UNEXPECTED By RecD - Pizza Tower Pizzahead FAN SONG WITH LYRICS

Peppino is prepared for his showdown with Pizzaface, but there's more to the Final Boss of the Pizza Tower than meets the eye: Pizzahead lies in wait to unleash a reality-bending cavalcade of musical splendor Peppino will never forget no matter how hard he tries.

Unexpected is easily the most ambitious song I've ever released, and the entire year it took for it to come to fruition was spent going into excruciating detail to capture the energy of Pizza Tower's final boss. Then I had an idea and another idea and 50 more ideas and before you know it, it's a titanic 12 minute long pocket symphony and my tribute to the immortal SMiLE, with genres spanning from rock to jazz to country to classical to much, much more. I hope you enjoy our ultimate labor of love.

CREDITS:
Written, Composed, Arranged, Performed & Edited by RecD
Peppino, Pizzaface, Pizzahead, Catnap, Pepperman, Vigilante, Gustavo, John E. Cheese, The Noise, Fake Peppino & Mr. Stick played by RecD

Artists:

Animators:

Thanks to PawkiUWU for animation help
Thanks to CrystalClearing for extra ideas

Produced by Avantika Mishra
Pizza Tower is (C) Tour De Pizza
MORE CREDITS AT THE END OF THE VIDEO (They'd be spoilers!)

[recorderdude]

Thank you all so much for waiting patiently. Unexpected took an entire year to develop from start to finish. I hope it is everything you were hoping for and more. Bill Cipher song's probably releasing early 2025 because I need to rest up after this. Oh, and Merry Christmas!

[Pika-nomi]

9:08 pizzahead just hiding behind a cardboard cut out of the final fight background is just so funny to me

[Crowner]

10:53 Okay but pizza boy/head sitting on the throne upset despite all the good stuff around him, kinda goes hard.

[gbradley]

DUDE...THAT WAS AWESOME!! I'm positively flabbergasted at the sheer amount of effort put into one of your longest original videos on the platform, which made it feel like mere moments! The worst part was it ended! I missed the first few minutes of the premiere, but I'm glad I caught the rest of it live! I don't know how I'm going to break all of this down without writing an essay, but with you keeping your promise in dividing this musical event into literal ACTS, I'll try my best!

The first part with the last hurrah of Pizzaface set the stage for an epic boss fight with the intensity radiating from both parties as Peppino prepared himself with his Pizza Repellant (Sicilian Pizza Formula 425) with enough wit and puns to evoke your traditional style, but as soon as Pizza Face revealed himself, the rest of the song truly epitomized the title! His old-timey canned voice was a joy to listen to, and his diction and rubberhose movements clearly indicated he had a couple of screws loose. Suddenly, we're plunged into a complete scene change to a baseball game, a peculiar Catnap cameo (who ironically was sent to the moon like in SC), and a barrage of funny haircuts that Peppino was complicit(?) to? What?!?! Mugimikey always has the funniest animations! It's clear that Pizza Face ultimately doesn't give a hoot about anything, and Peppino, who has been long-suffering with innumerable obstacles and foes, doesn't take it for a moment longer and begins blasting him! Albeit ineffectively.

Then the introduction of the boss rush...WAS ABSOLUTE PERFECTION! By the way, kudos to whoever did the art style from 5:42-6:08 (and 9:20-10:28)! It looks just like how Pizza Tower's art style should be! Seeing the Memory Mallet from Twinsomnia make a cameo was interesting; Pizzaface's reality-warping abilities are obnoxiously strange! Allowing each of the bosses to have an entire segment with a callback to your incredible original songs (save for Fake Peppino, for obvious reasons) sent a wave of nostalgia through me. And Peppino's bigger involvement in singing the choruses really shows how fed up he is with them. My favorite part was when Peppino menacingly forced the Noise to drink his wife's blended dinner! How's that for schadenfreude you buck-toothed Snidely Whiplash freakazoid?! I'm glad that, despite his rage, he showed some kindness to The Vigilante and Fake Peppino.

And then the big reveal: Pizzaface was Pizza Boy all along, trying to relive his glory days in his game role despite still reaping the benefits with royalties years later. When Peppino finds out the torture he went through and the anxiety over the death ray (Where was that btw? Another cardboard cutout?) wasn't even for revenge or spite, just a crazed nostalgia trip, THAT was the final straw! That last animations sequence, while simple, felt SO CATHARTIC AND POWERFUL as it reinvigorated the hype from the beginning with that hardcore rock track! And that final note you punched out was the cherry on top! I always appreciate your singing, RecD, but when you hit those notes just right, it exemplifies just how much you excel at the profession. And it was so satisfying to see the conclusion we'd all been hoping to see.

The last few moments of them escaping the tower was a nice sendoff, even though it was just an endcap. Part of me wishes we could have seen the fate of Pillar John or a scene of everyone outside the tower, but considering it took a WHOLE YEAR to finalize everything, "Unexpected" was the best masterpiece we could have gotten! There's a lot more I could say about the magnitude of spectacular art, upbeat tunes, clever-as-always lyrics, but I'm sure the video speaks for itself. I hope we get to see more of our favorite manic Italian chef and his friends (and foes!) in the future in some form. Your Pizza Tower saga is one of the best tributes to a nifty WarioWare style game that captured the hearts with its cheesy dialogue peppered with charm and marinated in adventure with a sprig of existentialism. Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, RecD! Or as Peppino and Gustavo would say, Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo! Or as Fake Peppino would say, Unhappy Arbor Days!

(P.S. Haven't had a chance to play "Into the Pit", so my reaction to your fan song is very late. But I wanted to let you know that I loved the teaser!)

[grandomrye]

10:52
“You know, I never had much as a kid. Just loving parents, stability, and a tower… and a thriving pizza enterprise for me to inherit. Useless crap like that.”

[TentaCole]

All the pizza puns, the animated bits, the callbacks to your other boss songs and “It’s Pizza Time with Lyrics”… What a *supreme* finale! Very well done! 🤩👏

[tylerb.gaming]

0:11 the funny part is this is the opposite of what actually happens in game

Pizzaface takes a shower right before he fights Peppino so it’s implied pizzaface was covered in some substance that could kill Peppino that simply got washed off

[nateparker]

One of my favorite parts of this song is how it characterizes Pizza head as the amalgamation of the song series themes of Delusion and living in the past. Each of the bosses is fixated on the past and/or living a fantasy. Pepperman believes he is perfect but suffers defeat as he's oblivious to his flaws(such as how he can't create anything that doesn't have him as the subject). The Vigilante uses his grandfather's death as a justification to live out a vengeful cowboy fantasy (despite using modern weapons such as RPGs and flamethrowers). In the end he's just somebody looking for an excuse to fight. Theodore J. Noiseter craves the former acolades he obtained as The Noise so much that he cant function in relatively mundane society, nor can he be a good husband to Noisette (the only person who genuinley loves him no matter who he chooses to be). When he gets another shot at fame he dedicates it to getting vengeance on the person he blames for his failure. As a result he relives the Noise's downfall, done in by a man he pushed too far. Fake Peppino may not have much of a past but he is delusional. He believes that he is Peppino but it's obvious to all that's not the case but since copying him is all that he knows he will never try to be his own person. Even then his business is doomed to fail as his shallow understanding of Peppino's true nature has further warped him into a characature of Peppino's worst traits. In Pizza Head's case his obsession with Peppino lies in the Chef's apathy. When he defeated him back in his Pizza Boy days he was expecting to get a rise out of him. To his surprise under that suit was a man who didn't really care. He just did the bare minimum for the sake of a paycheck to leave to do his own thing. This indifference relative to everyone else stood out to him to the point of hyperfixation. Pizza Head created the Tower for the purpose of breaking Peppino down mentaly in hopes of reverting him to the bumbling stooge he wants him to be. His mistake was believing that pushing Peppino to the brink would make him as delusional as all the others, in reality when Peppino is pressured he becomes something PF cant control: A hypercompetant obsessive perfectionist. In Pillar John's revenge its shown that if Peppino is given enough time he can become someone who can break Pizza Tower and the fabric of reality over his knee just to prove he's above everyone else's nonsense. In the end, when PH got what he wanted he no longer wanted it and it cost him everything.

[RainwonkYT]

6:03 this is such a fun reference to when Pepperman says “He made me the beginner boss?!?” in Perfect Pepper. this has gotta be my fave moment tbh

[ThatToshiko]

>Peppino makes Pizzaface believe he's simply just gonna let himself take the hit
>"Think fast"
>Proceeds to throw a fork knight in his face
>Does the family guy pose taunt
>Doesn't elaborate further

[BattleofthebuckYT]

5:57 I like how noise just indented the mallet and was perfectly fine

[rheamendejar]

8:08 I don’t know why this gives me the giggles that much I never knew Peppino chugging the “milk” down Noise’s throat was something I needed

[grenpuf]

5:29 "JUST KIDDING! I'm actually- *dead."*

Best line

[shannonlewis]

I love this Pizzahead. Peppino is a struggling worker, so it makes sense for his final boss, his opposite, to be a spoiled brat who’s out of touch with reality.

[tylerb.gaming]

11:00 this actually is a good explanation for why Pizza Granny helps out Peppino she’s fed up with her grandson not appreciating his wealth and power and obsessing over his past

(I also had the theory that Pizza Granny created all the Pizza Creatures and taught Pizzahead about pizzamancy which he ended up using for evil which is why she helps Peppino destroy the tower)

[DeyAxolotlgod]

I love how noise didn’t need any convincing 5:47

[CyanicSonic]

Amazing video Tom, I know you had to pour your entire soul into this and it’s a massive culmination of what you’ve done this year, I’ve been on the team for about two years now and have watched everyone on the team grow so much, And this is an amazing finale to 2024. I’m looking forward to watching you grow even more these coming years, thank you for being an amazing boss and such a wonderful friend!

[maxysnow]

I love all of the callbacks to the previous songs so much 🔥 🙏
6:07 Perfect Pepper
6:45 Draw
7:39 Make Some Noise
8:26 It's Pizza time (Lol it's great to see this Gru-Sounding Goober again :D)

[Kevtheguy]

0:43
1:34
10:41
I really love hearing the "Your past is catchin' up to you and it's itching for round two" part, It's sound like a whole final fight, especially love it when pizzaface said it And i think im the only one mentioned this,
What's yall favorite?

[platydig]

Pepperman: “But I was painting!”
Vigilante: “We’re even!”
Noise: “o k”
Fake Peppino: “I already extracted some of him”
Pizzahead: “b r u h”