You ever notice how it seems like every popular franchise has a character who doesn't talk or barely talks?

And how they are always so beloved? Snoopy? Check.

Kenny from South Park? Check. Chubaka and R2D2? Double check.

Pikachu, Groot, Hodor for crying out loud. Check, check. And screw you, Bran.

So you know what, guys? I'm just gonna do a bit of a rebrand. From now on I'm gonna limit myself to saying five things.

Matt Pat, Theory, YouTube, Diet Coke, and subscribe.

YouTube, YouTube, Matt Pat, subscribe, Theory!

Ugh, Diet Coke. Aren't I adorable now?

Hello internet. Welcome to Film Theory, the show that speaks the true universal language complaining about movies on the internet. Today though, I'm not complaining about some cinematic stinker or even ruining a childhood classic. No, today I'm talking Guardians of the Galaxy, which is one of my, if not my all-time favorite slice of the MCU pie.

Wait, it didn't know that I love these movies? Did you see the last Guardians of the Galaxy?

Huh, I haven't done a Guardians of the Galaxy episode. Maybe it means that even for my cold little dead theorist heart, there are some corners of movie dumb that remains sacred.

Well, at least until today. And hey, better late than ever, right? Chris Pratt, I never forgot about you.

And you know a movie's good when you have a Pratt-tastic lead, a deadpan berser who takes everything literally,

and a smack-talking trash panda, and none of them come out as the fan favorite of the movie, because as we all know, the fan favorite of Guardians is clearly Groot.

He's the guardian that we all aspire to be.

Eco-friendly, laid-back, tree person, a few words, and it's that last part that I want to figure out today.

Groot famously says only three words.

I have Groo

and yet we're supposed to believe that this is a language all its own. Rocket Raccoon doesn't have any trouble understanding Grout's meaning.

I'm Groot. Uh-huh.

I'm gruel. That's right. And he's not just humoring the old sap.

Badoom Ching!

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