Viral Netflix show Tiger King makes Animal Crossing: New Horizons debut Nintendo \/ Screenshot: NetflixTwo of 2020\u2019s biggest viral sensations in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and documentary series \u2018Tiger King\u2019 have finally had their long-awaited crossover, after a fan mixed the two together in a hilarious fake-trailer crossover. Netflix struck solid gold with the release of Tiger King in March. The true-crime documentary miniseries focused on zookeeper Joe Exotic, and his big cat collection. More than 34 million people watched it in its very first week. It makes complete sense then, that another massive hit from this year would eventually play host to Joe Exotic\u2019s story: Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Nintendo\u2019s follow-up to their huge social sim franchise equally exploded in 2020. There\u2019s already been plenty of crossovers in Animal Crossing so far: Pokemon, Breaking Bad, and Studio Ghibli\u2019s Spirited Away have all debuted in Nintendo\u2019s island-based title. Now it is Tiger King\u2019s turn, and it\u2019s as wild as you\u2019d expect. Redditor \u2018elpinko\u2018 was the architect of the crossover. The talented fan even went beyond just adding Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin to the game \u2014 they mocked up a near-perfect trailer, based entirely in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The 1:38-minute animated trailer opens with the familiar Netflix drum roll\u2014 though this time it was \u201cNookflix\u201d \u2014 before cutting to a New Horizons-styled Joe Exotic saying his now-viral line: \u201cI\u2019m never going to financially recover from this.\u201d All the popular characters from the show were present in elpinko\u2019s hilarious trailer too \u2014 Joe Exotic T.V. producer Rick Kirkham, John Finlay, Bhagavan \u2018Doc\u2019 Antle, and the infamous Carol Baskin all had star roles in the crossover clip. The Tiger King was clearly a hit in the Animal Crossing universe too, considering the reviews elpinko added. Tom Nook dubbed it \u201cabsolutely outrageous,\u201d while Timmy and Tommy echoed it was the \u201cbest thing [they\u2019d] seen.\u201d According to elpinko, the Animal Crossing-Tiger King trailer took \u201cabout a week and a half\u201d to put together because they had to make all the outfits, build the set pieces, act out the scenes for the trailer, and edit it \u2014 but we\u2019re glad they did! The fantastic trailer creation now begs the question: which popular franchise will we see in Nintendo\u2019s cartoon world next? We can\u2019t wait to see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Viral Netflix show Tiger King makes Animal Crossing: New Horizons debut Nintendo \/ Screenshot: NetflixTwo of 2020\u2019s biggest viral sensations in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and documentary series \u2018Tiger King\u2019 have finally had their long-awaited crossover, after a fan mixed the two together in a hilarious fake-trailer crossover. Netflix struck solid gold with the release […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}