I love the implication right there at the end with Soren arriving outside the window, looking in and only seeing Dan, then leaving because he thinks he's in a alternate universe where Dan eats by himself at the diner, lonely and depressed.
I always thought he wanted to be a part of the conversation, but he was upset that he just missed it and hopped to a different universe where the conversation hadn’t ended
Bizarro Soren has his hair parted like a non-protagonist as they discussed in "6 Insane Stereotypes That You Still See In Every Movie" (which is the earlier video, but TH-cam playlists are usually from newest to oldest, which is stupid).
+Jessica Lee OH! And he doesn't like Dan's impression of Krang (which was actually pretty good). Soren always likes Dan's impressions, especially the terrible ones. Bizarro Soren is secretly terrifying!
THAT'S it! Man, I knew that Soren's hair looked wrong/different but I didn't realize that's what it was! Damn that's clever of them. And you for figuring it out.
Oh man its great. I had 2 friends on one class (High school) where we would talk about everything from the origin of man to space aliens, god, comic books and nuclear physics.
I will go on record stating that After Hours is the most intellectually stunning, well acted and HILARIOUS series in any filmed medium ever!! I chose THAT dimension to live in. I'm sitting at the next table just soaking up the non-stop awesome that is this Foursome.
Somebody give Soren an award, this is one of those episodes where you really can appreciate the acting, as you believe something is really wrong with him, like that episode where swaim has a head injury
I think that's the basic theme of stories that deal with alternate/parallel universes-that no matter how bad our world is, there's always a place that's worse, even seemingly utopian worlds.
+Drace90 No that's ACTUALLY Soren from a different reality, where hes not Soren, more like an alien. If you watched the end the real Soren popped up in the background. from a worm hole. Meaning some weird shit happened to both sorens somehow..
+Nightcore LA I'm half asleep watching this on my phone, but was dimension hopping Soren at the end holding a knife? So is real Soren trying to kill bizarro Soren?
Except that Stargates brought you to other worlds in our current dimension. Not other dimensions. And I agree with the other guy, why the hell wasn't Sliders Mentioned? It was a plethora of horrifying downside dimensions.
Your interpretation of Narnia is skewed to what the movies presents you. In the books there are explanations for all the things you see in the movies that they don't talk about. Why is there a random English lamppost in the forest? The Ice Witch brought a piece of one FROM EARTH while Aslan was creating Narnia. The Dawn Treader LITERALLY sails to Aslan's land which is as close to Heaven as you can get in that universe until the final book when Narnia actually ends and all the animals and people in it go TO heaven.
Technically when they all died they just went to the REAL Narnia bc the Narnia in which most of the stories take place (the shadowlands) is just a reflection of the ideal version of Narnia which exists. People suffer and die in the shadowlands all the time but real narnia is legit utopia where nothing is bad.
Eva Penrose I don't like it when they make fun of feminism because it may undermine the value of feminism. But I suppose we all have to make fun of ourselves at some point.
As long as you avoid the newer 3rd wave feminists, feminism is great. Hell, there are even a few quiet scattered voices in the newer age of feminism that aren't completely fucking awful. See, this is what 3rd wave feminism has done to the feminist movement. It's turned it into a joke. It's like having the KKK side with your argument. No matter how right you were before, your the bad guy now.
The ending with Soren reminded me of the episode of Sliders where Quinn actually found his way back home but only had a short window to see if it was home and so he checked the fence door that always creaked. It didn't creak, so he left. But then his mother comes out and thanks some repair guy for oiling it. It's like Soren saw Dan alone and figured this isn't the right dimension.
3:27 Michael doesn't want to lie on the floor to demonstrate his "mic(/Mike) drop," because the floor looks sticky, but the diner seems to have gotten an "A" from the Health Dept (prominently displayed over Daniel's shoulder). on purpose???
Best alternate universe to live in would have to be the Digital World in Digimon. You get your own digital partner who might be a magical animal, or a robot, or human-like, or a freak dragon and they have all these awesome powers. Plus you have this entire world to live in with every possible type of climate you could want to relax in: beaches, forests, deserts, mountains, cities, villages, literal-freaking-toylands. Yes, there are some bad digimon and the occasional Big Bad that tries to take over, but then you get to battle evil with your digimon and all from the safety of a PG-rated cartoon! Narnia be damned, I've made my choice.
I don't understand why people keep saying they should make these "more regularly". After Hours has been once a month for over a year and a half now. Yet every month the same comment gets posted. Bizarre.
***** In my experience, people are surprised when I point out that it's been once a month for a long time now. I think we're seeing both, I'm addressing one.
You are right. I never bothered to check how often they make after hours. So in the future I will just ask them to make more of them. It is by far the best Cracked content to me.
What if you made one about "who would be the worst parents to have" like coralline's other parents, Anna and Elsa's terrible at raising their kids parents, ex....
YES ! Finally.. That's what I was thinking -- come on was their father an idiot? Why do you have to lock your ice-powered daughter and NEVER tell anyone anything? Even her sister? They could've at least tell her that Elsa is really sick and can't go outside or something. And there's no reagent to the heir of the throne? Not to mention the bland villain .. Man, Disney got lazy on their writing, at least japanese animations are still trying to deliver a story..
they Harry potterd poor elsa " don't use your powers, they make you a freak!!" and then they lock her in her room. Yes, its nicer than the cupboard but they still lock her in there. worst parents ever..
You know, the end when Dan is sitting alone talking to himself supports the hypothesis that everyone else are just figments of his imagination, as mentioned in a previous episode.
Family Guy, Season 8 Episode 1: Road to the Multiverse. Brian and Stewie travel to several alternate dimensions, one of which is a world where Christianity never existed, so "the Dark Ages of scientific repression" never happened, so humanity is 1000 years more advanced. The sidewalks move, the bullet trains are REALLY fast, everyone's super hot, and you never have to poop. If you're Christian, you can bring a Bible or whatever and try to convert them.
cgjthoma This. They'd run out of ideas. They've already put out a few that seemed rushed and poorly written, but for the most part, I enjoy the content. Good content takes time. Quality over quantity.
cgjthoma that depends, i mean at the same time that to many episodes might make it stale, a few "extended" episodes would be nice, like a continuation on that month's episode. like seriously, i could nerd juice all over an extra 2-5 minute episode of deleted scenes, mistakes, or even rants going more into a point each month.
Cynical Cthulhu I have read the books. It's not a bad place, just strange. But as far as imaginary worlds go it's one of the safest if you know what to expect.
JB Entertainingness You might want to avoid the sorceress that likes to steal the heads of pretty women and the witch that will enchant your axe to cut you into pieces though. And who typically goes into a fantasy world knowing what to expect I wonder?
Cynical Cthulhu Well I'm not a woman so I can be safe from the Sorceress and I'm not a woodsman at the moment, nor do I intend on falling in love with a munchkin woman whose father will have a witch enchant my ax to cut me up. I also know well enough not to startle the puzzle people (tho I would of course reassemble them if I did) and to steer clear of Utensia. Honestly besides the odd sorceress hear and there the only things which scare me are the Kalidahs, but I don't plan on wandering the dark forests of Munchkinland. I could always get myself a clockwork man to protect me, but if I had to run into any Nomes I know well enough to poison them with eggs. I also shouldn't have an issue staying away from the Deadly Desert. But despite these dangerous issues, Oz is a weird place. People don't get killed unless you are evil or actively think you can be killed. But generally speaking it should be quite lovely. And I know I wouldn't have prior knowledge, but then even asking the question of which imaginary land to spend my days would imply I would know about it. =D
Donald Violette in SG1 they found a device that allowed them to travel between parallel worlds. There was at least one where Sam and Jack were married.
Ah but still it wasn't the core of the show, that was maybe an episode? What they mention in this list specifically is the gate, which is not trans-dimensional lol
After Hours is still the MAIN (not only) reason I have subscribed to Cracked. The articles, however, are why I go to your site everyday... at least once if not two or three times.
I was waiting for Narnia... but it doesn't stop at just that. Narnia is one of a supposedly infinite amount of dimensions. In the first book, The Magician's Nephew, the two protagonists find themselves in a "wood between worlds," which is basically, a calm glade of trees and grass and perfectly identical shallow ponds as far as the eye can see. Each pool is a portal to a dimension. I would give anything to spend my days exploring as many pools as I could.
Yeah, but if you read the books, Narnia is destroyed by Aslan himself because of a monkey and a donkey, and all the kids die, except the older girl that doesn't believe in it anymore. Narnia turns to hell in the end. So... live with what you got until you die, that's the point.
Well that depends really, since the Narnia that gets destroyed isn't the real Narnia but rather a copy of it. Aslan's Narnia is eternal and in it you find all of his faithful servants, even the dead ones. Oh, that Christian symbolism!
Not quite.... The World ends, because every world ends. All things come to dust - and the same is true whatever reality you believe in... The whole point is that Narnia is a world like Charn - the Witch's home-world, which is slowly dying, like any other. Like every other world, Narnia eventually succumbs to destruction, when a plot by an Ape to ally with Calorma, (Spelling?) and conquer Narnia, backfires miserably, by summoning the Calorman God, Tash. But the whole point, is that Narnia never totally falls. The clock winds down and time runs out, moments before Narnia would be completley destroyed. The world dies naturally, before evil triumphs. Not to mention the Heaven Sequence at the End had cameos from all of the great characters, including the Great Giant That Destroys The Sun, which was witnessed in its eternal sleep during "Silver Chair". Free fact of the Day: In fact, for all of his religious symbolism, Lewis came under fire by the Christian right of his time, for suggesting that, concerning the other races of Narnia all of the honourable good deeds done by those who worshipped "Tash" (their version of the devil) where accepted by Aslan as if they had been done in his name, were enough to entitle the righteous Worshippers-Of-Tash to their eternal life in his country. Yes. That's right. CS Lewis suggested that doing the right thing, and doing your best was more important than quibbling over which variation or denomination was important. And he got Hate for it.
***** Not much. For example -- the 1st movie is based on the second book. The first book explores and explains how the wardrobe was made, the origins of the Witch and her dead world and how the grandpa of the kids met her. Also they skipped the 3rd book ,that isnt about the kids and is about a boy living entirely in Narnia, being born there. The book follows his adventures during the kids reign in Narnia, after the events of the second book.
Is there anyone else that finds the character's subplots more interesting that the conversation/plot...thing? Like how SAUREN'S IN AN ALTERNATE DIMENSION!!! *fangasm* AWEESOOOOMMMEEE
+Kuroguma Winston Rowntree does Swaim's art, he is webcomic artist; excellent artist and a even better storyteller. www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html (possibly NSFW)
Hogwarts you have to go through the platform 9 3/4 train entrance. Voldemort is defeated and you learn magic. Also you get fun animals like delivery owls and hippogriffs. Needless to say the hp universe is awesome!
Starteller Nah, cause that could be explained away by the obliviate charm. They could jut men in black style swipe away all recall of it and fix everything in the blink of an eye. Cause magic and shit. As cool as it would be, sadly it doesn't count. They're talking about alternate universes. Worlds that exist outside of the already established universe. In the world of Harry Potter, that IS their world, not some parallel, escapable to dimension.
"Besides, everyone would catch whatever the hell Soryn has the second you breath on em" The look on dopple-Soryn's face is priceless, like hes just happy to be there lol
The Mushroom Kingdom would be the greatest alternate dimension to live in. There's exciting continents and interesting characters everywhere. Sure, there's the occasional Koopa uprising, but there's always plenty of opportunities for Kart racing, smash tourneys, etc.
The clips are just a visual aid entirely separate from the conversation and added in post. At no point does Daniel say "and here is a clip of a Pegasus" Try to keep up
Oh, shit! IT IS!! I mean, it's on the beach shortly after Roland let Jake die, and as far as we know Oy might not yet have even been a billy in his bumbler's eye. So it's horrifically inaccurate. But hey, at least we know someone else knows those books exist! Right?
Daniel forgot to mention that you can actually go to heaven when you die in Narnia, and heaven in that world is a flawless, physically limitless version of Narnia. Plus, if he wanted to go after Aslan destroyed Narnia, he could just go straight to the heaven version. Unless, of course, he was sent to hell instead - that would probably suck.
I thought you couldn't enter Narnia unless you were a little kid. If you get too old the portals to Narnia don't let you go there anymore. If you fulfil your mission in Narnia and return to this world, your age reverts back to when you entered but you can't go back the way you came. That's disappointing, because if the portals did work after you did what you were there to do, you could let yourself age as far as you wanted and then just hop back and forth, regaining your youth each time and achieving immortality! This world we know serves only to sustain our everlasting lives in Narnia! Heh…Bizarro Soren.
I just thought of something horrifying! When you go to Narnia, this world essentially gets put on hold so you can go on adventures, and when you return life goes on from where you left off. In the Narnia universe, this world is basically a video game. And the more you play the video game, the more time you lose in Narnia!
Sam Tennet Time does still go in the real world when they are in Narnia. just with no rhyme or reason.. A moment in Narnia can feel like 3 weeks in the world or a lifetime in Narnia can be an hour in the real world. Yeah its insane. And you can go to Narnia as an adult, you just have to believe but it exempts some people even though they believe at the moment and will always believe, I think its a bit of a plot hole like the timelines. they best Aslan could explain to the kids (in later books) is that the world/times arent always aligned and their Time Value`` changes. Also you can make it To Narnia by believing in it as you die apperently. in the final book EVERYONE in Narnia dies. and the kids in the real world die on a Train crash which is how they get transported to Narnia for that last adventure which is only in book form so far.
Sam Tennet Narnia was never supposed to be heaven, it was a parallel for Earth. At the end of the Last Battle, Narnia - as they knew it - was destroyed, but then they were taken to a replica-but-better version of Narnia in Aslan's Country. That's heaven.
This series is my favourite thing to watch on the internet... So clever and hilarious!!! (And I agree with Dan, even Aslan is meant to be a metaphor for 'God')
Trying to catalog everything at 6:04 Pretty Sure: Roland, Jake, Oy (Dark Tower) Aslan and Mr. Tumnus (Narnia) Mario (duh) Sully and Mike (Monsters, Inc) Minion/Guard (Stargate) Krang (TMNT) Evil Abed (Community) Companion Cube (Portal) Maybe: Booker and Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite) above Aslan & Tumnus The Doctor and a Companion - possibly Donna (Doctor Who) above Krang Movie Goomba next to Mario? Rick (Rick & Morty) in the green square No clue: The guy, girl, and animal between the Dark Tower crew and the Cracked folks Whoever's stepping through the square portal next to where Krang is stepping out of
Matthew Alhonte I think the two on the Cracked folks left are Lyra and Will from the Dark Materials books. He's holding what I think is the subtle knife (thing that creates portals), plus they always have their animal familiars (Dæmons).
Matthew Alhonte Left to right: The Dark Tower Portal His Dark Materials (The Subtle Knife) Bioshock Infinite Narnia The Nexus from Star Trek Mario Monsters Inc. Sliders Krang (and his body) from TMNT Doctor Who Community (Evil Abed from The Darkest Timeline) Stargate Who is that guy in the green portal at the top? Beetlejuice?
I just watched your entire OPCD series and the after hours, fucking gold! how did I never before stumble on this? I'm unsubbing to a few channels because this one is right up my alley!
7:37 Yes Daniel, you're so right! I also believe that C.S. Lewis created Aslan as a symbol to represent God- since Aslan CREATED Narnia in the first place- so Narnia being heaven wouldn't be a crazy idea! n.n
If you read all 7 books, the end has all the children experience a train wreck and go to "the true Narnia" with Aslan, and the original Narnia was a shadow of this new place, which is basically heaven.
Haven't you read the Chronicles of Narnia? Narnia IS heaven. Aslan is an allegory for Jesus. SPOILER: In the last book all the characters are shown to have died in a train crash and they go to "true" Narnia, or heaven.
Starteller Narnia was created by Aslan through song and he then decided to make the cab-driver - who travelled to Narnia by accident - and his wife the first King and Queen of Narnia.
Did they just give "real" Soren a Sliders ending where, because he doesn't see them in the cafe, he assumes he's in the wrong dimension (gate doesn't creak moment)? XD
btw Narnia is actually a metaphor for Heaven. If you read all the books you find out that it's just Lewis Carol making the bible more easy to read for kids.
The TARDIS. Inside is technically another dimension, and since it is close to infinite, you could live an entire life inside the TARDIS comfortably without worry. Plus you could time travel for entertainment, or simply fly around in space to relax.
+TheJrbdog Right up until the Doctor started to feel attached to you, and then he'd dump you back where you came from, but with the knowledge that you were never going to get to go back to that amazing place ever again.
'I think everything is fine cause I'm the guy who got you sick' Fantastic as this always was. I guess THIS was the start of the pandemic that has me rewatching all of YT.
Power Rangers universe.... you could become Tommy Oliver's successor, then go to New York and hang out with the Ninja Turtles (you just have to deal with Venus), or you could move to London and see if you could be The Doctor's companion, because in Power Rangers in Space, the Astro Megaship flew through an asteroid field that was made of part of Gallifrey and the Dalek Ships and The Doctor mentions Zordon's home planet Eltar
mixed up the seasons. In the episode Green Courage of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, a memo on Terra Venture talks about a meteor field in the constellation of Kasterborous, which is where Gallifrey is located.
You missed the rule that it has to be an alternate dimension, not an alternative of Earth. If that was the case, I'd go with Ghost in the Shell; Cybernetics so advanced that your brain is hermetically sealed, then placed into a robot body that doesn't need a doctor.
CheffBryan But the series 2 and 4 finales Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, and Stolen Earth/Journey's End reveal that interdimensional travel is possible in universe. Although, what are the further connotations of Scrooging/Wonderful Life-ing? Because 'SLIDERS'
JamesCPotter13 I haven't had the chance to read the manga, so I only know the story from the two SACs and the movies. Either way, the point was the multidimensional travel being proposed in media, so if Power Rangers was able to touch on such a topic, you'd have to go with the dimension itself that they travel to.
7:33 is how I am after reading or saying something mind blowing but everyone has already left or isn't paying attention. Or I am just talking to myself. It's possible.
While true, there are plenty of people (especially younger kids) who are completely ignorant of the series outside the movies, and I wouldn't want to take away the magic for anyone.
SPOILER FUCKING ALERT The part where Narnia stops existing and everybody goes to heaven except Susan because she loves pantyhose too much (basically it where it stops being a childrens book and starts being an uncomfortable ascension fantasy)
Can a character physically travel from London to Hogwarts without going through platform 9 3/4, without the magic fireplaces, the magic toilets etc? Is Hogwarts on a map? Isn't it like a magic pocket dimension? A world within a world?
you do realize that there's not grantee that you'll be a wizard/witch or, even if you were you would be good or be harry or some important. You'd those extras you see background.
Except for "Fuckability" in "Horrible Lessons Disney Teaches You" episode, they've always censored cursing (at least on the TH-cam version, never checked to see if the Cracked.com version is uncensored).
Best alternate dimension, the dimension Jet Li leaves to in the end of "The One" where al gore beat bush in the 2000 presidential election and everything runs on clean energy.
I love the implication right there at the end with Soren arriving outside the window, looking in and only seeing Dan, then leaving because he thinks he's in a alternate universe where Dan eats by himself at the diner, lonely and depressed.
if I were him. I would rather check before jumping to another reality. and yes I know this is years ago.
I like to think it's a Sliders Season 2 Episode one homage.
Are you dead
I always thought he wanted to be a part of the conversation, but he was upset that he just missed it and hopped to a different universe where the conversation hadn’t ended
I interpret it as Soren looking for the other 'sick' version of himself, and becoming frustrated when he realises he's gone
Bizarro Soren has his hair parted like a non-protagonist as they discussed in "6 Insane Stereotypes That You Still See In Every Movie" (which is the earlier video, but TH-cam playlists are usually from newest to oldest, which is stupid).
+Jessica Lee OH! And he doesn't like Dan's impression of Krang (which was actually pretty good). Soren always likes Dan's impressions, especially the terrible ones. Bizarro Soren is secretly terrifying!
+Jessica Lee bizarro soren is amazing because coughing feathers.
Jessica Lee oh yeah! Michael's hair is also parted the opposite way.
I award you the Best TH-camr award.
What about Daniel and Katie are different?
Anyone notice Sorens left part and Michael's right part? Soren is now the goofy character !
Holy...fuck
This is Daniel undercober
Bizarro soren
THAT'S it! Man, I knew that Soren's hair looked wrong/different but I didn't realize that's what it was! Damn that's clever of them. And you for figuring it out.
Head-cannon: This is Soren from Antiheros
i wish I had friends like this to sit around and talk intelligently about stupid stuff.
Oh man its great. I had 2 friends on one class (High school) where we would talk about everything from the origin of man to space aliens, god, comic books and nuclear physics.
Nunya Dambidnis omg yasssssss! Me too!
It was fun while it lasted up untill it went corprit
That's me at high school 😂
I still do let’s be friends
I will go on record stating that After Hours is the most intellectually stunning, well acted and HILARIOUS series in any filmed medium ever!! I chose THAT dimension to live in. I'm sitting at the next table just soaking up the non-stop awesome that is this Foursome.
+pamusicman2 looks to me like very high production value, scripted scenes with actors. The show is absolutely brilliant.
+pamusicman2 looks to me like very high production value, scripted scenes with actors. The show is absolutely brilliant.
I second that statement!
indeed
CraigMetalHead Is that bad?
Somebody give Soren an award, this is one of those episodes where you really can appreciate the acting, as you believe something is really wrong with him, like that episode where swaim has a head injury
i've watched this a bunch of times and JUST got the mic drop/MIKE drop joke. omg
Charlotte H ive only just now got it from your comment haha thanks 😊
Same XD
"Snow!" "That faun!" "Something completely wrong and kind of sexist!"
+Andrew Addams According to his hand gestures, they are attributed to Soren, Katie, and Michael, respectively.
slockhrt That makes sense.
Most alternate dimension movies basically boil down to, "There's no place like home."
I think that's the basic theme of stories that deal with alternate/parallel universes-that no matter how bad our world is, there's always a place that's worse, even seemingly utopian worlds.
And yet, oddly, Oz was not mentioned.
Unless you actually live in Kansas , because it sucks to live in Kansas.
伏見猿比古 Well... not entirely... mostly it’s fine if you live in like Wichita.
So... is this Soren from an alternate reality were Soren is like Daniel and vice versa? Would like to see other Daniel then.
+Drace90 No that's ACTUALLY Soren from a different reality, where hes not Soren, more like an alien. If you watched the end the real Soren popped up in the background. from a worm hole. Meaning some weird shit happened to both sorens somehow..
Alternate Daniel is Ron from the Harry Potter sketch
+Nightcore LA I'm half asleep watching this on my phone, but was dimension hopping Soren at the end holding a knife?
So is real Soren trying to kill bizarro Soren?
Show me cool, chill Daniel.
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Except that Stargates brought you to other worlds in our current dimension. Not other dimensions. And I agree with the other guy, why the hell wasn't Sliders Mentioned? It was a plethora of horrifying downside dimensions.
cgjthoma We put Katy Stoll in instead of Katie Willert. Whoops!
Luv cracked
You guys need to get After Hours on a regular release schedule some you can get more viewership. I really think this series is a precious TH-cam gem.
Your interpretation of Narnia is skewed to what the movies presents you. In the books there are explanations for all the things you see in the movies that they don't talk about. Why is there a random English lamppost in the forest? The Ice Witch brought a piece of one FROM EARTH while Aslan was creating Narnia. The Dawn Treader LITERALLY sails to Aslan's land which is as close to Heaven as you can get in that universe until the final book when Narnia actually ends and all the animals and people in it go TO heaven.
Technically when they all died they just went to the REAL Narnia bc the Narnia in which most of the stories take place (the shadowlands) is just a reflection of the ideal version of Narnia which exists. People suffer and die in the shadowlands all the time but real narnia is legit utopia where nothing is bad.
6:06 Holy shit was that an actual dry heave?! Because if that wasn't then Soren is one hell of an actor!
It was the beginning of one. That is not something one wants to experience too often. It's a miserable, dry, throat-burning experience.
I love their reactions to Soren coughing up feathers. Katie is horrified, Michael is surprised and Dan is excited!
"You are a woman."
"How DARE you. That is OUR word."
+Eva Penrose OMG that's my trigger word!!! GAWD!!! I am going to write a angry blog post bout this
+Eva Penrose
UGH! Tumblr will HEAR ABOUT THIS
Eva Penrose I don't like it when they make fun of feminism because it may undermine the value of feminism. But I suppose we all have to make fun of ourselves at some point.
What value of feminism?
As long as you avoid the newer 3rd wave feminists, feminism is great. Hell, there are even a few quiet scattered voices in the newer age of feminism that aren't completely fucking awful. See, this is what 3rd wave feminism has done to the feminist movement. It's turned it into a joke. It's like having the KKK side with your argument. No matter how right you were before, your the bad guy now.
Little sick Soren is so happy when he was drinking water!!
2:45 "that is our word" .. I am in love with Katie & Soren. That's all :)
The ending with Soren reminded me of the episode of Sliders where Quinn actually found his way back home but only had a short window to see if it was home and so he checked the fence door that always creaked. It didn't creak, so he left. But then his mother comes out and thanks some repair guy for oiling it. It's like Soren saw Dan alone and figured this isn't the right dimension.
This is my favorite Soren episode! The coughing up feathers and the secret handshake are hilarious. Also Michael's "Mike drop".
3:27 Michael doesn't want to lie on the floor to demonstrate his "mic(/Mike) drop," because the floor looks sticky, but the diner seems to have gotten an "A" from the Health Dept (prominently displayed over Daniel's shoulder).
on purpose???
Bahahaha! That green feather! I haven't laughed that hard randomly in a good while.
Cracked Soren's hair is parted left in this one.
...Well played.
Best alternate universe to live in would have to be the Digital World in Digimon. You get your own digital partner who might be a magical animal, or a robot, or human-like, or a freak dragon and they have all these awesome powers. Plus you have this entire world to live in with every possible type of climate you could want to relax in: beaches, forests, deserts, mountains, cities, villages, literal-freaking-toylands.
Yes, there are some bad digimon and the occasional Big Bad that tries to take over, but then you get to battle evil with your digimon and all from the safety of a PG-rated cartoon!
Narnia be damned, I've made my choice.
Seriona1
I heard season 1-3 were it's own canon and season 4 began a new one in a separate canon.
Seriona1
Welp, all the more reason to go back and rewatch, I suppose.
cannedcream absolutely
So which Digital World you mean? Adventure (+ 02 and tri), Tamers, Frontier, Savers, Xros Wars, Universe?
Original Digimon? Yes. New ones after? No. Those kids died. I want Angemon as my Digimon partner. Or Angewomon, but for different reasons.
God, the look of "WTF" on Katie's face at 1:26 just cracks me up every time XD
I don't understand why people keep saying they should make these "more regularly". After Hours has been once a month for over a year and a half now. Yet every month the same comment gets posted. Bizarre.
***** There's a difference between "more frequent" and "more regularly". It's like they think the episodes aren't on a regular schedule. They are.
***** In my experience, people are surprised when I point out that it's been once a month for a long time now. I think we're seeing both, I'm addressing one.
You are right. I never bothered to check how often they make after hours. So in the future I will just ask them to make more of them. It is by far the best Cracked content to me.
8 years on and the "How dare you?! That's our word!" joke still gets me.
What if you made one about "who would be the worst parents to have" like coralline's other parents, Anna and Elsa's terrible at raising their kids parents, ex....
YES ! Finally.. That's what I was thinking -- come on was their father an idiot? Why do you have to lock your ice-powered daughter and NEVER tell anyone anything? Even her sister? They could've at least tell her that Elsa is really sick and can't go outside or something. And there's no reagent to the heir of the throne? Not to mention the bland villain .. Man, Disney got lazy on their writing, at least japanese animations are still trying to deliver a story..
they Harry potterd poor elsa
" don't use your powers, they make you a freak!!" and then they lock her in her room. Yes, its nicer than the cupboard but they still lock her in there.
worst parents ever..
I know right?! They could've atLEAST let her go someone alone or secluded like with the trolls and let her test and try out her powers!
Re-watching this in plague times hits differently.
You know, the end when Dan is sitting alone talking to himself supports the hypothesis that everyone else are just figments of his imagination, as mentioned in a previous episode.
Family Guy, Season 8 Episode 1: Road to the Multiverse.
Brian and Stewie travel to several alternate dimensions, one of which is a world where Christianity never existed, so "the Dark Ages of scientific repression" never happened, so humanity is 1000 years more advanced. The sidewalks move, the bullet trains are REALLY fast, everyone's super hot, and you never have to poop. If you're Christian, you can bring a Bible or whatever and try to convert them.
Well, you'd be the ugliest person alive and you'd never be able to get a job to get money to fix that because you'd be too stupid to get a job.
Imitation Infinity that does sound pretty good and thats even coming from a christen
We demand more 'After Hours'!
Nah, more than once a month would make it stale. They have a good pace going now.
cgjthoma This. They'd run out of ideas. They've already put out a few that seemed rushed and poorly written, but for the most part, I enjoy the content. Good content takes time. Quality over quantity.
cgjthoma that depends, i mean at the same time that to many episodes might make it stale, a few "extended" episodes would be nice, like a continuation on that month's episode. like seriously, i could nerd juice all over an extra 2-5 minute episode of deleted scenes, mistakes, or even rants going more into a point each month.
CraigMetalHead
I ask nicely that you take that back.
Happy now?
I'd live in Oz. Threats are few and you can't die unless you want to or are evil basically.
Have you read the books? It's not a nice place.
Cynical Cthulhu I have read the books. It's not a bad place, just strange. But as far as imaginary worlds go it's one of the safest if you know what to expect.
JB Entertainingness You might want to avoid the sorceress that likes to steal the heads of pretty women and the witch that will enchant your axe to cut you into pieces though. And who typically goes into a fantasy world knowing what to expect I wonder?
Cynical Cthulhu Well I'm not a woman so I can be safe from the Sorceress and I'm not a woodsman at the moment, nor do I intend on falling in love with a munchkin woman whose father will have a witch enchant my ax to cut me up. I also know well enough not to startle the puzzle people (tho I would of course reassemble them if I did) and to steer clear of Utensia.
Honestly besides the odd sorceress hear and there the only things which scare me are the Kalidahs, but I don't plan on wandering the dark forests of Munchkinland. I could always get myself a clockwork man to protect me, but if I had to run into any Nomes I know well enough to poison them with eggs. I also shouldn't have an issue staying away from the Deadly Desert.
But despite these dangerous issues, Oz is a weird place. People don't get killed unless you are evil or actively think you can be killed. But generally speaking it should be quite lovely.
And I know I wouldn't have prior knowledge, but then even asking the question of which imaginary land to spend my days would imply I would know about it.
=D
JB Entertainingness True I suppose.
Stargate was a teleportation device that sent you to another planet. Not alternate/parallel universe.
Donald Violette in SG1 they found a device that allowed them to travel between parallel worlds. There was at least one where Sam and Jack were married.
Ah but still it wasn't the core of the show, that was maybe an episode? What they mention in this list specifically is the gate, which is not trans-dimensional lol
After Hours is still the MAIN (not only) reason I have subscribed to Cracked. The articles, however, are why I go to your site everyday... at least once if not two or three times.
The joke of Michael wanting to “Mike drop” himself is so underrated
I was waiting for Narnia... but it doesn't stop at just that. Narnia is one of a supposedly infinite amount of dimensions. In the first book, The Magician's Nephew, the two protagonists find themselves in a "wood between worlds," which is basically, a calm glade of trees and grass and perfectly identical shallow ponds as far as the eye can see. Each pool is a portal to a dimension. I would give anything to spend my days exploring as many pools as I could.
Yeah, but if you read the books, Narnia is destroyed by Aslan himself because of a monkey and a donkey, and all the kids die, except the older girl that doesn't believe in it anymore. Narnia turns to hell in the end. So... live with what you got until you die, that's the point.
spoiler alert
Well that depends really, since the Narnia that gets destroyed isn't the real Narnia but rather a copy of it. Aslan's Narnia is eternal and in it you find all of his faithful servants, even the dead ones. Oh, that Christian symbolism!
Not quite.... The World ends, because every world ends. All things come to dust - and the same is true whatever reality you believe in...
The whole point is that Narnia is a world like Charn - the Witch's home-world, which is slowly dying, like any other. Like every other world, Narnia eventually succumbs to destruction, when a plot by an Ape to ally with Calorma, (Spelling?) and conquer Narnia, backfires miserably, by summoning the Calorman God, Tash.
But the whole point, is that Narnia never totally falls. The clock winds down and time runs out, moments before Narnia would be completley destroyed. The world dies naturally, before evil triumphs.
Not to mention the Heaven Sequence at the End had cameos from all of the great characters, including the Great Giant That Destroys The Sun, which was witnessed in its eternal sleep during "Silver Chair".
Free fact of the Day:
In fact, for all of his religious symbolism, Lewis came under fire by the Christian right of his time, for suggesting that, concerning the other races of Narnia all of the honourable good deeds done by those who worshipped "Tash" (their version of the devil) where accepted by Aslan as if they had been done in his name, were enough to entitle the righteous Worshippers-Of-Tash to their eternal life in his country.
Yes. That's right. CS Lewis suggested that doing the right thing, and doing your best was more important than quibbling over which variation or denomination was important. And he got Hate for it.
*****
Not much. For example -- the 1st movie is based on the second book. The first book explores and explains how the wardrobe was made, the origins of the Witch and her dead world and how the grandpa of the kids met her. Also they skipped the 3rd book ,that isnt about the kids and is about a boy living entirely in Narnia, being born there. The book follows his adventures during the kids reign in Narnia, after the events of the second book.
That never happened ,pamyp21, at least not the way you describe it.
Is there anyone else that finds the character's subplots more interesting that the conversation/plot...thing?
Like how SAUREN'S IN AN ALTERNATE DIMENSION!!! *fangasm* AWEESOOOOMMMEEE
Pause at 4:19 someone put some effort into that!
+Kuroguma Winston Rowntree does Swaim's art, he is webcomic artist; excellent artist and a even better storyteller. www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html (possibly NSFW)
+Marc Begin He can also go fuck himself. I like his art enough, but hate the videos and articles he's written for the site. Elitist trash
... Soren's hair is parted as if he were a lefty here... or maybe I'm seeing it wrong.
"How do you care about everything, so hard?"
6:07 the amount of references is amazing, especially love the Subtle Knife ref behind Swaim
I was so happy when I saw Roland, Jake and Oy in the doorway at 6:03
Never noticed that before.
Hogwarts you have to go through the platform 9 3/4 train entrance. Voldemort is defeated and you learn magic. Also you get fun animals like delivery owls and hippogriffs. Needless to say the hp universe is awesome!
While I agree with you that HP is awesome, it still happens on earth, it isn't an alternate dimension at all :/
Well since nothing happening in the movie happen in the Moggle World like the bridge breaking. We could consider this World as alternate.
Starteller Nah, cause that could be explained away by the obliviate charm. They could jut men in black style swipe away all recall of it and fix everything in the blink of an eye. Cause magic and shit.
As cool as it would be, sadly it doesn't count. They're talking about alternate universes. Worlds that exist outside of the already established universe. In the world of Harry Potter, that IS their world, not some parallel, escapable to dimension.
***** Dude, same here. Magic friends unite! -insert sparkle dust-
lookagoldnmouse I wanna be a part of this. Sadly I cannot stand the concept of harry potter wizards.
In the last book it is revealed that Narnia is LITERALLY heaven anyway.
Nah, Narnia and earth share a heaven that the righteous in both go to. Narnia has its apocalypse in book 7
"Can't tell if I'm really sweaty on my legs or I peed myself and forgot." One of the funniest lines in history.
"Besides, everyone would catch whatever the hell Soryn has the second you breath on em"
The look on dopple-Soryn's face is priceless, like hes just happy to be there lol
The Mushroom Kingdom would be the greatest alternate dimension to live in. There's exciting continents and interesting characters everywhere. Sure, there's the occasional Koopa uprising, but there's always plenty of opportunities for Kart racing, smash tourneys, etc.
You'd also have to worry about getting smashed.
4:46 "Embarrassing. You lost your one gift."
One of my favorite recurring jokes in the series, and this is easily the best impression.
Actually that was a griffin not a pegasus
NEEEEEEEEEERD!!
EXACTLY!!
Well they do ride a pegasus
The clips are just a visual aid entirely separate from the conversation and added in post. At no point does Daniel say "and here is a clip of a Pegasus"
Try to keep up
No matter how many times I watch this, it never gets old. Definitely my favorite episode!
After Hours is one of the only things that's going for youtube.
Is that Roland Jake and Oy in the painting? That's awesome!!
Oh, shit! IT IS!!
I mean, it's on the beach shortly after Roland let Jake die, and as far as we know Oy might not yet have even been a billy in his bumbler's eye. So it's horrifically inaccurate. But hey, at least we know someone else knows those books exist! Right?
Wait... what just... was it... but he... WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?
Daniel forgot to mention that you can actually go to heaven when you die in Narnia, and heaven in that world is a flawless, physically limitless version of Narnia. Plus, if he wanted to go after Aslan destroyed Narnia, he could just go straight to the heaven version. Unless, of course, he was sent to hell instead - that would probably suck.
"How dare you. That is our word!"
This needs to come back
I thought you couldn't enter Narnia unless you were a little kid. If you get too old the portals to Narnia don't let you go there anymore. If you fulfil your mission in Narnia and return to this world, your age reverts back to when you entered but you can't go back the way you came. That's disappointing, because if the portals did work after you did what you were there to do, you could let yourself age as far as you wanted and then just hop back and forth, regaining your youth each time and achieving immortality! This world we know serves only to sustain our everlasting lives in Narnia!
Heh…Bizarro Soren.
I just thought of something horrifying! When you go to Narnia, this world essentially gets put on hold so you can go on adventures, and when you return life goes on from where you left off. In the Narnia universe, this world is basically a video game. And the more you play the video game, the more time you lose in Narnia!
Sam Tennet Time does still go in the real world when they are in Narnia. just with no rhyme or reason.. A moment in Narnia can feel like 3 weeks in the world or a lifetime in Narnia can be an hour in the real world. Yeah its insane. And you can go to Narnia as an adult, you just have to believe but it exempts some people even though they believe at the moment and will always believe, I think its a bit of a plot hole like the timelines. they best Aslan could explain to the kids (in later books) is that the world/times arent always aligned and their Time Value`` changes. Also you can make it To Narnia by believing in it as you die apperently. in the final book EVERYONE in Narnia dies. and the kids in the real world die on a Train crash which is how they get transported to Narnia for that last adventure which is only in book form so far.
Wow, doesn't sound like heaven so much as it sounded like before…
Sam Tennet Narnia was never supposed to be heaven, it was a parallel for Earth. At the end of the Last Battle, Narnia - as they knew it - was destroyed, but then they were taken to a replica-but-better version of Narnia in Aslan's Country. That's heaven.
Amy Collins Hm, yeah. That was pretty transparent at the end of he third movie, haha
I love the fact that it ended with Narnia. Narnia is the best ever and the best it will ever get. For Narnia and for Aslan!
This series is my favourite thing to watch on the internet... So clever and hilarious!!!
(And I agree with Dan, even Aslan is meant to be a metaphor for 'God')
6:03, we're including His Dark Materials and friggin' Sliders? I love whoever did this illustration.
Trying to catalog everything at 6:04
Pretty Sure:
Roland, Jake, Oy (Dark Tower)
Aslan and Mr. Tumnus (Narnia)
Mario (duh)
Sully and Mike (Monsters, Inc)
Minion/Guard (Stargate)
Krang (TMNT)
Evil Abed (Community)
Companion Cube (Portal)
Maybe:
Booker and Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite) above Aslan & Tumnus
The Doctor and a Companion - possibly Donna (Doctor Who) above Krang
Movie Goomba next to Mario?
Rick (Rick & Morty) in the green square
No clue:
The guy, girl, and animal between the Dark Tower crew and the Cracked folks
Whoever's stepping through the square portal next to where Krang is stepping out of
Matthew Alhonte I think the two on the Cracked folks left are Lyra and Will from the Dark Materials books. He's holding what I think is the subtle knife (thing that creates portals), plus they always have their animal familiars (Dæmons).
Matthew Alhonte
Left to right:
The Dark Tower
Portal
His Dark Materials (The Subtle Knife)
Bioshock Infinite
Narnia
The Nexus from Star Trek
Mario
Monsters Inc.
Sliders
Krang (and his body) from TMNT
Doctor Who
Community (Evil Abed from The Darkest Timeline)
Stargate
Who is that guy in the green portal at the top? Beetlejuice?
After hours has to be my favorite cracked videos. Loved it.
How dare you, that is our word.
I just watched your entire OPCD series and the after hours, fucking gold! how did I never before stumble on this? I'm unsubbing to a few channels because this one is right up my alley!
7:37 Yes Daniel, you're so right! I also believe that C.S. Lewis created Aslan as a symbol to represent God- since Aslan CREATED Narnia in the first place- so Narnia being heaven wouldn't be a crazy idea! n.n
If you read all 7 books, the end has all the children experience a train wreck and go to "the true Narnia" with Aslan, and the original Narnia was a shadow of this new place, which is basically heaven.
The "Mike drop" comment was actually like really, really clever.
Haven't you read the Chronicles of Narnia? Narnia IS heaven. Aslan is an allegory for Jesus. SPOILER: In the last book all the characters are shown to have died in a train crash and they go to "true" Narnia, or heaven.
albelnoxroxursox Yes Narnia was "created" by human and Aslan. The lamp post is a "tree" made of a lamp as a seed.
albelnoxroxursox lies
albelnoxroxursox Aslan's Country is Heaven which is where they go in the end of the last book.
Starteller Narnia was created by Aslan through song and he then decided to make the cab-driver - who travelled to Narnia by accident - and his wife the first King and Queen of Narnia.
Joha Doom That's what I said, "true" Narnia.
Bring this show back please! It's awesome, and I've seen every episode multiple times. Never get sick of it lmao 🤣!!
Who wouldn't want to go to the Futurama Universe?
isn't that our future?
Atiqah Diyana We, wish...No way that's our future
Ashanti Nyongo oo
Yayyy, the payoff for the Soren-loving-Dan's-impressions bit, it's also probably his best impression so far
God this show is hilarious. Don't ever stop making these. Ever.
Did they just give "real" Soren a Sliders ending where, because he doesn't see them in the cafe, he assumes he's in the wrong dimension (gate doesn't creak moment)? XD
Fuck Sliders for that ending it absolutely pissed me off.
btw Narnia is actually a metaphor for Heaven. If you read all the books you find out that it's just Lewis Carol making the bible more easy to read for kids.
+Danielle Roberts Woops C. S Lewis hahaha wrong Author
+Danielle Roberts lol, I've done the same thing (they both have the names 'Lewis' and 'C')
1:20 - The nod to the waitress followed by the feathers got me good. Was _not_ expecting that. ahaha
The TARDIS. Inside is technically another dimension, and since it is close to infinite, you could live an entire life inside the TARDIS comfortably without worry. Plus you could time travel for entertainment, or simply fly around in space to relax.
+TheJrbdog Right up until the Doctor started to feel attached to you, and then he'd dump you back where you came from, but with the knowledge that you were never going to get to go back to that amazing place ever again.
'I think everything is fine cause I'm the guy who got you sick'
Fantastic as this always was. I guess THIS was the start of the pandemic that has me rewatching all of YT.
Power Rangers universe.... you could become Tommy Oliver's successor,
then go to New York and hang out with the Ninja Turtles (you just have to deal with Venus),
or you could move to London and see if you could be The Doctor's companion, because in Power Rangers in Space, the Astro Megaship flew through an asteroid field that was made of part of Gallifrey and the Dalek Ships and The Doctor mentions Zordon's home planet Eltar
Crap...forgot one
THE Q CONTINUUM in Star Trek
you could become best friends with 'Q', have him give you the same powers
BOOM...SWAIM DROP
mixed up the seasons.
In the episode Green Courage of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, a memo on Terra Venture talks about a meteor field in the constellation of Kasterborous, which is where Gallifrey is located.
You missed the rule that it has to be an alternate dimension, not an alternative of Earth. If that was the case, I'd go with Ghost in the Shell; Cybernetics so advanced that your brain is hermetically sealed, then placed into a robot body that doesn't need a doctor.
CheffBryan But the series 2 and 4 finales Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, and Stolen Earth/Journey's End reveal that interdimensional travel is possible in universe.
Although, what are the further connotations of Scrooging/Wonderful Life-ing?
Because 'SLIDERS'
JamesCPotter13 I haven't had the chance to read the manga, so I only know the story from the two SACs and the movies. Either way, the point was the multidimensional travel being proposed in media, so if Power Rangers was able to touch on such a topic, you'd have to go with the dimension itself that they travel to.
7:33 is how I am after reading or saying something mind blowing but everyone has already left or isn't paying attention. Or I am just talking to myself. It's possible.
"You can ride a Pegasus." Shows clip of a griffin.
Best alternate dimension? The fucking Digital World, duh! I mean, who DOESN'T want their own Digimon partner to run around and have adventures with?!
And that was how the coronavirus started.
I miss this show.
WHAT ABOUT OZ?!?!?! Oh, I'm sorry. That was loud. My bad.
Full of horrifying things if you've ever read the books.
+Cynical Cthulhu even the film is horrifying, Oz is a nightmare land
there was a wonderful reference to the dark tower series in the picture of all the people coming to our world. thank you cracked.
I would really like to explain to the writers what happens in the last Narnia book (which I won't do here cuz spoilers).
Those books are more than 50 years old, I don't think spoilers should apply. And that was my thought exactly.
While true, there are plenty of people (especially younger kids) who are completely ignorant of the series outside the movies, and I wouldn't want to take away the magic for anyone.
Kavanaugh Kohls As long as you say SPOILER ALERT before hand you're covered.
I've read the last book, which part are you talking about?
SPOILER FUCKING ALERT
The part where Narnia stops existing and everybody goes to heaven except Susan because she loves pantyhose too much (basically it where it stops being a childrens book and starts being an uncomfortable ascension fantasy)
I love the john dies at the end references, makes it so much fun to watch
after hours is the reason i got in to cracked
what movie where they showing at about 1:04 mins in?
Innerspace. Dennis Quaid movie from 1987.
The "Harry Potter" Dimension, guys. Simple as it gets.
obvious, init?
Can a character physically travel from London to Hogwarts without going through platform 9 3/4, without the magic fireplaces, the magic toilets etc? Is Hogwarts on a map? Isn't it like a magic pocket dimension? A world within a world?
JCatemybrains
Yes, Platform 9 3/4 is merely an invisible door that gets a traveler to the train to Hogwarts
you do realize that there's not grantee that you'll be a wizard/witch or, even if you were you would be good or be harry or some important. You'd those extras you see background.
I love you: I just saw Rolad of Gilead in the parallel universe collage, you made a nerd happy
How could Inner Space ever be considered a different Dimension?
soren is acting his socks off in this one! hilarious
Why are they censoring "fuck" now??kinda ruins the normal cafe feeling
Except for "Fuckability" in "Horrible Lessons Disney Teaches You" episode, they've always censored cursing (at least on the TH-cam version, never checked to see if the Cracked.com version is uncensored).
The feathers killed me.
Best alternate dimension, the dimension Jet Li leaves to in the end of "The One" where al gore beat bush in the 2000 presidential election and everything runs on clean energy.
That's a good one!
0:31 RFK Jr!??
where were you guys i need my crack
Soren's hair is parted on the left... throwback to the '6 Insane Stereotypes You Still See in Every Movie' episode?
I think I just realized that this episode very subtly plugs "Antiheroes"
Oh wow, it really does!