Why Zooble Will NEVER Escape the Digital Circus

Film Theory

Tv & Film

4.8 • 894 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Amazing Digital Circus is not only great with their storytelling, but are also incredible with character building. In today’s episode, I want to take a closer look at two characters that I think may actually be the most relatable characters in the show. Characters who have had to go through their own personal struggles and are figuring how to deal with them even in all the chaos. I also think I have an idea of what’s going to happen next in the show…let’s dive into it!

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0:00.0	Gangle and Zubel from the Amazing Digital Circus are more than meets the eye.
0:04.4	These characters that seem joky and one note at first are actually deep, complex, human
0:10.0	people.
0:11.0	And if they can't confront some big questions about who they are and what they want, it might
0:15.3	be the end for them.
0:18.2	Hello, Internet!
0:19.0	Welcome to Film Theory.
0:20.3	You know, I think it's time that we grab our theorist headsets and jump back into the wacky world of the amazing digital circus.
0:27.2	At this point, I'm not sure that this series really needs much of an introduction.
0:31.2	It's the massive hit created by the talented animator Gooseworks and the wonderful folks over at Glitch Productions,
0:36.9	all about a cast of humans getting their minds sucked into a 90s-era circus-themed video game, where
0:42.0	they're forced to go on adventures that test their sanity day after day.
0:45.8	Huh, we're covering two glitch shows two weekends in a row.
0:49.0	Back to back?
0:50.0	Man, they are on fire!
0:51.4	If you saw our latest video where I talked about all of our previous digital circus theories,
0:56.0	what we got right and what we got wrong, you'll know that I want to do something a little
0:59.8	different involving this show moving forward.
1:02.6	Instead of taking the traditional theorist approach by making big swings about how this changes
1:07.3	everything, or taking small breadcrumbs and trying to figure out what big conspiracy is actually going on in the background of this show,
1:14.6	I want to spotlight what this show does better than maybe anything else.
1:18.6	It's characters.
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