least one medial drama." and I was like "no i haven't" but then i remembered this masterpiece exists

I think the writers based Skylar Storm around Starfire from teen titans but Paris Brelec never saw that show so she basically played it as normal teenager but from space.

The episode about Skylar being a princess in hiding in America because of a rebel group trying to take over the throne, and the gag about Genevieve was a reference to the Disney Channel original movie, Princess Protection Program, and I think everybody should know that, because that movie had an iron grip on me when I was 8

It's the dumbest thing ever, but I get an unhealthy amount of joy out of the fact that Horace's way of preemptively announcing his presence to the villains he isn't aware of is a distance exclamation of "I love hallways!"

Kaz is so naturally charismatic and funny with his delivery that I can't help but laugh even when he says the most mundane of things

You know, the first episodes make it seems like Kaz has a photographic memory. In the first two episodes, Kaz takes a lot of 'imaginary commemorative photos' which is something I don't think too many people do. He's also the one who recognizes the blue tornado, who besides being a drawn character, and pretty bland looking, was also out of costume. Also when Kaz is asked to remember the contents of a comic, he recites the copyright page before describing the plot. I think Kaz being canonically photographic could have been a really funny recurring gag, especially since he's so impulsive and outwardly idiotic.

The kidney joke between Wallace and Clyde is bc they were on Greys Anatomy as conjoined twins and one of them had to give away their kidney to the other one. I only remember this bc I just bing watched Greys Anatomy and literally every actor was in that show at one time.

Horace has almost all the characteristics of a tumblr sexyman and that scares me

Fun fact, Paris is my second cousin. The reason why she wasn’t the beast at acting is because this was her first show. While most of the other people had acting experience before, she was just modeling

I cannot describe how long “humans don’t notice superheroes b/c they’re just on their phones” has been sitting in my little brain

I had completely forgotten about principle Perry until you mentioned her and it reminded me of how she saved me in a nightmare once. Like I was about to die and there she was being stubborn as hell and telling me to run while she stopped the killer.

the fact that the villain from the 1950's is named red scare is genuinely one of the funniest things in this show

Bradley Steve Perry and Jake T Austin have made a podcast and in an episode they talk about how abrupt the ending was for Mighty Med and how the team all thought there would be another season. The podcast is hilarious and talks about their time at Disney with guests.

YES, another video about a show I watched as a kid that’s longer than most movies!

Something that's always amused me is how Lab Rats seemed really squeamish about using the words "kill" and "die", but Mighty Med had no such problem. Also, side note: how could you not mention that Benny the medic is also Dopinder the cabbie from Deadpool?

The only thing I remember of this show is that Kaz says he has 12 siblings (11 living with him and another in prison) and that his parents don't keep track of them, meaning that Kaz can work much longer hours than Oliver because his parents don't notice when he's gone. Between his multiple siblings and home life, I thought they were setting up a reveal that Kaz was his parents' 7th son and had powers.

When you are watching this retrospective and you realize you know one of the actors in Mighty Med....namely Megahertz (James Ryen) who is performing in a theater production I am working on right now (I am a production assistant, so I am backstage). It was just a funny moment of going James? Then jumping on IMDB and seeing, yup, James was on Mighty Med. Dude hasn't aged a day, I swear.

Bro I’ve been saying LGBTQ wrong for my entire life and no one ever corrected me until today. I literally thought the T came first. I never noticed. I’m such a clown I’m so sorry

2:03:00 while it’s not normally how boys act, it is nice to see male characters voice when they are frustrated, without it ruining their friendship. When you show that you can talk and try to fix things, it breaks the mold for kids who see this and are influenced by the show. They might learn to communicate feelings more. I’m glad to see communication like that especially in a Disney show

The only thing I have against this show is that the Keykeeper's enemy wasn't lock-themed. The Locksmith was RIGHT THERE

you're absolutely right about the set layout! my dad was the art director for MM, so he didn't design the set himself, but he did draft it out to be built and worked on a lot of design elements and graphics! so I asked him to show me his plans and it looks p much exactly like what you drew out lol it's kinda insane how spot on you were

I just realized something, Oliver's mom is named Bridgette, BRIDGEtte, this show is a fucking absolute masterpiece.

the lack of side characters in lab rats is something i never noticed before, and mighty med is an example of how well they can be utilised. Another show where side characters play pretty significant roles in B and A plots is Kickin' It on Disney XD. off the top of my head i can name at least ten recurring characters, many of whom were crucial players in the story as a whole. if you keep up with this disney XD series i'd love to see you talk about it one day. it was one of my favourites and the very first thing i rewatched when disney plus came out.

Bri being sexually attracted to Oliver because he subconsciously reminded her of her brother is something that will never be ever brought up, ever.

I love the dedication to play the Lab Rats' theme every time the show's title is mentioned.

I think the reason why Horace isn’t in the theme song is because he doesn’t actually have that many episodes that revolve partially around him. Alan regularly gets B plot in the episode whereas Horace tends to just play the supporting role in the main plot.

I hate how Alan owning nfts and having an attempted murder charge on him is completely in character

The fact that Caduceo is literally just saying "Death's life, life's death" (Thanatoi bios. Bioi thanatos) is extremely pleasing.

Fun facts about some of the actors: The twins who played Wallace and Clyde, along with the guy who played the fake Dreadlock (Bob?) were all in better call Saul. Dreadlocks assistant played the video store clerk who Mike and Lalo asked to see store footage from. And the twins were… you know. Twins.

You know Oliver being warned about becoming a villain makes complete sense if you take into account what happened with his mother...

I think the reason Lab Rats has less specific characters, is because that show is focused on one specific family. Its the Davenport's story. While Mighty Med is focused on a superhero hospital along with the main characters, so more characters are needed.

I recently took a class with Auguie Issac. I was also a HUGE fan of Mighty Med when I was a kid. It was litterally one of my favorite shows of all time. And I also had just gotten through rewatching it as an adult and I show up to class and there he was. He was a nice guy but I was way to nervous to ask actually ask about the show 😅

“If by good you mean good at spinning in my chair, you tell me” gets me every time

The saddest thing about Skylar is that Paris is an amazing actress, as very easily showed by Alexa and Katie, but her lines and story were so underwhelming and overlooked she was completely backhanded in the show also if you think those 2 are the twins with the most sexual tension you have obviously never seen Ouran High School Host Club

I agree with other comments. I would love to see an in-depth view of “My Baby Sitter’s a Vampire.” I loved that show when I was a kid, and I was crushed when it ended on an “everyone dies?!” cliffhanger. Also, you can review the movie too Edit: also Wizards of Waverley place. I loved that show too

Fun fact: when I rewatched Mighty Med on Disney+ when Disney+ just came out I was going somewhere with my grandparents and I slept in the car. I had a very vivid dream about being in the show Mighty Med and interacting with the characters. I don’t really remember the dream because it was a long time ago but I remember feeling overwhelmed and confused when I woke up. It was the first and last time I’ve ever had a dream about a tv show.

In S1 Ep8, a running gag occurs of using random things that Oliver likes to measure the weight of things. In the final battle, Oliver says “this weighs like 6000 trading cards”. He uses this to describe a spear that he could barely hold. A trading card weighs about 0.75 grams. If we translate this to pounds it shows that Oliver is almost to weak to the point he showed restrain in holding a 10 pound object. That is hilarious when you think about all the other things he’s done.

You’re definitely right on the whole “they care way more about live-action” thing. Dana Terrace (creator of the recent animated show, The Owl House) has trashed Disney over and over again for their terrible executive decisions and she’s gotten little more than a polite “we’ll do better”

Something I'm surprised nobody else has realized is, Caduceo is clearly supposed to be this super legendary hero healer. The comic book geeks recognize his symbol instantly and even villains acknowledge his power enough to want to manipulate him into using it for their gain. But his only shown healing ability only has 5 uses, and only 2 of which were used on screen. Did he use the 3 first uses in such a dire situation that it made him a legend? Like did he rock up to a fight where The Great Defender, Tecton and The Crusher all had died and brought them back?

I found it so interesting that Mighty Med pulled off multiple twist villains in a row, and 2 of them were Skylar. Like they legit did a "Skylar's powers turns out to make her evil" storyline and a "Skylar is secretly evil" storyline....IN THE SAME STORYLINE LIKE WHAT??

Anyone else binging the genre of RU-vid where people review entire shows start to finish and their spin offs?

I always thought that her terrible acting was intentional to make her more awkward(like a starfire type thing)

Honestly, Mighty Med will always be a favorite of mine. It is a shame I never really got to see how it ended because of the weird crossover/transfer with Lab Rats, but honestly the idea of comic books being like history books of actual super hero's is a really clever idea, and for what it was it was a really fun ride overalll

Its sad that Mighty Med never got a chance to have a proper movie like Wizards did they could’ve done so much with the production value of a movie

So the writers decided that Kaz and Oliver's dynamic should be "failing marriage".

They actually did explain how the hero's avoid being seen. The explanation was some of them move so fast that the human eye can't comprehend it so it's just like a thing of wind. Or some hero's freeze time when fighting the villain

Okay that Horace twist was honestly such a great situation. To resurrect your fiancée only to learn she never loved you and was simply using you. Also just, the Plot Twist did what it was meant to do. Twist the Plot.

This show was clearly made by people who love comic books and comic book movies. And it shows even in the smaller details. For example, 1:22:01 The assistant's name, "Bob", is a refrence to the Batman (1989) movie, where Joker's main henchman was also names Bob. He even got his own action figure, seriously

Sitcoms are really only entertaining when they are absolutely ludicrous in the best possible way. Mighty Med definitely fits that bill, and that's probably why I loved it so much when I was younger.

Me and my bro as kids felt so crossed when Mighty Med ended. We kept waiting to see anything for a season 3 but nothing. Years later one of my younger family was watching Mighty Med and they just so happened to watch the last episode of the series on Disney plus, after it ended he asked us if season 3 just wasn't on Disney plus yet and we had to break the news to them that the show just ends there. They too felt crossed.

I met Bradley Steven Perry a few years ago by accident. I was watching a play and I realized he was sitting in front of me. He was in the lobby afterwards and when I found an opening I told him that I really liked him in Good Luck Charlie. He said "wow thanks, people haven't recognized me in awhile". Then I said I also liked Mighty Med and he said "WOW, absolutely NO ONE remembers me from THAT", hahaha. I did not have Disney Channel But For Boys in my cable package. I don't know where I watched this show but I remember liking it more than Lab Rats, another show I've seen a few episodes of somehow. Didn't realize Skylar Storm was a bad actress back then either but I was also in denial about being gay. she was my favorite character because ~she's so pretty~. A few times in this video I was thinking about how pretty she was and then it hit me that that's the only reason why I liked her as a kid. Oh, silly me......

i have to respect you deciding the ask the hotel staff the full question about the fountain being in an old disney sitcom instead of just asking if they used to have a fountain

Unironically I'd love to see Horace in a more serialized show that wasn't as much as a comedy. His revival power so cool, expanding it with ideas about Greek mythology would have slapped??

When you were talking about how the Mighty Med characters being out if character in the crossover, while the Lab Rats characters are completely in character, it reminded me of how Quinton Reviews said the iCarly characters were completely out of character in the iCarly and Victorious crossover, meanwhile all the Victorious characters are exactly the same as they always are

When Horace revives Skylar, I swear he says the name "Thanatos", who is basically Greek mythology's Grim Reaper, who appeared to humans to carry them off to the underworld when the time allotted to them by the Fates had expired. If Horace is actually saying something in Greek or another language, I'd hope he is actually calling out to Thanatos because that would be some crazy story building for one character in a Disney show.

okay it’s horrible but “i mean SORRY” is the funniest response to trying to run someone over with your car that i’ve ever heard

Skyler is the definition of getting an F in the class but having perfect attendance

As one of the 7 kids who watched Mighty Med, I can attest that the show was really good, at least by Disney sitcom standards. In 4th and 5th grade, Disney XD would air this show before school ever morning so I'd watch it at breakfast every day. This retrospective took me back to those days.

I remember watching both Mighty Med and Lab Rats and being an avid fan of both shows, so when I heard about the cross-over show I was really excited for the potential... then the pilot dropped and they just casually mentioned that the Mighty Med hospital was destroyed along with all the character insides leaving only Kaz, Oliver, Skylar as the sole survivors. Like what the heck was that? And the way it was never addressed within the context of Elite Force. Neither Kaz, Oliver, or Skylar ever brought up the destruction of the hospital or their feelings about the sudden death of all the hospital residents. An entire show's supporting cast who we gotten to know over the course of two season just killed, offscreen and never mentioned again. Lab Rats Elite Force did Mighty Med dirty, and the offscreen destruction of the hospital still irks me to this day. Also, greatly appreciate all the work you do to make these videos, thank you for unearthing these repressed memories and doing an amazingly produced deep dive.

I loved Mighty Med as a kid, it was one of the last Disney sit-coms I ever watched. But I don't think I ever realized that I finished the show??? I remembered every episode described and the characters (Wallace and Clyde were my favs then and now) and I had no idea Elite Force existed, I think a part of me wanted Mighty Med to be my last sit-com so I left it that way.

As one of the seven kids that watched the hell out of Mighty Med back in the day I really appreciate this video. Like, seriously, when I saw this retrospective I had such a nostalgic whiplash 😂 I remember loving this show and lab rats, but honestly I’ve always preferred Mighty Med. I also remember that crossover and being so hyped for the crossover series and…proceeding not to watch it at all 😅

Fun fact: Horace’s resurrection power chant “Thanatoi bios bioi thanatos” translates from Greek to “Deaths life lives death.” Thought that was interesting

Dude. This guy exploring the sets of mighty med is the equivalent of no clipping through your favorite video game to explore

I love how Megahertz casually knows where the hospital is with no explanation

1:15:45 "ill always keep you in the loop, dont worry" sounded so genuine and sweet. thanks cuz i forgot who titanio was lmao

There is no way that The Crusher is weaker than Adam. I would like to point out the fact that he sent a doctor (aprox 180 pounds) flying across the entire room slamming into the wall, and the doctor would have probably have kept going if it wasn't for that wall. Secondly he has turned coal into diamonds, which I am pretty sure takes somewhere around 725,000 pounds of pressure per square inch. Another thing is most sites refer to Adam being around 10-20 times the strength of the normal person. Which talking in terms of pounds of pressure when squeezing your hand would be at max (assuming the average amount of pressure of a man, and him being 20 times stronger) 1460 compared to the highest recorded amount of pressure from The Crusher being 725,000 pounds. Grip strength doesn't always equate to how strong they are but someone that has a grip strength of 725,000 pounds is probably stronger then someone with the grip strength of 1460 pounds. This is probably mostly wrong, but this is just my 2 cents IG.

alan's actor is the perfect example of method acting.

Just learned that the actor who plays Benny is the Indian Spider-Man in Across the Spider-Verse. The moment I heard his voice in 49:24, I immediately thought of “Chai Tea is tea, bro,” and it clicked to me.

23:30 The bridges joke was funnily enough explained as a stable time loop gag. Where Kaz and Oliver went back to 1950s, and told Horace about Bridges. And he thought about it and decided he loved bridges. It might be said later in the video but i noticed this now

Look i don't want to laugh at that, but Alan's voice actor trying to commit murder and being into nfts is hilarious and fitting, kinda the same reaction i had when I learned that Eddie's voice actor in lab rats was considered "controversial" by a random "where are they now" video of lab rats

Cozi Zuehlsdorff is actually a really talented singer. Kind of crazy seeing her name be associated with this random 2010's sitcom I'd only once heard of like 8 years ago.

You never say how the whole Evil Future Kaz thing from 2:24:14 resolved, so I’m just going to assume that the show never addressed it and there’s an older, evil, Kaz running around for the rest of the show because I think that’s funny

Wallace and Clyde were a great comedic duo. I absolutely loved the scenes they had together, and it's really sad they didn't get much screentime past the end of their arc (though understandable). I forgot how funny this show was. There's a lot of great setups in payoffs all over the place, with tons of environmental and physical humor as well as verbal jokes. Might have to sit down and rewatch it sometime. About the spinoff: it's clear that Elite Force was being run mainly by the Lab Rats team, and it is fair that they wanted to write a new story for it, but it seems spiteful and disrespectful that they elected to wrap up Mighty Med's loose ends by destroying the hospital offscreen and writing Mr. Terror out of the plot entirely. I think there could have been less drastic ways to resolve that - even a simple time skip would have been better imo. Then the character assassination of the trio - it's like the writers resented the crossover and did everything in their power to make the Lab Rats look cooler and better than the superheroes. The original crossover seemed to show that tension already, by making Adam out to be stronger than the Crusher. Anyways, Mighty Med deserved a proper third season, not a terrible spinoff series, but at least it had a good run while it lasted.

"at least seven kids watched mighty med and it was permanently ingrained in their brains forever until they forgot about it for 10 years until this video reminded them of it" me being one of those kids: "IVE FINALLY DONE IT! I HAVE FINALLY BECOME SOMETHING GREATER! IM FINALLY A PART OF SOMETHING! I AM THE 1% AHAHHAHHHAHHHAHH" as i ascend into the atmosphere and merge with the sun, manically laughing all whilst i do it

Now I kinda wish we DID get a Catastrophe vs Bridget. Since both are considered the strongest villains ever, it’d be cool to see how it’d go downz

A very recent development that is really cool is that the actors for Kaz and Oliver now have a podcast they do together called ‘Hit The Brake’ and they had Skylar’s Actress on a few weeks back. It’s worth a watch.

1:20:30 If u think about it this was around the time Anime/Manga was starting to become accepted and more main stream so yeah makes sense comic sales were decreasing

You have GOT to do another one of these. They do seem like a ton of work so I don't blame you if you won't do one for a while, but this video and the Lab Rats video are literally legendary. Some of the most binge-able content ever on RU-vid

As a person with ADHD, I loved Skylar and her themes with disability and how she worked around it. Kind of sad that she got her powers back, and that she was reduced to a “All I want is my powers back” but when she was put into a school situation I loved her “fish out of water” act. A lot of her habits remind me of autism/adhd, which as a little kid in a small town with no one to relate gave me some relief… I learned to “Work around the system” because “the system” never worked for me. Skylar learned the same thing, “the system” being the fact that you have to have powers to be a superhero, and she survives nonetheless… Skylar was a cool anchor that I kinda needed after being bullied for my “otherness”. It’s sad to me that she’s seen as having no character just for being a little awkward in a status quo that no longer fits her.

2:30:50 you can see Kaz taking a bite of his ramen but the actor doesn’t, so he picks his fork up and then puts it back down. It gives the same vibes as the marching band scenes when the instruments don’t make physical contact

Imagine how much more effective heroes would be in this show if they stopping sending actual children to handle the most important missions.

So funny seeing ant farm art nerd and troubled brother gabe in a show together always loved that fact

the jokes that kaz makes about his english teacher’s wedding after answering the question about great expectations is actually kind of a great expectations joke too. like miss havisham, the teacher’s fiancé breaks off the engagement/wedding and turns out to be a criminal who wants to take her money/family name

Clyde being the one who steals everything might actually be a reference to him wanting to initially stay evil. This could also be further proven by the return of the Exterminator, who first debuted in the same episode where Clyde wanted to be evil, as opposed to Wallace, who wanted to turn over a new leaf.

let’s be real, dudes out of every mighty med character, Alan’s the most likely to have a criminal record _method acting!_

Every time the Lab Rats theme plays it triggers a visceral reaction in me due to how many times I heard it in the Lab Rats video I hope you’re proud of yourself.

I think it's very likely that MM actually had a higher budget than LR and just used wayyyy more of it on actors, hence why there were so many named background characters AND so many celebrity appearances, especially in sports stars. This also could contribute to why the main actors overall were better quality than LR. Honestly though, that shows how much more thought and passion went into the writing and showrunning of MM. It's clear the creators had a genuine passion for the world of superheroes and comic books and spent so much effort making their world true to the genre they were using, whereas LR seems more like just. An idea someone had and didn't really know what to do with. The creators weren't really interested in the world of LR, so background characters were entirely irrelevant, while in MM every single background character is still a part of the world the creators made, so of course they're going to make those characters vivid and unique, budget be damned

I can't remember this show well enough to know if it was good, but Wallace and Clyde (whose names I forgot until I looked them up the other day) and Catastrophe stuck with me because the idea of an ultra-powerful villain being stuck as 2 comic book nerds was intensely funny to me