I love that this isn't making fun of anyone or patronizing, it's just an information exchange! Honestly, I'm Seth's age and there were a few I didn't know, but I knew most of Karen's!
It’s quite patronising. JCVD shouldn’t be a mystery for someone working in the entertainment business. The Expendables came out in her late teens. Clark Gabel is before my time or Marlin Brando, George Orwell(though he voiced unicron and that’s totally my demo), and I know who they are.
@@sloppynyuszi Van Damme, Clark and Brando are not exactly comparable though. Van Damme is more in the level of, I dunno, Yul Brynner maybe, or Charles Bronson. Although they both made better movies.
@@apurvapatel1013 Really? Says a lot about you that you would be "just as happy" if she is not the nice person she seems to be. It doesn't say a lot of good things about you. I suspect that if she does "turn out to be a monster," she probably wouldn't get the spot. Enjoy your unnecessary cynicism. 🤔
I know. Seeing Animorphs referenced on national tV was too much for me, I literally started crying. I'm 30 and that was my childhood and one of the best book series I've read to this day.
Hahahah I loved animorphs! They only translated like 50 parts in my language though, and I never got to read the ending :( How many books can a person even write??
@@joonamato and she had ghost writers. She didn't really write them all, it was a sort of team of people who wrote them. Something like that. She had an AMA on reddit
When I found out that Karen Chee is also a fan of Richard Ayoade and all things British comedy, I stanned even harder. I love her and these videos, so priceless
@@ebfruchu Karen has tweeted multiple times about Richard and Brit comics. For instance, when Richard appeared on the Graham Norton show (with Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Chadwick Boseman) and another time when the Big Fat Quiz of 2019 aired in the US (she tweeted something about how she roots for Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding every year). It is quite unfortunate that the world isn't familiar with how crushingly funny Richard is, but I'm pleased nevertheless that Karen (and I'm sure a lot of others) is also a fan. 🙂
FYI: As a San Francisco Bay Area kid, Karen would have never seen a local advertisement with Frank Purdue or Purdue Chickens. Most of our TV ads of this type are for Foster Farms.
DeathBeforeDecaf ya, I wondered. My tv watching habits went through phases up until about 2016 when I shut off my cable altogether and just went online for most of my entertainment. I figured it was possible I missed Purdue commercials altogether, but I imagine you’re right. I haven’t lived east of Kansas since I was 8yrs old.
Seth did a bad job picking things this time. I’m one year older than Karen. Slap bracelets, garbage pail kids (and cabbage patch kids), and those pencil sharpeners were part of my childhood too.
I’m a teacher, and I can confirm that yes, people-powered pencil sharpeners are still a thing. And, when it’s time for 6th graders to write, suddenly they ALL need to sharpen their pencils. Kids are awesome.
A lot of those things seemed like Millennial things lol. Garbage Pail Kids were for sure a Millennial thing. People forget that the generation lasts between 1981 until 1996. Garbage Pail Kids didn't even come out until 1985. Being born in '92, I had a lot of Garbage Pail Kids cards.
As enjoyable as these segments are, I'm always a bit confused by what Karen doesn't know because I'm just over a year older than her and the media my peers and I were exposed to made so many references to older things that weren't necessarily "of our generation" that it was impossible not to absorb it. It's like expecting someone our age not to know who the Beatles are, like you just pick these things up??
I loved all of these series. I had every Animorphs (including prequels), Goosebumps, and Babysitter's Club series released until I outgrew them. Boxcar children was great as well but I didn't have all of them.
Yeah. The chicken guy if the first thing I didn't know in any of these segments. And I saw commercials for Cabbage Patch kids in the 2000s. I kinda assumed like those little oven things they are still going today.
@@projectamis4772 Yep. His industrial approach to chicken ruined much of the Eastern Shore of the state of Maryland through soil, water and air pollution (stench) to this day. Of course, working in such conditions was below most local American citizens in the area, so you KNOW who took care of most of the labor - Trump's favorite scapegoats. Yeah, this dude built an empire on the backs of undocumented immigrants. We always used to rag on him during his commercials because his schnozz was so comparable to the beaks of his chickens...
Never had a problem. The wall vs desk is still the same distance so how you didn't smash your hand on the desktop but you did on the wall is beyond me!
Can confirm this was a real issue. It was fine for elementary school kids with tiny hands but once you started getting older the wall-mounted ones could double as a torture device. :U
When you really get down to it, Animorphs is about a group of kids waging war against an unstoppable enemy, killing a decent amount of people and aliens and living in constant fear of getting killed/enslaved. I honestly don't know how it's exactly considered a kids series. Would have make a great TV show (I know they tried but it was cut short and never fulfilled it's potential).
Yeah, between the body horror, the gore, and the moral dilemmas it was pretty dark for a kid/young adult series. I loved it when I was younger. I'm thrilled to see them brought up. I always thought they were a pretty niche thing with a small following.
@@kryptoknightmk1 I myself only read a few of them when I was in school since the library only had a dozen or so. When I was in the university I decided to close the gap and read all the ~50 books in sequence. really made me appreciate the complexity of the story and what the characters go through.
Almog Dov So how does it end. Once I got to jr high and asked the librarian if we had Animorphs at this school she told me I could go back to elementary if I wanted to read them. I never got to finish them.
@@fearless4him595 Wow, that is actually a really tough question to answer, especially since I don't know how far you've read. It's been a while so I don't remember everything but basically, they did manage to make the invasion public, and somehow got an alliance with the Andalites. Earth almost got overrun by the Yeerks, in the end, with the help of a good Yeerk, they found a rebel cell inside of the Yeerks army that didn't want to fight. We learnt that even though they did evil things, their story is actually quite tragic as they were a sentient and advanced race but trapped inside their bodies (as you can't do much as a slug). The only thing they could was take control of others and in their homeplanet they only had a really basic monkey like species that they used to enslave. However, things changed when the Andalites came to their planet and that one dude gave them space travel because he took pity on them, that allowed them to spread throughout the galaxy and as they met (and enslaved) new species, that became their norm. However, since they have DNA memory, many still remembered that all they wanted was to be free. SO, after a huge battle on earth, in which our group had to kill about 50000 yeerks in one ship (basically a war crime) and Rachel sacrificed her life, Jake (who did order the destruction of those yeerks) managed to reach an agreement with the good Yeerks, since all they wanted was freedom of their aweful limited bodies, they shared the shapeshifting technology with them and every Yeerk could choose a body to live in forever. Many chose dolphins since Yeerks love water by nature and that was basically it. I thought it was a wonderful ending, it closed the story pretty good and the solution to this insane scale was great. Also, In the final book Jake starts the book by saying his full name finally and admitting that they were a group of 13 (!!!) years old kids. That was honestly a shock for me, since those kids went through stuff, horrible stuff and it gave it another dimension. They do finish with a cliff hanger that Ax gone missing and Jake goes to find him. That is a real cliffnote of the final beats of the story, as I mentioned, there are like 50 books.
@@zzzcocopepe I'm with you there! Most of those longer standalone books were highlights. That one in particular actually still holds up surprisingly well.
This young lady is adorable. She seems like she'd look like a teenager well into her 70s. Baby face & such a sweet personality & vibe. Refreshing these days.
@@sprinklesandwrinkles people debate the cutoff, but gen z begins somewhere between 1995 and 1997. Since she's 24, she'd be exactly on the borderline. Seth calls her a millennial tho so I'm just going by that.
Big fan of Seth's various clips but THIS bit with Karen Chee is always my favorite. The interaction between the 2 of them is great. But the main reason why I love these is I always forward it to my niece in college who is like 2200 miles away. Just a great excuse always to say Hi & #ILoveYou at the end to her.👍✌🤘😎🤘
Oh my gosh, I love wall-mounted pencil sharpeners! They're so tactile, and I love the way they rumble. I pretty much only use mechanical pencils now, though.
I love this segment! Karen is adorable, and I get to feel smart because I’m right on the edge of Gen X and Millennial, so I usually know all the answers. 😁
Mrs. B me too! I’m actually a xennial (gen x/millennial) born between ‘77-‘81 or so. I was born in ‘78. I totally knew DW- so easy since I read Arthur books as a kid and the only reason I knew animorphs actually was because I’m a children’s librarian so we have those books at the library- still!
I always remember a comic strip (I think in Cracked Magazine) where Frank Perdue removes his rubber mask to reveal he is really a giant talking chicken.
Omg, best one yet!! 🤣🤣 That brilliant electric vs manual callback bit at the end of the chicken riff did not get enough love from the audience at ALL!!!!
@@Minoooska The year ranges aren't specific like that, but it was supposed to describe someone that was coming of age at the turn of the millennium (i.e. 2000). I wouldn't say a 4 year old is coming of age.
Yeah, she's kind of barely in the millennial age range. All these places that do stories on millennials try and act like it's the current young generation but they're in their late 20s to mid-30s by now.
Karen seems so sweet and innocent. Too sweet to be a joke writer. But maybe that's her mystique. She's actually really dark and disturbed in the writer's room. Muahahaha.
I'm 30 years old. I am from the Caribbean. I looooved Jean Claude Van Dam. His movies were always awesome. I've got to go watch a few. I also loved Arthur...DWW! Lol. And read a few of the Animorph books. This made me nostalgic and calm. Good memories...
Matthew C actually the youngest a millennial can he is 24 (oldest is 39) so she is just barely a millennial, a very young one. Gen z is ages 8-23. So she’s right on the edge
Amy Petersen . What am i ? I'm 30 and feel like today is the greatest time..i have no concerns about anything nor do i care or feel nostalgic about past trends. Only thing i don't like is Bilie Eilish but i'm sure i will once she drops out of the emo teenage phase
@@brainey001 Officially you'd be a millennial. They're basically born between the early 80s and early 90s. There have been some rumblings that the oldest millennials are a microgeneration xennials but yeah, we're millennials.
@@brainey001 You're as millennial as a millennial gets, literally smack dab in the middle of the millennial birth years. You spent the entire last decade reading articles about how people in your age group are killing business and can't buy homes during your young adulthood and didn't realize you were one of them?
iamgodsrs . I wasn't reading such articles nor could i relate cos i buy what i want, when i want it and never thought twice about it. Also i'm not an american so...
I saw the "animorphs": I don't know what that is but I do know it freaked me out as a kid Karen: I was too scared to read them I'm with you Karen, that cover must have put a dint in their book sales.
I feel better like Seth should just hold on to the Animorphs card and the next time Shaun Ashmoore comes on just pull it out like, "So, about Jake...?"
Karen is lovely (and, it's obvious that she's really bright and intelligent). I mostly remember the Frank Perdue commercials where he's holding a live (white?) chicken, in a farmyard, I think. Don't think I've seen the commercials where Frank is eating fried chicken.
You should feel bad. I still remember the day I realized I was not only a Gen-Xer, but that I was an _early_ Gen-Xer. (I graduated High School before Seth got pubes.)
@@andreaskarlsson5251 Don't worry. You'll get old and decrepit like me soon enough, and spend your afternoons comparing the virtues of various adult incontinence products with your friends.
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His kids are pretty young - I think definitely both under school age, so maybe just not yet. I can't imagine he'd be the dad who didn't read to his kids. When he talks about family - and has _his_ family on his show, it's clear family is important to him.
Someone please tell Seth that they still sell Cabbage Patch kids dolls today and the pencil sharpener is still in a lot of schools. Y'all these aren't as old and outdated as you think.
Oh hey, she pulled out the Animorphs. Those books taught valuable lessons about trauma, child soldiers and asymmetrical warfare. You can have a lot of dismemberment in a book for kids, just don't have any swearing or sex.
