buddy dawn: my favorite aguefort student

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3 ай бұрын

The evangelical southern kid impression is too good
Fantasy High: Junior Year, Season 3, Dimension 20, Dropout
Episode 9
Brennan Lee Mulligan, Ally Beardsley, Lou Wilson, Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, Siobhan Thompson, Zac Oyama
Dungeons and Dragons

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@NicoleSalamen 3 ай бұрын

"I don't strike people, I just open my hand and let my god do whatever he wants!" is such a great way to not take responsibility for his actions it gets under my SKIN

@gwen9939 3 ай бұрын

It's the "god works in mysterious ways, thoughts and prayers to all these dead children who died from very preventable deaths", Solace version.

@Drekromancer 2 ай бұрын

@@gwen9939Well said.

@Legacy0901 3 ай бұрын

There are certain times when you're being told a story that you can identify "yeah this is 100% being based off of a personal life experience"

@JaraelMoonsilver 3 ай бұрын

“A ‘televangelist’ in that they teleport” is being slept on, that shit killed me

@brendanwatroba8568 3 ай бұрын

And I bet he still has a private jet

@Nosmo90 3 ай бұрын

That truly is an *excellent* line! 😄

@scolkereybel 3 ай бұрын

"You're on sabbatical" Oh god, that has such 'you being gay is a phase' energy

@midL1223 3 ай бұрын

THIS!!!!

@Sillylittlebaby69 3 ай бұрын

“With what god” SEEMS LIKE WRATH TO ME BUDDY?

@LoganBluth 3 ай бұрын

Does passive aggression count as "Wrath"...? Is "Snide" one of the sins?

@carmacksanderson3937 3 ай бұрын

@LoganBluth I'd personally file what Buddy said under Pride

@LoganBluth 3 ай бұрын

@@carmacksanderson3937 As my wife's grandma would say: "Did you hear what Buddy said to Kristen? That boy is full of Snide Pride, I tell you what!"

@nickolaskaaay3232 2 ай бұрын

In season 1 Coach Daybreak was described as having anger that burned like the sun.

@flamenami Ай бұрын

That seems like pride

@stwbmc98 3 ай бұрын

Yolanda Badgood willingly gave up her relationship to her deity to become a cleric teacher. Maybe you can never fully remove biases, but you can take actions to check yourself, and Bobby Dawn is never even gonna try to

@baintreachas 3 ай бұрын

Do we know her deity?

@stwbmc98 Ай бұрын

@@baintreachas No, I don’t think she ever said

@Finn-wc8nq 3 ай бұрын

I love when people with sweet southern accents say nasty mean shit they sound so kind while eviscerating you

@haydenmitchell7846 3 ай бұрын

"You and what God?" 😂

@alastryona 3 ай бұрын

it's that real "oh bless your heart" language

@Nosmo90 3 ай бұрын

@@alastryonaI came here to post this! 🤭

@drbeard4505 3 ай бұрын

This might be one of the most interesting Kristen conversations in this season because she's up against someone who won't just bowl over to her eccentricity. It feels like two clerics, rival or no having a genuine talk about the situation and that's cool. I know this is the silly season but it's nice to see some heart from Kristen.

@VeteranVandal 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'd rather have this over the chaos bs. You can see this is a lot more meaningful for both player and character.

@trailblazer225 3 ай бұрын

I think the thing I really love is that Kristen is clearly deeply insecure about so much stuff, and the goofy overconfidence is a facade she puts on over all of that. And Tracker calling her on that a few episodes ago---straight up saying that Kristen is running to keep from confronting the tough shit because she is not processing---really just popped that balloon in that moment and led her to drop the act and be the most openly insecure and vulnerable she has let herself get so far. But this is the other side of the situation, where the person challenging her beliefs is an enemy instead of a friend, and is wrong instead of right. And in response, Kristen stays calm and gets genuinely more confident throughout the conversation, not in a goofy way but in an extremely sincere way. And it makes sense because Kristen's insecurities are personal and emotional; they DON'T come from her not really believing in Cassandra/doubt. So hearing Buddy act so confident about things that she knows more about than him reinforces all of her beliefs. You can almost *hear* Kristen start thinking to herself, "No, I'm right. This boy is going through life on autopilot and has never questioned any of his beliefs and just listening to him shows how empty these words are." The quiet confidence Kristen has when she says, "I'll never let you do that," and draws a hard boundary is moving and really feels like Kristen finding her faith and herself again. And to Ally's credit, that confidence and faith feels like it comes directly from the experiences and actions Kristen has been having after Cassandra's disappearance, like thinking about how doubt helped her get out of her previous suffocating life. It's a really earned change in a beautiful way, and I think people focus so much on the chaotic comic relief that sometimes they miss how smart it is of Ally to have an in-character reason to act silly (on a comedy show where they're going to all have to be silly anyway) while also making that silliness itself part of the character arc. Idk I've just really loved Kristen's arc so far this season and I think Ally is an incredible and underrated player.

@Nosmo90 3 ай бұрын

@@trailblazer225I really appreciate this TedTalk, and I highly recommend that everyone else takes the time to read it, too. 😊

@pilotflux8005 2 ай бұрын

@@trailblazer225amazing ted talk. people complaining about this season being more goofy really don't have much of like, a sense of nuance. the sense of everyone just being exhausted and trying so so hard to get through all the crap really shines through and even though it's a major change of pace, i think it's really representative of the characters and is a super interesting way to go with the series

@andrecarpenter2432 3 ай бұрын

“It’s not me that murders my enemies, it’s god” ffs how are oishin and Mary ann with these lunatics

@pallyboy6005 3 ай бұрын

Kristen is exactly as limited and unhinged violent, and at least Buddy isn't getting naked in front of his friends in public xD

@ccvv1119 3 ай бұрын

@@pallyboy6005exactly lmao

@eddiemate 3 ай бұрын

Mary Ann truly just does not care. Unless it’s about her Neopets.

@mohammedtahmid6718 3 ай бұрын

Kristen recignises its her killing her enemies tho. Shes unhinged but she takes accountability for being unhinged.

@pteroid11 3 ай бұрын

Mary Ann don’t give a f***, that’s why she’s here.

@claytongriffith8323 3 ай бұрын

"Every cleric teacher has to have some deity. It can't ever truly be neutral." He says to validate his proposed replacement of a cleric teacher that gave up worship of their specific deity so they may equitably educate clerics of all faiths.

@ria00 3 ай бұрын

Brennan plays Buddy so well holy SHIT... and the tension Ally brought to this whole interaction... having Kristen's hostility be met with someone who isn't gonna back down from it is so refreshing and I think exactly what she needs to be up against to help her grow even more, such excellent character work from the both of them here

@lanasartlife 3 ай бұрын

But they keep on stepping back from doubt which would’ve been a perfect way to fw Buddy

@lanasartlife 3 ай бұрын

And support Cassandra

@josiahlikestodance 3 ай бұрын

I feel like even the cast members were enthralled by this interaction. That’s what I love most about this show, that they can bring their acting experience to the table and really bring that world to life in a way that I think maybe non-actors wouldn’t be able to. And this interaction was so intense. Like you could feel the electricity in the air between the characters through a screen.

@Nosmo90 3 ай бұрын

@@lanasartlife"FW"? 🤔

@glumbortango7182 2 ай бұрын

3:35 The way that Ally says "Autopilot" like they're a robot here gets me every time, it's such an impulsive stab that it somehow feels like Kristen is destabilized in relation to how _already unstable_ that she usually is.

@enigmaj1494 3 ай бұрын

2:39 the great thing narratively about Buddy say “Helio doesn’t make mistakes” is that in the part 1 of the Sophomore Year finale, Sol literally said, “I knew that girl was trash.”

@enigmaj1494 2 ай бұрын

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@Narifamen 3 ай бұрын

God, Buddy brings up all kinds of unpleasant memories.

@CosmicWatermeln 3 ай бұрын

He reminds me of a Mormon missionary the way he dresses but that's likely intentional

@NawiXXI 3 ай бұрын

Buddy Dawn would never be able to handle and/or recover from the kind of *Life, Deaths and Resurrections* that *St. Kristan Chillis Applebees* had to go through to get here.

@emmakane6848 3 ай бұрын

His innocence makes me feel like Buddy hasn't had a fraction of those experiences yet, but when he does a lot of his mindset could shift on a dime.

@carmacksanderson3937 3 ай бұрын

Her middle name is Chilis, I believe

@NawiXXI 3 ай бұрын

@@carmacksanderson3937 my most humble apologies. Let me correct her, cannon, legal name.

@Nosmo90 3 ай бұрын

@@NawiXXI"Cannon, legal name" 🤭

@leanna9290 Ай бұрын

*JUNIOR YEAR SPOILERS AHEAD* This comment is just a bit more nuanced after last week’s episode. We’ll see, I guess

@Finn-wc8nq 3 ай бұрын

“You and what god 😄”

@haydenmitchell7846 3 ай бұрын

I don't care what people say, Buddy won the convo with that cold line

@asdasasdas3476 3 ай бұрын

That would be valid for anyone else but Kristin was able to revive herself so ya … god is an optional carry on for them

@garrettsharpe1464 3 ай бұрын

His response to whether he prays for his football team had me rolling as a Christian. Like God is a Patriots fan or something and will answer that prayer.😂

@ianh1504 3 ай бұрын

god likes the (insert worst team in the league here idgaf about football) the best, but satan who is a (chiefs? the chiefs won the superbowl i think?) fan tricked him into betting that the (first team i mentioned) would still worship him despite constantly losing

@garrettsharpe1464 3 ай бұрын

@@ianh1504 the only correct answer is that God answers the prayers of Tim Tebow fans because he prays sometimes.🙏

@emrysss 2 ай бұрын

“he does everything for me 😇” “autopilot 🤗” is taking me outtttt

@erielle_rs 3 ай бұрын

"Yours only came back once" fucking destroyed me on first watch, that was so off the cuff

@samanthatyler9863 3 ай бұрын

Buddy Dawn your downfall is coming. -_- When Kristen said "I'll never let you do that" in a dead serious tone about her little brother, I felt that in my guts and bones.

@brianngov1619 3 ай бұрын

Yours only came back once lmaoaoaoaoa

@VeteranVandal 3 ай бұрын

This is really personal for Ally, holy shit.

@finalcut612 3 ай бұрын

“Your god only came back once” is kinda raw

@batsybatsybats_ 3 ай бұрын

The balls on Kristen Applebees to reference that Arthur Aguefort did technically coup Sol once in heaven. Slayyyyyyyyy Edit: It could also refer to the Summer of Unending Night where the Night Yorb wrecked havoc, so that's 2 times that Sol canonically was rendered impotent

@Nosmo90 3 ай бұрын

Summer of Unending Night = SUN. Dun dun! 🤭

@unknown7040 3 ай бұрын

This honestly was one of the best interactions all season. It really makes Buddy go from being a goodie goodie at the Shrimp Party to a character that you really want to see Kristen stomp on. The frame of both Ally and Brennan too? Nat 20 editing

@jimmy_the_squid9456 3 ай бұрын

I knew Buddy wasn't as clean cut and innocent as he first seemed, I grew up around these people and they are some of the nastiest people I've ever met

@ladypinetree1820 3 ай бұрын

The gears on the rat grinder stickers are red. They kinda look like the rage stars. Interesting how they’re putting those stickers all over the school

@actuallyjay8522 3 ай бұрын

Everytime brennan ends one of buddy's sentences with lord I burst out laughing man "The only grade I care about is the grade that's gon be passed on me by the lord"

@josiahlikestodance 3 ай бұрын

Kristen being confronted with her past in so many different ways in this season is so good. I’m very curious to see how Kristin’s character develops moving forward. It seems all of them are going through a lot of character development. I love Gorgug’s character arc too. Developing a healthy relationship to anger instead of default avoiding it. This season is my favorite already and it’s not even over yet.

@katrina9324 2 ай бұрын

This aged like MILK bestie

@paiged20 2 ай бұрын

Somehow I feel responsible

@four1629 3 ай бұрын

i'm sorry bcs i know he sucks and he sounds like so many ppl i know, but it's also so funny that i can't help but love him. bringing me back to my baptist days before they bullied me out of church lmaooooo

@pallyboy6005 3 ай бұрын

He's literally Season One Kristen, like he's not evil or deranged, he's just blind to the evil done in Helio's name; he just wants to help people around him; he has a chance to not become Kristen's parents, maybe if the Bad Kids help him

@ccvv1119 3 ай бұрын

@@pallyboy6005I think he’s better than a season 1 Kristen honestly

@Asterius_101 3 ай бұрын

@@pallyboy6005 Idk S1 Kristen was blissful ignorance, Buddy Dawn feels like more willful ignorance or not even ignorance at all where he’s putting on a facade to give off the same vibe as S1 Kristen. He knows the dark nefarious parts of his church and he’s completely fine with them.

@TheJandRReptiles 3 ай бұрын

if someone doesnt slap buddy and say it was their god working through them and thus not their fault ill be upset

@johnnyb368 2 ай бұрын

Man, Buddy got sent to Helio REAL FAST.

@nelevenchts Ай бұрын

My main man Buddy has mastered being a cleric. He will meet his divinity without having to use divine intervention.

@ook4698 3 ай бұрын

this convo was a lil too real, ive interacted w too many ppl like this in texas 😭

@Exvilness 2 ай бұрын

Today was NOT the ideal day for KZfaq to recommend this to me

@WadaWander 2 ай бұрын

im so excited to see what hapens to buddy now that he has gone to meet Helio jsjsjsj

@Mentro140 3 ай бұрын

Rat grinders is a bit more interesting with the existence of the secret underground rat city

@wolf09980 2 ай бұрын

rest in peace pookie

@pastelprincess2018 2 ай бұрын

Fly high bestie 😢🕊

@nyansound7468 Ай бұрын

Idk if it’s just me but I feel like buddy is actually a really sweet guy he’s just been brainwashed in a similar way to how Kristen was at the beginning of season one. I think buddy is a very interesting character and I hope we get to see him come into his own and find a better way to follow Sol or maybe even leave the church for something better.

@thefamouscommenter 3 ай бұрын

Rooting for Buddy to be good so hard

@wolfofsummerbreeze 3 ай бұрын

Unlikely for a long while

@Tales-of-the-Many-World-lk1cu 3 ай бұрын

Despite the fact that a good portion of Helio and Sol's clergy are made up of people like this (judgmentally ignorant/ morally sociopathic at best, and nihilistically bloodthirsty/ holier-than-thou at worst), I think Kristen might still have to, at some point, have a heart-to-heart with her former deity, so that, at the very least, she can finally gain some closure over her past and be able to move on. From what little we've seen, Helio has struck me as, at worst, some well-meaning, rather passive dude that's firmly stuck under his a-hole dad's and aunt's thumbs in a clearly abusive relationship (even without going into the whole gods are influenced by their clerics thing.) who doesn't seem to reflect how bloodthirsty and douchey a good deal of his worshippers seem to be. And, to be fair, Kristen's only interactions with Helio have consisted of her asking him extremely existential questions (none of which is remotely in his purview) after her rather traumatic first death, socking him in the face after her second (or third? it hard to keep track sometimes) death, and offhandedly thinking that he's a date rapist. I also think part of season three Kristen's problem is that she's still somewhat stuck in the mindset of 'gods have all the answers,' despite now (badly) worshipping a deity that specifically represents the spheres of mystery and doubt. So, of course, the moment said deity does not meet her rather high (subconscious) standards, she goes all wacko and tries to run away/ latch on to a new thing, rinse and repeat. But, one of the things that D&D has, I think, always shown pretty well is this; Gods are powerful, but not perfect. If gods were perfect, then they would not really need worshippers would they? Plus... if they did every single thing for their worshippers, where would the drive to venerate them go? If they fixed every little mistake, how would their worshippers and people even grow? Gods influence their worshippers, but wasn't;t her story in season two also realizing that, in turn, worshippers influence their gods?

@softreyna 2 ай бұрын

A more sympathetic portrayal for Helio does line up with Ally themself changing from adamant non-bro to biggest bro on Dropout, and could be hinted at by Kristen's newfound love of working out and listening to podcasts

@Tales-of-the-Many-World-lk1cu 2 ай бұрын

@@softreyna Yeah, it's also making me wonder if what's really going on is that Sol's co-opted/ taken over Helio's worship. Like, he leaves him just enough to stay alive, but then keeps the rest, like having an abusive conservatorship over him. 'Purge all non-believers'/ 'I alone know all, the light is good'... does that sound like a corn deity... or a sun deity?

@Theology.101 3 ай бұрын

See when I grew uo having to deal with people like this, I didn’t know enough to have conversations with them. Now that I could have and win those conversations, none of them are in my orbit cause they fucking suck

@DaveTh3Ninja 3 ай бұрын

Bobby Dawn is the WORST and he needs to have his grubby hands kept off impressionable young cleric minds.

@batsybatsybats_ 3 ай бұрын

Kristen's little brother is a paladin in training, but yes I agree. 🫡

@samvolpitta7162 3 ай бұрын

Bobby isn’t great but is an actual cleric. Everything Kristen does is bring attention to herself. Doesn’t check in with people. Just doing her own thing. They are both different types of bad people. Everything Kristen does would be fine if she didn’t have commitments to people and them counting on her. She treated Helio and Cassandra like a battery so she could be awesome.

@DaveTh3Ninja 3 ай бұрын

@@batsybatsybats_ Kristen has Bucky in Doubt's cool pocket. Bucky will be fine

@DaveTh3Ninja 3 ай бұрын

@@samvolpitta7162 Kristen is a literal teenager and spoilers for the second half in advance but Cassandra is full not-dead.

@samvolpitta7162 3 ай бұрын

@@DaveTh3Ninja I didn’t say Cassandra was dead. Kristen is one of the protagonists, it’s ok to recognize she is also not noble. If she was on the rat grinders we would hate her. I think she is very much “well my class is cleric there is nothing here mechanically saying I need to be faithful to my deity.” In a world where the gods are real and the kids regularly unalive creatures and humanoids, it’s unreal they would have the stereotypical maturity slope. There have been plenty of events where Kristen would have grown up. All her friends are literally covering for her strange choices and behavior. It just feels like a repeat of the other seasons. I really like Kristen and don’t like how she lost all her character development.

@chiachimariachi4682 28 күн бұрын

“Hey if you can’t look after him, I’m happy to look after him” “💖I’ll never let you do that💖” *genuine protective older sibling energy right here*

@Butterratbee 3 ай бұрын

I absolutely love buddy

@melissag7372 2 ай бұрын

The first thing I said when I saw buddy was "this guy looks like he turns it off like a light switch"

@williamchristensen7354 19 күн бұрын

I felt that antagonism. It resonated right in my religious trauma. Brennan, you masterful bastard...

@aweckzs 3 ай бұрын

i need to see them fist fight

@ahmedyahya5487 3 ай бұрын

So Buddy is "doubting" Kristen and Cassandra?

@Finn-wc8nq 3 ай бұрын

Buddy arc make him a Cassandra cleric

@ccvv1119 3 ай бұрын

I mean who wouldn’t Cassandra is known as dead and technically Kristen is a failure of a cleric

@ahmedyahya5487 3 ай бұрын

@@ccvv1119 it's a pun on Cassandra's domain being mystery and doubt

@ChestersonJack 3 ай бұрын

@@ccvv1119There should be a semicolon between “doubting” and “Kristen” for the sentence to be read as intended

@steakknives 2 ай бұрын

Brennan knows the bible so well vs Ally who was, basically raised televangelist.

@midL1223 3 ай бұрын

listen,, im clawing at all the trans buckey crumbs i can get oka. and with the homophobia in the helioic church and buddy saying “bucky has been exposed to bad things” or wtv the freak he said im THINKINGGGGG RN

@emmakane6848 3 ай бұрын

I don't know about trans subtext, but I could easily see him as gay.

@midL1223 3 ай бұрын

@@emmakane6848 i relate to him a little to hard so, any lgbtq subtext is enought for me

@TheRedstonian 3 ай бұрын

Honestly? "Help I'm trapped within the expectations and norms of a religion that's being forced upon me" is the foundation of, like... MOST of my lgbtq context, so I'm already there

@Holly-xd8ms 2 ай бұрын

'I was born with an ast(thhhh)igmatism that had graduated to cataracts, and I had prayed Monday through Thursday, seven days a week for $29.99, and on the second Saturday of this month I had opened my eyes and I had never known my room had wallpaper' - Trixie Mattel

@Nosmo90 3 ай бұрын

"I'll never let you do that." 😂

@Nosmo90 3 ай бұрын

"*Ally mumbling threateningly*" 🤣

@hoodieproxyyt96 Ай бұрын

WAS your fave 😅

@collinspears9861 3 ай бұрын

Brennan had to have lived through some evangelism. This is too on point

@Mary-T35T4 3 ай бұрын

i will never forgive brennan for making three distinctly separate characters in one universe named Bud, Buddy, and Bucky 🙄 like can one of them be named jeff? or something?

@santiv4 Ай бұрын

HUGE spoilers⚠️ honestly this guy felt like the most sincere of the rat grinders (which is saying something) and i cant imagine that he had a very big role in their plan to begin with--with his death it feels like he was just collateral, and never knew it. its kind of sad, especially where there was probably room for him to change.

@aloe8078 Ай бұрын

The second Buddy showed up, I texted my friend, and I quote, “I love the fucking Mormon ass corn kid. I know he’s part of the villain group but he’s so goofy.” Seeing Kristen’s own freshman year energy thrown back at her in two separate ways (with Buddy and with with brother) is so fun This season as a whole is so exciting and I’m constantly on the edge of my seat, and I adore Buddy and have such a love hate relationship with the Rat Grinders. And **BIG SPOILERS FOR EPISODES 14/15** when he died and renounced his faith, my jaw hit the floor.

@Dndnerd591 Ай бұрын

Oh buddy.....

@paolav2887 2 ай бұрын

rip buddy dawn, he will be missed 😔🙏🌄🌽

@enbyharvey1417 3 ай бұрын

Can I be in counsel with you? Legit made me shudder

@Red_Mag3 Ай бұрын

Damn that newest episode though...

@Rubahae Ай бұрын

My sweet..........

@lucas56sdd 2 ай бұрын

rip Buddy Dawn 2024-2024 u were too pure for this earth

@beanie2571 Ай бұрын

oh i am so sorry

@katherinegallo6946 Ай бұрын

this. aged.

@nelevenchts Ай бұрын

Meanwhile Buddy wont

@domocan6877 3 ай бұрын

Is it wrong that I really enjoy Buddy annoying Kristen after a season of her kinda trolling everyone.

@bitterspirit4845 3 ай бұрын

It's kinda weird seeing a very christian-monotheistic approach to fantasy religion be a thing in fantasy high. then again its kristen going to other gods as opposed to being a weirdo fantasy atheist, and a deity who is a sun god is appropriate for having a monotheistic sect spring up around them. its one of the oldest divine concepts out there, the sun god

@retributive 2 ай бұрын

I think Fantasy High/Brennan thinks that its also very weird to be super monotheistic and evangelizing in a world with a clear pantheon. Every Helio worshiper makes sweeping assertions about peoples fate and judgments in a realm where it is COMMON KNOWLEDGE that there are 100% other options lmao