HIPPO examines the coming-of-age of two step-siblings: Hippo, a video-game addicted teenager and Buttercup, a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus. Like the Ancient Greek Aphrodite, Buttercup’s love is unrequited by a brother who prefers to indulge the art of war and chaos. The result is a hormone-fueled, tragicomic waking nightmare that must be seen to be believed.
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00:00You
00:10Mom
00:13The boy was Adam also known as hippo the girl was known as buttercup
00:23But that's about that
00:26Their mother is a peculiar woman named Ethel when you think World War three is gonna happen
00:30It's hard to say do you think it might be in my lifetime? I suppose good. Okay, I need a gun
00:37As home-schooled students neither buttercup nor hippo ever had much interaction outside of one another that toy is an outside
00:45It's not a toy. It's a gun outside
00:51There comes a time in every boy's life when he wakes up in a puddle of goo goo goo very sticky I might add
01:00War is a game. Don't be fooled by simulation theory. However, true warrior trying to stay in here with me
01:07I'm a big man. Now. I'm 19. You have to legally respect me. It says so in the Constitution
01:13Everybody respects you all respect you you are a firebird
01:26They've arrived quick go get to near the closet and I'll go get my no, no, no, no, no, no
01:30The crossbow will never work. You know that you need the most powerful thing in the world my God finger
01:43You look so sad
01:47A star dies every millisecond
01:50But only once in a millennia does a deity rise up with the potent mega weapon attached to his own hips
01:57I hope you find a man just like your brother
02:01Let us bear humble witness
02:04Happy birthday to you
02:07Happy birthday to you
02:09Happy birthday, dear hippo
02:11Happy birthday to you