I’m not surprised Mortimer steals socks, he absolutely terrorizes you in Sims 1 with sock puppets 😭

The secrets are funny, but I wish they’d mixed in some actual lore for the legendary townies, maybe based secrets off traits, and had the meme ones randomize for other townies and player characters.

I understand why the secrets system is so primitive because having them personalized to every sims actions (not just your played sims but unplayed townies) would've been really complicated. However, I wish a LITTLE more thought had been put into them. Maybe they could've been tied to traits? Like either they'd have secrets opposite to their traits (for example a "good" sim enjoying pranking the toilet) or they'd have secrets that would clue you into their traits before learning them through conversation (like finding out a sim might have the klepto trait through the "collecting socks" secret). And only sims that had those traits would get dialogue for those secrets. That way they might feel a little more personalized and consistent without having to account for any more systemic complexity

James: there is no way to make money for rags to riches in this pack
lilsimsie: MALCOLM LANDGRAB COME HERE

16:52 kayla casually asking what did she do like she didn't just blackmail 3 families😭😭

Kayla as anti-landlord and pro-crime is 10/10

Little Shop of Horrors reference with the cowplant secret is VERY fun I wonder who comes up with the secrets

"You collect socks that aren't yours???" Kayla, you collect graves that aren't yours

Malcolm Landgraab being jealous of the grim reaper sounded for a second like he actually had a crush on him 😂

I love that they made a Little Shop of Horrors reference with the cowplant! Mean Green Mother from Outer Space was one of the songs made for the movie version.

The Landgraabs are always diving in the dumpster in my games so I definitely can see them using other people's trash cans.

tip: you can use the dorms in university to sleep and shower for free. They don't mind and  random sims brings meals that you can eat 😉

And now I cant help but envision Malcolm Landgraab to be the origin of the Mother Plant in Strangerville.

i would love if there were teen-specific secrets so Malcolm Landgraab didnt talk about how something happened "back in the day" at his retail job

that pickle secret is hauntingly similar to Allie Brosh's hot sauce story. she has like a mildly impressive tolerance to spice and ate a bunch of hot sauce by accident as a kid and was fine, so her family started using it as a party trick and eventually everyone started thinking she just really loved hot sauce. this information wasn't revealed until she wrote hyperbole and a half, admitting to this like decades long lie she had been keeping because it felt like it had been too long to tell the truth

I feel like this could have been done better. They are secrets so having multiple sims with the same dark secrets ruins it. I understand they couldn't assign individual ones to everyone but at least "sort" them so they somewhat match the townie. So far this ep is a letdown that had much more potential.

Oh my gosh, there was one time when I was playing Sims and Jeffrey Landgrab kept coming over to my house just to knock over my trash

I love that rosebud still works as well as kaching 😂

The Malcom Landgraab secret is honestly so fitting tho

what I'd love is a mod where you can replace a sim's secret with one you type in yourself (maybe with a drop down menu to choose the secret icon like with clubs). i would get a lot of mileage out of something like that. 90% of the storylines I play out in the sims are in my head anyway 😂