10-2: Terrydactyland!
Channel: Rooreelooo
Date: 06/09/2022

Original video upload date:  Nov 8, 2008

🎵 2022 commentary 🎵

ohhhhhhhhh, i just got the joke behind his name. he’s called TERRY! get it??? lol, so obvious in retrospect isn't it. how the hell did it take me like 12 years to figure out such a simple gag. terry is obviously derived from the mediaeval name 'THIERRY', which is a norman french form of the name 'THEODORIC'!!! We all know that’s an old germanic name meaning RULER OF THE PEOPLE, derived from the components ‘theud’ (people) and ‘ric’ (ruler). i mean i’m not saying anything new or interesting here, just stating basic facts. in its original gothic it is written as “Þiudreiks”. so yeah, obviously because he is the biggest and gnarliest pterodactyl who resides over the other dinosaurs in this level he was given the name Terry to reflect his status as a ruler. a ruler (ric) of people (theud)!!! fucking lol at me for taking over a decade to realise that. 

pretty funny how most rare characters have names that are very basic and contain only very shallow puns / gags. like a cow called 'bovina' or a train called 'chuffy'. yet for this one specific character (and no other) they really dug deep into the linguistic origins of specific germanic etymology in order to name him. weird!!! i would have expected them to just call him 'Dacty' or something.

🎵 Links & Information 🎵

This video was originally created as part of my Let’s Play of the Banjo-Kazooie series, a project that I worked on while at the SomethingAwful Forums LP Subforum in the years 2008-2010. It was originally posted to a number of video hosts such as Viddler, DailyMotion, GameVee, blip.tv. Most of those hosts are long dead now, yet I still want it to be hosted somewhere accessible for archival purposes. Hence the loooooong-delayed re-upload to YouTube. 

The original Banjo-Tooie LP ran from 21st September 2008 to 22nd February 2009, lasting 154 days and consisting of 50 videos.
🧩Banjo-Kazooie Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZp_VDhCXPFEJsI0cxANgusL
🧩Banjo-Tooie Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZpG0tvDCAdf3pZcNWGnErf3
🧩Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZr1wc1SwnROcIWE1nDUhIGI

Original thread links
🧩BK/BT: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2930941 
🧩BT:N&B: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3188254 
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