GRIFFIN: I'm not even touching it no more, I'm not even touching it no more! okay okay
JUSTIN: Okay! Okay!
GRIFFIN: I am touching it no more. Get— What?! What the—?!
Hi and welcome back to Monster Factory: Just Like Art, I'm Griffin McElroy.
You got Justin McElroy on the line.
And here at Monster Factory: Just Like Art, we take video games
and do bad jobs of making characters inside of them, and...
I think that's it?
Succinct.
Alright!
GRIFFIN: Okay so what have we done? We've done sort of mysterious,
we did powerful,
we did hyper commercial Jerry Potter.
I think this time let's just try to capture the ezzence of beauty.
JUSTIN: The essence of beauty, that's evocative. An evocative phrase.
GRIFFIN: When you're an artist, you have to say it like ezzzzence.
Forehead fix? Yes, fix the forehead.
JUSTIN: Yes.
JUSTIN: Apply! GRIFFIN: It's not doing it.
JUSTIN: Apply! Save! GRIFFIN: Bad slider!
GRIFFIN: Elf ear. Yes, ohhhh shit! It's beautiful.
All elves are beautiful. JUSTIN: Wow!
JUSTIN: Don't feed this one after midnight. Hachi Machi!
GRIFFIN: Can we split the difference between Chomp Mom and Jerry?
Can we get it, like—
JUSTIN: That's like a normal neck, right?Halfway between those two, though.
GRIFFIN: That's certainly what my neck looks like!
A beautiful boardwalk caricature.
What meat is that?
What meat is this?
What are we seeing here?!
JUSTIN: That's like a— it looks like eye tongues?
Or maybe some black-eyed peas in there?
GRIFFIN: I think we've made like an early '90s, like, PC game elf? From the side?
From the front it's, uhhh...
JUSTIN: An early '90s PC game drawn by Al Hirschfeld.
Finally, a character with a Fritos scoop for a nose.
GRIFFIN (laughing): Look at this fucking vuvuzela on there.
Thanks, Todd, for the vuvuzela.
JUSTIN: You've got your finger on the pulse of gamers.
GRIFFIN: Can we give her that Mona Lisa smile?
There we go, we found it!
Get that lip meat away from that teeth meat!
I gotta keep em separate on my plate.
I like to eat em one at a time.
Oh, shitbirds!
JUSTIN: Whoa, whoa. The mouth has gone— the teeth have gone rogue.
GRIFFIN: I don't know if that's particularly beautiful.
I know I said I wanted my teeth meet lip separate on the plate, but this is—
these are two separate plates at this point.
JUSTIN: Yeah, we've like— we've careened into Hannibal.
Oh, Griffin.
This is a tough one.
This is a challenging one.
GRIFFIN: What if we put some wonderful hair?
Can we get blonde with brown highlights in it?
Cuz then we can get doing get Janiston's whole scene
JUSTIN: This is soooo Rachel.
GRIFFIN: This is VERY Rachel-from-Friends Rachel.
"RASS! RASS! RASS!!!"
"RASS!"
"DO NOT GET ON PLANE, RASS!"
"RASS DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT DINOSAUR BONES!"
"I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR DINA SOUR BONES, RASS!"
"CHONDLER!"
"WHERE IS— SCANNING FOR CHONDLER"
JUSTIN: Wow.
GRIFFIN: "JO-MEE!"
"WHERE'S THE MEATBALL SANDWICHES?"
JUSTIN: Why WEREN'T the Friends radioactive barbarians?
GRIFFIN: That is a great question that I ask myself every day.
JUSTIN: How 'bout it, HOLLYWOOD?
GRIFFIN: Ohh, fuck. We've never done a very big.
Maybe we slide that— remind me to slide that one back.
Damn, the game done— damn game don't—
JUSTIN: Wow, that's a... slider and a half, eh?
GRIFFIN: Yeah this one does some shit.
JUSTIN: What?!
GRIFFIN: By messing with this slider, your mouse actually starts pumping Molly into your system.
I'm not even touching it no more, I'm not even touching it no more!
JUSTIN: Okay. Okay.
GRIFFIN: I am touching it no more.
What— What the—?!
What is happening to Roachle?!
JUSTIN: Griffin, take your hand away from the mouse!
GRIFFIN: Okay.
So... here's— I guess we—
Let's see what the game has decided for us.
(laughing) We've kind of made a snake.
If you look at it from the right angle.
JUSTIN: Snakel!
GRIFFIN: Alright! There's Snakel from Friends.
JUSTIN: Okay, so...
...that's exactly what I was hoping for. (Griffin makes slithering sound effects)
GRIFFIN: Here she come! (slithers)
"What's up, Draugur?! [Chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp!]"
"Got you with my little tooth!"
I don't wanna do my art in here!
I want a beautiful, sort of, uh, prairie scene
or I want to find the apartment from Freind's.
What's a big one? Solitude?
Well, there's enemies nearby. Hold on, let's try this.
Can I go to Solitu— hey, there we go.
(both laugh hysterically)
GRIFFIN: Here we are, the big city! Just like in Friends.
Just like in Friends.
This is just like the episode where the friends watched a public beheading.
"I got it!"
(Justin laughs hysterically)
GRIFFIN: Why y'all beefin?!
Why is everyone beefin?!
JUSTIN: What's the problem?
GRIFFIN: And then Rass stole a loaf of bread from the local baker
and he got beheaded.
(Griffin imitates Friends theme song)
GRIFFIN: What do snakes enjoy?
Eating butterflies, obviously. [Chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp!]
Alright so statues are beautiful.
Oh!
JUSTIN: Come onnnnnnn!
GRIFFIN: No, we're doing this!
I don't want the corpses— I mean, it's gonna be tough to shoot around the corpses, but okay.
This is confused art.
We just gotta get out of the city, I can't work in this fucking environment.
I just— everybody's always trying to stab me to death.
GRIFFIN: A boat!
Why is she on a boat? That's the art!
What are Griffin and Justin even doing?
They were doing a Friends thing, and then they did a snake thing,
and then they were trying to do beauty, and then they ended up on a boat.
What are they doing?
JUSTIN: It's a journey, Griffin.
It's organic.
GRIFFIN: Alright!
Snakel, what's your deal?
JUSTIN: Can you do snakes?
GRIFFIN: I could add more Snakel from Friends.
Well that's nothing.
JUSTIN: That's not actu—
GRIFFIN: Well... they got part of it. They did get part of it!
Alright, so... let's get a hundred what
Let's get a hundred.
(Griffin imitates Friends theme song)
JUSTIN: This is what it must have been like to be Jennifer Aniston in the '90s.
It's like, everybody wanted your look.
GRIFFIN: I dunno, I fuckin' hate all this.
JUSTIN: Whoaaaa. Okay.
GRIFFIN: Can I have my frames back, Todd?
Todd, I'm WORKING right now!
JUSTIN: Um... okay. Okay. Okay.
What about the butterflies.....
(in unison) ...HERE.
JUSTIN: Yes!
Fifty torches, still dark. Skyrim.
GRIFFIN: Good lighting, Todd.
JUSTIN: Oh! The statues!
That's what we forg—that's what it's missing.
GRIFFIN: Alright, but I'm not fucking moving again.
I can't keep fighting these frames.
Statues gonna land where the statues land.
There they are, there's the statues. Art, everybody!
JUSTIN: There. There! Now it's pretty.
JUSTIN: Oh, that's— okay.
Right here, Griffin?
I'm not sure what this is saying, but I think that's beautiful.
GRIFFIN: Yeah and you have to really look for where the art is in it.
Cause if you— see, it's right there. Boop! You see her? Boop!
JUSTIN: A lot of times, the art comes to you.
And this— in this time, you have to come to the art.
GRIFFIN: This is a nightmare.
What if we just get abstract with it?
JUSTIN: Oh.
GRIFFIN: That's the art this time, everybody!
(in unison): That's the art!
GRIFFIN: What does it MEAN?
That's up to you to decide!
Boy, there's actually a lot to take in here, Justin.
I think this might be the most art we accidentally did.
JUSTIN: Yeah, this is great! What is it SAYING?
GRIFFIN: There's some sort of human lever...
...there's some snakes...
I think we get, like, one pixel of Snakel in there in the background.
And there's the devil, and he's telling me a secret message of everything I should do today!
You see that one too, in this art, right?
JUSTIN: Uhhhh......
(Griffin imitates Friends theme song)
(Friends theme song plays)
(Griffin sings along to Friends theme song)