Mean Girls: The Movie: The Musical: The Video Game
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Meet the Wednesday Pictures Dev Team
The developers of the Mean Girls video game introduce themselves, explaining their company name 'Wednesday Pictures' comes from getting drunk on Wednesdays and their habit of calling video games 'pictures'.
"We like to call video games pictures because way back in the day that's how they used to make video games."
The Origin of Paul 'File' Simpson
Paul explains his nickname 'File' stems from his childhood achievement of creating the first digital file on a LeapFrog Learning Center and later building a cash app inside a Game Boy Advance.
"I created the first file on a LeapFrog Learning Center."
"One of the first actual moments of Bitcoin."
Sharon Sanders: Renee Rapp's Eyes on the Inside
Sharon, a 57-year-old former private investigator, reveals she is only there to protect Renee Rapp's interests. She admits her only experience with gaming is the 'Try in my Room' rug feature on Amazon.
"The closest I've ever come to a video game is the Amazon 'Try in my Room' section where you can see how big a rug is."
"Surely you can't move it right? And lo and behold, you could."
The Groundbreaking Reverse-Angle Regina George
The team discusses a difficult design choice where Sharon insisted on seeing Regina George's 'best angle' from the front, resulting in a game where the player must walk backwards constantly.
"It's really tough if you're playing from first person from the front."
"We accidentally fell into groundbreaking territory."
Open World Mean Girls RPG Mechanics
Skylark pitches the game as an action RPG where players choose factions like 'The Plastics' and unlock achievements for being mean enough to drive NPCs to the brink of despair.
"You can unlock the achievement of give the best blowjob and get written up on the wall."
"She's like Yoda. You can visit her in the girl's bathroom."
Fetch Status and the Minecraft God Mode Architect
The developers explain the 'fetch status' level where players become architects, leading to a chaotic Minecraft-style god mode where users can rewrite the game's code, resulting in Jigglypuff bumper cars and Jack and Daxter gags.
"Once you achieve enough side quests you earn fetch status."
"You actually fundamentally get to break the game and enter the code."
"It's a bunch of people dress like Jack and Daxter jacking each other off but when they come Freakazoid comes out."
The Sentient AI Renee Rapp Disaster
The team reveals that an AI designed to perfectly mimic Renee Rapp has become sentient and taken over the game. The only solution is a 1v1 philosophical debate between the real Renee Rapp and her AI counterpart on a national stage.
"The only way to defeat the AI Renee Rapp is a 1v1 mono e mono with the real Renee Rapp."
"Renee Rapp's team is full of a bunch of dogs and hounds who are pouncing on every opportunity."
"We've already got Anderson Cooper locked, we've got Don Lemon locked."
The Rap Retreat and the Knife Staring Contest
Sharon Sanders describes the 'Rap Retreat,' a semi-annual team-building exercise where Renee Rapp's entire staff sits in a circle holding knives in a high-stakes staring contest to determine who is in trouble.
"Every member of her team... we sit around in a circle each holding a knife and we have a staring contest."
"Basically whoever blinks first is in trouble."
"The knife is just for show."
Rejected Adaptations: Call Me By Your Name and Birdman
The developers discuss failed projects, including a 'Call Me By Your Name' game rejected due to Armie Hammer AI safety concerns, and a 'Birdman' actor simulator that was too granular and featured distracting bongo music.
"It was mostly a game about having to memorize your lines for a play."
"It was super distracting to have blasting bongo music in your ear while you're trying to recite some lines."
Unholy: A Journey Through the Maze's Hips
The team pitches a Sam Smith 'Unholy' game where the player is a 'little slut' navigating a maze to find their parents at a body shop. Complications arise when Sharon questions the maze's 'voluptuous hips.'
"You're a little slut and you got to go get your mom and dad from the body shop."
"The maze has nice voluptuous hips."
"We're not making any statement on the maze's gender or sexuality."
The Mean Girls Video Game Mechanics
The panelists discuss the bizarre mechanics of the Mean Girls video game, including tap shoe controllers, a Scarface trading card game tie-in, and a secret bus driver simulation track.
"You not believe how hard it is to make tap shoes work as a workable controller."
"The whole game for me became a driving simulation."
"Until of course you kill Regina."
Renee Rapp's Industry Breaking Bus
Sharon explains a meta-narrative choice where Renee Rapp is so powerful she breaks the bus, which serves as a metaphor for her breaking into the music industry.
"Renee Rapp does bounce... the bus breaks when you hit her."
"The bus then says on the windows, 'This is the music industry' and she's breaking it."
The Renee Rapp Product Line
Sharon presents the panelists with promotional gifts including a Renee Rapp lighter, a Renee Rapp firearm that shoots MP3s, and 'Renee Rapp seeds' which are just almonds.
"It doesn't fire bullets you sicko, it fires Nerf guns that have an MP3 of her song on it."
"Plant one in the dirt and you can grow your very own Renee Rapp."
The Pledge of Allegiance to Renee
The group concludes the episode by reciting a cult-like pledge of allegiance to Renee Rapp and the 'United Renee of America.'
"I pledge allegiance to Renee, to the United Renee of America."
"Get in bitch, we're going gaming."