Season Three of The Adventure Zone will begin on October 31.
Animation by Mimi Chiu: mimichiu.com/
Voice Over by Janet Varney: / janetvarney
Album Art by Evan Palmer: www.evanpalmercomics.com/
Music by Griffin McElroy: / griffinmcelroy
Season Three of The Adventure Zone will begin on October 31.
Animation by Mimi Chiu: mimichiu.com/
Voice Over by Janet Varney: / janetvarney
Album Art by Evan Palmer: www.evanpalmercomics.com/
Music by Griffin McElroy: / griffinmcelroy
TAZ: Griffin is a Player for a Main Season, Holy Shit
Robin0928 just seeing his time guest starring in Dimension 20 I eagerly await and fear the chaotic player energy he’s been storing up
Psyducktective I hope they don’t shit on Travis the ENTIRE time, just a healthy good bit!
@@psyducktective Yeah, he can be a great player, and I'm so excited to see Travis as a DM in a long-form campaign
@@kenyonbryngel Im hoping they (both the boys and audience) give Travis time to get into the role as DM, the same way we gave Griffin time to develop as a DM in Balance. Like, I hope people dont turn on this season the moment the first arc isnt as polished as Griffin's later arcs or Amnesty.
What game did they play in season 2?
Holy smokes guys it’s the high school AU everyone asked for.
Everyone loves a good highschool au!
The three characters at the gates even look vaguely like THB
@@kappaross6124 the one on the left looks like Magic Brian to me
@@bigbadgammagnome Plot twist: it's actually a young magic brian
It's Sky High
Can't wait to see how they kiss their brother in this one
I’m dead thanks
Pretty sure it's Dad's turn this time
This one got me multiple times 😂
KISS YOUR DAD SQUARE ON THE LIPSSS
So gross.
“Your supplies can be requisitioned by the school’s quartermaster.” “HELLO~!!! I’m GARFIELD! The School Quartermaster!”
Jyoji Fee nah it has to be another famous cat, like heathcliff from amnesty. Maybe Felix the cat?
@@gingersnap6004 coward. its hello kitty
@@taakotuesdays dont think me a coward, i just try not to dream that big and good. It only ends in disappointment.
As I’ve previously announced I am taking bets between either Hobbes or Hello Kitty
if they wanted a deep cut they could do mehitabel from archy and metahibel
TAZ: God help us, all of the exam questions at this school are just Riddle Me Piss riddles.
you know, it would be great if all the tests in the school are just series of riddles or puzzles.
I am 100% sure riddle master will appear at some point in the story
RRRRRRRRRRIDDLE ME PISS, BOYS!
TAZ: Gun
Omg Saz loves TAZ???
She do
Lol you're the reason I started listening to taz! Look what I've become!
Steampunk Taz...
Taz gunmetal Or gunsmoke or something like tgar
It's suddenly dawned on me that since Travis is the DM that there is a 100% chance of a recurring character who has the Riddle Me Piss voice and there's nothing any of us can do to stop it.
21 episodes in and we're still living in fear of when the riddlemaster shows up
festo is too close for comfort here,
huh...it never happened
My question is when will Garfield finally have that fated battle with the piddler
Mr. Clint will literally have to say "how do you do, fellow kids?" And I cannot wait for it!
wait did you just refer to clint mcelroy as Mr. Clint?
Hi you Yes you And you didn’t think that was just the cutest shit?
TAZ: Griffin's Amiibo corner I'm Griffin and this is an Amiibo a delightful new creation from Nintendo that blends both toy and game alike, if plugged into the right games Amiibos can unlock new modes characters and features
All party members MUST use Rock Band usb microphones
Crying laughing, thank you for this
Aw hell yeah, that's how I learned about Link's Chest Belt.
Now it's time for this quick brown fox to jump into my lazy mouth
today's video will focus on The Good Toad
I've known TAZ: Graduation for only a minute but it already deserves a triple diamond rating
Like I know nothing about this but imao it might become my favorite.
Especially with both Griffin and Justin playing. Don't get me wrong I love the whole gaggle of McElroys, but there's just something about those two together that gets me.
True
hmm
Lol
TAZ: oh my God roachie despawned
This comment killed me
Holy shit you made me lauch pho across the room
"Of course, you are not applying to the main school are you?" Queue traditional TAZ theme banjo twang. So hyped for this.
TAZ: Garfield
Considering how many time Griffin references him, yeah that might work.
Brianna O'Malley its graduation
a game of wits and wagers!
Its Monster of the Week but you just fight a Garfield every time
What a missed opportunity
TAZ: Gotta Have My Vape!
btw the latin in the emblem at the end says "heroes, villains, and the rest"
I'm going to go ahead and be the "um, akshually" guy on this one. I think you are right about what the artist WANTS the Latin to say, but the jumbled cases lead to weird translations like, "Villains in heroes and [in] the rest," and, "Villains by means of heroes and [by means of] the rest." In fact, if you Google translate each one separately, they come up in exactly these cases, so I suspect that was the artist's method--but Google translate is notoriously bad with inflectional languages. It should be "heroes nebulones ceterique," and even then "nebulones" is more for rogues and rascals than villains in the sense intended.
which of these comments is more helpful? the one who helps us understand the joke? or the one who grandstands?
I put the whole phrase in and got "bums and other heroes" then put it in separate and got "heroes, loafer, the rest" so like... Yours makes more sense
@@clarkrogers7789 By the standard of helpfulness, what exactly does your snarky cheap shot entirely for the sake of being a dick contribute?
@Jon C. If you have taken this personally, I apologize. Perhaps it would be in your best interest, and the best interest in the company you keep, to learn a lesson I too have learned the hard way: sometimes being a man means feeling a need to share information no one has any use for simply so we can be heard saying it. This is not personal. I don’t know you or anything about you. I too have struggled with this. I hope this helps you in the future and that I have not hurt you’re feelings too badly.
I bet the other school to get a three diamond rating was Taako's school
Taz: Griffin is no longer in charge
AMEN
TAZ3: Backseat DMing
@@Breadcrochets TAZ3: Every Highschool AU ever
TAZ: That Was So Shit We Put Griffin Back In Charge
TAZ: Goldfish - A Steven Story
The Adventure Zone: Guy Fieri’s Dungeons, Dragons, and Dives
Having Avatar Korra tell me about the new season of McElroy content is a bit of a trip.
Wait what
@@graphicnovel4904 janet varney (the voice of Korra) has a podcast on the same network
TAZ: goose, in which you are a horrible goose
Ellis van der velden one episode features the goose chasing Griffin into a phone box and stealing his glasses
Isn't that just Griffin in his Animorph form though?
Honk if thatcher's dead
yyyyyyyyyyyyy
Ok for realsies, though, I'mma need a Goose Game playthrough with Griffin and Justin
Oh my god you guys, I've got it It's so obvious, it's The Adventure Zone: Gesamtkunstwerk
Erin Allen i see u with ur BDG refs u sly bastard
@@neopaoli3844 I'm just glad people got it, haha
Who else is SO ready for Travis doing a million voices, one of them being a fairy??? ✨✨🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
we all know at least ONE VOICE is gonna be the riddlemaster
@@bonsaibnuuy RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIDDLE ME PISS
Ummm excuse you. I’m waiting for his accounting owl. 😜
He has a lot of range and he can finally use it to his full potential instead of just doing his normal voice for Aubrey.
A fairy that sounds like Elmo and Amelie!
The Adventure Zone: Gollege (gamer college)
I can't like this because it has 69 likes but u right
TAZ: Gilbert, Brian David
you're so fucking genius
I WISH Tho this is absolutely wonderful too!
TAZ: Guys Dust is back!
Unfortunately I doubt this will happen although I dearly want it
God please gimme dust back
TAZ: gotcha- it’s just us playing “Untitled Goose Game”
Finn Elliott TAZ: Goose
Holy shit, Griffin's music is getting so good that this is a very real career for him after he's done with podcasting, whenever that is. This is incredibly, incredibly good. You know it's a Griffin track when there's that little bit of chromatic scales in places you don't expect, and it has that sort of earthy Appalachian but very poised instrumentation. He's an extremely evocative writer when it comes to scoring. The Amnesty theme was maybe my favorite part of the entire show -- it managed to condense the whole plot into 50-60 seconds of music, lilting back and forth between major and minor tonality in very prescient ways. That plagal kind of 4-1 cadence (the "amen" cadence") -- that is a Griffin track for sure. Tabla drums? Dude. Also, getting very strong Fantasy High (Dimension 20 from College Humor, in which the McElroy family will be appearing on the next show) vibes from this.
interstellish Sorry I’m not a music major so most of that flew over my head, but uhhhh the McElroys are going to be on D20?????? How did I miss that news?
@@e1221 Griffin did a one shot with them for a Fantasy High live show a while back. Not sure if it's on KZhead, but it's on Dropout.
@interstellish thank you for putting it into words for me! agreed 💯
They're also doing toy heist on dropout soon!
I don't know a thing about music, but I loved reading this! Thank you for this glimpse into what's going on inside Griffin's music.
Travis if you're reading this, please make sure there's a cat that gives everyone their items in this one. You must not break the streak!
pizzapharmer Perhaps a cat runs the lost and found...
i literally don't know any other comic strip cats besides garfield and heathcliff...
@@emilymcintosh2675 "It's me Felix, the Lost and Found Mage!!"
@@DamascusVT Comic strip cats, maybe not. But there's plenty of cartoon cats to go around. Azrael from The Smurfs, Cheshire Cat, Felix, etc.. they can run this shtick for a while.
“Hi, everyone, I’m Nermal! The book sale sorcerer!”
TAZ: Sky High Hogwarts
SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDEKICK (kick...kick...!) Sonic Boom is a Bard confirmed.
*BIG LARRY*
sky hero hogwarts
YES YES YES
Yes!! Exactly what I thought!!
All y’all with your guesses but you forgot the real winner TAZ: Go back to Chicago
Which episode was it they started that bit? It's so so good but I can't find it again!!
@@elinsandkvist5733 oo I don't know. I know it was the one where duck was talking to one of the cops at the hornets nest, but I'm not sure what episode. It's in the arc with the shapeshifter (also i havent made it to the end of the last arc yet so don't spoil anything)
Ah okay cool! I'll see if I can find it thanks 😃
TAZ: Griffin as a player character
Adventure zone: Gordo, a Lizzie McGuire RPG
taz: gonzo, where they're all muppets from space
all TAZ: G jokes aside ? travis this looks so fuckign good n i’m so excited dude
holy shit this had such great potential
It's goin pretty well I think
@@cheem7807 ehhhhh, i feel like it would be going a lot better if the world was fleshed out more so we could actually see the state of the world that’s implied to be bad. Or if there were fewer unnecessary plot twists. Or if Travis didn’t tell Griffin he is in fact a Warlock. Or if he didn’t make up fantasy slurs so his pretend racist naval captain could call Argo a slur. Or if he just had one plot and stuck to it. Or if he could learn to “yes, and” instead of “no, but” (Especially in terms of player agency, the ending of the episode before the last was amazing, and I hope to get proven wrong again. The biggest example of this was the reveal that the big bad had secretly been railroading them the whole time, and how often he uses allied NPCs with way more power than the players.)
@@weedAndTransRights fair fair, from a game rules perspective you have a good point, also I agree with you that the world could be more fleshed out. But from a purely story perspective I think it's still pretty good. He does railroad a good bit but I honestly don't care all that much about that, and it seems like justin Griffin and Clint don't either lol. I mean I think it's not as good as amnesty and it'll never be as good as balance, but it's still a fun listening experience I think
@@cheem7807 yeah, I just want Griffin back though. Or a long anthology of one shots run by everyone. 2tennany was so good despite Clint being absolutely clueless because he just let them have fun with it.
@@weedAndTransRights that would be lit. I think travis knew people had such monumental expectations for him that when he came in that he put in too many plot twists and characters, which made it really confusing lol. Griffin should come back though eventually, travis clint and justin are good but they'll never be as great as our dungeon master, best friend and random obligatory third thing
The Adventure Zone: My Hogwarts Academia
i hate that i chuckled to this
It's more Assassination Classroom with focus on the reserve course and stuff
Three Houses
It’s more of fantasy sky high than Hogwarts since they literally have a hero/villain program that everyone strives for but some portion of the class end up in the sidekick/henchman program because they aren’t perceived as especially gifted in anyway
Literally my first thought
Oh boy, I sure am excited for this season where nothing bad will happen about five or six months in!
Just now realizing this is narrated by Korra has shaken me to my core
TAZ: Grassroots in which the good boys begin their campaign for presidency
The USA's first triadic president
Everybody's comparing it to Sky High, but we all know this is just the result of Travis playing FE: Three Houses
why is this so accurate
Personally, I think he watched Ever After High
aw i just noticed the "tm tm tm tm" on the gate i love it
This is so sad in retrospect
TAZ: Grimaldis. Greg Grimaldis, that is. HE'S BACK AND HE'S LOOKIN' FOR REVENGE, PEOPLE!
Lup may have got her $15 but greg got revenge
@@andrewhoward7071 They kinda did in a live show, but as we all know, nobody is every really dead in TAZ. LOL
Angus McDonald and the case of the 15 Dollar Bill: the Terry Files
figured i may as well immortalize my actual real guess: Taz Gambit
that is actauly a really good guess
a nice name too!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TAZ GRADUATION
Alright alright alright
things that will probably be important- - the brothers - the other school with the triple diamond rating - accounting, of course - hogwarts academia sky high puns
Sadly not a single one of those was correct
for anyone wondering what the latin motto is, it's quite literally 'the heroes, the bad guys... and the others'
I was smiling like a crazy person as soon as this started and as it went on that smile just got bigger and bigger and THANK YOU TRAVIS FOR FINDING MY EXACT INTERESTS AND PUTTING THEM INTO A DND CAMPAIGN AND ALSO I CANT WAIT TO SEE THE PCS AND ALSO AHHH IM SO EXCITED YES!!!
Okay, last suggestion: TAZ Gamer Girls.
I screamed when it said “it’s Travis”. Griffin is an absolute genius, but Travis is a baby and I love him.
Spoilers for episode 28 of Graduation Early Graduation: Accounting is super important Mid-Graduation: Nah, accounting isn't that important, not when there's a demon prince Episode 28 of Graduation: Accounting is so important that the real big bad of the campaign is capitalism itself!
Episode 34 of Graduation: Wait nevermind, back to that demon prince.
@@FuzorFishbug so disappointing.
And in the end, the heroes defeated capitalism so hard, most of them started businesses and all of the people who were in charge before are still in charge! Nothing was learned!
Taz: Girls! its all women this time folks
Lorica fantastic. thank you for your work
oK IT'S HAPPENING EVERYONE STAY CALM
stay calm! STAY FUCKING CALM
i STAYED CALM THEN I STAYED VERY NOT CALM
MY DISAPPOINTMENT IS NONEXISTENT AND MY DAY HAS BEEN MADE!
Oof
The Adventure Zone: Gherkin, where they all play as different types of anthropomorphic pickles
simon no, dear god no. Justin will name his “Ricky” and his only lines will be “I’m picky Ricky” to juuuust avoid copyright
graypetcoyle tbh that would be kinda funny lmao I’d love to hear them almost get copyright disputed
TAZ: Not Forever DM. Tagline: Griffin gets a break.
So that was a fucking lie.
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
100%. Flawless post.
Unbelievably good shit
The Adventure Zone: Gas, a Transformers Podcast
PLEASE GOD GIVE ME THIS
Adventure zone: Goo Adventure zone: Griffin TAZ: Good boy! whose a good boy! TAZ: GET REKT
TAZ: Goose Game
Or just TAZ Good Good Boys
Ah I see, this was Taz: hoGwarts
TAZ: Guac, they all play avocados on the run from Netflix stars and artisanal cafe owners
(insert the Office "Oh My God It's Happening" meme)
Everyone stay calm. Everyone stay calm. Stay fucking calm!
Taz: (oh my) God it’s happening
The Adventure Zone: Gravity Calling it now.
“Tell me, Pucci... do you believe in gravity?”
A full on space opera. Hootenanny was sort of a joke on that, and Balance kinda did it with the year long arc, but, yeah, I'm seeing a space epic coming.
Travis already said it ain’t space related
TAZ: Guilty in school admission scandal
taz: gill and gilbert
Me: "I don't want to go back to school." TAZ G: *exists* Me: "SIGN ME TF UP!"
Calling it: TAZ Graduation
Holy shit you called it you absolute madman
This mans is from the future
Looking back at this later I'm entirely shocked this comment section isn't a shitshow.
you have to sort by newest
@@cillianthestupendous6093 thanks that helped
I haven't listened to TAZ in forever but there's nothing like a trailer to get the old hype bones juiced again.
taz: goose the crossover of taz and untitled goose game no one expected and probably no one wanted
I saw the trailer at the NY Live Show last night, but I won’t spoil it for anyone. I’ll just say that it looks really fun
"It's Dungeons & Dragons" So that was a fucking lie.
Dungeons & Dragons (specifically 5e) is designed to be up to interpretation with the books as a guide :)
@@jovinalistewnik4104 You typically have to follow something at a base level for it to be a guide :)
it started with such promise...
I thought it was going to be TAZ: Gravel/Grit as a successor to Dust but this is even better! It's like Sky High but with a decent CGI budget!
pls don't trash talk the Cinematic Masterpiece that is Sky High
Ah yes, the infinite CGI budget of the Imagination (insert Spongebob rainbow meme here)
The Adventure Zone: Gorgonzola
God, this trailer had so much promise...
What happened
@@petrosantares5362 well, long story short, the hero/villain system was never shown in any sort of detail, the "school" aspect of the story was essentially dropped after the first 10 episodes, the main characters never experience a single meaningful fight, new npcs are constantly brought in without giving any development to the ones that already exist, the villains' plans make no sense, the players are firmly railroaded onto a very specific plan that also makes no sense, mind control is used frequently to force player characters to do what travis needs them to do for a scene to work, cliffhangers are often completely dropped at the start of the next episode, argo's backstory hook is completely fumbled by travis, also travis repeatedly pushes characters toward things they don't want to do (romance plot with rainer for fitzroy, lying for firbolg) and then those things are completely dropped later without mention, and also they invoke the "white savior" trope with the centaur tribe by coming in and stopping a religious war by destroying/stealing tribes' precious cultural artifacts because they "don't actually matter" and also they're the only ones special enough to literally meet these tribes' god despite literally being some random college students, also at one point travis has a character push the players into a drug party (despite one not wanting to) and has said drugs ("a mixture of lsd, ecstacy and shrooms") be the resolution to part of a player's character arc, and also more things but im tired of typing
i wasn't paying attention and came back to this tab to skip an ad
TAZ: Gaslight, a Victorian detective series!
Oh, that’d be cool!!!
This is actually a really cool concept and name
the latin on the shield thing says "bums and other heros"
if you put commas between each word it reads "heroes, villains, and the rest"
yes but theyre not in the right cases. It should say "Heroēs Nebulones Ceterique" and then you dont need commas to differentiate the two nouns and the adjective certi that is grammatically separated by the suffix -que
+
My research translates it to “heroes, scoundrels, other”
TAZ: Accounting
Janet Varney doing the voice work is *chef's kiss* wonderful.
TAZ: Guys, what are we doing?
mqzd 24 the cat should be a professor 😂
TAZ: Grime Taz: Glitter Taz: grunge Taz: Glass shark TAZ: Good good bois TAZ: Ghost TAZ: Gimme Gimme
"There is nobility in this..."
I just realized that on the gates it reads “Hieronymous Wiggenstaff’s School for Heroism and Villainy TM TM TM TM TM”
TAZ: Grandmas. Sorry Travis, had to spoil it.
TAZ: Grandmas would be *dope*.
Janet Varney narrating this is EVERYTHING
TAZ: Get Hype Cuz This Looks Great
I hope this mean we get an another episode of my actual favorite podcast: The The Adventure Zone Zone.
Let me just say this now, I’m gonna cry. I’m gonna cry when this trailer goes up and no act of god is going to be able to stop me Edit: I cried
saaaame, i may have gotten a tad misty eyed xD I was just so excited!
you're valid
Thank you for the update
TRAILER SPOILER: . . . . . IT'S... IT'S FANTASY SKY HIGH!!!
I’m currently in the college app process, and this sounds exactly like one of those pretentious videos they always play. I love it!
I'm genuinely excited for this new season. The trailer looks amazing and the music is the best and even though I haven't heard it yet I'm so proud of Travis for doing such a good job
I’m calling it now, clints gonna be playing the small blonde girl, Justin will be playing the big purple girl and griffin will be playing the brown hair kid
*ha*
Well then, I look forward to the finale's inevitable epic fantasy rendition of Pomp and Circumstance
Dust was one of my favorite mini arcs you all did. Glad to see you're back with some more Travis DM'ing so soon since the last arc ended. :)
Side kicks for dnd bosses by the sounds of it ? Bloody awesome
Everyone else is putting their guesses in so here goes; Generations?
It says graduation right in the video
Ben Puschert hey buddy the video wasn’t out when I wrote the comment
@@bethsims981 that's the joke.