Did Angela Anaconda Cause A Divorce? No, Of Course Not.

0:00 the Angela Anaconda short filmm at the start of the Digimon movie was pretty despised among Digimon fans but let's actually explain why it existed and if it really did cause a young Digimon Fan's parents to divorce I'm not sure if any other name sends a shiver down Digimon fan spines like Angela anacondas some say Angela Anaconda is the worst part of the Digimon movie others say Angela is the first human to digivolve beating the Digimon Frontier cast to the punch by a whole two years okay I think like five people say that but I am one of them and this is my video I'm also joking around but I want to dive into what is certainly one of the strangest things that come out of Fox kids already strange version of Digimon the movie and that's the three minute and 50 second long short film at the start of the movie starring the queen of petty Revenge fantasies Angela Anaconda Angela Anaconda was an animated series that

0:46 aired on Fox kids just like Digimon running from 1999 to 2001 and wrapping up after three seasons it chronicled the life in Times of an imaginative and very articulate 8-year-old girl who often found herself daydreaming about outrageous ways to exact violent revenge on her French culture-loving bully Nanette manoir each episode Angela was joined by her classmates the smart and hungry Gina lash Italian stereotype Johnny abat and young Rivers Cuomo of the rock band Weezer and you've no doubt noticed already but it has this incredibly unique paper doll 2.5d art style that despite looking homemade was a shockingly state-of-the-art these days we praise a lot of 2.5d video games like South Park the Stick of Truth or inside or Unravel that kind of simulate a 2d s scroller but are actually built in 3D

1:32 Angela Anaconda was doing that all the way back in 1999 I think there are two definitive deep dives into Angela Anaconda here on YouTube Bill's hilarious Angela Anaconda was weird video and Amazon Cane's fascinating the making of Angela Anaconda I'll spare you all the details here in the interest of time but I'm linking to those two videos in this one's description but the last bit of setup and personal contacts before we talk the short film crossover is that I quite liked Angela anakonda as a kid and legitimately did not realize that the art style was such nightmare fuel until I hit my 20s and started talking about it with more people I grew up in Canada where we had a lot of weird looking shows sticking around reboot Nalan so I never thought twice about the art style and just enjoyed Angela's weird Misadventures I also learned later in life the show was made in Toronto and

2:17 actually one of its animators was Ian daa from the band Billy Talent which as a Canadian automatically makes me like Angela anakonda a lot more than the average human so the short why it's the year 2000 you've seen the Comm commercial for Digimon the movie on Fox kids while you're watching Digimon 02 on Saturday morning the movie event you've been waiting for is coming to theaters this fall you go to the theater and after the previews and the 20th Century Fox logo the first bit of Animation you see is a paper craft girl and her friends lined up outside a theater to see the movie you thought you were here to see the Digimon movie I've not been able to find official documented justification for why Fox put this thing in front of the movie but if you pause to think about it for a a few moments it's fairly obvious 2 years earlier A Bug's Life premiered with the short film

3:04 Jerry's game at the beginning commencing a trend of short films kicking off the massively popular Pixar animated features then you had 1999's Pokemon the first movie beginning with Pokemon Pikachu's vacation which was largely there to Pat out the film's runtime by this point most of us know that Digimon the movie was three short films cut and pasted together but it seemed Fox was a bit nervous about the film's runtime and perhaps thought it might be worth using digimon's big moment to promote another one of its shows Angel Anaconda personally I'd have loved to have seen a Monster Rancher or Spider-Man Unlimited short before the Digimon movie but my guess is they chose a show that had lower ratings and an effort to bump up interest in that show that's purely speculation on my part as I couldn't find Angela Anaconda TV ratings from the year 2000 in my research but it wouldn't

3:50 have been the first time Fox kids used one of its more popular shows to prop up and advertise another one of its series that needed a bit of help I'm looking at you Power Rangers in Space cross Ninja Turtle the Next Mutation crossover so that's my best attempt at giving you the why this Angela Anaconda short is in front of Digimon the movie so the short itself in my opinion the short is pretty harmless it's of course there to advertise Angela Anaconda to a captive audience of Digimon fans but it's also meant to Hype up kids who much like Angela in the short film just sat down in their Town's movie theater to see Digimon on the big screen seeing Angela and the entire child population of tap water Springs hyped as hell to see Digimon and theaters probably made real world kids feel validated in their love of Digimon like maybe you didn't have too many real world friends who like Digimon as much as you did maybe they were Pokémon fans or your parents

4:36 reluctantly took you to the theaters just to make you happy seeing all these kids fired up to see Digimon even though they were fictional kids you were probably like see Digimon is cool I told you Dad the short is very much a bite-sized episode of Angela Anaconda you meet her friends Nanette screws them all over Angela gets lost in a Revenge fantasy though this time it's involving her digivolving into Angela man becoming the first human in the franchise to digivolve this joke can't possibly be true but because the Digimon movie came out roughly two years before Digimon Frontier I love the idea that Japanese Digimon writers were looking for inspiration on how to follow up Tamers encountered the English version of the Digimon movie Saw Angela digivolve and were like that's not bad that could work obviously that's not what happened but I like to think it did there is a distinct style difference in the writing of the Angela Anaconda short as compared to the

5:23 rest of the short films that make up the core of the Digimon movie as much as I defend Angela andaconda generally I will admit the rest of the movie's jokes are way funnier than anything in the Angela short this can be explained thanks to a 2017 interview with Jeff nemoy known by most Digimon fans as the voice of tentomon but who also wrote a ton of early Digimon including the Digimon movie he told modern gaffa that although he was responsible for stitching the three Digimon short films into one for the movie he had nothing to do with the Angela short not only that he didn't even know it was going to be in the film until the night of the premiere quote ironically I didn't even see the Angela Anaconda prologue until the premiere so who did write it hilariously on IMDb No nobody is taking credit for the Angela Anaconda short film however there is a sort of alternate universe version of the short a full 10-minute episode of Angela Anaconda called good seats that

6:08 aired in January 2001 3 months after Digimon the movie's theatrical Premiere this episode was written by Holly Huckins Michael Kramer Laura mccre and Kent reaker it's an extended version of the plot with the kids of tapw water Springs stoked to see not Digimon the movie but Interstellar Mega Giants versus mechan atar the Digimon posters and terminology have been swapped out although Angela's megamorph form resembles Tai same with Gina and Johnny who have their TK and Izzy style outfits on considering the episode credits don't say anything like adapted from blank script or based on a story by blank Huckins Kramer mccre and reaker are most likely the suspects for the short film's writers I only very recently learned about one other sort of Digimon cross Angela Anaconda crossover thing thanks to a commenter on one of my videos both Digimon and Angela Anaconda had original

6:54 Halloween themed music on the free CD 13 days of Halloween Rhythm and booze that came packed in with count chocula bberry and Frankenberry cereal in America in the year 2001 if you were lucky enough to own the CD you'd hear the Baja men singing It's spooky in here the Digimon Halloween song and Su Rose the voice of Angela singing I'm going to scare you the Angela Anaconda Halloween song but obviously the crossover that most fans know and remember is the short film before Digimon the movie which we've already discussed as a fan of both shows at the time I never had a problem with it but I do sort of understand its infamy especially if you only like digim or you discover Digimon the movie years after both shows were off the air the fact that the Angela Anaconda short is baked into the Digimon movie VHS and DVD yeah I guess that's a bit rough one

7:40 thing I find very funny is that in the Angela Anaconda Wikipedia there is no mention of Digimon anywhere on that page I like the idea that Digimon fans have spent all this time roasting Angela and pretending the crossover short never happened meanwhile Angela andaconda fans have also tried to erase the short film from the history books like they're embarrassed to have anything to do with digim fans and finally there's the divorce of course I couldn't do a video about Angela Anaconda and Digimon without talking about the widespread bit of Internet lore something a lot of people have just accepted as a true thing that definitely happened the story about how the Angela Anaconda short film apparently caused a young Digimon fans parents to divorce the story with over 12,000 upvotes on Reddit and countless reposts across the internet is ostensibly a firsthand story about a now adult Millennial whose parents separated

8:26 as a result of the Angela anakonda short film in the post the anonymous user recalls begging his parents to go see Digimon the movie Parents agree everyone's looking forward to some bonding time they decide they can afford popcorn and drinks the kid notes that the parents look happy for once until the Angela Anaconda short comes on the parents English isn't very great and the little boy can't understand what's happening on screen and who these weird paper people are he begins crying and his parents pull him out of the theater Mom and Dad start blaming each other for going to the wrong film Dad throws the popcorn both parents are arguing the boy is crying they drive off in a rush they get into a car accident accident in the parking lot then Dad moves out of the house 1 month later it's quite the story and I am here to tell you it's completely made up okay I can't tell you that with 100% certainty but I am personally fully convinced this is a

9:11 fake story where to begin one by the storyteller's own Logic the parents relationship was Rocky prior to seeing the film and that's assuming this story is even real we're giving too much credit to this Anonymous internet post already two again assuming the story is real the first frame of d'angela anakonda short film is a big closeup of digim the movie I have no idea how you could see Digimon on the screen hear the words Digimon spoken over and over and go I'm in the wrong theater three being in the wrong theater is literally the plot of the Angela Anaconda short film this Anonymous user didn't just make up their story they ripped it off from Angela Anaconda the short but a quick scroll through the big Reddit post has people explaining that green text is used on that site to indicate when a post is meant to be taken as a joke Googling what does green text on 4chan

9:57 mean confirms this as well so as funny as it is to tell fellow '90s and 2000s kids at Hangouts and in group chats hey remember the Angela Anaconda short before the Digimon movie it caused a divorce as funny as that is this story is not real maybe somewhere out there somebody else's parents saw the Digimon movie and it really did Kickstart a divorce but the infamous story everyone shares blew up because it's fun to believe and it contributes to the existing anti- Angela narrative in conclusion you won't find me trying to argue that the Angela Anaconda short film in front of the Digimon movie was the right move or that it was amazing but I completely understand why it's there from Fox kids wanting to add length to their already cut and pasted film them wanting to emulate Pixar and Pokemon who had short films in front of their animated features and wanting to use the height of digimon's popularity

10:42 to try and promote another one of Fox kids properties its existence kind of makes sense thanks for watching let me know in the comments what you thought about the short film and what other weird crossovers do you remember that were like this and the Power Rangers cross Ninja Turtles episode have a great week and I'll see you in the next video