- (makes noise of disgust) I hate it, put it away.
This is becoming somewhat repetitive.
I just released one.
(soothing guitar music)
Today I'm gonna be catching 100 fish in "Animal Crossing".
In my head I think I can do that in one stint.
I feel like I catch five in five minutes,
so maybe it won't take that long.
I don't know if I'm able to catch 100 fish on my own island
like they just continually respawn
so that I can just run around and get more and more and more
until I've got 100.
Is it gonna take me days on end to do?
I've literally got no idea.
It's a good achievement as any at this point so
let's give it a go.
I've got a relatively crude set up here.
I'll show you actually.
So I'm no professional gamer
but I'm pretty sure this is a dank setup.
So we've got the switch there,
screen phone there,
one filming me there,
controller, very simple.
Also please forgive the glare on the screen
that you can see.
I don't know how to combat that.
I don't have a game capture card here with me at home
so this is what we've got.
Now I am not one of these people who plays this game
and knows the name of the villagers.
He for example is Creepy Eyes Bird.
I've not played this game in about two weeks.
So I've got some weeds going on,
can only apologize.
Ooh.
That's an intense wall design now isn't it?
This is my glockenspiel. (giggles)
Oh, it's a marimba. (scoffs)
- [Friend] There's so much camo.
(laughs)
- Anyway this is my house.
So I'm thinking before I try and catch 100 fish
I'm gonna need to make some pocket space,
because I'm gonna have to keep coming to and from the house
putting things in storage 'cause I can't keep 100 fish
on me at all times.
I do now have the largest pocket size that you can have.
Also take not of my kind of Nirvana-esque hoodie there.
Also designed that myself.
It's no big deal.
Okay, so I can make a,
go from flimsy fishing rod to just a fishing rod.
We love a transformation.
Yahoo.
Well, I don't know about you,
but I think it's about time that I start catching some fish.
I think my method to catch as many fish quickly
is gonna be I'll start at the top of the island,
make my way 'round the edge the whole way,
and then I'll go and find the little pools
like up on the higher up bits and stuff like that.
So I guess let's get going.
Fish number one. (whistles)
The other thing that's probably quite good to mention
is I'm not very good at catching fish (laughs)
but let's try.
Ooh, that was good.
(soothing music)
Ah, fabulous.
Number one, a horse mackerel.
I need to remember not to run around,
'cause I think if you run past with the B key
whilst there's a fish in the water, like right past it,
you scare it and it swims away.
It's a big'un.
The worst thing that happens
is when it looks like a big fish like that
and then you pull it out and it's a tire.
See that's great.
It's at least a C+.
Those jokes are funny the first,
maybe the second time.
Once you've caught a sea bass for the thousandth time
that joke really starts to get old.
Oh, out on the pier.
Waiting for my husband to return from war.
Not a sausage, okay.
(upbeat music)
What's that?
Oh my god, I've never caught that before!
Wow, third fish in
and we're already getting novel aquatic life.
This is fabulous.
What is that?
It's a butterfly fish.
Did it change from a caterpillar fish?
See, first time quite funny.
Won't be next time.
(upbeat music)
I also don't know if I've got that,
oh, a loach looking at me with reproach.
Yeah, I remember.
(upbeat music)
Another squid.
And it is, oh, another one of those ones.
A butterfly fish.
Must be time of the season.
Another loach.
What's this gonna be do we think?
Another loach.
Okay, well, lots of loaches it appears.
Note my sun lounger.
Tom, you're getting distracted.
Back to fishing.
"Deadliest Catch", "Deadliest Catch", "Deadliest Catch".
Oh my god, what the hell is that?
I've never even seen one of them before. (gasps)
Is that a catfish maybe?
A zebra turkeyfish.
Land, air, water, make up your mind!
That's horrible.
I don't like the way it's,
wait, let's just see if it does it again.
(makes noise of disgust) I hate it, put it away.
Do you see what I mean?
Sometimes if you don't do it right in front of their face
it just ignores you and I hate that.
Ooh, it's a --.
An olive flounder.
(upbeat music)
Oh, it's so tiny.
I don't think I've ever caught one of them either.
Another new one.
Oh my god, what is it?
A neon tetra.
Okay, this is great.
I've already caught three fish that I've never seen before.
I haven't even caught,
let's see how many fish I've caught so far.
20 fish, okay, so I'm a fifth of the way there.
It's gonna fine.
Hooplah.
Is that another new one?
I've never seen that before either.
Oh my god, another new fish!
A pale chub. (giggles)
Sorry.
A pale chub.
Another loach.
Jesus, they are popular.
If this is a loach I'm gonna absolutely freak out.
(sighs)
Another sea bass.
Who cares?
That's got to be a --.
A dab, oh my god.
Not bad, funny.
Oh it's full.
Okay, so my pockets are finally full.
So I'm gonna go now and put these somewhere.
Where should I build me stupid aquarium?
And by aquarium I just mean tanks upon tanks of fish.
Oh, this seems like a good spot.
Yeah, I'm gonna chop these trees down.
Sorry, I know that,
I don't want to be responsible for deforestation,
I don't want to be part of that narrative.
But at the same time I need space for my fish.
Okay, so place item.
Wow the tanks are really big.
This could be a bit of a,
this could not be a good thing.
Oh, it depends on the size of the fish.
Okay, that makes sense.
So the loach one will be tiny.
Yeah, okay, got it, fine.
We've got so far one, two, three, four, five six,
seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, --, 24.
24.
(upbeat music)
Oh, a new thing, what's this? (gasps)
God, just to think.
A caught a guppy.
Welcome to the team, newbie.
Don't know what that means
but you're absolutely going in the collection,
I'll tell you that right now.
Oh, lovely.
God, that's just great.
God, look at my horrible outdoor aquarium.
It's really coming along.
There it is, fish number 26.
- - horse mackerel.
Oh, my first fishing rod just broke.
End of the line.
That's funny, that was a good joke.
I'm gonna go ahead and,
I've prepared for this.
I've got 12 other ones.
Let's go.
Oh my god, I got a seahorse! (gasps)
Never has that before.
Where its sea jockey?
Very good.
Another seahorse, what are the chances?
Do you know what I mean?
What its sea jockey?
Yeah, see, it's not funny anymore.
I want at some point while I'm catching all these fish
one of to be that absolutely huge one that comes out.
Not this.
There's one that's literally this long.
I think that's really funny.
seahorse number three.
Ooh, is that something new?
A pale chub again. (chuckles)
Another loach.
How bitterly disappointing.
And another loach.
This is becoming somewhat repetitive.
Right, what I'm gonna do now
is I'm just gonna blaze through until I get to 50.
I don't know how interesting
footage of me catching virtual fish in dead silence is,
so I think we're just gonna speed through this bit.
(gasps)
Oh my god, this is something new that I've never had before.
What is this this?
Stop everything.
Looks like Dory.
A surgeonfish.
Scalpel, forceps, fish hook.
Very good.
And back to it.
Okay, I think that's 50.
Let's head back to my horrendous outdoor aquarium and
see where we're at.
Here it is.
All right, let's get placing.
Oh my god, I've just found out
you can put them on top of each other.
That's a startling discovery.
Wait, so I place it'll go on top.
Oh my god!
I mean it still looks awful
but it's just a funny thing that I didn't know.
Since I've learned that you can stack smaller tanks
on top of bigger tanks,
further back in the aquarium you'll see I haven't done that
'cause I didn't know and that's no longer accessible to me.
I guess let's continue.
I swear in this part I'm picking up more trash
than I am actually getting fish.
It feels like I'm litter picking more than anything.
What I'm noticing is the fish are becoming
increasingly fewer and far between.
Maybe I'm just fishing,
getting rid of all of them or something.
But I'm not getting them as quickly as I was before.
They're coming up here and there
but I think in the last 25 or so I might have to,
might have to go to one of those deserted islands,
just absolutely cash in.
Actually I've decided here that I'm gonna stick on my island
for as long as it takes.
No deserted islands.
(gasps)
Oh my god, I've never caught this fish before.
Another new one.
Now this one looks like actually Nemo.
It's a clownfish, yeah?
Boom.
It's a clownfish.
How many can fit in a carfish?
(upbeat music)
I don't get it.
So my friend later explained to me that it's a reference
to that thing that clowns do in the circus
where 20 clowns fit in a tiny car.
So clownfish, dah, dah, dah.
I still don't think it's very funny.
I think it's time to do a,
update the aquarium!
Right, well as I learned earlier,
you can put the little ones on top of the big ones.
So we'll start doing that.
Oh my god, who knew that the goldfish
came in this adorable little bowl.
Look at that.
Well, whilst here might as well catch this one.
Come on.
(upbeat music)
(gasps)
(sad piano music) I just released one.
Okay, that's fine, it's okay.
I'll have to just go back down on my counter of fish.
Okay, so now I just need to catch 23 more fish.
So I'm gonna start back up
at the very corner of my island where I first started
and make my way back 'round.
At this point I've been 'round me island so many times
I know it so well and I'm still no better at fishing.
Tom, so off.
Try again.
Better.
(soothing music)
What's that?
Anchovy?
First anchovy of the day.
Lucky me.
A can.
Such a slap in the face this late in the day as well.
You'll notice at this point
I've completely given up on talking.
Look at me there jusr not saying a word.
I think that's something about "Animal Crossing",
which is quite good,
is just sometimes you can just walk around,
sit back, relax, and just catch some fish.
Oh my god, two more to go!
(gasps) Two more fish to go.
Let's make it count.
(soothing music)
Black bass, great.
Right.
We just need one more
and then I've caught 100 fish on "Animal Crossing".
The last fish that I catch after this whole thing,
oh here it is.
If this last fish that I catch is a sea bass
I'll be disappointed.
How anticlimactic for me.
(soothing guitar music)
(record scratches) (crickets chirping)
Why does that happen?
I'm gonna internalize that so it's not to be a lot,
but that really hurt me.
Okay, this little one looks unintimidating.
You know what, I don't care what the fish is.
I'm just happy to be --.
I did it.
I did it, 100 fish! (orchestral music)
What is it?
I caught a horse mackerel for the final one.
Well, I mean, I got 20 more of those before.
So it only seems fitting.
How long does that take, three hours?
Right, look.
Before we can start doing any kind of wrap ups here,
I'm gonna go finish my aquarium, come on.
Where is it, up here?
Fabulous, let's go.
So there's something strangely cathartic
about building this aquarium.
I'd worked so hard on building this aquarium,
except not really 'cause it's not real.
You know, I feel terrible doing it,
but this truce tree has got to come down.
All right, back to fish placement.
Let's go. (orchestral music)
The final fish.
The 100th fish to place in my outdoor aquarium
is a butterfly fish.
(orchestral music)
And just like that I've completed it.
Wow.
Let's just take second to survey what I've done here.
This is so stupid.
It's not the most accessible of aquariums, I won't lie.
Oh here we go, we have a little walking area.
So you can see it from the back there.
There you go.
That's what 100 fish look like in "Animal Crossing".
So I'm not gonna know
all these figures off the top of my head
because when I close my eyes
all I see is computer generated fish.
But this is how long it took me to catch 100 fish.
These are the types of fish that I caught.
And this,
excluding the new ones that I'm gonna give to the museum,
so how much I sold all these fish for at the shop.
By the time we got to the last 20
I really was feeling the effects of overfishing.
So would I recommend catching 100 fish in "Animal Crossing"?
No.
I just did it so you don't have to.
(peaceful guitar music)