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| Crunch | |
|---|---|
 Crunch hosts (S2) | |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | MePhone4 |
| Presented by | MePhone4
Shuaib Aslam (S1E1-S1E8) Stickman Keyboard (S1E2-S2E6) Keith McRonald (S1E3-now) Momokuma (S2E1-now) Val Lingasa (S1E4-S2E3) John Dalisay (S1E9-now) Josh Velasco (S2E1-S2E6) RossoTX (S2E1-now) Grimagikoopa (from S2E5) |
| Country of origin | Robotia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 4 minutes (S1-S2), 6 minutes (S3-now) |
| Production companies | PMQ (in collaboration with Meanie Productions and Entity Broadcasting Corporation) |
| Original release | |
| Network | PMQ |
| Release | June 9th, 2023 |
Crunch is a weekly comedy show on PMQ, first aired on June 9th, 2023. The show focused on memes on various communities, along with the big memes. The hosts themselves also have their own memes, and they will often show it off without anyone knowing. The show has been popular in various countries, with multiple dubs existing soon after. The show is also credited for helping PMQ regain their number 1 spot after a series of scandals hit the channel the year prior.
History
[edit]Crunch was the program that MePhone4 came up with around late 2022. With PMQ desperate for a program to regain the ratings, Crunch eventually get pushed to start on May 21st, and the first episode was aired on June 9th at 8:00PM.
Crunch had no real promotions of any kind, yet it was able to set a new record for the most viewed program in PMQ's entire modern history (1998-now), with over 45% of the population on PMQ to watch what was still a very boring show.
As the show progresses through the episodes, new hosts started to come in. From just 2 hosts (MePhone4 & Shuaib Aslam), it went all the way to 6 by the end of the season (MePhone4, Stickman, Val, Keith, John, Josh)
For a while, Crunch was experimenting with adverts on screen. This put some people off, including Nathan who jokingly raged over it. Ads on screen only existed for 1 episode (S1E10). They also experimented with airtime, but they ended up stopping all weekday broadcasts starting from S1E10, and switched to a Sunday-only show.
After S1E8, Shuaib Aslam decided to leave, mostly because he has been a reporter for PMQ News and hosting a show is "too much" for him.
Crunch was initially scheduled for a Season 2 on September 3rd, but it wasn't until September 17th, 2023 that Season 2 officially began. Season 2 brought in a whole new intro, along with both RossoTX (who was a guest) and Momokuma as the new hosts. Episode 2 takes Crunch from their old studio (presumably E1 at EBC Broadcasting Tower) to a new studio 30 floors high, right on the top of PMQ's headquarters.
Episode 3 saw a timeslot change, where Crunch is now a part of PMQ's The Entertainment Dream Team, with Crunch itself starting at 7:30am, next to The Amazing Digital Circus (7:40am)
The timeslot change didn't last long, as after the timeslot takeover on what's supposed to be Episode 6's broadcast (October 22nd, 2023), the producers decided to mock The Amazing Digital Circus (which was the show that took the slot the week prior). After furious comments from TADC fans, Crunch halted their Season 2 efforts until it was eventually cancelled on December 5th.
During all this, relations between MePhone4 and Stickman worsened. They constantly argued behind the scenes, to the point where they almost broke their files on November 24th. As a result, Stickman and Josh left the show. Stickman later went on to create The Stickman Show the next month, while Josh returns to his old job as a news reporter.
For a while, people were worried if this could be the end of Crunch as a whole. To everyone's surprise, MePhone4 announced their Season 3 efforts on January 1st, 2024. The first episode is going to be on air at the old airtime of 8:00pm, January 28th, 2024. With the change in hosts, Season 3 promised a new format, where every episode has guests. The first guest to appear is Nathan Plays, who MePhone4 has confirmed about the appearance.
Format
[edit]Season 1
[edit]S1 episodes consist of 3 skits & memes, typically lasting 1 minute each, along with casual talk at the beginning and end. Total airtime of Crunch during Season 1 is at 4-5 minutes for each episode.
Season 2
[edit]S2 episodes are typically longer than S1, lasting 6-7 minutes. This is due to the expanded amount of skits to 5 and the introduction of part-time hosts like RossoTX and Grimagikoopa. From Episode 3 until the halting of S2, the show got expanded to 15 minutes, with 10 skits and some news built-in.
Season 3
[edit]S3 episodes are scheduled to also be 15 minutes, however the amount of memes is down to 8. Added to S3 is the new chatshow side of Crunch, where MePhone4 talks with the guest for 2-3 minutes.
Summary
[edit]Season 1
[edit]| Episode | Hosts | Details | Date aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MePhone4
Shuaib Aslam |
MePhone4 and Shuaib Aslam introduces the audience to Crunch, along with RossoTX's welcome message. | June 9th, 2023 |
| 2 | MePhone4
Shuaib Aslam Stickman |
MePhone4 and Shuaib Aslam say welcome to a new host, Stickman, only to get interrupted by Stickman multiple times while MePhone4 and Shuaib reviews a random shutdown message and a Chinese kid unable to write English properly. | June 10th, 2023 |
| 3 | MePhone4
Shuaib Aslam Stickman Keith |
Keith joins Crunch even though no one out of the other 3 hosts can really understand what he said back then, to the point of subtitles being shown. Episode 3 discussed what happened on the previous episode, and a prank call to MePhone4 and Shuaib to one of the broadcasters, GWA. | June 11th, 2023 |
| 4 | MePhone4
Shuaib Aslam Stickman Keith Val |
Episode 4 finally came (long after Rosso said it) and the show got a new intro made by n0ah. This episode consists of MePhone4 throwing his phone out, leaked footage from RossoTX, Val's completely "normal" weather reports. Coincidentally, Val suddenly appeared from Stickman's back, taking his position. | June 12th, 2023 |
| 5 | MePhone4
Shuaib Aslam Stickman Keith Val |
Episode 5 started with a fake warning about the show for no reason whatsoever. Keith later jabbed on that warning. This episode reacts to Stickman's behind the scenes, Val's weird comments, and Rosso's fake suicide attempt. | June 13th, 2023 |
| 6 | MePhone4
Shuaib Aslam Stickman Keith Val |
Episode 6 introduced the now familiar theme to Crunch. The hosts decided to react to more up-to-date stuff, so they reacted to stuff like a recent (at the time) scandal in the Philippines. The reaction wouldn't last long as the hosts argued over how much they work on Crunch and how tiresome it is. | June 14th, 2023 |
| 7 | MePhone4
Shuaib Aslam Stickman Keith Val |
With some absolutely dreadful prohibitions, Crunch was forced to silence out all curse words for Episode 7. This was such a hard thing to follow that they ended up just throwing all the memes they have for the episode. MePhone4 also brought the new Read Me promo to Crunch viewers. | June 15th, 2023 |
| 8 | MePhone4
Shuaib Aslam Stickman Keith Val |
After the alleged doxxing of Salvador McAllister, Crunch hosts were practically silenced by a Filipino television group known as YEOW. Episode 8 was more on the serious side, as they are all being threatened. | June 16th, 2023 |
| 9 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith Val John |
After a 12-day absence, Crunch is back with Episode 9, with John Dalisay replacing Shuaib Aslam.
In this episode, they talked about their newest meme at the time, which was a Crispy Fry knockoff (including the hilarious packaging) and the new ad that was on PMQ during the time they were off. |
June 28th, 2023 |
| 10 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith Val John |
The first Crunch episode to be broadcasted on weekends only, and the only one to ever feature always-on adverts. The hosts dived through what is in stock at a nearby DKOldies, including 3 random sex tapes, dirty controllers, random game cartridges, etc. | July 5th, 2023 |
| 11 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith Val John |
Most of the hosts are already quite tired after the episodes beforehand (even after skipping a week) so this is really just a recap of episode 9 and 10 with some talks about it. | July 19th, 2023 |
| 12 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith Val John |
Hosts try to react, only to see MePhone4 trying to act slay over nothing. Val raged so much that he said racist stuff (censored). After this incident, the hosts decided to react to Filipino advertisements, but they got interruptted again by a random earrape ad.
This would turn out to be Season 1's last episode, due to the intended season finale getting cancelled. |
July 26th, 2023 |
Season 2
[edit]| Episode | Hosts | Details | Date aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith Val John Josh Momokuma |
The first episode of Crunch S2 starts with Momokuma trying to describe how much he likes rice, how to cut a Xan cake, MePhone4's fake suicide video (homage to S1E5) and Diogo Mendes's rage over people calling him Doggis.
The second part of the episode had the hosts react to a ball being cut by a fan, mocking Han Xiao Aii for her make-up and a funny recalling of S1E1. |
September 17th, 2023 |
| 2 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith Val John Josh Momokuma |
The episode starts with Stickman trying to fight with Val, Rosso's dark attic of books (which led to a skit of him being killed by Val), MePhone4 trying to troll Val by giving him a captcha as a gift (Val's a robot), Turkish nationalist angered after he got shown a Greek flag as his nationality.
The best thing about this episode is the switch to the new studio (accompanied by a Doggis joke) and a sudden appearance of Hatsune Miku. |
September 24th, 2023 |
| 3 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith Val John Josh Momokuma |
Episode 3 of Season 2 starts off with MePhone4 trying to joke about Stickman but he failed, after which the main reaction video starts. The video is a 2 minute compilation of Savio Begaj's funniest TV mocks. Stickman disappeared after laughing too much, while Val and Keith show no real reactions. Rosso also stepped in halfway during the video only to be kicked out again by Val. | October 1st, 2023 |
| 4 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith John Josh Momokuma |
S2E4 begins with Stickman in a hospital bed, suffering from a huge stomachache. Each of the hosts attempted to make Stickman recover, with Val succeeding after literally jumping on Stickman's body.
Once in the studio, Godzilla suddenly appeared when they are reacting to Salvador McAllister raging over pictures of Gigan and insults. This is the episode that marked the move to 7:30am, a move that didn't last so long. |
October 8th, 2023 |
| 5 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith John Josh Momokuma GMK |
Episode 5 is all about the recent Israel-Hamas conflict and all the cringe that surrounds it. Stickman was caught being super political and threatened to kill MePhone4, only to stop once Rosso comes in. Grimagikoopa also had his first ever Crunch show with some random, yet amazing memes. | October 15th, 2023 |
| 6 | MePhone4
Stickman Keith John Josh Momokuma GMK |
The hype of this episode doesn't just come from the fact that the star of this episode is the Troemxinto Castang kid, but also for the controversial statements over The Amazing Digital Circus. Also in this episode is the dark side of Wukong's life, and some behind the scenes over how much they laughed over the Troemxinto Castang kid (allegedly for 15 minutes straight) | October 29th, 2023 |
Season 3
[edit]| Episode | Hosts | Details | Date aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MePhone4
Stickman v2 Keith Momokuma Nathan Plays (guest) |
The first episode of Crunch S3 starts with MePhone4 greeting viewers when Kinemaster Watermark suddenly appears, who soon got kicked out. Nathan then appears only to get roasted by MePhone4 and Momokuma. After this, a video suddenly appears, showing Robotian-related memes.
Crunch in Robotia : This part starts with a cringe Chinese kid's attempt at a TV clock, Momokuma's trivia over Robotia, and repeated scenes of a man blowing on a can of frozen soup. MePhone4's end line : "well that was a f*cking night, join us for more crunch, happy s3" |
January 28th. 2024 |
| 2 | MePhone4
Stickman v2 Keith Momokuma |
MePhone4 was caught with some slightly unnerving talk during the last episode, then he decided to make a sandwich only to get Ethiopian flashbacks from the logo he saw. They then tried to react to a Korean fast food ad while seeing MePhone4 vomit after eating that sandwich.
Crunch in Robotia :Starts off with a Filipino man screaming "PUTANG INA MOOOOOO", Momokuma decided to expose MePhone4 after a StreamYard episode a few days before, while the repeated scenes of a man blowing on a can of frozen soup from the last episode reappears. MePhone4's end line : "well, thats it for crunch S3E2, and we will see you next week. good bye everyone" |
February 4th, 2024 |
Reception
[edit]Crunch was overwhelmingly postively rated for its awesome memes, goofy styles and the amount of personality each host had. Over time, some cracks of the show began to show, as MePhone4 and Stickman got stuck in endless arguments and hate, presumably the main reason to Stickman exiting Crunch after Season 2.
The show was notorious for having offensive memes towards communities they got hate from, especially YEOW and TADC. YEOW members alleged that the show is purposefully made for racism and encourages people to destroy the show. TADC fans was "annoyed" from how Crunch took over the slots that they watch the most, so they wrote a complaint to PMQ. The complaint resulted in S2E6 getting delayed, which makes Crunch hosts & viewers equally annoyed. The controversial comments on S2E6 was so hated by TADC fans that Crunch delayed S2E7 to November 12th, then November 19th, before cancelling forever out of pressure.
Links
[edit]1. https://www.youtube.com/@jeykies3745 - Current distributor of all Crunch episodes
2.https://app.bsd.education/share/o/tvd8uktm/ - Crunch's official website