AJ: HeyJ, I'm AJ!
Peter: Hi! I'm Peter!
Miss Bird: I'm Miss Bird!
Nate: Hey! I'm Nate.
AJ: And we're the people who make Random Encounters possible!
Peter: Thanks to you guys, 2016 was a record breaking year for us.
Miss Bird: So we wanted to recap all our biggest projects from the past 12 months!
Nate: And maybe test your memory with some RE trivia at the same time!
AJ: So here we go!
Peter: A year in review of Random Encounters.
Miss Bird: Feel free to play along!
Nate: And tell us how many trivia questions you got right, in the comments!
AJ: 2016 began with a funny finger puppet cover of one of our older songs, The Magikarp Song!
AJ: A fan favorite, sung by Peter and starring Pokemon characters.
AJ: The finger puppets and miniature set gave us extra time to spend on some other enormous projects already underway.
AJ: Which other musical did we make a finger puppet version of?
AJ: If you guessed Eevee, you are correct!
Miss Bird: A short indie game with horror themes. That was our introduction to Fran Bow. A creepy cute title the world was going nuts over.
Miss Bird: One cool song and costume later, I was a real life Fran searching for her sidekick kitty - Mr Midnight.
Miss Bird: What is the name of the cat playing Mr Midnight?
Miss Bird: He was brand new on the scene but Mr Midnight was played by Mr Meowse.
Peter: Enis fans rejoiced in February when an unexpected Resident Enis sequel was launched by Disney XD by Maker.
Peter: Mark, Dodger and their sparkly friend all returned for more eerie musical nonsense. This time, lost in a place called Monster Gulch.
Peter: Not everything on page ended up on screen however.
Peter: What character was originally going to meet Enis and his friends in Monster Gulch?
Peter: If you guessed Werewolf, you're actually wrong! The original script contained a goofy witch, who we decided to save for a future Enis adventure.
AJ: Valentine's day never ends well on RE. And this year was no different.
AJ: This time we focused on the schoolgirl murder dating game, Yandere Simulator.
AJ: Love was certainly in the air. Especially off set where a less murderous romance began to bloom.
AJ: Which of these people did I begin dating two months afterwards?
AJ: If you guessed Info-Chan, you're correct! Gwen began dating me in April and has never asked for a single panty shot! So far...
Nate: Did you guys know Samus is a girl?! That's a comment we got for months after releasing our ironic animated musical, Samus The Spaceman Cowboy.
Nate: We thought the sloppy art style and irreverent lyrics would give away our tongue in cheek intentions.
Nate: But I guess the joke went over a lot of heads. Speaking of heads.
Nate: Which Undertale character did Samus hang on his wall?
Nate: If you guessed Toriel, you're a monster! Seriously, who would do that? The answer is Temmie.
Peter: It's no secret we like Pokemon. So with the launch of Pokemon Go, we knew it was time to pull out all the stops!
Peter: Go Go Pokemon Go, featured the hapless Fisherman on a quest to secure something cooler than Magikarp.
Peter: But in the end, he came up mostly empty.
Peter: Who is the only Pokemon the Fisherman managed to catch?
Peter: If you guessed Clefairy, you guessed right. Poor Fisherman.
AJ: April Fools is always fun and this year we had the juiciest joke of all.
AJ: After being stalled for months, FNAF Night 4 suddenly appeared April 1st!
AJ: But alas! It was a trap! It wasn't a total loss though, as the sequence turned out to be canon in the full FNAF supercut.
AJ: Which FNAF musical did Purple Guy not appear in?
AJ: April Fools! Purple Guy appears in all these episodes but you already knew that, didn't you?
Nate: An old joke got resurrected when our friend Scott built us an Onyx costume, under the condition we wrote him an Onyx song.
Nate: We noticed no-one bought the extended version of the song. Which was kind of disappointing. Now we know how you felt huh?
Nate: What was the name of AJ's pet rock snake?
Nate: If you guessed Dr.LoveMuffins add a point to your score.
Peter: Of all the Undertale characters, the most mysterious is the glitch phantom W.D Gaster.
Peter: We thought he deserved a dark song and a cool set but Determined To The End turned out even better than we had hoped.
Peter: Though it took us a mass of reshoots to do it.
Peter: The Wingdings hologram spoiled the ending to which RE series?
Peter: Determined Encounters eventually translated the Wingdings. The spoiled ending was for FNAF The Musical.
Miss Bird: On June 7th, Random Encounters celebrated it's 5th birthday with a livechat.
Miss Bird: But as every Encounterer could predict, things didn't go according to plan.
Miss Bird: A call midstream interrupted the chat with news of our first cat MiaKitty, who was terminally ill and needed to be put down.
Miss Bird (on stream): It's randomly encountered.
Miss Bird: A very unhappy birthday for Random Encounters indeed.
Miss Bird: We were thankful to have included her in many videos over the years and she still brings a smile to us whenever we watch them.
Miss Bird: Which musical did MiaKitty first appear in?
Miss Bird: The correct answer is People Of Smash Bros because that was actually when they were doing a musical and singing a song.
Miss Bird: Instead of at a subscribe screen like in Power of Pong which AJ will technically say is the right answer.
Miss Bird: Thanks for the memories Big Kitty.
AJ: Click favorite or Darth Vader will kill this kitty!
Miss Bird: NO!
AJ: We knew you guys loved FNAF but still you blew us away when you swarmed en masse to watch Mark and Nate return
AJ: in FNAF Night's 4 and 5. Posted the same morning on both RE and Mark's channel, these two little videos rocked our viewership and propelled us through
AJ: our most successful summer on record. Even with a major last second script revision, you guys made all the chaos worth it.
AJ: Who were the animatronics going to go find in the alternate FNAF Night 4 script?
AJ: If you guessed Jack, that's silly! He's even further away than Mark! The correct answer is Phone Guy.
Nate: Pokemon Go continued to be popular so to celebrate it's success and a lot of annoying glitches,
Nate: We revised our Pokemon Go musical to be a little more... realistic.
Nate: Seriously, I couldn't even log on for like the first week. Funny, now I can't ever seem to log off.
Nate: Which Pokemon Go team are AJ, Gwen and I on?
Nate: The correct answer is Team Mystic, YEAH ARTICUNO RAWR!
AJ: You may have noticed someone new on the channel this year but the truth is he's been around since the beginning.
AJ: Nathan Morse came back to RE officially this July, extending his nearly 15 year mistake of working with me on terrible videos.
AJ: Which of these games did Nate and I make a feature-length parody of before RE existed?
AJ: If you guessed Prince of Persia, you're right! Though we made parody versions of all these..
Peter: One long year of filming finally came to an end this August, when Random Encounters premiered FNAF The Musical on Youtube.
Peter: 15,000 fans from all around the world joined together for a special live screening unlike any other in RE history.
Peter: Some of you still begged for a sequel but most of the cast have moved on since. Or didn't make it to the end of the series...
Which of these characters ultimately survived Five Nights At Freddy's?
Peter: Deceptive as it sounds, the survivor is Springtrap who unlike the others never appears to truly meet his end.
Peter: Though he did lose his head a little...
Miss Bird: A little more Pokemon never killed anyone, at least that's what we hoped when we made Team Full Of Harmony.
Miss Bird: Our latest Pokemon Go song! This time we focused on the newly revealed team leaders and their bitter rivalry.
Miss Bird: Do you know which other musical was filmed in the same building?
Miss Bird: Meowth that's right! FNAF Blood and Tears was shot in the same building, Trinity Community Church which is where AJ attends every Sunday morning.
Nate: In a messy change of pace, next we headed outdoors with 12 watermelons for a short skit promoting our REPlayed series of DeadSpace.
Nate: The video was meant to test whether content on RE could direct more traffic to our Lets Plays but fittingly, most of you wouldn't bite.
Nate: What upcoming musical was teased on the book AJ is seen reading?
Nate: AJ was reading the Ace Attorney Manga so the answer is Phoenix Wright.
Miss Bird: Years back, we asked Encounterers to pick any one game they wanted to see made into a musical the most.
Miss Bird: And one of the highest requested titles was Professor Layton. Recording proved a challenge though when none of us could provide
Miss Bird: A proper British singing voice. So we turned to our friend Ben Paddon, dapper old bean, an actual Brit to dub the character for us.
Miss Bird: Who makes a surprise cameo at the end of the video?
Miss Bird: The correct answer is Phoenix Wright, though I think Ganondorf and Professor Layton would be great friends!
Peter: Sadly, 2016 was the year we finally opted to pull the plug on our gaming channel REPlayed.
Peter: Analytics determined that too few Encounterers showed interest in our Lets Plays. While there aren't any plans to revive it right now,
Peter: the channel has remained in quiet limbo for possible future return.
Peter: What was the final series Miss Bird created before REPlayed went dark?
Peter: If you guessed Gamernality you're correct. And a real REPlayed fan! Give yourself a pat on the back.
AJ: Before we could ramp up work on Phoenix Wright, a notice arrived in the mail telling us it was time to leave.
AJ: Moving out so soon was both shocking and inconvenient. But we had no choice.
AJ: We did however, have a chance to make one last song. A tribute to our home for several years and the sets and videos we had made in it.
AJ: The video was planned for Miss Bird's channel originally but she allowed it on RE instead given it's importance to many Encounterers.
AJ: While we're on the topic... What is the name of Miss Bird's YouTube channel?
AJ: If you guessed SparrowRayne, that's the right answer! Go subscribe when you have a chance.
Nate: For Halloween, I took the reigns and invented a new RE series called The Shovelwarewolf which mixed terrible Shovelware games
Nate: and creative ways of destroying them. Think AngryVideoGameNerd but fuzzier!
Nate: Despite a grand escape in the season finale, our hairy anti-hero wound up back to the grind for a holiday special on Christmas Eve.
Nate: No rest for the weary!
Nate: What prop does Ivan smash in every episode?
Nate: The answer is a bottle, perhaps Ivan should try drinking from cans instead...
Peter: Call us sellouts but we occasionally take on paid projects to help support the channel. Projects like Best Fiends Forever.
Peter: THE EXCITING FREE APP AVAILABLE NOW FOR IOS AND ANDROID! Our musical starred cute cats,
Peter: Uhhh slugs, well cat slugs and cute girls, friends uh girlfriends. Sigh.
Peter: Which of RE's YouTube friends was making his own Best Fiends videos at the same time?
Peter: Yeah that one was too easy. The answer's Markiplier, he loves the slugs.
Miss Bird: We swore up and down that we would never make more FNAF but the more we saw Sister Location, the more the boys couldn't resist.
Miss Bird: FNAF Blood and Tears seemingly abandoned the past videos to instead focus solely on Baby.
Miss Bird: The one familiar face returned to bridge the gap between prequel and predecessor. Why was I not originally cast as Baby?
Miss Bird: Dun da da daaa! Without a doubt, the answer is C. Though ripping down the FNAF set helped ease my hatred just a tad.
Peter: With the launch of Pokemon Sun and Moon, AJ again donned his Pikachu onesie and prepared for some Alolan hijinks.
Peter: From tropical plants to grass skirts, our yard became an ethnic nightmare of cultural appropriation and mismatched stereotypes.
Peter: And yet most of you only questioned how and why, Red tore off his shirt. #Priorities.
Peter: Can you guess why Red tears his shirt off?
Peter: The reason Red rips his shirt off is he spilled something on it namely his root beer. Right as we were about to film the ukelele scene.
Peter: Come on Vhinfy. Seriously?
Nate: I had always joked I wanted to play Tingle on the channel but I was put to the test when they cast me in Tingle Bells or is that Tingle Sells?
Nate: Whatever you want to call it, it was creepy and weird. But we still kind of liked it. Enough to record kazoo, otamatone and jaw harp parts in the music.
Nate: What can I say except, you're welcome! Which other Zelda character shows up to ruin Tingle's video?
Nate: Much as we'd like it to be C, the answer is B Ganondorf.
Miss Bird: We do have one more video we'd like to mention. Though it will be launching in the first week of 2017 and that's the winner of the poll launched 5 years ago.
Miss Bird: In which we asked Encounterers what game they wanted a musical for most. So here is one last question!
Miss Bird: Which of these Ace Attorney characters will appear in our Phoenix Wright musical?
Miss Bird: If you picked any of these, you are correct! Because they're all appearing in the series!
Miss Bird: So here's a short peek at Phoenix Wright The Musical.
AJ (Phoenix): You know if you keep ending up here, they're gonna name a wing after you.
AngiViper (Maya): That would be cool.
AJ (Phoenix): Serious Question. Did you murder my childhood best friend?
AngiViper (Maya): No!
AJ: Thank you all for a powerful year and we hope you'll continue watching Random Encounters in 2017.
Peter: See you guys!
Nate: Thanks for watching. Happy New Year!
Miss Bird: I'll see you when I see you.
AJ: AJ AwayJ!
AJ, Peter and Nate: BEARDSALUTE! OOOGHH!
Gumshoe: Heya pal, funny place to dispatch an ambulance huh?
AJ (Phoenix): Save it Gumshoe, I need info.
AJ (Phoenix): ♪ What do you know of Larry's murder?♪
Gumshoe: Seems like he fell off the roof pal.
AJ (Phoenix): ♪ Got any trace of foul play? ♪
???: I don't ask questions, I just sweep.
AJ (Phoenix): ♪ What did you find inside of the body? ♪
Nate (Director Hickfield): Here's my autopsy report.
AJ (Phoenix): Have you a bead on any lead? Cause I need it today...
Gumshoe: Actually a piece of evidence was stolen..
AJ (Phoenix): Stolen?