Recap / Dr. Crafty Season 2 Month 3: Nintendo Month

Dr. Crafty Recap Index
Season:
Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4
Month:
#1: Season 2 Premiere Month | #2: Fakémon Month | #3: Nintendo Month
#4: Beach Month | #5: Fighting Month | #6: Yu-Gi-Oh Month
Bonus Content:
Season 2 Patreon Episodes | Season 2 Promotional Videos

Airing Range: 6/1/18 - 6/21/18

This month serves as a sequel to Season 1's gaming month, only this time, the Crafty crew discusses Nintendo games specifically. Notably, this season's main series concoctions are all posters—the very first of their kind on the show—and they are some of the most involved pieces yet.

Tropes Applicable to the Month as a whole:

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Chara-Cafe E3: "Journey to the Forbidden Water Temple"

Air Date: 6/1/18

The kitchen is almost completely flooded thanks to a pipe bursting open. While they wait for help to arrive, Pepper and Crafty concoct a Twilight Princess-style Zora.

Tropes Found in This Episode:

• Cutaway Gag: Pepper briefly reminisces about a time she tried wearing pants after Crafty mistakes "genes" as "jeans." It doesn't go well, and she's refused to wear pants ever since.
• No Fourth Wall: To resolve the flooding in the kitchen, Crafty urges the editor (played by his voice actor and show creator, Alex Tansley) to delete the water from the video. Pepper can't wrap her head around how Crafty managed to do this.

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Top Ten Tub E3: "Smash Newcomers!"

Air Date: 6/1/18

With the announcement of Super Smash Brothers for the Switch, Messi and Crafty speculate over the best possible candidates for the new playable roster.

This episode's list contains the following:

• 10. The Champions of the Wild
• 9. Shovel Knight
• 8. Shantae
• 7. Nintendo Labo
• 6. Waluigi
• 5. The Wonderful 100
• 4. Decidueye
• 3. Midna
• 2. Spring Man (with the other fighters as alternate skins)
• 1. Banjo and Kazooie

Tropes Found in This Episode:

• Hurricane of Puns: Upon reaching Shovel Knight, Messibelle makes tons of shovel puns, causing the video to explode from "pun-overload".

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Main Show E35: "Aqua Marina"

Air Date: 6/1/18

Crafty and Nurse revisit "Splatoon," and Crafty seems to have far too many ink-related puns to share because of it.

Tropes Found in This Episode:

• Curb-Stomp Battle: The episode ends on a Splatfest pitting Crafty's popularity against Nurse's. It is a unanimous win for Nurse, while Crafty somehow gets -2% of the votes.
• Fat and Skinny: Nurse comments on the design dynamic she shares with Crafty, stating she has "all the meat" while Crafty has "all the bones."
• Foreshadowing:
  • In the flashback, a bed-ridden Crafty received a letter from someone named Greta while he was asleep. Greta's identity and significance would be followed up on throughout Season 3.
  • The same flashback starts with the medical staff discussing Crafty's survival, finding it suspicious that he was out at the beachside cliffs alone. One of the staff members picks up on the implications but doesn't outright mention their conclusion, but Crafty, overhearing the conversation and knowing his reasons for being at those cliffs, sighs in shame. Crafty's intentions for being there are expressly confirmed later.
• Hurricane of Puns: Crafty makes so many ink puns that Nurse pounds the living daylights out of him at least three times, just to get him to stop. That doesn't stop Nurse from making ink puns herself.
• Flashback Echo: The topic of the Sunken Scrolls triggers a flashback from Crafty, where we see him in his late teens in the hospital after nearly drowning, before being visited by the mysterious woman.
• Volleying Insults: At the end of the episode, Crafty and Nurse boast about who deserves to be voted the "Best Crafty Co-Star." They each take cracks at each other to bring themselves up, and despite Crafty losing the poll, he gets a few good verbal hits in on Nurse. She remains audibly calm, but Crafty's comebacks clearly hit her where it hurts, especially regarding her size.
  [A spotlight redirects itself from Crafty to Nurse as she speaks.]
  Nurse: I don't mean to disparage you, Doctor, but I think the audience likes me a lot more. Face it: I just have all the assets that you don't!
  [The spotlight turns off as Nurse poses for the fans.]
  Crafty: Hmph. The only asset you need is a gym membership.
  [Nurse silently sneers at Crafty with sharpened teeth, doing everything she can to hold back her anger.]
  Nurse: Think again, sweetie! Between the two of us, I've got all the meat, and you've got all the bones! And you know what people do with bones...
  [Midway through Nurse's comeback, Crafty just rolls his eyes.]
  Crafty: Oh, enlighten me! I'm sure your wasted medical degree has afforded you no end of trivia!
  [Nurse bares her teeth again, but not quite as harshly as the first time.]
• Wham Episode: There is another flashback presented in the same way as the one from "Hocus Mansion," and it reveals that Crafty (or Colin) almost drowned because he fell off a cliff.

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Main Show E36: "Those Wascally Wabbids"

Air Date: 6/7/18

Nurse and Crafty draw and discuss something of a sleeper hit for the Switch: Mario & Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. Of course, because this is Dr. Crafty, they now have to deal with a sudden Rabbid infestation throughout the castle.

Tropes Found in This Episode:

• Weird Crossover: Crafty proposes three crossover ideas to match the bizarreness of Mario + Rabbids: Splatoon and HuniePop, Pokémon and Street Fighter, and Donkey Kong and God of War.

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Main Show E37: "Dongs out for Donkey Kong"

Air Date: 6/14/18

To Nurse's confusion, Crafty touches upon a franchise several years older than the past two episodes' subjects: Donkey Kong Country, and how the series came to be.

Tropes Found in This Episode:

• Call-Back: The angry mob of Canadians is organized and lead by Jedah Dohma, still eager to get his revenge on Crafty since "Street Frighters."
• Mistaken Nationality: In Episode 37, Nurse thinks Crafty is Canadian instead of British, causing Crafty to angrily call Canadians "discount-Britians." In response, a group of Canadians begins a protest outside of the castle, with Jedah at the helm.
• Self-Deprecation: Crafty brings up Diddy Kong Racing during the commentary, thinking it has about as much to do with Donkey Kong as the Top Ten Tub has to do with his main show.
• Sound-Effect Bleep: Crafty almost says "Holy shit!" when the Great Mighty Poo appears, but it's cut off by a yet another "technical difficulty" screen.
• Take That!: Nurse notices the rather peculiar lineup of topics Crafty has and will be covering for this month. She asks Crafty if he's copying The Angry Video Game Nerd, but he responds that The Irate Gamer is already doing that.

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Main Show E38: "The Legend of Lonk"

Air Date: 6/21/18

Crafty suddenly wakes up in the bathroom and imagines himself in the world of Breath of the Wild. He's just in time, too, as this episode's poster deals with that very game. We also get a little more insight into that mysterious woman of Crafty's past.

Tropes Found in This Episode:

• Can't Take Criticism: When the piece is completed, the Hyrule Champions show up to get Crafty for criticizing Breath of the Wild. Even though Crafty had just as many compliments as he had complaints, the Champions still retaliate by using the Divine Beasts to fry him.
• Foreshadowing: The flashback in this episode reveals that Crafty and the mysterious woman bonded over a game of Yu-Gi-Oh, and that the woman was extremely good at the game. Her skills would become instrumental in the Season 2 finale month's plot.
• Shower of Awkward: Crafty begins the episode daydreaming in the bathroom causes him to walk in on a towel-clad Nurse, who was taking a shower.
  Nurse: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?! I WAS TAKING A SHOWER!!
• Take That!: Crafty mistakenly deems Breath of the Wild as the first Zelda game with full voice acting, upon which footage from the infamous CD-I games appears to correct him. Both he and Nurse feel incredibly unclean once it ends, so Nurse clarifies that Breath of the Wild is the first game in the series—among those that "meet basic quality standards"—to have full voice acting.
• Wham Episode: This episode finally reveals the sea woman's name: Sasha. Despite all the unsettling teases of her the show had given so far, she turns out to be an incredibly sweet creature. She was driven by instinct to save Colin from drowning and eventually took a liking to him. Colin even invited her to come home with him after he leaves the hospital.

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