Hello, I am Justine and today I'm with
Hi guys, I'm Aliyah.
Today we are playing Guess the
Character.
A couple of weeks ago, I played Guess
the Character with Sam. And as the
winner, I challenged Aliyah to another
episode. So, welcome to another episode.
Thank you. Yeah, I'm excited to try this
game because it involves a lot more
questions, right? You have like 20 or 21
chances to guess the right character.
That's right.
So, we'll keep track of how many
questions we've asked and we'll see
who's the winner.
Do you want to ask first?
» Uh, sure. Yeah, I'll do that.
» Okay, go ahead. Is the character
a animal?
» Yes.
» Okay. Um, is the character a
mammal?
No.
» Okay.
Um, is the character
a
fish?
» Yes.
» Okay. Okay, [laughter] that narrows
things down. Um, is the character from
Finding Nemo?
[laughter]
» Yes.
» Um, is it Dory?
» No.
» Nemo?
Yes. [laughter]
» Very good. Yeah.
» Wow. That was
» I I'm I'm I realized after doing this
and thinking about these games for a bit
that I'm kind of a movie person.
» Right. Right. Okay. So, and those were
very good questions to get to the right
answer. So, that was only five questions
and then you guessed who it was. So,
that is amazing. [laughter]
Or maybe it was six. I don't know. But
I'm probably not going to do any better.
So, [laughter]
we'll see. We'll see. I I have faith in
you. I I picked some I picked a mix of
like I think easy and and one maybe a
little more difficult. So, we'll see how
it goes.
» Okay. Okay. We'll see. I have my first
um character in mind.
Okay. So, is your character a human?
» No.
» Okay. Is your character an animal?
» Yes.
» Okay.
Is your character
a big animal?
» Yes, I would say so. Yeah.
» Okay. Is your character a mammal?
» No.
» Okay.
Is your character
a
swims in the ocean?
» No.
» Okay.
Is your character
a
um reptile?
» Yes.
» Okay.
Is your character from
a
um
I guess
I don't know what I'm trying to ask cuz
it's a cartoon character, right?
» Yeah, it's a it's from an animated
movie. Yeah.
» Okay. Is your character a dinosaur? No.
Okay.
A reptile that's big, but it's not a
dinosaur.
H.
Does your reptile
have
friends of a different species?
» Yes, definitely.
Okay.
Um,
now I'm trying to think of movies with a
group of friends that are all different
species,
but I'm not sure.
Uh,
» yeah, I can
» I'm blanking. [laughter]
» Can I can put you a little bit closer on
the right path. um
that it's not like a mixed group of
species. Um it's more like this
character spends a lot of time with a
group of another species.
» M okay. Okay. So it's
two species but maybe a bunch of
different friends together.
» Okay.
reptiles [sighs]
and another type of friend.
Um, I think I think I should probably
also add that this is also open to
characters that are not uh that don't
exist in real life. So, it is a reptile,
but I don't want you to think that it's
like an animal that has to exist on
Earth.
» Oh, right. Okay. So, is it a dragon?
» Yes.
» Okay. [laughter] Okay. That helped me a
little bit.
» Yeah. I was like, "Oh, okay. We're we're
going down this path and I like I don't
want it to be taken too literally, you
know."
» Yeah. Yes. Okay. So, dragons.
Um I think I only know one dragon movie.
So, is it from How to Train Your Dragon?
» Yes. Okay. Thank goodness. Now, I don't
know the name, but is it the black
dragon that's the main one?
» Yes, it's the main dragon. Yeah, good
job. Um, his name is Toothless.
[cheering]
» Yeah.
» Okay, thank you. [laughter]
» I was like, okay. Yeah, I'm You have to
know this movie for sure. Um, obviously
dragons are in a lot of different, you
know, types of media, but I was like,
this is this is one I can only think of
one children's movie that has a dragon.
» Yes. Well, thank you for the big hint of
the Makebelie animal. I appreciate it.
[gasps]
» No problem. Okay, I have Oh, that was 11
questions. Okay, that's pretty good.
» So, Aliyah won this round, but we both
have one more character. So, I have my
next character in mind ready to go. So,
Aliyah, go ahead with your questions.
» Okay. Uh, is the character a
human being?
» No.
» Okay. Um,
are they an animal?
» No.
Okay. Um, are they a
machine?
» Yes.
» Okay. Are they a robot?
» Yes. [laughter]
» Um, I'm just going to go for it. Is it
Wall-E?
» Yes. [laughter]
[laughter]
» Amazing.
» I had Wall-E in mind as like one of my
options. So, ah,
» um, I decided like I'll save it for
another time, but it was like at the top
of mind, you know.
» Yeah. Yeah, I get that. Okay. Well, that
was four questions and then you guessed
it. So, amazing. [laughter]
» Thank you.
» Good job.
» Thanks. Um, okay. So, I have um my next
character in mind.
» Okay. Is your character an animal?
» Yes.
» Okay.
Is your character a fantasy type animal?
» Yes.
» Okay.
Um, is your character a
h animal that's kind of humanoid?
» Yeah.
» Okay.
» Great question. Wow.
» Okay. [laughter]
Okay. Now I'm trying to think. What
would be considered an animal?
Things like
fairies and elves don't really seem like
animals to me, but they're also not
humans. So, let me think.
Um,
is your character a
H?
I don't know. That question sounds like
a good question, but now I don't know
what else to ask.
[laughter]
An animal that's kind of humanoid.
» Yeah, it's Yeah, this this was my
tougher one for sure.
» Okay.
Um,
is your animal a
furry animal? No.
» Okay. Does your animal have scales?
» Yeah, they they would have scales.
» Okay. Scales and humanoid.
Is your animal a
monster.
» No.
» Okay. Is your animal
the main character of the movie?
» Yeah. Yeah, they're they're one of the
main characters.
» Okay. Okay. One of the main characters.
Is this a large animal?
» No, relatively small.
» Okay.
Okay.
H.
Not a puppet because that's not an
animal.
Uh,
not a
like most mammals are not really
humanoid. So, it's not a mammal.
Um,
is it something like an elf or a fairy?
It's
kind of like that. I I mean I would It's
not It's not one of those things, but
there is magic involved.
Okay.
H
a magical scaly humanoid animal.
I'm sure that many people watching
already know what this is and it's
torture for them to watch me [laughter]
be clueless.
» Yeah, I I hope I stumped them, too.
» Okay. Well, we'll see. Um
Okay, I'm at nine questions. I don't
know if it's
um time for some time for some
bigger questions like is it a movie
about magic or just this one character
is magical?
Huh? That's a tough question. I feel
like
I feel like magic is a big part of the
movie, a big part of the environment in
the movie. Um, it really focuses on this
one character, but um, technically like
yeah, magic exists in the in the
environment.
» Okay. Okay. And is it set on Earth or in
a different planet?
» It is set on Earth.
» Okay.
And is it a adventure movie?
H
they're using magic on an adventure.
No, not not really. Not in the sense
that I think you're asking about like a
typical adventure movie. Um I would I
would say no.
» Okay.
Is the movie
uh was the movie made
say before the year 2000?
» No.
» Okay. So, it's
fairly recent in the last 25 years.
Okay.
Um,
what else could I ask?
Is the character
does it have a gender? A male gender,
let's say.
» No.
» Okay.
Does it have a female gender?
» Yes.
» Okay. [clears throat]
Okay. So, she is a humanoid animal with
scales
and magic.
Oh, I feel [laughter] like it's going to
be very obvious
when you finally tell me. I'm at 15
questions.
» Mhm. What's the total number of
questions? Is it 20 or 21?
» Okay, 20, I think. 20. And then you can
guess the character for the 20 like the
21st question.
» Got it. I think you can do it. I think
you can do it. Maybe um you have um you
have kids, right?
» Yeah.
» Okay. I you probably would have shown
this movie to your kids. I
» I guess it's possible you haven't, but
» Right. I
» think it's something you'd probably show
them.
» Okay. Um
I can't
think of anything else even to ask.
Um,
does your animal
sing?
» No, I don't think so.
» Okay, there's no singing. Okay.
Is it based on Is the movie based on a
story or a book?
» I don't think so. I think it was an
original story.
» Okay.
Does your character have
a family?
» Yes.
» Okay.
Uh,
is the
movie taking place in a forest?
No.
Okay,
now I'm at 19 questions. I think I need
a tiny little hint. Can you think about
a hint?
» Yeah, definitely. Um,
it is a Japanese movie.
Okay,
my daughter watches a lot of Studio
Gibli movies, but I have never watched
them with her.
» So, I don't know.
» Okay. So, yeah. Hopefully hopefully you
know at least the title.
» Okay.
Okay. Well, the only thing I really know
is that
Spirited Away is something about pigs.
[laughter]
» Is it from that movie?
» No. That is one of my favorite movies. U
But no.
» Okay. Okay. Well, I'm I have to give up
because I don't know anything about
those movies and I don't think I will
know what the character is. Okay. Okay.
So, the character is Po.
» Okay.
» Movie is also called Ponyo.
» Okay.
» Um, basically she is a little fish.
[laughter] She's a little fish girl and
her dad is like a um wizard
» and she um decides that she wants to be
human because she meets like a little
boy. um they live on an island. Um and
so she, you know, she lives near the
island in the ocean and um she is able
to turn into a little girl. Um and uh
but she also still like sometimes
reverts back to being a fish. It kind of
depends on her emotions.
» Okay.
» And so it's kind of more of a coming of
age like type of story where she's
deciding, you know, who she wants to be.
Ah, yes.
» You know, there's like adventure
elements. I I felt like I couldn't
really say yes to that question because
they didn't, you know, go travel
» somewhere to find something or discover
something. It was really more
» focusing on the coming of age part.
» Yeah, that sounds like a good one.
» Yeah. And I have to say, I highly
recommend you watch some Studio Gibli
films with your daughter because they
are excellent.
Okay. R Yeah, she she talks about the
the environments a lot and what what she
likes about them, but she hasn't talked
about the the story lines. So, I don't
know anything about that. So, yes, I
will have to watch them with her. Thank
you for the recommendation.
» Yeah, of course. So, now Aliyah, you won
both rounds. So, it's your turn to
challenge somebody else at English
sponge to a guess the character match.
Okay. So, you have to think about who
you're going to talk to next and we'll
be watching to see if you also win the
next round.
» Um, so I think what I'm going to do is
challenge AJ to
» I guess the character game.
» Okay. We'll see if he accepts the
challenge.
» Yes.
» Great. Thank you so much for being here
today, Aliyah. And we'll see you soon.
» Thank you. Thanks so much for the for
the game. It was super fun and I'm of
course I'm glad that I won again.
[laughter]
» Yes. Great. Okay. Bye-bye. Thanks,
» Justine. Bye.
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