AI-animated satire from DOOOD What The?!. Reacts to a real news story; see transcript below.
Dooood! What the? Okay, check this out. The New York Knicks just won the NBA championship. Their first one since nineteen seventy three. Fifty three years. And in the Finals they came back from a double digit lead in every single win. Including twenty nine points down. We led these games. We led all of them. I am seven feet four and I watched every lead just walk out of the building. One night we were up twenty nine points. Twenty nine. They came back four separate times. It stopped feeling like basketball. Brunson scored forty five in the last one. I had nineteen points and a wonderful view of his entire night. Jalen Brunson, Finals MVP. Three guys from Villanova finally finished the job in New York. Fifty three years of waiting. The Knicks just remembered how to win, in the most stressful way possible. Duuude... What the. (sigh)
The New York Knicks have not won an NBA championship since 1973, making their recent victory a historic achievement.
In each of their final series games, the Knicks overcame double-digit deficits to win, including one game where they were down by 29 points before coming back to secure victory.
Jalen Brunson was named Finals MVP after scoring a crucial 45 points in the final game of the series.
Three of the key players contributing to the Knicks' victory were Jalen Brunson, RJ Barrett, and Julius Randle, all of whom attended Villanova University together.
DOOOD exaggerates the emotional impact and drama of the comeback by depicting a character's disbelief and frustration at watching leads evaporate throughout each game, culminating in celebration of the long-awaited victory.
DOOOD, What The?! is a faceless AI-animated daily news-comedy cartoon. The host, The Reactor, reacts in disbelief to one real news story per episode, with whip-pan cutaways to animated characters. New episodes post daily.