BOYS IN THE BIG CITY - Dan and Phil Play: Sims 4 #59 (20 December 2018)

itasca00 · Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:06 am

itasca00 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:04 am Alright, here we go! Even before yesterday’s liveshow, I had really warmed to the idea of Dilmas, and now I feel like I have to savor every moment! Here are my highlights:

[0:00] Dan and Phil start the video off right with an incredible dance party. I approve.

[0:22] I'm with Phil. Yikes.
D: Welcome to *to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”* the first day of Dilmas, my daddies gave to me one Sims video. That’s right. And guess what? There’s more comin’.
P: Daddies? Oh, my God.

[3:11] Phil's made this joke before, but I thought it was still funny the second time.
D: Dab and Evan: They just became young adults, and, at the moment, he’s just sitting on his ass--
P: He needs to get his own place.
D: --not paying rent.
P: These walls are thin. They’re hearing things.
D: A--A lot has happened in this house that would make me incredibly uncomfortable if it was my family.
P: Yeah.

[3:30] Dan does that thing where he bobs his head back and forth while he’s vigorously making a point, and I think it’s cute.

[3:58] I don't think this was a mistake at all!
P: Evvie. Evian.
D: Phil was like, “We should have a Red Bull--"
P: It was a mistake.
D: "--so that we’re ready to film.” This was a mistake.

[4:51] For some reason, I can more easily picture Phil being the one who's "that friend."
P: There’s always one friend that never dresses for the winter, and I’m just like, “Put a jacket on, mate.”
D: I--I’m sat right here, Phil. You don’t have to talk to me like that. Okay.
P: It’s Dan.

[7:41] Dan’s reaction to Dab and Evan’s household being called the Howlter household is...something.

[8:12] The comparisons between Dab & Evan and Dan & Phil begin.
D: We don’t want to be those people, but, for us personally, we very much found that you need to just move into a big city of some kind.
P: Yeah.
D: And just jump into life with both feet.

[9:06] The comparisons continue.
D: Well, uh, the deposit on that one--
P: Holy guacamole.
D: --plus the weekly rent would make us instantly broke.
P: Sure.
D: So that’s fun. It’s like us when we moved to London.

[11:22] Over the course of two weekends, I (alone) put together my futon, my bed, my dining table and chairs, my entertainment center, and some shelves in my first unfurnished apartment. I was 22. I don't see what the big deal is, lol.
P: Do we want it furnished or unfurnished?
D: This is the big decision. When you moved into your first apartment--
P: It was a furnished apartment.
D: --it was furnished. If it was unfurnished, you’d have spent most of it crying on the floor.
P: Yeah.
D: We moved into our London apartment. That was the first time it was unfurnished.
P: Mmm.
D: And, for about four months, we were just crying on the floor in a big pile of IKEA stuff.
P: We--We were. We--We didn’t have anything.

[12:46] Why are they dragging the Manchester apartment? It seemed pretty nice to me!
P: We chose well.
D: We chose well for them. Why are we choosing better for them than we did with ourselves?
P: I don’t know.

[13:30] So much for the “we don’t go outside” branding.
D: We need to plan out the space.
P: Yeah. I think it should be open plan living with a smaller bedroom. When you’re living in the city, you don’t want to be in your bedroom much anyway. It’s more just a place to sleep.

[14:49] Dan has a very strong affinity for floor-to-ceiling windows.
P: Where’s the window? Can they have a bath next to the window? Or do we not have a window any more?
D: Let’s see.
P: Yes!
D: *gasps*
P: That’s perfect!
D: Oh, my God.
P: You need to do it the other way around, though.
D: I am quaking. That’s my dream!
P: That’s so fun ‘cause if you’re--Like, when you’re in a hotel, and you can just, like, look out the window from a bath.
D: That makes me want to weep.

[15:14] Why, Phil? Why?
P: Right, we need a poop station.

[16:34] More comparisons between Dab & Evan and Dan & Phil.
D: Why am I so jealous of this?
P: And maybe some art on this wall.
D: Frickin’ art?
P: Just, like, something.
D: They are--
P: Something.
D: --young adults moving into their first apartment.
P: A gee--
D: You don’t have art on your ba--This is unrealistic!
P: A geeky poster.
D: All of you--This is--was not our experience. This is not your experience.
P: Something cute there. Just, like, a geeky thing.

[17:06] Dan sounds salty.
P: I think the whole apartment should be wooden floors.
D: What?
P: What? What do you mean, “What?”
D: You’re Mr. Carpet!
P: I know, but I think--
D: I’m like, “Oh, floorboards. Taste, Phil.”
P: I don’t trust them. They’re gonna get food all over the carpet.
D: And Phil’s like, “Oh, no. You need carpet. Otherwise it’s not comfortable on your feet.” And I’m like, “No one has a cool house with carpet.”

[17:46] Gosh, Dan. If you like these kinds of windows so much, you should have found an apartment that had them and better internet while we're at it when you last moved.
D: *fake cry* These windows! I would get involved in a criminal plot--
P: Wow.
D: --to have that.

[18:54] Ah, memories.
P: I mean, they are missing a bedside table, but who needs that really?
D: You didn't have a bedside table at your first apartment in Manchester.
D: I didn't.

[21:29] The final comparison between Dab & Evan and Dan & Phil.
D: Now, where is that stereotypical tiny circular dining table?
P: What? With the chairs that, like, fit underneath it?
D: Yeah.
P: “Martian Invader.”
D: That is literally the one that we had in the Manchester apartment.
P: It is.
D: Yep.
P: Can we--Can we fit chairs around that? I think we can.
D: See? They are ready to have their romantic dinners.
P: Yeah.
D: And then they can pretend that they have another friend, and it’s fine.

[23:54] Good to know that Dan and Phil's priorities are set.
D: I just think--To be honest, Phil, what is important in life?
P: The internet.
D: Exactly.

[24:35] Dan's disappointed voice is so cute!
P: There.
D: That looks pretty ner--Oh, it’s not in a frame.
P: It looks framed. It’s got a black edge.
D: God.

[25:22] First Dan called Evan a work of art, and now this. I repeat: Is Evan Dab's boyfriend or Dan's?
P: It’s the first mirror butt.
D: Oh, my God! The first mirror butt of the new apartment.
P: --of this apartment.
D: Nice. Evan’s doing squats.

Oh, my. The video description. All of the individual social media links are duplicated. In one set, the merch links point to shop.danielhowell.com and amazingphilshop.com. In the other, they both point to danandphilshop.com. I guess this is one way to make sure you have your bases covered... Once again, I'm feeling very trolled by Dan and Phil.