description: A 17 October 2026 Reddit joke about game-development bloopers turned into Bethesda, EA and Skyrim punchlines. Here is what commenters actually said and what God of War really released.
Imagine finishing a video game and getting a movie-style blooper reel: characters floating, animations breaking, a boss disappearing through the floor. A meme shared to r/videogames on October 17, 2026 proposed exactly that. Its punchline was that Bethesda games supposedly let you enjoy the bloopers before the credits even start. The Reddit post was titled “Ubisoft has entered the chat,” inviting yet another publisher into the joke.
Why does the joke work?
A film's outtakes are a treat after the polished performance. A glitch in a shipped game can look like an outtake that escaped into the final cut. The joke takes a bonus feature and moves it into the main attraction. Bethesda and Ubisoft are the targets of community teasing here, not subjects of a verified technical audit of any particular release.
The comments turned it into a whole business model
One commenter joked that EA would charge for the glitches as downloadable content. In that imaginary board meeting, nobody fixes the floating horse; they decide which deluxe edition gets the floating horse.
Another commenter recalled their Skyrim character getting stuck in a lying-down pose and sliding across the ground. NPCs, the user said, actually looked down while talking to the character. A reply turned the glitch into lore: the hero had simply retired from vertical living. This is a user's anecdote followed by a joke, not a universal claim about Skyrim.
A side conversation about how games guide players using yellow paint produced another miniature comedy sketch. Someone imagined the yellow painters' guild was on holiday. The thread began with broken animation and somehow reached a fictional labor dispute in the paint industry.
The twist: an actual studio already made the blooper reel
Santa Monica Studio published Midgard Mishaps on October 23, 2018. The official PlayStation Blog explained that the God of War quality-assurance team collected funny pre-release bugs and edited them into an outtakes video. On November 9, 2023, the studio announced a sequel reel for God of War Ragnarök.
That changes the punchline. Some studios really do turn the accidents they fixed into entertainment. The difference is timing: the studio shows the glitch as a carefully chosen behind-the-scenes extra, while the meme imagines players stumbling across it in the middle of a quest.
Three new jokes from this article
Imaginary credit sequence: “Starring: the hero. Guest starring: the mammoth that fell out of the sky. Continuity supervisor: currently missing.”
Imaginary premium edition: “Includes the developer blooper reel. Standard edition may feature surprise live demonstrations.”
Imaginary award ceremony: “Best Supporting Chair goes to the chair that clipped through a wall. It could not attend.”
These are original riffs on the premise, not quotes attributed to Reddit users.
The bottom line
The October 17 post landed because a perfectly sensible request—show us the funny bugs after the credits—met the reply that gamers already encounter the outtakes during the story. And with an official God of War blooper reel in existence, the idea is genuinely possible. The only unresolved design question is whether the bloopers should play after the credits or interrupt the final boss.
