Maximus said the bombs dropped on the world when he was a kid because he was in Shady Sands. And to him, that was "the world".

I love that Maximus and Lucy are wary of the vault for different reasons initially: Lucy isn't used to mutations, so she's suspicious because of that and not concerned about them helping out because she's used to that. Maximus lives on the surface and is more tolerant of different types of people but is suspicious because they're too nice haha. Really shows how our environment can change our outlooks.

I found a unmentioned "Easter Egg", in episode 6. When the Ghoul was taken before "The President", we see President , he's a fat man wearing a white suit and white bowtie. His name is Sorrel Booker. Now, from 1979 - 1985, on the TV show, "The Dukes of Hazzard", the character of Boss Hogg, controlled the county, he wore a white suit and white bowtie, the actor that played him, was Sorrell Booke.

Axolotls are effectively immortal with their regenetation. That's a trait a mad scientist would want spliced into a human. Unfortunately, the results were axolotls with human traits instead.

25:40 The vault that doesn't seal is Vault 12 in Bakersfield, where Cooper wants to move. It became Necropolis, a city of ghouls.

If you didn't notice.. the finger The Ghoul sews on is Lucy's

The music when Lucy expands the flag is glorious. Instant nostalgia bomb.

My guess is that there is an internal manual release, but remember he's had no training in how to use the suit.

Vault 11 - the vault was told they have to sacrifice a fellow vault dweller every year, or they would all be killed. They continued with the sacrifices, until there was only 5 left. The final five refused to sacrifice anymore. The computer then announced, for refusing to sacrifice fellow vault dwellers, they were shining examples of humanity.

"Hiding out on a ranch in Bakersfield" funny choice, Bakersfield aka Necropolis was ghoul central in Fallout 1

Matt Berry's voice is like a cure for depression

I note that none of the main characters are ever alone, with only rare exception. Everyone gets a companion, just like the game.

Also got goose bumps when the Fallout Theme hit as she looked at the NCR flag. RIP Shady Sands.

"Her mom didn't die of... nice things." LOL!!

Fun little switcheroo between Max and Gucy where he thought it was a cult and she thought he was being ridiculous and then vice versa. Telling people not to go to level 12 is like daring people to go to level 12.

Gulpers were an enemy type introduced in Fallout 4: Far Harbour. Giant mutated Salamanders, capable of swallowing just about anything smaller than them, including humans. These ones... are different. Genetically created by trying to make humans more resistant to radiation. The only similarity is the name and of course, that they both eat a lot.

When he was trapped in the suit the first thing I thought of was "Oil Can"

Lucy finding Maximus stuck in his power armor is a reference to a random "special" encounter in Fallout2, where the player finds an enclave soldier in the desert, unable to move until the player oils them up withan oil can, conveniently sitting on the ground. This special encounter is in turn a reference to Dorothy finding the Tin man in "the wizard of Oz". Isn't that fun. Oh, and "Shady sands" is one of the towns in Fallout 1, so not the same place as "megaton" in Fallout 3 (unless I missed something)

Incase you didn't know, Shady Sands was in both of the original Fallout games.

Vault 43. A vault with 20 men, 10 women, and 1 panther.

The "Morticia" lady in vault 4 is magnificently gorgeous. I can't blink when she's on-screen. Vault 4 is my favorite part of the season and the punishment was so great, hahaha

"We have another settlement that needs your help." Best. Opening. Ever! LOL!

When Cooper (The Ghoul) goes to look at the WANTED posters in the "President's" office, there is a poster of a wanted ghoul. It looks very similar to another ghoul named Ben in the live action fan-project "Nuka Break". (It's on KZfaq)

That movie poster for 'A Man amd His Dog' had to nod to the real film 'A Boy and His Dog". A film from the 70's with a similar premise as Fallout.

I got chills when Lucy opened the flag

3:50 "A serious design flaw!" - Given that in the games, you _can_ step out of it with no power, it's probably better to rationalize Maximus' problem as inexperience. Like, he literally isn't trained on the PA, so he doesn't know where the trunk release latch is, and 'his squire' figured the same as well when he decided to swipe the fusion cell 🙃

I love listening to your guesses and trying to figure the plot out when I already watched it all.

the scene with the lady giving birth to gulpers absolutely shook me

"Simone Garvey doesn't exist. She wont send you to another settlement that needs your hel-""

Maximus and Lucy are quite the team especially since Maximus has the power armor and Lucy has engineering skills

The fact you didn't freak out seeing Matt Berry (Codsworth) is a shame. Probably the funniest t.v comedic actor to come out of Britain in decades. Please watch a few episodes of What We do In the Shadows. It's 10000 % right up your ally.

A litle bit of trivia that I just found out (though should have already realized) is that the actress who plays Betty is also the same actress who plays Deadpool's blind friend in the movies.

George's Chris Parnell thumbnail is spectacularly done.

It seems that everyone else is wanting to play Fallout too. Fallout 4 has seen a sales spike of 7500% in the last couple of weeks.

By the end of this series you will understand why Maximus said the bombs fell when he was a kid.

The last two episodes are fantastic, and wrap up many things while leaving lots of great questions for future seasons. And the music remains phenomenal. Also, Simone - best intro yet. Shut up Preston, indeed

In case you're wondering, Shady Sands is actually the (usually) first settlement that The Protagonist visits in the first Fallout Game. I say usually because The Fallout games are so open world that you could end up doing things in a vastly different order than the designers originally intended for you to go.

Maximus said "the bombs" dropped when he was a kid. However, the current year that he and Lucy are in when they were standing in front of the crater that used to be Shady Sands is 2296. The "end of the world" bombs dropped in 2077. There is a LOT of contention when Lucy sees the "blackboard" with the timeline of Shady Sands, and it shows "The Fall of Shady Sands 2277" then shows an arrow to a depiction of a bomb exploding. There are some timeline issues in the game Fallout 3 Shady Sands is said to still exist in 2281. The rumor is that "The Fall of Shady Sands" began in in 2277 and sometime much later Shady Sands was destroyed.

"He really needs to try sex" as if it's something you can just stop by a Walmart and pick up, lmao

Man...I just did a playthrough where I got all the settlements before meeting The Minutemen. Fully built and populated, with defense and everything they need. Talk to Preston, and he still sends me to every single one of them, all 30+ settlements.

Matt Berry is a fucking legend.

"She reminds me of the od lady from It." Actually, she's the old blind lady from Deadpool.

The A Man and His Dog poster is a homage to a film. A Boy and His Dog (1975) is a movie that has a vault/fallout shelter as a main component to the plot. One could say the creators of Fallout took a LOT of inspiration from this film.

Cooper played in "A Man and his Dog", a clear reference to "A Boy and his Dog", the main inspiration for Fallout

One thing I noticed when I watched the episode with the gulper was that aside from the human-like hands and general fleshy coloration was that it also had very expressive human eyes. I thought that was curious and that it seemed very purposeful. I was very satisfied when episodes 6 and 7 gave an explanation that confirmed it.

Maximus is such a himbo.. sure, brand the guy, explain the tennants in order; Protect the brother hood, protect the mission, protect the knight.. say you're the second knight titus not the first, tell the guy how knight titus died, explain what happened.. then open the mask.

36:16 Those fish are probably the ones in the Overseer's office that Simone thought were cute

I don't mind Preston's radial missions; every faction in Fallout 4 gives you those. I just want him to accept that we had his little chat about his feelings, and accept that I'm not going to sex him up, no matter how many times he keeps trying to have the chat again, over and over, until I find a way to nuke the Minutemen, or forever.

between ep 6 and A League of their Own, we got two "dont get the clap" jokes.

I felt the same amount of cope in Simone's "cool cool cool" when i was watching and realized i only had 2hr left 😭 lmao

I think we all collectively said shut up when you did that intro Simone lol.

That's really what old hot tubs looked like. They were just a wooden bucket basically. They didn't even blow bubbles.

It took me watching the whole series and then seeing y'all watching it again to really put it all together.

With no way to open the armor without power, one would assume that it was Tesla Armor. Athankyou.

37:02 Notice the poster in the background... Strong resemblance to spore carriers from Vault 22 FO:New Vegas

the Gary vault is the best and its not even close

The experiment for the vault they found was "What could scientists do without the constraints of social rules". Basically scientists left to their own morals versus their need to discover.

People who don't know: "Oh nice, they're in a Vault." 😊 People who know: "Oh no, they're in a Vault!" 😱

You need to call the phone number from the commercial at the beginning of episode 6!! It's hilarious 😂!!

3:50 The lack of an emergency exit system from the armor seems silly to me too, but perhaps in this reality of fallout power armor is meant to be used with the help of support troops.

Maybe not the worst, but my favourite vault was Vault 108, the Gary clone vault. Sneaking around that place listening to the Gary's call out to each other cracked me up.

"Such luxury." "Compared to what's outside." Man, that's unfathomable luxury to me right now.

I called the Vault phone # when they flashed it on screen and it's... [spoiler] . . . . . . a recording of a man screaming lmao. Nice touch.

Vault 4 is basically how I imagine Canada

The groom was supposedly from Vault 32, not 31, if I remember correctly.

WARNING: Vualt tec oysters may cause pimples to pop!

Imagine A research facility, run by scientists, with no oversight & freedom to do whatever they want.... Vault 4

I don't know about the worst vault, but I heard Vault 69 was nice.

The ones with the psychological experiments are the worst for me. The one where they had to sacrifice the overseer every year in particular.

One of the worst vaults is Vault 75. It was located under a middle school in Boston. Vault Tec would separate the kids from their parents,kill the parents,kill the less intellectual kids and conduct experiments on the smarter kids to make better and smarter children. Eventually they escaped...its such a sad and tragic vault. You can find it in Fallout 4.

26:57 it’s Dr. Spaceman!

Dude saying: "You've never heard of the New Calif..." I quickly interjected with: "F*CK THE NCR"

“What is dying of nice things?” Death by Snu Snu 😂

drowning in marshmallow would be a pretty nice way to go out

Hey Simone and George just popped in to say I love your channel your guys are one of my favorites keep doing what you're doing

I have seen people complain about how the Fiends are identified as cannibals here -- in New Vegas they were just very....very on drugs, that was their whole thing, and there was a questline where cannibalism for ONE character was tied into it, but -- this is set after New Vegas, and we have to remember Maximus is out in the world again for the first time since he was a kid. He likely only has what became rumors and ghost stories among the other recruits unless we see him being told otherwise. See also: What he thought the vaults were before talking to Lucy. Of course he would think that: by and large the most likely encounters the Brotherhood is going to have with Vaults on record are ones that have failed and have been overrun with creatures.

yalll are the only reactors that where smarter then me and my husband figuring out what happened in Vault 32. Props to you two for being Int 8 at least

He voted for Blind Al.

30:38 The exact same thing happened to me! That music really hit me in the nostalgias... hit me HARD

Matt Berry as Codsworth was something I never knew I needed

I love the Nerd Spren shirt! I'ma go look for that right now. Must have.

"Is vault 31 like a breeding program for managers?" Getting warmer :)

i played a lot of Fallout from years ago its great to see your reaction on this one :)

Worst Vault: 68 Population 999 men, 1 woman

Hillarious that the commercial for Vault 4 shows that scientists are running the vault. When no one says no to a Scientist they can damage the world. They made most of the mutants.

Thanks for watching this on the channel, you two

0:00 I really don't want to dislike you as much as I did after that intro, Simone! That was kind of evil, giving a Fallout veteran PTSD like that...😆

The way I interpreted Vault 32 is the experiment was to see what happens to people in an unsurvivable situation. I assume they powers that be understood there would be no survivors, but the people in 32 realized they were in a Kobayashi Maru, which caused panic and lead to everyone to kill each other/themselves, expediting the results and forcing Vault 31 to adjust and split 33 into two groups because of the Raiders, blaming the entire thing on them.

The next 2 episodes are going to be a rollercoaster 😂

It’s awesome that the lady that play Betty the overseer is the blind lady from Deadpool

Thank you Simone for reminding us of Radiant Quest Satan.

Worst vault..."Gary"...or was it jerry...

I knew I recognised Jerry’s voice, had no idea that was him

The fact you didn't exclaim "Matt Berry!" when you saw him, means you owe it to yourselves to watch the "What We Do In The Shadows" series 😁

For me its vault 77 1 man and a box of puppets that he didnt discover until a year and a half by himself really fun vault to read up on

32:35 possible easter egg? A couple of years ago there was a fan made Fallout series called Nuka Cola; one of the Ghoul Wanted posters (bottom left) looks A LOT like one of the characters from that series

Dallas Goldtooth is great in "Reservation Dogs." Nice to see him break out into other roles besides comedy. He is fantastic in comedy though. And damn I love his car with the sliding doors in ep6. Real collector car.

Chris Parnell was my Film and Video teacher I the 9th grade... before he got on SNL

The 3 worst have to be: Vault 11: The one where they were forced to sacrifice a person each year, only to be told it wasn't necessary when they were only 5 people left, and they finally refused Vault 95: A vault which was a rehab clinic for junkies. When it seems like people finally were clean, Vault-Tec opened a hidden compartment filled with drugs and people went berserk. Vault 68: 1000 inhabitants. Only one was a woman. Yeah, I doubt this one had a happy ending.

The first scene of the first episode implied that the actor was probably blacklisted for being 'associated' with communism like the others. A taste of the real world history is often the scariest thing in an alternate history.