Hollywood - Dolby Theatre - 23rd June

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BTW, this is posted on the Dolby site:
$115.00 price level is the VIP section and does include a Meet and Greet (VIP level is not available for the matinee). The pre-show Meet and Greet for VIP ticket holders will start 2 hours and 15 minutes prior to curtain time, which would be 5:45pm for our 8pm show and will end no later than one hour prior to curtain. The Meet and Greet will take place inside Dolby Theatre with a specific location within the theatre to be determined the day of event.

Both performances will be filmed for television.

....television?
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crowd shots ft. only the 7:00pm show (by the looks of things)
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Any info on this yet???
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Hiddenwombat and I just walked out of the show. I will write up a full review later along with photos. We have plates and we drank double vodkas with extra cherries and we got two endings and Dan has no package and we did an on camera interview for the filming.
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cora808 wrote:Hiddenwombat and I just walked out of the show. I will write up a full review later along with photos. We have plates and we drank double vodkas with extra cherries and we got two endings and Dan has no package and we did an on camera interview for the filming.
Can't wait to see the review, photos and find out details!!
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i want reviews, will be waiting. I feel the only thing I do in this phandom is wait xD
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Both their faces got me like
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Get on her level, all other poses
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I just got back from the evening Hollywood show and I feel like I can't do a detailed review as many of you even though I saw the show twice.

However, I can point out somethings from seeing the show in two different locations. I thought it was somewhat off putting that the majority, if not all, Dan's Internet Support Group were the same as the ones in Costa Mesa.

Though I thought it was kind of funny in the fan fiction moment where Phil throws out the tent for their "camping", he enthusiastically said some kind of noise during the Costa Mesa show and during the Hollywood show it was kind of an after thought like he sighed the noise like, "Neh." Instead of "Neh!~" if you know what I mean. Then again I wanted to see pirates in space eating cake, so I'll take any difference.

One thing I found pretty cute during the Hollywood show that I didn't notice in the Costa Mesa show was when Dil was giving his speeches to them and Dil said something along the lines towards Phil, look at all the people who follow you, and Dan went up to Phil and ushering his hand across showing Phil the audience which made me feel like they did write those for each other like some have said on here.

Over all, the best way I could describe their show is cute, but as much as I understood everything, it's kind of unfortunate you have to rely so heavily on a lot of their videos. Then again, I think only all time fans or what have you will be the ones trying to see the shows so that's all fine and good.
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Can’t wait for the review plus pics.
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’Twas TATINOF round two for us. My friend & I decided that we wanted to be obnoxious & try to be the last people for this M&G because we’re nerds like that. When we got into the M&G waiting area we saw the glorious bar with absolutely no one ordering anything. They had three specialty mocktails that they assured us they could also make alcoholic (yes, please). Two were D&P related-ish & one was just random. There was the Amazing Sunrise (basically a tequila sunrise), the Ginger Temple (Shirley Temple with "ginger ale” aka coke & sprite mix), & the VLog (which they couldn’t understand when my friend ordered it… I have a feeling they thought it was the “vee-log”). I ordered a Ginger Temple w/ Maker’s & my friend got a VLog with whatever booze they decided to put in there. We sipped our drinks like old hags & were starred at by the youngin's. Deppy entered from a stair case & proceeded into the little room they were using for the M&G. For some reason this line seemed to go quicker (less french horns & kissers that nite, I guess?). There were some other people who pretty clearly wanted to go last. Luckily we had the secret weapon of “We need to wander off to get more drinks & pee." :D

So we got our final drinks (Amazing Sunrises, mine with Marker’s/friend’s with vodka) & staked our claim to the end of the line. A girl came up when the line was only a few people deep & asked me to ask Dan to write something on a piece of paper for a tattoo. I told her I’d try, but I couldn’t make any promises. I wish I were better at saying “no”… I guess I get why D&P end up doing all sorts of silly things in M&Gs ‘cause it is easier to just say yes & get it over it.

The woman that gave us the little speech before meeting D&P that nite was much more chill than the woman who did it the day before (pretty sure it was Phil’s Flipside girlfriend at Dolby?). She took our drinks away for the M&G (BOO!) & returned them to us after we met them. My friend & I decided to go together rather than separate tonite. Dolby started the same as Segerstrom “I like your hair. Would you like a hug?” Sure, Daniel. My friend gave them something she made for them & they talked about that for a bit. I brought my calendar & asked them to slightly augment the April photo for me. I asked them to draw a video game controller so that it would become “handcuffs & video games.” They agreed. Phil seemed particularly keen. I wanted them to write it as well, but I forgot to check the calendar when they handed it back to me. Awkward selfies happened then I asked Dan to write the thing for the girl & he agreed. He totally just wrote “Smile” instead of what she wanted though. Bwahahaha. Oh, Daniel. I decided to be creepy Radiohead fan again & ask, “Daniel, have you listened to A Moon Shaped Pool yet?" He said that he had & that he loved it. He asked if I liked it too, which, duh, of course I do. I reminded him that I was the one who gave him the RH hoodie the nite before & he was like, “I know. I remember. I already showed it to my friend, wirrow, he’s an artist!” In my head I was like, “Daniel, I know who fucking wirrow is, but thanks for assuming that I’m not that creepy.” :) If he showed it to wirrow, I’m guessing he actually likes it & is going to keep it. I don’t even need to see him wear it, I just hope he keeps it. They seemed much more relaxed at this M&G & they just kinda kept talking to us at the end while Flipside people were herding us out.

The woman who was a bit patronizing the nite before said something to me as she was giving us our bags. I couldn’t quite hear it, but it sounded like she said she liked something, so I asked her to repeat it. I assumed she might have said Radiohead were her favorite band since I was talking to Dan about RH, but she actually said that The Replacements were her favorite band (I was wearing one of my Replacements hoodies that nite). I was basically stunned since no one ever knows who the fuck The Replacements are (dude in my avatar is the lead singer of The Replacements). Ever. I was all excited to find a fellow Replacements fan in the wild & it is so strange that she’s someone who works with D&P. When she ushered us out of the room she was like, “We can talk about it later.” That never happened, but it was funny.

I gave the girl who wanted the Dan writing the paper back & apologized that I/he failed to get it right. But she was really nice & hung out with us before the show started. Deppy didn’t come out & do their goodbye bit this time. They just shut the doors to the room they were in & went out the other side.

They started the light flickering (aka the signal to get yer ass into the theatre), so we said goodbye to the girl & made our way to our seats: front row, dead center. Embarrassing much? The noise level was much more manageable at Dolby. I didn’t have to cover my ears as much. We walked in the room right as "Toxic" started over the PA. "Toxic" (& "Creep" :sideeye: ) are probably the only two songs from the playlist that I actually know, so I was happy to sing along to that. :D

Show stuff:
I don’t have much to say about the show because it was basically a literal carbon copy of the nite before (as Rusty pointed out). Nearly all of the 7SCs were the same (minus the good one!) & ISG was literally the exact same phone calls save for maybe one that was only slightly different/different voice. It was obvious that they just used the material from Segerstrom because people were freaking out when they heard their names/voices at Segerstrom, but no one freaked out at Dolby. The only thing they did seem to use Dolby people for was “weird kid” stories since all of those people seemed to be in the first few rows. The best thing about this show was that Dan got sweaty as fuck, so we got full on hobbit hair (during the dance segment in particular). It was mildly terrifying to be front row center… thankfully I don’t think any cameras caught us? I don’t want to be on the performance video. It was cute to see little things like Dan fixing the zips on his shoes when the light wasn't on him & them both fixing their hair in the mirror while everyone is fixated on Dil. We also got creepy Dan existential crisis eye contact. Awkward. I’m sure there’s something I could mention, but I can’t even remember what/if anything else was different.

I’m quite sad I didn’t go to the matinee show since I would have loved to have seen the alternate fanfiction options. A girl's gotta work though. Leave it to Dan & Phil to make the better story line sound more boring so that no crowd ever picks it. Clever little shits. For the record, I cheered for pirates & space both nites. I don’t need no Brokeback Mountain.
We met up with some IDBers after the show. I was happy to meet a few middle aged nose perverts in real life. It is assuring to know I’m not the only person my age who has an irrational love for these two nerds. I won’t out anyone in case they don’t want it known on the forum, but it was really great meeting you all. I haven’t met an IDBer I don’t think is badass! :) I'm glad I ended up participating in this madness. If it weren't for this little community, I wouldn't have ventured out into the real world to see these two. So thank you all for that shot of courage.

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He liked your radiohead hoodie, great!

And the handcuff and videogames has make me laugh.

Thanks for the 2nd review
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Alright party people, I've rejoined the living and it's time for an overly verbose run-on sentence disguised as a show review!

We got to the venue early so we'd have time to hit a bar before the show in order to grease our mental wheels in preparation for the children. I was surprised that an hour before the show, I wasn't already seeing throngs of cat whiskers and puberty-in-action walking around but I accepted the moment of silence and sipped on adult beverages from our casual little cafe.

After somehow fitting inside me a stein of beer larger than my entire head, we made our way to the Dolby. I was shocked to find that there was virtually no line to get in and "security" was a casual glance in our purses before a wave inside.

We again headed straight to the bar because apparently we're functional alcoholics. There was, as expected, an immensely bored bartender and no line. The drink specials amused us because obvious attempt at branding.

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We chose the Amazing Sunrise, with a double shot of vodka and extra cherries, because we are utter trash.

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Once we finally stumbled into our seats, we were surprised to find that the crowd was generally calm. Not a lot of costumes or whiskers, no real screaming or dancing. The most we spotted was a couple kids happily, yet softly singing along in their seats. There was, however, some change in excitement once the Ladders song kicked in. Man, that's was a lot of uncoordinated fingers in the air.

We played a game where we looked through the crowd and every time we saw a male who wasn't obviously a parent or escort, we took a drink. There was 4.

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I will mention that with the exception of one point before the 2nd ending, we did have one staff member quickly walk behind our row muttering "remember no photos or videos" for 5 seconds. Other than that, there really didn't seem to be much policing in the way of sneaking shots. I should have gotten more.

THE SHOW!!
(seriously this review just keeps going)
The second they stepped out, the screaming began. I will admit that the microwave count-down was very clever as it created this hype vibe where you get more and more excited for the moment their sexy little asses sauntered onto that stage.
Once the show actually began, I instantly noticed something a little disheartening. Every word, every movement, every laugh, every wink was time and practiced to the millisecond. I literally had to watch breathing patterns and throat movements to prove to myself that they were even actually speaking and not just lip-syncing off a track.
Have you ever been to a theme park that featured a stage show? Where all the actors are over-the-top and a little TOO enthusiastic? That's exactly what this felt like.
They had even perfected the theater trick of looking just above the heads of the floor audience and just below the mezzanine in order to "look out into the crowd', but never have to chance accidentally catching the eye of someone in the crowd.

Despite the fact that I was watching Youtube's version of Disneyland Live!, the entire thing was terribly amusing and fun. I was really impressed with the intricate details of the stage set itself, with little sneaky things hidden in every crevice of the background.

They opened the show by commenting that this was the very stage where Jennifer Lawrence ate it on the stairs during the Oscars and Dan motioned as if to worship the area it all went down. (puns!)

It of course started with climbing cut-outs of a lion and llama. As they discussed mounting them, it was the first of many moments I was overcome with cringe at the unbelievable level of pandering.
"Oh, sorry you guys. Just having a bit of a..."
*leans into crowd, puts emphasis on voice*
"DOMESTIC."
*gives crowd cheeky smirk*
*Crowd loses mind*

Sigh.

The rest of the show continued in that vein. I can honestly say that if you are not obsessed with their videos already there would be a lot of confusion.
I will say this much...Dan came across as a rehearsed over-actor who held poses like he was waiting for a photograph. Phil seemed strangely comfortable with no stumbles, stutters, stiff poses, etc. Never once during the entire show did they miss a beat, a line, nothing.

Despite all the Mickey Mouse Club bullshit, it was really really fun. I found myself smiling and laughing without even realizing I was doing it. Rooting for sides during their "arguments", getting excited when they began to introduce a new bit, etc. Those little shits are so terribly engaging.

During the 7 Second Challenge I found it very interesting that one of the questioned featured the very unique name of a girl sitting next to us who'd submitted a challenge, but not the actual question she submitted. Cuuuurrrious.

During the magic bit, Phil's eyes genuinely glowed with mischief and excitement. You could tell he was honestly having fun.
During the Dil bit, we got paper plates stamped with "I went to #TATINOF and all I got was this lousy plate" tossed at us (children frantically scramble). I was really amused with the detail they put in Dil's character, down to the stupid pink ring.

At this point, the "omg so much cherry" vodkas had kicked in and I began wondering if the guy playing Dil was attractive underneath that giant head.

During the existential crises, as Dan's cheek lay softly against the filthy stage floor, I for once saw actual humanity in his eyes as he was forced to be of equal level with our faces. I caught his eye for a split second and it felt nice to see a human and not a cardboard cut-out.

During the ISG section, I took the opportunity to run to the bathroom. Stupid broken seal. The lobby was a ghost show and I saw the merch crew slumped on the floor passively staring at their cell phones.

When I ran back, hiddenwombat filled me in on what I'd missed.
"kids-obsessed-with-videos-parents-worried-what-do-evan-peters-trash blah blah blah" and then we switched and she ran for the bathroom.
It appeared to me that Dan might have been swigging actual wine from the bottle he clutched during the segment.
You can do it, Dan. Home stretch.

The Craft Corner began with the decorated carts. Oh look, Phil's has rainbows and feathers! Dan's has a giant D! You guys! rainbows and a big D! HAH YOU GUYS. YOU GUYS. *sigh*. The art seemed to be obvious plants. Not a single one of the items I saw on the table before the show and every one of them seemed a little too perfect. It was confirmed to me by someone who went to the night show that almost every one of the same items were featured during their craft corner.
A melapples painting, a Phil Trash #1 trophy for Dan, a doll made to look like Dil (You get it guys? A Dil Doll? Get it? Eh?)

I've been skipping all over the place. Obviously none of these segments are in show order. Whatever, sue me.

For our fan fiction segment, we got the obvious Brokeback Mountain choices of Cowboys, camping, draw like french girl. It was cute. Phil tossing the tent in the air was another one of the moments akin to the magic show. Phil with a cheeky "I'm loving this" smile.

I absolutely adored Future Dan and Phil, btw. They looked so freaking cute with their white hair and overcoats stumbling around. I would watch an entire video of just that. Phil died and Dan drug his corpse across the stage by his foot and I thought to myself "Even in death, Dan won't let Phil go that easily."

We finally got the the song and dance moment and I was pleased to see the gold coats.
By this point despite Phil still being a calm collected cucumber, Dan was a sweaty mess and Hobbit Hair was full-on out to play. Swoon.

The internet is here, the internet is good...

I had this song stuck in my head for the next several hours.
You little turds are so cute. My heart swelled watching you kick around the stage with your top hats and your glowing smiles.

And with that, it was over.

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JAY KAY, YA'LL, WE GOT A DOUBLE ENDING!
As the last remnants of confetti trickled through the air, an ominous commanding voice reminded us to stay in our seats, as they'd be resetting and filming "bonus material" soon.

After the ever-so-lovely and efficient stage crew swept up bits of sparkle off the floor and equipment, the boys jumped back out of the microwave and explained to us that they were hoping for options so for the fan-fiction segment they were going to redo the scene on this time around when they gave us options, they wanted us to cheer louder for the choices we'd not picked before.
Because children are ridiculous, when the choices were presented to us, the crowd still seemed to cheer louder for the original options, causing a hint of an eye twitch from Dan as he cheerfully announced "Weeh-heh-heeelll it looks like they choose...pirates, in space, eating cake!"

Let's be real, guys. They wouldn't have given us options that were boring and not dripping with Grade A pander. Broaden your horizons! These other options were so so great. Better than the overly-popular homosexual farm hands.

Dan looked so uncomfortable in his eye patch and Phil put his parrot on backwards causing it to eventually swing off his arm and thump onto the ground.
It was obvious to me that due to the fact that these were rarely picked options, as their performance of them was not as perfected and robotic as the rest of the show and this was one of the few times you could see them crack and just have fun with it.
During the space scene, a joke was made that suggested "We are the only two people left alive. What will we do now?"
*pause for screaming*
At this point, we both involuntarily threw our hands in the air and exclaimed "OH COME ON."
The girls next to us pointed at us and said "omg you had an actual cringe attack!!!"

As mentioned in the other review, there was most certainly a "Dan wants to get probed by the alien" joke from Phil.

Oh, Captain Lester.

You guyyysss. You guys missed out so much by not choosing the eating cake option.

Phil grabbed a "slice" of cake as a 1 year old during a birthday party would, fingers tightly bent into a clutch of crumbs and frosting, and mashed it into Dans face as newlyweds would during the wedding party. Twice this happened.
Chocolate smeared along both sides of Dans mouth, and he honestly did start to look as uncomfortable as his script claimed he was.
The voiceover commanded Phil to lovingly wipe the crumbs away from Dan's mouth, the entire crowd basically slid off their seats and onto the floor, and that mischievous smirk reappeared on Phil's face.

As the scene came to an end, Dan started to giggle and deliver his final lines while wiping the sides of his open mouth with an extended and suggestive thumb and remarked that he was glad more people didn't choose that option.

And with that, they said their thank yous and goodbyes. They smiled, they waved, we cheered, we swooned.

And they returned to the microwave from whence they came.
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Thnks fr th mmrs, Deppy.
I mean it.

After we scoffed at the 8 mile long merch line and made our escape, we spent the next several hours bar hopping. We managed to kill enough time to meet up with a couple of IDBers leaving the night time show.
They tried to escape us, but our sloppy asses corralled them anyway and we had a really great chat.
I've met 4 IDBers so far and I can honestly tell you I am 100% shocked at how normal and lovely and easy to get along with you guys are. I don't know how we've done it, but it appears we may have somehow made ourselves a little oasis of decent ass phans. Apparently the whisker-adorned screaming freakazoids are afraid of our little island. You guys are intelligent and fun and calm and I'm so glad to be part of all this ridiculous nonsense with you.
And to the 3 of you that we caught, thanks for putting up with our ethanol fumes. hahahaha.
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I also forgot to mention the part where after the show, they had camera crews interview fans.
They asked us if we'd like to be on camera which of course we obliged because we a) are attention whores and b) were pretty sauced.

He asked us to explain what we thought of the show "with lots of energy". We were coached to include the question in our answers, along with things like what our favorite part was and what we took away from the whole thing and if there's anything we'd like to say to Deppy. At one point one of us (which surprisingly wasn't me for once) accidentally cursed and had to redo the question "PG Version".

Afterwards, a frazzled British woman had us fill out release paperwork. She asked us our ages and when we told her, she exhaustively, but happily exhaled "Oh good!!'

I won't expect to see us make the cut as we lacked both a preferred age range and a plethora of whiskers, flower crowns, or general tears, but we'll see!
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Thanks for your review cora808! I can't wait to see the alternate ending when it becomes available to everyone!
I remember when I went to the Toronto show I was talking to some people who said they've seen/heard that D+P did some of the "other" fanfic options before?

Does anyone remember if during the UK tour (or even during the US tour) they did any of the other fanfic options (space, pirates, cake)? Not all three in one show but at least one of them? Or was this the very first time they did anything other than cowboys, camping and french girl?
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Great review cora808

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I don't have a good memory so maybe I dreamed it: but didn't once juliet tweet something related to that, like can't believe they choose pirates, only to delete it later on?or were we only speculating in the main thread?
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cora808 Thanks for you amazing TABINOF-esque review
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Thanks again Jess :platonic:

cora I've been waiting eagerly for your review
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Someone should really take the comma key away from me.
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corn flakes wrote:Great review cora808

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I don't have a good memory so maybe I dreamed it: but didn't once juliet tweet something related to that, like can't believe they choose pirates, only to delete it later on?or were we only speculating in the main thread?
Oh yeah I remember that being discussed! I think they probably did at least one of the different options at another show. Maybe never the cake one though
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Yay I'm finally getting around to writing this!

I went to the Costa Mesa show as well but I dunno I wandered into this thread first so let's write this one lmao

Anyways I actually didn't have tickets to this show at first. I had to work late this night, until about 7pm (I originally thought it was later which is why I didn't bother buying tickets), and it was a truly awful day at work. I got yelled at by my clients for things that weren't my fault, team members of mine totally dropped the ball, nothing was going right... I was feeling terrible. I had miraculously wrapped up around 7:15pm and had two seconds to myself at my desk so I checked Stubhub and lo and behold... $20 nosebleed tickets! I ended up buying them on a whim because I work less than a mile from the Dolby and thought I could Uber there quickly, and I just made it! I literally ran in when people were screaming because the "no spoilers" spiel was being played.

I was a little more prepared for the screaming level since this was show #2 but it's still really, really loud lol. Surprisingly I felt like Hollywood was a teeny bit quieter (or maybe just because I was up higher it was quieter?) because I was actually able to hear more jokes than at the Costa Mesa show.

I feel old af because I'm struggling to remember the order of everything. It felt like it went so, so fast because they're going so quickly in the show and there's never really a dull moment so that before I knew it it was over. I tried to avoid spoilers before seeing it but the socal dates being here at the end of the tour made it 1) inevitable in some cases and 2) my curiosity absolutely peak and combined with my incredibly low willpower I definitely looked up some on my own :facepalm:

Random rambly thoughts about parts of the show, obviously a ton of spoilers:
- So the beginning honestly was a bit clunky. The whole "WHAT'S UNDER THE SHINY BLANKETS? WOW A LION AND A LLAMA HAHA" thing was cute, but not funny and borderline unnecessary. No, actually it was totally unnecessary. Climbing on them...? :confused: Just my thoughts? It was the least funny thing in the show, imho, and it was right at the beginning so it was a little off-putting.

- Luckily I think next was the 7SC part which was much better! I thought the challenges were funny, in Costa Mesa Phil had to dab 15 times and failed but then at Hollywood he had to do it only 10 times and nailed it, lol. Dan with his whale sounds

- I think neurotic/screaming Dan is funny, so I liked "The Amazing Phil" part because it was pretty much Dan acting all bent out of shape because of Phil. This is about the part in the show when I realized overall, I liked Phil's acting more than Dan's because Dan is way, way over the top (I'm assuming on purpose) and Phil was playing it a bit more subtle. Maybe that's just Phil's character in this though, the more "let's just go with it and not question it, it'll work itself out" kind of approach to their story's problem.

- Anyway in The Amazing Phil part something specifically that made me laugh was Dan yelling "Phil, why is there a dead rabbit in here?!" and Phil making frantic throat-slashy-don't-ask-about-that gestures Phil had so many little good lines or gestures in this show as a whole, I really did love him in this.

- I thought it was so funny how when Dan comes back with llama legs and is all upset with Phil and puts all his magic stuff back in the disappearing box that the audience "Awwww"s like crazy. They did this in Costa Mesa and Hollywood so I'm assuming it's a thing. Which is interesting to me, I remember Dan saying in a ls once about how people think he's mean to Phil and that they're just teasing each other, he would never be that mad, and he actually sounded super offended that someone would suggest it, yet here they are writing that kind of thing into the script.

- I think Phil's weird kid segment was next? Wow I am struggling to remember. Anyways this was cute, I love their storytelling videos so naturally I liked this part. I don't know if they changed it up for the rest of the tour but we had the same three stories for both these nights: Broken Arm, Fish, and Moving Away. I think this was the first of the interactive things they did in the show, and I love that aspect. I think it was great they really made it a point to make it interactive and get the fans involved.

- Okay maybe this was before the weird kid parts, I can't remember but Phil trying to roll with the whole problem and saying they should "try new things" (you know, "as less amazing Phil would say" wink nudge) and then he comes to center stage and does his knee pop/hand up/Saturday Night Fever pose and gets a spotlight, I swear I actually SCREAMED I laughed so hard, I don't know it was honestly just really good comedic timing, and maybe because he did it two more times during the show that made it extra funny. As if you need more convincing that I loved Phil's character in this.

- The "they're old/Phil dies" part was super cute. I felt phan af thinking it but it got me all warm to think of them being that old together :gg: Also both nights during this part they made a joke about watching something on "PewDieTube" obviously a joke about Pewds/YouTube and hardly anybody laughed meanwhile I was cracking up on my own in my section

- Crafty corner thing was cute, they pushed their carts out and Dan says "Coolest trolleys I've ever seen... or should I say [American accent] SHOPPING CARRRTS" and that was funny, but Dan saying "Mine has a big D on it" had me D Y I N G because it kind of came out of nowhere and Dan full on stopped and acknowledged it and I was honestly laughing through tears at that point. Mostly the same crafts at both shows, Dan got a Phil Trash #1 award :lol: and someone made them cute Oscar statue replicas with Dan being the meme king and Phil being the breakfast king ( :roll: ) I once again "Awww"ed from my trash can that someone painted them a Melapples replica and Dan said they'd have to put it up in their house I know I'm reaching

- ISG part was funny, kind of bummed they had the exact same calls in both shows. One girl asked something about how to ask people out or something like that and Dan said it was easier to forget dating and just fall in love with fictional characters.

- The fanfic part.............. I mean I knew it was coming. It was one of the first things I got spoiled with. But it's a whole other thing to see in person. I kinda had my hand over my mouth and was blushing the whole time tbh I loved it but it definitely rode that line between cringe and funny. cringefunny? That's more accurate probably.

- I actually loved the Dil part. I thought it was hilarious that he was "controlling" everything, and the song they picked when they point him out, I was dying laughing again. Even by that point in the show the big head wasn't even creepy it was just part of the utter ridiculousness of the show. The little afterschool special moment of Dan, you don't need to be uncertain, and Phil, people do love you look, was cute and it was a nice end it. It was a nice way to tie in yet another piece of their fandom into the storyline.

- Finally (said everyone reading this) we are at the end, the song! I had read the lyrics on dd and was prepared for ultimate cringe but by that time I was totally invested in this story line and the song was adorable af let's be honest. I ate it up like nobody's business.
To sum up: FUN! After the Costa Mesa show I felt like overflowing with happiness because they made it a point to include so many little jokes from their videos and their fandom. Seeing it the second time in Hollywood made me appreciate these little nods to us even more. Even with it being over the top and essentially saturated with all the vid/channel/community mentions, as a fan I loved it and appreciated the time they took to write and design the whole thing. It was essentially a show written exclusively for us and for that I couldn't be more appreciative

Plus I got to meet jess and some other amazing folks and am so happy this community exists! It was a wonderful two days
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Thanks achika for the amazing review Im so glad you enjoyed the show. I also enjoyed the fanfiction portion a little too much. Also I loved Phil's little pose before he starts singing
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Thanks achika it's great to know you ended your bad day at work with a lovely time with
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Oh my god, I feel like such a failure as the unofficial "creepy one" of IDB.

How could I have forgotten to mention the "Don't mention the dead rabbit!!" part!!

Good review, achika!
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Great reviews, cora808 & achika. Thanks for refreshing my burnt out memory!
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