The movie was aimed at the kind of 15-year-olds that you see in the comment sections for Beatles or Queen songs, saying "all the other kids in my class listen to Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj, I'm the only one who listens to these classics. guess I was born in le wrong generation!!"

I never fucking thought I would ever hear Danny Phantom be mentioned in Half in the Bag.

3:05 Fecal porn cover? Why didn't you rename it "Ready Number Two" *Slide Trombone*

That was season 1 episode 12 Danny Phantom. It aired October 15, 2004. Ready Player One was published August 16, 2011.

The CGI Jay is really distracting. I know it took a lot of effort to do that for a YT video, but, it doesn't clear the uncanny valley.

I can't believe they made a movie adaptation of the funko pop section of a hot topic

It took the Internet 18 hours to figure out where Shia laobeouf hid a flag in the country where the only things shown on camera was a open sky and the flag that says “he will not devide us” I think the Internet would’ve figured out this mystery of the keys in a few days, week tops

"Get that kid with the mouth!" Is exactly what Brian Singer said.

Jay just keeps getting more and more attractive

"I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!":The Movie. I clapped when I saw Danny Phantom!

Lol you just KNOW Mike had to use Rich because Jay refused to see Ready Player One

As a side note, can we stop it with trailers having sad slow covers of famous songs? It’s getting annoying

A world of pure imagination... made up entirely of references to other things. PURE, IMAGINATION.

When Rich said "not Jesse Eisenberg" I knew exactly who he was talking about.

The last five minutes of this episode really shows that these two have been life long friends and I love it.

I feel like Rich's head is just constantly playing The Goonies on a loop.

Mike is so happy when he says: NPC! I know this term! I learned from the book! Rich: Yeah, it´s a common term.

The movie misses the biggest truth of online gaming. How come every avatar was different? In reality there would have been 10,000 Ugandan Knuckles on the battlefield in that last scene.

The thing that really got me about this movie is it was supposed to take place like 30 years in the future, but all the pop culture references and skins players were using, were of existing things from today and prior, as if there was no new characters or pop culture created in the next 30 years. They didn't even really attempt to create random ones. In contrast, that would be like if we had an OASIS today, and everyone was dressed up like pac man and mario.

Look, now we know that you can publish fanfiction and get a movie deal with Steven Spielberg.

I love how RLM always credits Rich Evans even if he doesn't appear in the episode like this one...such class...

Mike was so proud that he knew what NPC meant and Rich didn’t care.

When Mike & Rich do videos alone, the fact that they are lifelong friends becomes obvious. And dammit, it is downright wholesome

8:48 "You go to school IN the computer" Rich Evans yet again proving he has precognitive powers

Jay lost weight.

Only Rich Evans can remember an obscure Danny Phantom episode.

Rich Evans calling Danny Phantom 20 years old so he can pretend he wasn't 30 watching cartoons.

This was the first RLM video I watched. After watching it I binged all of their videos and have been a huge fan ever since. I even bought their films and some of their merchandise.

This movie looks like the ultimate I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW IT experience.

The Danny Phantom episode came out October of 2004. I'm 85% sure that is before 2011

This is why Mike needs Jay around. When he goes missing, Mike spends an episode reviewing a book instead of a movie.

Mike and Rich play off each other in such a different way to Mike and Jay. It makes an episode like this rally highlight the difference in how they push the topic forward. Mike and Jay stock go technical stuff way more. Rich makes Mike take his “announcer guy” character further and further. It’s great.

Rich namedropping Danny Phantom made me more nostalgic than anything in this movie.

Ha, Mike accidentally called Jay "Rich" a few times there. How embarrassing.

Gamers figured out P.T. in a day when Kojima thought it would take weeks or eveen months.

"I keep touching the book!" *throws book away* *symbolically touches book in very next sentence*

I can’t believe they made a movie out of VRChat.

"I understood that reference", the movie.

"Has there ever been anybody who has been typecast as wearing a visor?" LeVar Burton can empathesize.

I never thought I'd see that day where a Danny Phantom clip would play a critical role in a RLM video. But here we are

This is basically just "Refrence: The Movie."

I'd be on board with Mike Stoklasa Book Reviews. Books are a form of Media after all.

Mike getting excited about Rich knowing what "NPC" means is oddly wholesome

Took me far too long to realize that wasn’t jay

I never, in a million years, would have thought I would see DANNY PHANTOM on Half in the Bag

Mike and the other guy. Classic Half in the Bag.

someone explained the book to the script writers, directors, and producers in a loud bar while they waited for their drinks, then nobody looked into it again until after the script was written.

this movie in a nutshell: "I'm the video game boy! I'm the one who wins!!"

Mike seems to laugh a lot more when Rich is on

A CHARACTER FROM THAT ONE VIDEOGAME SHOWED UP, AND I CLAPPED! I RECOGNIZE THAT!

I just remember that whenever they went into the oasis, they never said or had the words 'READY PLAYER ONE'!!!!! This movie for young kids living in the past beyond their own actual past.

I've considered Mike an improvisational comedy genius since the first moment I saw him, but the last three seconds of this video made me burst out laughing so hard, I choked on my spit. Thank god for Mike Stoklas.

"Time to log into the Oasis" I'm fucking dying

I love the fact that Spielberg decided to have Space-Cop in the final battle. Best cameo ever!!!

I love how Rich thinks he's doing a 20th century mid-atlantic accent but he's just talking in his normal voice but faster.

It's funny that Mike immediately thinks of Jason Bateman when Rich is trying to remember Michael Cera's name, because they famously played father and son in Arrested Development.

And here I thought it was impossible for Jay to get any sexier

Rich was about 45 years old when Danny phantom was on, how the heck does he remember a specific episode of it?

Spielberg went completely George Lucas with the CGI.

Oh my god, i knew he was talking about Michael Cera from the 1st word but damn, he really isn't in anything anymore.

God damn the diabetes hit Jay hard

I remember when I was in 5th grade I wrote a short story for school, I don't remember too much about it, but I made references to Tie Fighters from Star Wars in a dream sequence. After reading the story in front of the class and getting applaused quite loudly by the entire class, my teacher criticized my Star Wars references and was told you can't do stuff like that. 13 years or so later, Ready Player One did that to the Nth fucking degree. So fuck you Mr. McDonough, that story was ahead of it's time.

People keep commenting about how Jay kept getting more and more handsome as the show went on, I didn't notice it at first but I can REALLY see it throughout this episode!

I remember that episode of Danny Phantom. I would never in a million years have remembered it. I used to love that show as a kid.

Ready Player One was unrealistic, literally no one was using an anime avatar and we all know that at least 50% of any game is people using anime avatars

MIkes ears are slowly becoming Vulcan, wtf

I both saw the movie and read the book, which was extremely tedious. I could never have described the plot today, 5 years later. Mike is describing pieces where I'm like... "oh.... oh yeah..."

Mass production Evangelion not in movie, 0/10

I didn't realize Mike was able to read

Jay quit because Mike made him watch Demon House.

I bought the book because everyone was saying it was almost a sci fi classic... Such a piece of garbage

"Oh Mr. Spielberg, here's your blood!"

Ready sword art danny phantom one online.....in the matrix....plus nostalgia...willy wonka??

“Michael Cera is like 45 years old, he can’t be a high school kid.” He’s 29, and Cera’s eternal baby face and hushed voice convinced me he could play a small child forever.

the picture of michael cera popping up always kills me

When they mention Gary Coleman: *instant Postal 2 flashbacks*

Tye Sheridan next starring role: "Judge Dredd''

Why the fuck was Jay watching Danny Phantom

Way late cynical thought. Spielberg may have also been brought on to direct so they wouldn’t have to pay for licensing, but could instead BE paid for product placement.

Series 1 Episode 12 ‘Teacher of the Year’ of _Danny Phantom_ was broadcast on October 15th 2004

"I can be whatever I want so I'm gonna be someone else's character" -- Smart boys of the two thousand somethings

Synopsis of this movie: "Remember the 80s?!"

I would love to see more of Mike and Rich. This was the best.

I guess I'm technically the audience that this movie is made for (31 years old) since I understood all of the references. But I just kept thinking "does this stupid movie have anything but references?" And "how did they get all of these licenses? I kinda wish they had used all of that time and money to write a more interesting story line."

I want to add that the pop culture references missed the point too. The Iron Giant fighting. The threats in the Shining being purely physical and not psychological and ambiguous like the original movie.

Is it sad that the moment he said the other nerdy kid I immediately knew he meant Micheal Cera.

"Your nose and lips are goin' places, kid!" My sides

This whole video is just a reference to Mr. Burns wanting Steven Spielberg's Non-Union Mexican Equivalent.

Never thought I'd see Danny Phantom on half in the bag

"Rich knows these terms! See, I learned that term in the book!" It's like when your grandpa starts watching you play games and starts using the slang properly. That slight smile with lots of internal squeeing.

it's weird Mike said he hates improv when he and Rich are brilliant at it, laughed so hard I had a coughing fit during that Spielberg/MPAA bit

Even though I know it's a joke... I was so sad at the end for Rich. I was truly sad... :'^(

Isn't this the quintessential, "I clapped! I clapped! When I saw it!" movie?

I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW THE IRON GIANT

i like how the main character looks like xander from drawn together

I know everybody always talks about Jay's glow up, but has anyone ever noticed he randomly was at his peak hunkyness this episode and then resumed to his normal appearance the next video like nothing happened?

"Danny's Phantom" ran from 2004 - 2007 so the series came first. Cline better lawyer up.

Omg I screamed out “Michael Cera” like 12 times.

Ready Player One seriously left me upset with myself for knowing so many stupid, pointless pop culture and nostalgia references. This movie lets you see and hear a large portion of the catalogue of inane made-up nonsense that has been living rent free in our minds and imaginations since childhood and every time they visited a new world and nostalgia-groped us with more jingles and visual elements I would wonder what useful information could have filled that space instead. We have all met these people who can't help but speak in pop culture references as if they were Joss Whedon creations -- who consume the products -- who base their personalities off of Hollywood archetypes and there are so many of them out there. We all know this but man it was shocking to see so much of it on screen at once and realize the extent of the rainbow colored explosive diarrhea living in our minds. Heck it doesn't even need to be pragmatic info in our heads, even. . We are all capable of imagining these worlds, items and scenarios ourselves that are just as good and sometimes even better than the original Star Wars trilogy. It may be a silly thing to be concerned with or lament but I do often end up having 'Hollywood' inspired dreams and nightmares, but prefer when I have a unique dream or nightmare instead.

22:35 Spielberg "Perfect, really good, cut. Print that one." Assistant director "Print?" Checks dictionary app.