The Curse Retrospective, Part 1: How The Curse Came To Be

The Curse. The biggest ZFRP plot of all time, and certainly not a record I'm willing to ever try to beat! Depending on how you count it, as many as sixty - or more - events in Season 9 had to do with The Curse. But how did it all start?

I haven't made it a secret that the name of The Curse, as well as eight of its' members - Plague, Shrapnel, Reaper, Impact, Titan, Puma, Ogre, and Troll - and several of the machines/vehicles that appeared, like Ogre and Troll's mech suits and the Badass Plague Tank - came from a real toyline. But the true origins of The Curse go back further than that. The Curse's origins are a tale of a little British toy company that could, their habit of reusing any molds they can to cut costs, and the world of 3.75-inch action figures.

Chatzy Madness Volume 351: The Curse Finale Edition

Jumpropeman: you know
Jumpropeman: Permakill would be a good name for a Kobber villain...
Jumpropeman: *rewrites my 2020 plot*
Gooper Blooper: any character he successfully damages is permakilled
Gooper Blooper: this can't possibly go wrong
Jumpropeman: so he's just Gregg
Gooper Blooper: I thought Gregg only normal killed
Jumpropeman: true, true
Jumpropeman: BUT
Jumpropeman: "In Conker's Bad Fur Day, Gregg has green shoes. However, In L&R, his shoes were changed to purple, along with his robe having a slight dark blue tint."
Jumpropeman: CLEARLY
Jumpropeman: Green Shoes Gregg permakills
Jumpropeman: and we only met Purple Shoes, Slight Dark Blue Tint Gregg
Gooper Blooper: I hope that wiki tells us about Gregg's personality
Ripple: I died to gregg?!?
Jumpropeman: the conker wiki does not appear to indulge in personality lists
Jumpropeman: "Gregg is very short (which Conker points out in the game when he dies for the first time) and speaks with an English accent. He despises cats (which have nine lives) and the Undead alike. Despite being the (or perhaps "a"?) Grim Reaper, Gregg is less than frightful."
Jumpropeman: however it is a fan of parenthetical statements

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Jumpropeman: why is doremy your least favorite hu goops
Modded Sheep: She knows what she did!
Jumpropeman: her last name is sweet
Jumpropeman: how can anyone hate her!
Gooper Blooper: Doremy is my least favorite hu because I regularly see her in a Yukari-esque holier-than-thou trolling role, AND the majority of that time she is focused specifically on going after Sumireko because of the whole "Sumi dreams to visit Gensokyo" thing and Doremy is all about that kind of stuff
Gooper Blooper: Now, those two things alone would be a rough tie with Yukari, but
Gooper Blooper: Yukari is cuter
Jumpropeman: but Doremy is covered in balls!
Modded Sheep: That IS true...
Modded Sheep: She IS covered in balls, Goops...
Modded Sheep: You CAN'T deny that she's covered in balls...
Modded Sheep has no idea who Doremy is

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RubyChao: you want me to edit my post to take out my stuff for your team, draco?
RubyChao: cause i'm cool with that
Gooper Blooper: As long as Yohane's attack is still "hacking" because I've already written that part
Jumpropeman: it's not just hacking
Jumpropeman: it's wheezing too!
RubyChao: i mean
RubyChao: yohane's attack options are basically
RubyChao: -Hacking
RubyChao: -Flopping
RubyChao: -Throwing Her Hair Meatball Somehow
RubyChao: so i think you're good

Chatzy Madness Volume 350: Your Cat Is Lame And So Is Your Hair

Draco: Is it too late to add Gyaos to the Curse?
RubyChao: draco you fool
RubyChao: you can't just enter gyaos like that!
RubyChao: enter his good twin Soayg
Draco: His brother, SPACE Gyaos?
RubyChao: is it actually just Space Gyaos
Draco: Yes. Harpy would vouch for Space Gyaos being a real thing.

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RubyChao: so when we go back in time for season 11
RubyChao: is that when i introduce the Retro Curse
Draco: Yes.
Draco: It's Dolby leading an army of hipsters with laser guns.

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RubyChao: who wants
RubyChao: a fun fact
Jumpropeman: i do if its redeemable for fun bux
RubyChao: it is!
Jumpropeman: !!!

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Mulberry Sheep: Rv and L
Mulberry Sheep: Hunting Method: Bad
Gooper Blooper: and then for curse finale
Gooper Blooper: V and _
Mulberry Sheep: Just you wait!
Mulberry Sheep: They'll become RP Ending Godbosses someday!

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Cornwind Evil: When Jeanne gets an icon, Goops has gone too far
Jumpropeman: we're safe since she and Chompette's handlers have no images
MobileDraco: Goops, draw Jeanne and Chompette's groupies.
Gooper Blooper: I did consider drawing Slade for Brine when she was described in plainclothes earlier but if I draw her and he kills her off I'd be sad
Gooper Blooper: so if she survives the season maybe I'll do just that
Waluigi laughs nervously, sweats
Gooper Blooper: SEE
Jumpropeman: what's gonna happen
Jumpropeman: they'll remove their hats
Jumpropeman: revealing they too are wearing super crowns
Jumpropeman: they were Chomps as well the whole time
Gooper Blooper: The whole "handful of shrapnel left" thing was admittedly partly to try and ward off a post-Reaper srspost from Brine of Chompette crying because her friends are all dead
Waluigi gallons of sweat
Gooper Blooper: oh nooooooooooo
RubyChao: don't worry, goops
RubyChao: i will take on the sin for you
RubyChao has Colonel Bogey kill them in golf

Chatzy Madness Volume 349: Miror Blart

Murdered Sheep: The only thing you need to know about Sinduramon: "I'm glad the first thing EVERYONE mentioned is the fire and brimstone Southern preacher voice they gave the possessed owl in the English dub, which manages to be both hilarious and a little unnerving at the same time."
Murdered Sheep: Oh man
Murdered Sheep: OH MAN
Murdered Sheep: I HAVE A FOUND A CLIP OF THE OWL IN THE DUB
Murdered Sheep: YOU ARE NOT READY
Jumpropeman: oh... oh myyyyy
Jumpropeman: that owl is amazing
Batman Is Soaking Wet: THE DEEEVVUH
Murdered Sheep: THE DAEEEEEVA

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Jumpropeman: Rocko's Modern Life Wiki is not called Rocko's Modern Wiki
Jumpropeman: I AM APPALLED

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umpropeman: missed opportunity: have Fat Cat from Rescue Rangers be Don Genie's pet
RubyChao: damn
RubyChao: that is a missed opportunity
RubyChao: guess i'll have to put him at the waterworks
MobileDraco: BRB making Fat Cat canon
YerDoinOkHarps: Plz
Jumpropeman: Fat Cat joins rp... AS YOHANE'S PET
MobileDraco: 😲
MobileDraco: Dan was Fat Cat all along!
Gooper Blooper joined the chat
Murky Sheep entered for the first time
RubyChao: hello gooper and sheep
RubyChao: the same person
Murky Sheep: I mean
Murky Sheep: Have we ever been in the same room at the same time?
Murky Sheep: Sidenote: Writing is hard :I
Gooper Blooper: Plague almost had a pet!
Murky Sheep: Was it
Murky Sheep: a scorpion?
Gooper Blooper: No, it was Rollergator
Murky Sheep lies down
Gooper Blooper: I thought maybe you'd want to use Rollergator as garbage curse, so I refrained from using him as garbage curse myself
Murky Sheep soul departs from body
Murky Sheep: I
Murky Sheep: I see a bright light...
Gooper Blooper: That bright light is the spotlight shining upon InGen's newest creation, sheep
Gooper Blooper: Bubsygator
Murky Sheep: oh
Murky Sheep: oh no
Gooper Blooper: the kids'll love him
Murky Sheep: dear god
Murky Sheep: there's a
Murky Sheep: javelina
Gooper Blooper: that's his sidekick
Murky Sheep: THERE'S A JAVELINA BEHIND THE LIGHT!
Gooper Blooper: they go on totally radical adventures together
Murky Sheep wakes up in a cold sweat
Murky Sheep: Well,
Murky Sheep: The Curse was a neat experiment, but I think it's time to burn it all down
Gooper Blooper: we're working on it
Murky Sheep considers replacing Avak event with a Rollergator event
Murky Sheep: Alas, I don't I could ever do Rollergator true justice

Chatzy Madness Volume 348: Instead Of Answering That Question, Here Is A Picture Of General Oda

Jumpropeman: the reason I RPed Phantomon in the first place was in anticipation of him digivolving to Piedmon
Jumpropeman: I now like Phantomon a lot more than I used to :V

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Jumpropeman: Shimmer will never trust a centipede again
Draco: What about a worm?
Jumpropeman: depends on how cute the worm is
Gooper Blooper: I thought Gujarek had a cute design
Gooper Blooper: then it turned out he was a huge asshole
Draco: Is this cute enough
RubyChao: needs more blush and sparkles
Draco: Is this cute enough
RubyChao: yes.
Gooper Blooper: simply darling
Jumpropeman: now that's a worm I'd like to meet!

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Jumpropeman: solution to the Gyronna problem: She says OOGA BOOGA BOOGA and turns out to be evil so we don't have to save her!
Gooper Blooper: XD

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Jumpropeman: "Kisha finally pipes up before just leaning against a wall like she's some sorta cool cat or some shit"
Jumpropeman: like some sort of
Jumpropeman: Cool Cat Saves the Kids?
HarpFairy: :V
Gooper Blooper: I'd watch Kisha Saves The Kids
HarpFairy: i don't know anything so as per usual
HarpFairy: i'm pretending i know
Jumpropeman: with Juan as Daddy Derek
HarpFairy: the Battlebots Bad Boy?
HarpFairy: "assuming Complete Control!" "WRONG DEREK"

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Mice Sheep: "Shimmer says, remembering her armor this time"
Mice Sheep: Shimmer Armor Watch; the great RP past time
Mice Sheep: Will she take it this time?
Mice Sheep: Will she not?!
Mice Sheep: Thrilling

Chatzy Madness Volume 347: Old Dog Eating ASMR

N Goat: Tonight on Black Clover: "Some stuff sure did happen."

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Cornwind Evil: What's Pitohui's real name again
Jumpropeman: elsa kanzaki
ivel: Pit O Hui
Moonlit Sheep: excuse you
Moonlit Sheep: it's Pit O'Hui
Moonlit Sheep: respect her heritage!

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Moonlit Sheep: Yanno
Moonlit Sheep: When I see a box of DVDs sold for almost 400 bucks
Moonlit Sheep: and then there's a charge of 4 more dollars for shipping
Moonlit Sheep: I feel like I'm being laughed at
Draco: You are.

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Cornwind Evil: "Lifetime isn’t wasting a single second in its effort to release a movie about the college admissions scandal as quickly as possible—in fact, rather than spend a moment thinking up a more creative title, they’re just calling it The College Admissions Scandal."
Harpy: uh
Harpy: ?!?!?
Cornwind Evil: What are you ?!?!? about Harps?
Harpy: that whole sentence
Harpy: why is lifetime putting this up
Harpy: why aren't they being creative about it
Harpy: there's a scandal about college admissions?
Jumpropeman: the college admissions scandal was a bunch of rich people paying their children's way into college
Cornwind Evil: 1) It's Lifetime
Cornwind Evil: 2) It's Lifetime
Cornwind Evil: 3) Yes
Cornwind Evil: 3.5) It's better than "Mother, Can I Sleep With Danger?"
Harpy: mother can i sleep with a raptor?
Cornwind Evil: Ask Chuck Tingle
Harpy: can i ride a lil tykes raptor-mobile?
Harpy: (i saw one of those in walmart today and i had to stop myself from imagining Dashra proving why she needs a driver's license with it)

Chatzy Madness Volume 346: Category: Meanies

Gooper Blooper: Dr. Amigo does prostate exams and he's got a hot deal going
Jumpropeman: you weren't lacking for fake dr marios if you needed them

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Jumpropeman: im trying to post
Jumpropeman: brownie is trying to stop me
Jumpropeman: Brownie
Rank: Post Saboteur
Codename: BROWN DOG
Gooper Blooper: there are just
Gooper Blooper: so many curse members
Meringue Sheep: Even these words are Curse members!
RubyChao: so manyyyy
Jumpropeman: I'm gonna miss the Curse
RubyChao: Steve Buscemi
Rank: Javalina Farmer
Codename: COMEDY

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Jumpropeman: somebody thought this video was worth making
Gooper Blooper: HELP ME INTERNET
Jumpropeman: more importantly
Jumpropeman: they thought it was worth making
Jumpropeman: in 2017
Gooper Blooper: Look, somewhere out there is someone who bought FireRed in 2004 and has been waiting 13 years for someone to tell them how to cut trees
Gooper Blooper: Also out there: someone who watches the video and sobs desperately because they have LeafGreen instead and there's no video for that version
Jumpropeman: even more important
Jumpropeman: this is the only pokemon thing on their channel
Gooper Blooper: oh god, that's the best one
Gooper Blooper: I was expecting you to have found some stupid channel with a million pointless Pokemon FAQ videos
Jumpropeman: they do have a lot of important subjects though
Jumpropeman: like this
Gooper Blooper: I've always wanted to wash my hair with eggs
Jumpropeman: spoilers, the video says how long a peacock is, not how tall
Jumpropeman: although the description concerns me
Jumpropeman: 28 FOOT TALL PEACOCK
Jumpropeman: "They retail in stores for up to but you can make them just a peacocks."
Jumpropeman: Some algorithm is definitely making these

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Jumpropeman: link
Gooper Blooper: well
Gooper Blooper: you gotta play that
Meringue Sheep: Now that's some sort of art
Jumpropeman: humpty dumpty and a bat had a son
Jumpropeman: "Did you ever get punched by a banana? Tussle with a mushroom? Tumble into a black hole? You will now! ZOOM into space and race around the play grids, out-running the funny critters who pop up in the strangest places!"
Jumpropeman: that guy's name
Jumpropeman: is Mr. Smart
Meringue Sheep: Is it now?