It's Valentines! And everyone has a valentines date... even... Fishy Boopkins? ... Wait a minute... that's not a person. OH GOD RUN
It's Valentines Day in the Mushroom Kingdom, and everyone has a date... except for poor Fishy Boopkins, who's only able to "date" his favorite girl in an anime dating game, Saiko. That all changes when a chance encounter allows him to bring her to life, but while things go swimmingly at first, Saiko's jealous tendencies soon start causing problems...
This episode marks the debut of Saiko Bichitaru.
Tropes:
- Attention Whore: Saiko's villainy stems around her lashing out whenever she isn't the center of someone's attention, whether it's her boyfriend or his friends.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Saiko gets insanely jealous around other girls, even if they're non-sentient anime girls on TV or Bob's dolled up garbage bag.
- Comical Overreacting: Mario's reaction to seeing Saiko in the flesh:Mario: ANIME HAS COME TO LIFE! WE'RE DOOMED!
- Downer Ending: The episode ends on a downbeat note as Saiko, rejected by everyone—including Boopkins—for being a psycho bitch, runs off in tears knowing that she will continue being lonely and unloved, while Boopkins can do nothing but ask his friends to let her go and do her no harm. Mario breaks the sad atmosphere at the very end, though.
- Hope Spot: Boopkins and Saiko seem to start reconciling when they break into a performance of "Don’t Go Breaking My Heart". Unfortunately for them, Mario takes this opportunity to pounce on Saiko.
- Hypocritical Humor: Bob calls Boopkins a loser for not having a real girlfriend, when his own girlfriend, "Bobella-chan", is just a garbage bag with a fake face and a bow.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: Saiko's tearful Motive Rant at the end delves into how she turns violent and crazy when nobody ever picks her as their date in her game, not accepting that people don't date her because of said violence and craziness.
- Never Trust a Title: In spite of what the title suggests, the video has nothing to actually do with Doki Doki Literature Club! outside of Saiko's loose resemblance to Monika, another self-aware Dating Sim character who's in love with the player and eliminates rivals to the player's affections.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: According to Hobo Bros, this episode was originally more themed around Doki Doki Literature Club!. This plan hit a snag when Garry's Mod didn't have any models of the DDLC characters in time for the episode's creation, as DDLC was still a new game at the time. This led to the episode's plot being rewritten and Saiko being made an original character with no ties to DDLC.
- Refugee from TV Land: Saiko gets teleported from her Dating Sim to the real world when Boopkin casts a spell on her with Kamek's wand.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Saiko tries getting revenge on Boopkins for dumping her by attacking him and his friends with a Mini-Mecha.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After being forced by Saiko to work for her, Wario and Waluigi bail on her and take her Mini-Mecha away as soon as she's beaten.
- Second-Act Breakup: Boopkins breaks up with Saiko in the second act upon realizing her true jealous nature when she burns all of his body pillows in a jealous rage, kickstarting the third act where Saiko goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against him. They don't get back together in the end.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When Kamek gets pinned down by a car, Boopkins' first and only concern turns out to be Kamek's magic wand lying on the ground, which Boopkins uses to bring Saiko to life.
