Motor Kombat. A cart racer INSIDE a fighting game. It must be a fever dream made manifest.

Oh cool, Luke and Ellen finally managed to capture footage from their fever dreams. Jane's experiments have come a long way.

The Boss Nas-car joke made me smile. Also, the bit where Ellen keeps scrolling through the innumerable Sims addons also tickled my satire bone because it's a shame how overly monetized the Sims has become over the years. And yes, dear viewers, Katy Perry's Sweet Treats was a real addon pack for Sims 3 * shudders *

Talking of Katie Perry's Sweet Treats, how about a list of the weirdest expansion packs? It could be something that's really weird or just very different to the original game.

Luke getting up in front of the camera at the end there is my favourite bit of this one - and him leaving frame to show Ellen cracking up, too! :P

Garfield Kart is one of those games that's broken to a hilarious degree. Sometimes it'll crash and when you boot it back up it'll start speaking the language of the elder gods.

Folks, this was just loads of Mario Kart clips. Think there’s something in the water in London!

IKEA rep here, gonna go bring this "kart racer" idea to marketing. I've an idea about meatballs as wheels that I think they'll like.

A cart racer through the maze of the ikea show room? With each level being from a different season of products, and you can stop and target products to get their name and barcode? Yes please~

I mean Bomberman Fantasy Racing was a pretty weird, but good, "kart racer" where your carts were giant bunnies or rhinos whom you had to purchase with winnings from your races. Pick ups included a few curse items like forcing your rude to poop on the track (and it'd stay on the track for the remainder of the race), giving your ride geta, or making them confused so they'd run in directions despite your input. So many good memories from that game.

10:48 "YOU CAN GET OUT OF THE CAR" I see Luke let Andy get to the list.

This is why modded Mario Kart is fucking hilarious, imagine starting a race and seeing Patrick, Bidoof and DIO to your right

Well *I* appreciated the FIA joke Luke 😂 Also I saw that "you can get out the car" bit 😂😂😂

Every time a chocolate candy in a go kart exclaimed "Look, A nut!" I inexplicably laughed so hard I had to pause the video

There was a car racer based on Antz, the Dreamworks movie. Yes really. You could probably make a whole list of weird licensed cart racers really.

I saw Super Bombad Racing and had to click immediately. I miss that game soooo much! It was one of my favorite kart racers ever especially the powerups

A collection of kart racers is known as a Kartography.

My brothers and I had the Star Wars one, and found it to be really good; surprisingly in depth and endlessly repayable with a whole lot of non obvious stuff to achieve. This reminds me of Star Wars Demolition, the Twisted Metal style vehicle fighter.

I’d like to Honorable Mention “Jimmie Johnson’s Anything With an Engine,” if only for its weird framing story and the way the narrative is illustrated.

Can’t believe u didn’t cover the weirdest kart racer ever, Gran Turismo. Being able to actually afford those vehicles? So crazy.

Huh I didn't know that there was a My Sims kart racing. Also love the joke about the many expansions that the sims has.

There's a reason the Crazy Frog was called the Annoying Thing in Europe. I was always surprised it took so long before they started covering its parts up in the adverts. EDIT: No mention of Coffin Dodgers? The racing game where you played as pensioners in various mobility scooters?

Anyone heard of Muppet Race Mania? I had it on original PS as a kid and I remember having enjoyed it quite a bit. It played completely differently from any conventional cart game with its strange control scheme and with every race track being also explorable area with things to collect and discover. It was kind of a weird hybrid between kart racer and 3D platformer.

"Cages and extrusion" was performed very nicely; it was the standout for me. E. was stellar as usual, too.

Wipeout was bloody awesome, it certainly deserves a comeback!

"Why is Bowser battling Mario in a kart race, why not simply crush his head in his powerful jaws?". Your asking really important questions here Ellen.

How dare you not put Motor Kombat?!?! The mortal Kombat Armageddon kart racer for the PS2

Clearly you guys have never heard of Schadenfreude Interactive and their stable of racers from the early 2000s. Nazgul Thunder - "They have nine horses, you have 700. Can you outrace them?" Cthulhu Karts - "13 tracks, including Mountains of Madness, Arkham Asylum, R'lyeh, and Grandpa Kevin's MiniGolf n' Grand Prix." Need for Speed: Underhill - "It's Took against Tunnelly, Smallburrow vs. Sackville-Baggins in this exciting street racing game set on the dark, rain-slick streets of Hobbiton." Also of note is their Hannibal Crossing - "The cuteness factor goes over the top as little animals go over the Alps in this colorful PC game that makes the Second Punic War your playground! Decorate your war elephants, furnish your tent, send scrolls to your friends, fling big rocks at your enemies, slaughter Roman centurions in hand-to-hand combat, or just dig for cool bugs!" Luke would also be interested in their Accordion Hero games and controllers. (Yes, I know it's probably a Devolver Digital-style performance art/gag bit. But you have to admire the commitment. There were full page ads in PC game magazines back in the day.)

Can’t think of any but I really want to see the IKEA kart racer now, between beds, sofas and chairs you’d get an impressive range of “vehicles”

Brace yourself friends, Bloodborne Kart is coming.

This was a F1 racing game, but I mention it because it sounds imagined, it came free with packets of Frosties! It was actually really good, featured realistic damage, pit stops, tyre wear, features which were rare at the time for full games.

Mad Dash Racing for the original XBox: A PLATFORM-racer with jumping, rail-grinding and class-specific shortcuts starring a cast of OCs including a Charles Martinet-voiced dragon (pre-Skyrim, even!), a weasel named Spanx that would go on to star in his OWN GAME and even the last-known appearance of Gex before he vanished from existence.

I remember really liking F1 Race Stars. It will also be the only time where my favourite driver to use was Timo Glock for Marussia (their ability of getting a boost power up upon landing was great). Also here for the F1 in jokes that Luke is throwing around.

There was a Kart racer for the film Antz, that came out FOUR years after the film came out.

8:39 I've never been so glad for copyright laws to exist because I'm not sure I could survive having to relive that frog's "music"

I remember a Dreamworks kart racing game on the PlayStation 3. I remember racing as Toothless,B.O.B, and Marty. It was fully voiced and had crazy power ups and stages. Felt like a fever dream a fun one.

The Star Wars one is actually kinda cute--I like the mini Naboo starfighter. It has potential for a (major) overhaul =)

M&M : comes to dead stop Also M&M : "ApPrOaChInG sOuNd BaRrIeR"

There was a racing game on the ps1 I remember fondly called "Micro Maniacs". Not technically a cart racer, but with the premise being a mad scientist created and shrank a bunch of superpowered beings in order to make them race around everyday settings to determine who was best suited to prepare the world for mass shrinking of humanity due to resource issues, it's definitely up there on the weirdness.

Race with Ryan. Great for earning the daily rewards achievement, but overall a strange, strange game that likely makes way more sense to people who watch his stuff. There was a South Park one in the PS1 days as well, which might just simply have been called South Park Racer or something similar. Could never get beyond the free for all checkpoint races on that.

Modnation Racers. This was actually an incredibly fun title with a massive amount of fan-made content and I swear I can't be the only one who remembers it... please why does no one else remember it I promise it existed I'm not crazy

I saw that "you can get out of the car" in the F1 bit, Andy must have been adding to the list!

Right now, I’m thinking how bizarre (and probably successful) Dark Souls Kart Racer would be. Like the entire game would feel like blue shells and Rainbow Roads, but horrifying.

THE MORTAL COMBAT CART RACER! I absolutely loved that game, it was so fun because it is the only cart racer that is extremely violent

How about Disney's World Tour Magical Kart Racing, a kart racer where you ride Disneyland with a bunch of Disney OCs?

I would like to add "championsheep rally" for a second video about weird kart racers. They are not driving karts (they just run) but you can use items and its a weird and very funny game.

Talking about Star Wars racing games, I remember loving the Podracing game growing up, even though I recall that it was pretty difficult.

You know this series is wild when they didn’t mention the sonic + Sega characters kart racer, the one with sonic drives a car for some reason and races virtua fighters, monkeyball, and Ryo in a forklift (which people thought was going to be his last appearance before the disaster of shenmue 3 happened) just to name a few.

For a duck hunt rip-off, crazy chicken sure has a banging kart racer game

Cel Damage was pretty weird. But it was also fun so maybe it doesn't count. I remember staying up too late, playing as a cartoon devil, chasing down red flags that ran away on tiny legs. This definitely happened, I swear.

Mortal Kombat Armageddon had a kart racer that I only remember because I was a kid, and I didn’t really feel like playing much of the actual game. I don’t know what happened to the disc, but that mode was really fun.

For the Latin American audience: There was an El Chavo del Ocho kart racer released for the Xbox360 and PS3. Yes it's based on the more modern El Chavo Animado cartoon but it's still a trip to see it.

Fun fact: it is believed the Turkish invented dumplings, then the mongol invasion happened and they adopted the food item, spreading it all across Asia and Europe as their empire grew.

Not quite a kart racer (though it tried to play like one), I always think of The Zoo Race when I think of fever-dream-like racing games.

I just recently became aware of a PS1 game called Tank Racer, where you drive around those most nimble of vehicles, main battle tanks. It features a soundtrack more at home in Wipeout and the Monaco GP track, where you can drive through the swimming pool.

The ringtone joke quite literally took my breath away. Superb delivery, Ellen! Whoever wrote it, expect a bill to cover the costs of my brain damage treatment... that is a thing, right? Brain damage treatment?

See, Ellen's mistake was thinking MySims had any similarities to The Sims in the first place. Got fond memories of playing those games with my sister back when I was an easily pleased child on our Ninetnedo Wii, but I'll admit to always forgetting they're a spin-off of The Sims in any way since every single one pretty much only shares simlish and the green diamonds in common. The first one is closer to Animal Crossing than a Sims game.

As a kid, myth makers on the wii was my favorite kart racer, despite being very strange

This video was incredible and sassy all the way through, but I must say that "Nass Car" joke was an absolute *masterstroke* .

The only other one I can think of maybe isn't as weird as those but could maybe at least get a mention. Tux Racer, the cart racer from 2000 based on the Linux mascot Tux

"Kart 'em up" lmao

The Boss Nass Nass car cracked me up, i'll be honest

I love that everyone recognizes Axel F as the "Crazy frog song" despite the fact that it is literally called AXEL F from Beverly Hills Cop. Eddie Murphy probably cringes every time someone says the words "Crazy Frog".

I loved the Disney cart racing game when I was a kid. And I never considered it a cart racer but the Lego racer series probably counts. My favorite thing about that game was that as you collected the same powerup throughout a race it would level up. The only one I remember is the boost. Collect one and it's a fairly standard boost. Collected 3 and it opens up essentially a rainbow colored personal wormhole and shunts you further down the track.

back in the day i used to talk about the mortal kombat kart game with my friends and they looked at me like I was a crazy person "It happened I swear 😭"

Modnation racers was quite the fever dream, actually fun to play though especially creating your own tracks

12:00 Wow, Ellen really channels her inner Jane in this segment.

Crazy karts for the wii, that game was literally just a bunch of random animals racing in random areas. I think one was literally a jackal

Played the star wars one....wasn't half bad....I still wish we had a secret Darth Jar Jar option.

Sorry to say this Ellen, but I saw nothing this whole video. It’s probably all in your head.

I actually think a Garfield cart racer is a good idea! It's a fun, cartoony franchise, not particularly constrained by realism or genre, and Garfield and Friends did introduce memorable characters. The problem is, the one we got isn't a fun silly game with lots of one liners and cat toy themed powerups, but hot garbage.

Lego Racers, which featured a weird plot but a banging soundtrack

Luke's face after the FIA joke is brilliant. Mike has managed to fully convert him.

Here's a weird Kart Racer for you. Bomberman Fantasy Race for PS1. You play as Bomberman or one of the other characters that is basically just Bomberman in a different costume riding either a Louie (a Giant Kangaroo Rabbit) or a Tirra (A cute bipedal Rhino). I also seem to remember that when getting a power up there was a chance you got a negative like moving slower or reversing controls but the worst of these was making your riding animal stop to take a poo, right in the middle of the track. Despite the weirdness though the game is actually very good with varied tracks, an upgrade system for the mounts and some solid gameplay.

There is this classic Game in Germany called "Moorhuhn", internationally called "Chicken Hunter", in which you shoot some innocent flying chicken. The Series is quite well known in Germany but never really Hit internationally. There were some Kart Racing Games in which you play as the Moorhuhn and his friends, including a frog, a scarecrow and a snowman. Pretty weird, but honestly a huge part of my childhood.

OK, nearly dropped my drink bc of Luke jump scaring us at the end 🤣

5:23 best game in my childhood, second to Streak: The Hoverboard Racing...

Hey I remember Kippers and friends racing on wagons in Skyrim. Oh wait the doctors told me that was a bit of bad pork...I would watch that. The racing not the pork aftermath. You sillies always make me smile.Oh and Luke: you don't have to worry about an Ikea racing game because by the time we figured out how to build it, noone would have a system that could play it anymore. Thanks for the fun.

OMG! These are all amazing silly games! And so many cameos! Red,Yellow and Green M&Ms,the cast of Phantom Menace! The Crazy frog! This is awesome!

May have been an extremely bizarre fever dream, but I could swear that Japan once made a racing game with unusual characters like a hopping toad, a girl in a Chinese dress, a spy that did forward rolls, etc. that rewarded your victories with porn scenes. Might've been featured on a game review show back in the early 2000s...

I work at a grocery store, and one of the songs they have on their current rotation is a chill remix of Crazy Frog. It blew my mind to hear it, because I was NOT expecting that in 2023 XD

Star Wars Super Bombad Racing is an age old classic for me, unlocking Darth Vader once you win as Anakin, utilising the boost for crazy shortcuts an incredible game that I had a lot of fond memories of with my family on the playstation 2... and Garfield Kart Furious Racing was a recent steam 100% achievement torture session. To compare them is to compare the art of war to where's waldo.

Smite, the MOBA from Hi-Rez where you play as gods from various real-world pantheons, used to have a racing minigame. About a dozen of the game's playable gods were usable in this mode, and one of them was a squirrel. Also, Zeus had his blinker on the whole time.

What about Woody Woodpecker Racing for the PS1? Not a really bad Kart game but it's a franchise we never imagined would be turned into one.

Diddy Kong Racing is a timeless classic. The Darksouls of Kart Racers

Synchronicity! That Boss NASCAR pun was a central point in my dream last night! I was at my cousin's costume party and one of the guests was dressed as that!

11:21 - It's called a motor race, Luke. We went motor racing.

Modnation Racers is worth a mention. It was great and the customization was so great that I made a chicken police officer and my friend made a serial killer Col. Sanders and we would race online together and pretend we were having a high speed chase. That game was too good for this world.

Now to just wait for the 2023 release of "Outside Xbox Vs. Playstation Access: The Ultimate Kart Racer"

Heathcliff has one on the Wii. I picked it up at a shop bc it was the first time I had seen anything Heathcliff related in years and immediately got the theme song from the 90s cartoon stuck in my head.

Not technically a "kart" racer but I remember Running Wild on the PS1. You played as anthropomorphised animals such as an Elephant and Zebra who literally just ran (on two legs) around the course. There were also extra characters such as one who was a "Toxic Waste Man" but now I'm really starting to feel like I imagined the whole thing

Coffin Dodgers! A game where you cart race old people on rascals to avoid the grim reaper!

Chocobo Racing was a mad example of how *every* successful franchise had to have a kart racer in the years after Mario Kart 64. I'm only amazed we never got Tomb Racer (but don't tell me no one pitched it).

I remember an early cart racer where one of the racers had a cart that turned into a biplane and allowed him to fly for a few seconds. I also remember seeing a huge monster guy in a tracked vehicle. That's all I remember about it.

Yes, yes you can be a mummy in The Sims. Outed yourself as an imposter there Ellen ;P

Well, Codemasters did cut their teeth (I still don't know what that means) on Micro Machines so it's no surprise they managed to do a half decent job of it. What does surprise me is how long it took for Nintendo to put Miis in a kart racer.

Approaching Sound Barrier ! Also drowning your Sims in the pool is amateur. You trap your Sims and the neighbor Sims in your basement where you force them to make art 24/7. Then you light some fireworks or 3 in said art basement.

I wouldnt think MySims kart racing would be weird… they had all types of bangers back in the day especially MySims Kingdom and Agents

I did a 100% playthrough of Super Bombad Racing for Star Wars day a few years back... it's surprisingly good once you get over the initial learning curve.... like, I was legitimately shocked how much fun I had halfway through... also the unlocks are pretty good, especially with the codes.

I had seriously hoped Diddy Kong Racing was a fever dream, but alas I have encountered sufficient evidence to the contrary. A forgotten gem of a Kart racer though, Lego Racers.