"Cats were banished" AH, YES, BECAUSE IF THERE'S ANYONE IN HISTORY WHO HATED CATS, IT WAS THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. OBVIOUSLY.

"This where my parents died, Air Buddies." "Cowabummer"

You forgot the part of Spooky Buddies where they can hide from the Howloween Hound in a church because it's hallowed ground, meaning that God exists in the Buddies universe.

The only one of these movies that I watched as a kid was snow buddies and let me tell you as a dog loving child I was PISSED that a group of golden retriever puppies beat full grown huskies in a sled dog race. Eight year old me was just like “well that makes no fucking sense”

The fact that all of this...ALL OF THIS...came from a movie about a dog playing basketball drives me nuts to this day.

i’m so glad to know that this was 10 years ago, and now rosebud is of wine drinking, infographic posting, and pantsuit wearing age? we love the original girlboss.

The buddies say goodbye to their dog friends like they’re the social links in a persona game telling you to believe in yourself one by one before you fight the final boss

"These movies are ra-" Me: "-ted G" Maxwell: "-scist. They're rascist."

B-Dog would make way more sense if his owner was Vanilla Ice

My friends mom was a dog trainer for the buddy movies. But she quit after Snow Buddies. Now i understand why. My friend also owned one of the original buddy puppies. He died when he was 13. I beileve it was B-Dawg.

I've always hated the trope of "cats are horrible and yucky!!!!!!" In general media back when, but especially in media centered around dogs,I have a dog and cats, they're besties and each do things different, end of.

Rest in peace to all of the poor lab puppies that suffered or passed away on the set of Snow Buddies. No animal, big or small, deserves to go through any pain or endangerment for a product of entertainment. How the filmmakers handled the situation was purely evil.

Buddha is not like naming your dog Jesus, it's more like naming your dog Messiah. Anyone (i guess even a dog) can become a buddha through meditation, because it means "enlightened one."

Allow me to explain the climax of Spooky Buddies. Basically, Budderball's farts did not turn the Howlloween Hound to stone. Instead, it was the force of the air from the farts blowing the Howlloween Hound's petrification breath onto him, turning Diedrich Bader dog into stone.

Parvo also isnt an illness that they just like "get over" even if they live thru it either. Think of kids who survived polio and lived with issues into adulthood. The same goes for dogs with parvo.

I realized right after you mentioned the "Budderball gets drunk" scene that grapes, and therefore wine, are incredibly toxic to dogs.

Whats sadly maybe accurate in the "Buddies Lore" is the pups being related to a bunch of golden retrievers, because a lot of golden retriever breeding is inbred like crazy

I got distracted because Max’s “They Might Be Giants” shirt kept folding over the “T” so it just said “Hey Might Be Giants”

Hey, I'm sure I'm not the first to mention this, but please give your fish adequate housing -- It looks like a standard-issue Petco betta bowl, which is not sufficient for any type of fish. If it is a betta fish (hard to tell from the shot), it needs a minimum 5-gallon tank capacity, a tank heater (70-78-degree farenheit water), and some kind of filter (a simple sponge or spillover filter is perfectly fine). Preferably the tank should be more wide than tall, and needs weekly 25% water changes (you can get some water conditioner at any pet or fish store, it lasts forever bc of the level of dilution). Some leaf hammocks wouldn't go amiss. All this can be bought for $50-$100 if you're willing to go second The "Fact" that fish can't feel pain is fishing industry propaganda. They can feel pain, have memories, and there are some studies that show they have emotions. Please, if you are going to commit to being a steward of a living animal, do the research that ensures that it can live long and be happy. Betta fish can live for 5+ years if properly cared for. REMEMBER: The only truly "low maitainance" pet is a dead one. Any living animal needs regular and varied levels of care for an optimal life (free from suffering with many or most of their needs met)

to be fair, usbasti is a great name for an ancient egyptian cat that turns into a statue. Ushabti being those little representitave servant statues in tombs that would come to life in your afterlife and serve your eternal soul, and Bast being the cat goddess.

the part in superbuddies where rosebud is talking to the horses lives in my head rent free specifically because at the end the horses go "TTYL rosebud" in creepy unison and she's like "TTYL" and I think that was the first time as a child I realized that people actually think girls are like that and I thought it was the stupidest thing ever. But also it was how I learned what TTYL stood for so whenever i see that i'm reminded of the scene.

I just kinda never processed Air Bud and Buddies being slightly different franchises. I thought they where all about puppies

If you liked these you should see the Beverly Hills Chihuahua direct to DVD sequels 😅

Spudnick seems like a play on both Sputnik and also Spuds Mackenzie, the former mascot of Bud Light, who was also a bull terrier

I love how u compared the Buddies movies to things like The Odyssey

Hello I was in fact the child who spooky buddies traumatized. Also space buddies was the thing that introduced me to the concept of Laika and learning what actually happened made me so upset that now my heart is just attached to her forever. Edit: Sorry I just noticed there is actually a fish in that bowl, I’m going to guess it’s a betta or a gold fish and either way that isn’t an appropriate tank for that fish. I really don’t want to be rude but your fish needs more space than that with a proper filter and heater. Please I just want the best for your fish.

8:44 the editing for this entire sequence is so fucking funny 😭😭 like obviously they couldn't spin a dog or push the lil guy off a cliff so they just spin the fucking camera and shake it a little lmfaooooo. And then the little Webkinz looking plush that comes out of the snowball when it hits the tree absolutely sent my sides into orbit 😭😭

Okay, wait. If, throughout all these films, the buddies are still puppies, does that mean they got adopted, went to alaska, flew to the moon, went on treasure hunts, saved christmas, fought satan himself, and became superheros all in the span of a few months?!?

I got a confession... "Christmas Miracle" made me cry as a kid...and still does.

Fun Fact: The Air Bud company has been making Netflix origninal TV shows latetly. I found some while watching shows with my nephew including Pup Academy (Hogwarts for Dogs) and Phantom Pups (Spooky Buddies but worse and the villian is a ghost dog with human hands). I have heard that there are some others like Super Pupz and the shows are objectively awful, but there is something special about knowing that shitty dog movies where they animate the mouths are still being made.

I know the animal cruelty is not comparable, but while we're on the subject, that "fish bowl" in the background is actually not big enough for any fish whatsoever.

*Batman voice "This is where I watched my parents die, B-Dogl" B-Dog "Cowabummer dude."

40:00 to continue your nitpicking about the pyramid, even if there would be a whole tomb made for Cleopatras cat, there’s no way they would have built a pyramid. Pyramids are distinctly Old Kingdom whereas Cleopatra is essentially at the very end of the New kingdom 😭 Pyramids would have been considered ANCIENT HISTORY by the time Cleopatra and her cat would’ve existed 💀 at most the tomb would have been in a Necropolis or in the Valley of the Kings 😭😭😭😭

1:01:46 I have no clue if this makes Santa Buddies any better or worse, but this technically means that Puppy Paws grew up to become a Genshin Impact character lmao

Fish in a bowl giving me anxiety through this whole thing. In other news, won't be able to think about snow buddies again without the cursed knowledge behind it. It's greatly unfortunate what happens to animals on movie sets- even in the modern era. We might not run horses off of real cliffs like in old westerns but giving a ton of puppies parco is certainly about as awful. edit: Also I think Butterball farted hard enough to push the howloween hounds magic gas back in his own face, I don't think they were implying butter has magic farts

I work in an animal shelter and Parvo is a horrible thing to witness that most puppies don't survive. They can be fine one day and 5 hours later on their death bed, hardly even able to breathe, explosive diarrhea draining away all their hydration so you have to keep them on an IV so they even have a chance to survive, no will to eat and barely even responsive. It's just heartbreaking to hear about what an awful thing those puppies were exposed to, and even if no more died I wouldn't be shocked if they were still abused behind the scenes. To Hollywood they're "just animals", a means to a quick buck. I hope those that survived went to good homes and lived good lives after.

"Do you really think they are gonna kill off B-doug" they alredy did that on snow buddies...

You ruined my life in one offhanded comment. "I don't even want to talk about Milo and Otis"

I remember watching the Buddies movies when I was young, I was maybe 4-5 years old, they where the only movies I watched for a while. I'd drive my sister crazy as I forced Space Buddies into the DVD player on road trips. I'm 15 now and forgot these movies even existed until I stumbled across this video. what a huge nostalgia trip.

The Halloween hound is voiced by Batman from Brave in the Bold. What?!

a core memory of mine is crying at the ending of Spooky Buddies as a kid😭 loved revisiting the movies through this video (even if they are pretty damn racist💀) also omg all of the TMBG merch… makes me love the video that much more LMAO

Do you have a betta in a bowl in the background? Can you please give him a lil heater and filter or live plants + more decoration to not feel as exposed? I used to love the buddies movies when i was younger, but what drove me to comment was the lil fishy bc i have two bettas of my own and they reallyyyy do appreciate more room, the ability to see well (the curvature of the bowl makes it hard to see outside the tank), and enrichment. I know you're not keeping the betta that way out of malice, just misinformation, but please do the research and enhance the life of the lil amazing critter you have under your care 💕 You may see that he will have a "glowup" from living in better conditions!

You know, it's ironic that the lowest one on this list was the one I watched the most as a kid.

Ok we need him to go over Beverly Hills Chihuahuas cause it would BLOW this dude’s mind 😭

The fact that in santa buddies Buddha says "thank you for making us true believers" when Christmas is a christian holiday and Buddha is a Buddhist, so it makes no sense

When I got to the clip of Budderball defeating the big bad of Spooky Buddies with his super fart I physically had to pause the screen and hold back a loud ass laugh for 45 seconds.

i’m high af rn watching this at 4am and it blew my mind LMAO thanks for giving me buddies nostalgia

God Spooky Buddies is such a big part of my childhood. It was like, my first introduction to ‘horror’. The scene of Pip sacrificing his soul to save the buddies is always something that has stuck with me.

"the aliens come to earth and disguised themselves as dogs" -man I can't believe Super buddies could afford a cameo from The Thing(1982)

Fun fact, I loved these movies when I was little, and I had a husky HideAway pet, and even though it's name was on the wash info tag (his name is Slush) I named him Shasta after the husky from Snow Buddies

I think the facial animation is pretty solid actually. Ranging from meh to good for the time to genuinely a good effect…

So for the part where budderballs fart turns the howloween hound to stone, I think his fart was so potent that it blew the gas from the howloween hound back into his face, turning him to stone. (I cringed so much typing this)

I couldn’t finish Spooky Buddies because the puppies dying in the beginning scarred and scared me and I ran out of the room and nightmares for months

i know snow buddies is so bad. but it’s been a comfort movie of mine since i was so little haha so excited to see a video like this! ☺️

as always the analysis done on all of these essential movies of childhood is fantastic. Was it really ever Christmas if your parents didn’t pull out Santa buddies from the Christmas decoration bin? Or was it ever really Halloween if you were terrified of the warlock from spooky buddies? Truly pivotal and totally not at all racist lol

space buddies was absolutely one of my favorite movies as a kid, glad to know it (relatively) holds up

Honestly I think this dude is good enough to be like Danny Gonzalez big

Fun fact, the yellow building is also the same set used for Green Hills in the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, very clearly visible in the scene in Sonic 2 where Robotnik is disassembling the military’s vehicles. I recognized it instantly on subconscious sleeper agent memory and this fact will forever haunt me.

The most horrifying and abysmal thing about these movies ... They had to go through AT LEAST few hundred or so puppies to make all these movies... Don't ask what happens to them in the studio, or when they get too old.

🥺😔 that's sad to see the puppies got treated so badly during filming for Snow buddies that's horrible poor things rest in peace

This series was completely blacked out from my mind and now I have to live with the fact that I have every aspect of each of these films burned into my memory.

Tbf Chihuahuas are a Mexican breed of dog, and Corgis are from Wales. BUT bull terriers are from England, so Sputnik should’ve been a Yakutian Laika :0) (as sad as the name is).

...HOLY FUCK! The news about the dark secret behind Snowbuddies is....really horribly haunting.

This video brought back SO many memories, you have no idea. There was this video rental store attached to a pizza place by my house when I was a kid. My mom and I used to go to the video store to get a movie and pizzas. I used to frequently rent out the buddies movies and my mom and I would watch them together. Good times fr. Anyway, these movies seemed a lot better when I was a kid than they do now lmaooo.

Excellent video; but it's a little hard to focus with your poor fish in the background in a bowl. Does it have a filter? It doesn't have nearly enough space in there. I really hope to see you improve that fish husbandry!

6 Weeks old puppies in Snow Buddies? That's illegal. You cannot buy puppies before they are 8 weeks old. They need their mother until then.

I was looking at Disney+ when I remembered about the Buddies movies, specifically the Super Buddies movie. Which got me thinking “man I sure hope that there’s a KZfaqr out there who spent time to watch all of these buddies movies and ranked them all so then I don’t have to watch them in a video essay” Anyways thank you

"this is where I watched my parents die, air buddies" "This is where you watched you parents die, oof oof"

In the time since having watched the original my questions about the ethics of the existence of the Buddhist puppy have more than doubled. so thanks I guess

Me, a fool: "this will be interesting as i've never seen any of these movies" The sealed memories from when I was 8, about to be resummoned : 😏

27:12 I think some of the powers were more connected to the sports that each of the buddies were affiliated with in Air Bud. (I have not watched the full vid so I can't determine if he mentions it later on). Butterball gets strength with his sport being football. B-dog gets stretch since his sport is basketball and basketball players are usually tall. Budda gets mind control since baseball has something to do with the mind (that's what I'm guessing). Mud bud gets invisible since his name is mudbud and mud can be used for camouflage. (also since his sport is volleyball and volleyball has sand that gets you messy) And finally rosebud gets superspeed since her sport is soccer and soccer players are fast. This is what my interpretation was of it. Not 100% if it all correlates fully.

«If I've learned anything from "Air Bud", "Air Bud 2 - Golden Receiver", "Air Bud 3 - World Pup", "Airbud 4 - Seventh Inning Fetch", "Airbud spikes back", and the "Air-, Snow-, Space-, Santa-, Spooky Treasure and Super Buddy" spinoffs, it's that the world doesn't need a fucking basketball-playing dog!» - Gigi Thompson

I forgot that these movies were even in the same universe as air bud tbh

I remember being so scared of Spooky Buddies because there was a ghost beagle and i currently owned a beagle at that age. 😰

I can’t help but notice your fish in the background? Typically fish are not decoration and need a lot of space, and typically things to hide in and plants and a filter for the best quality of life! I don’t want to be a nit picker but as someone who wants to be a marine biologist I just can’t help but think about it.. I do like your video, and I look forward to watching more

I actually think the talking animation looks great and very nostalgic

im gonna be real here the way Tiny keeps moving her head every three seconds is kinda funny. my grandmas old dog Ace did something similar, however instead of tilting his head every three seconds, if he was anywhere near you he'd start licking the air over and over again. like, trying to lick you. it was hilarious.

Wow the transition from treasure to air buddies was SO jarring. It looks like a movie. Like one that could be in a cinema…. Crazy

This video made me realize my favorite Buddies movie wasn't even a technically buddies movie. It was Santa Paws, which isnt even about Puppy Paws? Its maybe a prequel? From my memory, the Santa Paws films actaully retcon Puppy Paws

i was so fucking unbelivably terrified of the halloween hound as a child

Honestly, only 5 passing from parvo is like a miracle in and of itself. That stuff is SO deadly to wee babes

All I remember about this series is that my 3rd grade teacher showed us Treasure Buddies and I cried through the entire last third because… it scared me for some reason???

Oh, so THAT's what I watched as a kid... SnowBuddies. I remember watching both this and Balto movies without even realizing they have the exact same plot and premise... that's wild

Goddamnit, my younger brother was OBSESSED with these movies when he was like 5-7 years old. I’ve watched that damn Treasure Buddies one enough times that I’m certain it took years off my life

I’m gonna murder KZfaq for not recommending this to more people.

I loved these movies when I was younger. Watch them all the time. My favorite one was Spooky buddies. Anyways loved the video. :D

What if the implied "Bud" from B-dog was supposed to imply "Black". 💀 Jokes aside, i wouldn't be surprised cos as a black person with exposure to ppl who actually think that B-dog's act is accurate... I slowly became numb to every single line spouted out of that puppy. Peak product of its time

Me going into this video: Oh my god I loved these movies as a kid Me reaching the part about the filming process and what happened to the dogs and apparently in milo and otis it was EVEN WORSE: MY CHILDHOOD IS BUILT UPON DEATH

Ok but when I first watched Santa buddies I cried when tiny sang his crappy song only because that same day the stupid depressing Noel SPCA commercial were on repeat and I’m also a major crybaby :,)

The wolf is the highlight of the whole franchise 🙏 Absolutely loved these movies as a kid and still often revisit them for nostalgia's sake. Loved this review. Awesome work!

Space Buddies is literally a core memory for me, I’d watch it whenever it came on, I’m pretty sure the first time I cried because of a film was when Spudnik returned to Sasha. It’s so weird to see that movie now in hindsight and go: “… huh”.

Let me jsut say, the back ground light changing based on the movie, the shirt costume changes and the overall gradually devolving, loosening and messier hair which grows worse every movie which progresses even though he already went from worst to best? inspired.

You didn't even mention that in Spooky Buddies they defeat Warwick with a bible, and say the line "an evil like Warwick cannot enter the house of God!"

welp since he reuploaded i guess i have an excuse to watch this video again!

Oh my god, if there’s one thing I despise about dog movies that they literally ALL do at some point or another, it’s that stupid “cats are evil” shtick. It’s so irritating, and it especially angered me as a little kid, because I was a huge cat lover. I still am, but back then (when I was the target audience for kid films like Air Buds) I distinctly remember it genuinely upsetting me when cats were constantly shit all over in movies like this. It’s not even just in dog-centric movies, either. Homeward Bound, Bolt, and The Secret Life of Pets have some weirdly anti-cat bits that just feel like the writers want to make little kids who favor cats sad LMAO. In fact, the scene in Bolt where one of the people in the caravan park throws a frying pan at Mittens made me cry when I was little because… that’s literally animal abuse??? (Animal abuse that’s played as a joke, no less.) Idk it’s just so weird. Why did all of these movies do that? 😭

10:03 Can someone explain to me how that’s racist? A French guy saying “Sayonara” to an Asian man? I mean he’s sabotaging everyone, he didn’t just pick on that one guy for being Asian.

Hey so the Yellow Building is 100% the Community Hall building in Fort Langley, British Columbia. I went to grade school right next to the thing

ok I used to looove these movies as a little kid, I just liked looking at cute puppies. and I have to say, that tiny dog from the Christmas buddies is maybe the cutest dog I've ever seen 😭 I didn't remember that. I just remember my mom buying me the first one when I was really sick and watching it multiple times. and crying at the space movie. but daamnnnn that snow buddies thing... that is heartbreaking and terrible and makes me really angry too, these movies will never be the same

I had to do a double take when he just threw in a CW for RACISM at the start of this Also holy shit I haven’t been as pissed off hearing about the Snow Buddies production in a long ass time

I used to love these movies when I was little and snow buddies was unironically my favorite one. 😭😭 These movies aged so poorly and it's so funny to me. Just like Beverly Hills Chihuahua which also aged terrible