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Each episode of the series showcases a full game usually being played in its entirety, or at least the main story beats or interesting parts. Episodes are not cut up into parts, so depending on the length of the game, episodes of ''Argie Bee Plays'' also vary in length. Instead of a webcam feed of a human player in the corner, a half-body Live2D face-tracked avatar of the host, a hybrid kangaroo-furred dragon character named Vtuber Flye (also known as Flye Gaming) is displayed, as they provide commentary on the events of the games.

In most episodes, Vtuber Flye is usually depicted as a "dumb and deadpan dragon", who is forced against his will to make 1000 episodes of the show by a "higher authority", in order to earn his freedom from being locked up in Castle Argie Bee, but it seems he doesn't even really know how to play games, or acts uninterested or confused about the events of the game, in a humourous or surreal fashion, due to growing up hating them. ~~Though~~ it's also shown that he probably knows more than he's letting on (such as when he actively cheats to skip certain sections, or he forces something to happen in-game that doesn't usually happen), and is most likely just "acting" for the show. Most instances of him cheating or abusing glitches is usually explained away by him using his "magic dragon powers", and can also be implied to be unintentional (as in he, himself, is confused about why things are happening), or interventions by the "bees in the booth" or the "higher authority" keeping him locked up in Castle Argie Bee.

In most episodes, Vtuber Flye is usually depicted as a "dumb and deadpan dragon", who is forced against his will to make 1000 episodes of the show by a "higher authority", in order to earn his freedom from being locked up in Castle Argie Bee, but it seems he doesn't even really know how to play games, or acts uninterested or confused about the events of the game, in a humourous or surreal fashion, due to growing up hating them. However, it's also shown that he probably knows more than he's letting on (such as when he actively cheats to skip certain sections, or he forces something to happen in-game that doesn't usually happen), and is most likely just "acting" for the show. Most instances of him cheating or abusing glitches is usually explained away by him using his "magic dragon powers", and can also be implied to be unintentional (as in he, himself, is confused about why things are happening), or interventions by the "bees in the booth" or the "higher authority" keeping him locked up in Castle Argie Bee.

Even though Vtuber Flye is a character being portrayed through motion capture, and some jokes are scripted in advance, most vocal reactions to unexpected things such as game crashes, jumpscares, and plot twists are genuine. The episodes are also truncated to exclude most of the downtime moments when nothing of interest is happening. Some things that do get cut out are released in a separate videos as "Bee-Roll" (B-Roll) footage. On a similar vein as with this pun, likewise, all episodes open with the text "Buzz: On"; the word "Buzz" being an allusion to the word "Bee" in the title of the show. To bookend this, the videos close with the text "Buzz: Off" (sometimes with the colon symbol omitted to drive this "stinger" home).

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 Each episode of the series showcases a full game usually being played in its entirety, or at least the main story beats or interesting parts. Episodes are not cut up into parts, so depending on the length of the game, episodes of ''Argie Bee Plays'' also vary in length. Instead of a webcam feed of a human player in the corner, a half-body Live2D face-tracked avatar of the host, a hybrid kangaroo-furred dragon character named Vtuber Flye (also known as Flye Gaming) is displayed, as they provide commentary on the events of the games.
-In most episodes, Vtuber Flye is usually depicted as a "dumb and deadpan dragon", who is forced against his will to make 1000 episodes of the show by a "higher authority", in order to earn his freedom from being locked up in Castle Argie Bee, but it seems he doesn't even really know how to play games, or acts uninterested or confused about the events of the game, in a humourous or surreal fashion, due to growing up hating them. Though it's also shown that he probably knows more than he's letting on (such as when he actively cheats to skip certain sections, or he forces something to happen in-game that doesn't usually happen), and is most likely just "acting" for the show. Most instances of him cheating or abusing glitches is usually explained away by him using his "magic dragon powers", and can also be implied to be unintentional (as in he, himself, is confused about why things are happening), or interventions by the "bees in the booth" or the "higher authority" keeping him locked up in Castle Argie Bee.
+In most episodes, Vtuber Flye is usually depicted as a "dumb and deadpan dragon", who is forced against his will to make 1000 episodes of the show by a "higher authority", in order to earn his freedom from being locked up in Castle Argie Bee, but it seems he doesn't even really know how to play games, or acts uninterested or confused about the events of the game, in a humourous or surreal fashion, due to growing up hating them. However, it's also shown that he probably knows more than he's letting on (such as when he actively cheats to skip certain sections, or he forces something to happen in-game that doesn't usually happen), and is most likely just "acting" for the show. Most instances of him cheating or abusing glitches is usually explained away by him using his "magic dragon powers", and can also be implied to be unintentional (as in he, himself, is confused about why things are happening), or interventions by the "bees in the booth" or the "higher authority" keeping him locked up in Castle Argie Bee.
 Even though Vtuber Flye is a character being portrayed through motion capture, and some jokes are scripted in advance, most vocal reactions to unexpected things such as game crashes, jumpscares, and plot twists are genuine. The episodes are also truncated to exclude most of the downtime moments when nothing of interest is happening. Some things that do get cut out are released in a separate videos as "Bee-Roll" (B-Roll) footage. On a similar vein as with this pun, likewise, all episodes open with the text "Buzz: On"; the word "Buzz" being an allusion to the word "Bee" in the title of the show. To bookend this, the videos close with the text "Buzz: Off" (sometimes with the colon symbol omitted to drive this "stinger" home).