The final count was 216 prior to the bonus video, not counting the 4 shaved off due to them being the Spirit Vessels * Chugga later defines "redundant explanation" as "the camera zooming into Link holding up the item, a text box popping up, it going into the menu, showing you your new total, and then going back into the game"; the Spirit Vessels don't go into the menu, and as such don't count. He calculates the time it takes for each explanation to be roughly 7.5 seconds, which when multiplied by the final count for a grand total of 27 minutes of redundant explanations.Scrappy Mechanic, indeed.
Chugga referring to Owlan and Horwell as inspectors instead of instructors, and having to correct himself.
Every time Chugga visits Beedle's Air Shop, he deliberately makes it a point to fail to purchase anything at least once simply so Beedle can dump him out via Trap Door.
Chugga always missing Monster Claws that prevent him from upgrading his gear.note 17 Monster Claws are needed to upgrade all the items in the game.
Chugga refusing to use his sail cloth, thus making Link (in Chugga's own words) love faceplanting into the ground, which sometimes gets accompanied by the aforementioned trap door gag.
Chugga commenting on the uselessness of Jelly Blobs.
Chugga's new name for the Crimson Loftwing — Airpona.
Chugga complaining about Fi's habit of repeating something that another NPC just told him less than a minute earlier.
Breath of the Wild came out around the middle-ish of this series, and Chugga has a hard time adapting back to Skyward Sword's mechanics after playing that for a while.
Episode 1: The Start of a Legend
To start off, Link wakes up once again. Of course, seeing as this is The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, all players should know that Zelda's Loftwing wakes up Link in the beginning. Chugga fills in its lack of dialogue:
Chuggaaconroy (As Zelda's Loftwing): Hi.
The Running Gag of Chugga being reminded about the Wing Ceremony.
Link's being picked on by Groose! What does Chugga chose in terms of the Multiple-choice response? NICE HAIR!
During the Wing Ceremony, Chugga wonders why the rivals' Loftwings allow them to hurl their eggs at Link. He then lampshades the Fridge Logic that apparently those eggs were laid in mid-air.
When Zelda pushes Link off the Statue of the Goddess:
Chugga: Man, is pushing me off of cliffs the way you say you like me?
The new Running Gag of people telling Link to buy a shield (after he had gotten one for free from Instructor Horwell)
At the end of the episode, Chugga jumps off the ledge to show why you can't fly at night. After one of the night guards picks him up, Chugga proceeds to read his text in a gruff voice that seems to match his appearance...only to realize that the guard is a woman.
The way he introduces the name of the place in a fake southern accent.
While flying through the Sky, Chugga attempts to get a red rupee carried by an enemy... only to end up getting near the pillar of light and triggering a cutscene, prompting Fito teach Linkhow to use a map. Cue Chugga panicking, thinking he'll be forced to go to the surface before finishing all he wanted to do beforehand.
Thankfully, that doesn't happen, so Chugga spares Fi from harshly criticizing her... for now.
Episode 6: Down to Earth
Chugga points out that you can pick up a pumpkin with your sword. Then he asks us...
After Fi finishes explaining about dowsing mechanics related to the Kikwi, Chugga notes that despite how hard he tries to think otherwise, the Kikwi Elder looks like a ballsack.
He spends a few minutes trying to get a bird enemy to do a specific attack on him to show it off, but it keeps trying to divebomb him instead and he ends up having to chase it around. When it finally does it...
Chugga: I have never worked so hard to make something defecate on me in my whole entire life!
Episode 8: Deep Wood Shine
Chugga stops by the Skyloft Bazaar and discovers that Rupin is now selling a Small Seed Satchel. Chugga then starts talking about how much he likes the Slingshot... only to discover he doesn't have enough Rupees to afford the Small Seed Satchel, causing his voice to falter.
Episode 9: A Ruin with a View
Emile has trouble dealing with a Skulltula.
Chugga: They [wall spiders] don't even damage you as long as you're proactive in shaking the controllers. *tries to hit a Skulltula, misses* ...Proactive in shaking the controllers. Yes... Trying to give motion controls a good name here— *misses again, gets hit in the face by the Skulltulla* Woop, uh, that was bad— GO AWAY and let me stab—!
Chugga: Well, with a new objective under our belt other than the red pillar of light, I'm going to do what I always do whenever there's some big, pressing, important objective presented to us. *enters Skylift Bazaar* I'm going shopping!
The camera then cuts to Link leaving the Bazaar, with Chugga saying he couldn't resist the jest because the entrance to the bazaar was so near Wryna i.e. Kukiel's mother.
Episode 12: Fly Away Home
After encountering and talking to the owner of Fun Fun Island, Chugga proceeds to walk away very slowly from the island. He then accidentally falls to his death.
In middle of the episode, Chugga buys a Seed Satchel and goes to upgrade it... only to be one Monster Claw short of it. Near the episode's end, he finally gets the Monster's Claw... by falling down into the clouds. To put extra salt into the wound, the only thing he's missing for the second upgrade are, once again, Monster Claws.
Later, he chases another Eldin Roller right off a cliff.
Chugga, while trying to destroy a rock formation with a bomb, accidentally steps into the magma while handling the bomb. He still manages to destroy the rocks with the dropped bomb.
Tha battery meter appears for the first time near the end of the episode.
While attempting to upgrade the metal shield, Chugga sees he's missing one item. It's Monster Claws. AGAIN. Chugga's reaction makes it better.
Episode 16: Earth Bound
When rolling a ball floating in lava in a temple, Chugga diverts his attention to an Amber Relic instead of progressing on in the temple. Later in the temple, he misses another Amber Relic right next to a door.
A Bokoblin and a Lizalfos wait for Chugga to get up when he falls into a pool of lava and respawns.
Episode 18: Old Amber
The battery meter strikes again.
Chugga checks if he can update the Seed Satchel, but he's missing one item. Guess what is is? Monster Claws. AGAIN.
Later in the episode, he realizes that he's only missing one item (Ornamental Skulls) to upgrade his Small Bomb Bag.
Chugga (sighs): At least it's not Monster Claws, that's all I can say.
While talking about the incredibly helpful nature of the aiming reticle for bombs, Chugga relates an amusing anecdote where he was trying to learn how to play basketball with the help of a friend. To make a long story short, he made a shot, the ball missed completely and bounced off the backboard and into the garbage. That in itself is pretty funny, but what makes it even funnier is that his friend, in Chugga's own words:
"... threw his arms up, and just gave up right then and there and didn't ever try to teach (Chugga basketball) ever again."
Episode 20: Turn up the Ampilus
Chugga is in the middle of talking about the strange cacti in the Lanayru Desert, with a demonstration of their weird physics and such. The funny bit comes after he switches to his slingshot, when he spots a tumbleweed (a useful material in the game) rolling along in the background. Cue him dropping everything to run after the ball and catching it in his net.
Chugga finds a crowd of Lanayru Ants, and catches one of them, then the rest of the ants flee into the quicksand, which Chugga can't catch them on.
Chugga has a rather large amount of trouble with an Ampilus.
He gets the Goddess Cube in the middle of large quicksand area the hard way. When he walks by its area on a ledge, he stops the game to say this:
Chugga in Editing: Be smarter than me... Just drop down from this ledge and get the Goddess Cube that way. (groans)
Chugga has some bad luck with tumbleweeds at the very start of the episode. Three times in a row, one rolls past him and lands in the sand.
Eventually, he is able to grab one with his net... only to get immediately run over by an Ampilus.
Chugga has a bit of trouble with a chest, repeatedly picking up and putting down a bomb while trying to open it. When he finally does get it open, it's only 5 Rupees.
After buying something from Beedle, he once again has Beedle trigger the trap door to dump out Link. This time, Link landson a bench, with his butt in full view of the camera. Chugga melts in hysterics.
He is one Ornamental Skull away from being able to upgrade his Bomb Bag, and he says "Okay, I'm happy with that being the new MonsterClaw", only to be missing a Monster Claw to upgrade his shield.
And while looking for said Monster Claw, he not only maxes out his wallet by Keese kill #14, but has to kill 3 more to drop it. Keep in mind, he has had the Treasure Medal on him ever since he found it.
Episode 23: Bellow the Belt
Chugga leaps into a bottomless pit by accident, pointing out that it's a trap aimed at players who leap off of ledges instead of taking ladders. While trying to do his outro, he jumps into the same pit again.
Chugga bursts out laughing when an Aracha is killed by a spike trap in the Gust Bellows room.
Chugga hits a Froak with his sword while its spikes aren't out, causing it to blow up in his face. He does this while explaining how to fight the enemy.
Chugga comments on how some decorations in the past version of the dungeon would look more at home at the entrance to a hotel/casino than in an ancient mining facility.
After observing the items on the conveyor belts, Chugga questions the profitability of a mining operation that seemingly only produces Super Sea-Snailsnote actually Timeshift Stone ore and Stamina Fruits.
Episode 25: Moldarach
Chugga misidentifies the boss as resembling a lobster, even after considering the pincers, the stinger tail, and a desert environment. Naturally, he berates himself for it.
Once the Goddess Harp is obtained, the standard Item Get jingle plays while the plot increases in intensity. Chugga lampshades the Soundtrack Dissonance in play.
(singing along with the jingle) "You killed the moooood!"
He then follows this with some Hypocritical Humor via following up jumping in front of Zelda's protector and quipping "Am I late?"
Episode 26: You Have My Gratitude
Chugga's rant about Impa.
This:
"Hey guys. Remember the Wing Ceremony? Because I remember the day we flew in the Wing Ceremony. It was a good Wing Ceremony and it was a lot of fun. Groose tried to cheat in the Wing Ceremony but that didn't work out for him so he ended up getting second place in the Wing Ceremony whereas we won the Wing Ceremony and took our place with Zelda at the end of the Wing Ceremony. Yes, at the tower of the Wing Ceremony, you can find a Gratitude Crystal. .... Wing Ceremony."
Chugga being flabbergasted at not remembering the stray Gratitude Crystals around Skyloft play the "Redundant Item Screen" every time each one is picked up (aside from the one collected by the Beetle in the Knight Academy's training hall) when he got Crystal #2. The hunt boosted the count to beyond 50 (thanks to a Starry Firefly), which was punctuated by Link screaming.
Episode 27: The Imprisoned
Chugga just noticed the giant green patch Beedle has on his rear as he plays "Plant that Face".
Chugga putting the words in Link's mouth when he explains things to Groose after he tags along to the surface:
"Well, you see, a flamboyant demon lord captured Zelda with a tornado, and while chasing after her one thing led to another, and now I'm best friends with a giant talking butt and a bunch of mole people. True story, the end."
It especially works with Groose saying Link's "kinda imploding [his] mind right now" right after he says it.
Episode 28: Scrap Ore
The redundant explanation counter reaches 64 this episode. What does Chugga use to mark the occasion? The Star Get jingle from Super Mario 64, of course.
Episode 29: Heading to Thunder
Chugga misses the Goddess Chest on the ground of the Isle of Songs. Repeatedly.
Chugga in Editing (as Chest): Hi! Bye!
Episode 30: Tugging at the Harpstrings
Chugga's rant about how broken the harp was for the final Pumm sidequest, including the bit where professional musicians tried it and told him they thought the harp minigame was a piece of crap. The mental image of professional musicians finding the harp to be poorly designed is oddly amusing.
The redundant explanation counter hits 69. The sound effects from Link that Chugga uses sound rather...suggestive.
During the fight against Stalmaster, Chugga realises he's low on health and goes around the room grabbing some hearts. His very first attack after recovering his health defeats the sub-boss.
Chugga: Suddenly, Stalfos are my biggest problem and it's weird because I usually don't have... *attacks Stalmaster and kills him* *beat* HE ONLY NEEDED ONE MORE HIT?!
His first attempt to swing across the hooks with the Whip has him accidentally turn around and then plummet to the water below. He was making a Tarzan reference before the fall cut him short.
Episode 36: Cistern Act 2
While giving praise to the game's creative dungeons:
Chugga: This room is a great testament to that; it's very creative. So, as we get up to the top of this, we see what we gotta do. *runs straight into a Quadro Baba that just grew out of the ground* Uh...treat our infection from this Quadro Baba. No!
His rant on the pronunciation of Bokoblin.
Episode 37: The Koloktos is Ticking
Chugga tries to show off some uses for the glowing mushroom spores...
*green rupee appears*
Chugga: ...And, if you see a Rupee of any value, and you sprinkle the spores near it...
*he sprinkles spores and the green Rupee turns into a blue one*
Chugga: It will change the value of it. *goes to sprinkle again* But you don't want to get too gree-
*Rupee flashes out and despawns*
Chugga: *Beat* ... * whiny voice* It didn't even give me the time to be greedy with it, it just disappeared!
At the end of the Ancient Cistern dungeon, after extending the neck of the statue Chugga has previously compared to Buddha, we get this gem of a pun:
Chugga: Man, with a neck like that, he really is the Dalai Llama!
On the subject of Waking Water, which he previously mispronounced as "Walking Water" in Episode 31, Chugga explains that not only has he always misread it, but he was not alone. He says that before uploading Episode 31, he showed it to a test audience of a couple friends...and they all misread it their whole lives as well.
Episode 40: Finding Inner Peatrice
Chugga opens a door at the same moment that a Remlit* the cat-looking things that try to attack you at night chooses to strike, leading to a hilarious freeze-frame on par with the Kargarok moment in Wind Waker.
Chugga's attitude towards Peatrice throughout the LP is... interesting, to say the least, but how he acts during her sidequest is definitely a bonus. It's quite obvious that Emile is not interested in her during his playthrough, but is too polite to really try and outright reject her, leading him to very uncomfortable situations.
Chugga: (after being given the option to say "You store items" or "I like you") ...Both of these options suck!
Episode 41: Dr. Clawshot
Chugga goes to finally open the Goddess Cube chest inside the Bazaar after teasing it many times... only to find out it's still locked.
Chugga shows a gathering spot for the Remlits and tosses one of them off Skyloft. It flies back up by flapping its ears.
Episode 42: In Search of Wisdom
Chugga begins his "Hey, everybody! It's Chuggaaconroy! Welcome back to more..." introduction. During said introduction, he jumps off Skyloft expecting his Loftwing to catch him... and falls to his death instead, due to the part of the island he was in, causing his voice to falter. He then says, "This time, we are getting a lecture about how stupid we are from one of these esteemed senior knights.",note Players will get a lecture from a knight on a Loftwing if they fall off Skyloft, but this usually happens at night because Loftwings don't fly around at night in the game. before recounting what actually happened last time and what his plans for this episode are.
Episode 45: Canned Time Travel
Chugga's intro gets interrupted twice by passing tumbleweeds, the first of which caused him to fall in the quicksand.
The surprising amount of trouble he has with the two Armos at the end of Pirate Stronghold.
Episode 46: Robot Pirate Island
Chugga's introduction to the video:
Chugga: Hey everybody, it's Chuggaaconroy! Welcome back to more "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker"!
He over-apologizes for swearing to any British viewers after calling some scorpion enemies "little buggers" and then goes on to explain how when he was little, he thought English accents were just how all rich people talked instead of being related to another country.
Episode 47: Get Your Motor Running
During the start of the video, he mistakes arrows being shot at him for a graphics card glitch.
During one of Fi's interruptions, Chugga has trouble pronouncing what she is saying and ends up reading her lines in a voice sounding like Big the Cat, which he Lampshades afterwards.
Episode 48: Tantalizing Treat
He tries to show off using the glittering spores by trying to sprinkle it onto a rupee, but he accidentally picks up right before using it. Then he uses another bottle to show how it works on rupees, it turns the blue rupee into a green one. Finally, using up the last bottle of spores, he tries to turn a heart into a fairy. But somehow he ends up missing and wasting his final bottle of spores, much to his aggravation.
During the escape-the-ship sequence, he gets caught by one of Tentalus's tentacles twice, and by the same tentacle both times.
After seeing all of the technoblins in the jail cell, he jokes that they're on death row as he shoots one with his bow. Killing it causing an ornamental skull to spawn behind the bars, causing him to let loose a Big "NO!".
Episode 50: Archery Range
During the archery minigame, which is set directly opposite the sparring hall so any arrow that misses its mark hits the doors...
Chugga: With all the arrows that are just plinking against the door, I feel bad for whoever's gonna come through those doors, like, "Hey, what's all that racket-?" *Doink!* "D'AAAARGH, MY EYEEEEE!!!!"
Episode 52: Leak Frog
The Redundancy Couter, for 150 and 151, has Mewtwo's and Mew's cries respectively.
A Gossip Stone spawns and Chugga wonders what it will give him, as soon as he finishes saying that, a jelly blob pops out of the stone. Causing Chugga to react with an overly happy "How did you know?"
As he goes to get one of the Goddess Cubes, he clawshots onto a platform with a Lizalfos. As soon as he climbs up to the platform and as he's telling the Lizalfos that he missed them, the Lizalfos attacks him sending him flying off into a Bottomless Pit.
Episode 56: A Duel to the Death
The redundant explanation counter hits 169, and similar to 100 explanations ago, Link's sounds get fairly questionable.
Episode 59: Plowing Her Fields
When Gorko says "Is there something different about your sword, or is it just me?", Chugga flashes the words "...Nice pick up line" onto the screen for a split-second.
The first time Fi asks if she should call Scrapper, who Chugga strongly dislikes, he shouts her down with a Big "NO!".
Chugga being bewildered by Fi referring to Guld as an "it".
Chugga reading far too much into the Kina-and-Guld sidequest. Granted, their dialogue isn't that hard to read... bizarre implications into.
After the dramatic cutscene-heavy Episode 58, Chugga decides to end the episode with some serious Mood Whiplash.
Chugga: Now that things are less tense, it must be said... *Cuts to a frame of Link wide-eyed from last episode* THAT IS A FACE THAT HAS SEEN SOME SERIOUS SH- *Cuts straight to the endcard and music*
Episode 60: Gaze into the Abyss
Chugga mentions that people have actually taken him up on his joking request to photoshop Sparrot's eyes onto other people. He doesn't show any examples, but he describes them as "a sight I can never unsee".
Episode 62: A Rematch Already?
Link is hurled onto the Imprisoned's head, and Chugga has only one thing to say:
Chugga speeds up the footage during the Bug Wrangler mini-game. The sound effects of the Links in pain during the Redundant Explanations are likewise sped-up.
The surprising amount of trouble Chugga has with one of the fights with the Imprisoned during the boss rush, including having the Groosenator run Link over.
Episode 70: The End of Silence
During the final Silent Realm trial, Chugga notes that it seems far easier than the prior trials... Cue him accidentally stepping into some waking water, and, thanks to all the tears being on the opposite side of the map from him, having at least half a dozen Guardians chase after him before he can deactivate them.
Chugga: WHERE ARE THE TEARS?!!! ...In myeyesis where, in this particular moment...
Episode 71: Sky Keep
Want to know how Chugga prepares for each recording session? Here's your answer.
Episode 72: Triforce Hero
Chugga tries to make a daring leap onto a lava platform... only to have too much momentum, causing Link to roll and fall off into the lava.
Chugga: You know that sometime, somewhere in the world, one of the many jumps in this room killed a world record speedrun. You know it's happened.
Episode 74: The Start of a Legend
As with Link telling his story to Groose when he arrived on the surface, Chugga puts words into the hero's mouth when Zelda asks him what he plans to do now:
"Well, you see, this untamed wilderness is without heroes, so I got this great idea to bring order to the land. I call it... thePOSTOFFICE."
As per usual, there is The Stinger. The final boss can use lightning to power his sword. You can steal it. So, Chugga does, once again...
There are actually 223 redundant explanations.