"If you think this year's election is pretty insane, well, it is." I've been paying attention to presidential elections since 1984 and I've been a political junkie since 1988. This is the strangest election I've ever seen.
+BrotherAlpha You obviously don't remember why Perot dropped out of the election, which by the way ensured Clinton's election. He CLAIMED his family was threatened. After the election, Perot's company was awarded a multimillion $ payroll contract by the Federal government.
I've followed politics avidly since 1960. I've never been this concerned. I only voted for one Republican candidate for president (he lost) but other than a general worry about electing Dick Cheney-sorry, Dubya-I never felt any of the candidates were dangerous. Yes, Sarah Palin was scary as hell, but no one, even in his own party thought McCain could win. Now I listen to Donald Trump and cringe at his racism. misogyny and insane ideas, but most of all at his tiny little vocabulary and inability to articulate beyond me=great, them=bad. He can't match the soaring oratory of an average. kind hearted six year old. Lord the man is a total head case.
Poor Einsennhower and his monotone voice. He would not have the acting chops to get elected nowadays. Neither would guys like Churchill or Lincoln, for that matter. Nowadays, we like or politicians dumb, full of plastic surgery and from reality tv shows.
+Alistair Shaw The original Roman Senate was so called because it was the tribal elders that made up its membership. It was their wisdom that was deemed best to lead the people. Unfortunately the same word element also appears in senile.
Thank you, I couldn't believe they couldn't figure that out. I guess it's a lack or lived experience like being around during the cold war. Also it's easy to mock in hindsight and criticism is lazy.
Of course all this ads seem crazy out of their historical context. I was a child in the eighties, so I have a grasp of what were the fears of people during the Cold War. We really thought that a nuclear war would happen anytime. So the bear representing the USSR, or the nuclear bomb interrupting the day of a little girl didn't seem crazy. It was something very real and possible. I like your channel, you can do better.
Regan was just so confident that he told the guys doing the ad campaign "Just babble any ol s***..........and stick a bear in there because y'know...them gosh darned Rooskies. Symbolism ; "
I was watching this with my bedroom door open. When it got to the part about Lincoln and Nikola Tesla and everything, I started laughing so hard that my mom just stared at me from the hallway.
Everyone knows that the bear was Russia. Cracked just thinks alternative takes on subjects, sarcasm, and glib pop-culture references are the superior sources of humor. Conclusion? As is typical, none.
Yet here you are, as the Cracked executive laugh at your discontent, while they have money fights provided by your sour viewership. Amazing how they extract money from your life's sadness.
Pretty sure Cracked knows the bear was Russia. It was supposed to be sarcasm, but the effectiveness of that sarcasm depends on everyone knowing that the bear was Russia. Which we didn't. So either you miss the joke or you assume the writers were idiots. So either way, they didn't really think this one through. Unless their target audience is EXCLUSIVELY all-knowing history buffs. In which case, well done.
I agree- when he says "because metaphor", he's acknowledging that the bear represents something. It's the vaguery of the narration he seems to find amusing.
The Flibnit Are there a lot of Americans these days who have no idea that the bear is supposed to have been Russia in those days? Oh, well. Once again we realize that a lot of Americans don't know terribly much. (After all, look at the current president...)
Marketer here. Doesn't necessarily prove insanity, just proves that integrated comm's that deviate from the norm (i.e. break away from clutter) actually do stand out, are more memorable and given the right touch points & timing, can manipulate perceptions in your favor. Once your out of this world ad gets mindshare, its an easy road.
Adrian lyacon fatmans (fatmen?) are relatively easy to dodge if you see it coming. Guass Rifle is the ultimate in rail gun technology, creating the perfect sniper weapon you won't hear until it's too late. ... Unless this is 4 where the Gauss has to be charged and any old fat man can be equipped with a MIRV, then Fat man does trump.
I could be wrong, but the bear in the first ad probably is supposed to represent the USSR, which people often made out to be the big enemy for the US at the time. So I think you just may be missing the metaphor which would be really clear at the time.
As always, your content is amazing!! I have to say though, someone forgot to tell Jack it is mother fucking August!! I am struggling to breathe with all the layers he's stacking! Keep up the great work! 😃
Wow, it's a little sad to see that you guys didn't understand that the bear ad was about foreign policy/domestic problems. The bear is supposed to represent the various problems that America has. Those who don't see the bear think that America is fine or that the problem(s) is minimal or unthreatening. It's Cold War lingo 101
Wow, it's a little sad to see that you guys didn't understand that the bear ad was about foreign policy/domestic problems concerning communism and the Soviet Union. The bear is supposed to represent the various problems that America has and the looming threat of Russia. Those who don't see the bear think that America is fine or that the problem(s) is minimal or unthreatening. It's Cold War lingo 101
Yea, but for something most people know/ heard of/ have an idea of, theres not much point to say that. Plus, in hindsight, it STILL sounds like its just rambling
“The parallel universe where John Wilkes Booth missed and Lincoln went on to catch Jack the Ripper with Sher-Bot Holmes, the robot detective he and Nikola Tesla invented together as America’s first legally married gay couple.” YES.
Am I the only one that really wants to live in the "Lincoln and Tesla build Sherlock Holmes robot and catch Jack the Ripper" timeline? That sounds like the better timeline.
The Reagan ad was pretty simple to understand. The bear is Russia - our chief rival/adversary/alley (sort of). This was something I understood back then when I was 7.
Daniel O'Brien would make an awesome Vice President. Of course Jack would have to spend a good portion of his time convincing Daniel that he has to travel to another country and interact with other people, but once he does, he'd be a hit. I can see him now, discussing pop culture with foreign Head of States. I image drunk Daniel O'Brien does sings a lot of Karaoke.
Dukakis was a strange guy, he didn't make directly opposing ads to Bush, he just made weird attack ads that weren't attack ads like the one shown in this video. Which is why he got blown the fuck out
Was gonna watch the whole video. Then I saw them unable to figure out that the bear commercial was about Soviet Russia? How can they be that uninformed? Really? You couldn't figure out the bear was Soviet Russia???????? REALLY???????????
What's even weirder is that a woman later perpetrated a hoax claiming to be the girl in the Daisy ad & the real woman who appear as a child actor in the ad wasn't rediscovered until later.
The bear is a metaphor for Russia, which had made half of Europe a "host colony" after WWII. There were regular "jousts" of military assets with what was then called the "Free World", the gulags held millions, the Russian premier stood before the UN, pounding his shoe on the podium, proclaiming "We will bury you", and the Cuban Missile Crisis (the brink of a nuclear WWII) was only 30 some years past. We did not have attention and memory spans conditioned by Poke-x, or "replay conditioning" from game consoles, and we remembered both the danger, and replay-absent conditions that all of that environment entailed. Apparently, the mistake made in your formative and adolescent years was to remove all "scary - stressful - judgemental - etc" elements from your environment that might cause you to have a "trauma". It has also made you a smarmy, know-nothing, little jerk of a twerp that sees no value in the serious and costly actions people took to provide that coddled environment, to you. And now you lecture US on how it was back then. That is the ultimate in temerity, and you will pay for it when your fantasy bubble collapses.
The first ad doesn't make sense to those born post-Cold War, including myself, because we don't understand the Soviet Union, the Iron Curtain, the "bear," and the Cold War in general...
The Reagan ad makes complete sense. The bear represents Russia and the ad proposes that the country should have a president as strong as the bear. The, "if there is a bear" thing is weird but other than that the metaphor would make complete sense to an audience living through the cold war.
Am I the only one who doesn't care about the politics of this video and really just wants a whole book about Lincoln and Tesla being married and catching Jack the Ripper?
I thought the “Agnew Laugh” and “Daisy” ads were effective. Humiliation and fear are strong motivators (unfortunately), so the idea that Agnew was so bad that all you needed was someone laughing is pretty humiliating to someone on the fence. The Daisy Ad only ran once, but it was a clever way to motivate Democrats to go to the polls. Some historical context for the Daisy Ad: there was a massive debate about how much force we should use in Vietnam. The Right wanted to pave North Vietnam and be home by Christmas. Unfortunately, China and Russia might decide to turn the Cold War into a Hot War if we did.
Great. Now there'll be Lincoln/Tesla fanfiction.
"If you think this year's election is pretty insane, well, it is."
I've been paying attention to presidential elections since 1984 and I've been a political junkie since 1988. This is the strangest election I've ever seen.
Strangest election you've ever been conscious for, you say you are a junkie, probably slept through the others.
Fuuz Gaming
Ross Perot at his most eccentric was a less strange than Trump on his most constrained day.
+BrotherAlpha You obviously don't remember why Perot dropped out of the election, which by the way ensured Clinton's election. He CLAIMED his family was threatened.
After the election, Perot's company was awarded a multimillion $ payroll contract by the Federal government.
+BrotherAlpha
Omfg, I forgot about Perot!
I've followed politics avidly since 1960. I've never been this concerned. I only voted for one Republican candidate for president (he lost) but other than a general worry about electing Dick Cheney-sorry, Dubya-I never felt any of the candidates were dangerous. Yes, Sarah Palin was scary as hell, but no one, even in his own party thought McCain could win. Now I listen to Donald Trump and cringe at his racism. misogyny and insane ideas, but most of all at his tiny little vocabulary and inability to articulate beyond me=great, them=bad. He can't match the soaring oratory of an average. kind hearted six year old. Lord the man is a total head case.
Jack and Daniel O'brien for president to bring about apocalypse? I'm on board.
is it weird i just realized they have the same last name. r they related or was it just random?
+The Demon Curupira Dan said in some video before that they have no relation. Either he's lying or they just like hiring Irishmen
To my knowledge, they are brothers. Dan was pulled into Cracked when Jack became chief editor.
+Tuning3434 they look nothing alike. how do you know this? considering it is true
+The Demon Curupira when mentioning family on the podcast they bring up entirely different parents. really, no relation.
"Sherbot Holmes" has won my loyalty to this video.
The apocalypse does indeed sound awesome.
don't worry after whoever is elected president The Apocalypse will follow shortly
+Jordan Ceasar Fallout would be worth it. (only if one is a main character of course)
Imagine Hoover Dam, only it's called Trump Wall.
+Jordan Ceasar I'll eat one of you
• Tensakuma "Tendro" Kadro Fool, you can't eat me if I eat myself! NOMNOMNOM.
Poor Einsennhower and his monotone voice. He would not have the acting chops to get elected nowadays. Neither would guys like Churchill or Lincoln, for that matter. Nowadays, we like or politicians dumb, full of plastic surgery and from reality tv shows.
no wonder the world is like a sitcom.
tigerhunter77
and a bad one, for that matter
thats why a good portion of serious candadates are 68 plus time
+Alistair Shaw The original Roman Senate was so called because it was the tribal elders that made up its membership. It was their wisdom that was deemed best to lead the people. Unfortunately the same word element also appears in senile.
Catubrannos LOL didn't know that makes sense
I get it, the bear is Russia.
Ah ha
Except when it isn't Russia, as I'm pretty sure Russia is real and the ad keeps suggesting the bear isn't real.
No, the ad is giving credence to critics and 'doves' who said Russian militarism wasn't a threat.
Thank you, I couldn't believe they couldn't figure that out. I guess it's a lack or lived experience like being around during the cold war. Also it's easy to mock in hindsight and criticism is lazy.
это расизм *ding*
Really guys! Are you really trying to tell me that you don't understand that the Bear in the Reagan ad was Soviet Russia?
Wait. The bear isn't Reagan?
In Soviet Russia bear is you.
+JayMoney1987 ha that was great
I was think the same thing. there is so much libral bias today that the Reagan as is ridiculed by idiots who don't understand history.
Yeah, how ignorant can they be?
Of course all this ads seem crazy out of their historical context. I was a child in the eighties, so I have a grasp of what were the fears of people during the Cold War. We really thought that a nuclear war would happen anytime. So the bear representing the USSR, or the nuclear bomb interrupting the day of a little girl didn't seem crazy. It was something very real and possible. I like your channel, you can do better.
Jack's coat and glasses make him look like a wizard
He is secretly Ponder Stibbons.
"We must either love each other, or we must die" still as relevant now as it was then
Regan was just so confident that he told the guys doing the ad campaign
"Just babble any ol s***..........and stick a bear in there because y'know...them gosh darned Rooskies. Symbolism ; "
I was watching this with my bedroom door open. When it got to the part about Lincoln and Nikola Tesla and everything, I started laughing so hard that my mom just stared at me from the hallway.
Upton Sinclair ran for president? Well, you learn something everyday
Governor of California, still interesting though.
If anyone was suited to navigating the jungle of American politics...
Everyone knows that the bear was Russia. Cracked just thinks alternative takes on subjects, sarcasm, and glib pop-culture references are the superior sources of humor. Conclusion? As is typical, none.
He says the ad is a metaphor.
+celticwolff Shhhh, the conservatives are too busy being triggered that someone dared say something satirical about St. Reagan.
Oh, I thought they were talking about the bear market, since Reagan was known for economics. You're interpretation makes much more sense
Yet here you are, as the Cracked executive laugh at your discontent, while they have money fights provided by your sour viewership. Amazing how they extract money from your life's sadness.
i legitimatly did not connect that bear to being russia.
Pretty sure Cracked knows the bear was Russia. It was supposed to be sarcasm, but the effectiveness of that sarcasm depends on everyone knowing that the bear was Russia. Which we didn't. So either you miss the joke or you assume the writers were idiots. So either way, they didn't really think this one through. Unless their target audience is EXCLUSIVELY all-knowing history buffs. In which case, well done.
I agree- when he says "because metaphor", he's acknowledging that the bear represents something. It's the vaguery of the narration he seems to find amusing.
The Flibnit Are there a lot of Americans these days who have no idea that the bear is supposed to have been Russia in those days? Oh, well. Once again we realize that a lot of Americans don't know terribly much. (After all, look at the current president...)
Am I the only one that would watch the hell out of that Tesla/Lincoln/Sherbot mashup if it was a TV show?
Marketer here. Doesn't necessarily prove insanity, just proves that integrated comm's that deviate from the norm (i.e. break away from clutter) actually do stand out, are more memorable and given the right touch points & timing, can manipulate perceptions in your favor. Once your out of this world ad gets mindshare, its an easy road.
I didn't even get a notification. Guess this is one of he perks of getting up early? spit take is one of my favorite series cracked does
Dude, take off your fancy rain jacket when you're indoors.
I swear to god one more unskippable ad and I'm outta here.
If you have google chrome, get ad block pro. It works and no more ads and thus no more boycotting videos because of it
Adblock much? I guess not.
I use it everywhere and I have not watched one ad on youtube in a month. Your vague comment is perplexing
+Drudley I don't want to use adblock, because I want the content creators to get money from ads, yet I'm not willing to watch 2 minutes of an ad.
believe me bud, they get money
The ad before this helped your argument. Cutie puddies. The candy killed them but apparently the fun never ends
Oh my god "Gay Abe and Nick" sounds like the sitcom we need right now.
Sherbot Holmes is 1000% their comic relief sidekick.
Jack is slowly turning into a wizard/college professor right before our eyes
Cthulhu 2016!!! Why settle for the lesser evil?
everyone at the time would have installed the Russia reference about the bear
The "Daisy" ad was one of the most effective presidential ads ever run.
The Revenant was based on that ad with the bear, pretty cool!
laser weapons are shite, give me a gauss rifle.
Fuck that, fat man beats all.
+Adrian lyacon ignoring the Deliverer, of course
+Patrick Harrison all legendary weapons excluded.
Adrian lyacon fatmans (fatmen?) are relatively easy to dodge if you see it coming. Guass Rifle is the ultimate in rail gun technology, creating the perfect sniper weapon you won't hear until it's too late.
... Unless this is 4 where the Gauss has to be charged and any old fat man can be equipped with a MIRV, then Fat man does trump.
+tolfan ftw that's not how the speed of sound works.
I REALLY MISSED THE SPIT TAKE
It's glad to have you back
i do think the greatest thing about america is tim and eric editing
O'Brien/O'Brien, I guess Daniel is Vice President on this ticket?
you got a hood on that blazer/zip-up/trench coat? lmao
Reallly like that coat, looks slick!
if i've learned anything from 90'-early00' action movies is that cool guys wear long coats
moshe gruber Yeah, thats too right.
You call the Columbine High School cafeteria footage an "action movie"? How sick. (JK)
+Coolidge Dollar (JK)
Coolidge Dollar the humor is dark with this one
they would have get away with it if they just said "its just a prank bro!"
Omg. I didnt realize this was done in 2016. Bet that gunning for the apocalypse part hits differently now. XD
If you shout the script for the bear ad out loud in front of the white house, the gates to the underground lizard-people headquarters open.
I could be wrong, but the bear in the first ad probably is supposed to represent the USSR, which people often made out to be the big enemy for the US at the time. So I think you just may be missing the metaphor which would be really clear at the time.
Dude, you know the bear represented the Soviet Union. You sounded more insane than the narrator. I can't take cracked seriously anymore, lol.
I watched this at three in the morning while eating hummus and guacamole.
The original Wanka was an elimination contest between kids where the losers died and the survivor was the winner.
Has it been a cold summer in California or something, Jack?
That's Vicar O'Brien to you.
As always, your content is amazing!! I have to say though, someone forgot to tell Jack it is mother fucking August!! I am struggling to breathe with all the layers he's stacking! Keep up the great work! 😃
Damn, Jack. You're really rocking the hip accountant look
Cracked is some weird mix of Buzzfeed, Vox, and Crash Course. I like it.
It's weird hearing anyone other than Dan-isinlovewithpresidents-O'Brien talk about American presidents haha
Wow, it's a little sad to see that you guys didn't understand that the bear ad was about foreign policy/domestic problems. The bear is supposed to represent the various problems that America has. Those who don't see the bear think that America is fine or that the problem(s) is minimal or unthreatening. It's Cold War lingo 101
Wow, it's a little sad to see that you guys didn't understand that the bear ad was about foreign policy/domestic problems concerning communism and the Soviet Union. The bear is supposed to represent the various problems that America has and the looming threat of Russia. Those who don't see the bear think that America is fine or that the problem(s) is minimal or unthreatening. It's Cold War lingo 101
Yes, the bear represents Russia the main opponent of the time and the potential return of economic problems, a bear market.
yeahhhhh, but cracked does this little thing called sarcasm.
Good point there, we all get along or just count down until the last human
how can you forget the nightmare boat ride!!! it's one of the best bits
I'd vote O'Brien/O'Brien in 2020. Cracked campaign ads would be golden!
It's trying to move forward, not forgetting. You remember the mistakes of the past and try not to repeat them, quit trying to wallow in the past.
The spit take is...the best...
Jack looking GOOD in his Jeff Goldblum cosplay
Was the bear not Russia?
It was, and pretty transparently so. Cracked just chose not to tell any of its viewers who don't get the idea of a metaphor.
Yea, but for something most people know/ heard of/ have an idea of, theres not much point to say that.
Plus, in hindsight, it STILL sounds like its just rambling
USSR was dead. They still needed something to scare people with so they get votes, so they made an invisible bear.
The USSR was not dead in 84.
Doth questions framed in the negative not defy nonsensical counter answers?
Abe Lincoln and Nickolas Tesla is now my favorite ship! OTP!
“The parallel universe where John Wilkes Booth missed and Lincoln went on to catch Jack the Ripper with Sher-Bot Holmes, the robot detective he and Nikola Tesla invented together as America’s first legally married gay couple.”
YES.
Well, if Dan is your VP, I'd vote for you.
Dude, that Abraham catching Jack the ripper story, is actually a movie i would love to see! Write that script please please please.
Oh how I missed spit take. Good work guys!
Am I the only one that really wants to live in the "Lincoln and Tesla build Sherlock Holmes robot and catch Jack the Ripper" timeline? That sounds like the better timeline.
Older generations make a lot more sense now.
I'm so high I thought the ad before this was the video
No day to day resposbilities? Those Settlements arent going to help themselves!
-Preston Garvey
you should do a video named "college humour vs cracked the final battle for the soul of the internet"
spit takes are my favorite with Editor in Chief, Jack O'Brien
Dude...it doesnt mater how prepared you are, you should NOT fight bears...like come on Reagan this is common sense
The Bear was the symbol of the Soviet Union, so that Reagan ad was a metaphor about the Cold War, and preparing for war with Russia.
I would vote O'Brien / O'Brien for basically anything
Was that a promise of a DOB vice president? Count me in yo.
This guy's definitely got the curse of the Irish.
Missed Johnson add showing little girls getting blown up by nuclear explosions. Or a guy riding in a tank that didn't know what he was doing!
If the apocalypse gives me power-armour, then im all for it
The Reagan ad was pretty simple to understand. The bear is Russia - our chief rival/adversary/alley (sort of). This was something I understood back then when I was 7.
*_I wuved anti drug ads from the 80's. Good time to watch TV it was._*
This is your brain on eggs! WINNERS DON'T USE EGGS.
Wassup with that kids counting? Was she already exposed 2 radiation? 😎
Daniel O'Brien would make an awesome Vice President. Of course Jack would have to spend a good portion of his time convincing Daniel that he has to travel to another country and interact with other people, but once he does, he'd be a hit. I can see him now, discussing pop culture with foreign Head of States. I image drunk Daniel O'Brien does sings a lot of Karaoke.
Dukakis was a strange guy, he didn't make directly opposing ads to Bush, he just made weird attack ads that weren't attack ads like the one shown in this video. Which is why he got blown the fuck out
3:43 everyone on TV just kind of talked like that back in the day.
Surprising you left out the queen of robotic delivery...Hillary! (named after Sir Edmund Hillary although that was impossible without a time machine).
That jacket is fucking awesome. I want that jacket.
Omg the ending made me laugh. Very good!
That is a real nice Grandma Sweater you are wearing there.
I like the Johnson, Reagan Bear, and Eisenhower one. I thought they were effective.
Was gonna watch the whole video. Then I saw them unable to figure out that the bear commercial was about Soviet Russia? How can they be that uninformed? Really? You couldn't figure out the bear was Soviet Russia???????? REALLY???????????
LOL they didn't miss that fact. He even points out that they are talking in metaphors.
#okboomer
What's even weirder is that a woman later perpetrated a hoax claiming to be the girl in the Daisy ad & the real woman who appear as a child actor in the ad wasn't rediscovered until later.
The bear is a metaphor for Russia, which had made half of Europe a "host colony" after WWII. There were regular "jousts" of military assets with what was then called the "Free World", the gulags held millions, the Russian premier stood before the UN, pounding his shoe on the podium, proclaiming "We will bury you", and the Cuban Missile Crisis (the brink of a nuclear WWII) was only 30 some years past. We did not have attention and memory spans conditioned by Poke-x, or "replay conditioning" from game consoles, and we remembered both the danger, and replay-absent conditions that all of that environment entailed. Apparently, the mistake made in your formative and adolescent years was to remove all "scary - stressful - judgemental - etc" elements from your environment that might cause you to have a "trauma". It has also made you a smarmy, know-nothing, little jerk of a twerp that sees no value in the serious and costly actions people took to provide that coddled environment, to you. And now you lecture US on how it was back then. That is the ultimate in temerity, and you will pay for it when your fantasy bubble collapses.
i would totally watch that show of a gay Lincoln and tesla solving crimes with their robot helper.
In reagan's defense history says he knew how to party
I like the new look -- the coat's quite neat.
O'Brien
for Vice-President
Hahahahahha ahahah hahahaha haha cugh a-cuuughk
The first ad doesn't make sense to those born post-Cold War, including myself, because we don't understand the Soviet Union, the Iron Curtain, the "bear," and the Cold War in general...
The Reagan ad makes complete sense. The bear represents Russia and the ad proposes that the country should have a president as strong as the bear. The, "if there is a bear" thing is weird but other than that the metaphor would make complete sense to an audience living through the cold war.
Tim and Eric editing. LOL
Uh, the bear is an obvious metaphor for the Soviet Union. Guess you had to be there.
Imagine that ticket. O'brien O'brien. Imagine Daniel as the fucking Vice president
Am I the only one who doesn't care about the politics of this video and really just wants a whole book about Lincoln and Tesla being married and catching Jack the Ripper?
"We must either love each other, or we must die." Danyum
Um, lol, the bear represented the Soviet Union, not sure if Cracked understands this
4:37 the very first teaser trailer for the Dark Knight is what it seems like.
I thought the “Agnew Laugh” and “Daisy” ads were effective. Humiliation and fear are strong motivators (unfortunately), so the idea that Agnew was so bad that all you needed was someone laughing is pretty humiliating to someone on the fence. The Daisy Ad only ran once, but it was a clever way to motivate Democrats to go to the polls. Some historical context for the Daisy Ad: there was a massive debate about how much force we should use in Vietnam. The Right wanted to pave North Vietnam and be home by Christmas. Unfortunately, China and Russia might decide to turn the Cold War into a Hot War if we did.
A good video, but I was distracted by that awesome jacket.