Izzy
| Izzy | |
|---|---|
| |
| Species | Piranha Plant |
| First appearance | The Play Nintendo Show ("New Super Mario Bros. 2 Goin' Crazy", 2016) |
| Latest appearance | The Play Nintendo Show ("Frizzy's New Game - Can You Guess the amiibo?", 2018) |
Izzy is a life-size Piranha Plant puppet who serves as the co-host for most of the episodes of The Play Nintendo Show along with Andrew, his best friend. He acts as a supporting character and comic relief. He became a popular enough character in the comments section of the episodes to receive a segment in the show called Ask Izzy, where he answers questions sent in from the comments.
In his earlier appearances, Izzy would perform a skit before a number on the ranking, using words to rhyme with the number. He would also appear at the end, often on an electronic device to tell the viewer to like and subscribe to the Play Nintendo channel. Drawings of Izzy would also sometimes be hung on a wall in the Casa de Nintendo.
In his later appearances, during "The Play Nintendo Show News" segments, Izzy acts as a news anchor and briefly talks about a fictional news story before the game the episode is about gets reviewed.
Izzy always resides in a warp pipe, but he does get out of it offscreen.[1]
According to himself, he gets a bit snappy before lunch, and he likes putting flies on food.
History[edit]
The Play Nintendo Show[edit]
In "Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Friendly Townfolk", Andrew tells Izzy he can not hide his amiibo figures from him. When Izzy hides them, Andrew reminds him of a picture he drew in the 3rd grade depicting himself looking at Princess Peach with hearts around them, embarrassing him. To make things even, Andrew hangs the picture of him on a wall.
In "Glam Party with Style Savvy: Fashion Forward", the subject of the ranking is the top 5 ways to improve Izzy's style. Jenna gives Izzy new clothes and a new hairstyle. When Jenna realizes what she has done might have been a bit much, she decides to make the number 1 pick to give him some love. Jenna kisses Izzy, causing him to glow so bright she and Andrew have to wear sunglasses. Jenna states with this look, Izzy could be a model.
In "Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Terry Takeover: Part 1", Izzy overslept so Andrew creates a sock puppet named Frizzy to take his place, with the sock's name being created when Andrew places "Fr" before Izzy's nametag. At the end of the episode, Izzy wakes up, realizes he missed the show, and goes back to bed.
In "YO-KAI WATCH 2: Bony Spirits & YO-KAI WATCH 2: Fleshy Souls", Izzy gets possessed by Hungramps, making him even more snappy and hungry. By the end of the ranking, Hungramps is gone, meaning Izzy is full and refuses to eat his birthday cake. When Andrew tosses the script of the episode, Izzy refuses to eat it.
In "Disney Magical World 2 & Its Hidden Wonders", Izzy uses magic to make pizza materialize.
In "Paper Mario: Color Splash - Paint Palooza", Izzy's loses his color and Andrew uses the Paint Hammer to return him back to his usual colors.
In "Mario Party Star Rush Celebration!", Andrew tells Izzy that the boss chosen for number 2 might be a distant relative of his. After guessing his other relatives, the boss is revealed to be Petey Piranha. At the end of the episode, Izzy says he and a YouTube user named "K Scherer" go all the way back to kindergarten, making a joke about the ending of the word sounding similar to "garden".
In "Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon Terry Takeover: Part 2", Frizzy tells Andrew that Izzy is sick with "Piranhapox". At the end of the episode, Izzy is relaxing on a beach, revealing he faked his sickness.
In the first episode covering Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, Andrew pulls a prank on Izzy by placing an Invisible Block!when he emerges from his warp pipe. Later, Izzy creates a Snowplant which gives him frostbite. Near the end, Reggie Fils-Aimé creates shirts reading "I ❤️ Izzy" to give everyone to celebrate his new favorite game.
In "Special Report!", Izzy is the weather reporter, who states the weather is not good as he can not decide whether to buy Pokémon Sun or Pokémon Moon. Andrew suggests to buy both, which he agrees with.
In the second episode covering Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, Izzy creates a Piranha Plant made of Piranha Plants in the game.
In "Mario Sports Superstars", Andrew and Izzy keep accidentally breaking things using a soccer ball, baseball, and a crown.
In "Zooming Around Nintendo HQ with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe!", Izzy goes to Nintendo of America headquarters in Redmond, Washington and takes a tour, interacts with various employees, and holds a meeting where he presents proper warp pipe maintenance techniques. When Andrew and Jenna return home, they realize Izzy is still at the headquarters, where he is having a dance party with the employees.
In "Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition, NBA Playgrounds & Fast RMX", he along with Jenna, Frizzy, and Worthington are bored, and he suggests they look through the trash for stale pizza, which Jenna thinks is gross.
In "Going on Tour with Nintendo's 2017 Summer of Play Tour", Izzy stays at the Casa de Nintendo while the siblings are at the Nintendo's 2017 Summer of Play Tour as Worthington vacuums.
In "Super Summer Powers with ARMS", Izzy acts as the narrator for the beginning and the announcer when "Captain Chill Awesome" and Jenna play ARMS.
In "Playing Ever Oasis During a Power Outage!", Izzy is afraid when the Casa de Nintendo loses power, prompting Andrew to find flashlights and calling him a "scaredy sprout" when he says he is not ready to talk about Ever Oasis following a lightning strike.
In "Miitopia Gets 5 Thumbs Up!", when Andrew wears the RPG Cap of Coolness, he, Jenna, Worthington, and Frizzy lose in an RPG-styled battle against Andrew when he choses "charm".
In "Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions, Izzy accidentally creates a pizza cake when Jenna prompted him to make pizza or cake for the party.
In "Super Mario Odyssey Space Exploration", Izzy is the director of "cool operations" and notifies Andrew when something is detected.
In "Nintendo Holiday Wish List", Izzy calls himself Andrew's "leafy little helper".
Ask Izzy[edit]
The Ask Izzy segments reveal many facts about Izzy.
- Izzy is the drummer of a band called the "Thunderous Thwomp Things".
- Izzy's favorite food is chocolate ice cream with with flies as sprinkles.
- Izzy first met Andrew when he advised him not to throw away a piece of his pizza so he could eat it.
- Izzy has a warp pipe house with a pile of Andrew's used socks on the front lawn to attract flies.
- Izzy's favorite hobby is to take pictures of potatoes pretending to be people.
- Izzy's favorite things about summer are the heat, how ice cream melts and gets sticky over the consumer's hands, and the flies flying around. Andrew thinks those are the worst parts about summer.
- Izzy's favorite superhero is Captain Chill Awesome, Andrew's superhero persona.
- The funniest thing he has seen is a deleted scene from The Captain Chill Awesome Movie: Chill or be Awesomely Chilled.
- Izzy can reach approximately 24,901 miles: the length of Earth.
- Izzy is scared of thunderstorms, lint rollers, gloveboxes, things that take two words to describe, and "arm animals", the latter of which Izzy is no longer afraid by after seeing Andrew with a chicken mask.
Play Nintendo website[edit]
Izzy has three Play Nintendo opinion polls, with each being about an episode of Ask Izzy. One is choosing what Izzy's favorite food is, another is choosing which one of Izzy's potato pictures is the best, and what the worst thing about summer is.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
In the second episode covering Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, Worthington introduces the hosts of the show, where statistics for the hosts are seen, including Izzy:
- Best Bud Points = 1000/10
- Piranha Plant = 10/10
- Humor = 10/10
- Hunger = 100/10
- Total Fly Consumption = number beyond calculation
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Official "Ask Izzy" YouTube playlist. YouTube. Archived January 13, 2019, 23:30:12 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
