YoshiHood

YoshiHood was a YouTube plush comedy series produced by KrabbyLama and first premiered on September 3, 2018. It recently concluded with its 6th season on December 20, 2019. The overall concept was inspired by iconic "plush-tuber" SuperMarioLogan, who is immensely praised for furthering this style of content into the media platform. Oftentimes, the usage of Super Mario licence characters are portrayed in these wacky and comedic plush-formatted videos, which is clearly noticeable in this series too. It brings forth a flavor of suspenseful satire filled with a colorful cast (most notably two lead Yoshi characters) that originate from multiple franchises (Nickelodeon, Disney etc) to serve a significance in one jumbled-up universe.

Premise
The setting is usually centered where the prior episode took place, but the mobile dome for our two lead dinos is quite figuratively the more prominent spot in the entire span of the show. Another staple location was at the Krusty Krab, which unfortunately got torn down from constant backlash of the horrendous meals that were sold there.

Characters

As stated above, characters spawned from various franchises make appearances on the program, making the cast quite diverse and packed with variety. However, there are still a handful of main stars that typically "hog the spotlight" every now and then. One of those types of characters are a wannabe-gangster known as Gangster Yoshi and his dorky brother Yoshi. These two siblings are perceived as titular characters of the series (hence the obvious show title). Although this may be the case, SpongeBob (a former fry-cook for the flawed Krusty Krab establishment) and Mario (a heroic Italian plumber who got killed off by the end of season 4) are also known for serving main roles throughout the series, despite the show being called 'YoshiHood'.

Production
Development

As Layne (KrabbyLama) was preparing to become a freshman in high school, he needed to begin contemplating how he can formulate a new schedule set-up that would give him enough time to focus on academic work. When all he seemed well for him, he suddenly faced a figment of 'writer's block' where he couldn't come up with any fresh ideas for the channel. It was during the first weekend of school and Layne slowly grew bored of uploading wearisome content. Layne swiftly thought of an idea that would hopefully change the current state of his channel (which was on the verge of sliding downhill). This idea was to develop a reoccurring series similar to that of SML's videos but with his signature comedy instead. A concept like this has never surfaced his channel before, which was the exact reason why it had to be done. Thus, the first official episode was published to the channel which led to Layne feeling hopeful about the show's forthcoming success.

Writing

Improvisation is the essential key to every single episode. There is no specific script involved in production. Instead, it all comes straight from Layne's creative mind. Of course, he typically has a set idea as to what would happen next in the continuity line, depending on what occurred in the prior episode (which tends to be improvised by Layne).

Voice Acting

Just like how there's a lack of writing involved, voice acting doesn't seem to be a major issue to Layne either. That's only because he provides his vocal talent to the entire cast of characters and is capable of giving each one their own unique persona to work off of. Mel Blanc (an infamous vocal performer who's known for calming the title as 'the man of a thousand voices') also used to toil with this technique and was highly praised by dozens of voice actors for his ambitious attainment.

Music

Frequent accompaniment is usually taken from the YouTube Music Library (and from Layne's piano such as in episode 21).

Critical Reception
Shortly after the first five episodes, the show gained a positive following from many of Layne's friends and followers alike. Jackrabbit Gaming/Vlogs (Jackie) was the first person promptly exposed to the show by Layne himself. It was the 2nd episode and was subsequently stunned with contagious laughter, claiming it as "the best video he ever made!" Many other of Layne's followers including Connor Chase watched the series and admitted to it being how he first found out about Layne's Youtube channel.

By this point in time, Layne was considered a musical genius for his Weird Al animated music videos and the YoshiHood videos. Eventually, the show's initial hype slowly died down around the 5th season and led Layne to believe that things would be best if he ended the show after its 6th/7th season. He made up his mind and chose to end it by the 6th season, losing interest in the show altogether at this point.

The show was originally supposed to last until January 2020, but Layne ultimately knew he should end it before 2019, thus ending the series on December 20, 2019. Two spin-off shows soon followed admist the succes of YoshiHood including Yoshi Balboa (2020-2021), a spoof on the Rocky franchise, and Yoshinator (2021-2022), a spoof on the Terminator franchise.