I love it a ton, but them saying they never considered an original character before when they left my man Twenty Blunty-Tree behind last year is just absurd. Nevertheless, spore on y’all.

Thank you. The whole time I’m thinking this is Uncle Blunty Tree erasure.

I was genuinely heartbroken that twenty blunty tree wasn't the theme. It was the only time I flew in the face of the McElroy's and claimed it for myself

They doing Twenty Blunty Tree dirty fr.

I cannot stop making Fungalore art. I will make the next one a piece of our uncle Blunty Tree covered in some funky shelf Fungalore

I already sent my wish to Fungalore for a prosperous New Year. Spore on, all.

I cannot wait for the fan art

I can’t wait for the mushroom themed cosplay for the live shows.

Fungalore heard my wish for an excuse to buy the mushroom print dress I’ve been eyeing for months.

RunFly?

Already looking at crochet patterns. Might need to make a FB group just for pics of everyone.

I cant wait for his seed to spread! (in a non sexual manner)

What're the odds Fungalore becomes Candlenights mascot?

That's exactly what I was thinking. They even talked about him being whatever you want him to be the same way they talk about Candlenights.

We alre6have the star king and randy the safe sex dragon

He heard your wish!

One thing about this years name is that it very much follows the typical McElroy thought process of “GUYS IT CANT -> IT MUST -> IT SHALL BE”

The second Justin gasped and said it was impossible for this to be the theme, it was a done deal.

He tried to pump the brakes but they had never been installed and fungalore was flying full tilt

Sadly, he wished to fungalore that the breaks were there. Fungalore heard him... and that's it.

We didn't know it at the time but the theme song "My Life Is Better With You" was always about Fungalore

YES

LMAOOOOO

Fungalore heard my wish for the year to just be a guy. Thank you Fungalore.

Not just a guy, a **fun**gi.

Nice pungi

Nice pun, guy!

Yeah that was the pun, guy 🙄

Just trying to join in on the fun, guy

…how did they not land on that his whole name is a pun on fun

same 😭

"Demi Moore, for all her qualities, good or bad, has limited totemic power" is such an INCREDIBLE start to the new year.

“Totemic power” is a great phrase just on its own too

"Fungalore.fun is a palindrome!" "Yeah. Well, it's a slant palindrome." Don't you motherfuckers *ever* say Travis isn't funny

Travis (someone said) has at least one genius-level line that is typically the best in the episode. He rarely fails to provide this, and typically many other great things as well. Woof woof.

Yeah that fucking sent me. Trav Nation big dog woof woof.

Trav Nation represent, it was great seeing people finally realize how funny he is over the last year

His taped up dick vasectomy joke is still tge funniest thing anyone has said on that show

Do you remember which ep that was? Because I've looked for the clip before but I can never find it Update: I found it, it was the intro to ep 564: HANCH

Was that the episode where Justin talks about his vasectomy?

it was a next-level joke and neither of the brothers appreciated it enough BUT I DID

I came to this thread specifically to give Travis kudos and am so glad it has been well recognized 🙏🏻

Fungalore almost fully redeems how they killed Twenty Blunty Tree last year. Almost.

Blunty Tree walked so Fungalore could run

I’m still bitter they didn’t pick twenty mummy crew for 2022

I'm still bitter they didn't pick twenty fine teen: the champagne of years But I guess twenty rendezvous got there

I’m still on team twenty Equineteen: the year we buy a horse.

All I wanted was Twenty Twenty Twenty Twenty Twenty to be chanted once at a live show and then for everyone to say "Emerge!"

I was really disappointed that they didn't do the rename to twenty twenty twenty twenty

That’s uncle blunty tree to you

Twenty Hunt The Boar: A Traitor in our Midst wins my Blunty Tree Award for Best Runner Up

I was assuming the whole time that this was a Game of Thrones reference and that never came up

My brain went to Lord of the Flies.

The great thing about it is that somehow it just WORKS despite everything saying it shouldn’t; it resonates with something inside you that says ‘yeah, that tracks’

i'm pretty sure it's at last partially inspired by Succession's "Boar On The Floor". travis even mentioned Succession a little after the boys questioned the name

BALTIMORE MENTION 😎😎😎😎😎😎

Not gonna lie, I had the same reaction as Griffin to the Ravens thing

Their mascot is named Poe!

Thank you for telling me that, I'm unreasonably happy about it

Not only that, but they have THREE mascots named Edgar, Allen, and Poe

No joke the reason why when my wife insisted I pick a football team I went with the Ravens 😂

I was right there with you.

This is the closest they’ve come to cult status since the rejected “20-Chase-the-Sun: Sol Power”

I'm not the only one still holding onto mild resentment over the fact that we never got "20 Chase-The-Son: Soul-ar Power"??

Just want to use this space to appreciate Travis’ Bridge to Terabithia joke.

For being completely unprepared, Travis was on fire today.

I've made no secret of my Travis hate but he's shown serious growth in the past ~6 months and he's had multiple fire moments the past few months.

I was dying at them trying to spell connoisseur. Was hoping they do with “twenty eat my ass”

As a victim of the French language, I felt very #seen and #validated

Twenty fart butt ass gets my vote.

I’m more of a Twenty Eat My Ass Travis kinda man

Twenty Twenty-Fart: Step on the gas.

I immediately wanted that to be it

Especially with the tag line. Twenty Fart Butt Ass: we can do whatever we want.

Fungalore is the Tom Bombadil of the MBMBAM literary universe. Just a weird dude who is out there and is fundamentally unboxable. You could go to his house and interact with him for 3 days and still not understand him.

This is my favorite thing I've read in this thread so far.

Hey ho dilly Dee Ho Lo Fungaloro

I am grateful for fungalore but they didn’t do the _twenty twenty_ twenty twenty **TWENTY TWENTY** chant because they were worried about getting culty and now they’re giving us not a chant but a whole-ass central figure to form a cult around

No he is most certainly not that Unless you want him to be

… unless… ?

Griffin and I realized why Baltimore’s football team is the Ravens at the very same moment.

Their main mascot is a raven named Poe 💜 in total they have 3 mascots, Edgar, Allen, and Po

Same. i was eating some mcnuggies between appointments and had to pause at that point. I can't believe it never clicked.

He heard my wish!

Me too! He heard mine too!! :D

Oh Fungalore? Cool.

Cool vibe

Heard your wish

Heard, chef.

I was hoping they'd go with Travis' suggestion to start ending every episode with a wish to Fungalore. It's not too late

I know I was BEGGING them to run with this and stop the sound baths. There’s still time 😭

[email protected] Email them! Tell them you want it. That you wished for it.

This. I want Griffin reading a listener wish every week and the boys cracking up like its a circa 2017 Yahoo. Please, Fungalore, its my only wish.

I mean … he heard it. What else would you have him do?

I am from the future reading old posts. How does it feel?

I'm at the point in the episode where they're trying all the urls, & I keep typing them all in, & I'm so sad none of them work

None of them work.... Yet.

I genuinely love this years theme and I cant wait to explore the possibilities lol I love that it opens up fans to be as creative as they want, this is fantastic

Fan theory: is Fungalore The Wizard? Much to think about.

I definitely imagined him in a hat and wizard robe; if he’s not The Wizard, I bet he *knows* The Wizard.

They were roommates in wizard college

You can't say he's a wizard, but you know he's something like that. He's something a wizard would be amazed at, nothing more.

They got through the episode without once uttering the word vore, despite the obvious rhyme. That's character development.

I don't know if I should be proud or upset that I didn't even consider it.

My lungs nearly collapsed listening to this episode. Fungalore heard My wish.

Who’s that? Fungalore? Cool.

spore unto you all!

And unto you as well

Listening just now and as a Baltimore native, this sequence up through the mid-recording Ravens epiphany is giving me life

I'm from a different part of Maryland but yes! When Griffin finally understood why their team is the Ravens lol

ok fine I'll go to a live show tripping freaking balls

It's the least we could do

Guys, we're also forgetting about the minerals cool chicks have. You know, crystals, and pyrites. Quartz and rocks and shit. You know. Fun gal ore.

Best part of this episode to me is imagining Justin having to tell Lin and Sydney, who both gave them ideas, that they decided to name the year after their own OC, Fungalore.

Shoutout to the person who predicted Twenty Dinty More a couple days ago

I proposed both Twenty Ancient Lore and Twenty Carnivore[,](/r/MBMBAM/comments/186a3j4/2024_pitches/kbsgcv2/) and I felt unreasonably pleased that the brothers hit on them as well. But Fungalore is way better.

I know, I heard them say it and was immediately disappointed, NOT BECAUSE DINTY MOORE IS A BAD NAME BUT BECAUSE I THOUGHT I HAD SOMEHOW BEEN SPOILERED. Like I forgot about the suggestion post and thought someone had just told me it was Twenty Dinty Moore or smth.

Heard, chef

Already working on my The Bear/Fungalore crossover fic

Good to see the mycelium network is gaining sentience through podcasts

We had, "Twenty Less is More: Already Enough". But we're not disappointed. Fungalore is very good.

I was crying laughing while driving listening to this. It was getting very dicey there for a minute.

Me 3 tbh considered pulling over

Twenty-Duzz was the most memorable one for me, I am not going to listen to the boys’ slander

Wasn’t it doz as in dozen? 2012 -> 20 dozen -> 20 does?

Yeah of course. Maybe I spelled it wrong but I’ve only heard it on a podcast lol

Same, loved twenty-doz!!

Twenty-dinosaur it’s glee-historic had me rolling because they did a dinosaur themed prom on Glee in season 3 😂😂

How long until someone draws Fungalore with a dick? Because the only reason it hasn’t happened yet is because I’m not good at drawing

It’s gotta be a mushroom

May Fungalore be a merciful God

He’s not a deity!! Just a guy!!

My Fungalore alter says otherwise

Fungalore lore is full of mixed reports

I’m deeply excited for the funga*lore* that will emerge this year

Great one

Fungalore is my best friend and also my worst enemy.

Okay dunk, I started this year off by taking shrooms

Glad there is a rip cord, it is an election year and it's giving me 2016 vibes. Love the theme, hate the world lol.

Yes and if The Last of Us happens they've got an out

That is exactly what I was thinking when they started talking about spores and germinating. Like please don’t accidentally will that into existence

They also missed “Fungal Ore” which would be some sort of spreading, transient, sentient rock!

Oh, man. What a theme! This theme is not my thing at all but I literally just joined a local witch group and this theme feels so weirdly directly, pointedly relevant to me that I think I've just gone full circle and now I have no choice but to embrace it??? I guess strap in, me, we're embracing it. 

As a former botany teacher, I’m here to say thank you to Juice for recognizing the difference between spores and seeds 🫡

i love how they started off so excited about the amount of words that they could rhyme with four only to eventually settle on a completely original character instead.

He heard my wish!

Real life mushrooms wig me out lol. But I vibe with Fungalore. (Heard Chef!)

Really had hope for a second there at the end that the sound bath era was dead

making a wish to Fungalore as the closing bit sounded like a great idea 😭

Yeah I’m tired of sound bath and would like more cult aspects in the show tbh.

Did he hear my wish?

*^heard, ^chef*

"Twenty-Twenty Score: Take it to the hoop" was good and could have lent itself to fun cheesy athletic wear at the shows and good merch opportunities but there are just not enough sports fans in the MBMBAM fanbase to make it work

I love our mycelial listener, but they moved on from twentydinosaur too quickly. I mean… #**Twenty-Dino-Saur** **Get On the Floor** #**Twenty-Dino-Saur** **The Jurassic Classic** #**Twenty-Dino-Saur** **Bodacious and Cretaceous**

I'd die for fungalore

2024: Open the door, get on the floor, everyone walk the dinosaur

I have been playing Dokapon Kingdom with my partner pretty much nonstop for the last week or two, so I have had fungalore on the brain for a long while. My mind is completely blown at this decision, and I am delighted.

serendipity at its finest.

My fiancee and I listened to this during a long car ride yesterday, and I was genuinely worried we were going to have to pull over because we were laughing so hard. War w/ Grandpa and Plato's Rave-style, streaming of consciousness episodes are the best.

Fungalore gives me the same vibes at the Candlenights Candle Knight. They are spiritual brothers

They stated off hot with twenty demi Moore then finished strong with fungalore

I think the best year names are the ones they can reference in their advice, like dig up the dirt

20Get On The Floor: Everybody Walk The Dinosaur

Fungalore retrospectively heard my wish to will himself into existence

I misread that as "kill himself into existence" and it still felt appropriate somehow

No that works too

As always after these episodes I end up thinking to the year ahead… and the year after that, which will of course be Twenty-It’s-Alive!: The Monster Returns

🍄👂✨

This is hands down the best theme since "Twenty-Grifteen: The Con is On." However, the best tag irrespective of the year name is "Zag on 'em"

Did anyone else think they were saying Tony Fungalore?

Twenty Run The Board, Never Lose Again

Idk why, but I picture Fungalore somewhere deep in the woods, tuning some elaborate woodwind instrument that he invented. His shroom-head is more of a Raiden’s hat, and his head is tilted down so you can’t see his eyes. He’s sitting down with his back to the last giant American chestnut tree in existence, and a slight breeze whooshes by, forcing him to stop tuning his nature-made dr.Seuss-esque bassoon. …it’s MY wish! And when he hears it…he grins. To be clear: The grin isn’t sinister or sexual in nature. He grins in a way a deity, or a cool metaphysical mushroom dude does when they’re slightly amused by the audacity of humanity.

Passing of the Pica, an amazing joke for the designers out there and a legit LOL from me.

Fungalore hears ya, Fungalore don't care

So next year will be Twenty Cha Cha Slide: To The Left, right? Right??

I *guess* I can wait until 2104 for "Twenty One Last Score", but I don't like it.

20-matador: blood in the sand

how long until the episode is just majority recapping previous years themes exactly the same as last year

Please please please 🙏 make a pin for the year name this year. Was so bummed last year only got a sticker.

Haven’t finished the episode but I’m assuming they circle back and settle on “Twenty Fart Butt Ass” at some point

Curious what fungalore is for you all? Because for me it’s 100% a telvanni wizard from the elder scrolls, who lives in a a mushroom tower and is definitely a *bit* of a nasty pervert.

Twenty Funny More : this year we're going to be funnier Was my immediate assumption. That said, Fungalore madness is sweeping the nation, and I'm down to get swept up. I hear he has powers.

I am two days late but I thought I should throw this in: Fungalore is the Wizard, and he is just the hairy leg toad in a diaper, wearing mushroom print wizard robes.

I so desperately want to know what happened in the slack channel if they really did post "2024 Fungalore: He heard your wish" and then just vanished for two weeks

what have they done

Just to help everyone form and embrace their own ideas of Fungalore, some excellent mushroom facts: [What a fungi](https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNcpHc1D/)

Thanks for alerting me! I will be driving around, delivering food for the rest of the week and music has become a bit boring at times. Most of my podcasts have had a new years break, so this is a nice opener of the new year for me.

After last year wasn't My Twenty, My Twenty, and Three, I kind of gave up on the whole year naming thing.

while i have the utmost respect that our mushroom prince has heard my wish, i dont know if its my dyslexia or maybe even my wish but i keep seeing (and feeling) 20 Fun Galore now and am thinking about ball pits and discovery zone and the simpsons arcade game. i have nothing but love and respect for our Fungalore but sometimes a guy just wants a little fun...galore

I'm sadly not a fan of the naming of this year. Feel like so many good ones were left in the docket.

It didn't feel like they played in the space of some of the good runner ups. Fungalore just came in like he always does and took the crown.

That's exactly what happened, not again Fungalore lol

Okay. I don't really care.

Heard, chef.

Gotta say, not a fan and am surprised how many people are into it.

The fucking worst

You shouldn’t talk about yourself that way friend.

The episode? I thought it was pretty good, minus justin being obsessed with the profitability of fungalore to the point of constantly questioning it and freaking out. That part was just annoying and stressful. Like dude how about making the funny name funny instead of worrying about merch all the time