Dodo Airlines is a series of videos made by dannydinosaur using Animal Crossing: New Horizons as its base. The full series can be found here
The plot of the series focuses on two best friends — the human Danny and the duck Bill — who spend most of their time traveling via the titular Dodo Airlines. Hilarity tends to ensue, either from the conversations they have or the shenanigans they get up to on and off the plane.
This series contains examples of:
- Acrophobic Bird: Bill admits that he hates flying on airplanes, despite being a duck. Danny lampshades this.
- Ambiguously Bi: While Danny and Bill have plenty of Ship Tease with each other, they're also shown to be attracted to various women, culminating in Bill hooking up with (and nearly marrying) Miranda.
- Ambiguous Syntax:
- At one point, Bill casually calls Daisy a bitch. Danny immediately assumes he's insulting her, but Bill points out that she's literally a bitch (a female dog). This ends up becoming a running gag.
- Danny's grandma sent him a message about how her back pain was killing her. Danny somehow interpreted this as her actually dying.
- And the Adventure Continues: The last episode ends with Danny and Bill making plans to fly again with Ed.
- The Alcoholic:
- Danny loves his alcohol, from wanting free champagne on his flight to hitting up every bar he comes across.
- The plane's pilot, Scoot, is also this, though we don't see as much of him drinking as we do Danny.
- Black Comedy:
- Bill brings up his and Danny's part-time babysitting gig, and we see them watching TV and completely ignoring the never-seen baby. We then learn that the baby was apparently never found.
- Their time as part-time heart surgeons was even worse; we see them cutting open a cake as Quillson flatlines behind them.
- Brick Joke: The first episode sees Danny and Bill go on a plane to Winnipeg. The last episode sees them make plans to fly there again (despite being banned from returning).
- Butt-Monkey: Ed gets no respect from Danny whatsoever.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Danny comes off as this plenty of times (for example, assuming that he gets free champagne in economy class despite already being told he doesn't). Bill is this to a lesser extent, but he mostly serves as Danny's Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder.
- Dance Party Ending: The last episode ends with the cast dancing to Metro Station's "Shake It".
- Didn't Think This Through: Danny, while working as a telemarketer, claims that the vitamins he's selling could theoretically give someone superpowers. This move gets him and Bill fired, and the company is sued for false advertising.
- Dissimile: Bill tries to compare his marriage to Miranda to various Shakespeare plays, but Danny is quick to point out all the ones he mentions end in tragedy.
- Driven to Suicide: Played for Laughs; after sitting next to Ed for an entire flight, Danny tells Bill he's close to taking his (hypothetical) cyanide pill.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: Bill proposes to Miranda after three weeks. Danny thinks it's a terrible idea, and sure enough, the wedding ends up cancelled when the two ducks realize they don't know each other well enough to make that call.
- The "Fun" in "Funeral": Danny crashes a funeral under the impression that it's his grandmother's (she's not even dead), then steals the grieving husband's Uber ride afterwards. This leads to him and Bill getting banned from Winnipeg.
- Gold Digger: When Danny learns that Miranda left Bill because he lied about having a lot of money, he asks if she was this. Bill claims that she just hates liars.
- Hallucinations: In episode two, Bill briefly hallucinates that Tom Nook is right outside the plane window.
- Infomercial: Danny ends up starring in one for a vacuum cleaner. He considers himself a potential Hollywood star for a time afterwards.
- In Medias Res: We learn how Danny and Bill met each other in the second-to-last episode.
- I Know Mortal Kombat: When Daisy briefly takes over flying the plane, it's implied by her dialogue that most of her plane-fighting experience comes from aerial dogfight (heh) media.
- Lame Pun Reaction: After discussing Miranda's apparent love of pasta, Danny tells Bill he needs to go pee. Bill sends him off with a "Pasta la Vista"; Danny immediately declares that Bill is dead to him.
- Love at First Sight: Bill and Miranda seem to click the moment they meet each other.
- Mistaken for Terrorist:
- Downplayed; Danny loudly says that his trip to Winnipeg is going to be "the bomb" and "explosive", but the most he gets is shocked reactions from everyone on the plane and Bill calling him out on it.
- It happens again in episode 5; Danny loudly compares Bill's arms to guns while trying to hype him up for Miranda.
- Only Sane Man: Danny is the only person who thinks Bill marrying someone he's known for only three weeks is a bad idea.
- Persona Non Grata: Danny and Bill get banned from Winnipeg after crashing a funeral.
- Plane Awful Flight: Pretty much all of Danny and Bill's flights tend to end badly, from the plane hitting turbulence while one of them's in the bathroom to the pilot briefly letting a stewardess with no experience fly the plane.
- Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Danny and Bill have a brief one in the last episode after arguing about Bill's wedding plans. They make up in the end.
- Recurring Extra: The background characters in each episode are mainly the same villagers used over and over again.
- Runaway Bride: Miranda ditches Bill at the altar when she finds out he's not rich.
- Running Gag:
- Danny getting told something along the lines of "Sir, you should leave."
- Danny and Bill's disastrous attempts at doing part-time jobs.
- Danny or Bill saying (about the other) "He's lucky I love him."
- Seinfeldian Conversation: Some of Danny and Bill's conversations veer into this territory.
- Ship Tease: There's plenty of implications throughout the series that Danny and Bill are a little more than just friends. The season 1 finale sees them nearly kiss.
- Shout-Out:
- In episode 3, Bill has a "flashback" that directly references the "throw me the idol, I'll throw you the whip" scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- The songs Ed listens to in episode 5 are Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" and B.o.B's "Airplanes".
- Danny calls his plan to stop Bill's proposal to Miranda "Operation Kill Bill...'s wedding dreams. The famous Ironside theme is even played when Bill's about to propose.
- Another "flashback" is based on The Lord of the Rings.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Danny really hates the Blue Horse Man (Ed). It's entirely one-sided, however.
- Sunglasses at Night: Danny wears sunglasses in the plane in episode 6. It's justified due to the hangover he's suffering.
- Super Window Jump: Danny's favored method of escaping his landlords. Eventually, Bill wonders why he bothers getting the window replaced.
- Take Our Word for It: Whatever happens in the bathroom when the plane hits turbulence while Danny's there. All we get is Danny saying that "it's everywhere" and advising Bill not to go in there for the rest of the flight.
- Take That!:
- "You think Kylie Jenner's on this flight?" "I don’t want Kylie Jenner to be on this flight."
- Winnipeg gets called "the Buffalo, New York of Canada".
- Danny complains about how they play Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" at every wedding reception, and decides to get himself drunk before that happens.
- While they dance at the latter's wedding reception, Danny mentions to Bill that he needs to catch up with Game of Thrones and that he's up to season 8. Bill tells him not to finish it.
- Wedding Smashers: A drunk Danny shows up at Bill's sister's wedding and immediately announces himself:"What's up, sluts! Who wants tequila shots?!"
- Why Waste a Wedding?: When Bill and Miranda's wedding is called off, Scoot tries to take advantage of it to ask Audie to marry him right then. She refuses.
