Game Theory: The Kindergarten Family Secret (Kindergarten 2)

sharpen up your pencils will help breaking the tip off in the machine coz today school is back in session we're talking kindergarten and the question on everyone's mind what is the deal with Nuggets what are you doing here nugget thought he took care of all the people at the end of his last game it does not want another nugget theory nugget had some disease golden rats in the microwave right now cannot be bothered with your paltry series but nugget what else would we talk about kindergarten this is practically your game there's not like there's a whole lot of story here to work with no story no story a menace dum-dum of course there's lore here there's a story at work in my game that you lose your little pebble brain this serie goes in deeper than the nugget cave and gets darker than the inside oh hi yes nugget has quake this theory for you today [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello Internet welcome to game theory where today we're revisiting one of my favorite games of the year kindergarten now I don't know about you but to me kindergarten was that special time in life where things were just a little bit simpler when the edgiest life God was a pair of safety scissors and the coolest kids were the ones walking around with clear gel glue in their art box but if videogames are to be believed this formative year of Education has certainly got a bit more cutthroat since I was last in school apparently it's now a world where the adults are all out to get you the other kids are hiding weaponized lasers just waiting for their chance to assert playground dominance I guess we've really adopted the mantra of survival of the fittest in our school systems anyway if you're not familiar with kindergarten words sequel first off just go play the games catch-up they're short they're cheap and they absolutely deserve to be played through to completion back in most of the endings lots of children wind up on the wrong end of the janitors mop so to speak which you know it's kind of the tentpole programming for this channel meaning that you're probably gonna enjoy your gameplay experience the premises of old kindergarten and kindergarten to are to basically survive the day while helping your fellow classmates and teachers with totally brand safe plots that they all have in place which include finding more mystery pills growing their black market Empire or brutally finishing off their twin brother in a bid to claim sole ownership over their dads billion-dollar corporation you know typical activities for a normal five-year-old kindergarten - features the familiar faces who managed to survive the first game bugs the bully to roam the ex-principal son mean girl Cindy the best one nugget sure smart salesman Monty plot device Lily next appeal Edie if you say so since I'm not an H Brack judge the looks of preschoolers as well as adults like the drug addled miss Applegate murder prone janitor but the sequel also introduces some new faces into the mix like the principal who experiments on kids her daughter BOTS professor giant forehead and Bob a well just really nice gender yeah he's just really sweet so you know he's not gonna last too long in this world as the game unfolds we pieced together information that helps to build backstories for many of the characters that are a lot deeper than you'd expect for an 8-bit game that only takes a few hours to play for instance we know that Cindy's background is littered with domestic issues drinking divorce we know that miss Applegate has a longstanding struggle with substance abuse and that penny underwent some horrific physical trauma that made her into the Android that she is today but of all the characters no one's back story is more intriguing more heavily guarded than the janitors I mean even though we end up fighting giant sci-fi monsters in the cave under the school building by the end of the game the janitor really is the game's main antagonist as he ruthlessly mows down students and faculty alike even taking out his fellow janitor Bob it is the janitors code after all told you Bob wasn't long for this world in kindergarten one we quickly established that the janitor regularly bumps off children for little to no cause everything from talking to him too much to correcting his grammar and he stated several times that he's not even supposed to be in mop length of children as we help him to forge his trail of destruction smooth bits and pieces of his backstory get leaked out but it's nothing all that meaningful at least until one random line in kindergarten - reminds me of my son dirty ugly and I gave him away excuse me what the murderous janitor has himself a secret son I don't know what's the biggest revelation here that he has a kid that he didn't kill the kid or that he found himself a lady friend who was willing to meet him in the broom closet in the first place you know what I mean regardless this is a huge reveal for a character that's largely remain shrouded in old cranky murdery mystery no it could just be a cool Easter egg a throwaway line mixed in for the lols and to lightly flesh out this mysterious character but in these games the details that you learn about each character tend to factor into the gameplay in one way or another for instance you learned that nugget has a behavioral disorder that he's being medicated for but he doesn't take his pills that information pays off because it explains why he always has pills ready to give to miss Applegate Jerome is an egomaniac in the first game but again this pays off when the player can use that hubris to get access to his dad the prey Cybil likewise in the second game we learned that penny was in a tragic accident as a baby which plays directly into her existence as a robot during the course of that game these details don't tend to be random they're built-in so we can either use them as logical clues for gameplay or at the very least paint a clearer picture of the kindergarten universe sure if the characters in these games may be relatively thin but the details that we learn about them certainly aren't arbitrary so with that in mind it seems fair to ask is there a connection between the janitors backstory and what we see happening in the game in other words we know that the janitor has himself a secret son that he gave up at an early age out there somewhere hood that son to be one of the kids that we see in either of these two kinder news to find out I scoured every storyline and every dialogue tree across both these games to see if any other characters dropped hints about their backgrounds details that would potentially imply that they were abandoned by an evil hateful rage-fueled member of the custodial staff and shockingly I think I found it I think we have ourselves not just a viable candidate but a probable one kindergardens most closely held secret is that the janitor has a son a son that attends the very school he's working at he doesn't even realize it and that my friends is what we're exposing today like an episode of Maury we're opening up that manila envelope to tell the janitor that yes he is the father to one of the kids they see up on stage right now but which one matchmaker matchmaker make me a match given the janitors age Montee notes in kindergarten one that he's an octogenarian which puts him in his 80s almost no one is off-limits but the janitor does specifically say that he abandoned a son so that immediately eliminates all the female characters across both games we won't include the hall monitors as an option here because we never really learn all that much about them other than one like smoking cats and smokey cats same goes for all the generic kids that are being used in experiments underneath the school they're just not important enough for us to care so stay in your test tubes like good little kids so with that our list of potential secret Sons looks like this Billy bugs the twins Felix and Ted Jerome Monty and Ossie equipped with our father and a list of potential sons it's time play reverse Mamma Mia and match the kid to the parent now we can take some of these out of contention pretty quickly Billy is known to be a twin with his sister Lily and the janitor never mentions also abandoning a girl's so we're gonna take a little list same goes with Felix and Ted the janitor says he abandoned a son and not sons we also know that Jerome's father was the principal from kindergarten one so that knocks him out of contention and already were down to half of our original list of contestants on who's your daddy Monty Ossie and bugs the new guy in this trio is Ozzie who we meet for the first time in kindergarten - which also happens to be the game where we first learn about the janitors secret son coincidence I think so Ozzy's whole MO is that he doesn't trust the new kids which to be honest is probably a good decision considering that they help forward plots that get him bumped off in multiple different playthroughs the only other things that we learn about Ozzy is that he's got himself some OCD a bad case asthma and that his mom runs a successful company the janitor never mentions anything about any of these things in fact the two characters never interact at all which would make it a pretty difficult theory to float not even I can stretch that far this time moving on to Monty we actually have ourselves the complete opposite story whereas Ozzie and the janitor have no connection whatsoever Monty and the janitor are constantly at odds with each other we know in the first game that the janitor sells Monty the school supplies so they're briefly in business together but when Monty corrects the janitor spelling all alliances are thrown out the window in kindergarten - Monty gets himself some revenge by blasting the janitor out of existence with a laser so unlike Ozzie there's at least some history here to go off of but let's be honest the two share absolutely no traits whatsoever Monty's a smart savvy extremely literate five-year-old who's more interested in becoming a killer businessman than becoming a killer killer so it doesn't make much sense that he'd be related to our old buddy the janitor who is violent and street smart yes but is definitely not book smart Monty solves problems with his mind the janitor solves problems with his mouth in fact in kindergarten Monty's mission is the only nonviolent mission in the game so I think that takes him priest wearily out of contention leaving us with only one real contender left bugs and as a viewer of the show you've probably come to expect that I've saved the best for last and you'd absolutely be right and a superficial level it's interesting to note that bugs and the janitor are the only two male characters across both games with gray hair sure that could be because the janitors in his 80s but for bugs a five year old kindergartner it's an odd detail especially given that none of the other kids have any sort of gray hair nugget by the way is canonically a blonde just in case you were wondering my knucks are indeed golden and luxurious on top of that from going through all the dialogue in both games the only characters in the game who are considered ugly enough to make comment on it are you guessed it the janitor and bugs first in kindergarten one the janitor mentions that you don't want to wake up in 20 years and look like me do you he also specifically mentions that his baby was ugly then again in kindergarten one we have Monty telling the player that I wouldn't want to look like bugs either but obviously all of this is superficial and tenuous right - ugly characters with gray hair big wolf no amount of mild insults is gonna make bugs the janitor son so we need to look a little bit deeper for something that's really gonna stick luckily for us and tragically for bugs we learned very quickly in the first game that bugs comes from a broken home it's very clearly established that bugs was abandoned by his dad at an early age saying quote my dear we'll come back he just went to the store to get some cigarettes all abandoned just like the janitor abandoned his young son and don't you dare suggest that his deadbeat dad was anything but a stand-up guy because if you do bugs is gonna beat the snot out of you leading to his second connection with both dear old dad and also the janitor solving problems with violence bugs is the school bully largely because of his disappearing dad he says repeatedly throughout the first game that he resorts to violence purely because it's gonna make his dad proud my dad will come back get out of here old beaches so hard I'll make a proud and again in a different section of the game what do you want come to make more jokes about my dad before death will be so proud of me unlike Monty and Ozzy bugs just seems to have an inbuilt violent streak just like our favorite member of the school custodial staff who spends all day threatening to pound punch or stab kids to get what he wants interestingly enough research in the real world from places like the University of Washington have shown that kids that are exposed to violence or come from homes with domestic issues are statistically more likely to engage in violence with their peers in the real world in other words kids who get bullied at home are more likely to be the bully at school now I'm certainly not implying that all kids who witness violence go on to become bullies in the real world but for our purposes bugs as the classroom bully is statistically more likely to have had a violent parent a parent who solves problems just like our good buddy the janitor over here but not only as bugs violent he also has a long-standing history of covering his tracks in much the same way that the janitor hides his crimes in both kindergarten one and two we see the janitor burying bodies himself or we help aid and abet him in doing so and once you know it in kindergarten 1 we do the same thing with the bugs were enlisted to try and convince nugget to hide a bloody knife for us on bugs his behalf in the nugget cave all the players talking to bugs about the cover-up he says you want this thing hidden where no one will ever find it trust me I know from experience confirming that this isn't bugs his first time at the murder weapon hide and rodeo it's a line that could have just as easily come out of the janitors mouth but if good looks and sharing a love for committing murderous violence and subsequently covering it up isn't enough to prove that these two are cut from the same branch of the family tree Sonny and pop here also share a few other specific habits that clinch their relationship in kindergarten one the player needs to trade with the janitor for a powerful laser gun and depending on your inventory you can actually offer a few different things in this trade the first one is pills but the janitor isn't interested in those they're also not particularly relevant to us since bugs never mentions a propensity for pills the next option is cigarettes which the janitor says that he'll take in a pinch but adds some ciggies haven't had one of these since I was your age in the moment it seems like kind of a ridiculous thing to say until you realize that this habit apparently runs in the family at another point in the game you have an opportunity to foist over the same cigarettes to bugs in the schoolyard to which he responds I've been robbing kids so I could buy these from Monty meaning that bugs is actually smoking at his age just like his dear old dad did he's the only character who smokes other than the much older hall monitor so it's an unusual detail to include here but the janitors preferences in this trade-off actually give us our biggest smoking gun for this theory in that same laser trade-off moment the last thing that you can offer the janitor is a flask which he readily accepts saying that Cindy's got the best stuff okay give me the flask and you've got yourself a deal it's the only thing that he actually wants which doesn't necessarily seem out of character but takes on a whole different light when you consider what bugs misses most about his dad at recess bugs tells the player I miss everything about him even the way you used to drink excessively he goes on to tell the player how he cherishes the memory of his mom forcing his dad to use a breathalyzer as well as the flask that his dad used to use to get drunk wait a minute a flask you say flask it's just like the one my dad used to get completely hammered from thanks buddy when you offer to give bugs the flask he's so grateful to have this connection with his dad that he gives you a monster Mountain car I'm telling you if the bugs janitor connection wasn't intentionally put into this game in the first place well there's enough evidence here to at least make a theory about it and definitely include it in kindergarten 3 any way you slice it in all of these cases bugs and the janitor are the only two characters to share these sorts of preferences really there are some of the only characters to share any sort of preferences in this game at all and from their looks the psychology of a scarred childhood the fact that bugs was abandoned by his father figure at an early age the smoking as well as the true smoking gun the Flass all the evidence points to bugs being the janitors long-lost or rather long abandoned son the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree and if bugs somehow manages to survive an entire year of kindergarten well we can probably expect him to follow in his father's bloody footprints now my only regret is that I couldn't also tie Agnes the dumpster Hagin has bugs his mother but you know there just wasn't enough evidence that's okay dear wait for the third game something tells me I'll be back and that's no theory no it's not but this is a theory Oh game theory this is just 1:30 primo for dummies club that's right nugget Dollar Shave Club not only allows us to keep 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Channel: The Game Theorists

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Rating: 4.9094996 out of 5

Keywords: kindergarten 2, kindergarten, kindergarten sequel, kindergarten 2 game, kindergarten 2 gameplay, kindergarten nugget, nugget, buggs, janitor, dumpster hag, kindergarten theory, kindergarten 2 ending, kindergarten 2 theory, kindergarten ending, game theorists, game theory, gtlive kindergarten 2, steph nugget voice, nugget voice

Id: o9L4Hibsc4o

Length: 18min 53sec (1133 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 12 2019

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[u/Chrobert-Ristgau]

Steph wrote this theory and performed her Nugget and Dumpster Hag voices in this video. What a legend.

[u/cooldogo]

Hey why don't you do a theory on the monsters on kindergarten 1 and 2 love your vids

[u/catcrazo101]

Will there be a kindergarten 3?

[u/Annapurna94]

Everyone: Stephanie is awesome!! Me: Who's Stephanie? I only see dumpster hag and nugget....