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That Secret Saturdays intro homage is EVERYTHING

Ben was a straight up menace with Drew 🤣🤣 great collab episode and great collab breakdown!

I wish that The secret saturdays continued, I really liked the show.

When Argost folds his wings into a cloak, it reminds me how Goliath, and other characters do it in Gargoyles.

Ben: “We might need Misses Saturday’s (BIRDCHIRP NOISES!)” 😏 Zack: “DUDE, THAT’S STILL MY MOM!..” 😰

The thing that remember the most about the crossover was Ben simping for Mrs. Saturday.... *I mean, I don't blame him, of course*

Also, if I had a dollar, for every time Kuro changed his office locations.

As a kid, I always just thought the show was gonna come back. Took me like 3 years to realize that it was unceremoniously done.

Ben crushing on Zack's Mom is funny actually Ben: Hello. Zack: Dude, that's my mom. 😂

Yeah, I distinctly remember just watching this episode with no ads playing or whatever, and then randomly goin "OH SHIT THE SECRET SATURDAYS?!??!?!"

2:10 : ... in the US, which is Ben 10's main market place. Latin America: Oh, I don't think so.

Secret Saturdays is such an underrated classic. It's such a great callback to the pulpy adventure stories like Johnny Quest. I also really appreciate how it introduced so a bunch of kids to cryptids most of us never heard of, as well as Sumerian mythology. Argost was also such an awesome villain, and Corey Burton knocks it out of the park. This line from him is epic: "Would anyone go to the circus without secretly hoping the lions would eat somebody?"

"Ben's in a constant state of bloodlust". (Thinks back to how he did the DNAliens)

Thank you for having me on! It was great to come and explain some lore and even my own thoughts, as I love this show deeply and highly recommend everyone to give it a watch if they can!🧡 Also pardon about the birds, but as a bird mother I can't ignore the existences of my children.

Nah those birds got a good point tho. I think I heard one say "BUY MERCH!"

The Saturdays working with the plumbers at some point could explain why they have the more High Tech suits here

The thumbnail wasn't loading so I expected it to be the OK KO Crossover Nexus, which also features a Ben Tennyson and also got sabotaged.

Fun fact: here in brazil Zack's voice stayed the same, they kept the same voice actor that voices him in the Saturdays cartoon

I legit forgot about the Secret Saturdays thought it was a fever dream. Weird how they canonically exist in the same universe. Wish more shows share the same universe instead going all multiversal of madness nowadays

The secret Saturdays was super underrated and the fact that they share a universe was awesome

Ben simping over Drew Zak: Dude, that's my mom. Ben: AND?

What makes it even worse is that these arent even the same secret saturdays since they died when the universe reset

Now we need a Gen. Rex Secret Saturdays crossover no Ben except for a brief "Oh we both know this one guy!"

if I had a nickel for every time a Corey Burton villain in Ben 10 got defeated/killed by Feedback, I would have two nickels, which isn’t much but it’s weird that it happened in two episodes back-to-back in production order also I love that this episode features Corey Burton and Dwight Schultz as bickering supervillains, when they played similar roles in Avengers Assemble (Dracula and Attuma) a few months later

Fun fact! In the spanish (mexico) dub, the entire cast of dub actors returned for their respective characters!

The Secret Saturdays was an underrated cartoon. A unique premise, unique art style and music, creatures galore and best of all, charming characters and good writing overall. Truly a gem buried in the sand.

I wold have sold my left arm and an EMP Generator for a Ben 10 Omniverse/Transformers Animated crossover.

16:40 Looking at Zac's mom, I totally agree with ben. Meeting her "is the good". Oh my celestial Sapien, she's stunning

The thing about this episode is that it was a bit too casual for a crossover,it feels just like a regular omniverse episode not like a crossover or anything so I am not suprised that some people never knew they had their own show ,heck I used to watch the secret Saturdays when I was young and when I reached this episode I was just confused to “what the fuck are they doing here ?since when they were here ?isn’t the show supposed to be over ?”

I like how different hosts give different information such as the VAs or lore and such makes me kind of wish the same thing happened in Heroes United

Now we also need a Danny Phantom, a Generator Rex AND a Secret Saturdays breakdown

I love how you're putting a picture of a parrot every time her's starts squawking lol.

That InkTank intro was a more respectful homage to the Secret Saturday’s than the entire episode was. One thing I’m surprised that was not mentioned is the lack of Doyle in this crossover, has wasn’t originally apart of the main cast but eventually did become a main cast member(due to him being Drew’s long lost brother and former apprentice of her ex boyfriend Van Rook, who did get a mention in the breakdown), like throughout this entire crossover I’m sitting there wondering where is he, he wasn’t even mentioned in the actual crossover itself which would’ve at least been nice to know that they didn’t just forget his existence(the man is literally the reason that everyone found out that Zak is Kur because Doyle rebuilt the Kur detection relic, after Fisk originally destroyed, it and was going off with Zak being discovered as actually being Kur). At first I thought that since the writer worked on 1 episode of the Secret Saturday’s that maybe the episode they wrote happened before Doyle’s backstory was revealed, nope! It was afterwards(though in their defense, Doyle wasn’t in that episode)! I know I sound a little unhinged about 1 character not showing up in a crossover event, but if you e seen Doyle in the show you could imagine how funny it actually would’ve been if he was in the crossover cause we’re talking about a bounty hunter having to work with a plumber(Rook) and that alone opens up for some hilarity, not to mention he’d probably be more willing to smack Ben for being weird about Drew then Zak is so ben probably would’ve knocked it off a lot quicker

Argost is, in the grand scheme of cartoons, an underrated villain. "Dear lady, would anyone ever visit the circus if they didn't secretly hope to see the lions eat somebody?" He doesn't get to fully shine in this crossover, though. Mainly because he's got a new monster body and is more of a physical threat than an intellectual one like he usually is.

Y'know, in some alternate reality we got 5YL with American Dragon and Secret Saturdays

Fun Fact: Vanessa Marshall was also the voice of Irwin in the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

Grandpa Max also mentioned he and Kai’s grandpa returned a Yeti to its home dimension back in their Plumber days in the OG series.

I think this episode really shows how Derrick J Wyatt's redesigns were hit and miss lol

Was not expecting the Crystal crossover, always love when there's guest on a breakdown. But I never knew this crossover existed till years after Omniverse ended, I was just looking at the Ben 10 Wiki and found the page for the characters and just fell down the rabbit.

So the secret saturdays was a genuinely giant show in Turkey, and I might just be hallucinating but I SWEAR we had ads about the crossover in Turkey. Mostly because I know I watched this episode and I had dropped Ben 10 at this point so I wouldn't have a reason to watch it otherwise. But yeah to answer the question a lot of people I know and I have watched Secret Saturdays

I think the problem with this is that that Ben 10 Omniverse aired after Stuart Snyder's departure from the network so which means that it was less advertisement on action shows more geared towards comedy shows

They should have done a Juniper Lee crossover too. It had a Sasquatch girl as a main character, had a whole universe of magical creatures hidden from normal human society, and fits the Ben 10 formula of all old people being total badasses. The idea of Grampa Max having a history with June's grandma would be too good to waste. It would all fit well into this shared universe

17:26 Ok I did not see that moment coming LOL

33:26 As a Marshall arts person I can agree with the kicking hawk statmemt

43:45 "So you need an alien who can channel energy? I think I know just the guy." "Chromastone?!" As priceless as Kuro's statement was, we really needed more Chromastone in Omniverse.

Funny thing, my first Saturday experience was during the Harem Cameo of momma saturday and then i saw this episode and understand why she was even there. Seems the writters reached their fanfic arc or the delayed advertisement was supossed to be a season later the episode was released xD

The only reason there would have been no promotion of the episode would be that they were planning to have the Secret Saturdays be recurring cast members but then they never come up again in the series. Would have been nice to have that happen from time to time.

37:20 argos: you couldn't give me a full yetty body but were able to make 17 minions

i still think it was a missed opportunity for the writers not to include grandpa max in this episode would have been nice to see him interact with the saturdays particularly dok saturday

The Blue Tiger had good luck powers although it was bad luck for Zak do to his powers. Also it's cool that Zak is a reincarnation of freaking Kur. Him being the reincarnation of what is basically a cryptid God could be why he still has his powers

Yeah this episode should have let the Saturdays show off their skills and abilities more, like having them fight off the frankin-cryptids from the air ship or having them do more than just be comic relief

And welcome back Kuro with the breakdowns, Kuro. And good morning/good night everyone.

This was only 3 years after the secret Saturdays finished? Wth, my timeline is all fucked up

The Secret Saturdays show is underrated like Generator Rex. I love how the Ben 10 franchise had crossovers with both shows to shine light on their potential respectively. See, that's why Ben 10 will always be a part of me: it's a show with limitless ambition 💚

You know what's a Bright side You reviewing this episode on a SATURDAY 😂😂😂😂😂

I hope Kuro reviews/watches ''The Secret Saturdays'' when he is done with Ben 10. V.V Argost was the most entertaining/terrifying villain of the show

4:13 so that's what crystal looks like. Pleasure to meet you.

I love how Corey Burton plays both Malware and Argost, 2 characters with a robot voice filters and makes them sound so different

23:30 I never thought that Argost was a yeti wearing a mask, but was I the only person who didn't think he was a human when watching the original show? And he didn't look that much different without his mask than he did with it. 30:27 Fun fact, Black Monday is the episode that Zak Monday and the other Mondays debut. You know, one of the most important characters for the climax of Secret Saturdays. 33:43 According to the TV Tropes page, Argost's mask prevents Kur's powers from working on him. *Edit:* It just occurred to me that this is the second time Ben's had a crossover and both times it was with someone whose primary color is orange!

You know, with Ben 10 covering aliens and Secret Saturdays covering Cryptids, it kinda makes me think about what if they had made more shows in this universe that cover other supernatural beings? Like, one that covered ghosts, one built around magic, etc. Would probably require a lot of planning between creators to make it work, but I think it would have been neat to see

I would LOVE seeing Kuro react to the secret Saturdays. I don't expect full breakdowns, but it might be interesting to see him react to something he hasn't seen before but still has that cartoon network feel. Looking back, the two original shows felt similar enough that I assume Man of Action made them both.

Ben be unleashing his inner Carl Weizer.

Zak saying that his claw turns him into trouble goes hard. He was cooking with that one.

I was really expecting a Secret Saturdays reboot after this crossover. It just made sense.

10:33 Drew (Zak’s mom) does come back in a later episode though. (Unvoiced, unfortunately)

43:08 the immense Ben 10 blue-balling I felt by not hearing the full de-tranformation sound effect from Omniverse

i actually have to admit, i completely forgot that this episode existed, i watched all of the secret saturdays, many years ago and i remember enjoying it (im talking MANY years now) but yeah i remember watching this episode and just groaning at how much nothing there was

Huh. I've thought for a while that I need to go back and watch Secret Saturdays, but now, hearing Crystal talk about it made me really want to watch it. I'll have to make that a priority.

this channel is the only reason I know the Secret Saturdays was a crossover and not new characters from Ben 10, lol

14:05 Magic did originally exist in Ben 10, in the og show. But then it got retconned in Alien Force/Ultimate Alien I like to think it does exist, but typically gets explained as "Alien powers" sometimes

I remember when they killed off Zack Monday in the finale of Secret Saturdays I was so upset that I wrote a letter to Cartoon Network because he was my favorite character and mailed it out. They got back to me but something in the mail got mixed up because instead of a reply to my letter, I got a response to a script some other kid sent in for a Chowder / Family Guy crossover. I never rectified this mistake, but the memory lives with me.

Wow, just a casual 50 minute ben ten breakdown, with no warning.

Yo, Crystalmoon101! Her art is seriously great, especially the Generator Rex and Secret Saturdays ones.

Kuro casually going for the mad Ben theme

i assume Animo revived Argaust because he knows lots of secret cryptid locations or whatever. and while the headbands are cool i think he found out the hard way that they're not effective because they can be hacked. so it sorta makes sense

I never heard of the Secret Saturdays until this episode, which is weird because it aired when I was a kid

9:53 There's a hole in the wall, where the boys can see it all. Ben 10.

Never watched the secret Saturdays but I looked up the Jersey Devil and it's a white goat man with wings and a pointed tail. No mane either. So unless there's a red one, who knows. The hooves kind of reminds me of a minotaur and the mane reminds me of a manticore.

Yes! TGIS gets a full breakdown!

43:48 I mean to be fair Chromastone has never displayed the ability to absorb energy which isn't exposed while Feedback has so he can't really help here

I do found interesting how the second they gave Zach's mom Gwen's ponytail and instantly Ben's character became the fanbase

At 13:33 she mentions the lermurians. There is another show called the deep where they try to find lermuria

instead of the joke being that Ben doesn't believe in cryptics it should've been he'd be certain they're all just aliens who stranded or escaped to Earth

"and you know who else i enjoyed saving the world with ? YOUR MOM!" (regular show joke, you had to be there)

They don't seem to understand that the reason Zack can't control Argost like other kryptids is because of the Anti kur that he absorbed making Argost immune to Zack's powers

There was also crossover for alien force. It was only like 19 minutes long and had no commercial breaks it was made as a promotional episode, was part of neither show’s production cycle, because of that it’s is lost media at this point.

I watched the Secret Saturdays a bit when I was younger. But completely re-binged it in preparation for this episode. I absolutely loved it, and though I thought the crossover was fine, I much prefer the original depictions of the Saturdays. The original had a very 80s adventure cartoon aesthetic, and I love that about it. I also find it really cool how both shows were always meant to be in the same world, and I am disappointed they never revisited them. Also, I do actually remember seeing a promo for this episode. I don't think it was for this episode specifically, I think it was clips from two or three new episodes at the time, and the crossover was heavily featured. I also remember them never mentioning that it was a crossover. At that time I hadn't thought about the original show in years, and my exact thoughts were, "Those guys are back?"

45:10 Didn't ben end up getting nanites in him in Heroes United? Is he just gonna end up collecting the powers of everyone he crosses over with? 😂

43:04 totally agree This crossover won't SHOW the real essence of The Secret Saturdays. 44:09 Although remember that in the first episode they escaped from some LANTERN FROGS, but this episode is the worst treatment to the Saturdays who are much more intelligent and capable of facing this. 47:38 Exactly, Zak has a history and development in the original series. This crossover doesn't do it any justice but it was nice that they remembered once again. It's one of my favorite series and it deserves another chance.

I watched The Secret Saturdays while it was airing, and I loved every minute of it. I was excited when I heard there was a crossover with Ben 10. Then I watched the episode... I thought it was garbage. Next to nothing was true about things the characters said, Ben simping over Drew, the Saturday's suit looking like Captain Nemesis from UAF, and how nothing ever came from it. Heroes United at least left it open for more.

Thanks Crystal for the much needed lore and context😅

39:49 missed opportunity for Ben to use Spidermonkey, we could have gotten a spider vs spider fight

Funny how both crossovers Ben Prime has gone through have Shocksquatch on them

2:26 I remember distinctively seeing that commercial just only one time before the episode aired. I must’ve been one of the lucky few to have witnessed it 😭😂

17:27 this is the best part about this breakdown.

Ben crushing on Zack's Mom Me: I see you're a man of culture as well

Ben is one of those guys who is so adamant about Chupacabras not existing he won't crack even after being to Santa's workshop.

I did in fact watch Secret Saturdays and watching this reminded me I had the Cryptid analyzer shown at 11:48 which unlocked a memory XDDD

R.I.P Secret Saturdays, an overlooked gem that deserved more love