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20. Is Zero a Stat?

"Wait... what microphone is it...I think it's recording from the computer microphone."


OK, not a lot of time here because I completely forgot to prep this one last night. Basically they watched the finale of season 3 and now they're gonna talk about it for a bit. After that, they rank all the episodes of season 3, you guys know the drill, this is our third season finale now. You should all go the AMT's production of Evil Dead The Musical (closes 27th July).


Season 3,

Episode 13,

The Visitor


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Duration:
20m
Broadcast on:
18 Jul 2024
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We're five minutes off it though. No. Nice one, mother. Welcome back to the Benton Podcast that nobody asked for. I am Nat. I'm Sam. I'm James. I'm Joe. I'm Bailey. And I'm guest Izzy. What have I done? Wrong button. No. No. Season three, episode 13, The Visitor. When an old friend from Grandpa Max's Plumber Day Pass appears, Ben despises not being the centre of attention anymore, but then an old threat returns, but it wasn't all gaxless time. I'm really impressed you got through that description. The Plumber Day Pass just sounds like a difficult thing to say. Plumber Day Pass. Plumber Day Pass. Plumber Day is past. Yeah. I'm proud of you. I don't think I said it right. No. The episode is a little interesting because I feel like it was a really great episode, but not a good finale. It's an emotional finale. Yeah. No, it gives us sort of lore, which was really interesting to explore, but I kind of feel like the two part of we just had would have fit better as the final episodes. I kind of like having a big, climactic story followed by a small little epilogue. I feel like if Grandpa left that would make it a good finale. Yeah. That would make it the worst episode. And then season four, he comes back. Oh. Yeah. Very short. One of those for now is when basically the ending means nothing because it's a direct character, it's like big changes are coming next season. Next season. No changes are coming. No. We know that Grandpa Max got down and dirty. Oh, yeah. We know. Grandpa Paul. Grandpa Paul. He pulls. He pulls. Grandpa Paul. Gamer. So. Mama. Puller. What does he do? What does he do? What does he do? He pulls back. It was specifically in Roswell. Yes. We will always have Roswell. We will always have Roswell. He will always have Roswell. Hell yeah. What do you trust? I love Roswell's joke. Someone mentioned that during the episode and I didn't realize that's seriously going to say. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no, no. It's just like that. It's just like two, three times during the episode and it's always between these two. We really love Roswell. Like, I can't come with you. I can't come with you. But Roswell had tendacle wrapping around his arms. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like. What else is it? Grandkids are right there. Oh. Matt. That's what you were thinking. No, I'm just saying. Okay. Grandkids were right there. Yeah. And? We learned to upgrade species is called. He's a galvanic micamorph. It's cool. Named after the Galvan. You remembered that. Because the upgrades were created by the Galvans as a technological race. The Alvanic Micamorph. Hmm. Yep. No. As if we aren't poor now. I don't remember the name. I remember the last houses. I can't say much having as soon as upchuck comparing a new alien, by the way, instantly going. So they're just giving a little fetch. It's a stomach goes to a parallel universe. So yeah. Upchuck's race. Which has two subspecies. One thing. There's... A chuck is actually the name. Yeah. No. The reason why it has two subspecies is because in one of the latest series they completely changed the art style on upchuck and didn't give a reason why. And then later on in the series they were like, "Oh we need a reason. There are two subsets of this species." Oh, I don't like the alien force designed to upgrade. I like the bright green. I do like this one. Upchuck. Upchuck. Yeah. And he swaps between them weirdly throughout the shows. Well, I'm really surprised because this is the cover for Season 3, right? So we... No, this is the cover. On Season 4. There it is. Thank you. So we see upchuck on the cover from the final episode. That's quite surprising to me. It's like he was like, "The Avatar." Thank you for holding that up. Which our viewers can listen to. Yeah. For our listeners, Izzy held up the complete Benton Season 3 DVD, gave us a nice showing off pointing to Upchuck on the front cover with three tongues shooting out of that big wide mouth for his. Why just that? Like that. That. That. Like that. Why does he bring things to you? Why does he bring things to you? He is missing some teeth. Yeah. Into work, okay. Don't point it out. There's a lot of insecurity in this show. Now look, there's cannonball, it's kissable lips. Just fiend. And it's pointing to a photo of cannonball. It's so like about the lips, they're just not glossy anymore. This. Going online. Okay. Okay. Hold on. Let me try. Let me try paddle us back. Other than spare time to listen. Let's try to get back to show our rimsials. No rimsials. No rimsials this season. Which is amazing. We'll cover that later when we get to the stats. For the listeners, Bailey is trying to hold back the tears. I was going to say probably the reason the object is on that is the object actually shows up in season four. Whereas I'm pretty sure. The season three. Yeah, I know what I'm saying. He also shows up in season four and we all know they were made to get up. Rick Joseph's on the cover. You know what he is? Is it really? He is the smallest face that he's on the cover. He's there. He is in the cover. And he doesn't get what he sees. He has not appeared in any of season three. Any of season three? I don't. He does not appear. He has referenced multiple times by being trying to turn into him and it never happens. Yes. I feel like we get his silhouette and nothing else. But hey. We do actually get the silhouette up and put it on the watch and then hit it down and not turn into it. But season four will be a ritual season. I'm calling it now. I don't think so. But. Season two was ritual season. I don't don't hurt me like this. Season two was ritual season. He was incredible. Yeah. I wasn't half the most of it. Who's told us that? Who's told us that? Who's told us that? Who's told us that? Who's told us that? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely. Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Who's told us that barely? Don't worry about it. It's fine. Okay. Moving on. We'll go back and say. We can wreck the episode. Absolutely. Now, um, let's go around. Who do you think is the... Who do you think is winning? Who got used to most of them to see? Can I know who won the last episode? Um, Grey Manor actually won last season. Oh, last season. The last time we pulled it. Last time it was Accelerate. I'm gonna go for Diamond Hit. I'm gonna go for Diamond Hit. Diamond Hit wasn't the running game I was eating. Diamond Hit, I think, is a solid. I think Diamond Hit never accelerated tight. I mean, they were before, I'm pretty sure. They were not. Accelerate is currently winning. They were tied to something. It is by one transformation. It goes Accelerate with eight. Diamond Hit and cannonballed with seven. Then we have upgrade them four on foot five. Then we have Wild Mart, stinkfly, and Grey Manor with four. Then we have Heat Blast with two. Which is wild. And then we have Ben Wolf, Mummy, Ben Victor, and Upchuck all with one transformation each. And also Ghost Freak. He is back in the only tricks now. James, he didn't transform into him. That's why I just said we're zero. Because he just said... Listen, hey, let's be get close. Are you doing that? Oh, am I doing the stats? Why don't you read our own stats? Because zero is a stat. No, it isn't. It is. Shit. If that was the case, then I'll be calling zero four on the aliens that haven't shown them. Not yet, okay? But are they in the show yet? Because they're part of the film. Also, Ghost Freak is a zero. Because he just got it back in the only tricks. Yeah, this is my take minute. You can talk to any other type. This is my take minute. For those listening at home, Sam has gone off the rails. Things are getting heated on the book. You know what I mean? Where is that? Do we take off his headphones? This is what this is now. Our listeners, Joe, just took off his headphones. In a really disgusting manner. Yeah. Okay, shall we rank the episodes? I won't remember them, but yeah. Lizzy, would you like to start us off? What was your favourite episode? My favourite one. Rank them. Rank them all. Yeah, all of them. We're all going to do individual tears. The face of fear that this is... Cut out the one where he turned to rip jobs. This is real fun. What was your first episode? What was your first episode? Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. By a far landslide. Merry Christmas. What about Midnight Madness? What was Midnight Madness? What was Midnight Madness? Oh, that was boring, but I think Merry Christmas was just so fun. You get some cool upgrade seats. Okay. Merry Christmas, Midnight Madness. Trouble is, the rest of the episodes are all good. Yeah. I don't have ripped jobs. Ben 10,000. So they're all rated zero in terms of favourite. Oh my god. They're all zero. Okay, so, okay, let's talk about... Besides Ben 10,000, because Ben 10,000 slaps. And all of the episodes where he at least appears on the watch, because that's a one out of ten. Anyway. So, we got... Charming. Say, excuse me. For our audio listeners, isn't that just burnt into the mic? I can hear... That is the one thing. They need to know it's next. Oh, I see. Do you think they were going to see it was next? Wasn't. Anyway, Ben 10,000 is the best. Yeah, I think... Okay, well, do you want to... I mean, we know it's Ben 10,000, but do we want to go from top to bottom? Sorry, bottom to top. I didn't leave until I'm like... I just burped sitting the normal distance from her. And the head, you still? Yeah, I'm just... That implies that I leaned and really close and did this. Excuse me. I was waiting for the moment I go ahead and bend 10,000 on first place, just because... Ohh! Okay, name it. Yeah, what's... What did I just go on? I did go on a slap, and also, like, Kevin 11,000? That's not there. Oh, no, that one. No, it's not. It's not. We watched it today. We know that it's not there. No! It's the next time they go into the future, I think. Yeah. Can10 is there, if so. Oh, actually, I kind of want to say game over. I really like it. It's number one. Yeah, over Ben 10,000, that's my opinion. Yeah, I like... I mean, if the votes are going that way, sure, but I think in 2000, it's just so cool. What happened in this episode of Ben 10,000? It's where they get taken to the future, like, young Ben and young women get taken to the future. Yeah. Animo and Vilgax, and they have to teach Ben how to knock, like, use the on the tricks all the time, because he never goes bent. He's always an alien, and it's about them teaching Ben 10,000 that sometimes Ben is enough. Does not have to go on? There is have to go on. Okay, there's a lot of trouble. It's better. We get some awkward points as well. And a shock. Was the Kevin a little bit? No. No. Kevin was Kevin? Was Kevin a little bit? No. No. Kevin is not in season three at all. That's disappointed. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Ben 10,000, first place, then game over. That's a good game. Now... I kind of want to put "Change your face" third from the bottom. Yeah. I know I like that one. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, so what? So that's number 11, essentially. So do we want to rank the two part as separately or together? I feel like that's a single story. Yeah, so... So the return slash be afraid of... I very much enjoyed that episode. Technically, the entire series is a single story, if you think about it. E-E-E-E-E. I would say in terms of like the best episode, I want to put Ben Wolf. Ben, absolutely. Ben Wolf is great. The slow transformation that he gets of like... I'm sad they don't ever do that with any other alien that he slowly... Because he goes through like a full werewolf transformation. He's like a real magical girl transformation. But like, the other ones are like fast. This one's throughout the entire episode. Like he just gets like all the werewolf transformations. Yeah, realistically, that does not work. Mummy should have been slow. That means the frames are even slow. Yeah, it'd be cool if every time new DNA is acquired, it has to slowly transform them to the actual form. And I didn't... Because that's kind of valid a button. That for all the other ones, they're just touching the watch, or that one it scratched a watch and could have interrupted. Yeah, but listen, I'm also defending it. It's a good show. Also, it is the first time it happens. It's the first time the watch is taking a new DNA. Oh, unless Wildvine was technically from the... Wildvine. Yeah. But yeah, that was also instant. Yeah. How did he get Wildvine? He was wrapped up in some fungus. And took the DNA of the fungus. Classic. I remember that. So, after Ben Wolf... I reckon the return/be afraid of the dark. Yeah, those were great episodes. I'm checking in on fourth last place. Can we put monster weather? I was going to say. Yeah. It wasn't a sad music. Oh, wow. That's all I can say about this show. That had good music. Yeah, good music. What was that called again? Monster weather. Monster weather. Then the un-naturals, I think. Then the visitor. What's the unnatural again? The baseball one. And then the visitor is... The lock one we just watched. Yeah, I can agree with that. Do you just didn't like that Grandpa Max got some? Oh, no, he's putting Grandpa Max up. Wait. Oh, is it up? Yeah, it's up. It's up. We are totally up guys. I am a full Grandpa Max fan. Um, yeah. We only thought you could end with something different than when you were sitting. Number one stand. No, no one wants Grandpa Max to get it more than me. Oh, god! Didn't have to take it there. Yeah. We got super alien hero buddy adventures and under wraps. Where are we putting that? What was the under wraps? I think super hero. That was the mummy. Super alien hero buddy adventures, I think, is probably worse than Monster weather. Cool, cool. Yeah, I agree with that. I liked the mummy one. I liked the mummy one. Yeah. Just because it's nice to see them doing other stuff and even Grandpa Max sort of learns minor lessons and stuff and has a bit of character. Yeah. I put under wraps higher than the visitor. I'm the wrapped higher. Would people disagree? I don't know. What would they get? What was the visitor? We just watched it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That was the visitor. I don't pay attention to the name of the visitor. I'm going to be honest. No, but someone asked that question about thirty seconds ago. So, here's the thing though. The only reason I'm here to do that is because in the visitor, the one we do get up Chuck, and we get a sweet mummy with Grandpa. Grandpa being any kids. And the farm setting has a bit boring. Okay. So, under wraps goes below the visitor. Yes. That's our fastest ranking of the seasons. Yeah. So, yeah. When you're really Santa, take us through. What a season three. What a banger. Yeah. It was filled with radiance. Oh, I just had to say that I feel it is an improvement over season. So, when your current ranking doesn't have reptiles. So, and your current ranking, you would put it as season three at the top. Yeah. Season two in the middle and season one at the bottom. Yeah. Okay. Now, I'm just going to pull up. You can read through them. I'm just going to pull up the scores for afters. We can see what points you read. So, here's how we rated them. Worse, we've gone with the Merry Christmas Midnight Madness. A change of phase. Superhero buddy adventure. Super alien hero buddy adventures. Too many words in the title. Super alien buddy adventure. Monster weather. The unnatural. Under wraps. The visitor. The return slash be afraid of the dark. Was not good. And then... That's... Game over. And Ben. It's now a season. No, because it's... Look how the... Oh, look how the... Who cares why I'm DB thinks. This is the season fit. Oh. I don't know. It's the same as this season. I never learned. Yeah. So, the highest rated episode of the season was the Piers in 10,000 with an 8.7. Yeah. It's pretty solid. And the lowest... It's actually a bit lower than we've had before. We've got a 6.9 with Super alien hero buddies. You know what, actually, that was a very bad episode. Yeah. It's got a fun gimmick. I like forearms being Scottish. Yeah, that was funny. Super alien hero buddies. In that episode, a cartoonist takes forearms while mud and heat blast and makes a cartoon with their cartoon characters. Firebuddy. Firebuddy. Doggybuddy and Handybuddy. Mm-hmm. And so, they've all got their voice... Heat blast rhymes. He's kind of a rapper. Doggybuddy just makes noises voiced by Dee Bradley Baker. Oh, of course. The voice of Perry the Platypus. Yeah. The voice of... Everything. And Handybuddy... Handybuddy is Scottish. I just realized Handybuddy, not a good name. No. No. It's not. It's just Kirby being said a lot. I was like... Yeah, I didn't. Just as I was said, I was like, "Actually, you know what? Not a good name." So, I'll also just check out... So, Ben Wolf was rated 8.6. So, it was one off the first place, which is amazing. It was great. Well, all the game over game. But a surprising one was... A change of face was rated 8. That is amazing. I did not expect that one. People tend to like bodyshopper, because things of the formula. And game over was an 8.1. So, overall, it's very solid season. It's between the 7 and 8's with... What's been 10,000, right? 10,000 was an 8.7. So, it's one above Ben Wolf. Yeah. So, overall, a great season. There was one stinker, you know, compared to the ratings of the other seasons. The Super Alien here, I think, is our lowest rated episode so far. I'll just check season one. What was the Christmas one rated? Oh, that's a good question. Merry Christmas was a 7.1. Well done. Average. So... That one just feels so far. Yeah, so, so far. But it doesn't fit. It just feels like they got told, "Do a Christmas one." But it's the middle of summer. Oh, I was totally surprised that they went... Hey, we won the vacation. It's a magical world. It's a magical world. So, it feels like they just have to shoehorn it in there. Also, it's really possible the writers were like, "It would be fun to do a Christmas episode. How can we work it into our show?" Well, I mean, it's interesting to do the same thing, right? Yeah. But, yeah, so, anyway, so... Super Alien here, buddy, is the lowest episode of the show so far. It is the first and only episode to dip below a 7 rating. [Whistles] Only by one, but still, out of the 7s. I don't mind... It's definitely... It's not a great one, but I don't mind too much because it kind of like... Wait. What microphone is it? I think it's recording from the computer microphone. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, no. No, the web... Our headphones are plugged into the microphone, but the actual audacity... No, but no, I'm saying... So, it's making me sick. It's picking up in the light as well. I'm just going to stop looking. Testing, testing. Hang on. Can it be picking up from both? Oh, no. Because you've got two channels? It is, okay, it is picking up from... Yeah, it's on the mic. Okay, it's because it was picking up from the mic. That would have been really embarrassing, guys. I think I might have gone. Oh, well, we had a good one. [Laughter] Well, it's... It's Season 3, Episode 12, and that was where we finished. Oh, that's terrible. Anyway, anything else we have to say about the season or the final episode? Who do we think was the Season MVP character? It's not something we've done before, but was there a fan favourite character for the season? I met her. Great, man. I've got to say, Wildvine did some... ...work this season. Like, every time it was on screen, he at least saved a couple people. Like, you did some major work. That's my opinion. I think the MVP is cash for saving the life of the President of the United States. Get the f*** out. [Laughter] You're allowed to have your own opinion. And mine is Grandpa Max, who has been added to the Blunt rotation. Yeah. Specifically because of that reason. That's why... That is why he is my goat, and he is inspiring. He takes the buck. He takes the buck. Do you have a favourite character of the season, is he? I bet he is saying Grandpa Max. [Laughter] He is the goat. He is the goat. I feel like he had to have that real strong outer space. [Laughter] Oh, shit. [Laughter] He was really old. His Blunt rotation, like, doing a blunt session with him would probably take you into space. [Laughter] He made Gwen an astronaut. Yeah. He'll be like, "This... this strain here, it's actually not work." It's called Moon Rocking. Guess what? It's a real strain. Hi. Yeah. And on that note, onto season four. [Laughter] You've been listening to the Ben Tim podcast that nobody asked for. One of the podcasts of all time. If you've got anything you'd like to say to us, anything you'd like to complain about, or if you just need a void to scream into, feel free to email us at bentonnobodyasked@gmail.com. That's been10nobodyasked@gmail.com. Or follow us on Instagram @bentonnobodyaskedpod. Right on, Ben heads. [Silence]