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THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - EP 1: PILOT
Season	1
Episode	1
Overall	68
Blooper Information
U.S./U.K. airdate	October 13, 2023
Series	The Amazing Digital Circus
Viewers	351M+ views
Credits
Idea by/Written by	Gooseworx
Directed by	Gooseworx
Produced by	Kevin Lerdwichagul
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THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - EP 1: PILOT is the first episode of Season 1 of The Amazing Digital Circus and the sixty-eighth video overall to be uploaded by GLITCH.

This pilot currently holds the Most Popular Views on Glitch Productions outside of SMG4, with over 300 million views and counting. It was aired on October 13, 2023.

On October 4th, 2024, the series aired on Netflix.

Synopsis

The Amazing Digital Circus is a psychological dark comedy about cute cartoon characters who hate their lives and want to leave 🎪😀

Plot

The Amazing Digital Circus takes place within a computer simulation that appears to be a video game of some kind.

Following the title screen, the Amazing Digital Circus is introduced by the ringmaster Caine, who welcomes the viewers to the circus along with his companion Bubble. The rest of the characters are then introduced in a theme song: Gangle, Zooble, Kinger, Ragatha, Jax, and the absentee Kaufmo (who is filled in for by a cardboard cutout). During all this, a new jester character suddenly appears in the Circus and disrupts the song in her confusion (also breaking Gangle's comedy mask by accident). Caine proclaims that the jester is a human and she states that she arrived upon putting on a "weird headset", but she is informed by the other characters that she wasn't the first, as the other characters were also teleported to and trapped within the circus (Kinger having been there for the longest and, according to Jax, gone crazy), and also informing her that there is no way for her to leave her new home and body as she gets panicky.

With the jester still fearful, confused, and desiring to leave, Caine gives her a short tour of the circus grounds using his teleportation, showing her The Tent where everyone lives, The Grounds for adventures outside of the tent, and The Void (which Caine advises her to not venture to). The jester briefly notices an exit door, but Caine brushes it off as a "digital hallucination" and changes the subject to her name. After the jester realizes she does not remember her name and panics again, Caine explains that everyone who comes to the circus forgets their names for reasons outside of his control, and he offers to help her pick a new name. After the jester states she does not care what her new name is, Caine decides on "Pomni" using a roulette. Caine declares a brand new in-house adventure to help Pomni get used to the circus, that being to defeat the Gloinks, small critters infesting The Tent that steal anything they bump into. Caine then vanishes as the adventure starts.

Uninterested in the adventure, Zooble tries to leave, but they get disassembled and taken away by the Gloinks, to the concern of Gangle. Ragatha suggests that they should go check on Kaufmo to introduce him to Pomni, but Kinger reports that Kaufmo seems to have gone insane, rambling about an exit similarly to Pomni. This gives Pomni hope that the exit is real (though Kinger and Jax both say that she may also be going insane) and she decides to ask Kaufmo about it. Jax decides that he, Ragatha, and Pomni should go check on Kaufmo while Kinger and Gangle save Zooble, despite Ragatha's concerns. Ragatha introduces Pomni to their rooms where they sleep, despite not technically needing to do so due to the digital nature of their existence. Pomni asks her about Caine's adventures and why they should engage in them rather than looking for a way to leave, to which Ragatha explains that searching for an exit is futile and the adventures are a fun activity to help prevent them from having an existential crisis, as well as mentioning that "something really terrible" can happen if one were to go insane, to Pomni's bewilderment.

They reach Kaufmo's room, and after an aggressive exchange between Ragatha and Jax, they open the door to see Kaufmo now horribly disfigured into a monstrous black creature with rainbow eyes. Jax takes a bowling ball from Kaufmo's room before running away. Ragatha states Kaufmo has been "abstracted" and that this may be the terrible thing she was alluding to earlier, but that they may be able to fix him with Caine's help. Kaufmo attacks Ragatha and causes her to start glitching out; when Pomni reaches out to help her, her hand also begins glitching and she decides to run away instead, with Kaufmo chasing after her. After Kaufmo crashes through a railing and is distracted by a Gloink, Pomni goes back to find Ragatha.

Meanwhile, Kinger and Gangle find a hole in the ground where the Gloinks took Zooble. Jax arrives and lies that Kaufmo is alright, reassuring Kinger that he has not lost his mind. Jax then throws the bowling ball he took at Kinger and knocks him into the hole, with him also dragging Gangle down and Jax jumping in after them. Underground, the three of them find the Gloinks' nest and encounter the Gloink Queen, who is being delivered the objects stolen by the Gloinks and transforming them into more Gloinks by eating them. After they see Zooble's pieces being carried by Gloinks, Kinger grabs Zooble's head in an attempt to save them, but the Gloink Queen ends up eating both Zooble's head and Kinger's hands.

Back to Pomni, she talks with a glitching Ragatha, who tells her to find Caine so that he can help them, though she does not know where he is. Pomni goes off to find him, opening a series of doors leading to random and surreal-looking rooms as well as avoiding Kaufmo. However, she is distracted when she encounters the exit door again, and after some hesitation, she enters it. She ends up in a dull office-like labyrinth that she gets lost in, with exit doors connecting a series of very similar-looking rooms. As she traverses the rooms, the exit door in the circus that she originally went through vanishes. Kaufmo then begins beating up a Gloink, creating a crack in the floor.

Back in the nest, the Gloink Queen reveals her plan to turn everything into Gloinks, which Jax dismisses as "dumb and weird". Suddenly, Kaufmo arrives by crashing through the ceiling and violently attacks the Gloink Queen, releasing Zooble's head (still being held by Kinger's hands). Kinger worries about how they will escape the nest, but Zooble points out an escalator, which the group uses. Zooble then complains upon realizing that Pomni didn't even take part in the adventure that was held for her.

Meanwhile, Pomni still tries to find the end of the office labyrinth and goes increasingly insane, especially after passing an old computer with a rusty headset. After going through a door with the logo of "C&A" on the wall above it, she runs through one last hallway before finally reaching The Void, which causes her to fall into a state of trance as she floats through it.

Caine, who is chatting with Bubble in a restaurant populated by drawing mannequins, is suddenly interrupted when an alert on his Wacky Watch informs him that someone is now in The Void. Using his teleportation, he takes Pomni back to The Tent. Kinger, Zooble, Jax, and Gangle then arrive, and Kinger informs Caine that Kaufmo has abstracted. Caine drops Kaufmo through a hole that leads him to the "cellar", where several other entities like him can be seen, before closing the hole. Ragatha then arrives by crawling, pained due to her glitched state, but Caine snaps his fingers to revert her back to normal (which also fixes Pomni's hand). Caine apologizes for lying about the exit door and explains that he was trying to create one due to knowing how much everyone wanted one, but he was unable to finish it due to not knowing what to put on the other side. He then rewards them for completing their adventure with a feast prepared by Bubble (though Kinger explains that the digital food only gives off the virtual sensation of eating as they do not need to eat, drink, or sleep in the digital world). Pomni, still in her trance-like state, remains silent and ignores her food (which she breaks the fourth wall with a gradual demented smile and looking at the camera). The episode ends as the shot zooms out into The Void and beyond, showing that the digital world is contained in a computer near-identical to the one Pomni saw in the office building.

Characters

Main Characters

• Pomni debut (Voiced by Lizzie Freeman)

Supporting Characters

• Ragatha debut (Voiced by Amanda Hufford)
• Jax debut (Voiced by Michael Kovach)
• Gangle debut (Voiced by Marissa Lenti)
• Kinger debut (Voiced by Sean Chiplock)
• Zooble debut (Voiced by Ashley Nichols)
• Caine debut (Voiced by Alex Rochon)
• Bubble debut (Voiced by Gooseworx)

Antagonists

• Kaufmo abstract debut only
• Gloinks debut
  • Gloink Queen debut (Voiced by Elsie Lovelock)

Minor Characters

• Sun debut
• Moon debut (Voiced by Gooseworx)
• drawing mannequins debut
• unnamed blob debut

Cameo

• Dr. Football
• Queenie

Errors

• In the thumbnail, Caine's tongue clips through his teeth.
• 5:29: The cuff of Caine's glove suddenly snaps into place.
• 14:55 - 15:00: The glitch textures are missing from Pomni's right hand (despite having been present in the original storyboard).

Trivia

• Part of the intro before Pomni appeared may be a reference to Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4 where it loops over and over and over ("Oh yeah, wow-wow-wow. 'Cause of the computer.")
• At the part when Caine starts speaking rapidly of the Policy, it is a reference to a show "Talking Tom and Friends"
• Kinger asks Zooble about seeing a gameshow in the stomach of the Gloink Queen, a reference to "Little Runmo" and "Elain The Bounty Hunter", two animations made by Gooseworx.
• Dubs of the episode in Chinese, Indonesian, Spanish, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Filipino, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Arabic, Thai, Hungarian, French, Hindi, and Polish are available as alternate audio tracks. The Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish dubs were all removed and later re-added shortly after their releases. The Portuguese, French, and Ukrainian dubs are the only ones without corresponding subtitles.
• The German dub adds mentions of Mr. Clean (when Caine orders Bubble to clean up Pomni's vomit, he says that she needs Mr. Clean) and Bugs Bunny (when the Gloink Queen is annoyed at Jax, she calls him a Bugs Bunny copy). Additionally, the nickname Jax uses for Kinger is changed from "hoo-ha" to "E1", which is a reference to the space on a chess board that the white king starts on.
• To commemorate the release of the pilot, Liam Vickers (the creator of Murder Drones) released a piece of artwork featuring Jax and Cyn.
• Jax's voice actor also voices SMG0, Niles, and Fred in the SMG4 series.
  • He's also famous for N in Murder Drones (also on the Glitch channel) and Angel Dust from Hazbin Hotel (pilot), an adult rated cartoon created by Vivizpop.
• Pomni's voice actor also voices Meggy Spletzer/Leggy in the SMG4 series.
• There are many Fourth Wall breaks throughout the entire pilot. These are from but not limited to:
  • Caine talking to the viewers, everyone (that's already present) waves at the camera as they are intruded.
  • Pomni trying to cuss but no matter what is censored as the camera gets closer to her.
  • Jax talking to the viewers commenting on Pomni, "Heh, she still thinks this is a dream!", only for Ragatha to comment back, "Uh, why are you looking at me like that?". As well as Jax noticing the SPARE pop up and breaking it.
• This is the most viewed video made by Glitch Productions, beating the previous record holder, Who let the Chomp out?, by over 300 million views.
• Since the Netflix debut, the show been viewed over 5 million times.
• There are five reference to the ROBLOX game, DOORS.
  • In the game, players (up to 4) can venture through a hotel where each room is either the same or random. Pomni opening the next door to be the same one as before happened to her.
  • In the game, there's a long hallway room before or during in Seek's chases. After Pomni noticed a computer she thinks, she remembers, the next room gets very long and gets darker.
  • In the game, the final Door or Door 100, where the ending is where all survived players reach an elevator to avoid Figure (An entity from Door 50) and goes down it only for said character to cut the cord ending the game on a cliffhanger. The part where Pomni opens the door to The Void is where Pomni reached the end of the rooms.
    • Speaking of, when a player doesn't load correctly when starting a game of Doors, Glitch teleports to the player and takes them back to where the player has to be (with a little health removed from player themself). Caine teleporting to Pomni to take her out of The Void, thinking she wouldn't get there.
  • In the game, finishing Door 100 causes a cutscene to happen only for it to end on a TO BE CONTIUED screen a few seconds later. Caine telling Pomni, it shouldn't have been possible for her the get to the end as there was no end... yet.

External Links

• https://www.glitchprod.com/thewackywatch

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