the strangerhood: the problematic sims tv show that made it to DVD 

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love how plumbella put more work into this video than the writers put into the entire plot of strangerhood

bro i don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me but as a kid i was obsessed with watching “sims 2 anorexia story” “sims 2 bullying story” “sims 3 orphan story” 😭

This series was literally why my parents wouldn’t let me get the sims. I was 12 and wanted the sims 2, but it was rated teens and when they looked at RU-vid videos to see the content they found this and a few other creator-made videos with the characters talking in English about “inappropriate” things. I remember my mom showing me part of a video where the voiceover was someone calling another sim a bitch, and my mom said THIS is what you want to play?! I said that was just a video someone made but my boomer parents couldn’t understand the difference between the legit game and fan content. So I wasn’t allowed to play sims until years after sims 3 came out, when I think I was 16? It’s honestly frustrating

As a person who was an edgy teenage fan of rooster teeth over a decade ago now seeing the stranger hood in the year of our lord 2023 was like a jumpscare

"Problematic TV show" and Rooster Teeth, is there a more iconic duo? Edit: as someone who watched Achievement Hunter at the time, it's really hard to overstate how common a nickname Fugz was for Kdin. It was absolutely *sickening* when this all came out and I realised it was just to hide a slur.

"MAY I SUGGEST JUST HIRING WOMEN WRITERS" Plumbella!!!!! I am crying 😂 this was brilliant, the timing and delivery chef's kiss

one of my best friends worked for rooster teeth and even moved from Australia to Texas to work for them. He was so burned out when he came back :(

fr put your whole plumbussy into this one

Apparently, Strangerhood Season 2 was a kickstarter goal that the team didn't expect to meet, and when it did happen, they just wanted to get it over with, which is why it came out the way it did.

The name Dutchmiller sounds like one of those names from that one Japanese football game where they just made up a bunch of names for America’s team which weren’t even remotely real names.

Plumbella henny, is this one of your first sponsored videos I am seeing???? This must be a massive step for you! I remember you saying a few years ago that you were to anxious to take sponsorships- look at you now!! Good job! Xx

I was wondering why this sounded familiar and then I heard it: Rooster Teeth and it all clicked

I ALWAYS used Wade's hairstyle on my ''hot'' sims when I was younger lol.

I never thought I'd see the day Plumbella would talk about Rooster Teeth lol! I haven't been a fan in quite a few years, which really helped me feel less heartbroken when the Ryan/Adam stuff came out and then all the stuff from last year too.

I was a rooster teeth fan for YEARS (up until a little before the Fugz situation but that made me keep even further away from me) and it's just interesting to see someone talk about it that I would have never expected

These terrible tv shows inspire me to create, because if they can publish absolute garbage then maybe I can do the same

God I feel old when adult RU-vidrs haven’t even heard of rooster teeth

I turned 30 today and this is such a throwback to being like 12-13. After watching Strangerhood as a kid I made a few Sims 2 machinima myself. It used to be easier to make sims do certain faces and animations with cheats like that cardboard box! I liked the show even though it honestly didn’t make much sense.

the “I’m a Snape anti now” 😂 it’s what he deserves

I never watched strangerhood because on other rooster teeth shows and podcasts they would talk shit on it. So I figured if even they thought it was bad, it had to be really bad

I watched Stangerhood with my best friend when the show aired in 2004. We were in middle school at the time and thought the show was comedy GOLD lmao. We both loved Wade and quoted him constantly. Only watched the first season though and have no intention of completing the series.

I remember watching this when I was way too young to be watching it and being obsessed. I bet if I rewatched it now I would question younger me's sanity.

I used to be big into Rooster Teeth as a kid and remember Strangerhood sucking compared to Red VS Blue and RWBY lol

a long plumbella video!! i could literally listen to you talk about sims history for hours

Rooster Teeth started off with making a Halo machinima called Red vs Blue, which honestly turned into a pretty interesting show that developed quite the narrative, but it was also pretty problematic to the point where they have apparently gone back and censored the earliest seasons on the internet. I say "on the internet" because Red vs Blue also sold DVDs, so the original uncensored release with all of the offensive jokes and scenes is still floating around out there. As far as the Kdin situation is concerned, it really says something that members of Achievement Hunter apologized to her privately and she rejected the apologies from most of them. One of the apologies she accepted was from Michael Jones, which I honestly find good to hear and it gives me hope at least for him, considering Michael's spouse, Lindsay, came out as nonbinary some time back. I think a lot of Rooster Teeth got stuck in the past, to be honest. In a much more serious episode of Achievement Hunter's Off Topic podcast, Geoff Ramsey talked about his realization that the company was stuck in an archaic mindset of early 2000s internet culture and how trying to ignore offensive and abusive language does not work.

Love how you have evolved from PowerPoints to Canva

Having a character named Tovar is kind of hilarious because there's a Mysims robot character named Tobor and it sounds similar in Plumbella's accent...he deserved better

As soon as Jessie showed more of the images of the show, I was brought back to my college years and remember watching this on RU-vid (it was hidden way back in my memory). This was the same time I was playing The Sims 2, so I guess I felt connected in a way. It fit with the time of when it was made, but did not age well!

Back in the 2000s I remember being like, younger than 10, and finding the 1st season of this series and I was in love with it. It was the introduction to machinimas for me.

The fact that season 2 was a crowd funded goal and it sucked more is too accurate, unfortunately

I used to love RoosterTeeth and Achievement Hunter but I slowly fizzled out from them thankfully before all of these issues came to light.

This reminded me that I used to be terrified of the gnomes in the Sims 2 😂

I watched season one back in the day, but the only thing I remembered was the gnomes messing with griggs. I had no clue it was by an actual production company -- I just assumed it was made by a couple of people in their basement or something

I was so sure I'd never seen or heard of this and then as Jess kept showing images from it my brain just...started remembering. Watching this. THIS IS HORRIFYING.

Man I remember being hyperfixated on this show when I was 10 I had the entire thing memorised and made fanart

i genuinely never get happier by a youtuber uploading than plumbella

You know what Im glad we made some progress since these days and this is now widely regarded as problematic. Or something. I never watched this so I dont have nostalgia to it, but I remember red vs blue. I am not surprised that a 2000s company focussed on tailoring to teenage gamers turned out to be so problematic 😅

ahh, i remember having a hugeeeeee crush in wade, he was the adorable himbo before being a himbo was a thing. i also remember having a thing for shaggy, i may have a problem

Every time I hear about Rooster Teeth is like the company entity equivalent of reliving an embarassing memory that at the time you were proud of.

17:17 yelp of “Jesus!” having double meaning as both an exclamation of surprise and address of the fallen Jesus 😭

I never really watched it so I started watching the 1st season and it was genuinely hilarious, especially the moment the real Sam said "you son of a bitch", not even censored or anything, in a web series advertised on the sims 2 website back in the day

I remember the fever dream that was Season 1 of this and finding it fairly funny back then- but I was also a very dumb pre-teen that laughed at just about anything 😒 Some of it does still make me chuckle though- Wade freaking out about not having marshmallows when the kitchen lights on fire still made me crack a smile xD

When you said web series, I realised why strangerhood sounded familiar - I think I watched this at the time. I don't remember much but my brain seems to have a positive impression of it. It was Sims which I loved, and I remember thinking it was pretty funny? That bit about the gnome and Griggs definitely is familiar. This was the early days of the Internet, I only got Internet (good old dial up) in 1996ish so this really is old. OK, now I feel ancient.

I watched this on my mum's computer. It felt like the episodes were much longer back then (probably because of the shocking internet speed). I think the strangerhood was very much part of that "random" era of comedy, where nothing made a lot of sense. I liked it when it came out because it wasn't really like anything that was on tv, but you're right that it hasn't aged well.

Omg my Endocrinologist is called Dr Chalmers and looks exactly like that!!!

Jesus Christ, Plumbella, you just unlocked one of my memories. I remember watching The Strangerhood now; I thought it was a fever dream at first

The sims 2 machinima QUEEN was Jaydee her Helena AMV had a chokehold on me

Please do a video about running with scissors in Sims 2 ✂️ I'll literally watch anything about sims 2

God, I remember this show from when I was a teenager. It was one of the first web series I ever watched, and between this and _Red vs. Blue,_ it made Rooster Teeth a giant of geek culture at the exact moment when geek culture was really taking off.

thank you for your service o7 I enjoyed watching this through you, especially bc that means I will not have to watch the whole thing myself. what a ride

I was like... Its NOT possible that Plumbella is NOT playing ttrpg

I was unfortunately completely obsessed with the Strangerhood as a kid to the point of memorizing lines and quoting it constantly... including the entire Simon Cowell parody spiel 💀Seeing it from this lense has been rough😅

I found the Strangerhood to be hilarious. The references are dated but anyone alive in the 2000s will find them funny. Dutchmiller's quote of "There no 'I' in team but there is a 'me' if you re-arrange the letters" has stuck in my mind for almost two decades. Also the concept of Hollywood running out of ideas is becoming worryingly close to reality. Also no mention of Strangerhood Studios? It was a short spin off where the characters attempted to make a movie. They're slightly different from their main series counterparts and its just a total mess of a show.

Damn, this was like a precursor to Total Drama Island. There's definitely a pretty good reason why RvB was the popular series and this wasn't, lmao

I love Plumbella shes so honest and down to Earth and shes one of my favourite sims youtubers for that. Her and steph still tell the honest truth in reviews even if it is sponsored and they are actually funny and i can binge watch them for BLOODY HIURS ON ENDDD

I love that your outro music is back !! That IS the plumbella hymn 😌

Happy to see the sponsorship, get that bread Plumbella! ☺

omg i was OBSESSED with machinimas as a kid and i had no idea there was a word for them until now...i think i just didn't read titles as a kid just head empty clicked

As soon as you mentioned rooster teeth’s scandals I had a mad giggle because stuff like that has been going on for YEARS and then there’s the side channel Achievement Hunter that has its own issues. Would be a full series if you wanted to go down the rabbit hole and do random tea videos lol

I remember loving the original Strangerhood back in the day. I got excited for the new one but also forgot it came out and haven't watched it as far as I remember.

they made like a machinimated survivor clone that took place entirely in minecraft that got super hyped up but then i never heard it discussed again. could be an interesting review

I remember watching this and a bunch of other Sims "shows" as a kid lol it was my introduction videos online

That Strangerhood theme jingle unlocked memories that I did not know I had.

I didn't even know this existed. Good job hen, you really put a lot of effort into this "history of". Thank you for the in-depth presentation.

This unlocked a deep down memory, I used to watch this when I was an actual kid. Can't imagine I would enjoy it now lol

I didn’t know they made Red Vs Blue until this year, I used to watch it on Netflix years ago 😅

This was widely entertaining. It gave me riverdale vibes aka a complete roller coaster of a show

Ooooh I remember watching this back in the day. I started watching it and then got tired of waiting for it to reveal more clues to the mystery and moved on. I had mentioned to my niece a few weeks ago about some online series made with The Sims 2, but I definitely didn’t remember it’s name nor did I realize they made more using The Sims 4. Thanks for covering this and sitting through it all to bring some closure to the story. I honestly just assumed back then that it was yet another badly written thing with a mystery element presented that wasn’t ever going to be full explored and resolved so I stopped watching it because I was soooooo over things like that by the time I discovered it. Glad to know they did eventually resolve it. Maybe I should have been more patient. I didn’t realize it was supposed to be funny. I don’t remember laughing and thinking it was funny when I watched it, but that’s not really saying much. There’s plenty of things from that time period that my friends found funny that I didn’t think were so it’s possible they would have found it funny if they watched it. Great video recap!!!

The old outro music is back!!! I’ve missed it so much!

My brain struggled so hard to comprehend that the title that is this video could exist

I love vids like these idk intellectual explanations make me have fun

I watched it and remember loving it, though I haven't revisited. I remember thinking it was very weird, but being curious about the "mystery" and binging it through the night. When it came out, my friends were all into RvB and I was obsessed with the Sims, so they showed it to me. Dunno much about Rooster Teeth, but RWBY was a pretty amazing show for a while (stopped watching it a few seasons in as it seemed to be steadily losing all hope and I didn't need those vibes...but it was good and the animation got better every season). It's wild seeing people who weren't *in it* talking about it without the perspective of nostalgia. (In a good way!)

i consistantly watch ur videos so I'm always early to ur news ones

I definitely remember watching this as a kid and being obsessed!

OMG, I remember watching it when I was a kid, but I didn't understand what they were saying, because I didn't understand English! Nicki with skeleton body is imprinted in my brain, I thought it was a fever dream

I completely forgot this existed until I saw your video. Then suddenly I remembered it and I think I watched it back then but not sure. It’s one of those vague memories that maybe I was just aware of it but didn’t watch it? If I did watch it, it certainly didn’t impact me that much since my brain flushed it. 😂

Omg, I completely forgot about this..! I remember watching this when I was like 14/15... This aged badly, wow... O__o

Bestie I'm so glad you've seen the light and are in your Snape anti era x

I lived in a rural area with dial-up until I was in college in 2013. So I was rarely able to actually get on the internet so I never had access to machinemas or knew what they were until recently. This is bananas to me😂

Shoutout to those who used to watch Katzombie’s pleasant view high, wish I could find my old 2007 online friends

....thank you for this beautiful train wreck of machinima. I didn't even know I needed this in my life😂🤣

Roosterteeth didn’t not want to make a strangerhood 2 but Ray made so many jokes over the years that they just did it for him as a joke and put him in

I felt like I was waiting for the video to really get going and then it was over.

I liked the first few seasons of Red vs Blue back in the day (although I doubt they hold up now), so I was genuinely so hyped when they announced this series 😬 It wasn't just that I was a much bigger fan of The Sims than Halo, but also because I was excited about the possibilities The Sims would open up for the team in terms of the visual storytelling. Like, Halo is not a game made to tell stories, so RvB can be kinda boring to look at. I felt like the wild animations of TS2 would pair perfectly with their narrative style, plus they could obviously add in whatever custom stuff they wanted too. To their credit, the show did end up being visually pretty fun. It just didn't outweigh how much I hated the writing on almost every level. It's not much of a parody if the point you're making with your stereotypes isn't any deeper than "these are good, actually" 🙄 My sense of humour has definitely improved since then, so imagine how bad a show has to be to come across as tired and ignorant to a 19-year-old in 2004! The terrible pacing made it feel like a show that didn't know where it was going or how to have much fun along the way, so I couldn't get through the season and definitely had no idea there was a second. Incredible timing on this video btw - my brother and I were just talking the other day about what a swing and a miss this show was, and I was almost tempted to have another crack at it myself. Thank you for diving on that grenade for me, ahaha 💀

i don't know how i never heard of this, i was a big fan of camp camp and rooster teeth in general during 2017/2018. this is interesting!!!

love the hair!!! xx

i remember rooster teeth for making tutorials for xbox achivements,they got me through a lot of achievemnts of mafia 2

I remember the old machinima days, I remember watching The Real Simwives of Starlight Shores. That was a masterpiece and I want to go back to watch it, I remember having character maps in my journal because I could never remember all the characters' names and relationships. Also love the random unacknowledged anti-snape sign, what's your conversion story bestie lol

Omg. Core memory unlocked I used to love that

Ah yes, rooster teeth

I remember watching this at the ripe old age of SIX

The only sims machinima I remember watching was "Unexpected" and while I don't remember a single characters name I remember every major plot twist 😅

This sounds like it was written like Naked Came The Stranger. Each episode written by a different author who has only been given the most basic information about the previous one

I was very online and very obsessed with the sims, but I missed this. The 00’s were sumthin’ else.

IT HAPPENED JESUS FLEW OFF THE CRUCIFIX

afaik sims heavily promoted the strangerhood back in the day, and i think rooster teeth actually made one of the teasers or trailers for an (at the time) upcoming sims game

Never did I think that Plumbella would be talking about the dodgy shitty studio that made RWBY, because they made a show about the Sims. That was not on my Bingo card, I must say.

The show was definitely funny for it’s time. (The sims 2 version)

I absolutely watched this multiple times on the sims 2 website. I could not tell you what it was about but I was about it