Showdown

[GunterJPN]

"I don't want to use the radio because it's sorta private"... so instead of speaking on the radio, he uses a method that anyone in view (and who knows the code - likely anyone military) can understand

[SepherSerado]

BAHAHA! That's how Max is so good at battle. Video games.

[001hellcat1]

23:05 derp :P

[lildevil017m]

Claudia is the best! That was some great advice and helping Rick and Lisa get together.

[driftingwolf0]

on 16:25 is any one else wondering why theres a muscular shirtless guy flexing in the back ground.

[dejabu24]

I love the scene with the lighting code message btw Rick and Lisa , its really cool

[Dalessiokiller]

I've always thought the background music for Rick & Claudia's conversation was beautiful.

[facenek21]

aren't kyle and mai cousin's--marriage?

[jeffreyalvarez2002]

16:24 Check out the big bearded dude flexing. Awkward...

[navy0287]

20:25 Rick goes to the friend list. This is what happens when you kiss a woman's ass, constantly buy her stuff, and defend her "honor" when other guys let her know she ain't all that.

If Rick had told Minmei bitch ass where to get off, she would have put out for him whenever he wanted.

[Exsignal]

I love it. Nobody cares about kissing, married cousins. Then again, they just faced 50ft, human-like beings in a war throughout the solar system. So I guess, at this point, it's normal.

[daraleekmyballz]

@Exsignal lol good point

[nonapejase]

At 13:00 Admiral Hayes says "Lisa. Thank goodness you're here. You finally got off that terrible shit."

[drunkrumjack]

When Miriiya recalls Kyhron's warning during her arcade fight with Max, Khyron quips hte line about a "superb pilot". That line was presumely from the episode Farewell, Big Brother where Miriya taunts Khyron and he warns about a pilot she "cannot best" but he does not utter what Miriya remembers here. Perhaps it was cut/edited from Farewell, Big Brother cause of time constraints. I am wrong or is there other episode prior with Khyron's "superb pilot" line in it as Showdown implies?

[kla7672]

Do they ever sleep on sdf1?

[Citrakite]

Damn Max is a Pimp!

I'd hit that Meltran ass like an orbital bombardment.

[oxinmire]

@Citrakite what is meltran?

[Citrakite]

@oxinmire to the Zentraedi, females.

[oxinmire]

@Citrakite thanks, missed that the first time around.

[leomc11]

i want to punch kyle! thats ur freakin cousin u weirdo!

[rpe11]

After watching 24 episodes in a row the background music gets a bit annoying -,-..

[cstory72]

Lisa's old man is a total a''. overprotected? yeah but he think the SDZ-1 being a sacifical lamb is insane. I bet he was all for having SDF-1 off the planet after the shield overload fiasco.

[unavailablemyass]

chiron is a deuce. he reminds me of an overly destructive two-year-old

[jimboslice711]

17:17 his eyes man. He knows a good pilot when he "sees one." Lmao Rofl!!!!

[ellnats]

if only rick stayed at that spot a little longer

[manofaluminum9000]

*Press conference*

"I'M MARRYING MY COUSIN"

And the public rejoiced.

[PlacidDirge]

@greenhairedsetokaiba At first I thought it was an strange version of grand theft auto.

[ronelltube]

the spy makes me laugh...... she mistaken the arcade game to be a simulation unit for war ^^

[QuintonHobdy]

Bout time they finally have a actual conversation about their feelings even if it was in morse code.

[armbayonets]

whats with the shirtless body builder 16:25

[fremle]

Max makes me happy, he's such a cool guy!

[Nato4Nato]

wait, aren't Minmay and Kyle cousins?!?!?! WTF

[jixonjaxon]

Why does Rick get screwed by every chic he comes in contact with?! lol

[KafshakTashtak]

20:35 ROFL. Richo , what do they mean by marriage, why do these people keep talking about it?

because marriage is something important, when two people get married they go off some place private and spend their time pressing their lips together.

Oh, what a baby.

[the1irishwolf]

So....at this point in the show, who do you hate more? Minmay or Kyle?

[kodoro]

@the1irishwolf Do I have to pick?!

[johnloves1098]

@the1irishwolf BOTH

[Strong5Bad]

@the1irishwolf i think the hatred is directed pretty evenly. now, if Minmay was to sing an anti-war song on kyle's behalf, i'd shoot myself. then again, i would no longer be able to re-watch the series.

[Demondscott]

Respond to this video... that dude was hattin' on max!" i hope she plans to show up!" damn max you gotta let the girl win,and ur in there! still max got game!!PLAYA,PLAYA!!!!

[blitz849]

ARMORED VERITECH FIGHTER?! HELLTOTHEYEA!!!!! I want my own!!

[ultrajd]

Oh God Minmei is even in viedo games!

[OpTic3liJK]

If u are a die hard fan then buy a veritech action figure

[mdo7]

@OpTic3liJK: You know Japan sell a lot of these, you can go to Japan and buy one since there this show is very well known.

[MrPeridot333]

I knew he was a bleeding hippie!

[variousiroiro]

LOL Max was checking her out while beating her in 5 mins. He wasn't even serious.

[Vamavid]

6:12 The way the shuttle buttoned up for the impending attack is SWEET!

[EternalWingsOfGod]

Lol never make a game center by the base good idea lol next ep sounds good

lol fire the cannon then peace k

[sango213]

the damn Earth military are more war monger-like than the aliens

[sango213]

lol it should be illegal for fighter pilots to play that game lol

[Arzaker]

showdown

brings back memories of fightng that crazy bitch kiyora

[mikesson]

Did anyone notice that sum one was grabbing sum ones ass @ 15:58?

[Strong5Bad]

did anyone else notice that the kid at 13:29 is holding a cigarette in his left hand?

[86nives]

@Strong5Bad wtf???

[demoskunk]

@Strong5Bad That "kid" is actually Lupin and he's playing his own video game!

That game actually existed and it was called "Cliffhanger" in the U.S.

It was laser disc based, just like Dragon's Lair.

I watched this episode for years before I noticed it was Lupin. :P

[schizoidboy]

@demoskunk I think Carl Macek produced the first Lupin movie when it was first brought to the country, before Disney re-released it with it's own dubbing.

[demoskunk]

@schizoidboy I loved the original dub!

[X619xreyx619x]

oi oi Rick

[amen6ra26]

I pretty much lost it after I saw this episode the super valkyrie, I was only 9 maybe 10 when this hit da US and G Force two of da craziest cartoons dat I went nutty over to be a kid again!!!

[superzilla784]

i dont know why i hesitate to watch these episodes

i know i have to watch them before YouTupe deletes them

[EvrybdyluvsJosh]

great pick-up line, Max! "Wait don't go this could be my only chance to get your name and phone number!"

[lavosgundam]

And they call us rednecks...

[lancelael21]

20:45 lol

the zantraedi r funny!

[corona73]

Love it. "We're going to fire our big cannon at the enemy and then start peace talks"

WTF! HAHAHAHA!

[Nxtl68]

@corona73

Gotta love that Robotech logic.

[zeroswings2]

@corona73 actually... it makes more sense. they want to force them into peace by showing that they have a "bigger stick"... a similar tactic kept us out of world war III

[117Jorn]

@corona73 ....wow thats the most stupid idea since Adolf hitiler began killing the jews.

[corona73]

@117Jorn It's called sarcasm - I'm from New England. Watch the episode again - it's exactly what they do in the episode. It's retarded Japanese thinking...

[117Jorn]

@corona73 I knew that. I was just saying it was a stupid idea!

[corona73]

@117Jorn Ahhhhhhhh.  Word :)

[demoskunk]

@corona73 It's not retarded Japanese thinking. It's good writing, 'cause that's what some militaries have done throughout history to intimidate their enemies.

Besides, they're already at war, so it's believable that a corrupt Earth gov't would use such a powerful weapon to wipe out most of the ships that have been dogging the SDF-1.

It's a stupid decision, but this kind of military blunder is quite realistic.

[whatewer23]

@corona73 THats pretty much what americans did to japanese people at the end of world war 2.

[corona73]

@whatewer23 Yeah, but the situations are not really the same. It would be like the Japanese navy sinking a few of our ships as all of our navy is surrounding Japan with all our atomic bombs in bombers airborne over Japan as well. We would have glassed Japan like the Zentradi glassed earth.

[TheOrnageJuice]

@corona73 you cant forget the covenent glassed reach

[corona73]

at 3:12 that girl deserves a backhand by the captain!

[Monastication]

Kyle loves incest.

[AngelicCo]

Incest, booze, all things non-military. He kinda inherited Rick's "Minmei!!" obsession in the Sentinels comics, though to a more stalker degree.

[PetiteOzma]

first Cousin marriage is not illegal in most of the states, and is not illegal in Japan (more importantly for the production of this show)... With the background of these characters it's not strange.

There are many cases of Chinese cousins who are involved in anime.

[mdo7]

@PetiteOzma: That's true I notice this in a lot of anime, incest is not that strange in Japan. I know several anime that has incest.

[bjevansca1]

WTF! Pause it at 16:26. Why is that guy flexing with his shirt off? Is the guy next to him Yao Ming? And is that Ken Masters from Street Fighter?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DarkCylon]

That "guy" is probably some sort of cardboard cut-out that the store owner put up. Maybe I should watch the arcade section again, to see if it is a cut-out.

[dejabu24]

hhahahah I liked the way minmay was talking about rick "he was just a friend" hahahahah poor rick

[bottlecapsarecool]

They sure have one heck of a phone system... no matter where Rick is they always manage to find him.. lol.

[falchard]

Well it is 2009. I am sure they have some type of GPS to track officers.

[yzbi]

"Heck of a phone system" ? It would be better to have mobile cell phones like nowadays!

[willliamd]

Damn at 23:05 her eyes are fuck up

[Allarian]

It's not an acceptable practice there anymore but has happened, just like it's happened everywhere else. It's just not the social norm.

[CyrussNP]

Why does it sound like a kid at 13:29? Even though he's holding a cigarette?

[o0Navras0o]

Also notice that he has a beard =O or what I think is a beard

[photohype]

yeah, he is holding a cigarette... and I'd say a baby, not a kid!

[sarahseth4]

so is wanting to do your cousin consitered ok in japan or am i missing something?

[falchard]

Yup its perfectly fine to marry your cousin and is thought of a little better then marrying a stranger.

In fact its a modern concept of not being with cousins. It was a necessity before modern times because communities were so small, travel was so long, and clans usually resided in 1 community.

[sarahseth4]

odd but i've heard stranger things.

[NewKokujinOptions]

So much for the "diversity is strength" argument then, eh?

[bwinterb]

wow I just noticed how much this is missing compared to the blue Robotech box set. In the box set Max finds Rick eating and looking glum so Max drags him off to the game room. I'm sure there are a bunch of little extra scenes then... need to watch the box set yet again I guess.

[RedZombie05]

Listen to the wise black woman Rick! Hell it doesn't take a genius to realize it. Argh! I wish Claudia was my relationship consultant! She is the all knowing voice of the series! Faulkner dying was a real crappy way to continue the rest of this series, to be honest he was my favorite character.

[schizoidboy]

@RedZombie05 Claudia is probably one of the best written character in the series, in some ways she's the perfect opposite to Lisa and is almost like a big sister to everyone in and out of the control deck.

[MrLazerBlade]

@RedZombie05 Roy was a favorite of mine as well and his death was sad. But I do believe that in all reality, it did add development to the story and to the characters. It helped Rick grow more, and learn, and Claudia dealt with Roy's death in her own way.

[dudemasterlok1]

KYLE'S A FREAKIN REDNECK

[dudemasterlok1]

there cousins and they kissed i was like woa so odd it totaly blew my mind my friends said they were basicly making out and i was like woa your right dude they basicly are odd there rednecks

[Galactatech]

most dad's would bust out a gun to chase off any boys after their girls, Lisa's dad would send in a whole fleet.

[Tails137]

Man. Rick is rocking that Safari jacket.

[03AccentVA]

Someone PLEASE!!??

"Ku Zen" is Japanese for "good friend" or something right!?!? Their not really cousins, I mean it's Space NOT West Virginia!

[kullas924]

veratech are good idea but one qestion why are there not turrets ANYWERE

[TheBrubur]

no need for turrets when in guardian or battleoid mode. and the laser mounted on the head could count as a type of turret.

[Cheetor91]

right sry

[Cheetor91]

dude incest thats not night

[SunTrapped]

Wasn't he a cousin or something like that?

[joethedrummer08]

I know. Everytime they kiss im like... HOLD THE FUCK UP!

[117Jorn]

Super veretech FTW.

[Tails137]

Truth.

And Admiral Hayes' white shoes. Because apparently pimping is easy.