Scoot

**Scoot** is a Jock Duck that is in Animal Crossing. He is one of Vinny's favorite villagers in the game and he does his best to make sure he is in his Town. Vinny speaks in a Donald Duck-esque voice to represent Scoot and his catchphrase is "Zip zoom". Vinny says he is the best villager of all time. Since Vinny is particularly fond of bird villagers like Drake, and Jacques who recently made his debut in his *Animal Crossing: New Horizons* streams.

## Origin

Vinny first encountered Scoot while playing *City Folk*. Early on in the series, Vinny stated that he didn't like any of his villagers so far and wanted Scoot, only for him to turn out to be one of his neighbors. While this was his first time getting Scoot in his own village, Vinny was already aware of him and liked him for being a combination of several things he liked - a duck, a jock, and green.

Scoot's "infamy" with Vinesauce started in *New Leaf*, when Vinny began to act like a stalker with perverted desires for the duck. He built a shrine inside his home, complete with a box of tissues to "clean up afterwards." Scoot returned in *New Horizons*, when Vinny summoned him to the island using an amiibo card. Vinny chose to build Scoot's house directly next to his own, on the central island in the river.

While at first Vinny simply played the game without japes, once his island was fully populated he started doing more funny things including pretending to stalk Scoot like in *New Leaf*. This included gifting a security camera in the hopes that Scoot would put it in his house, creating a "Scoot observation command center" (using the Monitor Wall Paper, a desktop computer, several custom designs set up as canvases, and another box of tissues) while claiming he put cameras all over the island, and occasionally following behind his favorite villager while trying to avoid being seen.

A recurring joke is that Scoot is unable to say the word "banana" due to a speech impediment. Vinny will occasionally joke about doing things to torment Scoot under the pretext of him not being sentient, which "Scoot" will rebutt but is unable to prove since Vinny's benchmark for sentience is the ability to say "banana." He plays Scoot with an exaggerated, Donald Duck-esque voice that is actually nearly the same as his Meat voice.

Scoot became popular with the community, particularly with fan artists. Scoot showed up in numerous art pieces on Vinebooru very quickly, and is one of the most used characters in fan art.

## Personality

Scoot is a Jock villager, and is nearly identical to all other Jock villagers except for appearance and hobby, though his hobby is fitness which is shared by roughly half of all Social Credit Points. He will occasionally be seen working out, either lifting weights, doing standing crunches, or stretching. He also talks frequently about his muscles, particularly his triceps and abdominals.

## Trivia

* Due to videos being taken down from the original Vinesauce channel, Vinny's first on-stream encounter with Scoot is only preserved in a compilation video hosted on Joel's channel. Joel started as a fan uploading funny moment compilations, which proved invaluable when some of Vinny's videos were lost.
* Scoot has been in Vinny's village in every *Animal Crossing* title that he's streamed.