Fun fact: The reason she has so many knives is because they ARE 1 use. In game every tool is a one use item. Use a rake once and it disintegrates.

I'm no film expert but their use of color in those ads is actually incredible at capturing the feeling of the animated ones

I love how Danny didn’t notice she baked a file into the pie, implying that she was preparing for prison, and her granddaughter brought the pie to her.

Everybody asks what’s grandma hiding? But no one ever asks why’s grandma hiding?

Honestly I'm just happy for Kathy Bates, she looks like she's having so much fun in these ads

The fact that someone actually had to make the grandma decoy for the ads is impressive, and terrifying

kathy bates won an oscar for misery in which she portrayed one of the most terrifying film villains to date and now she's the grandma in merge mansion

Danny I hate you for missing the fact she PUT A FILE IN THE BOWL WHILE SHE WAS BAKING so when she was brought the pie she could use it to break out of jail. It's genius

"Grandma wait!" "No." Idk why, but I absolutely lost it at that exchange.

The Merge Mansion team just realized that they're better at making films than they are at games. I expect Lilly's Garden full length live action film by next month.

Honestly grandma has nailed it. When you're old and you've got nothing to lose, might as well commit multiple murder. A life sentence wouldn't be as scary when you're 80.

What really surprised me was the fact that I saw one of the live-action ads on the actual TV, like not a social media site. They had the budget to get this as a real television commercial. Then I saw another animated one on social media after the live-action ones came out, and the animation quality dropped extensively. Probably because they blew their budget on the live-action.

she obviously gets a new knife every kill, she keeps the old ones as tokens . common serial killer psychology

I feel like if they turned into a movie studio they'd do 10x better

"The Butler" here. And you're right - I HAVEN'T slept in ages! 😀

Kathy Bates is imo one of the greatest actresses of all time, she can literally do anything, drama, comedy, horror/thriller, she's amazing, sooooo... How TF did they get her to do ads for a mobile game!?

Lights, color, art department and casting are on point. The girl’s silhouette looks like the typical character from these games

Grandma isn’t a murderer, she’s just a master chef Those papers she was burning was her secret recipe. She wasn’t burying a body, just planting… spices? That wasn’t blood on her, just jam.

This would actually be one sick movie. They could make more money with this movie then they ever could with their mobile app

3:06 so is anyone gonna tell us why she's wearing the prettiest gloves I've ever seen for gardening or...? there are bigger questions than the knives guys

At some point I caved in and downloaded the app and the knives thing is actually kind of a clever joke. In the game you have to merge low value objects to make better ones, and as far as I remember the knives are one of the low value ones. So you begin the game with a whole buch of knives that you have to pair up until you end up with a rake or something more useful.

They put literally everything into these ads, but the game is literally just merging random things to get to the next area. It's just so weird. Also why is the grandma hinted to be some type of murderer? Honestly I'm invested in this storyline.

When you’re more excited about merge mansion ads than some actual movies

2:00 to be fair Danny, serial killers aren’t the most understandable people, there’s probably some weird reason behind it. Maybe it’s some kind of victor Zasz situation, he cuts himself for every kill, and she only uses one knife per person or something

i’ve solved it. she’s just a baker. the knives are for cutting pies, the red stuff on her apron was berries, she was burning her secret recipe, and she was planting seeds in the garden to grow her own berries. she doesn’t want anyone to know she makes pies. you’re welcome gamers😩

huge props to them tbh. 99% of ads with real people are incredibly cringe, uncreative, and they use the worst actors on this planet. These ads are genuinely good.

I like how Danny didn’t see grandma drop a file into her pie filling in the animated video 😂😂

We're just going to pretend Danny is hiding his extra set of fully articulated arms from us? Yes? Oh...ok.

The director of the live action ads, Jim Jenkins, is an extremely well-respected director. He’s won a ton of awards and is responsible for more than a few of the best Super Bowl ads. Legitimately impressed that the Merge Mansion devs/producers decided to go with legitimately top-level production companies for their advertising given that they’d probably be just as successful with cheaper ones.

Danny: "DO NOT ASK me if I am sponsored by Merge Mansion!" Me: "What is Danny hiding?" 🤔

3:20 Danny I think you need to realize that most murderers are insane

9:25 I can’t believe Danny missed the picture going from live action to animated

I hope that someday Merge Mansion goes the whole 9 yards and reworks the game into some suspenseful horror mystery game. Then people would actually want to play it.

i can't believe everyone's shaming an avid knife collector. leave her and her unique hobbies alone.

@5:19 Danny, sounding genuinely touched, "It's . . . Beautiful. It's a beautiful film."

I honestly love these wacky adds, Kathy Bates is just having the time of her life in these. Plus giving deep intriguing lore is not bad to make a repair/improve house game. Cause they keep going at it in the game, its not like they forget about it in it. In my book there is nothing wrong with this.

danny’s recreation to how raunchy the secret passageways could get genuinely killed me

also how did they get Kathy Bates to play the grandma? literally an A-list actress.

Gaslight, Gatekeep, ✨️Grandma✨️

A trailer has been released for maybe a movie merge mansion (?) and literally PEDRO PASCAL is playing in it, PEDRO PASCAL

The joke in the first ad is that in the game you "merge" items together to get new items, so in the game it would be completely normal to have a bunch of knives stored in your shed. Also explains the "so many knives, so little time" line that maybe eludes to how long it take to merge stuff or whatever idk

I wanna see Danny get sponsored by merge mansion, then create an equally impressive ad for his sponsorship, just like these and like his music videos. I would love to see that honestly

These actors fit the characters better than the ones in the Avatar The Last Airbender live action movie.

I’d honestly play this game just to encourage them to make even more of these ads 😂

Me, an empath: “I’m sensing that Danny wants to be sponsored by Merge Mansion.”

The second live action ad is such a great concept for a parody horror movie oh my god. Where no matter where you go, it's always a hand-knitted replica, and you're like "Grandma, I can see you right there" but as soon as you get there, bam, it's a hand knitted replica. I'd watch that go on for, like, 2 hours but the actress just gets less and less afraid and more and more irritated. Edit: Wait oh my god the twist could be at the end that SHE was the hand knitted replica all along! When she finally finds grandma, grandma is beside a mirror, and then the camera pans to the mirror, which then shows the replica of the actress, and then it like falls over or something idfk

6:04 she is burning her taxes

Both ad types are ok. The animated ones are better advertising wise because it actually shows the game but the live action ones are so interesting

ok but why did she have to lick her finger before sticking it in the statue's ear

They got Kathy Bates to star in it, I think a high production value was required. Also if they ever did do a real feature film, they would definitely need Danny to make a cameo in it, as a nod to the KZfaqrs who helped with this game's ad lore.

Honestly I would be excited if the ads become ACTUAL full length horror movies

These are surprisingly funny. I laughed out loud at almost all of them.

The mystery is "what's grandma hiding?" Is Because she keeps exposing everything about herself. So like, it's really hard to figure out what she would actually try to hide from us.

At the end of the knitting ad, Grandma was knitting something yellow. However, it couldn’t be another grandma decoy because she doesn’t wear any yellow. Who does wear yellow? The main girl. Grandma was knitting a decoy granddaughter for some nefarious purpose.

It didn’t make me want to play the game, but it really made me want to watch the movie.

Grandma having all those knives was... *overkill*

“So many knives” “But so little time” It’s such a confusing interaction but it’s so hilarious

They should just...make a movie. Even if it's a jokey, anti-horror movie. I would totally watch it. Not at all interested in the mobile game tho.

I’m so happy you took my suggestion to continue talking about these ads since they are whole movies!

It looks like they deleted all of these ads from their channel 🙃

I love how Danny says: “You can only kill one person at a time.” Soooooooo confidently, as if he had some sort of first-hand-experience on the subject☠️

If they fixed up their gameplay and reinvented the game, I feel like this could actually be a really good game. Make it story based, and include different kinds of puzzles. I’m not a huge fan of the “Hello Neighbor” games, but I could see this working in that style.

4:01 that’s where we disagree (level 33, baby)

Love that he was just focusing on how many arms she has instead of why she has knives

Making the ads live action immerses you into the lore even further lol

Okay, so I am actually obsessed with this game these days… and tbh that first ad made so much sense with actual game. If you merge 2 knives together you get a rake, and the grid that you have to play on is reminiscent of the shed’s tool board in the ad. That being said… these ads as a whole are a weird fever dream for sure. The evil grandmother theme is pretty random for a mind numbing procrastination app. Also love the channel, & I am proud to be Greg!

I don't know why, but the fact that Danny doesn't know the meaning of the word "mortified" and seems convinced that it is related to someone being horrified makes me giggle every time

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!

You can tell that this is his second channel by the tattoos, main channel Danny doesn’t have tattoos, everyone knows that

I’m literally seeing a Merge Mansion ad right before the video starts. It must be magic.

Him: *watching their game* Them: "Lets go!" Him: "I HATE IT" Them: *...*

can they actually make this a movie i’m losing it on how interesting this lore is

When danny did the last merge mansion video i downloaded it as a joke and at some point it started religiously playing it so i genuinely laughed when the garage was full of green knives since In the game merging items is most of the gameplay and knives are one of the lower ranked items so you tend to have a lot of them.

Plot twist: grandma is actually just a chef but she’s really secretive about it. The knives are for cooking.

Either the Grandma is building an army, is a murderer who secretly has 100 arms, or she eats the knives for fuel

8:37 I don't know if it's intentional but the fact she's knitting something yellow is kind of concerning when you notice that she isn't wearing anything yellow but the granddaughter is

I'm just so happy that Cathy Bates decided to do these ads. This is a great way to get 2022 started. I actually play a lot of these types of games to wind down while watching something, and it's surprising that I've never actually SEEN a Merge Mansion ad anywhere but Danny's videos. If I didn't already download like four matching/hidden object games right now, I'd probably get this one just to see how weird it gets.

Lmbo!! Danny you made me laugh all the way through this entire video until I couldn't breath 🤣😂

I’m surprised there wasn’t a sledgehammer in the shed

The fact that they had to make an actual grandma decoy for the add is both amazing and terrifying

"What's grandma hiding?" "WELL OBVIOUSLY NOT KNIFES" LMAOOOOO 😭😭😭

I have catastrophic memory loss so "so little time" made me belly laugh, presumably for a second time, because I watched this when it came out lol

I want to be the guy knitting a life-sized human

Just btw as someone who has played merge mansion for years now, the whole mystery thing is pretty much a lie. Even if you wanted to get to the ‘secret’ areas, you would need to get to level 43, which is literally impossible at this point in the game. I have absolutely ran out of things to do in the game, and need over 50,000 more XP to get to the next unlock-able area. Overall it’s a pretty good game, with nice events and a variety of options to merge. But if you’re just looking to find out what the hell ‘grandma is hiding’ then you’re out of luck.

Danny: They’re pretty good Also Danny: I haven’t watched them yet-

Her secretiveness is so conspicuous that it feels like she's either seeking attention or an addict to keeping secrets and that all her secrets are actually completely benign or innocuous.

the fact that kathy bates agreed to do these ads makes me love her even more lmao she just be doing side quests at this point

I HAD SEEN the live action pie one a few days ago! Watching ads on a mobile game to get free things, and then it hit me. It confused me so hard. ALSO: for that last animated ad, grandma put a file into the pie she was baking. Then it seems like she got arrested later that same day, and asked that the pie be brought to her while she was in jail. She knew she was going to get arrested, and baked a pie beforehand with her escape plan. Idk how Danny didn't get that EDIT: Sorry !! I was just surprised that he wrote it off so quickly, since this was Grandma's first appearance in actual jail. He just said it was boring, which is understandable after having gone through the live action ones that are much more exciting. But there was still something there!

seeing danny give a handy to the nutcracker is not something i ever thought i would witness

‘She’s just got them helter skelter on the table.’

Idk i thought the ad with the grandma running away but only being like two steps ahead was hilarious for some reason. the longer it went on, the harder i laughed.

The fact that Danny called that a "regular old garden shed" implies he also has that many knives in his garden shed

Merge mansion is becoming what Lily's garden could never

This may sound weird but as someone whose watched a lot of murder mystery and true crime - disposing of the knives when she’s done with them so if anyone inspects her home they won’t find bloodied knives with any remnant of blood (you can use certain things to see if blood has been on something that’s been cleaned recently) in her possession

This is crazy because now they have PEDRO PASCAL in their ads😭

There is such a solid community with these games, honestly. My mom has a whole Bridge Club-esqu group of international friends she's in the same team/clan as on _June's Journey,_ chatting on their Facebook group ALL the time. It's actually been really comforting for her during the pandemic. she personally never spent a DIME on free-to-play games, but other people definitely have and their ad revenue must be HUGE. I can see how games like this have their own profitable demographic. This probably sounds like an ad, but it's not I swear.

"I'm not sponsored by Merge Mansion" is definitely what someone who is sponsored by Merge Mansion would say.

I never knew how the people in divergent had enough knives for everyone to cut their hands at that ceremony, and I now know that they went to the merge mansion to acquire them

"rakes are in the garage" *goes into the shed*

They need to give their marketing team a raise, a vacation and their first born children. They know what they are doing. I’m not gonna lie… I’m invested even though I’m still not sure what the game is about.