i'm so excited that it's halloween my personal favorite holiday now it's not because of the
candy rude of you to assume that by the way it's because of the spooky vibes plain and
simple and since this is my first time making content for the holiday spirit
what better way to celebrate that than with the absolute most scariest thing i could think of
no it's not the new old logo i told you to stop bringing that up the absolute most foul most
sinister most nightmare inducing show my eyes have the displeasure of ever seeing the most meaty it
it's mr meaty we're talking about mr meaty i guess i decided to give you all a trick this
year rather than a treat i'm both equally as sorry as i am not sorry one bit happy halloween
so let's get ready to discuss the tale of mr meady and maybe why you shouldn't
remember it mr meady was a canadian-american teen live-action puppet series that achieved
the secret goal of any good animated series to scar a generation of children
for life seriously you all thought this was okay to put on my tv screen as a kid
you sick monsters originally airing is a series of shorts that played during commercial breaks
on nickelodeon from 2002 to 2005. mr meady was greenlit and extended out into a complete series
in the fall of 2005 with it originally premiering on nickelodeon on september 22nd 2006 and while
that date is considered the premiere of the series the pilot episode for the show which
featured material from the pre-existing short series aired on december 30th 2005 many months
before the show's official release but if you saw my previous video about making fiends i
left a little easter egg hint on to what this video was by talking about turbonic
and showcasing clips of mr meaty this show in fact was very similar in the sense of making fiends
with the shorts that aired during commercial breaks being used on turbo nick to your creation
heart's content at some point in its two-season three-year run 2007 would see mr meaty switch
from nickelodeon over to nicktoons oh boy do i even have to say it by this point you know what
the nicktoons channel is known for in this case however i feel less bad may i remind you of this
yeah now cue the fans of the show starting to raise their pitchforks
wait wait wait hold on let me finish the video before i'm sacrificed to the content gods mr
meaty was centered around two lazy teenage boys working a part-time job at the made-up
mr meaty fast food restaurant inside the fictional scotchborough shopping mall josh was the charming
popular uncaring and self-centered 16 year old protagonist who worked as the mr meaty's
cashier while parker was the nerdy awkward dumb 15 year old mr meaty fry cook who was happy to
follow his friend josh around the story of two dudes who sling meat for a living which
is a lot safer than their old job slinging old ladies hey stay put mr meaty's on next
josh and parker are named after drake parker and josh nichols from the tv show drake and josh
that's apparently true along with josh also just being named after one of the creator's nephews
and parker's appearance being based on one of his other nephews throughout the series the two
boys were often placed in bizarre supernatural grotesque and often just downright disgusting
situations while also dealing with commenting problems like dating and peer pressure oh joy
mr meaty was created by the grogs or alternatively groggs inc a canadian puppet company that existed
from 1992 to 2009. the groggs made a variety of tv shows and short films for nickelodeon and nick's
off branch channels over the years including a series of shorts called nanolan a just as strange
but this time child-friendly show that focused around three-year-old mona's time at her
grandmother's house don't even get me started on that and the nick jr short series whoopee's
little bird seriously no wonder our generation is so messed up the grogs was founded by jamie
shannon and jason hopely the duo later brought on jack lens to help with their various projects
as an executive producer with mr meaty being one of those projects while neither shannon or
hopeley have worked at a fast food restaurant prior to making mr meaty hopely had worked at
a movie theater's concession stand in the past and drew on that experience for inspiration for plots
he has also cited the ren and stimpy show as an inspiration for the tone and comedic stylings of
mr meaty and well look what eventually happened to ren and stimpy yeah i'm not digging into that one
again the grogg's made over 250 foam latex puppets for the show along with josh and parker the show
featured a puppet cast of rotating mall characters along with a few regulars these recurring
characters included doug a beefy mall cop with a macho attitude that likes hanging out with the
boys and often helps them there's edward r carney mr meaty's 109 year old founder and ceo who at
some point was cryogenically frozen and serves as the main villain in a few episodes for note
even in episodes where carnie acts just as a side character instead of a major villain he is still
evil mean and greedy and will not rest until every man woman and child eats a mr meaty meal at least
five times per day and mr wink the cold-hearted manager of mr meady and carney's lackey who has an
electric chip on the back of his neck that carney uses to zap him whenever he disobeys kearny there
is also an unnamed goth girl who occasionally serves as josh's love interest ashley steinberg
a girl who somewhat dislikes josh but still goes out with him sometimes ashley too who chews her
hair when she's nervous listen there's a lot of side characters that make appearances all
the time in this show there's a lot okay remember 250 foam puppets the show was eventually cancelled
due to a mix of low ratings and criticism from adults and vegetarians who protested against
the show presumably for different reasons and they even make fun of it here with this moment
every memorable mr media episode was memorable for its own special brand of disturbing horror
it forced upon its audience but two episodes in particular are always cited as the main
source of pre-teen nightmares and in my case adulthood nightmares the episode's roast beef
barb and the notorious tapeworm episode titled mooch master p roast beef barb focuses around
josh just after he has been broken up with for not being hot enough to cope with his heartbreak
he decides to create the perfect girlfriend using the new mr meaty jiffy meat machine
which can make anything imagined out of meat josh and parker go out and collect
dna samples from various girls josh likes to combine into the perfect girl for josh
sensors i don't care how many times i use that sensor clip it's just so funny to me
so if i recycle the joke uh too bad these samples include ashley steinberg's fingernail
ashley two's hair and britney's boogers josh adds these samples to the jiffy meat
machine and waits for his perfect girl what the jiffy machine produces instead though
is a blonde girl with a pink headband and a body made out of raw flesh because once again josh used
a jiffy meat machine that can only make things of meat stick around for more meets at the mall
mr meaty next on nicktoons network disheartened and embarrassed by roast beef barb josh tries to
hide her from the public eye before eventually accepting her as his girlfriend but when josh
goes to collect barb from her freezer room the next morning he finds her cheating on him
with a hunk of beef saying that he was so much hotter than josh so josh and barb end up breaking
up and the episode ends fantastic the notorious tapeworm episode mooch master p is one that
haunts us all not just for its imagery but for the disgusting implications it carries this episode
begins with josh bringing in a homemade sandwich parker enthralled by the concept of homemade food
begs josh to give him just one bite which josh finally relents to parker then ends up eating
nearly the whole thing infuriating josh causing him to call parker a moocher and telling him to
go mooch somewhere else parker goes on to mooch somewhere else by getting food off of everyone
in the mall going so far as to mooch an uncooked hamburger patty josh was planning on serving to
the customers after eating this uncooked patty parker's stomach begins to gurgle an occurrence
he originally writes off as just gas but after which strange things begin to occur parker finds
that food is disappearing before he gets a chance to actually eat it when he shows the phenomenon to
josh josh decides to record parker attempting to eat a meatball to discover what's going on
this recording however when played back in slow motion shows that an enormous tapeworm is living
in parker's stomach thanks to the raw patty he ate to get it out the boys tie a sausage to a fishing
line to bait the tapeworm they yank the tapeworm out of parker's stomach and trap it in the fryer
basket afterwards larry an australian zookeeper approaches the boys and offers to buy the tapeworm
for 20 the boys agree and look on horrified as larry commences to swallow the wormhole and then
the boys use the 20 to buy all the mooched victims their food back in parker promises no longer to be
a moocher well at least there's a moral in there sweet 20 bucks to put it simply this show haunts
my dreams and not in a good way there is something so uncanny with the design of the puppets mixed
with all the disturbingly horrific imagery that as a kids show really made me uncomfortable but
for some reason i can't take my eyes away from it when watching it i don't label this as a good
or a bad show i label this as the most weird surreal piece of kid's programming from a major
network that i've ever seen watching it back now and facing my fears this is something i
could expect from comedy central adult swim or one of those youtube channels that make very creepy
yet oddly fascinating pieces of work seeing it in this light the show kind of works as something not
everyone could get into but i totally see why some may actually find this mesmerizing especially if
you're grassly enlightened or it may just cause you panic attacks anyway i think this show is
why i've stayed away from most puppet-based properties whether good or bad well just stay
away from the happy time murders in general that's just some free advice but yes i am saying mr meaty
is the reason i can't watch the muppets hey there buddy don't be scared we're only here
for entertainment oh my gosh is that ray romano all right buddy you want to tussle i will kill
anyway this is an experience not just another show i don't hold any hate in my heart for it
nor an outpour of love just a form of respect for how it left an impact on me and still to this day
can't look at meat the same way if you like this show if you don't like this show let me know in
the comments below because i am genuinely curious as to why for either option and also how it has
affected you i for one will personally not be revisiting this show anytime soon after this i
certainly got my fill and now i have indigestion thanks nickelodeon it smells like smoked ham in
here and thus was the tale of mr meaty i thank you for sharing in this experience with me here today
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back with another video soon but until then have a happy halloween and stay safe out there my friends
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