Highlights
- Lucy, Maximus, and a ghoul with a dark agenda take center stage in Amazon’s
Fallout
series, with their storylines eventually intersecting. - The show features witty dialogue and hilarious moments, such as Woody’s memorable jelly mold line and Knight Titus’s unfortunate encounter with a mutant bear.
-
Fallout
explores themes of survival, morality, and the harsh realities of a post-apocalyptic world, with characters like Lucy grappling with difficult decisions.
Amazon’s Fallout show follows three distinct storylines that eventually cross together by the finale. Lucy is a Vault dweller whose home is raided by surface dwellers. These thugs steal her father, so she heads to the surface for the first time to try and find him.
Maximus is a squire in the Brotherhood of Steel who wants to become a knight and get a suit of Power Armor. Then there’s the unnamed ghoul who seems to want nothing but blood and money. How do these three characters tie together? Well, that will sort of be covered but mostly this is the time to celebrate Fallout’s dialogue because these three characters, and others, have some hilarious lines in the show.
This list contains spoilers and strong (but censored) language!
8 “Get That Jelly Mold Out Of Here!”
Woody, Episode 1
Episode one is one of the longest of the season and a lot happens in it. When the raiders reveal themselves in Vault 33, there is a massive battle that goes on. Some Vault Dwellers have no idea that the wedding celebration turned into a chaotic nightmare. There’s a kitchen staff member who is wheeling out a jello mold cake to the gathering area as if nothing is going on. That’s when Woody screams this line for them to get back, which is just delivered in the best way.
7 “Oh, F**k.”
Knight Titus, Episode 2
Knight Titus is the one in charge of Maximus once they leave the training camp. Since he was a boy, Maximus looked up to the Brotherhood of Steel and their Knights as paragons of justice. Knight Titus was anything but as he belittled Maximus and everyone around him. As he comes face to face with a mutant bear in episode two, Knight Titus panics before hilariously getting destroyed by this bear. Fallout is full of cameos, and Knight Titus is played by Michael Rapaport. He’s been in tons of movies and TV shows over the past decade, but game fans may want to know that he’s been in a few game series like Saints Row as Troy Bradshaw.
6 “Well, Maybe Not, But I’m Gonna Make Myself Welcome.”
Cooper, Episode 2
In episode two, Lucy finally makes it to her first settlement via Filly. She is hoping to find answers about Moldaver who kidnapped her father. Unfortunately, Cooper comes into town looking for Dr. Wilzig.
No one wants a Ghoul in town but Cooper insists on making himself welcome anyway. By welcome Cooper means he wants to shoot up the place until he gets what he wants and boy what a shootout it turned into.
5 “Well I Ain’t Torturing You, Sweetheart, I’m Using You As Bait.“
Cooper, Episode 4
One of the funniest and most terrifying dynamics in the show is between Cooper and Lucy. After Filly, Cooper eventually captures Lucy who has the head of De. Wilzig with her. Lucy loses it to a creature in the water just before, but Cooper has an idea of how to get it back. He ties Lucy up and dunks her in the lake to lure the creature which Lucy doesn’t realize until the thing bursts out of the water and almost digests her in one gulp. It’s one of the most horrifying creatures in season one that takes after a more aquatic Centaur from Fallout 3.
4 “Yes, I Am Bert.”
Chet, Episode 4
There is a lot of death following the Vault 33 raid in episode one. Stephanie loses an eye, and her husband Bert, for example, and Chet, Lucy’s cousin, is sad that Lucy left the Vault. Eventually, Chet and Stephanie hook up after she dresses him up as her dead husband. As they’re making out, Stephanie insists that Chet call himself Bert, which he is more than happy to do even though it is extremely dark. The scene climaxes with Stephanie getting her water broken, followed by some more hilarious Chet hijinks as he tries to help Stephanie get this baby delivered.
3 “I May End Up Looking Like You, But I’ll Never Be Like You.”
Lucy, Episode 4
Part of Lucy’s journey in season one is being okay with murder. She tries to talk her way through most situations, but time and time again, surface dwellers remind her that isn’t always possible. In episode four she helps fight off Feral Ghouls to get some drugs for Cooper.
Even though Cooper did some bad things to her, including biting off her finger, Lucy has to be the bigger man or woman in this instance. Lucy closes out this sentiment by adding, “Golden rule motherf*****r” and handing over Cooper the drugs he needs to survive.
2 “Oookay.”
Sebastian, Episode 6
Like Michael Rapaport, Matt Berry is another fun cameo in the show. He technically first appears in episode four as the voice of Snip Snip in the old food store. Snip Snip is a model of Codsworth, and they are all voiced by Matt Berry’s human character, Sebastian Leslie. This is revealed in a flashback in episode six wherein Sebastian explains to Cooper that he sold his voice rights to the robot manufacturer of Codsworth. He tries to use this fact to pick up ladies for a hot tub soak and they laugh in his face. Sebastian’s delivery of, “Oookay” is perfect in the way that only Matt Berry knows how to do it in his roles.
1 “War Never Changes.”
Barb, Episode 8
“War Never Changes” is a quote that starts most Fallout games, said by the grizzled voice of Ron Perlman. In the show, this line is saved until episode eight and is instead said by Barb, Cooper’s wife. She is trying to sell the Board on the idea that they should drop the bombs themselves as it would be good for business. It’s one of the most criminal scenes in the show and a revealing moment for Cooper, who is listening to the conversation via an earpiece. Barb’s words make that line retroactively more heinous in the games now.
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