Buck Bumble

**Buck Bumble** is a reference to the infamous theme song of the 1998 Nintendo 64 title of the same name. It rose to prominence within EZA during an impromptu Damiani stream before E3 2019. Damiani had previously never played the game and never heard its theme song until Chat brought it to his attention. The song and its various remixes became a staple of their E3 2019 coverage and subsequent streams.

## Origins

One of the earlier mentions of Buck Bumble was on Frame Trap Episode 40 on October 17, 2017 while they were discussing the 3D platforming game, A Hat in Time. Comparisons were then brought up to N64 games like Super Mario 64 and Buck Bumble. Ben made a bet with panelists Brad and Kyle on whether developer Gears for Breakfast would make a tweet on the day Super Mario Odyssey launched and what the tweet would be. Kyle then proposed that the loser would have to do a 20 second Buck Bumble rap.

Buck Bumble solidified itself as an EZA meme in the lead-up to E3 2019 as Damiani was getting hyped by watching and discussing previous EZA E3 coverage with Chat. A social media tease from developer Playtonic Games with the message, "Bee back tomorrow" had both Damiani and Chat excited about a possible new title in the Yooka-Laylee series. The "bee" wording brought up discussion on Buck Bumble, which Damiani immediately looked up the theme song. He soon became obsessed with the song and went down a rabbit hole looking up popular fan mashups and remixes. One of the most popular remixes was a mashup with the song, "Isle Delfino" from Super Mario Sunshine.

Damiani purchased the original N64 cartridge with intentions to play the game in The Studio with the other Allies but the global pandemic changed plans. He finally played the game for the first time on a special holiday stream on December 26, 2020 but the game did not live up to its catchy theme song and insane premise.

After Damiani played through the game for the first time, he would nominate Buck Bumble for the first-ever Hall of Shame induction ceremony on December 14, 2021.

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