Cowboy Bebop thread of FUCK YOU PIERROT LE FOU

[Julford Hajime]

So I started watching through Cowboy Bebop again for shits and giggles, and because I have nothing else to do this late at night.

I'm currently watch the Pierrot Le Fou episode, the one with the weird fat guy that floats around in normal gravity and has some weird fear of cats. And you know what? FUCK THE PIERROT LE FOU EPISODE. It does nothing to characterize the main cast besides prove once again that Spike likes to rush recklessly into things even if they're likely to kill him. Add onto that just being the creepiest episode by far and I HATE this episode. The only reason I'm watching it right now is that I can't find the remote and my DVD player doesn't let me fast forward without said remote T.T

Anyone else have a different episode they hate? I know there's other filler-ish episodes, but episodes like Mushroom Samba and Bohemian Rhapsody were at least FUN episodes that didn't try to freak you the fuck out.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

That episode would give any child night terrors. I'm 21 and that episode still freaks me right the fuck out. :shivers:

[Melfice]

Huh.
I didn't actually find that episode frightening at all.

A little bit weird, but not scary.

[Krylo]

I liked that episode, and you are both scared little girls.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by Krylo

I liked that episode, and you are both scared little girls.

Hey I'll have you know it takes a lot to creep me out. Fat, floating, child minded, trigger happy, psycho, assassin, super solider, lab experiment gone horribly wrong just happened to be the right combination of things and traits.

[Osterbaum]

I though that episode was pretty good.

[Archbio]

the weird fat guy that floats around in normal gravity and has some weird fear of cats.

Does he insist that people milk the cats?

[Magus]

That's a cool episode. Also describing any Cowboy Bebop episode as "filler" makes no sense since except for around five episodes they are all pretty much stand-alone. Sure, they usually try to explore some facet of a particular character, especially later on, but there are multiple episodes where it's just like "Spike fights mutant fridge monster" or "chick's brother is in trouble, Spike has to save him".

[mauve]

Whaaat? Pierrot Le Fou was one of my favorites, along with Toys in the Attic! Sure, plot-wise it didn't accomplish much in the grand scheme of things, and some of the carnival bits were a bit hokey, but I liked the underlying creepiness of it all. I personally thought the opening scene with the gangsters' (?) massacre and the initial fight between Spike and Pierrot was beautifully animated and perfectly thought-out, visually speaking. It's one of the few episodes I remember vividly from back when I watched it as a teenager. I actually went and sought it out on Youtube a few months ago to see if it was as badass as I remembered it being. Pretty darn close.


Okay, on topic, the episodes of Bebop I didn't care for. I don't remember what it was called, but it involved Faye ending up on some ice world with an annoying pretty boy who turned out to be a transgendered government experiment or Syndicate reject or something. I don't remember much about it, other than the fact that I thought it kinda sucked. And was really weird. Does anyone else remember this one, or am I mixing up my animes? I haven't seen it since I was fifteen or something, so it's entirely possible that I'm hating on an episode that doesn't exist.

Mushroom Samba wasn't one of my favorites either, although I can't really remember why I disliked it. I think I'm the only person in the world who DIDN'T like this one.


And then the finale. Don't get me wrong: The ending episode was beautifully animated, fairly well-written and very emotional, so I liked that part, really. But watching it for the first time made me stand up in my chair and yell something along the lines of "WHAT THE HEEELLLLLL! NO! NO YOU ARE NOT DOING THAT!! YOU CAN'T END IT HERE WITHOUT-- DON'T YOU DARE GO TO THE CREDITS NOOOOOO!!!"

You know what I'm talking about.

[krogothwolf]

I thought the ending was great. I like the whole aspect of not knowing exactly what happened. Oh, and that Episode was pretty cool to.

The best part is that they can make movies and such without ruining the story since they could be inserted between almost any episode and still make sense in the grand scheme of things.