Cuphead & Mugman vs Bendy

An animation experiment gone wrong, the titular antagonist of Bendy & the Ink Machine, Bendy the Dancing Demon, raps against two trouble-making brothers from the indie sensation Cuphead, Cuphead and his pal Mugman, to see which of the drastically different takes on 1930's cartoons makes for a stronger 2017 indie game.
== Cast==
DAGames as Bendy (voice)
CG5 as Cuphead (voice)
Dolvondo as Mugman (voice)
Animation for all rappers done by Forrest Whaley
==Locations==
Bendy: Joey Drew Studios
Cuphead & Mugman: Forest Follies
==The Battle==
(Beat)
===Announcer:===
IT'S A GOOD DAY FOR A RAP BATTLE
BENDY
VS
CUPHEAD & MUGMAN
AND BEGIN!
=== Bendy: (0:13)===
I heard ya like to gamble, fellas. How’s about we raise the stakes?
Ya cups’ll make the same mistake! I’ll teach ya not to play with snakes.
Polk ain’t the only folk who can project thoughts onto wet socks,
And boil the broth in ya head-pots, this match will get red hot!
When Sammy ties ya up for sacrifice, a contract plight won’t seem so perilous!
My rap strikes come in black-and-white, best bet a bout with me is parry-less!
With more flow than a burst pipe, I’m drowning out these kids below!
This knock-out warrants first prize, but there’s no reward for simple mode!
=== Cuphead & Mugman: (0:39)===
(Cuphead, Mugman, Both)
Golly! What an honor! Now, Cuphead, what’s got you sayin’ that?
In just eight lines, we’ve caught more a glimpse of ‘em than his players have!
Hot Dawg! And ain’t that a pip, we both got big collection missions,
But our’s ain’t like backtracking a labyrinth to satisfy a vexing vixen!
Ooh, let me get some licks in! Our steam engine’s runnin’ like a phantom train!
More original visuals in thirty frames then you’ll see in your entire game!
Not to bore us, cryin’ wolf, but it seems to me like nonsense,
That bacon soup remains the most beefy thing about Meatly’s content!
Your cardboard crap ain’t cut-out for horror; Get second-guessing who that laughter’s for,
A year and a half, you’ve lagged back, and still haven’t got passed chapter four!
Won’t find no hidden levers to up the pressure! I’ll scrap your tech to nuts and bolts!
We wallop on wishy-washy debtors, but this dolt sold his soul to Gamejolt!
(Beat changes)
=== Ink Demon: (1:24)===
TIME FOR A NEW COAT OF PAINT; IT’S PHASE TWO, AND YOU’RE UP, BUDS!
THE CHIPS ARE DOWN: ONCE MORE, YOU MDHR-FUCKERS COME UP BANKRUPT!
STORYBOARDS WITH COMPLEX LORE; TOWERING OVER NECKBEARDED ELITISTS,
YA’ CHUMPS THINK YOU GUN THE HARDEST? I’VE GOT THE DARKEST SOUL, KIDS!
THE HAYS CODE’LL MEAN JACK WHEN YOU’RE EMPTIED OUT TO STORE MY GIN,
BUT YOUR EYES WANDERING TO YOUR BRO’S TROUSERS? THAT’S THE TRUE SIN!
WHAT A FINE LOOKIN’ DAME YOU’RE SAVING; MIND IF I SIP FROM THAT CHALICE?
SQUEEZE HER JUGS UNTIL HER MUG SPILLETH OVER; CUCKHEAD, YOU CAN KEEP ALICE!
YOU GOODY TWO SHOES CAN JOKE ABOUT MY DEVELOPER TAKING HIS TIME...
”Enjoy our product side by side with Shovel Knight!” LOOKS LIKE YOUR CREATORS LIED!
GO TOE-TO-CLOVEN-TOE WITH ME? QUITE THE GRANDE TOMBSTONE PICNIC!
FLEE BACK TO ELDER KETTLE, THIS IS ONE DEVIL YOU DON’T DEAL WITH
===Cuphead & Mugman: (2:09) ===
(Cuphead is crushed under the Ink Demon's first, but Mugman parries him back to life.)
(Thank you!) Good gosh, Cuphead! This is quite a pickle that Joey drew! 
But we won’t be topped by looney tunes, that’s just a fangirl’s dreams come true!
This gearhead must be loose a screw. A plunger could have him reduced to goo! 
He’ll roll over like Snake-eyes! Takes no great sight to view through this ooze’s ruse!
The devil’s price ain’t cheap like your jumpscares, and tell that to your neighbor pal for me!
To think that you’d last five nights under tattle’s tale was just a gambler’s fallacy! 
Could’ve duked with double downgrades, but I doubt you could even handle that!
Cheapskate release dates was the Bendy straw that broke this camel’s back!
===Announcer: ===
KNOCKOUT!
==Rap Meanings==
===Bendy: ===
I heard ya like to gamble, fellas. How’s about we raise the stakes?
(A quintessential element to Cuphead is Cuphead and Mugman’s fall into an obsession with gambling. In the game’s intro, they’re on a win-streak, but finally suffer their first loss to the Devil in exchange for their souls. Bendy opens by referencing this dangerous addiction, introducing himself with the line “How bout we raise the stakes?” being nearly a direct reference to the same line by the Devil as he appears in Cuphead.)
Ya cups’ll make the same mistake! I’ll teach ya not to play with snakes.
(Bendy taunts Cuphead and Mugman by saying they’ll make the same mistake of choosing to gamble against him and losing, despite himself laying out all his evil plans right in front of them. To ‘play with fire’ is a term meaning to toy with something dangerous and inevitably get hurt, and the word ‘fire’ can often be substituted for equally as dangerous, such as snakes. In Biblical literature, the Devil is represented as a snake, and in gambling terms, ‘snake eyes’ is a term for a bad roll that loses the player the game.)
Polk ain’t the only folk who can project thoughts onto wet socks,
(Norman Polk was an employee of Joey Drew’s studio working as a projectionist; when he became corrupted by the ink, his head was replaced with a literal projector, the spotlight being his field of vision. Bendy says he can ‘project’ his thoughts the same way Polk’s head literally projects an image, a fancy way of saying he can voice his opinions on Mugman and Cuphead. ‘Wet sock’ is a synonym for ‘killjoy.’)
And boil the broth in ya head-pots, this match will get red hot!
(Cuphead and Mugman both have milk in their saucer-like heads, Mugman even having an opening animation where he takes a sip of the milk from his own head. Bendy threatens that his menacing presence is so ‘hot’ that it will bring the milk in Cuphead and Mugman’s heads to a boil, finishing off his statement with a direct quote referencing the many iconic announcer quotes leading into a battle in Cuphead: “This match will get red hot!” Essentially, Bendy is saying the fight is on.)
When Sammy ties ya up for sacrifice, a contract plight won’t seem so perilous!
(Samuel Lawrence was another employee of Joey Drew who went insane following Bendy’s coming to the life. He became a fanatic, worshipping Bendy as a God and offering him human sacrifices whenever possible; Bendy states that if Cuphead and Mugman were to enter his domain, Sammy would catch them and bind them together as a sacrifice, the danger of which would make their effort to collect the Devil’s contracts look less dangerous by comparison)
My raps strike in black-and-white, best bet a bout with me is parry-less!
(Bendy & the Ink Machine bases it’s form of animated cartoons on the Steamboat Willie era, predating color television. As a result, Bendy’s cartoons are entirely in black and white, by contrast of Cuphead, which is in color - and has a black-and-white unlockable mode. A major gameplay mechanic in Cuphead is to ‘parry’ pink attacks, any attacks that are literally the color pink, in order to slowly build up a super meter. As Bendy’s world is entirely in black-and-white, all pink attacks would lose their color, meaning to parry is impossible; thus making the battle ‘parry-less,’ a perfect homonym for ‘perilous.’)
With more flow than a burst pipe, I’m drowning out these kids below!
(A common aesthetic element of Bendy & the Ink Machine are the burst pipes around the studio, which pump ink into the office and often cause hazards that block Henry from advancing. Bendy boasts that his rap flow is equivalent to that of a burst pipe uncontrollably pumping out liquid into his warehouse - Bendy does not realize that ink is incredibly viscous and therefore would drip slowly. Don’t tell him.)
This knock-out warrants first prize, but there’s no reward for simple mode!
(Cuphead is renowned for it’s difficulty, so much so that the game doesn’t reward you for playing on ‘simple’ mode as opposed to normal. As a result, Bendy claims that though he’s crushed Cuphead and Mugman, he still won’t be able to advance in their game as even their normal raps would be so weak, they’d count as ‘easy’ and deny Bendy the right to move forward for beating them. ‘Knock-out!’ is the announcer’s line every time a battle is won in Cuphead.)
===Cuphead & Mugman:===
Golly! What an honor! Now, Cuphead, what’s got you sayin’ that?
(In his typical mischievous style, Cuphead begins his verse with what seems like a compliment, saying it’s a honor to meet Bendy in person. Mugman, understandably, is confused.)
In just eight lines, we’ve caught more a glimpse of ‘em than his players have!
(Cuphead explains his previous compliment to be back-handed, however, as it was merely a set-up to jab at Bendy’s lack of presence in his own game. In Bendy & the Ink Machine, Bendy takes on the role of a typical scarcely seen horror movie monster, the bulk of the evil deeds being carried out by Alice Angel while Bendy himself only appears occasionally for scares. Cuphead explains that it’s an honor to see Bendy in the flesh for such a long time because even his players don’t have that opportunity)
Hot Dawg! And ain’t that a pip, we both got big collection missions,
(Much of Cuphead and Mugman’s lines draw from the game’s dialogue to reference the old-fashioned way of speech: ‘hot dog!’ is one of those times. ‘Ain’t that a pip’ is another, being a line by King Dice. Cuphead then draws a connection between Bendy’s game and his own; the lore of Cuphead has to do with fighting debtors to collect their soul contracts, whereas the third chapter of Bendy & the Ink Machine hinges on carrying out collection missions for Alice Angel.)
But our’s ain’t like backtracking a labyrinth to satisfy a vexing vixen!
(Cuphead then explains the difference between their games; Cuphead’s ‘collection mission’ is a none-stop gauntlet of boss fights. Bendy’s is a much slower-paced, backtracking style based on revisiting old locations of the game rather than forward progress. ‘Vexing vixen’ references Alice Angel.)
Ooh, let me get some licks in! Our steam engine’s runnin’ like a phantom train!
(Mugman jumps in, wanting to get his fair share of raps. ‘Steam engine’ refers to the gaming platform Steam, by which Cuphead was originally available for download, the ‘engine’ referring to the platform for their sales which ran smoothly. The ‘phantom train’ references the Phantom Express, a boss near the end of Cuphead being a literal train carrying giant ghosts.)
More original visuals in thirty frames then you’ll see in your entire game!
(Mugman pokes fun at Bendy’s visuals by acclaiming his own game’s unanimously praised artstyle; Cuphead is animated almost exactly like an old cartoon, down to every individual frame for a boss’s attack or movements being completely original. For instance, the boss Cagney Carnation has an attack that holds thirty frames of original animation; meanwhile, Mugman compares a mere thirty frames of his game, including Cagney’s animations, his own, and the environments, to hold more original content than the entirety of Bendy’s story, as Bendy & the Ink Machine uses pre-rendered 3D models.)
Not to bore us, cryin’ wolf, but it seems to me like nonsense,
(A side-character in Bendy & the Ink Machine is Boris the Wolf, whose name is used in this line as a pun on how Cuphead doesn’t want to bore his brother and his opponent by pointing out something trivial; however, he gives his two thoughts. To ‘cry wolf’ is to make a claim about something that is intentionally false to garner attention.)
That bacon soup remains the most beefy thing about Meatly’s content!
(His ‘two cents’ as described before is that Bendy & the Ink Machine, as a game and a story, has an overwhelming lack of content. ‘Beefy’ is used in two contexts in this line, meaning literal beef as a food as well as ‘beefy’ in terms of having substance; bacon soup is a recurring collectible in Bendy & the Ink Machine, and ‘Meatly’ is the creator of the game, so Cuphead purports that he expects a creator named ‘Meatly’ to have ‘beefy content’ - but instead finds that Bendy’s game lacks substance, less so than a can of his own soup.)
Your cardboard crap ain’t cut-out for horror; Get second-guessing who that laughter’s for,
(Throughout Bendy & the Ink Machine, cardboard cut-outs of Bendy himself can be found scattered around the office. Cutting them open summons Bendy after a while; Cuphead makes two puns on ‘cardboard cut-out,’ saying that Bendy’s story and game are ‘cardboard’ in that they are mass-produced, plastic and bland, while using ‘cut-out’ to say he isn’t fit for the horror genre. ‘Who’s laughing now?’ is a catchphrase found written on the walls in ink various times throughout Bendy & the Ink Machine, but Cuphead and Mugman challenge Bendy to think twice about who’s laughing; in this case, implying that the ‘laughter’ he hears is not for his own revenge, but instead at his pitiful game’s display.)
A year and a half, you’ve lagged back, and still haven’t got passed chapter four!
(At the time of writing this battle, Bendy & the Ink Machine had only released three chapters over the course of a year and a half since it’s debut; Cuphead and Mugman mock Bendy’s slow progressing game.)
Won’t find no hidden levers to up the pressure! I’ll scrap your tech to nuts and bolts!
(Many of Bendy’s puzzles have to do with finding levers scattered around the studio to ‘increase the ink pressure.’ Cuphead and Mugman boast that they don’t need a lever to up the ‘pressure’ - in this case, meaning the expectations for Bendy’s response. The duo then threatens to tear Bendy’s entire ink machine down and leave it in mere pieces.)
We wallop on wishy-washy debtors, but this dolt sold his soul to Gamejolt!
(‘Wallop!’ is the opening line prefacing any battle in Cuphead, and Cuphead and Mugman use the line here to threaten Bendy to a beatdown, implying he has debts they’re here to collect; but they then clarify that it wasn’t the devil Bendy sold his soul to, but to the indie gaming platform Gamejolt. Gamejolt is a free website for any upcoming developers to upload their free indie games to - as such, it’s widely considered an amateur’s site, and Cuphead and Mugman mock it as such at Bendy’s expense for where he got his start.)
===Ink Demon:===
TIME FOR A NEW COAT OF PAINT; IT’S PHASE TWO, AND YOU’RE UP, BUDS!
(Bendy resurfaces from being defeated in phase one as “Bendy” - a creature sharing his name and general shape, but much more demented in appearance. Cuphead boss fights come in phases, usually meaning a transformation by the enemy between them. In Bendy’s case, he claims that his second phase is changing from cartoon Bendy to “Bendy” - and marks his arrival with an opening Cuphead line said by the announcer before a match, ‘YOU’RE UP!’ A ‘new coat of paint’ implies a fresh start, but also a literal ‘coat of paint’ as Bendy is covered in ink, something that functions identically to black paint.)
THE CHIPS ARE DOWN: ONCE MORE, YOU MDHR-FUCKERS COME UP BANKRUPT!
(In line with Cuphead’s gambling theme, to put chips down is to make bets on your hand winning over the opponents; often with money at stake. Bendy is saying that Cuphead and Mugman’s raps were their chips, and since Bendy’s are superior, they lost the draw, losing them their money. “Mdhr-fuckers” is a pun on MDHR, the creators of Cuphead, an independent company that has faced financial hardships in the past.)
STORYBOARDS WITH COMPLEX LORE; TOWERING OVER NECKBEARDED ELITISTS,
(As Bendy is a cartoon, his animations are often depicted on storyboards first. Bendy references these with literal ‘stories,’ hinting at the intense backstory leading into Bendy & the Ink Machine, while claiming that his game has more depth than Cuphead’s, which is known only for being a difficult speedrunner’s game. Bendy claims Cuphead’s average fan to be fat men with scruffy beards, a common stereotype for video game playing shut-ins.)
YA’ CHUMPS THINK YOU GUN THE HARDEST? I’VE GOT THE DARKEST SOUL, KIDS!
(‘Run ‘n’ Gun!’ are the names of the non-boss fight related levels in Cuphead, something Bendy references in accusing Cuphead and Mugman of hubris in thinking they rap best. Dark Souls is an RPG franchise best known for it’s intense difficulty, thus creating it as a kind of stereotype for hard games - Cuphead is often compared to Dark Souls in this way, with Bendy referencing himself as having the ‘darkest’ soul due to his actual satanic nature.)
THE HAYS CODE’LL MEAN JACK WHEN YOU’RE EMPTIED OUT TO STORE MY GIN,
(The Hays Code is a framework of rules meant to restrict what can be portrayed in animation, including restrictions on depictions of alcohol. In the original teasers for Cuphead, it was implied that the broth in his head was at least spiked with alcohol, as one of the teaser images showed the titular character pouring a bottle labelled ‘XXX’ into his head. Referencing this image, Bendy threatens to empty Cuphead’s head of milk - the exact way he was killed in their DBX, mind you - to replace it with hard liquor.)
BUT YOUR EYES WANDERING TO YOUR BRO’S TROUSERS? THAT’S THE TRUE SIN!
(As with any popular game, Cuphead has suffered quite a bit of porn in the past and most of it is featuring the two brothers, often in sexual nature. Bendy accuses this porn of being more canon than the two will admit, claiming their incest to be ‘true sin.’ This is in reference to an easter egg where a part of Bendy & the Ink Machine that ordinarily can’t be accessed can be gotten too via cheats; doing so finds a demented looking cut-out of Bendy holding a sign reading ‘WANDERING IS AN AWFUL SIN,’ hence Cuphead’s eyes ‘wandering.’)
WHAT A FINE LOOKIN’ DAME YOU’RE SAVING; MIND IF I SIP FROM THAT CHALICE?
(Bendy turns his attention next to the third playable character in Cuphead, originally a damsel in distress found in bonus levels; Lady Chalice.)
SQUEEZE HER JUGS UNTIL HER MUG SPILLETH OVER; CUCKHEAD, YOU CAN KEEP ALICE!
(Though Lady Chalice is not a romance interest for Cuphead, Bendy still plans on taking her from him, making an assortment of really gross sex puns based on liquid and containers in the meantime. A ‘cuckold’ is someone who’s wife has sex with another man, and in this case Bendy is claiming he’ll cuck Cuphead by having sex with the only playable woman in his game, thus leading him to Alice Angel, an evil witch who tries to kill the player, as a replacement for her.)
YOU GOODY TWO SHOES CAN JOKE ABOUT MY DEVELOPER TAKING HIS TIME…
(Bendy strikes back at Cuphead’s diss about his game being released in slow chapters…)
”Enjoy our product side by side with Shovel Knight!” LOOKS LIKE YOUR CREATORS LIED!
(Just to remind them that the original Cuphead was promised for release in 2014, the same year as another indie icon Shovel Knight was released. Instead, Cuphead was pushed back all the way until 2017, three years later. ‘THE CREATORS LIED TO US’ is another phrase found in Bendy & the Ink Machine splattered on the walls, but Bendy twists it here to mean Studio MDHR lied to Cuphead and his fans both on when his adventure would be available to play.)
GO TOE-TO-CLOVEN-TOE WITH ME? QUITE THE GRANDE TOMBSTONE PICNIC!
(Cloven toes are the scientific term for the kind of hooves that animals like goats and cows have; Bendy, if he had feet, would have toes much like this in his demonic form due to the connection between satanic imagery and goats. ‘Gooply le Grande’ is an opponent in Cuphead, one who in his third phase drops dead and is replaced by his sentient gravestone. ‘Tombstone Picnic’ is a production Bendy appeared in as seen in his own game on posters, so Bendy combines the title to claim that he’ll feast on Cuphead and Mugman after their deaths.)
FLEE BACK TO ELDER KETTLE, THIS IS ONE DEVIL YOU DON’T DEAL WITH
(Elder Kettle is somewhat of a father figure to Cuphead and Mugman, who they instantly ran to after losing their deal with the devil. ‘Cuphead: Don’t Deal with the Devil!” is the official full title of Cuphead’s game, and Bendy repeats it here, as he himself is a devil much like the devil from Cuphead; to ‘deal with’ someone ordinarily means to strike an offer with them, but it can also mean to sort them out or ‘handle’ them, and Bendy boasts that Cuphead and Mugman couldn’t and shouldn’t try to handle him.)
===Cuphead & Mugman:===
Good gosh, Cuphead! This is quite a pickle that Joey drew!
(Cuphead features a revival system for when playing two-player co-op; the surviving player must parry the K.O.’d player to bring them back to life. When revived, the ghost of Cuphead or Mugman will say in an oddly masculine voice, ‘thank you!’ which is why Cuphead says as much here. Moving on, Mugman expresses his concern over the new size of their foe, making a pun on the creator of Bendy, Joey Drew, by listing his first name followed by his hobby and last name both; drawing.)
But we won’t be topped by looney tunes, that’s just a fangirl’s dreams come true!
(Cuphead makes a direct reference to Looney Tunes, the Warner Bros. classic cartoon series featuring beloved characters like Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck. He says Bendy can’t ‘top’ him, meaning in this case to defeat him in battle; but as an added bonus, the brothers make a pun on the ALTERNATE use of the word ‘top,’ meaning to be the dominant in sex, especially in BDSM themes. As with all things on the internet, Bendy was subject to lots of porn with his game was released. Cuphead and Mugman mock him for his fanbase, saying the only women who even like his game are crazy girls obsessed with sexualizing him. On top of that, they reference a common motto found on the walls in Bendy & the Ink Machine; ‘dreams come true.’)
This gearhead must be loose a screw. A plunger could have him reduced to goo!
(A ‘gearhead’ is someone who is heavily passionate about electronics and engineering. Cuphead and Mugman use this term to apply to Bendy to mock his ink machine and his literal dependency on it’s function to stay alive. Continuing on machine-related terminology, he calls Bendy crazy for thinking he can stand up to him, a play on the term ‘to have a screw loose’ meaning to go insane or in Bendy’s case, to be suffering as his ink machine falls apart. Mugman mocks him for one of his weaknesses from the game, a literal plunger, an item the protagonist of the game gets early on to defend himself against Bendy’s ink minions.)
He’ll roll over like Snake-eyes! Takes no great sight to view through this ooze’s ruse!
(In gambling, ‘snake-eyes’ is to roll the opposite of what you want. To ‘roll over’ is a term originating from how dogs will roll onto their bellies to show submission; saying that Bendy will surrender to Cuphead and Mugman by rolling over the same way a pair of dice roll when they’re thrown. ‘Ruse of an Ooze’ is one of the first boss battles in Cuphead, versuing the giant blob-creature Goopy le Grande. Cuphead and Mugman compare Bendy to Goopy because of their similar blob-like properties, saying they’ll easily defeat Bendy and prove him to be a fraud.)
The devil’s price ain’t cheap like your jumpscares, and tell that to your neighbor pal for me!
(Cuphead and Mugman accuse Bendy of basing his game’s scares off of jumpscares, a tactic often considered ‘cheap horror’ as it surprises the viewer more than scares them. They equate ‘cheapness,’ meaning taking the easy way out, to literal ‘cheapness’ as in not costing much by saying the price they had to pay to satisfy their devil was much pricier than Bendy’s antics in his own game. Bendy had a crossover event on Halloween of last year with another popular indie game Hello, Neighbor! Cuphead and Mugman accuse Hello, Neighbor of the same gimmicky jumpscares and tell Bendy to deliver the message to his ‘friend,’ who he had a crossover with.)
To think that you’d last five nights under tattle’s tale was just a gambler’s fallacy!
(To drive the point home, Cuphead and Mugman list off two other fad-like games that hinged on the same concept as Bendy - childhood favorites gone wrong. Bendy is an obvious parody on Mickey Mouse, while the other two games mentioned here, Five Nights at Freddy’s and Tattletale, are parodies on Chuck E. Cheese and Furbies. Through wordplay here, Cuphead and Mugman mock Bendy for failing to outlive even the fame of Tattletale, a game that came out around the same time as Bendy but proved to be a fad just like Bendy. Gambler’s fallacy is the idea that in a game of random chance, if one outcome of several happens multiple times, then a different outcome is more likely the next time. In this case, Cuphead and Mugman reference it as gamblers simply to cite the word ‘fallacy,’ claiming Bendy lost money by betting on his popularity outliving Tattletale.)
Could’ve duked with double downgrades, but I doubt you could even handle that!
(In Cuphead, there are two items that reduce Cuphead’s damage while offering other benefits; one, the chaser, causes bullets to heatseek. The other is a health upgrade that grants Cuphead an extra hit. These items are often considered bad by players because of the damage hit, but Cuphead claims he could have both damage downs equipped and still beat Bendy with no trouble.)
Cheapskate release dates was the Bendy straw that broke this camel’s back!
(Cuphead finishes by taking a stab at Bendy’s dying popularity, blaming it among other things on his audacity to release his game in chapters. Releasing a game in chapters, especially if the developer charges separately for each chapter, is often critiqued as a cheap way of releasing unfinished games for quicker cash. In Bendy’s case, Bendy’s popularity was long gone by the time Chapter 5 came out, and Cuphead claims that his chapter release system was only the largest flaw in his game, glaring among others. ‘The straw that broke the camel’s back’ is an idiom meaning the smallest detail that sunk an otherwise widely flawed project, and Cuphead doubles it with the term ‘bendy straw,’ making a pun on Bendy’s name as well as referencing the straw in his own head in a double reference to actual bendy straws.)