Fun fact: The reason she has so many knives is because they ARE 1 use. In game every tool is a one use item. Use a rake once and it disintegrates.

she obviously gets a new knife every kill, she keeps the old ones as tokens . common serial killer psychology

I love how Danny didn’t notice she baked a file into the pie, implying that she was preparing for prison, and her granddaughter brought the pie to her.

Everybody asks what’s grandma hiding? But no one ever asks why’s grandma hiding?

The fact that someone actually had to make the grandma decoy for the ads is impressive, and terrifying

I'm no film expert but their use of color in those ads is actually incredible at capturing the feeling of the animated ones

kathy bates won an oscar for misery in which she portrayed one of the most terrifying film villains to date and now she's the grandma in merge mansion

Danny I hate you for missing the fact she PUT A FILE IN THE BOWL WHILE SHE WAS BAKING so when she was brought the pie she could use it to break out of jail. It's genius

I feel like if they turned into a movie studio they'd do 10x better

The Merge Mansion team just realized that they're better at making films than they are at games. I expect Lilly's Garden full length live action film by next month.

Honestly grandma has nailed it. When you're old and you've got nothing to lose, might as well commit multiple murder. A life sentence wouldn't be as scary when you're 80.

What really surprised me was the fact that I saw one of the live-action ads on the actual TV, like not a social media site. They had the budget to get this as a real television commercial. Then I saw another animated one on social media after the live-action ones came out, and the animation quality dropped extensively. Probably because they blew their budget on the live-action.

"Grandma wait!" "No." Idk why, but I absolutely lost it at that exchange.

Honestly I'm just happy for Kathy Bates, she looks like she's having so much fun in these ads

"The Butler" here. And you're right - I HAVEN'T slept in ages! 😀

Kathy Bates is imo one of the greatest actresses of all time, she can literally do anything, drama, comedy, horror/thriller, she's amazing, sooooo... How TF did they get her to do ads for a mobile game!?

Grandma isn’t a murderer, she’s just a master chef Those papers she was burning was her secret recipe. She wasn’t burying a body, just planting… spices? That wasn’t blood on her, just jam.

huge props to them tbh. 99% of ads with real people are incredibly cringe, uncreative, and they use the worst actors on this planet. These ads are genuinely good.

3:06 so is anyone gonna tell us why she's wearing the prettiest gloves I've ever seen for gardening or...? there are bigger questions than the knives guys

This would actually be one sick movie. They could make more money with this movie then they ever could with their mobile app

At some point I caved in and downloaded the app and the knives thing is actually kind of a clever joke. In the game you have to merge low value objects to make better ones, and as far as I remember the knives are one of the low value ones. So you begin the game with a whole buch of knives that you have to pair up until you end up with a rake or something more useful.

They put literally everything into these ads, but the game is literally just merging random things to get to the next area. It's just so weird. Also why is the grandma hinted to be some type of murderer? Honestly I'm invested in this storyline.

When you’re more excited about merge mansion ads than some actual movies

2:00 to be fair Danny, serial killers aren’t the most understandable people, there’s probably some weird reason behind it. Maybe it’s some kind of victor Zasz situation, he cuts himself for every kill, and she only uses one knife per person or something

The director of the live action ads, Jim Jenkins, is an extremely well-respected director. He’s won a ton of awards and is responsible for more than a few of the best Super Bowl ads. Legitimately impressed that the Merge Mansion devs/producers decided to go with legitimately top-level production companies for their advertising given that they’d probably be just as successful with cheaper ones.

i’ve solved it. she’s just a baker. the knives are for cutting pies, the red stuff on her apron was berries, she was burning her secret recipe, and she was planting seeds in the garden to grow her own berries. she doesn’t want anyone to know she makes pies. you’re welcome gamers😩

I like how Danny didn’t see grandma drop a file into her pie filling in the animated video 😂😂

3:20 Danny I think you need to realize that most murderers are insane

Lights, color, art department and casting are on point. The girl’s silhouette looks like the typical character from these games

i can't believe everyone's shaming an avid knife collector. leave her and her unique hobbies alone.

We're just going to pretend Danny is hiding his extra set of fully articulated arms from us? Yes? Oh...ok.

9:25 I can’t believe Danny missed the picture going from live action to animated

also how did they get Kathy Bates to play the grandma? literally an A-list actress.

Danny: "DO NOT ASK me if I am sponsored by Merge Mansion!" Me: "What is Danny hiding?" 🤔

@5:19 Danny, sounding genuinely touched, "It's . . . Beautiful. It's a beautiful film."

Gaslight, Gatekeep, ✨️Grandma✨️

They got Kathy Bates to star in it, I think a high production value was required. Also if they ever did do a real feature film, they would definitely need Danny to make a cameo in it, as a nod to the UKpostsrs who helped with this game's ad lore.

ok but why did she have to lick her finger before sticking it in the statue's ear

A trailer has been released for maybe a movie merge mansion (?) and literally PEDRO PASCAL is playing in it, PEDRO PASCAL

I honestly love these wacky adds, Kathy Bates is just having the time of her life in these. Plus giving deep intriguing lore is not bad to make a repair/improve house game. Cause they keep going at it in the game, its not like they forget about it in it. In my book there is nothing wrong with this.

They should just...make a movie. Even if it's a jokey, anti-horror movie. I would totally watch it. Not at all interested in the mobile game tho.

danny’s recreation to how raunchy the secret passageways could get genuinely killed me

I’m so happy you took my suggestion to continue talking about these ads since they are whole movies!

I’d honestly play this game just to encourage them to make even more of these ads 😂

I hope that someday Merge Mansion goes the whole 9 yards and reworks the game into some suspenseful horror mystery game. Then people would actually want to play it.

The joke in the first ad is that in the game you "merge" items together to get new items, so in the game it would be completely normal to have a bunch of knives stored in your shed. Also explains the "so many knives, so little time" line that maybe eludes to how long it take to merge stuff or whatever idk

These are surprisingly funny. I laughed out loud at almost all of them.

These actors fit the characters better than the ones in the Avatar The Last Airbender live action movie.

The mystery is "what's grandma hiding?" Is Because she keeps exposing everything about herself. So like, it's really hard to figure out what she would actually try to hide from us.

Me, an empath: “I’m sensing that Danny wants to be sponsored by Merge Mansion.”

6:04 she is burning her taxes

Both ad types are ok. The animated ones are better advertising wise because it actually shows the game but the live action ones are so interesting

At the end of the knitting ad, Grandma was knitting something yellow. However, it couldn’t be another grandma decoy because she doesn’t wear any yellow. Who does wear yellow? The main girl. Grandma was knitting a decoy granddaughter for some nefarious purpose.

The second live action ad is such a great concept for a parody horror movie oh my god. Where no matter where you go, it's always a hand-knitted replica, and you're like "Grandma, I can see you right there" but as soon as you get there, bam, it's a hand knitted replica. I'd watch that go on for, like, 2 hours but the actress just gets less and less afraid and more and more irritated. Edit: Wait oh my god the twist could be at the end that SHE was the hand knitted replica all along! When she finally finds grandma, grandma is beside a mirror, and then the camera pans to the mirror, which then shows the replica of the actress, and then it like falls over or something idfk

Honestly I would be excited if the ads become ACTUAL full length horror movies

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!

I wanna see Danny get sponsored by merge mansion, then create an equally impressive ad for his sponsorship, just like these and like his music videos. I would love to see that honestly

If they fixed up their gameplay and reinvented the game, I feel like this could actually be a really good game. Make it story based, and include different kinds of puzzles. I’m not a huge fan of the “Hello Neighbor” games, but I could see this working in that style.

It didn’t make me want to play the game, but it really made me want to watch the movie.

4:01 that’s where we disagree (level 33, baby)

I love how Danny says: “You can only kill one person at a time.” Soooooooo confidently, as if he had some sort of first-hand-experience on the subject☠️

“So many knives” “But so little time” It’s such a confusing interaction but it’s so hilarious

It looks like they deleted all of these ads from their channel 🙃

Love that he was just focusing on how many arms she has instead of why she has knives

Making the ads live action immerses you into the lore even further lol

You can tell that this is his second channel by the tattoos, main channel Danny doesn’t have tattoos, everyone knows that

Watched this whole video amd at the end a merge mansion ad started playing. Just perfect

I got the exact same ad as the “grandma getaway” as you were talking about that ad.

can they actually make this a movie i’m losing it on how interesting this lore is

Okay, so I am actually obsessed with this game these days… and tbh that first ad made so much sense with actual game. If you merge 2 knives together you get a rake, and the grid that you have to play on is reminiscent of the shed’s tool board in the ad. That being said… these ads as a whole are a weird fever dream for sure. The evil grandmother theme is pretty random for a mind numbing procrastination app. Also love the channel, & I am proud to be Greg!

Grandma having all those knives was... *overkill*

I’m literally seeing a Merge Mansion ad right before the video starts. It must be magic.

"What's grandma hiding?" "WELL OBVIOUSLY NOT KNIFES" LMAOOOOO 😭😭😭

I'm just so happy that Cathy Bates decided to do these ads. This is a great way to get 2022 started. I actually play a lot of these types of games to wind down while watching something, and it's surprising that I've never actually SEEN a Merge Mansion ad anywhere but Danny's videos. If I didn't already download like four matching/hidden object games right now, I'd probably get this one just to see how weird it gets.

I love those ads it’s so good I always enjoy watching the full ad

Lmbo!! Danny you made me laugh all the way through this entire video until I couldn't breath 🤣😂

When danny did the last merge mansion video i downloaded it as a joke and at some point it started religiously playing it so i genuinely laughed when the garage was full of green knives since In the game merging items is most of the gameplay and knives are one of the lower ranked items so you tend to have a lot of them.

8:37 I don't know if it's intentional but the fact she's knitting something yellow is kind of concerning when you notice that she isn't wearing anything yellow but the granddaughter is

Plot twist: grandma is actually just a chef but she’s really secretive about it. The knives are for cooking.

bro I get those ads all the time and I genuinely watch them cause they're entertaining

cool new *tattoos,* Danny!😊

I love that even the shovel is knitted XD

Danny should do a follow up video there is a whole plot developing with these ads

I HAD SEEN the live action pie one a few days ago! Watching ads on a mobile game to get free things, and then it hit me. It confused me so hard. ALSO: for that last animated ad, grandma put a file into the pie she was baking. Then it seems like she got arrested later that same day, and asked that the pie be brought to her while she was in jail. She knew she was going to get arrested, and baked a pie beforehand with her escape plan. Idk how Danny didn't get that EDIT: Sorry !! I was just surprised that he wrote it off so quickly, since this was Grandma's first appearance in actual jail. He just said it was boring, which is understandable after having gone through the live action ones that are much more exciting. But there was still something there!

There is such a solid community with these games, honestly. My mom has a whole Bridge Club-esqu group of international friends she's in the same team/clan as on _June's Journey,_ chatting on their Facebook group ALL the time. It's actually been really comforting for her during the pandemic. she personally never spent a DIME on free-to-play games, but other people definitely have and their ad revenue must be HUGE. I can see how games like this have their own profitable demographic. This probably sounds like an ad, but it's not I swear.

BRO I SAW ONE WEEKS AFO AND I REMEMBER UR VIDS AB THEM

The fact they got her to do that is just amazing.

They need to give their marketing team a raise, a vacation and their first born children. They know what they are doing. I’m not gonna lie… I’m invested even though I’m still not sure what the game is about.

The fact that Danny called that a "regular old garden shed" implies he also has that many knives in his garden shed

Danny just completely missed the nail file into the pie mix in the last animated ad, that nana gets a pie brought to her in prison. Gurl that’s a shiv waiting to happen

I have catastrophic memory loss so "so little time" made me belly laugh, presumably for a second time, because I watched this when it came out lol

seeing danny give a handy to the nutcracker is not something i ever thought i would witness

Just btw as someone who has played merge mansion for years now, the whole mystery thing is pretty much a lie. Even if you wanted to get to the ‘secret’ areas, you would need to get to level 43, which is literally impossible at this point in the game. I have absolutely ran out of things to do in the game, and need over 50,000 more XP to get to the next unlock-able area. Overall it’s a pretty good game, with nice events and a variety of options to merge. But if you’re just looking to find out what the hell ‘grandma is hiding’ then you’re out of luck.

"rakes are in the garage" *goes into the shed*

I don't know why, but the fact that Danny doesn't know the meaning of the word "mortified" and seems convinced that it is related to someone being horrified makes me giggle every time

The fact that they had to make an actual grandma decoy for the add is both amazing and terrifying

Merge mansion is becoming what Lily's garden could never

I’ve seen the first two, just playing my game, and BAM! Merge Mansion

I love that Danny just didn’t realize that grandma baked a file into the pie to escape from jail implying that it was all part of her plan. “She’s just baking a pie that’s boring!”

I was kinda into that game in past and the knife shed is actually kinda funny inside joke :D It's one of the first items mergable, so you mostly have full inventory of knives waiting for more energy to merge them