[1920's Prohibition Cats!] Lackadaisy Pilot Reaction



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27 thoughts on “[1920's Prohibition Cats!] Lackadaisy Pilot Reaction”

  1. Since you’re looking for more story now, there’s also a few shorts posted on their channel. And if that’s not enough, it’s based on a comic that’s been running for years that could be read.

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  2. Part of the reason Viktor is manning the bar is apparently mobility issues, so the bartender role is one of the only things he can do. Othereise he'd probably be the one collecting the dead drop.

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  3. 2:20 They had to add back the lines, as most modern production environments don't even create those lines.
    8:26 Fun fact: this was before safety glass for cars was invented.
    9:40 considering he lives in that car…
    10:18 Not a rage problem; He's a gun nut. Sadly, his… enthusiasm prevented him from being in the police academy.
    18:11 He got… sentimental.
    23:26 The problem is not making the moonshine. the problem was not getting caught.
    26:16 He's the bartender because he can't be an enforcer anymore. His knees are shot.
    28:14 There's only one tiger. Victor might be a lynx, and Freckle is a Tabby.

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  4. It's not hard to make alcohol. But for it to taste like anything, it has to age – and those making "bathtub gin" weren't waiting around the years that can take. Likely as not, that "Canadian" whiskey wasn't much older than the grave it was hidden in.

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  5. Lackadaisy is based upon the webcomic of the same name; the characters themselves based upon the creator's collection of chaotic cats. A few background details (from the comic and history) which help explain the context:

    Prohibition put an absolute stranglehold not only on booze, but also anything which could be used to create alcohol. (In some places, even yeast was tightly controlled.) Factor for the insane profit margin and you begin to see how virtually anything remotely intoxicating could and did find its way into a bottle of booze. Pretty much every mixed drink you've ever heard of originated in this era as barkeeps sought to mask the hideous taste of what passed for booze back then.

    ~ Atlas May and Asa Sweet were amicable associates (if not actual friends) who founded Lackadaisy and Marigold speakeasies, though increased enforcement of Prohibition forced them to compete for inventory.
    ~ Atlas May was killed under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound that his wife Mitzi was somehow involved. Lackadaisy pretty much died with Atlas but Mitzi soldiers on, determined to restore the speakeasy to its former glory.
    ~ Viktor and Mordecai were Atlas' right-hand men (er, cats), procuring potations and eliminating anything which interfered with business. Marigold had been trying recruit the pair forever; Viktor is eternally loyal to Lackadaisy, but Mordecai took the offer after Atlas died. (The main reason Viktor is now tending bar is that the two argued over Mordecai leaving; Mordecai 'settled the argument' by blowing away Viktor's kneecap.)
    ~ Ivy Pepper is Lackadaisy's resident jazz-baby, cashier at the Little Daisy Cafe, and Atlas' goddaughter; when Atlas died, Viktor assumed the mantle as her godfather. (Mordecai didn't shoot Ivy because he knew full well that harming her in any way would instantly make an eternal enemy of his former comrade.)
    ~ Rocky is an idiot with a heart of gold and brains of arsenic – eternally loyal to Mitzi (whom he always addresses as Ms M) as she's the only person who ever truly supported him. He's convinced that Wick Sable intends Mitzi harm, so is always out to sabotage theirrelationship (yes, that was Wick's quarry Rocky destroyed in Act II).

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  6. Lackadaisy has been a long-running online comic for a while now and I couldn't be happier to see these characters getting a bigger momentum in this way.

    If you want to see more of them, there are a couple shorts that have been made since featuring moments with the characters which, in the world, would happen before the pilot (three, specifically: "Breakthrough," "Stratagem," and "Ingenue"). They also have a Season 1 trailer if you want to put all of that together for a reaction video.

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  7. So wine is easier to make but takes longer and was easier to prevent during prohibition, moonshine is harder to make and if done incorrectly, dangerous to ingest. The main reason for cracking down on illegal moonshine here in the states now mostly falls to preventing the sale of what is liable to be a harmful substance beyond what alcoholic drinks already are. During prohibition, it was partly due to the illegal nature of alcohol in general combined with the creation and selling of moonshine cutting into the governments revenue. Alot of moonshiners made similar mistake as Al Capone and a couple other criminals by not telling the IRS how they were getting their money and thus not paying their dues. Surprisingly, the IRS doesn’t care how you make your money, just that you pay them what they are owed, they only hand over info they got if a federal investigation provides them a warrant demanding said info. Oh, and this is the era when Tipping in the USA basically becoming mandatory part of restaurant business became a thing and was used as incentive to accept bribes among wait staff at restaurants.

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  8. Holy shit, that obituary. Guy died like a cartoon character.

    "Herman Hapfamschfeel was struck by a runaway circus calliope near the terminus of Biddle street whereupon, in a cacophony of frenzied glee, he was flung into the Mississippi River.

    Requiring the painstaking efforts of the No. 26 Firehouse Brigade, his remains were later disentangled from the paddlewheel of the SS Albatross, having been arranged into an impressive Merovingian knot.

    'He died doing what he loved,' remarked his stoical widow, by whom he is survived, alongside a niece, a nephew, several Southern cousins, a shoe-wearing donkey named Pibbles, and a prized collection of 64 fashionable soup [obscured] housed at his West End residence."

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  9. 1 you can make alcohol out of anything with shugar in it.
    2 moonshine requires some machinery that can be real hard to hide.
    3 if you don't know what you are doing it comes out bad and possibly dangerous.

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