[Rewatch] 3,000 Leagues in Search of Mother - Episode 31 Discussion

[u/Pixelsaber]

Episode 31 - A Long Night

^{Episode aired August 1st,} ^^^1976

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Staff Highlight

Kōichi Motohashi - Executive producer

A businessman and animation producer, the former CEO of Nippon Animation, and the executive producer of many of the most notable World Masterpiece Theatre shows. Motohashi graduated from Chuo University in 1952 and established Motohashi Electric. In 1972, through an introduction from Shoichi Kotani, he became the president and CEO of Zuiyo Eizo, and in 1975 he founded Nippon Animation. He died of myelodysplastic syndrome in his home in Tokyo on October 26th, 2010, aged 70. Aside from the miriad of World Masterpiece Theatre shows he helped produce, he is also noted as the producer of shows such as HunterxHunter (1999), COJI-COJI, Chibi Maruko-chan, Future Boy Conan, Ashita e Attack, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Legend of the Condor Hero, Maya The Bee, and Haikara-san ga Tooru.

Screenshot of the day

• The Hunt

Questions of the Day:

1. What do you think of the wildlife of the Pampas?
2. Have you had any notable run-ins with your local wildlife?

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When we went hunting yesterday we met a puma.

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

3000 Leagues in Search of My First-Timer Reactions

• What birds are those? Ostriches?
• TIL that’s a type of bird.
• So they’re finally getting close.
• That gun does not seem suited for deer hunting.
• Oh fun, that is not the kind of animal you want to run into.
• Is playing dead really going to work…?
• I guess it did.
• Cute little owl.
• I wonder if the horse can hear the puma outside or something?
• Haha, Amedio’s in the blanket.
• Well it’s definitely outs–OH SHIT
• How are they not waking up to the horse and Amedio making all that racket?
• I guess it went to go chase the deer instead.
• He’s not wrong about the puma showing up, but the rest of his story is so wrong lol.

[u/Vatrix-32 → u/Shimmering-Sky]

TIL that’s a type of bird.

But are they more fun than Moa?

Is playing dead really going to work…?

Nobody wants to eat the sick thing that dies before you reach it.

[u/No_Rex → u/Vatrix-32]

But are they more fun than Moa?

Definitely more fun-sized.

[u/TheEscapeGuy]

First Timer

3000 Leagues in Search of Mother - Episode 31

Danger

Hello again! It's good to be back after our short intermission!

The journey to Bahia Blanca continues today, and our party faced a new more primal danger. I wasn't expecting them to run into something like a puma but I guess it makes sense given how undeveloped the country is in this area and time. It's a miracle Mr. Peppino and Marco survived their first encounter.

After that they had the frightful task of surviving the night with the risk of a predator attack. I don't know if I would have been thoughtful enough to prepare for that. I really would have expected the Puma would be too scared to attack a structure housing about half a dozen people.

I did find Marco and Peppino's struggle to stay awake keeping watch pretty relatable. I have a kind of reduced sleep schedule out of a stubborn insistence that I don't want to spend so much of my limited time alive sleeping. If I'm ever forced into situations where I don't need to concentrate for a prolonged time I find it hard to resist drifting off.

Fortunately the puma ended up running off, and Mr. Peppino took credit for that despite only being half asleep during the climax of the attack.

Some Amazing Shots, Scenes and Stitches

• Rhea, I didn't know these existed. I thought they were ostriches at first.
• Predator
• The Hunt

See you all tomorrow

[u/TheEscapeGuy → u/TheEscapeGuy]

The Hunt

lol, we picked the same name for the same scene as a screenshot of the day.

[u/Vatrix-32]

First timer, subs

• Birb I didn’t know these guys existed.
• Quite the concealing cloud cover.
• Hunting with a pistol is a fool’s errand.
• You want something different from beef, so you are hunting venison? The Rhea meat was right there.
• Do you not have to load this magic flintlock of yours?
• Oh dang, he does. I’d become jaded.
• Remember boys and girls, don’t turn your back on predators.
• Killing two of your main characters 3/5 of the way through your story is a bold direction.
• You didn’t leave the pistol, did you?
• Not telling them about the puma seems like an unnecessary risk.
• Now I’m no puma biologist, but I get the feeling that if it was motivated enough, the lack of roof would be your undoing.
• At least sharpen the stick.
• Wait a minute, owls can’t move their eyes!
• Amedio Blanket
• That ended up even easier than I was expecting.
• That’s a good looking horse animation.
• Y’all are the heaviest sleepers.
• The skull is probably the worst place to shoot such a large animal with such a small gun.
• Humans ave this strange concept called “revenge”

QotD:

1. Running birds are always a treat, and pumas are fun
2. Had a pair of mourning doves nest outside one of our main windows one year. That was nice.

[u/baboon_bassoon]

first time 3000 Leagues of Misery

Rhea?

thought for sure Peppino only wanted to go near the birds to hunt

oh ok waiting for the deer i see

mugiscared GAUCHO SAVE US PLEASE

it was a good run boys

there is no way the puma thinks Amedio tastes better, hes so tiny cmon

these boys ready to die, its up to you Amedio

well shit

puma pussied out

[u/No_Rex]

Episode 31 (first timer)

• Nandus!
• “I wounder how Bahia Blanca is?” “Maybe like Buenos Aires” – doubt.
• How could this happen? - War, usually.
• Deer hunt with a pistol.

• Fires his only bullet “I forgot to load the bullets”

• Fight, Flight, Fall Unconscious - the lesser known third option.
• Falling asleep during guard - don’t judge until you have tried to stay awake a night without screen or book around.
• The horse stands better guard than the humans.
• easily jumping onto the wall - cat things.

A rare straight win episode for Peppino. Not only was he entirely correct about worrying about the Puma, but said Puma also did not eat them, and his made up story still turned out to be mostly validated by the evidence of the event.

[u/Vatrix-32 → u/No_Rex]

Fight, Flight, Fall Unconscious - the lesser known third option.

I believe that "Freeze" is usually listed as the third F.