Kazooie

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Kazooie is one of the two main characters of the Banjo-Kazooie video game series. She is the red and yellow bird ("breegull") who assists Banjo with her ability to fly and shoot eggs. Kazooie is noted for her crass attitude and throughout the games in the series openly speaks disparagingly of other characters and will occasionally even insult them to their faces.

In the years that Gatorbox has been on the air Kazooie has become something of an unofficial mascot similar to characters such as Lapras who have associated emoticons or alerts but are not considered part of the original characters who comprise the show's cast. It is known that Kazooie is one of Draco's favorite characters which explains her prevalence on the channel. In 2017 Draco made an acrylic painting of Kazooie and for a few years it hung on the wall next to the Bepis Dog painting on the show's set, however in 2021 it was moved elsewhere to make room for framed art and letters from fans of the show. Throughout the years that the Shelves of Glory have been on the wall behind the couch Kazooie has also showed up on them as part of the Banjo-Kazooie figurine sets by Nintendo (amiibo), Totaku, and YooTooz. One of the secondary Gamertags for the Xbox accounts that Draco occasionally uses for speedrunning is also named "KazooieLover69". Kazooie was also featured in the first ever episode of Gatorbox (of Crayons) where she is drawn on the edge of the replacement box art for Minecraft saying the word "piss".

A large Kazooie plush has been present on the Gatorbox set for several years, though it wasn't routinely visible on camera until the start of the 2025 season. Fans of the Games Done Quick series of marathons will recognize this as the custom plush that was offered as a raffle prize during Summer Games Done Quick 2017, however Draco did not win the plush from that raffle; Draco looked up who made the plush (The Stitch Witch) and contacted her privately to commission a second one, skipping the SGDQ raffle entirely. Draco has never disclosed the exact amount paid for the plush but at one point did state that it cost more than "a dozen times" the minimum donation needed to enter its raffle which was $50 (at least $600 minimum). The Kazooie plush sometimes takes the place of Nessie on the couch usually as a one-off gag or for games that Nessie "doesn't like". The Kazooie plush is also the source of the character's emote on the channel (gatorbKazooie, GBkazooie).