What are UglyDolls? (books, box office flop and their scarier cousins) 

Giving the shopkeep their own little clone named "Minimum Wage" is peak character creation.

Ngl, the Ugly Dolls could EASILY see a resurgence in comic form. If they released a quick webcomic through twitter, insta, tumblr, etc. like how Falseknees or shencomix does they'd fit right in with the internet. They already have dolls that they could sell of the characters and people love weird looking plushies and blorbos like the plushies itemLabel has. They have so much potential for a comeback.

My dad has an ice-bat. We bought him when I was an infant and now he just chills out on the sofa in the living room.

All I remember from the movie is when so many people simped for Lou 😭

As a kid; I remember seeing the Ice bat Uglydoll at Walmart and I thought he was the cutest thing ever. My mom hated that thing and refused to buy it for me; but my dad secretly got him for me. Now he’s hanging out with my squishmallows on the bookshelf.

I didn’t realize ugly dolls was a series outside of that questionable movie a few years back

6:43 going off the gaslighting doctor, she’s the really pretty girl bc she said so and her red eye make u believe.

the guide books feel like they're part of that genre of children's media that's effectively just "jokes that only an adult would really understand or relate to, but presented in a way that a child can find funny." like Peanuts, or The Looney Tunes Show.

let me tell u i was pissed when they yassified moxy’s design in the movie. she was my favorite lil bunny creature as a child :((

the only thing i remember about the uglydolls movie is that the antagonist is a queercoded drama kid. i think.

Thank you for saving me from eating my food to subpar back up youtube content - you were really here for me in my darkest hour

I used to be obsessed with Lou a few years back. He's a really good villain tbh and is the only reason people like that movie lol

Something I found funny is Babo's name is a korean word that means "stupid", that is likely intentional given Sunmin is korean

“Ginormous breasts” was outta pocket 😂

So proud of wage's transition, she looked so much happier post transition in the movie

If Uglydolls gets a sequel it better be about the concept of clones existing

"I had somebody tell me to never say Dale again" i- I have no idea who could that be... (I'm sorry Athena yk it was all good fun)

Okay so I think you’d really like big city greens it’s still going and it’s a more modern Disney show but it has a very one-liner joke style that’s really surprising along with some fun characters! I think you’d love Tilly and the Grandma!

i miss uglydolls, i had a HUGE hyperfixation on them when i was 13. I met a few friends through the teeny tiny Uglydoll community on youtube. I had an existential crisis over the definiton of ugly, and now over 4 years later i strive to make my art as ugly as possible, and to see the beauty in what society deems ugly. Ended up meeting one of the most toxic people of my life, as well as seeing horrific discourse surrounding Icebat Vs Lucky Bat. Good times! Should be noted that Moxy in the movie was another uglydoll named "Little Miss Gorgeous", they just changed her name for the movie.

I always thought it strange that the Ugly Dolls in the movie weren't all that ugly, which seems counterintuitive to the point of the dolls.

My theory is that Uglytown is just the Otherworld from Coraline. After the other mother died, all the dolls she made came to life and took over. It certainly explains the moon.

The only thing I remember from this movie is Lou saying something along the lines of "I will run the gauntlet with you!" and some random person in the background yelling "I wanna run YOUR gauntlet, Lou!"

The look Athena is doing for this video is adorable and she does a good job on these videos with information

All of them give me "mom, come pick me up!" Vibes

I have the small version of Wage. Aka Minimum Wage. It felt fitting.

the Moxy thing is also weird because she was originally designed to be Ox's sister! Reusing her character to retcon Ox no longer having a sister always made me so sad...this video was great!! Uglydolls is something I'm still super into even now as an adult, so thanks so much for taking the time to get into the nitty gritty!

i love how theres a character named wage and also one named minimum wage who is just wage but smaller why is that such a good joke

I was only 3 years old when 9/11 happened so I’m not surprised that Ugly Dolls are that old.

8:35 This is what happens when you cast a spell you dont know, Athena. You become snowgraved

Omg NOT UGLY DOLLS! This reminds me of when everyone was shipping the blonde head villain with everyone! Even that boy with the ugly sign. 👏😭

I remember reading somewhere that movie Moxy’s design is actually from a different existing UglyDoll called “Gorgeous” but they gave her a totally different one’s name for some reason. My guess is it had something to do with the Poppy similarities since Trolls was so popular and wanting a more “main character” sounding name 🤔

I think the meaning of the “thin and fat” joke is how people think they’re fat when they’re not

Athena saying “freaky just got fabulous” is what I needed to hear today. I love MH!

19:04 I can tell this was edited in but then again, who remembers lucky bat? The cuter more superior bat is ice bat. She deserves more voicelines and screentime. I wish ice bat was the main bat tbh

the fact that the worker clones that all look the same because they all have the same personality and have nothing unique about them is kinda deep it also reminds me of that episode of spoungebob where he tries to be "normal"

Telling a kid that they’re clothes not fitting means they’re fat and that monitoring your body through something that trivial, knowing that preteen boys and girls are about to undergo puberty weight gain is just very… I can tell this book was pre 9-11 lmao

I remember I rented the UglyDolls movie a while back just to see why everybody hated it, had no idea the franchise had been around so long. However, I didn't remember anything that actually happened in the movie because I was on the verge of a mental breakdown when I watched it and was sent to a psych ward a few months later. So this was a good memory refresher I guess 😂

Musical Hell just posted a review of the Uglydolls Movie a couple of weeks ago and she addressed the issues that the movie itself has but also said that with a few more script changes the movie had the potential to be pretty good. I actually said in one of the comments that the movie should have had the human dolls be divided by two groups which are the Perfects and Imperfects. The Imperfects have various flaws such as two right hands or bad wigs/hair rooting and the Perfects don’t like to associate with them because they think that the Imperfects are too weird to hang with them and they make the Imperfects do all of the work. The Imperfects aren’t too happy about being made to be the labor but they aren’t miserable and they don’t hate the Perfects and want to be accepted by them. In comes the Ugly Dolls who unite both groups by organizing activities where they all have fun with each other and teach the lesson that you can have fun with those different from you if you ignore the differences.

Uglydoll and the Ugly Guides were the pinnacle of my childhood. I loved the goofy celebrations of crappy mundanity in the writing, and the overall comedic tone influenced me significantly. I collected tons of the dolls, and still have several, and I completely disavowed the movie once I learned how little it had to do with the Uglyverse as written in the doll tags and books.

I was born not long after Ugly Dolls came out and yet I somehow managed to miss their existence entirely up until the movie 😭

I think I'm one of the few people that actually like ugly dolls before they became a movie franchise and to me, the movie destroyed everything I liked about it. I remember getting an ugly dolls book from the library at my school whenever I was in elementary school and I loved seeing your little comic about how ugly dolls originally was made by a couple who met whenever the (eventually wife) of the two came to the US from Korea to study abroad, and whenever she moved back to Korea they sent each other drawings back and forth of little creatures and then eventually she made one into a stuffed animal for him to hug during their long-distance relationship. They ended up making a company together and getting married only to completely scrap the cute and cuddly, weird aesthetic that they had for years just to sell it to a shitty mass-produced toy company. You used to only be able to find ugly dolls in specialty gift shops like beanie babies before they got popular, and the stuffed animals were really good quality and were really cute and most of them were unique because they were made in small lots. Now they're just garbage that you find in the Walmart discount bin. I just feel like they sold out and the company lost its heart. It's sad.

Fun Fact: when I watched this movie with my younger brother, he liked the one song where the blond guy calls out everyone for being ugly. A few days later some friends came over and he called one of the girls ugly because she looked like one of the dolls in the song. The girl started to cry and left the house. I have not heard from her since

Random memory that came to me while watching this, I think my 5th grade language arts teach had either the ugly dolls or the fuggler dolls in this little cozy reading corner and they creeped me the heck out. I remember her taking such care and pride of those dolls and encouraged that if you were reading in the cozy corner, you'd grab one as a little reading buddy. So I just read at my desk to avoid the dolls with teeth.

0:26 "Some of you watching were not alive during 9/11, but Ugly Dolls were!" 2:43 (SpongeBob transition card background with the text "Please enjoy the fucked up Uglyverse and all the ways these guides fucked up my self esteem" overlayed on it in a SpongeBob font) 5:26 "Now Babo isn't smart or courageous... That's the end of that sentence-" 7:16 "Athena, he isn't alive! He's not real!" "Dude, we gotta work on you playing pretend if you're gonna stick around here!" "Yeah, but I just wanted to make sure you know!" 'I OBVIOUSLY know! DON'T interrupt again! Sorry for the interruption, guys-" "Day 123 of asking for Octonauts lore!" "That is NEXT MONTH'S VIDEO! Let's appreciate THIS video! Let's focus on ONE VIDEO AT A TIME!" "...AAAAAAAAAHHHHH-!!!" "AAAAAAHHHHHH-!!!!" 8:16 "I have to make it to little Timmy's soccer game!" 8:34 "He turns everything he touches into ice!- oh, shit-" (Turns into ice) 24:41 "I turned my giant *ss head mole into a third eye, and I'll call her Athreena!"

I remember when I was in the theater watching this movie and when they said Glasses are an imperfection I came out of the theater and said to my mom “Am I ugly?” (Because I wear glasses)

7:28 this is literally me because Octonauts has some crazy lore

I love just looking at the Backyardigans plushies in the back of the video and immediately looking across my room to my own plushies up on my shelf, I feel so seen

Zak Bagans, of Ghost Adventures fame, had a saga on his instagram stories where he adopted a Fuggler and took it on his daily errands. Oddly wholesome.

7:22 Athena P vs Pthena A

7:24 oh god we've been called out- OCTOCADETS DISPERSE

So happy to be early espically because Athenas comtent has helepd me get through the rough patches in life and made the good days even better

PLEASE do Wild Kratts, I just know it would turn out amazing you cover these franchises in so much detail

I love the Uglydolls movie, obviously nothing ground breaking but it’s just a silly goofy fun with great music

I love this so much her personality is just so lively

The way you say Dale sounds like you're saying Dalek. Like Dr Who Daleks.

God, 7:35 ish is just.... im a first grade teacher's assistant (who sometimes is a lead teacher thanks to scheduling) and i just feel like youtube comments must bring out the first grader in all of us.

I literally just got a Fuggler today and came back to this

I obtained some of these plushies a long time ago while knowing practically nothing about UglyDolls. Thanks for the overview. 👍

Big comfy couch lore

I had a ton of these plushes, and i grew up with a few of these books and i adored and still adore these weird creatures, i remember watching the movie in theaters when i was around 16 i believe(going in knowing i wasnt going to like it since it is nothing like the original source material), and one of the things that pissed me off the most minus like everything else was Ice Bat touching the ocean and the entire ocean not instantly freezing lol

as a charli xcx stan i’m mad you didn’t mention the three pop girlies that voiced the spy girls (not actually mad obvi i just only knew of this movie because i knew charli voiced a character in it lolol)

I remember seeing those in stores! They terrified me

i remember getting an Ox plush from the thrift store with the tongue and its only other eye gone. I didn't think of it much until my mom got a mini Ox dog toy for my dog, and right then and there i just looked at my Ox comparing mine and the new mini one side by side, wondering what adventures my Ox went on to lead to how he looked now and i almost cried at how little i cared for him compared to how much the previous owner probably cared for him for the rest of my childhood until adolescence i treated that Ox so well he may as well have been royalty

thank you for this video! I recently lost my UglyDolls singalong version DVD and it makes me so happy to see how much joy one of my favorite movies has brought you it made me feel a lot better about the whole thing and if I don't find the DVD I can just watch my favorite youtuber recap it, so again I say thank you Athena for this awesome video

this is the earliest I've been to an Athena p video, what an accopmisment!!

The UglyDolls movie is super underrated, I'm glad to see you enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for a movie with good music, and the music in the movie was so good, I listened to it a lot.

If Moxy is the Poppy in this world who is the Branch?

I had zero idea that this existed until the movie and found how fluffy was voicing a character in it and so babo He voices is my favorite character

Monster high’s tagline did start as “freaky just got fabulous” but after ghouls rule it become “be yourself be unique be a monster” and stayed that way even to this day

please help me idk why but your evil giggle in the end bit made me absolutely CACKLE and HOLLER way more than it should have

20:40 I’m clipping that “freak”

I remember the books so badly. I checked them out of the school library all the time. I was heartbroken when they got rid of them

28:25 the one that looks like baby chewbacca that was punched in the face way too many times-- that one's going to appear in my nightmares

BRO I LEGIT JUST SAW YIUR POST THAT SAID IT WAS COMING AT 3 AND I FORGOT THAT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT TIME ZONES TOT I WAS SO CONFUSED WHY THE VIDEO WAS HERE EARLIER THAN THEEE BUT REGARDLESS, SLAY!

FUGGLERS!!!!!! I love Fugglers so much! I totally understand your reaction to them, but I think they’re adorable. I have a collection of around…35 - 40? I honestly don’t know exactly, I have a lot of them. I have a few of the little Fuggler-head keychains as well as some of the tiny little baby fuggler keychains. Seeing a youtuber I love talk about them was such a surprise!

i have one of these! i associate it w a birthday party i didnt like, in a pizza place that had a little arcade section (not smth big, just a few cabinets) and there was a "game" ?? themed around the addams family where you get "shocked" and you have to withstand certain numbers of "voltages" to win and for some reason it scared the shit out of me

Dude I see those Fugglers and the TMNT ones whenever I go to Walmart. I’m tempted to buy one for my creature shelf but I know if I did my mother would never set foot in my bedroom again.

I once saw Fugglers at a Barnes & Noble, and I couldn’t sleep for a while after because I thought they would pull out my teeth with pliers.

i love the looks athena makes for videos also WHEN WILL WE GET OUR DOC MCSTUFFINS VIDEO??? WILL YOU EVER COVER ANGLEA ANDACONDA!? (this is a joke pls dont take seriously)

my 21st birthday is in 3 days (the 6th) and I can’t believe they’re older than me. I remember them as a kid, but like, the late 2000s-2010s era. also minimum wage cracks me up

My read on the fat vs thin joke is that it’s not a descriptor that has much to do with how you actually look, but more self perception. But then also slight angle of ‘doctors will say to lose weight no matter what problem you come in with’ kind of thing The last bit is probably way different to their intention

Lou was my gay awakening

If ur talking about toy lines when’s the amiibo video 😅 Athena P vs Pthena A

ATHENA I LITERALLY BOUGHT ME AND MY FRIEND A FUGLER TODAY! Then I took my baby nephew to the store to get him and his brother diapers and he was hugging the fugler all throughout the store. I got the rainbow one with molar teeth. I just loved the teeth. Named them Wretch after Frankenstein (named my BAB Francis Frankenstein so I couldn't just make it Frankenstein) and my friend named hers Benny.

I was really into the movie and shipped Lou and Moxie. I want more pretty humanoid men x non-human women.

I remember liking this movie and the game series Fatal Fury at the same time. (Which was because Terry was added in Smash.bros) And like Dr. Doofenshmirtz idea of Cockroach Ice cream, I decided to combine the two franchises in my head. (It ended up LIKE Cockroach Ice cream as well)

You can say that dear, don't let that person bring you down lol

Their perpetually blank expressions in the book still makes me burst out laughing all these years later.

I had a Moxy doll waaay back but lost her on a field trip. Im pretty sure she was one of the hand sewed ones 😢

Kelly Clark son was in ugly dolls, and trolls world tour, just another parallel between the franchises (also thank you Athena, you got me into trolls and now I’m obsessed!)

A "Some Assembly Required" lore video or a "Wild Kratts" video would be nice

I have a UglyDollxHello Kitty collab plushie! It's hello kitty wearing a Wage onesie and i called her my Guard Dog because she looks so freaky (affectionate) so she can scare away any monsters on my bed that wanted to get to all the plushies that i wasn't actively hugging and sleeping with (I had them all on rotation except for her) So I'm gonna watch this video with her. Also i have VERY strong opinions on the movie and i hope you agree with me on them i will edit my comment when i get to that part of the video. Edit after watching: YES! The movie wasn't original in any way but it was still fun and i don't get why people hated it so bad. I don't like it because of how clean it felt compared to the grit of the original like you said. I think it was gross how they made the MC cute instead of ugly. Very hypocritical and confusing like you said. Good opinions as always and i am very scared for the shipping video coming up 😅💕

5:44 he high 6:09 Damn even the doctors are high 6:43 the pretty girls high 8:57 they get high in the barbershop 😭 10:15 someone's high in the line 14:36 even Turny bernie has some in him 15:32 how am I not surprised for the punk rock ones

I actually LOVEDDE this movie lmao

"I'm supposed to be Irish" one of the funniest lines in the video, along with the bit of you arguing with yourself about pretending

What if a triclops and a cyclops have a kids, for the kid only have two eyes

FINALLY! OCTONAUTS!

hear me out guys: Lou walked so that Velvet and Veneer could run. they all generally have the same vibe in personality and appearance, maybe Lou was the blue print for them? or maybe that's a coincidence

I don’t care what anyone says the movie was amazing

Happy to be here a minute into this videos creation