To me, the SML canon is that prior to the puppet era, these were all home made videos within universe, or documentations of these actual characters. Post puppet era represents a TV show to me, where someone bought the rights to the characters and made a serialised show, hence the new designs, remake videos, and references from characters like Brooklyn Guy that this is all a show (complaints about video quality, breaking character, addressing the audience, etc). I think some videos from the puppet era are based on reality (like Jeffys 20th birthday) but ultimately still just dramatic reinterpretations, kinda like how certain TV show episodes were created with the writers childhood memories in mind

Honestly I felt like the plushies were already being phased out before the lawsuit. Ever since Jeffy showed up Logan started to use less and less Mario characters and more puppets started getting used more. Characters like Brooklyn guy went from minor character to main character.

The moment you mentioned the Dolphin my mind is instantly blown to the point of what the hell happened to him? So nowadays we get generic criminal puppets in episodes instead of the Dolphin.

I really liked steve staleburger at the start, he was kind of a sleezy hollywood talent agent who would sell his soul for some notoriety and now hes just announcer guy

15:53 yep and what’s ironic is Logan made a whole video about Brookie being filler guy and having ALL the crew and including LOGAN HIMSELF admitting that Brooklyn guy is filler guy now

BEEN A LOOOOONG time since we’ve had an eras video, such a very nice welcome to see one on the recent era.

I feel like almost every episode these days just follows 1 of these 5 plot formulas
-Brooklyn Guy is feeling sad for some reason, and goes to Applebee's and the strip club to feel better (which usually makes things worse).
-Jeffy does something to annoy Marvin (which adds nothing to the plot), then the doorbell rings, Marvin answers it, and it's usually Brooklyn Guy or Goodman telling Marvin about something, which starts the actual plot. Usually it's some money or a job that should be life changing, but they fuck it up by the end. (Bonus points if it has Jeffy in the title despite it having little to do with him.)
-A character says something which is interpreted very wrongly by another character. The wrong interpretation escelates more and more until the reveal at the end that it was a simple misconception.
-Junior or Penelope get paranoid that the other one is cheating for no reason and have to do dumb shit to prove they aren't cheating.
-Junior, Joseph and Cody see something on TV and decide to imitate it (and it goes wrong).

Now that's not as bad as every episode using the same exact plot formula, but still, they used to be better than this. I'm tired of these super predictable episodes.

I haven't watched SML in years now. A true fall from grace. Classic / Golden Era forever.

8:27 They SERIOUSLY need to bring back the Dolphin, he was more Funny, and had way More personality than The New Basic Criminals Will Ever Have.

"Since the Jeffy era, some things have changed"

Hahahahaha.......he said some things

I think the issue with this era is that the characters mostly rely on one joke
Junior- is a selfish jerk who hates Cody and is a complete idiot
Joseph- Similar to Junior but is a black stereotype
Cody- is the punching bag
Penelope- girl version of Cody who hates Junior is somehow still her girlfriend
Chef Pee Pee- rarely used and when he is, he’s either another black stereotype or a punching bag
Marvin- the bland punching bag who is just tired of everything
Goodman- he’s rich and treats everyone else like crap
Jeffy- The cash cow, not in videos anymore but is only there to torture Marvin or be stupid
Brooklyn Guy- the filler character, used to be funny but now he’s just, “hey, I know we have an important plot doing on here but let me tell you a random story to pad out the runtime”
Rose- The awful girlfriend, always sticks up for Jeffy and I don’t understand why she and Marvin don’t get a divorce already
Actually I have a good video, why not leave Rose alone with Jeffy so she can see what Marvin has to deal with every video

Notice how every character Lovell plays is just Tyrone

I agree with everything you said.

How the mighty fall......

An eras video! Very nostalgic to have another addition to this series

You know what I noticed? Whenever Logan does a big type of video, like the jeffy birthday vids, or the sports vids, or the fast and furious, ones where he has a different filming location, the writing seems way better than the normal vids. I think that’s because he actually needs to map out the video and not improvise on the spot like he usually does. If you watch the bts of most vids, it’s just Logan coming up with stuff on the spot. He rushes these vids, that’s why they are so many scenes of the cast breaking, because one, he finds it funny, and two, it saves time doing another take.

i dont know when but i hope one day we get some kind of closure on the plush continuity with fully scripted lnes so all the characters act like their old selves. kind of like the big thanksgiving but with every main sml character

I definitely think were in the final stretch but i kind of considered SML to be the end once the plushes were gone. The fact SML has hung on this long is suprising. I know logan said hell hang on til hes 40 but thats about another 10+ years from now i doubt he'll make that long. Lol

14:21 hey dabhdude, have hear that even you say his less bad is because he's no longer a character anymore, they turn him into a plot device remembering that trope.

12:02 I really hate the " If you hate Rose your sexist and hate Elaina" an actress/actor and a character are TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS Elaina isn't the problem with Rose the problem is Logan's writing