Trivia / Mega64

• Acting for Two: Rocco plays Rocko and Poque, Derrick plays Derek and Horatio, Shawn plays Sean and Marcus, and Garrett plays Lobo Fuerte, Jessse, Frankie, and Garret, leader of FALZ. Besides those major roles, they all play many incidental characters both in and outside of the main series.
• Based on a Dream:
  • The main premise to the Version 3 episode 'Bigger Boat' is based off a dream Rocco had where he had a giant boat out the front of his house with the N-word written on it and he couldn't get rid of it.
  • The idea for the 'FILS-A-MECH' in their Nintendo E3 2014 Announcements video came from a dream Rocco had where he piloted an Evangelion unit.
• Colbert Bump:
  • Mega64 managed to become famous pre-Youtube by including DVDs of their skits in various game magazines.
  • They noted that their parody of the Fine Bros.' React World program managed to blow up even beyond their usual videos because it was on the front page of Reddit. They half-lamented this because they made the video almost completely improvised while shooting their Deadpool skit, so most of them still have makeup on or otherwise look haggard.
  • Their E3 promo videos for Nintendo got big because Nintendo themselves hosted them on their own channels.
  • Mega64 themselves have this effect on a number of the products and movies/videos they talk about. Kickapoo Joy Juice and Sumo Lounge sponsored the podcast and became well known to fans because of it, and the movie Still Waiting has become a huge injoke among the fanbase because of how much Rocco hates it.
  • Their "DRAGON BALL Z IN FIVE MINUTES" videos have consistently gone insanely viral due to the worldwide popularity of Dragon Ball, especially thanks to the new movies and Dragon Ball Super. The crew even talked about how multiple Facebook accounts were actually stealing the video and reuploading it without credit, and many of the comments on the videos are in Spanish.
• Development Hell:
  • Version Three was supposed to be released winter of 2007. Its actual release date wound up being May 28, 2010.
  • Parodied by Rocco's "History of Voltage Vengerz" series. Do NOT ask him when the next episode is.
• Enforced Method Acting: There were times when a prank almost went wrong as the target was about to get violent. Some select examples, according to the cast, considered to be their scary moments and their reactions were genuine:
  • Final Fantasy XII: a man threatened to beat up Shawn believing he was a creep towards his kids.
  • The Stanley Parable: a vagrant woman stole Rocco's phone and threw it near traffic.
• Milestone Celebration:
  • "Sequence Erase" was released in 2014 to commemorate 10 years since the release of Mega64 Version 1, featuring appearances and callbacks to dozens of the various skits they had done over the years, a cameo by Hideo Kojima, and even teased a continuation of the Versions themselves.
  • Parodied on the podcast, where every 100th podcast is usually extremely short and irreverent. Played straight by podcast 500, which was a legitimate reflection and lookback on their years together in honour of the weekly podcast's 10th anniversary and Mega64's 15th. The crew counted down a top 10 fan-suggested favourite podcast moments, and Eric (who had left earlier that year to join Rooster Teeth) called back in to talk with the rest of the crew one more time.
• Missing Episode: Some skits get pulled only to be rereleased later. The Burger Time skit being one example as it originally contained a joke they thought went too far.
• Parody Retcon: Saying that something lame and stupid is "JUST A TRIBUTE!" became one of these after David Ayer claimed the poorly received Jared Leto Joker reveal was just an homage to the Joker's 75th anniversary and not his final design. ^note It WAS his final design.
• Real Song Theme Tune:
  • The Mega64 TV show theme, which is sometimes bootstrapped as the Mega64 theme as a whole, is "Sequence Erase" by The Aquabats!.
  • The podcast starts off with a Cold Open leading up to a theme song. The standard theme song is "The Lonely Horseman", also by The Aquabats!, which is played during the live broadcasts on Twitch, and is usually replaced by Shawn on YouTube uploads by a different song relevant to the episode. Usually one of the crew will jokingly request a certain song to be used as the theme song during the show, and Shawn either actually puts it in or puts a spin on it.
  • The "Cosplayerz" series is set to the inter:sect remix of "Parlez-vous Freezepop?" by Freezepop.
• Screwed by the Network: Sky (UK) were to air versions one and two (presumably to go alongside Gamezville) but welsh'd on it later saying that the asking cost (not that one was set by the Mega64 Team) was too high.
• Throw It In!: While pretty much all the videos are unscripted by their very nature, there are occasional moments Mega64 didn't originally plan on having the video be about, but then include them in the video to tie things together or help guide the punchline. For example they weren't originally sure what the hook of their Metal Gear Solid V video would be... until they bumped into a random pedestrian who looked exactly like Code Talker from the game.
  • In their Castle Crashers skit, a man walked up to them and warned them about a gay pedophiles hanging out at a nearby bathhouse and according to Derrick, he was pointing at an abandoned rail car. This was not scripted but they stayed in character.

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