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So this is on basically Wikipedia.
And already off the bat, it says at the top, this article may misquote or misrepresent
many of its sources.
So take it with a grain of salt.
Mostly because a lot of media doesn't share their or companies don't share their revenue
like publicly that much.
Yeah.
So some of these could be estimations.
Well, mostly now with streaming and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Those places are not going to no one knows how much Netflix is making.
Not really.
Probably not much to be honest anymore.
You fucking password stealing fucks.
All right.
So we're going to start from the bottom and then go to the top, you know, start from the
bottom.
Now we're here.
So at the very bottom, it is NBA Jam.
Okay, so I should explain I'm going to do what the franchise is the year of inception.
So whenever whenever it came out, a total revenue it made and then revenue breakdown,
like where it made its money.
And then I'm going to do its original medium.
Right, like what it originally started as.
So yeah, NBA Jam came out in 1993.
Total revenue, two billion dollars.
All from video games.
Like it was just it was the it was the game before 2K took over.
So yeah, video games.
You said NBA would like M as in Mike?
Yeah, like NBA basketball stuff.
NBA or M?
NBA.
Okay.
So you confuse me already.
How did I I'm saying NBA.
M and NBA.
All right.
So man, that's a lot of revenue for a basketball series.
That's not too surprising that I barely because like 2K is not even on this list.
Really?
Yeah.
So what the hell happened?
Yeah, that is surprising.
Yes.
Mostly with all their pay to win stuff and their loot boxes.
Go figure.
All right.
So next we got Yo K Watch came out in 2013.
Also two billion dollars.
Merchandise sales of two billion dollars.
It's a video game.
I've never heard of it.
So I guess I thought it was Beyblade stuff.
I guess I have heard of it.
I've never looked into it.
Right.
It just like it goes by my game page when I'm looking through buy new games.
Yeah.
On PlayStation.
I don't really think about it.
Yeah.
But I haven't even heard of it.
Yeah.
Two billion dollars.
Jesus Christ.
I think it's a Lego.
1995.
Also two billion dollars.
I think they kind of generalize.
Yeah.
Unless it hits a higher bracket, it's all around the same price.
Right.
Video games.
It was they started as a video game.
Yeah.
Lego.
1995.
Red looked it up.
It's let me see.
Lego.
Fun to build on the fucking Sega Pico.
So first game.
So there you go.
Lego started as a video game and now it's fucking Lego.
Next up is the everyone knows this one.
Guitar Hero.
2005.
When it took over the fucking world.
Two billion dollars as well.
It started as a video game.
Yeah.
I was in high school.
Shit.
Man.
Lego.
Fucking Guitar Hero.
Everyone played Guitar Hero and they thought they were just a shit after that.
Well look, they made fun of it on South Park.
They made fun on South Park, you know you made it.
Well the funny thing is that most people that played Guitar Hero, they can never play actual
guitar.
Yeah.
I mean like everyone thought they could play guitar after that.
Except my poor ass.
My cousins would have the guitar and I had to use the controller.
I never got to use the guitar.
Fuck me, huh?
Alright next up is the Incredibles.
2004.
Box office, 1.874 billion.
DVD and Blu-ray sales, 127 million.
Animated movie.
Now are these prices adjusted?
They are.
I have no idea.
That's what I said.
Like risk-clutter, risk-resistant presented.
Because that sounds like they'd all be adjusted prices for like today's currency.
Like with inflation and stuff.
I guess that would make sense, yeah.
I guess it would have to be.
Yeah.
Or else it wouldn't be that high.
That's what I was thinking.
So let's go with that they're adjusted.
Well I guess I could also ask are they including everything including?
That's what I was wondering.
Like merchandise and toys and video games.
It doesn't say.
That's why it's a little highly misquoted.
So they're going by generalization.
Or at least with the data that they have.
So next up is Ghostbusters.
2.02 billion dollars.
Yeah I would have thought that would have been higher.
Merchandise sales at a billion dollars.
Box office at 943 million.
Whole media at 82 million.
And it started as a film.
Yeah.
Man that's wild.
The what the 1980s?
1984 yeah.
After that is Men in Black.
1990.
2.02 billion dollars.
This was before Will Smith was smacking people like Shug Knight.
Smacking people like Tupac.
Box office was 1.94 billion.
DVD and Blu-ray sells 83 million.
Started as a comic book.
All the way back in 1990 yeah.
But do you know what comic book series?
Yeah Men in Black.
No no I mean like what publisher?
Yeah.
Where you guys at?
Because what was it Top Cow or something like that?
No it started.
The fuck is it?
It was published by.
I should have wrote this shit down instead of going through fucking Wikipedia.
I know it's like a CEDA or something.
Oh really?
A CDO?
Where the fuck is it?
I read it the other day.
Oh here we go I gotta go to the actual comic book.
Yeah Air Cell Comics.
They were bought out by Malibu Comics.
Oh good do you remember Malibu Comics?
I do.
Yeah.
Because I had a whenever I was collecting them a long time ago I had the Malibu ones.
Completely separate though from everything else because they were like even worse series
like Image at the time.
God dang.
Like Image at least had some fairly interesting characters like Juan and stuff like that.
Yeah so Malibu bought Men in Black because Air Cell did the first series run.
Malibu then did their other second and the second one's what I guess got sold to the
movie.
Well they made bank.
Yeah.
You should have kept the piece of that.
Yeah.
Always keep a piece of your property that's what I say.
The way Sony does with Spider-Man.
Yeah they will never let that go.
Alright next up is the Care Bears.
Oh god.
$2.03 billion dollars.
Good lord.
Retail sales $2 billion dollars.
Box office $34 million.
It started as a greeting card.
Yeah it started as a fucking greeting card for American greetings.
Oh my gosh.
Go figure.
I did not know that.
No neither did I.
I'm telling you somebody's gonna surprise you.
That is a little bit surprising.
Next up Indiana Jones.
1981 $2.38 billion dollars.
Box office of $1.988 billion.
I guess you're right it did have to be inflated.
There was no way they had a billion dollars back in the day.
Is that including every Indiana Jones movie?
I guess so.
But that's another thing.
Like there's comic books, there's games, there's books.
So I don't know what they're adding but this is basically their assumption.
Like a general.
Yeah.
As close as they can get with the available information.
So they've got box office $1.988 billion.
Because if it's $1.988 billion for box office alone.
It's almost $2 billion.
I would assume that it's probably every Indiana Jones film together.
And it probably is not adjusted for inflation.
Oh maybe.
Because how many Indiana Jones films are there?
Four.
Is it four or five?
Four.
Yeah four and then that new one coming out would be the fifth one.
Okay.
Where is that?
60?
85 years old?
That's close to that.
They do have DVD and Blu-Rays of $396 million so they bought the hell out of this.
Yeah.
It became a huge thing for nerds.
So hey man I love Indiana Jones.
I almost maybe want to be an archaeologist.
Then I found out I don't get to fight Nazis and stuff.
So I'll be like oh never mind then.
You won't have your face melted off with the arc of truth?
No I'm going to close my eyes and not look like he told me to.
Or excuse me the arc of the covenant.
Alright next up is Wings Club 2004.
Oh badly I know what this is.
I had to look it up.
I had no idea.
$2.5 billion.
Good god.
Retail sales of $2.5 billion.
It's an animated series.
Yeah.
So there you go.
Good lord.
Now wait for the next one.
The Powerful Girls 1998.
$2.52 billion.
Retail sales of $2.5 billion but only box of $16.4 million.
And I thought it was an animated series.
On Cartoon Network?
Yeah.
That was the OG show.
Yeah.
It was the Powerful Girls.
Next up we got Astro Boy 1952.
$3 billion.
Merchandise sales of $3 billion.
Box office of $42 million and DVD sales of $10.2 million.
Started as a manga.
Out of Japan yep.
I didn't know it was that old though.
I knew where it was from but I didn't know it was from 1952.
Yeah.
Good lord.
Oh.
It's going to wrap forever.
What?
The name of it was Atomic Boy right?
Astro Boy.
I was thinking of a totally different joke that would have been funnier.
Alright.
Next up is Terminator 1984.
$3 billion.
Most of it from box office.
$2.074 billion.
DVD of Blue Resoles of $136 million.
That's not too.
So the rest of it is probably like action figures and stuff?
Next one is uh.
Oh yeah I guess that's true like the collectibles and whatnot.
Next up is Hamtaro 1997.
$3.02 billion.
Good god that's a lot of money.
Retail sales of $3 billion and box office of $25 million.
Started as a manga.
You know Hamtaro?
Yeah.
The little hamster.
Hamtaro when we worked together is much better.
My best friend.
I used to love that show as a kid.
I even had a Game Boy Color game of Hamtaro that I stole from my sister.
I never gave it back.
Might actually be worth something now you never know.
Oh I don't really hold it for value.
If I like something I'll just keep it.
It had to be like some desperate like a medical procedure right for an animal.
Yeah.
Or a family member.
That's when I would sell something valuable.
Alright so next is Skylanders 2011.
$3.5 billion.
Is it the video game?
No it's yeah.
It's those little fucking collectible toys.
Yeah.
$3.5 billion.
Good gosh.
Licensed merchandise $1.8 billion.
It's a video game.
Yeah that's kind of what I thought.
I figured it would be from those little toys.
Fucking unbelievable.
And are they even around anymore?
Yeah because there's $3 billion.
No I get that but like I haven't.
Do you see them?
That's what I don't understand.
If this is such a high revenue where is this stuff selling?
Right.
It's selling somewhere.
I mean it doesn't mean wrong like GameStop and stuff like that I'm sure.
Probably.
But I don't know I just don't see it like advertised really.
I guess like Game of Call of Duty like it's just there but like it's generating billions
of dollars probably.
Yeah.
They don't need that to advertise anymore.
Well I remember whenever it first came out they were like everywhere.
They were in Target, Wal-Mart, GameStop everywhere.
Like you couldn't get anywhere by a game section without seeing them.
Yeah you're right.
Now I don't really see them as much anymore.
I guess they made their money and they moved on.
So next up is GI Joe 1967.
$3.95 billion.
The original hero.
Yeah merchandise sales of $3.105 billion.
Box office of $712 million.
And they've made a lot of movies though so that really doesn't count.
Oh yeah they have.
DVD and Blue Rails of $134 million.
Started as a comic book.
That's wild.
Yeah and then it became the main action figure of basically all time.
Everybody knows what GI Joe is.
GI Joe.
Next up we got Gran Turismo 1997.
$4 billion just from a video game.
Yeah do you remember what was so special about it?
No actually.
No?
It was one of the few games that you could actually modify the cars extremely detailed.
So you could actually go and like Need for Speed where Need for Speed you'd do like customization things on your cars.
To where it'd be like oh an exhaust and then the exhaust.
I guess that would be really appealing.
Well Gran Turismo went deep into it to where things would burn out over time and stuff as you're racing.
So it actually added more difficulty to it.
Little level of customization and level leveling up and whatnot.
It also taught you more mechanical knowledge.
So you actually had to know like for speed and grip.
So like if you didn't have the right kind of tires with the right kind of brakes it wouldn't work that great.
That's wild.
Yep.
No wonder it's got $4 billion.
Yep.
Alright next up is Strawberry Shortcake.
1979 $4 billion.
Retail sales of $4 billion and DVD sale of $2.6 million.
Started as a greeting card.
A greeting card?
Yeah.
Got another greeting card.
Care Bears and Now?
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Next up Mission Impossible all the way from 1966.
Used to be a show before the Tom Cruise movies.
Really?
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
$4 billion.
Box office $3.578 billion.
Yeah.
DVD and Blu-ray sells at $180 million.
Television series.
Yeah.
Huh.
Next up we got.
I only knew the Tom Cruise one.
Yeah me too.
Never go down to rabbit hole people please.
You'll be up till 5 in the morning.
Next up is The Hunger Games.
Oh they did more than Mission Impossible?
Yeah 2008 $4.05 billion.
Box office of $2.968 billion.
DVD and Blu-ray of $483 million.
Started as a novel.
They don't even show novel sales up here.
Yeah.
Oh don't worry.
We're basically getting close to The Hunger Games so we'll be living that reality soon.
That's cool.
Guess we'll find out.
We're gonna have to have a Katniss.
I'll be Katniss.
I've got a long hair.
She said how much alone is funny as shit.
Cause I'm bald at the top.
Yeah my hair doesn't grow at the top so I'd just be a long ponytail in the back of my
head.
I look like a big ass.
Probably.
Alright next we got Minecraft.
2009.
I thought it'd be higher.
Yeah I would think it'd be higher.
$4.3 million or billion sorry.
The merchandise sells at $4.328 billion.
Video game.
Next up is Twilight.
Yeah I know.
2005.
$5.31 billion.
Box office of $3.34 billion.
DVD and Blu-ray of $1 billion.
Oh my fucking god.
Yeah they popped off.
Fuck out of Twilight.
It started as a novel.
Yeah do that.
I'm just giving the original medium.
I'm just saying I knew that cause I remember being in school.
You could not get away from it.
Oh my god every girl had a copy of the damn book.
It was like the one time that they actually fucking became literate.
People don't read anymore go figure.
Unless you give them a Twilight book.
Then they will.
Next is Common Kamen Rider.
Oh Common Rider.
You know it?
Yeah.
I had no idea what it was.
It's almost like Power Rangers.
$4.41 billion.
Good god I didn't know it was going to be that high.
Yeah.
Wait till you get to one that I promise you.
You'll be like what?
Licensed merchandise of $4.052 billion.
Box office of $361 million.
Television series.
Yeah and they sold a lot of action figures and stuff like that too.
And figures.
Yeah merchandise is fucking through the roof.
Yeah.
Next up is Seinfeld.
1989.
$4.56 billion.
TV revenue $4.06 billion.
And TV streaming $500 million.
Fucking Jerry Seinfeld is just raking in money.
He's like one of the first like I think he's like the first comedian that broke a billion dollars.
Really?
I think so yeah.
He's worth a billion dollars.
I mean everybody knows what Seinfeld is.
Like everybody knows George Costanza.
Can't stand ya.
Alright next up we got Beyblade.
Yeah.
1999.
$4.61 billion.
How did they make their money?
Nate Manz Beyblade.
You gotta get your parts to win.
Merchant night sales of $4.6 billion and box office of $9 million.
Started as a manga.
I was kind of surprised about that one.
I would have figured that the manga would have started like came after the show.
The show yeah that's what I thought.
Next up is a personal favorite of mine.
Scooby Doo.
1969.
$4.69 billion.
They've made a ton.
Yeah retail sales of $4.15 million.
Box office of $483.4 million.
DVD and blu-ray sales of $58 million.
Not that much DVD sales.
But it's fucking Scooby Doo.
Yeah.
Like if you don't like Velma just wait two years there will be another Scooby Doo show.
I promise you.
It will never end.
If it's making four million dollars there will be another Scooby Doo.
I promise you.
There will be another one.
Next up is oh here we go.
Next up is My Little Pony.
1984.
That actually does not surprise me considering there's a bunch of neck beard dudes.
Bronies.
Yeah.
$4.99 billion.
Retail sales of $4.916 billion.
Box office of $67.3 million.
DVD and blu-ray sales of $4.3 million.
Animated cartoon.
The ride wasn't a fucking reading cartoon.
God.
But that's who's keeping that afloat.
It isn't little girls keeping it afloat at this point.
It's what they would consider the whales of nerddom that are like that little niche market
of bronies.
And just keep them alive.
Man this next one is wild.
Fucking Bob the Builder.
1998.
$5 billion.
Retail sales of $5 billion.
Yeah.
Yes he can.
He can.
I'm Bob the Builder.
I'm rich as fuck.
Can he build it?
Yes he can.
For the fucking empire of money.
I'm rich.
Right.
Next one is The Sims.
It's about Minecraft?
Wow.
Yeah.
$5 billion.
All video games.
Next up above that is Mortal Kombat.
1992.
$506 billion.
Video games of $4.054 billion.
Box office of $176 million.
And DVD and blu-ray sales of $2.9 million.
Yeah.
They're not selling many DVDs compared to the video games.
Yeah.
Next up is Gundam.
1979.
Yeah I kind of figured that one.
$5.1 billion.
Retail sales of $5 billion.
And anime box office of $141 million.
Yeah.
Started as an anime series not a manga.
Have you seen that gigantic Gundam that's in Japan?
Oh the one that they made.
I heard of that.
Yeah.
It's a two and a half stories I think.
God dang.
Yeah.
It's a two and a half stories I think.
God dang.
Yeah.
It's a two and a half stories I think.
God dang.
Yeah.
And it's part of their, they have a show where you can watch it.
Watch someone attack it right and then you find out it's real.
Like oh shit.
See I had a joke with a friend that, because he loves building the Gundams and stuff like
that.
Like I told him I said, hey you know everybody's worried about what the US military and the
Chinese military has.
Now watch fucking Japan has actual Gundams flying around.
Gundams just tearing apart everybody.
We're worried about a nuclear missile and they fucking got Gundams.
That'd be wild.
They never told anybody what they needed.
That's what I was, we were talking about.
It's like they built this one out there on the outside so that way you'd think it's just
like an amusement park attraction.
It's just like the first line of defense.
Alright next we got Friends.
1994.
Yeah I can see that every fucking woman loves it.
$5.22 billion.
TV syndication was $3.5 billion.
TV advertising is $1 billion.
TV streaming $5.55 million.
And then box office is $445,000.
I don't know.
I guess they had a limited release like the series finale on the theaters or something.
But man it is syndication.
The actors, if they got some royalties, which they obviously do, they're set.
They could have just retired.
Have you seen the way some of them look now?
Oh my god.
You can tell some of them got Botox early in their careers and stuff like that.
They look frightening now.
I mean except for Jennifer Aniston.
Some people don't like the age I guess.
But Jennifer Aniston, she looks about the same as she always has.
Pretty much.
And then the dude that played Joey Triviani.
Yeah he looks the same but with gray hair.
He looks the exact same.
He just got gray hair that's it.
Nothing really changed.
Alright next we got Avatar.
2009.
$5.78 billion.
Mostly from box office.
Yeah.
Box office was $5.2 billion.
DVD and Blu-ray sells at $429 million.
Merchandise sells at $153 million.
So merchandise actually surprises me.
So I didn't know they had like merchandise like that.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
Next up is Shrek.
1990 yeah.
$5.8 billion.
They did make a bunch of sheds so yeah.
Box office was $3.547 billion.
Home entertainment $1.922 billion.
Good god.
Merchandise sells at $279 million.
And a Broadway musical for $46 million.
A Broadway musical?
Yeah.
It started as a picture book.
Yeah that makes sense but.
Next up I think we have the oldest property on here.
Middle Earth.
Lord of the Rings.
1937.
$5.8 billion.
Box office is $5.896 billion.
Started as a novel.
Good old J.R.R.
Can I say his name?
J.R.R.R.
This one.
This next one is wild.
The Phantom of the Opera.
1986.
$6.15 billion.
Box office $155 million.
Musical theater $6 billion.
Look.
Just from a musical.
Well.
Good Jesus.
They must be packing the fucking rafters to watch this stuff.
Is it equality or quantity?
I don't know.
It just says it's a musical theater.
I guess it's a powerful play.
Not really but.
I don't know.
Next up tonight is Ice Age.
2002.
That's above Shrek?
Yeah $6.42 billion.
Box office is $2.9 billion.
Retail sales is $1.3 billion.
Home entertainment $3.47 million.
Animated film.
They're shocking.
Here's one right here.
DC extended universe.
2013 $6.48 billion.
Box office is $5.276 billion.
Home video sales $704 million.
Merchandise sales $500 million.
They're popular but they just can't get their cohesive universe together.
Yeah.
Next up is Halo.
Oh shit.
This is all video game sales.
2001.
$6.5 billion.
Gaming consoles $5 billion.
Home video merchandise $1.5 billion.
Because they're selling toys too.
Or like the what do you call it?
Special edition things that go along with the Xboxes and stuff like that.
Do you want extra content?
You give us an extra $30.
Yeah.
Next up we got the Big Bang Theory.
2007.
How the hell does that beat out some of these others?
$6.57 billion.
TV advertising $3.57 billion.
TV streaming $2 billion.
TV syndication $1 billion.
Fuck.
That is ridiculous.
Yeah wait till you get to this next one.
Not this next one but the one above it.
Superman 1938.
This is the oldest property because the old one was 1937.
Never mind.
By one year?
Yeah it's ahead by one year.
So it's still Lord of the Rings.
$6.9 billion.
That makes sense.
Retail sales $4.032 billion.
Box office $2.553 billion.
DVD and Blu-ray $356 million.
Comic book was its original medium.
Yep.
Next up.
The OG of all.
Yeah.
Next up.
Paw Patrol.
2013.
$7 billion.
Retail sales of $7 billion.
Seriously?
Yeah.
Alright.
Next one is Kumamon.
2010.
$7.17 billion.
Retail sales of $7.1 billion.
Anime box office $65 million.
It's a cartoon.
It is.
If this is the one I was talking about.
It's a mascot.
Made by a prefecture of Japan.
Oh yeah yeah yeah.
I know what you're talking about now.
The bear?
Yeah.
It's a fucking mascot.
Where did it get $7 billion from?
Yep.
They have another mascot.
I'm sure you've seen videos of it.
It's a mascot for one of those prefectures in Japan.
Where it plays the drums.
I know one that's a fucking psycho.
That beats up everybody.
Yeah.
You know there's one for that too.
Okay.
I just don't understand where they got $7 billion from.
Well.
I don't know.
Well there is money laundering so that's one thing.
Maybe.
That's the only thing I can think of.
Next up is Mario.
1981.
$7.2 billion.
My boy.
He's 5'2 so we're the same height.
He's my spirit animal I guess I should say.
$7.2 billion in video games.
A box office $38 million.
I guess the new one has to come out yet so maybe it'll be adjusted.
Yeah it'd have to either go up.
You'd think it'd have to go up.
Well I don't know.
I think they'll watch it.
It may not catch fire though.
That's true.
I mean how many Mario games are there that are still selling?
Mario Kart is still just as popular today as it was when it first came out.
Yeah I never got into Mario Kart.
I like Mario Party more.
But it should ruin a lot of friendships.
Alright next up is Fast and Furious.
2001.
Did we do this for the family?
Yeah $7.2 billion.
You gotta make that money for the family.
For the family.
Box office is $6.612 billion and home entertainment is $5.594 million.
The very first film.
Next up is Jurassic Park.
1990.
$7.28 billion.
Box office was $4.892 billion.
That makes sense because these new ones really hit off.
Yeah.
Merchandise sells at $1.706 billion.
And home video sells at $6.78 billion.
Started the novel.
By Michael Cretan.
Back in 1990.
Yeah I remember the novel but I didn't know it started with the novel.
I thought it was a movie first.
Yeah me too.
When I saw the novel I was like oh they made up Knock Off.
Right.
But I guess not.
Next up is Dura Man.
Dura Man?
You ever heard of that?
It is.
Let me read you the premise to this.
Thin abscess.
Nobito Nobi is a 10 year old Japanese school boy who is kind hearted and honest.
But also lazy, unlucky, weak, gets bad grades and is bad at sports.
One day a robot cat from the 22nd century named Dura Man is sent back to the past by Nobito's future grandchild.
So washing Nobi to take care of Nobito so that his descendants can have a better life.
Huh.
Yeah.
That's a weird premise Fisher.
Yeah well it's a fucking $7.29 billion premise.
Licensed merchandise is $5.592 billion and box office anime or box anime box office $1.7 billion.
Fuck.
It started as a man.
I keep saying fuck because I can't even figure out how.
Believe me yes I know.
I was like oh my Jesus.
Next one is Ultra Series with Ultraman.
Yeah I remember Ultraman.
1966 $7.4 billion.
He actually fought Godzilla in one movie.
Did he?
Yeah.
Damn.
I had a game with him that I could not fucking beat the first boss on.
I was like man this game is fucking horribly made.
Merchandise sells at $7.4 billion and so it started as a television series.
Yeah.
Next up is Ben 10.
Really?
Yeah 2005 $7.8 billion.
That beat out every other one of these?
Yeah $7.85 billion.
So retail sales was $7.853 billion in an anime series.
To be fair whenever I was in elementary school it was extremely popular.
Yeah it was fucking Ben 10.
Yeah.
Ben Tinneman isn't that his name?
Ben yeah Tennyson or something.
Ben Tennyson or Ben Tinneman?
Something.
Next up is Pirates of the Caribbean 2003.
Yeah I've seen this one coming.
$7.9 billion.
Box office of $4.52 billion.
Home entertainment of $1.781 billion.
Really?
I guess they rather watching it home.
Merchandise sells at $1.6 billion.
Now that's surprising.
What merchandise?
I guess like swords and hats and stuff.
I don't know.
I don't know where this merchandise comes from.
I've never seen that.
I haven't either.
I don't know.
I don't understand.
It's throwing me off.
This one's fucking.
I was like okay I know it's part of the culture right?
American culture.
It's a backbone.
Yeah.
But I didn't know it was this fucking successful.
The Simpsons 1987.
Wait hang on.
8.3?
8.6.
Fuck.
Merchandise sells at $8.073 billion.
Box office of $536 million.
They added video games to this one.
Video games at $41 million.
Yeah I didn't think it would be too high up on there for video games.
But I mean it's fucking.
They're making money somewhere.
The syndication of it?
Next up, Power Rangers.
Yeah I see.
$8.75 million.
Licensed merchandise $8.47 billion.
DVD and Blu-ray $15 million.
Box office $218.4 million.
Television series.
Yep.
They're making a new one.
I've seen that.
Don't they kill off the Yellow Ranger?
Yeah.
In the trailer?
Yeah but she really did die.
Oh she did?
Yeah she died a long time ago.
Oh fuck I had no idea.
Yeah where it's like her daughter in the new one or something like that.
That's sweet.
But yeah she died a long time ago.
And I can't remember what it was but.
Man.
Well our condolences to the family.
With that and then did you ever see how in the early 90s they had those live shows for Power Rangers?
No.
Where they had like two arena shows where they had what's his name?
The guy that plays Jason.
I cannot remember his name at the moment.
It's called Jason.
I don't know where else we did.
The guy that played Jason basically.
They were doing an interview and he was saying how they jumped off like a one story thing to do front flips off of it and stuff.
And they didn't know that he was going to do that like in reality.
But he went ahead and did it.
Not bad.
Man Power Rangers.
Apparently they sold the fuck out of that place where it was on news stations and everything when it first started.
Explains the money then.
Yes it does.
Next up is Demon Slayer.
Yeah I've seen this coming.
2016 it's pretty young actually.
8.74 billion.
But that shit caught fire.
Yeah retail sales 8.7 billion.
Started as a manga.
Next up is something called Pretty Cure.
Glitter Force.
2004 8.78 billion dollars.
Never heard of that.
Let me go to it real quick.
Let me look this up.
Each series focuses on a group of teenage girls who are granted special items that allow them to transform into legendary warriors known as the Pretty Cure.
It's stupid as damn premise.
And yet somehow it's 8.78 billion dollars.
Man I wish I could come up with something like that.
I wonder if it was something that was sold at like Toys R Us or something back in the day.
Merchandise sells at 8.551 billion.
It's probably makeup and shit.
Well that's a no. It's an animated series.
That doesn't mean they can't sell makeup with it.
I guess that's true.
You know like here's the glitter nail polish and shit.
An animated box office of 161 million and video games of 67.4 million.
Who the fuck is buying a video game based on this?
I don't know.
One of my favorite YouTubers is Game Grumps and they play everything.
I'll bet you they probably played it.
Next up is Sesame Street.
The Muppets.
1955 9.19 billion dollars.
I've seen that. I could see that.
Merchandise sells at 8.539 billion.
Box office of 478 million.
TV licensing 96 million.
DVD and Blu-ray sales 71 million.
Television series.
Next up we got Angry Birds.
2009 9.19 billion.
All those middle-aged women playing on their phones.
Man when this game came out everyone lost their damn minds.
And you haven't heard a fucking word about it since.
And you don't need to because they're fucking rich.
Merchandise sells at 8.297 billion.
Box office 503 million.
Video games of three.
This is surprising.
Video games at three six two million dollars.
That's where they made.
That's how it started.
What did you say the first thing was?
Merchandise. 8.297 billion.
Do they classify merchandise though as mobile games?
No because it's like a different bracket.
No I get that they're video games but do they consider the merchandise section?
Oh no. It's like a little slot underneath if it was like a part of it.
It's not like a bullet point of its own thing I guess.
I was going to say what merchandise are they selling?
Because. Flushies probably.
Maybe.
I feel like Beanie Babies.
DVD and Blu-ray sells 35 million.
Video game. Man. Quite the video game.
Next up is Despicable Me. Minions.
2010.
How the hell does that beat?
9.31 billion.
Or billion sorry.
How is that ahead of Jurassic Park?
I don't know.
Merchandise sells 3.95 billion.
Box office 4.62 billion.
DVD and Blu-ray sells only seven.
Well seven two three million. That's still a lot.
Yeah.
Next up is something called Thomas and Friends.
Thomas and Friends?
Yeah.
1945. 9.48 billion.
Retail sells 9.47 billion.
No 9.457 billion.
And only box office 20 million.
Started as a book.
Yeah I remember. I had those as a kid.
Whenever I was like in like before kindergarten and stuff I had those books.
Oh yeah Thomas and Friends.
And then they used to have the show on all the time where it had the freaky faces on the trains.
With Mr. Conductor.
They were like almost like life-sized trains it seemed like.
Yeah but they were all miniatures.
Yeah I think so.
Because they had the little characters for like Mr. Conductor.
God what a weird show.
It's sad that I remember this but.
Next up is Monster Strike. It's a mobile game.
2013. 10 billion dollars.
Good. God they raked in the money on that.
Yeah they bought the hell out of this game. I think my cousin's playing it actually.
Next is going to be Raid Shadow Legends.
Next is Rilakkuma.
Rilakkuma. 2003.
It is...
A little teddy bear.
Ah okay yeah. Yeah I've seen that before.
Yeah.
It uh 10 billion dollars.
All from merchandise sales. Started as a manga actually.
Yeah I could tell by the... because of the type of bear it is.
Yeah.
Next up is Star Trek. 1966.
10.6 billion. It's still going too.
Yeah.
10.6 billion dollars. Retail sales of 4.753 billion.
TV revenue of 2.3 billion.
Box office 2.266 billion.
VHS sales 1 billion dollars.
Gosh.
DVD and Blu-ray 3.26 million.
Started as a television series.
Yeah.
There's Trekkies out there so we know.
Yeah. We know they exist.
Next up is Street Fighter.
1987. 10.8 billion dollars.
Box office and home video 211 million.
Video game 10.61 billion.
Yeah. Yeah.
Man they're still making the fuck out of
video Street Fighter.
Here's what started the rabbit hole.
I have only two.
Very favorite anime.
Or manga.
Case closed.
And this one.
One Piece. 1997.
11.8 billion dollars.
Fuck.
Merchandise sales of 5.514 billion.
Video games of 2.888 billion.
Home entertainment 2.865 billion.
Anime box office 528 million.
Started as a manga.
This bastard caused the fucking rabbit hole for me.
I went to the page to look up some information.
Yeah.
And it led like it's the highest
of the highest.
And it led like it's the highest
the list it's on the list of highest
manga sales of all time.
So it's number one.
Number two is some shit I've never heard of.
And number three is my second favorite case
closed. Detective Conan.
Yeah. So my two favorite.
Right now for Detective Conan they have a couple
of spin offs too.
Do they? On Netflix.
Check that out.
What did you say tonight?
Alright.
Fuck.
Next one.
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Hahaha.
1994.
11.9 billion dollars.
You evil sons of bitches.
They beat out your one piece.
Fucking pachinko sales 8.987 billion.
Hahaha.
Bitches fucking playing pinball
with this fucking thing now.
Merchandise sales of 1.88 billion.
Home entertainment 848.5 million.
Anime box office of 198.5 million.
Music royalty is 5.6 million.
Because their music is original.
I don't know. Fuck neon.
I don't give a damn about that shit.
Hahaha.
But even they get beat out by Sailor Moon.
Seriously?
1991. 13 billion dollars.
Merchandise sales of 13 billion.
Anime box office of 42.12 million.
Manga.
That's how it started.
They get beat out by Peanuts.
1950.
The original Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown. 13.3 billion dollars.
This man is just loaded.
And he still can't kick a football.
Hahaha.
Retail sales of 13.9 billion.
Box office of 250 million.
DVD and Blu-ray sells 35 million.
Started as a comic strip.
Man that's wild.
Next up is Spongebob Squarepants.
Where most of the memes come from.
Where most of the memes come from now.
But yeah.
1999. 13.7 billion dollars.
Retail sales of 13 billion.
Box office of 457 million.
Music theater. 37 million.
Yeah.
That kind of musical.
What kind of musical are you going to have for Spongebob Squarepants?
I don't fucking know.
Like at Disneyland maybe?
Maybe.
Oh man.
Nevermind. They don't know that do they?
Well wherever they have them they got them.
Next up is Frozen.
13.7 billion dollars.
Just let it go.
Let it go.
Merchandise sales of 10.588 billion.
Box office of 2.7 billion.
DVD and Blu-ray sells
391 million.
I think it's low because the parents don't want to buy the DVD.
Exactly. But they lose their fucking minds.
See I would have expected like Soundtrack to be up there.
Like fucking 18 billion dollars.
Music theater is 82 million.
They also got a musical.
Yeah. Yeah I could see that.
Next up is Space Invaders.
1978.
13.9 billion dollars.
Seriously?
Music scene point 9 billion dollars.
Single 522 thousand.
Video game 13.93 billion.
Yeah. It all came from video games.
Jesus Christ. What the fuck were they playing?
I guess when you don't got nothing to play.
You got to play Space Invaders.
I think about it as it was pong before that.
So yeah.
Alright so next up is James Bond.
1953.
14.4 billion dollars.
Which makes sense because it's just been movie after movie after movie.
Yeah.
Non-stop box office.
Box office 7.879 billion.
Home video sales.
It's probably the highest.
Of all of them. It's 3.06 billion.
Merchandise and licensing 3.06 billion.
Video games in 500 million.
And video games in 500 million.
Start as a... Gold Mac.
Yeah. Start as a novel.
But they can't beat Toy Story.
1995.
Damn that beats James Bond?
Yeah. 15.405 billion dollars.
Retail sales of 11 billion dollars.
Fuck.
Box office is
3044 billion.
VHS sales of 290 million.
And DVD and Blu-ray sales of 250 million.
For a start as an animated movie.
Yeah.
But they can't beat this one.
This one is Fits of the North Star.
It's a manga.
Yeah. Yeah. I know the manga.
I'm trying to remember what the picture looks like.
It's that one guy that just touches people and they fucking explode.
Yeah.
Remember that guy that's like, Noni?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That guy. Yeah.
1983. 14.8 billion dollars.
Fucking pachinko sales.
14.741 billion.
Video game in Japan. Holy shit.
Anime box office is 32 million.
And anime DVD sales
2.2 million.
Started as a manga.
Good lord. That's a large amount of sales.
But then we got my boys here. Teenage Newton Ninja Turtles.
They beat that? Wow.
Or what do I say? Ninja Turtles. Ninja Turtles?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
1984. 15 billion dollars.
Merchandise sales of 13.2 billion.
Box office of
1.15 billion.
Video game of 450 million.
DVD
and Blu-ray sales of
1.54 billion. Video raffle of
67 million. Well, they're not
going to have to worry about making too much money on this new
show that they got coming out
with April O'Neil.
Started as a comic book. Yep.
Next we got the Avengers.
Just the Avengers.
1963. Yeah.
15.3 billion dollars.
Box office of 7.765
billion. Right. Merchandise sales
of 6.928 billion.
All the action figures, yeah.
DVD and Blu-ray sales of
459 million.
Comic book sales of only 1.31
million. Huh.
That's surprising. Once they got into
fucking live action, it was a wrap.
Pretty much, yeah.
The Lion King's next.
1994.
15.3 billion dollars. Akumonitata.
Let me...
Oh boy. Here we go.
Home Entertainment is 1.5 billion.
Right. Box office is 2.625
billion. Uh huh.
Merchandise sales of 3 billion.
Musical theater is 8.252
billion.
That makes sense, because I remember them having
like at state fairs and stuff.
I didn't know it went that hard.
Holy shit. Yeah.
8 billion dollars worth of music.
And think about it, Disneyland does have that.
Disney owns. Oh yeah.
The Lion King. They're just fucking raking their money.
Akumonitata.
Next up is Pac-Man.
The original?
Yeah, 1980. 15.4
billion dollars.
Musical sales of 32 million.
I don't know what music is.
Yeah, I don't know. It's all weird.
Merchandise and licensing, 1 billion.
And video games at 14.407
billion.
Man, that was the game when it came out.
It was fucking Pac-Man, that was it.
It was so popular that it had to make Miss Pac-Man.
Yeah.
Man, this next one, it caught me by surprise.
Uh oh.
Dora the Explorer.
$15.8
billion dollars.
Did you learn anything from Dora? Yeah, I learned that I
had no patience. I bet you right fucking
there.
I had a
box office of 118 million.
Home video sales of
250 million. And retail
sales of 15.413
billion.
Fuck Jesus.
And the bitch still doesn't know where stuff is?
She still gets lost.
Next up is, it's your move.
Yu-Gi-Oh.
Yo-Mu, Yo-Mu, Yo-Mu.
Yeah, cause I can see Pokemon beating this.
1996.
You know Pokemon's up here somewhere, don't you?
So you can tell.
$16.3 billion dollars.
The home video box office, 39.3 million.
Video games of 213 million.
Licensed
merchandise at 5 billion.
But their card game
at 11.161
billion dollars. And those motherfuckers
are still making money.
And it started with a manga. I thought it started
with a show, but what do I know?
Hang on.
Yeah, but the manga itself
is totally different
than the show. Like the show
extends out everything
from what the manga does. Is it a card game
in the manga too? It is, but
it didn't just focus on the card game. There's other
games in the book.
That's cool. Remember he's
the king of games.
I don't remember anything.
He was known as the king of games. I remember him
fucking hitting, like, how do I beat him? I'll just
destroy the moon. And I'm like, what the
fuck? Wait, let me read the real books.
Destroy the moon.
What's his name?
NuxTaku.
That does different videos on YouTube
and stuff. Him and some friends play
words. We play Yu-Gi-Oh with Yu-Gi-Oh
anime rules.
Jesus.
Makeup shit as you go, pretty much.
Next up is Dragon Ball.
1984.
17.2. I would actually beat Yu-Gi-Oh.
Yeah, 17.2 billion dollars.
Let's see.
Box office is 837
million. Credit card sales
460 million.
I ain't beating Yu-Gi-Oh there.
Home entertainment, 2.218
billion. Video game,
6 billion. Holy
shit. There's action figures
on there? I guess it
falls under merchandise sales.
7.687 billion.
Yeah, that makes sense. Cause there's
those action
where you can put them in different poses
and stuff, like on their little stand.
Remember when McDonald's
came out with those
little Dragon Ball Z
figurines? Yeah.
Man, then people ate up those fucking Happy Meals.
Next up is
Looney Tunes. Yeah, they've been
around for a while. 1930. They're actually
the low-lives. 1930.
What do you know? They beat out
Lord of the Rings.
17.5 billion dollars.
Yeah, bugger bunny.
We got home video sales at 2.209
million. Box office at 299
billion. And retail sales at 17.077
billion.
Oh boy.
But they couldn't beat Hello Kitty.
Oh shit.
1974. 19 point...
This is a big jump too. We went from 17 to 19.
19.1 billion dollars.
Selling what?
A cartoon character.
Box office at 61
thousand dollars. But their merchandise
sells at 19.1 billion.
Fuck.
Have you ever seen the
spoof version? Where instead of Hello Kitty
it's Hello Titty?
Jesus.
Alright,
next up we got Barbie.
1987.
19 point 4 billion
dollars.
Box office at 5.1
million. Home video
sales at 1.988 billion.
And merchandise sales at
17.47 billion.
Yeah, that makes sense.
CGI computer animated film series.
Web series. Television specials and television
shows. I thought it was a fucking
doll.
Yeah. Well whatever, okay.
That sounds like
fake information right there.
Yeah, I guess I got it wrong on that one.
Next was called Dungeon Fighter
Online. I've never heard of it.
It's like a South Korean game.
Oh really? Yeah, 20 billion dollars.
Fuck.
2005, yeah, computer game. Came out in
2005. And they've just been
raking in money in South Korea.
Apparently.
Next up is Cars.
With Mater? Yeah, and
Steve McQueen.
Lightning McQueen? Or is it Lightning McQueen? Yeah.
So you're super famous you don't even
know that Steve McQueen
the racer. Close enough.
2006, 21.8 billion
dollars. They
made their money. DVD and Blu-ray sales
654 million.
Box office of 2.026 billion.
But their merchandise sales
was 19.114 billion.
Good gosh.
Next up we got the number 11.
After that it's the top 10.
Number 11 is Batman.
1939.
Wow, that's actually be Superman.
28.5 billion dollars.
Fuck, that was a big joke.
TV revenue
350 million.
Box office 6.841 billion.
Home video
no, it says retail sales
is 21.329
billion and home DVD
home video underneath that
is 1.214 billion.
Think of how many action figures
for Batman though. Action
figures, fucking clothing,
shirts, costumes.
Yeah. The list just goes
on and on and on.
Alright, now we got number 10.
Transformers.
The robot thing with guys.
1984, 29.6 billion dollars.
Home entertainment
7.4 million.
Box office 4.853
billion. But their merchandise
is 11.752 billion.
Yeah. Yeah.
Started an animated series.
Number 9 we got, wait let me count, make sure I'm
right actually. 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10. Yeah.
So Transformers is 10.
Number 9 is Call of Duty.
2003. The beat out Transformers?
Wow. 31 billion
dollars. 31 billion dollars.
Fuck. All in the video game.
That's it. Yeah. They don't gotta do nothing
else.
Next up is the Wizarding
World. Harry Potter.
I've seen that being pretty high up there.
1997. 33.9 billion
dollars. Fuck, she's made
a lot of money. Yeah.
Stage play. 298 million.
Studio tour is 4.35
point 7 million.
TV
revenue is 1 billion dollars.
Video games is 3.35
billion. Home entertainment
is 4.02 billion.
Merchandise sells 7.11
billion.
Book sales 8.01
So they actually have the book sales.
Yeah. Book sales 8.0164
billion.
Damn, that's a lot of money.
And box office is 9.691
billion. How did they...
The book sales is only 1 billion off?
Yeah. Damn.
They read the shit. Man, when they came out
everyone couldn't get it. They couldn't get their hands on
Harry Potter. It's true. I remember
being in elementary school putting out those books
for the Scholastic book fairs.
Man. Where they, you know, setting up those
book fairs and stuff. Did you help them out? Yeah.
I didn't. I was the buyer,
not the buyee. No, I was the buyee,
not the seller, I guess. Yeah.
I remember setting all those up and everything in the
libraries. And those, everything,
like bookmarks that they would sell
for them. Yeah. That shit sold
like, there was no, you could never find
it. 10, 9, 8.
So number 7 is
the MCU. Marvel
Cinematic Universe 2008. 40.8
billion dollars.
Damn. Wait, that beat Harry
Potter? Damn. That's surprising.
Well, maybe not anymore because I guess people
are getting superhero fatigue.
Yeah, that's true. That's true. We got
Home Entertainment at 5.254
billion. We got
Merchandise Sellers at 7.228
billion. And the Box Office is
28.279 billion.
Damn, that's a lot for Box Office. Yeah.
Next up is...
How do I fucking
explain this one? Because this
one is fucking wild. It's called Ant-Pan Man.
Yeah.
Let me, let me get you a little
information on Ant-Pan Man.
So,
the series follows the origins of Ant-Pan
Man, a superhero with an ant pan,
a red bean paste filled pastry
for a head, who protects the world from an evil
anthropomorphic germ called
Baking Man.
Is it from Japan?
Yeah. Well, look at this picture.
Huh.
Uh,
I've never heard of this character.
I haven't either. When did it come out?
1973.
44.7 billion dollars.
Wow. I don't know.
Then again, a
prefecture mascot had a hell of a lot of money
to do. So,
they got all their money from
retail sales. 44.76
billion.
They made 14.5 million
from a museum. I don't fucking
know. It started as a picture book.
It's a fucking, it's a piece of bread with
a bean inside.
Like bean paste. Yeah, you know what red bean paste
is, right?
You can get like sweet red bean paste and stuff
in Japanese.
I don't understand.
I don't understand the character.
And I've never heard of it. It's like
Captain Underpants. Yeah.
I've never heard of Captain Underpants. Yeah.
I guess it's the same thing. Like,
they have characters we've never heard of and they probably never heard of Captain Underpants.
Nor would they want to, really.
No. What you really
think about Captain Underpants. It was a very stupid
concept. And you're like, there's a man in his
underwear fighting with
him.
Oh man. Next up is
Disney Princess.
2000. I guess they established
the princesses as their own thing
in 2000. Yeah.
$46 billion.
Home Entertainment
is $14.7 million.
And, but in retail, so it's $46.331
billion.
I guess, once you go to Disneyland,
all that shit they sell
is just, they have their own fucking
instead of just saying Disney,
it's their own set.
You got Lion King, you got
Disney Princesses.
Yeah.
Good Lord, that's a lot of money.
Next up is
Star Wars.
We got the Star Wars.
$51.8 billion. Came out in 1977.
Merchandise sales
$29.57 billion. Box office
$10.341 billion.
Home video $6.366 billion.
Video games $4 billion.
Book sales
$1.82 billion. And I had a few
of those books for you. I think everyone did eventually.
And TV revenue $280 million.
Now I do wish that they would have
continued the
series, like the movies,
following the actual
books. It would have been so much
better. And they had to go their own way.
Next up is
well, of course it's
Mickey Mouse and Friends. See?
They're both separate. Oh, this is the oldest one.
1928. So they
fucking win for all this
franchise.
$66.7 billion.
VHS
and DVD
$280 million. Box office
$457.4 million.
But retail sells $65.9
$66 billion.
Animated cartoon.
I can definitely see that.
Man, $60. It went from
$51 to $66.
They ain't catching up. Star Wars ain't catching up to Mickey Mouse.
Sadly, this still means that Pokemon
is higher. Oh, yeah.
It's pretty much
number one.
No, it fucking beats out
Mickey Mouse. It's number one. Pokemon is
number one. Okay, I'll spoil you guys on that one.
But I promise you,
you would never
guess what's number two.
I can't
fucking... You'd be like
I want everyone
right now to pause
and bet on what you think it is
and then tell us in the comments if you were right.
Number two
is Winnie the Poop
at $73.7 billion.
With
Christopher...
What's his name? No, the
1924. This is the old one. 1924.
No, you said Mickey Mouse was 1920.
What is it? Uh, no, 1928.
1930
was Superman, so Winnie the Poop
is the oldest franchise.
At $73.7
billion.
Started as a book.
Box office is $214
million.
DVD and Blu-ray sells at $59 million, but their
retail sales is $73.45
billion.
Where the fuck?
I have not seen anything about Winnie the Poop
in fucking centuries.
No, the last I seen about Winnie the Poop was
the memes. And the last I saw
was that movie with Ewan McGregor.
Yeah. So where
the... But to be fair,
everybody knows who Winnie the Poop is. Yeah.
Everybody knows who Eeyore is. Yeah.
Everybody knows who Tigger is. Mm-hmm.
Like, it's recognizable.
But man, that recognizable?
I would have thought Mickey Mouse
would have been up there ahead.
Man, you ain't beating Winnie the Poop.
Shit. Tigger's bouncing his ass all over the buddy, ain't he?
All that fucking gold.
Hey.
So yeah, number one is
Pokemon. 1996.
To nobody's surprise. Yeah.
$77.1 billion.
Tigger, but Winnie the Poop is right there.
And he's off by
four, but... Four?
Hell yeah, it's true. It's like right there.
And when you consider that Pokemon
is like a phenomenon.
And it's still going. Yeah.
And Winnie the Poop, I haven't heard of it in decades.
But man, Winnie the Poop
my... Oh my... I don't... I was like...
I almost fucking... I almost started crying.
Ow. I don't understand how.
It beat out everything else.
Almost. Yeah, so box office of Pokemon
is $1.85 billion.
The fucking mobile games is $61.13 billion.
The licensed merchandise is $69.2 billion.
And the fucking jet
aircraft library sales.
Because they have jets. Pokemon jets.
There's $3 million.
Started as a video game.
Fucking Pokemon.
Fucking Winnie the Poop.
I'm more surprised with Winnie the...
Pokemon, I kind of figured that.
Like I knew it would be like in the top five somewhere.
But... Winnie the Poop? Who?
I'm not told you... Yeah.
That means that you add Winnie the Poop.
Mickey Mouse.
Lion King.
Is Winnie the Poop Disney?
Yeah.
I can't even know because they lost the rights.
They made that fucking horror movie.
With Winnie the Poop. Sure.
Let me find it.
I do love having the internet on hand.
I'm pretty sure.
I would never have given up Winnie the Poop if they owned it.
I thought they did.
I mean I could be wrong.
I could be completely wrong.
Who? Who owned you Winnie the Poop?
No, just one of those...
Those Mandela effects.
Yeah, so Walt Disney Company licensed certain film and other rights
with Winnie the Poop stories.
From the estate of A.A. Milne
and the licensing agent.
Um...
Winnie the Poop went to a series of features that would eventually become one of the most successful franchises.
No fucking shit.
Cultural legacy.
Looks like they had him ranked as a
song on the top list of hundreds.
Man, what?
He's got his own fucking star on the Hall of Fame.
Really? The Hollywood Hall of Fame, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, he used to be... but they lost certain rights to Winnie the Poop.
Because they made that one Winnie the Poop horror movie.
Yeah.
They wouldn't have... the Disney would never have allowed that.
If they still controlled that.
So they didn't own full rights then?
I guess not, no.
They only had certain stories.
Ah, okay.
Yeah, because fucking Winnie the Poop,
Blood and Honey,
Horror Slasher, 2013.
Came out, yeah.
February 15, 2013.
Look at this haunting fucking Winnie the Poop.
Yeah.
Isn't that the one that we're comparing
Xi Jinping to?
From China? Yeah, they do that all the time.
That's why it's banned in China.
It's like...
Think about being so butt-hurt
that you look so much like Winnie the Poop.
Well, what can you do?
Hey man, you look like Winnie the Poop.
Get over it.
I've been so far that I haven't made
fun of it with South Park.
Like you'd wish you'd make that kind of Winnie the Poop money.
Yeah.
Man.
Well, there you go everybody. That's the
list of highest grossing franchises of all time.
Or media franchises of all time.
There were some surprising ones in there.
I told you.
There were a few that I got I would know.
Like Pokemon, obviously. I knew it was somewhere.
In the top five.
I kind of figured Mickey Mouse would be somewhere up there.
Yu-Gi-Oh!
As many fucking cards as they sold whenever we were
kids and still do.
And then some weird ones
like Dora the Explorer and Bob the Builder.
Paw Patrol.
Paw Patrol alone?
That's right. Fucking Peppa Pig's on there making 18 billion dollars.
I'm actually
quite surprised that I didn't even know
what Peppa Pig is. I don't know
the show, but I know the character.
I know the character too. My cousin's like she's 7 foot 6, bro.
They do
like a measurement of her compared to the other characters
and she's like 7 foot 9 or some shit.
Yeah.
There's a TikTok video about how tall
Peppa Pig is.
In comparison to the other characters,
she's apparently a giant.
That's what I heard.
Let me look it up
real quick before we sign off.
We look up Peppa Pig height.
A Peppa Pig
height.
Ah, there's
Have you seen that meme with Arthur?
Where he's wearing headphones?
Which Arthur?
The Arthur the Ardvork?
No. Oh, that little kid?
Yeah, yeah. From the show. I haven't seen him in a long time. She's 7 foot 1, by the way.
7 foot 1?
Whoa, what?
That's not a pig, that's a fucking hog.
It's a wild hog, you got there.
That's like one of those gigantic
snake-faire hogs.
Yeah, there's some big boys.
There you go, Peppa Pig 7 foot 1.
You happy now, America?
And other parts of the world?
There's your nightmare fuel right there.
If you ever needed it. Whenever your kid is watching
Peppa Pig, know it's 7 foot 1.
You know, I heard a terrible
story about pigs.
That if you fall and are incapacitated
around them, they will eat you.
Yeah, they'll eat anything.
Jesus fuck Christ, come on, I fed you.
You can at least not eat me.
I would assume that it also
depends, like,
how
domesticated they are.
I'm thinking like Babe, you know?
Babe the pig? Yeah.
The farm pig? That'll do, that'll do.
That way she won't eat you.
Will she?
You never know.
I know cats will. Will they?
If you die, cats will start chewing on your body.
They got no choice, I guess.
But they will before a dog will.
Dogs loyal. Because dogs don't give a fuck.
Well, unless you get one of those shitsoos.
Those little demon dogs.
Man. Then they'll eat you.
We should have diverse so quick.
So yeah,
that was it. That's it for this episode.
If you guys have any comments about franchises,
let us know.
If you have anything on franchises
or anything that you want in a way to look into,
Knights of Entertainment podcast at gmail.com.
By the way, this was a special episode.
From now on it's going to be Mystery Mondays.
I hope you like mysteries because we're going to have a lot of them.
Trying to make
out for our technical difficulties.
Yeah, we're trying to add some new elements.
I thought it was going to be movie night Monday.
But I think I like mysteries more.
So I'm going to try
Mystery Mondays.
If you guys like the whole detective stuff,
come on down.
Alright, well that will go ahead and end the podcast.
We hope to see you guys on the next one.
See you later.