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A drawn rotary telephone connects a devastated animated world to Becker's smartphone in the new Animator vs. Animation episode.
Alan Becker
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The Dark Age - Animator vs. Animation 14
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- 0:07Breakfast is interrupted by an earthquake, followed by a floating tower spreading dark forces across the city.
- 4:09A rescuer and her sheep companion discover Orange trapped inside an energy tube.
- 10:35The travelers reach an underground laboratory where surviving stick figures have gathered.
- 14:50Orange draws a table and rotary telephone to attempt an outside call.
- 16:05The stick figures establish a video call with Alan and request access to his computer.
- 17:25Alan's intervention begins here; its outcome leads into the episode's cliffhanger.
Alan Becker's phone displays "No Caller ID." On the other end are the stick figures who need his help, reaching out from a world being torn apart by dark forces.
That crossing between animation and live action is the centerpiece of "The Dark Age - Animator vs. Animation 14," which drew roughly 917,000 views within its first few hours today. Following May's "The Machine," the new episode turns a citywide catastrophe into an increasingly inventive rescue mission.
Breakfast in an apartment gives way to an earthquake. A huge floating mechanical tower looms above the city, spreading hostile entities through the streets. Elsewhere, a rescuer and her sheep companion find Orange, also known as The Second Coming, imprisoned inside an energy tube and free him.
The journey takes the group through ruined cities, onto a hover vehicle and aboard a drawn creature before they reach an underground laboratory sheltering survivors. Then Orange uses an animated pencil to draw something wonderfully ordinary amid all that destruction: a table and a rotary telephone.
Becker answers his smartphone. Electronic sounds become a video call, and Yellow's request for computer access brings a familiar permission prompt into this very unfamiliar emergency. The animator can finally intervene in his characters' world.
Viewers are picking out that encounter with Alan, the closeness of the central group and the Minecraft-like controls in Yellow's interface. And the episode's final "to be continued" has become its own running joke: after all those dark forces, an interrupted story is what the comments keep calling the real villain.
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- Channel
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- Subscribers
- 34,200,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 22,241,457
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,991,616 (on a normal day: 2,757,808)
- Video published
- November 7, 2026
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Which character draws the rotary telephone in "The Dark Age"?
Orange uses an animated pencil to draw the table and telephone for the outside call.