Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: We are the super nerdy sailor guardians who fight for love and justice. And this is across the Moonaverse.
You know, every time I listen to our opening, I dance.
I can't help it.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: I move with it a little bit, if that counts. I don't dance, but I move with it.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: Hey. Hello and welcome to across the Moonaverse.
I'm Maddie.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: Hi, I'm Mike, and I'd like to wish everyone a very happy moon day.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Happy moon day, y'all. Here we are again with. With more moon averse talk. And Mike has quite the extensive page of. Pages of notes.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: Twelve pages of notes are over a keyword. This is not. This is, by the way, this is not the remark that I got in my grade school report cards where always doesn't live off towards potential. Doesn't know if you want to. I feel like in this case, they would have said, this is. This is definitely your potential right here.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: Who knew all you needed was magical girls?
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Who knew? Thank you, by the way, for introducing me to the magical girls. I didn't know that I needed them in my life, but now that they're there, I feel more complete.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Everyone needs some magical girls in their lives. That's my opinion.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: That having been said, that having been said. We're on season one, episode 16, a girl's dream suddenly becomes a bride.
And immediately after the intro is the little bumper that they put in that is kind of. Kind of teases you on what the episode is going to be in. Hope is how eagle. Unforgivable. Unforgivable. Unforgivable. And what's so unforgivable? Desecrating a lovely white wedding dress. The eternal dream of every young girl. So that sets us up for what we're about to see. And this brings me back to now. I know that we've asked you this question before, but I. Yes, as progressive as the show is in terms of being empowering girls, you know, we're definitely, definitely playing into stereotypes here. I don't think that every young girl.
Every young girl. I'm sure there's plenty of young girls who are afraid of marriage, say their parents are in a terrible marriage. They may not. They may think of marriage as a bad thing. You know, I think she needs to think before she speaks. You know, she's like a 14 year old girl using the superlative.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: I mean, you're not far off. I mean, also, you know, you also have to think that this was in the nineties and that was kind of a narrative that was pushed hard then true. Yeah, definitely. So.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: The kids are all struggling to stay awake in home economics class.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: And Usagi has failed. She's. She's asleep? Oh, yeah. She's got her head on her desk, and she's lying there dreaming, and she's like, sure, I'll have another pork bunny. Made me want to ask you, in your trip to Japan, I know you went to the. You went to the cafe, the Final Fantasy cafe, right?
[00:03:34] Speaker A: Yes, I did.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: But did you eat a pork bun in homage to sailor Moon?
[00:03:40] Speaker A: I did not, actually. Not in Japan. I've had them elsewhere. I've had them from japanese, like, restaurants.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: And without japanese cooks, I mean.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Yes, question mark. I've also gotten them frozen from the asian market. You can get them frozen, and then you just pop them in the steam them.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: So does it. Does it taste like pork?
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it depends on what you get. But the ones that I really like are the barbecue pork. So it's just like, really, like. Like almost slow cooked barbecue pork inside this little dumpling.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: I don't think any of the girls in my middle school were jonesing for pork. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, yeah. Some of them had snacks and candy. I mean, usagi is really into these pork buns, and so I just. I want to know what's so magic. It's like. Remember the line in the witch and wardrobe?
[00:04:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: One kid turns bad because the witch offers him turkish delight.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: I wanted to know what the heck turkish delight was, and then when I ate it, I was so disappointed. It's not delicious at all. It's like almond Roca kinda. It wasn't that great.
[00:04:50] Speaker A: It's. Well, pork buns are that great. I'll tell you that much. They're delicious, and I highly recommend them to anyone who wants to think of.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: When somebody is like. Like, okay. I think. I think the way that she gets about pork buns, that's how I get about pizza. So I guess it can be a savory thing. I was about to say that people only get all worked out over sweet treats, but that's not true. I definitely love me some pizza.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Oh, I am. I just, like, combined my love for. Because I love barbecue. It's been instilled in me. I'm from Kansas.
I'm a barbecue lady. And Joe, his family, whenever we go over to events and whatnot, they will have every other condiment but barbecue sauce. And it kills me because that's like, my. My little treat. Like any kind of barbecue sauce. Well, good barbecue sauce. I won't say any kind of barbecue sauce, because there's some barbecue sauce out there, but that's my, like, savory.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: I just got some, by the way. Yeah, I'll back you up on that. I bought. I tried a new brand. It had good advertising, had a good label on it. I was like. And it was expensive, so I figured it would be good. And it made my chicken nuggets inedible.
All right, we got a lot to cover. We can't.
[00:06:08] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: Home economic teacher is misses Akiyama.
[00:06:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: And they say that she used to be so passionate about sewing. What happened? And I was out of nowhere. Umino pops up and he said, well, I can answer that. I will bust out his little black book.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: Yes. I love that.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: Right before that, why do you keep popping up out of nowhere and scaring exactly my.
[00:06:35] Speaker A: He is.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: He is.
What does he write down in that little black book? Does he go around spying on all the teachers and writing down what he sees? How else would he have this. This knowledge of?
He probably writes down his little spy notes about everything.
I mean, printed on the COVID it looks like it's. It's the letter backwards. RMC. What would that stand for? Is that just gibberish to make it Ronin? Because, you know, those aren't japanese characters.
It looks like a backwards R Mc. Capital backwards lowercase R, Capital MC. I don't know why. I thought maybe you might have some insight on that.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: I don't know, but I'll ask the intern to see if I can check on that.
But, I mean, this is not the first time that we've seen Umino pop up with weird information about people. Because if you remember in the episode about working out, he has all of the deets on the Haruna sensei.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: Got a bad. Got a bad. Got it bad. He's happier teacher.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: He's just very much a snoop. He likes to know it all. He's a very brainy guy and just likes to know all the information.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: But it's maybe some of the female teachers. Maybe it's just girls in general. Maybe he's girl crazy and he's an equal opportunity. He goes for the milks and he goes for the. Goes for girls his own age.
Although you should know that Usagi's out of his league. You know, that doesn't.
[00:08:20] Speaker A: Yes. It doesn't stop him from. From trying, though.
[00:08:23] Speaker B: From trying. Well, especially if he gets opportunity to smooch or eat things. You know, when she. All of a sudden, he was pretty surprised when. When she asked him for a date in the last episode.
[00:08:34] Speaker A: That's very true.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: She got hers, all right. So he consults his doctor diary and he says, I don't know the cause of misses Akiyama's strange behavior. I believe it's connected to her engagement. And so I got here. How do you say? Her present?
Still unmarried. Her greatest desire is to wed her beloved in a beautiful ceremony while wearing a wedding dress that she sewed herself. How does he know this? He's got. He's got.
How would he know what her greatest desire is? What is super creeper?
[00:09:13] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And fun lore about japanese culture. 25. If you're over 25, you are considered an old maid.
[00:09:23] Speaker B: Oh, well, I knew 34 was significant. I mean, that was definitely gonna be a significant bat. So then it cuts to.
It's definitely a dark alley where we see the guy. He's on one knee. Obviously, it's a folding. But you know how I know it's a dark alley? Because it's dark. The background is dark. And then in the only fixture you can. The only thing you can see is what's known in the lighting industry as a wall pack. And you only have wall packs in the backside of buildings, so they're behind a building or in an alley. Definitely not a romantic place to propose to somebody. I like that.
And then you get the short pat, businessman on bending knees, no status. Admitting that he has no status, no savings.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: No savings, no grand wedding.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: Interesting. And he can't even give her the grand wedding reception she deserves.
And then, even so, would you give me the honor of becoming my wife? And he hands her the flowers and they begin floating. This is a dream. This is a dream. She was where they were imagining how the proposal went down. Yeah, they said they've been there, floating. She swoons and says, yes. After. After. No status, no savings, uninteresting businessman. Um, you know, yes, I'll become your wife.
She what a kept.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: She loves him.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: You know what I mean? I mean, you know, after she says yes, the background changes to paint clouds in a starry sky and then come back to, um. And easy, like, well, it's not ideal. It's not an ideal situation, but as long as they love each other and Usagi has a going, and she shoves it up in the air like she's making a proclamation in a battle cry. And she says, give me the ideal or nothing at all. I believe in impossibly high standards. As long as they're handsome. Go for it. Take a chance with them. I don't want plans to get married by the age of 25. So maybe, like you were saying, he definitely doesn't want to be in all made.
[00:11:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
Questing for love, just like she is protecting love. Exactly.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: But I love that. As long as they're handsome. Give it a try.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: You know, so far, she has held up to that exact ethos.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: And then, despite the misguided sentiment of her battle cry, the ice cream slides off the cone and hits her on the head.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: You know, would we expect anything less from Usagi?
[00:11:48] Speaker B: And then Umido, mute to himself, he's like, if he wants a handsome guy, I'm doomed.
So, see, maybe he doesn't realize he's.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: Out of her league, you know? Uh, here's a fun, fun little spoiler. When I was trying to look up what's on Umino's notebook, which I could not find. And by I, I mean the intern.
Yes, I. Yeah, I. On the gud wiki page, it's noted here. It said, also, while the sailor senshi did imagine that Umino was handsome without his glasses on, at one point, author Naoko Takeuchi did confirm that he is indeed handsome without them. Okay, there you go. He.
You take off his swirly glasses, he becomes a handsome man.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Okay, so then we cut to it's a shop, and it's a dressmaker, but it's spelled d r e s s. M a k a r. It should be m a k e r. Yeah. And it made me think of this really racially inappropriate website that's really funny. It's called Engrish instead of English. And it's all these signs and stuff that are. That are found in very China and Korea and Japan. All these signs that are supposedly written in English, but they've got the spelling wrong and the wording wrong, and it's hilarious. It's hilarious. People get words.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: I will say, when I was in Japan, there, I have a picture. I have pictures of a couple of different things with just poor translations on them, and I. Including the back of one guy's shirt, which was insane. And it was. It just really reminded me about how people here in America, you know, like, they'll wear the shirts with the chinese characters and stuff on them and with no idea what they're saying. And I feel like it's got to be either, like, a tongue in cheek sort of making fun, or it's just like, the same exact vibe where they're like, I don't really know what this means, but it looks cool.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: So the bachelor friend who showed me the english website also showed me this YouTube video of it was like, Philippines top Idol and American Top Idol. And she was saying it was a song was really originally the basket to fat Finger song. It's called without you. It's made very popular by Mariah Carey. You probably know the Harry Nielsen version, too. But it's a. I can't live.
It's living.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: It's without you. Yeah.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: This woman on Philippines top, top idol says, ken Lee, Ken Lee. Like a guy's name, like Kennedy Ken Lee. Ken Lee. She leave a deep without you. She just made up you. And then she kept going. So she was, she was like, singing it. She like in pigeon English.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: She's making taking up sounds and sound. They weren't english words. And so one of the judges is like, what language are you singing that in? And she said, english.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: So there you go.
You know, I will say I can't when I sing fall out boy songs. That's kind of what I do, singing fall out boy songs. Because there are times where I'm like, I don't know what they're saying, but what I'm saying sounds close enough. Yeah.
Similar mouth noises.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: I wouldn't go on a singing competition that televised across the nation and not knowing the words, you know what I mean?
She became an Internet sensation. And of course, Mariah Carey actually commented on it. Was he very, very impudent up there? Yeah, she said that she was singing a Mariah Carey song. Didn't even realize that Mariah Carey was covering someone else to talk. Anyway, that's the second time. I beg. Rather take it right off.
All right. So. Right, so we're at the dressmaker.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: Haruka calls out to Miss Akiyama. What's wrong?
And then what? Drawing? You seem distracted. I bet she's thinking about her fiance. And. And then we realized that the person, Haruna Aruna, she's the english teacher, right? Okay.
[00:16:14] Speaker A: Yes, yes.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: They know each other from school. They're both educators.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: And she's up. If you get invite your fiance. And she's like, oh, that's right. You're planning on making a dress on your own dress. And. Yeah, of course that the dressmaker top. So that makes sense. And she says, yes, but I can't seem to find any silk that I like. I've already picked the design I like, though. And she's like, yeah, I'll make sure to finish that. I'm planning to find my future husband at your wedding reception. You know what I mean?
[00:16:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Haruna is always looking for a man like, that cracks me up every time. Haruna, she leans into it, too. She doesn't like. There are so many. She could, like, be. No, I don't think I will. But she's like, no, yeah, I'm that desperate. Please bring me someone, please.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: Exactly.
Can we cut to a Ferrari parked in front of a large mansion in the woods, which we know. We know to be neck rights. That breaks hideaway.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: And I just want to point out at this point, this is the second 2nd episode in a row that didn't begin with. With Beryl. You know, in every episode. Yeah, every episode that Jadeite was in, we started. First time we saw the Dark Kingdom, it was Jada and Beryl talking twice. This is two episodes. So if he failed, he failed to gather any energy.
Opening mission. Yeah, there were no reasons. We don't see, you know, see him getting mixed and, you know, getting. Taking a task for anything. And now here's.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: Maybe he just hasn't rolled into back yet.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: He hasn't reported his failure. That could be.
[00:17:52] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just like, she doesn't need to know. She doesn't need to know. It's fine. It's fine.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: What did he say to the stars? The stars are all knowing. The stars are all seeing something like that.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: Something like that. The only note I have in my notes, oh, nephrite. That's what I've written in my notes, is just nephrite.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: He said Vega.
Vega. In the lyric constellation is cheers for the heavens. It flows alone, unable to traverse the galaxy. And I just. I needed to know what that all that meant. So this is. Bear with me. So this is what I found out, okay. Because making the lyric constellation, its tears fill the heavens. I was like, I'm not aware of any mythology that this is even referring to, because most of the constellations come from greek mythology, or just greek mythology, I believe. And so Vega is the brightest star in the. In the lyric constellation, and it's a vulture or an eagle playing the lighter. A liar is like a harp, except it looks like a cartoon dog facing you with the strings where its eyes would be. That's what a liar is. It's like a harp. And that's why the tears fill the heaven or are unable to traverse the galaxy. So this is the best guess for lighting. Cheers for the hell fill the heavens. The layer is of Orpheus, and Orpheus could come rocks, which is quell the voices of sirens, who sings empty songs to daisy and the Argonauts. Orpheus marries Eurydice, a nymph. Eurydice a nymph, and she dies from a snakebite. After she dies, Orpheus enters the underworld, where he charms Hades with his lyre. Enough show that he agrees to let Eurydice be released from the on the condition that Orpheus now look back towards the underworld until he's back above ground.
But Orpheus faltered and Eurydice is in the underworld. That's why it's here to be Billy and Evans.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: I guess it's not Orpheus and Eurydice, but that is a really good story, and I like your connections there. What it actually is is he targets higure under the star Vega. Vega is also known as the weaving girl, and the weaving girl is the subject of an annual japanese festival called tanabata, which is rooted in the story of a weaver who must stay separated from her love as she works.
So the story, it celebrates the meeting of two deities, Orihime and Hikoboshi, represented by the stars Vega and altar respectively. And according to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month of the lunar solar calendar. The date of tanabata varies by region based on all of that stuff, but this year it's going to be on the 10 August. Your interpretation could also be valid because Naoko did when she was in school, she studied. Hold on, I have it here.
She joined the astronomy and the manga clubs, so she was very into astronomy as well. So that interpretation would be just as valid in my opinion. Yeah, true, true.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: Constellation itself is supposedly a vulture or an eagle playing the liar, which is really odd. I don't know. Story of a vulture or an eagle playing any musical instrument. And if so, I think the eagle would play a piano. I don't know, maybe the guitar. Like the eagles.
Juban community center, where Usagi sees a couple getting married, which is. I just thought it's like getting married at the VFW, isn't it? Getting married at the community center. Kind of sad place.
What a beautiful.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: My friends got. Well, they didn't get married at the library, but their Reception was at the library, and it was really good.
Yeah, it was. It was really neat.
A lot of fun.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I think that's better than the community center. Just cognitive for me. Like bad. Like community dances, like in a small town. A small town. They have a dance for the young people at the community center, you know? Yeah. Anyway, I'm so jealous. This really is the dream of every young girl in Love. That again, this is. You keep harping on this, and it's the dream of every. Of every girl, you know? But she's talking about herself, of course. And she says, yeah, I hope. I hope it's me someday. And that makes sense. I mean, that definitely makes sense with Usagi's character, and I definitely have a part of that. And then I'll suddenly see workers who are dressed in navy tuxedos, maybe blue tuxedos, carrying an eight by eight sign advertising for a handmade wedding dress contest grand prize.
[00:23:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: Lavish Alex birthday, wedding reception.
How convenient. Oh, yeah, it turns out that Zachary, I just recently.
[00:23:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it's true. You know what?
[00:23:20] Speaker B: In a pink wedding dress? Getting there.
Go ahead.
[00:23:24] Speaker A: She's was. I was about to say the same thing. Usagi is 1000% gonna marry tuxedo common and motokyo Nissan. Because apparently usagi is okay with polyamory.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: If you surely didn't think there was any problem with it, that was your imagining she was cool with it.
Yeah, unfortunately. Unfortunately. She says to herself, I'm hopeless when it comes to sewing. I'll never agree with my view.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: And, uh, and then also, the customer, it cuts to Ray, and the MC is addressing the content. The Mc is kind of a smarmy character. He's like, hold on.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: Yeah, hold on.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: What if you didn't have anyone? Ray says to the. To the Mc, hold on. What if you don't have anyone? You. You and your Beyonce haven't settled on a date. The emphasis. Please try to remain calm. The prize winner can choose to have the ceremony held anytime they want.
So is that boring?
[00:24:28] Speaker A: Heck yeah.
[00:24:32] Speaker B: But after that reset. Time to read my move. Whatever. And what does that mean?
But then she said that she bossed into a soccer. Hey, what are you doing here? And Ray suddenly realizes her mom is a housewife.
[00:24:48] Speaker A: Yeah, your mom is a housewife. Can I.
[00:24:53] Speaker B: First raise denying that she's even there? Nothing. And then she's like, wait a minute. Your mom's house? What?
[00:25:00] Speaker A: She decides she needs to hang out with Usagi?
[00:25:05] Speaker B: Yeah, they're exiting the community center together.
Hey, your mom's a housewife. And she just follows her home, basically. And then quickly, we cut to misses Akiyama. She's designed for the wedding dress contest. Yes. It's just a quick thing to move the narrative along so we understand that this is Akiyama is over and designed to the wedding dust contest.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:25:31] Speaker B: And then they come back to Usagi's living room, where we see what's Isagi's mom's name.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: Her name, Ikuko.
[00:25:42] Speaker B: Okay. We just say mom, and she's offering a slice of cake to Ray, and he's like, hey, that's my cake.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: She's like, those are my snacks, mom.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: And raise. I mean, raise. Raise. Like, she's like, eddie Haskell, you know, Eddie Haskell was a beaver.
He was. He was always like, you know, he, like, he was crude when he was hanging out with. He was. He was Wally's the only brother's best friend, while it was the viewers older brother. And Eddie Haskell was. Was Wally's best friend. And Eddie Haskell, you know, they proved they're talking to each other, and all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the beaver's mom, this is Cleaver, would enter the. Enter the job, enter this room, and all of a sudden, Eddie Haskell would just pour on the charm, and he'd be like, well, it's so good to see you, misses Cleaver. You know, he was just so insincere. And that's how ray is being with withang's mom, 10,000 people, even though we go to different schools, we're really good. Friendsagi's like, she's followed me home.
[00:26:45] Speaker A: Soggy's like, wait a minute. You're always mean to me. What the hell?
[00:26:49] Speaker B: Exactly. That's Luna. Luna's there, and Luna says to Usagi, what do you think your deal is? You know, what do you think Ray is up to? And he was talking, how should I know?
And then Ray's like, wow, there's really nothing better than homemade cake. You really are quite the talented chef. This is, uh, how do you say your last. How do you say your last name?
[00:27:12] Speaker A: Tsuchino.
Yeah. Tsuchino.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: Zucchino. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you sound. He's like, baker. Everyone can tell. We take it from this, from the child in front of this patient. And then mom waxes out you over the head, which is like a baking.
And William's like, I'm so jealous of Usagi. A wonderful mother like you must be great at a great many things, like sewing, for instance.
[00:27:41] Speaker A: And that's when.
[00:27:45] Speaker B: It'S so great.
[00:27:46] Speaker A: Laugh hysterically, because turns out Ikuko is horrible at sewing.
[00:27:54] Speaker B: And then we find out what Rey thinks of that. So Rey has gone through all the trouble of following Usagi home, buttering up the mom like Eddie Haskell, and only to find out all of her time and effort was wasted because he's talking. Mom can't sew.
And she says, like, she was saying, and Ray. Ray's not even protecting that. She didn't use this because you could let me know. Your mom was bad at sewing before I went through all this trouble, you know?
[00:28:26] Speaker A: And so he's like, what? I didn't even know. Why you. You just followed me home. What are you.
[00:28:31] Speaker B: Yeah, you. You just. You just came over here so you could use my mom to help you win the wedding dress contest, didn't you? And Mary doesn't even deny it. She just sticks out her tongue, and you. Sagi.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: Meow.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: And then Luna. Unbelievable. You should be spending more time training like the next monster, not wasting your time on some silly contest. And it's like, you too, sonny. And at that point, the girls have left once again.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Luna is addressing nobody. I love that. It happens to Luna a lot when she gets on her little rant about what they're supposed to be doing.
[00:29:08] Speaker A: Yeah. She's like, excuse me, by the way.
[00:29:14] Speaker B: Yeah, you should be trained to fight the next monster. And nobody's listening. She's opening empty room.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: Poor Luna.
[00:29:21] Speaker B: So what's next, Maddie? Where did we cut you next?
Where do we go to from there?
[00:29:27] Speaker A: My next line is just the words you wench, which I'm pretty sure is what Usagi calls Rei in that argument, which is wonderful.
And then the next thing in my notes is that it cuts to Usagi complaining to Ami Chen about Ray's behavior and is just like, man, this is ridiculous. She's trying to use my mom and this, that, and the other.
Then she, you know, she admits she really wants to be a part of this contest.
Yeah. And she asks, she's like, amy, you're really good at sewing. You're good at home ec. Can you help me?
I want to learn. Yeah. Which for Usagi is a big deal.
[00:30:16] Speaker B: We cut to a storefront, and the name of the store is Cloth. It's a Battery store named Cloth. I love that it's a store named Cloth.
[00:30:26] Speaker A: I mean, at least you never have to wonder what the store is when you're in the Jupon district because you got Dressmaker, you got cloth, you've got crown video games.
Yes.
[00:30:41] Speaker B: Crown doesn't work. It doesn't work. Crowd doesn't tell me it's a video games arcade.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: I mean.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: Oh, it's Crown games game center, so I guess.
[00:30:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the crown game center.
[00:30:54] Speaker B: Sorry.
[00:30:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, I think cloth is much more succinct.
[00:31:00] Speaker A: It's. I mean, it's its peak.
[00:31:03] Speaker B: What's going on inside of store name cloth?
[00:31:05] Speaker A: Maddie, what's going on is a crazy, crazy sale. Very reminiscent to the first episode with the jewelry. But this time, it's a bunch of young women buying cloth. And it's. It's not even evil cloth as far as we know.
But maybe it is, right?
[00:31:25] Speaker B: And we see. So we see. We see Miss Athiyama is there and this colonist for when they are going crazy. And through the melee, she notices Haruna, and she's all, Mister Carata. And then she picks up a piece of fabric that's been tossed in her direction. She admires it. She's like, oh, this silk. And then out of nowhere, you know, just in the middle of a bidding frenzy at the clothing store, the one man in clothing store slides it up right next to Miss Akiyama, and you just.
[00:31:58] Speaker A: Who could that man be?
[00:32:00] Speaker B: It's not great, of course.
He slides right up next to her, and he's just, like, beautiful. And then he drapes it over himself like a shawl, and he's just flawless. What wonderful fabric. Perfect material for a wedding dress.
[00:32:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a little weird. Never thought that I would miss the master of disguise.
I never thought that I would miss the master of disguise. But nephrite is given c serious creep vibes, and I don't know how to feel about it.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: Right. JAdA never did this kind of stuff. Beautiful, you know? And then he. And then he tries to misdirect her by saying, what a wonderful fabric for making a wedding dress. But then that's his moment to tank the fabric with his crest.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: Yeah, the evil dress.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: He doesn't say anything. He just kind of zaps it and puts his crest on it. And we. Of course, by now, we know that that means that there's an oster in the cavernous.
[00:32:59] Speaker A: Just a little sealing spell for a monster.
[00:33:03] Speaker B: We cut to a walkie talk is what we call it in the movie business. It's. Usagi and Naru are walking and talking, and they're. Where are they walking you.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: They're going to miss Akiyama's house. Because Usagi is determined to enter this contest. I gotta say, it's really admirable the way she. She has so many resources where she could, you know, cheap out on this, but she wants to learn how to do it. She wants to be able to do it. She wants to enter with something that she made herself, and she's. She's trying to get narrow in on it, too.
[00:33:38] Speaker B: Exactly. She's not. She's not trying. She's not trying to have someone else, make her a dress that she can then enter. When the concept was, she is. She was a little heart of gold. She's determined to learn how to sew because she believes that she can make a white dress at this point.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:33:51] Speaker B: You really believe that?
[00:33:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I. Yeah.
[00:33:53] Speaker B: So they're walking up.
They don't even make it to her front door. As they're walking up, they see. They seem the same. Chubby, boring businessman is heading up the stairs.
Miss Akiyama lives on a second floor apartment, probably above a chinese food restaurant or something.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: It's like one of those apartments where you. It's not, like, enclosed in a building. It's like you have the stairs.
Yeah. The concrete balcony thing.
[00:34:31] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Very believable.
Old maid lives up there, you know?
[00:34:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: That seems like where old maid would be.
Probably converted. Converted space above a chinese food restaurant, I think is what was in there.
[00:34:49] Speaker A: I mean. Yeah.
[00:34:51] Speaker B: And he's so the dude, he's carrying flowers.
[00:34:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:54] Speaker B: And she opens the door, and she is looking fierce.
[00:35:00] Speaker A: She looks different. She looks different. Before she was this mousey.
She's bespectacled. She's got the little blonde in her hair. Very, very cozy.
[00:35:16] Speaker B: She was a marm. She was a school marm. I love that word.
She was really harming me. Now she's looking fierce.
Unbuttoned Oxford over a sports bra. She has purple booty shorts. Yeah, this is not. This is not the woman. We saw TG home at the.
[00:35:38] Speaker A: And the hair is giving kind of Joan Jett, you know? Yeah, yeah.
[00:35:43] Speaker B: And so he's basically like, I haven't seen you. Are you okay? And she yells at the Beyonce to not bother her until the Javon dress concept is over. And then she shakes, clutching her hands, hunched over like gala from Lauren Ray's. My dress. My dress. I got to get back to making my wedding dress.
[00:36:05] Speaker A: You might say that she's.
She's possessed by the dress.
[00:36:11] Speaker B: And then realizes that she doesn't stand a chance. Ms. Hakiyama is entering the dress contest.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: She's like, oh, wow. Miss Hakiyama's entering. I'm out.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Call it quits. Yeah, but Luna, on the other hand. Luna, on the other hand, is like, wait a minute. Something sus is going on here, right?
[00:36:33] Speaker B: She says, that's your. That's your concern here.
[00:36:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: Is that you're not going to win the wedding group contest. How about the fact that she's actually super weird? Yeah, exactly.
[00:36:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Then it's like, once again, priorities, usagi. Priorities.
[00:36:47] Speaker B: So then we cut to Luna inventing to Ami as they're walking to the, how do you say it? Hipaa.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: Hikawa shrine. Yeah.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: Hikawa. Yeah. So they're just talking to Avi about this, and they're walking today.
College ride. Where? What do we see? What's going on in the shrine?
[00:37:05] Speaker A: Rei is running around with a ceremonial dress that she is trying to steal for the wedding dress contest, and Oji san is chasing her around just screaming, re, you can't do this. This is our only dress. My God. You can't use something so sacred for a contest. And she's like, no, but I need it. But I really need it. Can I please have it, please?
And then she runs into Ami. Literally, right?
[00:37:37] Speaker B: I got here that the sky turns yellow with red stars and red stars explode with Wayne practices.
[00:37:43] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:37:45] Speaker B: That's, that's their version of Pow or bat like, basically a review of Batman. Every picture of Batman was Adam west as Batmandhe when they would have to fight sequences and they would say, oh, yeah, that's, that's, that's kind of the red exploding stars is kind of like that.
[00:38:02] Speaker A: 10,000.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: And then grandpa wastes no time. Grandpa, you know, wastes no time flirting with Avatar.
Yeah.
[00:38:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:12] Speaker B: Hey, why don't you get married at my trying. And she says that she has nobody to marry. And Grandpa says, I'm single too. Why don't you and I get married in the manga too.
[00:38:29] Speaker A: There is a couple of moments where he's flirting with girls that come to the shrine, but he isn't as present in the manga as he is in the anime. And he looks entirely different in the manga too. In the manga, he's the short guy who has got a full head of hair and a mustache and totally different from Ojiu san in the anime.
[00:38:53] Speaker B: This is terrible, too. This is another usually, like, racist faux pas. But have you seen breakfast at Tiffany's? Have you seen the movie breakfast at Tiffany?
[00:39:01] Speaker A: Not in a long time, but I have seen it.
[00:39:03] Speaker B: Okay. You know, Mickey Rooney is right. The actor Mickey Rooney plays plays a Chinese American in Chinese American. And he says, go rightly. It says go rightly. Her name is Tiffany. It's Holly Golightly. Her last name. Is it go lightly? Is it go lightly? So he speaks English.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: Mickey Rooney was notorious for doing a lot of those kind of roles. It was bad.
[00:39:33] Speaker B: Los Angeles has one of the best chinatowns in the country. They're definitely chinese Americans that they could, that they could have used. Yeah. Miles from the studio, they asked Mitchy Rooney as a chinese person.
[00:39:49] Speaker A: No, they did not. Yeah, but.
[00:39:52] Speaker B: But the thing is, is that grandpa reminds me of that.
He looks kind of insane, even though comparison.
[00:40:00] Speaker A: Knowing the character. Knowing what the character looks like. Yeah.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: These are what forms my opinion of asian people.
Make your room together. This is go write me.
[00:40:14] Speaker A: Whole different world. Different world.
[00:40:16] Speaker B: I need to go to Japan. I wish I had your kind of, um, determination. I love to go to Japan, but I would never. I'd never save up enough. I could never save up an animal. Money in my bank account was when I was getting ready to close out of house. I had to save money for the closing cost. Yeah. And I didn't have it. I was. I was screwed. I was buying it with my girlfriend, and she put the down payment down. You agree? When she would pay the down payment and I would pay the closing costs and I didn't have it, it was what? To close on December 26.
And December is traditionally a slow time for making tv commercials. And generally, they don't shoot movies that they're gonna take Christmas off in the middle of them. It's movie to the day after the holidays to end before the holidays. So December is a terrible time to make money in the movie business. And I didn't know how. You come up with clothing dots which were like $10,000. Here's 8000. And then my buddy prince, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, save the day. And I got a call on a Sunday night. Then they said, I'm coming in triple time. They said, okay. Then I made so much money, I was cover. Talk about, bet you, by golly. Wow.
[00:41:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:33] Speaker B: We never went home. We took naps, but we stayed on the clock. So we went in. Yeah, I came in at triple time, and then I went into double time, and I stayed in double time because what do you stay in double time? Half the clock for 70 hours. But, like, everywhere, I was like, every get half, not bracer to pay here. And he didn't care what his money was. One of the brothers money, you know what I mean? I loved when he did this kind of stuff. You had to spend their money on top of that. That was a musical, Deacon. And he was a genius at screwing Warner Brothers over, too. Well, people realized that the reason he named it, he changed his name to a symbol was because he symbol didn't have a contract with Warner Brothers. He still owned it. Because what happened was when he made his deal after verbal rain.
[00:42:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:25] Speaker B: Bill, basically part Paisley park, had an emotion picture soundstage on it. That was one part. And then had three stand in the art recording studios in it. The prince basically had one that was his all the time.
Yeah, I worked at kids department. The Beastie boys were recording, and Arian was recording stuff like that. And so, yeah, so what happened was, is so good along the line, he had a seven album deal with Warner brothers. And after. So after around the world in a day, which was the album that came out after Purple Rain, they stopped promoting his albums. You know what I mean? Because around the world didn't do the kind of numbers as Purple Rain. Well, nothing was gonna do the numbers like Purple Rain. That was a huge album.
Whatever followed, it was never gonna be as successful, of course, but Warner Brothers, of course, kind of cooled on him. But by the point that he got to where he was doing fifth or 6th album with Warner Brothers and they weren't promoting it when he was releasing it. Yeah, he had kissed power, but you still have. And decided to do two or three more albums to build the Cauca. And if you didn't build the caca, I think we're gonna take away the studio. They're gonna take away the park.
[00:43:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:37] Speaker B: The other thing you got is the dark form. And they gave him $10 million. That was. That was the deal for several albums. And so the theory was he still owned it. Two or three albums worth of material and. And he changes his name to symbol. And the lawyers were like, he's got us. We don't have a contract with symbol.
So. Damn it. Prince.
Prince.
Don't. Don't dunk. But three albums worth of just garbage on him. Cause he recorded a ton of stuff that was never released. So he just gave him the bottom of the barrel stuff. Camel, Odinson. You know what I mean? There's, like, stuff that was absolutely worthless. Yeah. Here's my new album.
While he's releasing new material as the symbol, he's done with this.
[00:44:24] Speaker A: Beautiful.
[00:44:25] Speaker B: That's great. Yeah. So anyway, I don't know how we got there.
How do we get to prince and buying a house.
[00:44:34] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Buying a house.
[00:44:37] Speaker A: Going to Japan.
[00:44:38] Speaker B: That's right. Thank you. I would never leave enough money to go through a foreign trip to Japan. I can't. I don't know how to save money. As soon as I get paid, I spent it. All right. Now, I broke on Friday and I broke again.
Who?
[00:44:55] Speaker A: I feel that. But I'm slowly but surely building back up my savings and hope to make another.
[00:45:02] Speaker B: Twice.
[00:45:03] Speaker A: No, just once.
[00:45:04] Speaker B: I thought you went twice. Okay, just the ones period went twice, right?
[00:45:09] Speaker A: Yes. No, he's actually at the altogether, including the exchange program that he did in high school, he's been three times.
[00:45:16] Speaker B: So when you went with him, that was his second trip to Japan.
[00:45:20] Speaker A: Yes, exactly.
[00:45:21] Speaker B: He did that one in high school. And then he went with you.
[00:45:23] Speaker A: Yeah. And then a couple years after that, he went back and.
[00:45:29] Speaker B: Tyler. Right?
[00:45:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And he also went back to Japan. And last time that Peter was in Japan, he saw a group of people dressed as characters from Mario Mario play riding go karts around the street a la mario kart. So.
[00:45:45] Speaker B: Course you did.
[00:45:46] Speaker A: You know Japan.
[00:45:48] Speaker B: That's why imagine goes out in Japan every day.
[00:45:51] Speaker A: It's. It's. I love Japan.
It's so interesting.
[00:45:57] Speaker B: All right, Madeline, where do we. Where do we cut you? After Grandpa creeps out on Avicae, we.
[00:46:05] Speaker A: Cut to Usagi trying to be stealthy.
She is.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: Go ahead.
[00:46:13] Speaker A: She is determined to enter this dress contest. She's determined to make a dress. She wants to win, damn it. And so she stealthily, the pretty thief of love and justice stealthily creeps into Yukuco mama's room to steal her favorite curtains.
[00:46:38] Speaker B: Okay, so this is what I have. Usagi tiptoes around her house with a diaper on her head tied with a half pin under her nose. It's so weird. It looks like a diaper that's tied under her nose.
[00:46:51] Speaker A: It's a handkerchief.
[00:46:53] Speaker B: And she said, I am a freaking cat burglar. We saw me.
So I just. Here's a little. Okay. A little. I did a little research on this because I was like, yeah, usaging kid wasn't a cat burglar. Or really, the kid wasn't a cat burglar.
The kid was known to have committed robbery or theft, accidental and intentional murder, and also got an escape charge after being entrapped by a false offer of amnesty for shooting and killing other lawmen while serving as the deputy of a rival count. But he wasn't a catbird, so you should pick someone else. But there are really famous cat workers.
[00:47:34] Speaker A: And let's be honest, soggy's not so good at history, so.
[00:47:40] Speaker B: Maybe I'm being. Maybe I'm being a little hard on her. You're talking. A kid is a cute nickname.
[00:47:46] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: Sundance.
That's true.
Sundance kid. That'd be better.
You sign his kid some dance kid. He was. He was a bank robber, though.
[00:48:00] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah.
[00:48:01] Speaker B: He was a cat bird.
[00:48:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:04] Speaker B: So she walks up to the window and embraces the drapery.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: Yes. In a very, very creepy. This is perfect. This fabric is amazing. And it's not too shortly after, she's like, yeah, it is great, isn't it? Usagi, you're not thinking of doing.
[00:48:23] Speaker B: Of taking my curtains and making them into something entirely different, like a wedding dress?
[00:48:27] Speaker A: And Usagi's like, ahahaha. Of course not. Mom, please.
[00:48:33] Speaker B: I wanted to buy fabric, but my allowance wouldn't cover it. Curtains are the only choice. My only other choice. Mom agrees, but it means that she will have no allowance for three months.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:45] Speaker B: For the new cover back.
[00:48:48] Speaker A: You're gonna use my drapes? You gotta. You gotta pay the price is my good curtain.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: And then their mom says, well, you've only got a couple days to finish the dress. Can you finish it in that amount of time? And that's the end of that scene with, I love that she's so desperate. He's gonna use them all curtains to make a wedding dress.
[00:49:07] Speaker A: Exactly. She. She is just. She tries so hard.
[00:49:10] Speaker B: And then. So then we come. They would come to Hiragu laughing hysterically, holding the dress in the air and spinning around in circles until she laughing hysterically. And then she just collapses.
[00:49:23] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:49:24] Speaker B: So, I mean, obviously the maniacal dress making session has come to its conclusion. She's actually spinning her dress around in celebration of having created this beautiful hand dress. Yeah.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: Yes.
Yeah.
[00:49:40] Speaker B: And then we go to the dress.
[00:49:42] Speaker A: Contest, and Usagi is so sad.
She tried so hard, but she didn't succeed. She holds up her hands. They're covered in band Aids.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: Ray says, well, you know that you're better than everyone else at one thing.
And she's like, poking yourself.
[00:50:01] Speaker A: Oh, mood though. Every time I.
[00:50:04] Speaker B: So Owen Yddeh and then Luna tells Usagi that she needs to go undercover as a contestant. And Usagi's like, don't be so mean. You know, I don't have a dress that says. Because it's true. Usagi's really, really sad that she died.
If you didn't have a dress head during contact.
[00:50:23] Speaker A: And then it is suggested that they use.
[00:50:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Transformation test. Then it says.
[00:50:30] Speaker A: And so he's like, I got the one time I try to do it the honest way and not cut corners. Now I get to be rewarded.
[00:50:38] Speaker B: Now we're gonna. Now we have to talk about Moon Tiara prison power, because when. That's how normal thing that she says when she transformed. And also, you and I talked about this. When she transformed, she does moving for the power. Transformed. The power of the bros. In this case, he transformed with the pan, and she said something different. So when you use the moon power and then you let. And then you call out what you want to be transformed into, because moon power transformed me into a super beautiful bride.
[00:51:15] Speaker A: I mean, of course, you can't just be a regular beautiful bridegroofer or does.
[00:51:21] Speaker B: That kind of counter number that is.
[00:51:26] Speaker A: She transformed into photographer on the boat. The episode with the boat, with the cruise.
[00:51:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:51:33] Speaker A: The lovers.
[00:51:36] Speaker B: Had to transform into something else.
[00:51:38] Speaker A: No, I mean, she used the pen. And the second episode, when she breaks into the radio station, she uses it to. During the. The jazz episode to get into the jazz club. So she uses it quite a bit in this first season.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: This was the first time that I noticed that what she calls out when she transforms into something other than Sailor Moon, she says something different.
[00:52:07] Speaker A: Yes.
Different actors, you know?
[00:52:12] Speaker B: Well, I mean, it's a pen versus a brooch. Is it?
[00:52:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:16] Speaker B: Magic is coming from some other item, so obviously, the spell would be a little bit different.
[00:52:23] Speaker A: Yeah. You can't use spell for everything.
That's like using the same password for everything.
[00:52:29] Speaker B: I just want to make it clear that I'm hung up on transformation for one simple reason, and that's that I'm obsessed with their transformation because I want to do it. I want to do it. Remember that little video clip you showed me, a model down a Runway, and she. And she just flips her street clothes and she, like, whips them around and turns into Sailor Moon with a single moten? Yes.
[00:52:52] Speaker A: And it's amazing. And I love it so much. And that's my. That's the life I want. I wished, every morning I wake up and I'm like, I wish I could just shout out, maddie, prison, power, make up and then be ready for my day.
[00:53:06] Speaker B: I do, too. And not because I want to walk around dressed as Taylor. It's the transformation that is that I lost. I don't. I don't want the end result. I mean, it's fine. I'm sure I'll go to. I'll go to a convention. Justice Taylor going. And that's what it takes. But. But it has to have a transformation beforehand.
[00:53:24] Speaker A: Oh, of course.
[00:53:26] Speaker B: Otherwise, it's just a 54 year old man, you prostrate.
[00:53:35] Speaker A: It's not as unusual as you think at conventions.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: I'm just saying, for me, I have to try. I would have to spin around several times and have ribbons wrapped me in the outfit. And then I just need standing alone, dressing like a woman.
That is great.
[00:53:55] Speaker A: You know, I will tell you, her transformations over the seasons just get more and more miraculous.
[00:54:02] Speaker B: Oh, I'm saying that. Yeah, that's a pupil.
[00:54:06] Speaker A: They. There's some really, really good ones there. There are a couple where I am a little underwhelmed, but I particularly like hers in the third season.
[00:54:16] Speaker B: So two episodes ago, I went into great detail about her transformations versus. Versus sailor Mars and sailor Mercury.
[00:54:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:54:26] Speaker B: And their transformations were shorter. And I talked about what happened in each transformation, so I might as well talk about this one too. So she flips the pen into the air. Stars shoot across the sky, creating a shaft of star trails. Cut the sailor moon in silhouette against a full moon with a circle of stars spinning around the outer circumference of the moon. Then flash and tilt up to sailor moon wearing a pink and white wedding dress. I did it.
There's a thing in making movies.
It's called breaking the fourth wall. And what it is, is a typical sitcom or what have you is in somebody's living room. Right. And they have built the set. And the set is usually the doors. Like, imagine that married with children, for instance. The door is on the right. That's one wall. Then you have the back wall where the stairs going up to the upper level is. That's it. That's the second wall. And then you have the area that goes into the kitchen. Kitchen. Entrance to the kitchen. That's the third wall. And then we. The audience. The television show has removed the fourth wall.
[00:55:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:55:37] Speaker B: That's where the audience then is let in. So the fourth wall is what the audience sees it through. Okay.
[00:55:44] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:55:45] Speaker B: Now, when a character in a narrative is a sitcom or a drama or what have you. Because it doesn't happen in dramas. Because when you break the fourth wall, you're acknowledging that you're a show. You're acknowledging that the character realizes that they're performing for an audience, and that's what happens.
[00:56:03] Speaker A: It happens more in dramatic plays, like stage plays, right, correct. Yeah.
[00:56:09] Speaker B: Yes, but that. But it's called breaking the fourth wall. It happens here because after she says, I did it, she turns. She turns to the camera and she says, don't you think I look pretty?
[00:56:23] Speaker A: Of course we do, Usagi.
[00:56:25] Speaker B: They don't break the fourth wall very often.
[00:56:27] Speaker A: No, but every time they do, it's just so lovely because it's just like. It's like you're friends. You're friends with Usagi. That's the whole point. Yeah, yeah.
[00:56:38] Speaker B: So where. Where are. So then we go inside of a dress contest.
[00:56:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And it starts showing off all of the contestants and all of their dresses. And I am gonna just throw this out there. All of the dresses are kind of ick.
[00:56:53] Speaker B: True.
[00:56:54] Speaker A: And the most ick is, unfortunately for her, Miss Akiyama's, in my opinion, is ugly.
[00:57:02] Speaker B: So here's what I have. A curtain opens and a spotlight appears, illuminating. Miss Akiyama, wearing a lavender and blue dress with a maroon westby corset, feathered wings emerging from her neckline, and a crowning jewel of this outfit is quite literally a large red jewel, presumably a ruby set in the center of a headpiece fashioned in a sweet back white plumage. I said, she looks like the queen of swans.
[00:57:27] Speaker A: It's. It's bad. It's like when it. The reveal. And I'm like, this is supposed to be the winning wedding dress. First of all, what? Second of all, what?
[00:57:36] Speaker B: How about. Did I take the time to look up what that little corset thing was called? It's called a west bead. It's called a west bead.
[00:57:43] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:57:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:45] Speaker A: So much about fashion. Yeah.
[00:57:48] Speaker B: I can watch. I get. I can watch. What's the. What's the.
What's the one that Heidi Klum does?
[00:57:56] Speaker A: Fuck.
I think, was Tim Gunn. And I was like, make it, make it work. Make it work.
[00:58:04] Speaker B: I've been in the room while my mom or somebody's been watching it, and I know. I love Tim. Jim.
[00:58:09] Speaker A: Great.
[00:58:10] Speaker B: He never has a negative thing. He's never said one negative thing.
[00:58:14] Speaker A: Oh, well, he hasn't said it verbally, but with his face.
[00:58:17] Speaker B: Exactly.
Possible. And Jim would say, like, well, isn't that creative?
Jim's great. That's why they make it work.
[00:58:28] Speaker A: Make it work.
[00:58:31] Speaker B: Wonderful. Far more interesting.
[00:58:33] Speaker A: Beautiful.
[00:58:34] Speaker B: Heidi Klim is not interested to me at all.
[00:58:37] Speaker A: Sure. I get that.
[00:58:40] Speaker B: And the MC says, you can't interrupt a show like this, Miss Akiyama. Just shut up. And she zaps him with her flashing red pupils. Her pupils are flashing red.
[00:58:53] Speaker A: And we learn the first power that she has, which is magic. Love eyes.
[00:58:59] Speaker B: Right. I turn into throbbing pink hearts.
[00:59:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:59:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he immediately is like, oh, I see. Would you. He proposes marriage to her.
[00:59:08] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:59:09] Speaker B: Do you really think someone as lowly as you is worthy of me? Men and women. Men and women as well. So. I like that.
[00:59:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:59:19] Speaker B: Men and women as well. Well, Neil, once word of my unsurpassed beauty has spread, so not only has the monster made her make a turn into queen of the swans dress, I don't know how that was supposed to win the contest, by the way.
[00:59:35] Speaker A: I don't know either.
[00:59:37] Speaker B: So that's why, obviously, why the monster gave her this other power to enchant people. Yeah.
So. And also, gives her the delusion that she's. She is unsurpassed in her beauty. She's still miss. She's still Miss Akiyama with her hair done.
So then her. Then her flashing red pupils. She turns her flashing red pupils in the direction of the audience, and the audience sighs and faints, and they sink to the floor.
[01:00:10] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:00:12] Speaker B: It's a little different than throbbing pink hearts, right?
[01:00:16] Speaker A: That's power number two. Absorb energy.
[01:00:21] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:00:22] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:00:23] Speaker B: Oh, she takes. She takes the. Oh, she takes the energy from the audience?
[01:00:26] Speaker A: I believe so.
[01:00:28] Speaker B: So that was just your. Your. That's what you assumed the second power was? Yeah, okay.
[01:00:35] Speaker A: That's what I assume. Because, you know, she also. Usagi also notes that she doesn't have energy.
[01:00:41] Speaker B: See, I just took it as. It was similar to the single target, but it was an AoE. So the entire audience. The entire audience swooned, and they sighed, and they collapsed because of her unsurpassed beauty.
[01:00:55] Speaker A: I mean, maybe it was. That was the. The sapping of energy. It was just like, oh, she's so beautiful. I'm just so much love energy going towards this beautiful lady, but it's different.
[01:01:09] Speaker B: It sounds like maybe it's different energy than Jadeite was collecting.
[01:01:13] Speaker A: Yeah, different. Different vibe of energy.
[01:01:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it zaps their vitality. Kind of a vitality dream. Okay, yeah, I'll buy that. We'll go with that. Then what happened? What happens?
[01:01:25] Speaker A: I have her third power listed as summon a spider.
[01:01:29] Speaker B: Okay, so what happens? What actually happens next is Luna pokes out from under Asagi's dress and says, don't look her, guys. And then I pervert. And Luna's like, it's not the time for this.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: Luna's like, please, people are dying, right?
[01:01:48] Speaker B: Nephrite actually summons the spider. Nephrite calls out, come forth, my monster widow.
So that. That wasn't her third power. Nephrite's.
[01:01:59] Speaker A: I mean, it was kind of her third power. It was inside her fabric.
[01:02:04] Speaker B: I don't know.
[01:02:05] Speaker A: Without her. Without her beautiful energy, empowered by the constellation Vega, where would we be?
[01:02:13] Speaker B: Fair enough. Fair enough.
She had three powers, so this is great. I love that the animators drew it this way.
[01:02:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:02:23] Speaker B: A little ball of energy shoots out from Misakiyana's boobs. It shoots out a yellow ball of energy, and it turns into a black and orange spider lady with blue hair.
[01:02:33] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[01:02:34] Speaker B: And then miss Sakiyama collapses again. This is the second time now she collapsed.
[01:02:39] Speaker A: I mean, you know, sometimes we be collapsing up in this bitch and.
[01:02:46] Speaker B: Yeah. So Sailor Moon faces the spider lady. And says, so you revealed yourself, monster.
[01:02:52] Speaker A: Indeed. As if she knew the whole time. And by the whole time, I mean, ever since Luna told her to go.
[01:02:57] Speaker B: In there and investigate, she didn't know. Yeah, exactly. Usagi's barely been aware, and then she's like, Usagi.
[01:03:04] Speaker A: She's been focused on the dress.
[01:03:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:06] Speaker A: Eyes on the prize. Eyes on the prize, baby.
[01:03:08] Speaker B: And then we cut to. We cut to the voices of Ray and Ami chan. Or at this point, no, they haven't transformed yet.
[01:03:17] Speaker A: They have not. No.
[01:03:18] Speaker B: The dream Ami chan are being lowered onto the stage in a wooden ship suspended with vines. And the words happy couple painted on the hall.
[01:03:29] Speaker A: Indeed.
[01:03:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very, very dreamy.
And so then Sailor moon transforms.
[01:03:38] Speaker A: Yes. And then we have a really cool sequence where it starts with her transformation sequence, and much like you mentioned earlier, that the others two are shorter, in the middle of her transformation sequence, all of a sudden, we see Mercury, and then we see Mars, but what we don't hear is their transformation phrases. And then it goes for a little bit longer during the transformation, and they're all kind of overlapping in a way, and it's cutting from one to the other. And then about, like, halfway through, that's when we get the Mars power and mercury power, and it just kind of melds the three. And I thought that was done quite beautifully.
[01:04:22] Speaker B: Yes, and then they say. And they say, in the name of the moon, will punish you. So, yeah, so previously, Mars and Mercury had stolen her catchphrase.
[01:04:33] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:04:34] Speaker B: When they were. They were trying to one up her when she had. She had fought the monster, been fighting the monster on her own, in this case. Then she joined with them, and all three of them says, and will punish you. So.
[01:04:48] Speaker A: Yes, but my notes say all three. All of them. Tokyoeddem. Because that's what they say. Tokyo.
[01:04:55] Speaker B: Does that mean I'll punish you?
[01:04:57] Speaker A: Okay, well, tsuki niko, in the name of the moon, I will punish you.
[01:05:02] Speaker B: I love how they. Okay. I love how they always. The fight sequence takes place the same every time.
[01:05:07] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much.
[01:05:09] Speaker B: It opens with the bard singing bubble spray.
[01:05:12] Speaker A: Yeah, gotta get defensive. Got. You gotta get the defensive spells. You gotta get the. The damn. The buffs, the debuffs. You got to get those up, I tell you.
[01:05:22] Speaker B: I mean, all I'm gonna say is bubble spray must be more impressive in person, because every monster is always like, what's this?
[01:05:30] Speaker A: Well, I mean, if you think about it, in the first episode that she shows up, when she uses bubble spray, it obscures everything, and it's like, such a thick fog that you can't see anything. And then it's also extremely cold as well. Okay, so it kind of obscures vision, and it makes them chilly.
[01:05:47] Speaker B: And how do you know that? I never got that.
[01:05:52] Speaker A: In the first episode that Ami chan shows up with the cram school, she uses bubble spray in the first. Once she transforms, and Garo Ben specifically says, it's so cold in here, and she's, like, shivering. So I have this fresh on my mind because. Because I'm watching through Sailor Moon with Joe now, too, so we're.
[01:06:16] Speaker B: Wow, you have a good memory. And you ruined it.
[01:06:19] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I mean, I do. I do know a lot of stuff off the top of my dome, but this one is just fresh in my memory.
[01:06:29] Speaker B: So anyway, so bubble spray. And then the monster's like, what is this? Which gives ray the opportunity to spin around, and she forms a gun with her two hands.
[01:06:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:06:40] Speaker B: Points her into triggers, acting as a barrel, and shoots out a fire soul is directed at the web. Yeah, because. Okay, because moon gets ensnared by a webbing from the spider.
[01:06:54] Speaker A: Well, you could expect from a spider, right?
[01:06:57] Speaker B: You think that would be the spider's attack. Correct. That made sense. And then fire soul burns up the web. And then sailor Moon does a little spazz dance. She's raised like, get a hold of yourself. I mean, we learned.
[01:07:11] Speaker A: I mean, if you've ever walked through a spider web. Yeah. You do kind of do that dance.
[01:07:19] Speaker B: A good spaz dance. I loved it.
[01:07:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[01:07:22] Speaker B: I like, get a hold of yourself. I love when people tell people to get it together. I guess that's. It's just like, get your shit together tv. You like it too?
I love what it's calling somebody out for being out of control. You know what I mean?
[01:07:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:07:39] Speaker B: It's like, get a hold of you.
What does the MC say? When, uh, when. When Ray. When Ray says, what if. What if you haven't picked a date? The MC says, calm down, or something like that.
[01:07:53] Speaker A: Please calm down.
[01:07:56] Speaker B: Please calm down. Wait, let me see. I got. I'm consulting my notes real quick. Please try to remain calm. Please try to remain calm.
[01:08:05] Speaker A: Yes, ma'am. You're hysterical.
[01:08:09] Speaker B: And then now it's raised turn. Get a hold of yourself.
[01:08:12] Speaker A: Yep.
[01:08:13] Speaker B: All right. Something. Something amazing happens in the MTA.
[01:08:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:08:17] Speaker B: She calls out Moon Jerra. Action.
But she doesn't spin around. You know how it was critical of the fact that she spun around like she was throwing the discus, and then she stopped dead and then throw it. Well, in this episode, she calls out Moon Tiara action. And then she just throws the tiara like a frisbee. And guess what? It doesn't wobble.
[01:08:40] Speaker A: There you go. It's all about technique. Usagi, you should know this by now.
[01:08:45] Speaker B: But it does.
[01:08:46] Speaker A: 16 episodes in girl, come on.
[01:08:49] Speaker B: What it does do is that tiara cuts through the webbing, and the widow disintegrates in a purple cloud. Purple and pink cloud. And then miss Akiyama come through with the standard thing that happens to the victims in Sailor Moon. Where am I? What happened?
[01:09:03] Speaker A: What. What's going on? What a. Huh? Yeah, for the last several days.
[01:09:09] Speaker B: I'll tell you what happened. You turned into a bitch.
[01:09:14] Speaker A: Um, you know what I did?
I did note in this episode that the Yoma's name, aside from when Nephrite says it at the very beginning, that's the only time we ever hear the Oma's name. And it's just like, go, my widow. And it's just like, is that the name, or is that just referential because it's a spider? I don't know. Another thing that this episode doesn't have. So we had no barrel, we don't really have a Yoma name, and we don't have any tuxedo. Common.
[01:09:45] Speaker B: No tuxedo mask.
[01:09:47] Speaker A: No, he's. He's sadly absent from this video, and it hurts.
[01:09:54] Speaker B: The girls handled it without him. Oh, they were. They worked as a team.
They. You had the debuffs. Yeah, these bubble three debuffs. You had the. You had the crit attack and with fire soul, and then you have the finishing blow. So I think you save the moon is kind of a tank, honestly.
[01:10:15] Speaker A: And I think a little bit.
[01:10:17] Speaker B: Rey is clearly a black mage.
[01:10:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And DP's all the way.
[01:10:21] Speaker B: And obviously, Abby's a bard.
[01:10:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I think. I think doggy is kind of like. Sailor Moon is kind of like, well, well balanced. She can kind of fit in everywhere, but she's very much like that op character that you have that shows up in the cutscene and does a really massive amount of damage. That only happens in the cutscene, and you never unlock that ability in the actual game. You just see it happen. If you unlock that ability, it's extremely nerfed.
[01:10:50] Speaker B: Right.
[01:10:50] Speaker A: She's like that.
[01:10:51] Speaker B: Okay. This is why. Why I think she's a tank, and it's not.
[01:10:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:10:55] Speaker B: It's not a perfect description, but the monsters always attack her first.
[01:11:00] Speaker A: It's true. Every notice that this is true.
[01:11:03] Speaker B: So that's why I think she's a tank fair. Yeah. Yes, I noticed.
I definitely noticed there was no tuxedo mask, and my heart felt bad for you. I was like, oh.
So after. Right after, Miss Akiyama comes to from her fog, and I'm sure somebody mentions to her that she wasn't very pleasant. Yeah, we cut to a. We cut to church bells ringing, and Miss Akiyama and her groom walking out of the church, and they call up, miss Akiyama, you look so beautiful. And Ray says, they say, looks aren't anything, but aren't everything, but. And then Sagi says, yeah, well, I still prefer handsome.
The episode ends with, uh, Misakiyama throwing her her bouquet of flowers.
[01:11:57] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:11:57] Speaker B: Haruna moon and Rayal fight for it, and in doing so, they knock it. They knock it away, and it lands and flies into David chan's hands, who.
[01:12:07] Speaker A: As we know from. From this episode, at the beginning, when she was. Well, not at the quite the beginning, but when she was talking to Usagi, and Usagi was complaining about Rei, she was like, what about you, ami? Don't you want to get married? Don't you want to have. You want to do a wedding? And he's like, eh, maybe, but not really. I'm not really interested in that. So.
[01:12:29] Speaker B: See that?
[01:12:29] Speaker A: There you go.
Not every young girl's.
[01:12:32] Speaker B: Not every young girl dreams. Exactly.
No barrel. No barrel. Imagining in the next episode that Jay dad's gonna have to eat some crow, and there's gonna be a scene between him and barrel. I can't imagine.
[01:12:47] Speaker A: Yeah, well, nephrite, because j dad's sleeping currently.
[01:12:51] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Yeah, nephrite. That fright's gonna have to eat some crow with bail, he's not gonna be able to get away with pulling all these emissions that don't work.
[01:12:58] Speaker A: Definitely not. Yeah, there's a reckoning coming for sure.
[01:13:03] Speaker B: Reporting in, and I also. I think that'll be a moment where Zoey Zeit will show up, teehee floating in the air to be there to.
[01:13:13] Speaker A: Gloat, because really, that's probably why nephrite hasn't gone back, is because he knows Zoisite is there, and he's just not ready to deal with that barrel he can handle. Zoiside, on the other hand, is just like, please shut up.
[01:13:26] Speaker B: So that episode will be called Usagi becomes a model. The flash of the monster camera, and we'll find out what happens between left, right, and barrel. What?
[01:13:37] Speaker A: Oh, I was just saying the flash of the monster camera with a flare.
[01:13:40] Speaker B: I know, I know. I I circled monster camera. What's a monster camera.
[01:13:46] Speaker A: I MEAN, it's a. It's a camera that's a monster. Who knows? I guess we'll find out. Well, this is next time.
[01:13:53] Speaker B: This. This series of episodes I've been calling the girly girl episode because, yeah, going on a date.
[01:14:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:14:01] Speaker B: You know, that's a big deal to UsAgI raY, going on her first date.
[01:14:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[01:14:06] Speaker B: You have. Then you have. Becoming a bride. Every girl's dream. And now it's. Now we're gonna have usagi becomes a model, also a very girly girl kind of dream.
[01:14:17] Speaker A: VERY true. VERY true. And, yeah, heck, yeah. So, as you know, you can find us on pretty much everything under Mooney cast. I am going to be setting up a couple more social medias for us soon. I'm going to be setting up threads and a couple of other ones because I want to get us out there. I know twitter isn't as popular as before, so I'd like to get us on some other platforms, but you can always message us. Use the hashtag mooney cast if you're talking about the show, we really want to hear from you guys. I've been checking the socials just to see if anyone's saying anything, but, yeah, we want to engage with you guys. If you have weird questions about the show or want to add something to what we talked about, like, we'd love to hear from you guys. We want to have those discussions.
Yeah.
[01:15:17] Speaker B: Anybody have any opinions on carpur ridgeable? That's what I'd like to hear.
[01:15:21] Speaker A: We need to know.
We need to know more about the carved original. So, yeah, tell us their opinions. Also, you can always find the podcast anywhere that you can stream podcasts, and, of course, at across the moonaverse cast. Osdheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh and, yeah, so exciting. And we'll be back in two weeks to talk about episode 17.
[01:15:45] Speaker B: Usagi becomes a model applied to the monster camera. Monster.
[01:15:49] Speaker A: What is the camera?
[01:15:51] Speaker B: We will find out where the monster camera is. All right. Good night, everybody.
[01:15:54] Speaker A: Good night, everyone.
