The Troop: Nickelodeon’s Forgotten Masterpiece

Описание: UPDATE: I got the opportunity to interview Max Burnett, one of the creators of The Troop! Check that out here:    • I spent an hour with MAX BURNETT, Creator ...  



Hey yo hi hello, and welcome to the jungle! Nearly twelve years ago, a television show premiered on Nickelodeon that quickly earned itself a spot in obscurity. While most other shows from its time aired by the network are currently being revisited for the nostalgia and uncovered trauma of it all, this is one random piece of my childhood that I have found very few people have shared memories with. So today I have committed to a deep dive analysis into The Troop, a program about teenagers hunting monsters, to demonstrate my experiences to all of you. Maybe you remember. Perhaps not. But if you snark me, I’ve left myself recordings to remind myself of The Troop.


Intro and Outro Music: War Cry by Tone Jonez


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Table of Contents

Content Warning: 0:00
Intro: 0:17
“Welcome to the Jungle”: 3:37
The Premise, and the Military Industrial Complex: 8:48
“There is No ‘I’ in Monster Hunter”: 18:15
“Do the Worm”: 20:05
The Main Characters, and Stockley Shenanigans: 26:02
“Batteries Not Included”: 29:30
Plot Holes, the SCP Foundation, and the Wainscot Society: 33:16
“Like a Moth to the Spotlight”: 39:37
“No More Master Nice Guy”: 40:46
“My Gus is Back and There’s Gonna be Trouble”: 43:01
“The Next Stop Lakewood”: 45:47
“Pajama Game…of Death”: 50:27
“I, Monster”: 53:15
Goo: 54:07
Memento Mori: 58:45
“Taming of the Cube”: 1:00:49
troopgrid.com, the Fifty-Year Behemoth, and the One-Horned Diablo: 1:02:21
“Forest Grump”: 1:04:26
“Hayley and Felix on the Side”: 1:08:01
“The Wrath of the Wraith”: 1:09:01
“Don’t Talk to Doctor Cranius”: 1:10:46
The Speculation on Season One’s Obscurity: 1:15:10
The Chaos of Season Two’s Release: 1:16:49
“The Triangle”: 1:20:30
A Completely Different Show: 1:26:16
“The Monster Within”: 1:28:47
Felix Garcia in Season Two: 1:32:28
“It’s All in the Game”: 1:34:26
“Oh Brother”: 1:38:32
“Through the Looking Glass”: 1:42:35
Gus’s Absence, and Felix’s Absence: 1:45:16
“Eris Returns”: 1:48:13
The New Characters, and the Team Dynamic: 1:51:07
“Road Trip”: 1:53:10
“Ice Hassles”: 1:54:21
One Long, Drawn-Out, Shaky, Yet Unnervingly Quiet Breath: 1:58:34
“Mirrors”: 2:00:04
“Start Me Up”: 2:01:22
Kirby’s Origins: 2:02:32
“A Sniff Too Far”: 2:04:33
The Typical Intrigue in Lost and Obscure Media: 2:06:00
The Anomaly of The Troop: 2:07:58
This Experience, and My Final Thoughts: 2:10:40

Every episode not directly reviewed has some relevant clips shown throughout for the sake of context, comparison, and analysis.



Corrections:
•Some names throughout the video, like Rhadika, are mispronounced. This is due to me neglecting to leave a pronunciation key in the script in the days between writing and filming the video.
•The episode of The Troop that aired after the iCarly premiere “iThink They Kissed” was actually “Do the Worm.” I attributed the first airing of the show with the production pilot for the sake of a more satisfying narrative, but as a matter of fact “Do the Worm” was the only episode aired that night, with “Forest Grump,” “There is No ‘I’ in Monster Hunter,” and finally “Welcome to the Jungle,” airing in that order a week later, on September 18, 2009. Seeing as the video covers the series way out of airing order, I figured starting discussion with the pilot would make for the best intro, but it should be noted that the pilot was actually the fourth episode aired on television, perhaps contributing to its unpopularity. As of writing this, Wikipedia states the pilot was released on the same day as “Do the Worm,” but according to other sources and my own memory, I don’t think that was the case.



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