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Yeah, mostly because it seems to be a very common fantasy among engaged/married men 😂 I just saw The Heartbreak Kid for the first time the other night, where Ben Stiller falls in love with another woman while on his honeymoon. It could’ve been funnier, but it’s keeping in line with the 80%
@@ThatWriterKevin He did, which admittedly is a feat of its own in his favor! (I will even own up to the fact that I think I enjoy the entire saga so much because I was similarly clueless and rather awkward the first time I heard DTF.😂) And what the heck, while I’m at it, I might as well admit I flat out had to ask a dude why he always said I had DSL, and what it meant. Even then, I wasn’t quite sure if I was flattered or insulted. Okay, FINE, Kevin! You’re just tearing these truths out of me. I still don’t ever seem to know if I’m flattered or insulted hearing I’ve got DSL. I may be youngish, but my soul is too old for such oddly coded courting and foreplay. 🤷🏻♀
@@anamkarajoy If it makes you feel better,I have no idea of DSL is flattering or not. It's telling a girl "you have the perfect physical qualities of a girl I would like to engage in nonreciprocal fooling around with"
@@ThatWriterKevin And yes, I’ve just now realized my uncensored banter was with the actual writer of the episode, but I’m going to be a big girl and leave it as is, because I’m very big on authenticity-even when it gets awkward, because I blurt out whatever I’m thinking, and _then_ give it a proper think, far too late to do any good. Can’t lie that I’m rather tickled and impressed by your Urinetown: The Musical familiarity, as we put on the show fabulously while I was earning my theatre degree, but I stopped mentioning it at all, because no one believes it’s even a real production, much less concept-and it’s really an awkward subject to vie for truly existing after a minute or two, isn’t it?
What is with all these Telegram "competitions" I assume they are scammers posing as the channel creators? I actually responded to the one on the last Blaze vid the responder says he was Simon and that I had been selected to win a PS5, I was genuinely excited until they wanted me to send $150 for postage. I then spent 4hrs going through the 2.5k comments alerting people, when I refreshed the page my alerts had disappeared and the scammers continued, I have now noticed it on other channels like Answers with Joe. If this is a scam Simon should warn people not to respond or Telegram
He’s able to deliver a wide range of content with his characteristic wit and humor. I like his new sci-fi channel, the first few had the OG Business Blaze level of manic energy. Casual Criminalist also let’s Simon’s personality shine though quite a bit, but not as much as Brain/Business Blaze!
You left out the entire Twilight series, but that could be a video all on it's own. Edward: I've killed lots of people. Bella: That doesn't matter. Me: RUN AWAY!🤣
Speaking for the vampire community at large, we’re not fans of the sparkly pretty boy films. Even _Nosferatu_ from the 1920’s is a preferable rendition of our kind.
There's a 1956 movie called Bus stop starring Marilyn Monroe where a simple minded cowboy falls in love with Marilyn's character and keeps attempting to kidnap her and take her back to his house. It's a comedy but I remember watching it feeling so awkward. It's not funny at all. As a wise old man once said; The past was the worst
The problem with Romeo and Juliet is a 16th century tragedy romance. Back then suffering or dying for or because of love was a prerequisite to calling something romantic. This has drifted over time and we all know what romances look like now. So yes, Romeo and Juliet is extremely romantic, in the origonal meaning of the word. Also, if Romeo's and Juliet's families didn't have a stupid feud over nothing, the kids would have no reason to kill themselves and the pleasure of growing up and realising how stupid marying at the age was.
I know... Still doesn't help that the dude found her as a rebound and could quickly go bye-bye... Then there is also the part where they died instead of eloped...
Not a movie, but I like how Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book about how if someone is trying to get you to do something you don't want to do, you should cave in if they pester you enough.
100% giving off rapey vibes in that book lol. But it ALSO sounds like a ton of the "how I met your grandparent" stories. It is always "well, she said no, but I went and asked her out over and over for months, and she finally gave in. Now we are married!" And on her side it is "after he asked me for months, he wore me down, so I just gave up and went. Then we ended up married." No REALLY didn't mean no then... aside from when it was a white woman and the man was a POC. Then even consent could be a no for everyone else, and could end in death. You know, the good old days.
The messed up nature of some “classic” kids’ books could be it’s own whole video lol. How about The Rainbow Fish, which is ostensibly about not being conceited & acting like you’re better than everyone else, and also you should share; but is really “if you give people presents they’ll stop hating you!” Or The Giving Tree, which is supposedly about generosity or something? But is really just a picture of incredibly terrible boundaries and how you should give away literally every part of yourself in the hopes that 80 years later, that person will come back and apologize/thank you, before using you as a literal stool 😂
@@bluelightningnz clearly you do not know how complex dr. Seuss books can get... he discusses the pointlessness of war in some cases, discrimination in many different forms, silencing minorities, conservation, ect. He also has a dark series of books with dark art that isn't well known. But a lot of his books aren't as simple as they seem. ESPECIALLY when you combine all of them and look at them for an overarching message. So I would encourage you to use a different book if you need an entire book to get your kids to try new foods. Only because consent isn't taught, and people are often told to ignore the concept. So to have a book like that read that young might not be ideal.
@@Fabala827 I've always seen The Giving Tree more as: a caregiver will always love their child, wherever the child is or the person they grow to become and across time. The tree giving literal parts of itself is just a metaphor easily illustrated in a children's book.
YES. I completely agree with Kevin on Romeo & Juliet. I freaking HATE that movie/play, except for Mercutio -- he's the only sane one, and ends up getting killed by all the stupidity. "A plague on both your houses!" indeed.
After reading the original play in high school and then being forced to watch the modern movie, I agree that the movie was totally cringe. I appreciate what they tried to do, but even with stars like Leo DiCaprio, it still fell flat and ended up just being… weird.
I liked the modern movie "Romeo + Juliet". The cinematography was breathtaking, all while keeping pace with the dialog. It was a really fresh take that actually worked.
The worst thing is, that woman wasn't even an ex. She was a crush he never spoke to. He got dragged out of his emo den by his buddies who couldn't watch him be a sad loser about it any more.
Mercutio, in the play, IS mad… his soliloquy suggests that he cannot control his thoughts. Whilst I was surprised to enjoy the version , I did think that the automatic jump from “mad” character to stereotype of (drug pushing) drag queen was somewhat typical of Hollywood - Let’s NOT give a marginalised section of society positive representation, seemed to be the thinking here. Also, the end just made me think of that quote, “Man cannot very much bear reality”… they DIE in the play but the film has a stupid montage of their romance to make audiences forget the leads carked it.
I feel the same way about Romeo and Juliet people as I do Harley Quinn amd Joker people. They seem to have a massive misunderstanding of what those relationships are about.
Paid toilets work in Japan but not in New York. In Japan, the residents take care of what they pay for. In New York, people were smoking cigarettes inside and doing all other kinds of things to make these toilets malfunction.
I don't know why but the chaotic energy editing really does it for me. It's like decoding the unknown or casual criminalist gone wild. It's everything that I didn't know I needed
Here's the thing about Romeo and Juliet: It's really weird but it was not really supposed to be romantic but rather it was supposed to be tragic. Like, there's basically a whole genre in early modern european literature of stupid young people making incredibly rash and foolish decisions and then killing themselves.
Wow, that's interesting, I didn't realize this. Puts the story (which I hate) in a whole new light. Also it's pretty dumb that people think it's romantic, because it's totally not.
Yeah I thought the whole moral of the story is that it's stupid these two families were fighting so much it drove these two teenagers to kill themselves rather than try to have an open relationship because of the family feud. That's why the play ends with the families getting chewed out.
I went to school with one of the kid actors in Big Top Pee-Wee. He was a funny kid, good at magic tricks. I honestly could not tell you the plot of the movie, and hearing about the love triangle thing, I can totally see how that went right over my head as a child. I was just waiting to see my classmate and cheer for him.
Yes!!!!! Kevin on BB!! He's got you chained in the basement too,huh Kev? Im DEFINITELY here for it!!!!! Also, glad we agree about Romeo and Juliet. I LOATHE that particular play, except for Franco Zeffirelli movie adaptation. Olivia Hussey was just PERFECTION, and its a beautifully shot movie imo. But in reality, Romeo and Juliet would have broken up in 6 months, lol!! And if you want morality tales, just read the OG fairy tales, they are GRUESOME!! Cutting of body parts to fit into shoes, dancing to your death in Red Hot iron shoes, the little mermaid doesnt get the Prince, she dies, becomes seafoam and gains a soul while old Princy married another woman, being boiled alive in boiling oil, just horror movie stuff!. I want your take on this Kevin, pretty pretty please?
When peewee won over a bar full of angry bikers by flailing around to "tequila" i began to suspect it was slightly unrealistic. Dude's pure nightmare fuel.
Lol Kevin's opinion on Romeo and Juliet reminds me of English class. During one of the classes on Shakespear's works, one of my classmates made a stupid comment about Romeo and Juliet's relationship. The teacher asked class who thinks R&J marriage wasn't consummated followed by "You guys didn't read R&J." and assigned everybody who raised their hand an essay.
@@FreyasArts agreed. He doesn't do research, so he would read the script, Pw comes up in a script 4 weeks later and he'll try to remember who tf that was
Yea, see the first Peewee movie, was Peewee's Big Adventure, and was directed by Tim Burton, hence why it was brilliant. Sadly, Big Top Peewee was not, hence it was a bit shit.
"For some reason I thought this was a kids show" Oh my sweet summer child. Simon is too young to know Paul Reubens as a standup comedian. Long before the PeeWee Herman show, I saw him doing coke in a Cheech and Chong film. Dude is raunchy as fuck.
I know, I was trying to find where I read that Peewee was actually a character Reubens made up for his stand up and somehow tv execs packaged it as a kid show, but I can't find it anywhere...
@@cruel_brittania Just watch the movie. It's called Cheech and Chong: Nice Dreams. It also features a cameo by Timothy Leary. "That's the key to the universe man..." He's the guy in the asylum obsessed with hamburgers. "You're the man from the Hamburger Train." He's also doing coke in Next Movie. Man the early 80s were wild.
Kevin, fantastic as usual. I think another one that would be interesting (but it could be just me) along these lines are people who get the EXACT OPPOSITE message from movies. Like people who join the military after watching Full Metal Jacket, despite it being clearly anti war/imperialism (and had to do a toned down version of the Vietnam war to get the message across).
Thanks! I do really like that idea. It's similar to when Republicans use "Born in the USA" or "We're Not Gonna Take It" as their campaign songs without understanding what they're actually about.
@@ThatWriterKevin Exactly! Also "American Idiot" lol. I could only think of Full Metal Jacket on the spot because I saw it for the first time recently (very strict parents, we weren't even allowed to watch teletubbies, and we only had 2 channels. So even 13 years out of the house, I'm still catching up lol). But I have seen a ton of movies that get the same treatment as "Born in the USA" when the message was the exact opposite, and that is one single line of thinking.
I watched Love Actually based on people's compliments of the movie. And aside from Emma Thompson's scene when she finds out Rickman is cheating - that scene is genuinely great - the rest is trite and everyone in the film acts superficially and selfishly, and everyone is acting out of lust and baseless infatuation. I finished the movie thinking "who the hell thought this was a good movie??"
@@kikib8434 YES! I always felt like I was the only person who realised it was Paul Reubens, he is absolutely brilliant. Mystery Men, too, he's great in that.
@@cruel_brittania same here 😂! I mean it did take me most of the movie to clue in (I was 11, almost 12 when it came out) but the whole time it was bugging me that I couldn't place him. When I finally figured it out I was giddy af 😁. The best is the recurrence of his character in What We Do in the Shadows, and all the other actors playing their respective vampire characters from different movies. Fucking genius 😆. And I COMPLETELY forgot about Mystery Men! I haven't seen that in forever.
@@kikib8434 Can you be my real life sister? I died over What We Do in the Shadows, and everyone else loved the Buffy tv show, and I was like, no, they take that too seriously, you need to see the Buffy movie, it's hilarious, so much better. Mystery Men was ace, I love Janeane Garofalo as well as Reubens, that movie cracks me up, but no one remembers it.
Oh no ..... Danny 😪😪 On the other hand welcome to the blaze Kevin Ps... love the fact at the end you couldn't remember what channel you where on in the whistlerverse 🤣🤣
Every romcom/chick flick ever made is questionable at best. It's always one person chasing the other, overstepping boundaries, stalking, harassment, manipulation etc and it's all celebrated! We wonder why society has a warped concept of consent, boundaries and respect in general; well this is why. Not only do movies show this behaviour as acceptable, they down right promote it as the perfect romance.
Next you're going to tell me it's unrealistic to show up at my step-sister's slumber party to deliver a sausage pizza and have that go over the way I've seen in some movies.
I just want to quickly say that I was very happy to see an I Think You Should Leave meme pop up in this one. Please, Sam, include more! It makes me very happy.
yeah, my Mum and Dad used to work for the Adelaide S.A. Australia as toilet attendant which cost 0.05c and they did what you described and this was in the 1980's.
There's a page on TVTropes titled "Rape is funny", and it lists numerous occasions in TV and movies where sexual assault was played for laughs, including in "Revenge of The Nerds". It's a disturbingly long list.
Romeo and Juliet, the play, was a cautionary tale of tragedy. It warned of the impulsive nature of teenagers, but it was also about a feud between families that may have been common in feudal times. You cannot judge the story by today's standards, as mideval marriage was not about love, 18 wasn't a set in stone age that defined when sex is legal, and many other reasons. Also it was a play that takes place over 5 days but is based on a novel that takes place over a much longer period of time.
Maybe, I'm just nitpicking here, but I always interpreted Romeo and Juliet as Shakespeare's commentary on the rashness of young lovers. Romeo makes a bunch of very rash decisions that get him and Juliet killed by the end. It's similar to Antony and Cleopatra which Marc Antony makes rash decisions because of Cleopatra's control on him and loses to Octavius. Poor decision-making due to judgment be clouded by lust is a common theme in Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was never intended to be a love story in the way we think about it
I shudder to think what Simon would think if he were curious enough about either Pee Wee Herman or actor who played him, Paul Reubens. I do know that Laurence Fishburne likely wishes he'd never been a regular on that show. Cowboy Curtis, for those not familiar.
As an American, I didn't know about paid toilets. Honestly, wtf is up with that? So if I don't have money on me and I get my period I just have to sit in my blood until I get home? That's bs.
Peewees' first movie was weirder, and it was bullshit how they kicked him off TV for being seen at an adult novelty store/theater. No rape, no kiddie porn, no drugging people. Bullshit.
Thank god someone agrees with me about how unromantic Romeo and Juliet is. In truth the actual moral of the story is about two warring houses and the damage it causes. The romance was just a way to bring in more than just men, and the rude nature of it talking about Juliet is a way to keep the men interested during those parts. it is why there was a dwarf/elf romance in the Hobbit movie, rather than staying true to the source material. it also explains the over sexualization of both men and women in movies, because it touches the basest instincts and keeps people interested who would normally not be. it is also why a lot of kid's shows and movies have jokes for the parents, because parents are far less likely to watch something that is just for kids, or let their kids watch something they just find annoying. IE: in Ed Edd and Eddie where there were Crumpled up tissues under Eddie's bed and magazines on the ground. something a kid would not catch onto but the parents would.
Crossout can be so frustrating, but I do thoroughly enjoy it. They have taken so much of my money over the last few years as there just isn't anything better. I just wish it had a multiplayer open world.
🎉Congratulations Kevin! Love your presentation style, psyched that the boys of the blaze now number 4 🎉 {one of us, one of us!} 😘 Business, err i mean Brain Blaze, is, imho, the ichiban of Simon's cornucopia of TH-cam offerings & as your reward for earning a permanent spot, Danny gets company in the basement! 😂🎉
Kevin didn't actually watch Love Actually either. XD The friend was not asked to film the wedding. He filmed it for himself, and when the actual videographer's wedding video was messed up, they asked about his footage, because he had been filming photographing the wedding too.
I’ve been in many german toilets, which were 50 cents, and they are always extremely nice, clean and homey. I’ve been in american toilet, which was free, and it had doors with gaps that got stuck inside the cubicle and a sign saying „don’t drink from the toilet bowl”.
I performed in Urinetown in college. I always thought the story was a bit of a downer. I interpreted the ending as a commentary on mankind's inability to find a reasonable middle road, going from tyranny to anarchy in short order because our individual selfishness is just that great. We can only seem to work with one overpowering tyrant or a thousand equally-powerful tyrants, and both lead to misery.
Rape seed oil is Canola oil (Canada and oil, get it?) Apparently it was changed so the American market would be more open to Rap...er Canola oil. Pretty merchantile considering the Americans consider Canada almost "Commie."
Finally I've found someone other than me who noticed the ages in Romeo and Juliet, I remember reading this and highschool and being very concerned that people thought it was romantic in any way
It’s from the late 16th century, of course it’s “weird” by modern standards, but it’s still a good story. I never got hung up on the age thing, it was a different time back then.
These movies were all comedies, except for Romeo & Juliet which is a tragedy. They were never meant to convey a moral message. (Especially not a Pee-wee Herman movie.) That being said, 40 Days and 40 Nights is completely horrible and I remember being actually _angry_ at the stupidity of the premise when it came out (oh no, you have to go a _whole forty days_ without sex, you poor little boy, because most people have _never_ had to go forty days without having sex.) Love Actually really is totally creepy and messed up. And Romeo & Juliet really, really does get a seriously misplaced veneration for being romantic, when it's really a tragedy about how stupid teenagers are are, especially spoiled rich kids, and _especially_ especially when it comes to their kind of shallow "love" that would have only lasted a few more days before they got bored with each other, if they hadn't killed themselves out of pure stupidity. How anyone can find it romantic rather than infuriating is beyond me.
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I challenge Arnaldo to do a Blaze script !
Video starts at 2:38
@@fredred8371 thank you sir
Next month Simon will be endorsing Raid Shadow Legends
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Simon welcoming Kevin as a permanent member of the Blaze Crew like he hasn't already got him chained in the basement. Also, side note, I miss EtA
Holy shit I forgot about eta haha, must be in the basement with Danny and Kevin
ETA...ETA...
Bring eta back
Let's be honest.. It seems like it's going to be a cold winter... I think ETA was (and still is) chained up in the basement by Danny and Kevin.
rumor has it ETA has been chained to Danny's dumpster to protect it from the poors.
Leaving your fiance for someone you just met 3 days ago is the plotline of 80% of romantic comedies.
But none of them are heraded as the most romantic story ever
@@ThatWriterKevin yeah I don’t mind if people like these movies. Just don’t think these movies are actually romantic
Yeah, mostly because it seems to be a very common fantasy among engaged/married men 😂
I just saw The Heartbreak Kid for the first time the other night, where Ben Stiller falls in love with another woman while on his honeymoon. It could’ve been funnier, but it’s keeping in line with the 80%
@@Sniperboy5551 Women do it, too, mate.
Also don’t forget it is ok to cheat if your fiancé works to much and lives in the city.
LOL simon slowly realizing what DTF means is the best thing ive seen in any of these channels lmao
Quite possibly my favorite _Simon Whistler Awkward Moment_ of all times, I can’t lie.
@@anamkarajoy He figured it out though!
@@ThatWriterKevin He did, which admittedly is a feat of its own in his favor! (I will even own up to the fact that I think I enjoy the entire saga so much because I was similarly clueless and rather awkward the first time I heard DTF.😂)
And what the heck, while I’m at it, I might as well admit I flat out had to ask a dude why he always said I had DSL, and what it meant. Even then, I wasn’t quite sure if I was flattered or insulted.
Okay, FINE, Kevin! You’re just tearing these truths out of me. I still don’t ever seem to know if I’m flattered or insulted hearing I’ve got DSL. I may be youngish, but my soul is too old for such oddly coded courting and foreplay. 🤷🏻♀
@@anamkarajoy If it makes you feel better,I have no idea of DSL is flattering or not. It's telling a girl "you have the perfect physical qualities of a girl I would like to engage in nonreciprocal fooling around with"
@@ThatWriterKevin And yes, I’ve just now realized my uncensored banter was with the actual writer of the episode, but I’m going to be a big girl and leave it as is, because I’m very big on authenticity-even when it gets awkward, because I blurt out whatever I’m thinking, and _then_ give it a proper think, far too late to do any good.
Can’t lie that I’m rather tickled and impressed by your Urinetown: The Musical familiarity, as we put on the show fabulously while I was earning my theatre degree, but I stopped mentioning it at all, because no one believes it’s even a real production, much less concept-and it’s really an awkward subject to vie for truly existing after a minute or two, isn’t it?
4:45 - Chapter 1 - Big top pee wee
7:50 - Chapter 2 - Urinetown
10:35 - Chapter 3 - 40 days and 40 nights
15:05 - Chapter 4 - Love actually
19:30 - Chapter 5 - Romeo & Juliet
What is with all these Telegram "competitions" I assume they are scammers posing as the channel creators? I actually responded to the one on the last Blaze vid the responder says he was Simon and that I had been selected to win a PS5, I was genuinely excited until they wanted me to send $150 for postage. I then spent 4hrs going through the 2.5k comments alerting people, when I refreshed the page my alerts had disappeared and the scammers continued, I have now noticed it on other channels like Answers with Joe. If this is a scam Simon should warn people not to respond or Telegram
Thank you!
Going straight from a Today I Found Out video to a Brain Blaze video is like seeing a robot suddenly gain conciseness.
Fascinating and terrifying all in one, yes?
10/10 truth
Ever seen max headroom? That was the feeling but more crappy 80s sarcastic robo animation host.
Man, Simon has become the kind of TH-camr I watch just to listen to him. The subject doesnt even matter, just the humor.
It appears even FactBoy isn't even immune to the dreaded scambot.
He’s able to deliver a wide range of content with his characteristic wit and humor. I like his new sci-fi channel, the first few had the OG Business Blaze level of manic energy. Casual Criminalist also let’s Simon’s personality shine though quite a bit, but not as much as Brain/Business Blaze!
@@Sniperboy5551 Right? Its such a contrast to his old Top Tenz videos, where he kept it strictley professional.
@@sandeman1776 Those sons of bitches!
Surely ‘Grease’ belongs on this list
Yeah, there's plenty of material for a sequel
Last time I was this early it was still business blaze, with mad lad energy
I’ve never been this early; being bingeing. This may prove he is real 😮
You left out the entire Twilight series, but that could be a video all on it's own.
Edward: I've killed lots of people.
Bella: That doesn't matter.
Me: RUN AWAY!🤣
Nothing more romantic than having relations with a cold, dead vampire.
Speaking for the vampire community at large, we’re not fans of the sparkly pretty boy films. Even _Nosferatu_ from the 1920’s is a preferable rendition of our kind.
But it's romantic because I sneak into your room at night and watch you sleep!
It's basically Romeo and Juliet but with ghouls
@@OtakuUnitedStudio didn't they make a zombie version? He was a zombie and she was a normal human. 🤣
There's a 1956 movie called Bus stop starring Marilyn Monroe where a simple minded cowboy falls in love with Marilyn's character and keeps attempting to kidnap her and take her back to his house. It's a comedy but I remember watching it feeling so awkward. It's not funny at all. As a wise old man once said; The past was the worst
Forgot to mention, EVERY TIME you use that Loki meme, it truly makes my day, Sam. I appreciate you ❤
I do it just for you!❤
@@samuel_avila * Sing in Brian Adams Voice * Every Meme i do :))
The problem with Romeo and Juliet is a 16th century tragedy romance. Back then suffering or dying for or because of love was a prerequisite to calling something romantic. This has drifted over time and we all know what romances look like now. So yes, Romeo and Juliet is extremely romantic, in the origonal meaning of the word.
Also, if Romeo's and Juliet's families didn't have a stupid feud over nothing, the kids would have no reason to kill themselves and the pleasure of growing up and realising how stupid marying at the age was.
This was pounded in my head in high-school this and the moral being “Be true to yourself”
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I know... Still doesn't help that the dude found her as a rebound and could quickly go bye-bye... Then there is also the part where they died instead of eloped...
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Or maybe it’s inherently comical because they're dead and got married just to do the do. It’s intensely melodramatic in text.
Not a movie, but I like how Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book about how if someone is trying to get you to do something you don't want to do, you should cave in if they pester you enough.
100% giving off rapey vibes in that book lol. But it ALSO sounds like a ton of the "how I met your grandparent" stories. It is always "well, she said no, but I went and asked her out over and over for months, and she finally gave in. Now we are married!" And on her side it is "after he asked me for months, he wore me down, so I just gave up and went. Then we ended up married."
No REALLY didn't mean no then... aside from when it was a white woman and the man was a POC. Then even consent could be a no for everyone else, and could end in death. You know, the good old days.
The messed up nature of some “classic” kids’ books could be it’s own whole video lol.
How about The Rainbow Fish, which is ostensibly about not being conceited & acting like you’re better than everyone else, and also you should share; but is really “if you give people presents they’ll stop hating you!”
Or The Giving Tree, which is supposedly about generosity or something? But is really just a picture of incredibly terrible boundaries and how you should give away literally every part of yourself in the hopes that 80 years later, that person will come back and apologize/thank you, before using you as a literal stool 😂
Clearly you have never tried to get a child to eat the perfectly delicious dinner you just cooked.
@@bluelightningnz clearly you do not know how complex dr. Seuss books can get... he discusses the pointlessness of war in some cases, discrimination in many different forms, silencing minorities, conservation, ect.
He also has a dark series of books with dark art that isn't well known. But a lot of his books aren't as simple as they seem. ESPECIALLY when you combine all of them and look at them for an overarching message.
So I would encourage you to use a different book if you need an entire book to get your kids to try new foods. Only because consent isn't taught, and people are often told to ignore the concept. So to have a book like that read that young might not be ideal.
@@Fabala827 I've always seen The Giving Tree more as: a caregiver will always love their child, wherever the child is or the person they grow to become and across time. The tree giving literal parts of itself is just a metaphor easily illustrated in a children's book.
YES. I completely agree with Kevin on Romeo & Juliet. I freaking HATE that movie/play, except for Mercutio -- he's the only sane one, and ends up getting killed by all the stupidity. "A plague on both your houses!" indeed.
After reading the original play in high school and then being forced to watch the modern movie, I agree that the movie was totally cringe. I appreciate what they tried to do, but even with stars like Leo DiCaprio, it still fell flat and ended up just being… weird.
I wouldn’t say Mercurio is the only sane one, Benvolio is relatively sensible.
I liked the modern movie "Romeo + Juliet". The cinematography was breathtaking, all while keeping pace with the dialog. It was a really fresh take that actually worked.
The worst thing is, that woman wasn't even an ex. She was a crush he never spoke to.
He got dragged out of his emo den by his buddies who couldn't watch him be a sad loser about it any more.
Mercutio, in the play, IS mad… his soliloquy suggests that he cannot control his thoughts. Whilst I was surprised to enjoy the version , I did think that the automatic jump from “mad” character to stereotype of (drug pushing) drag queen was somewhat typical of Hollywood - Let’s NOT give a marginalised section of society positive representation, seemed to be the thinking here. Also, the end just made me think of that quote, “Man cannot very much bear reality”… they DIE in the play but the film has a stupid montage of their romance to make audiences forget the leads carked it.
16:35 there's actually a professional hockey player named Cal Clutterbuck lol
I feel the same way about Romeo and Juliet people as I do Harley Quinn amd Joker people. They seem to have a massive misunderstanding of what those relationships are about.
Avatar being used in a BB meme is the crossover I was not expecting
Paid toilets work in Japan but not in New York. In Japan, the residents take care of what they pay for. In New York, people were smoking cigarettes inside and doing all other kinds of things to make these toilets malfunction.
I don't know why but the chaotic energy editing really does it for me. It's like decoding the unknown or casual criminalist gone wild. It's everything that I didn't know I needed
Here's the thing about Romeo and Juliet: It's really weird but it was not really supposed to be romantic but rather it was supposed to be tragic. Like, there's basically a whole genre in early modern european literature of stupid young people making incredibly rash and foolish decisions and then killing themselves.
Wow, that's interesting, I didn't realize this. Puts the story (which I hate) in a whole new light. Also it's pretty dumb that people think it's romantic, because it's totally not.
Yeah I thought the whole moral of the story is that it's stupid these two families were fighting so much it drove these two teenagers to kill themselves rather than try to have an open relationship because of the family feud. That's why the play ends with the families getting chewed out.
So it pre-empted school shootings.
It was also pretty satirical.
I guess that Fact Boi has now added Kevin to his 'collection' (Sam and Danny) down in The Basement.
"Daddy chill" meme for Simon's tangent was the best!!!😂🤣😂🤣
That's the Simon I know and love, putting those wretched poor people in there place. 🤣
Yeah it was very distasteful and very entitled.
I love that fact boy forgot what channel he was doing at the end. Just classic
I went to school with one of the kid actors in Big Top Pee-Wee. He was a funny kid, good at magic tricks. I honestly could not tell you the plot of the movie, and hearing about the love triangle thing, I can totally see how that went right over my head as a child. I was just waiting to see my classmate and cheer for him.
“No, homeless person, I can’t give you a dime. I’m afraid you’ll spend it on washing yourself in a sink.”
Romeo and Juliet is a comedy Simon. It mocks melodramatic young-love dramas which were popular in that era.
Yes!!!!! Kevin on BB!! He's got you chained in the basement too,huh Kev? Im DEFINITELY here for it!!!!! Also, glad we agree about Romeo and Juliet. I LOATHE that particular play, except for Franco Zeffirelli movie adaptation. Olivia Hussey was just PERFECTION, and its a beautifully shot movie imo. But in reality, Romeo and Juliet would have broken up in 6 months, lol!! And if you want morality tales, just read the OG fairy tales, they are GRUESOME!! Cutting of body parts to fit into shoes, dancing to your death in Red Hot iron shoes, the little mermaid doesnt get the Prince, she dies, becomes seafoam and gains a soul while old Princy married another woman, being boiled alive in boiling oil, just horror movie stuff!. I want your take on this Kevin, pretty pretty please?
Simon your my hero!!!
I'm so proud of Simon contexting "DTF." That was a top 10 moment of this channel for me.
When peewee won over a bar full of angry bikers by flailing around to "tequila" i began to suspect it was slightly unrealistic.
Dude's pure nightmare fuel.
When I watch this show I feel very hip and with it because I'm less clueless than Simon. Thank You Simon!
Lol Kevin's opinion on Romeo and Juliet reminds me of English class. During one of the classes on Shakespear's works, one of my classmates made a stupid comment about Romeo and Juliet's relationship. The teacher asked class who thinks R&J marriage wasn't consummated followed by "You guys didn't read R&J." and assigned everybody who raised their hand an essay.
I'd love to see Simon do an entire video on Pee Wee Herman, just so that he has to watch the show and some of the movies.
Well he wouldn't. His writer would have to and he only reads the script
As long as it's not the movie dude was watching in that Theater...
So basically "Simon does Cinemasins"?
@@FreyasArts agreed. He doesn't do research, so he would read the script, Pw comes up in a script 4 weeks later and he'll try to remember who tf that was
I just want to see his face as he suffers through the shows entire intro.
My favorite Pee Wee Herman movie is the one where he went to get his bike back. It's a friggin classic!!!
Is that the bit where he dances to tequila?
@@lowthg I believe so. But the Large Marge scene ruined my dreams for like a year 🤣
Yea, see the first Peewee movie, was Peewee's Big Adventure, and was directed by Tim Burton, hence why it was brilliant. Sadly, Big Top Peewee was not, hence it was a bit shit.
The Alamo!
Lol peewee's big adventure isnt that the first one?
Simon saying peewee wasn't for kids...I giggled lmao cuz yea it sure was lmao 😂🤣
"For some reason I thought this was a kids show"
Oh my sweet summer child. Simon is too young to know Paul Reubens as a standup comedian. Long before the PeeWee Herman show, I saw him doing coke in a Cheech and Chong film. Dude is raunchy as fuck.
I know, I was trying to find where I read that Peewee was actually a character Reubens made up for his stand up and somehow tv execs packaged it as a kid show, but I can't find it anywhere...
Bob Saget, same story. Well, not the coke w/C&Ch but he was a nsfw comedian before Full House.
@@andiward7068 Saw him too. I'm an old.
@@cruel_brittania Just watch the movie. It's called Cheech and Chong: Nice Dreams. It also features a cameo by Timothy Leary.
"That's the key to the universe man..."
He's the guy in the asylum obsessed with hamburgers.
"You're the man from the Hamburger Train."
He's also doing coke in Next Movie.
Man the early 80s were wild.
Kevin, fantastic as usual. I think another one that would be interesting (but it could be just me) along these lines are people who get the EXACT OPPOSITE message from movies. Like people who join the military after watching Full Metal Jacket, despite it being clearly anti war/imperialism (and had to do a toned down version of the Vietnam war to get the message across).
Thanks! I do really like that idea. It's similar to when Republicans use "Born in the USA" or "We're Not Gonna Take It" as their campaign songs without understanding what they're actually about.
@@ThatWriterKevin Exactly! Also "American Idiot" lol. I could only think of Full Metal Jacket on the spot because I saw it for the first time recently (very strict parents, we weren't even allowed to watch teletubbies, and we only had 2 channels. So even 13 years out of the house, I'm still catching up lol). But I have seen a ton of movies that get the same treatment as "Born in the USA" when the message was the exact opposite, and that is one single line of thinking.
I watched Love Actually based on people's compliments of the movie. And aside from Emma Thompson's scene when she finds out Rickman is cheating - that scene is genuinely great - the rest is trite and everyone in the film acts superficially and selfishly, and everyone is acting out of lust and baseless infatuation.
I finished the movie thinking "who the hell thought this was a good movie??"
Oh mighty Fact Boy. On Monday I purched some merch. I can't wait for my certified legend shirt to arrive.
Peewee's playhouse WAS a kids show that spawned a few movies.
His whole schtick was a complete mindf*** and I lived for it lol
I fucking LOVED/LOVE that show and the movies. Paul Reubens is the shit 😁🖤. Mind you, he also killed it in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 😂🥰.
@@kikib8434 YES! I always felt like I was the only person who realised it was Paul Reubens, he is absolutely brilliant. Mystery Men, too, he's great in that.
@@cruel_brittania same here 😂! I mean it did take me most of the movie to clue in (I was 11, almost 12 when it came out) but the whole time it was bugging me that I couldn't place him. When I finally figured it out I was giddy af 😁. The best is the recurrence of his character in What We Do in the Shadows, and all the other actors playing their respective vampire characters from different movies. Fucking genius 😆.
And I COMPLETELY forgot about Mystery Men! I haven't seen that in forever.
@@kikib8434 Can you be my real life sister? I died over What We Do in the Shadows, and everyone else loved the Buffy tv show, and I was like, no, they take that too seriously, you need to see the Buffy movie, it's hilarious, so much better. Mystery Men was ace, I love Janeane Garofalo as well as Reubens, that movie cracks me up, but no one remembers it.
I love this channel🧡
I always enjoy those AM I RIGHT PETER references
Me too
We have paid toilets in the UK, some have contactless. I agree, they're usually clean, which is a massive bonus
Oh no ..... Danny 😪😪
On the other hand welcome to the blaze Kevin
Ps... love the fact at the end you couldn't remember what channel you where on in the whistlerverse 🤣🤣
Every romcom/chick flick ever made is questionable at best. It's always one person chasing the other, overstepping boundaries, stalking, harassment, manipulation etc and it's all celebrated!
We wonder why society has a warped concept of consent, boundaries and respect in general; well this is why. Not only do movies show this behaviour as acceptable, they down right promote it as the perfect romance.
Next you're going to tell me it's unrealistic to show up at my step-sister's slumber party to deliver a sausage pizza and have that go over the way I've seen in some movies.
I just want to quickly say that I was very happy to see an I Think You Should Leave meme pop up in this one. Please, Sam, include more! It makes me very happy.
yeah, my Mum and Dad used to work for the Adelaide S.A. Australia as toilet attendant which cost 0.05c and they did what you described and this was in the 1980's.
There's a page on TVTropes titled "Rape is funny", and it lists numerous occasions in TV and movies where sexual assault was played for laughs, including in "Revenge of The Nerds". It's a disturbingly long list.
Kudos to Kris Kristofferson (see what I did there?) for cashing that "Big Top Pee Wee" check...you legend
You have to pay for the toilets in Stoke on Trent and the smackheads still abuse them.
Romeo and Juliet, the play, was a cautionary tale of tragedy. It warned of the impulsive nature of teenagers, but it was also about a feud between families that may have been common in feudal times.
You cannot judge the story by today's standards, as mideval marriage was not about love, 18 wasn't a set in stone age that defined when sex is legal, and many other reasons.
Also it was a play that takes place over 5 days but is based on a novel that takes place over a much longer period of time.
SAM! Bravo on the Cosby predator vision that gave me a sensible chuckle.
Maybe, I'm just nitpicking here, but I always interpreted Romeo and Juliet as Shakespeare's commentary on the rashness of young lovers. Romeo makes a bunch of very rash decisions that get him and Juliet killed by the end. It's similar to Antony and Cleopatra which Marc Antony makes rash decisions because of Cleopatra's control on him and loses to Octavius. Poor decision-making due to judgment be clouded by lust is a common theme in Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was never intended to be a love story in the way we think about it
This one was really funny. Thanks for sharing
You're welcome!
I understand Simon's confusion, if you've seen one Hugh Grant film,you've basically seen them all.
Danny's body is currently rotting in some ancient Czech dungeon
Just finished with the Yara G case. Now onto this.
A whole lot of romantic comedies turn out to have the moral "stalking is how to get the girl".
you say that the betting pool would never happen online but it's the kind of stupid thing that would totally go viral for absolutely no reason.
Well, when you put it THAT way, of course these are questionable moral messages. The one that's actually problematic is the one for kids.
The Kevin and Danny blaze channel blazing ahead!
4:00 Laughs in sponsor block
I shudder to think what Simon would think if he were curious enough about either Pee Wee Herman or actor who played him, Paul Reubens. I do know that Laurence Fishburne likely wishes he'd never been a regular on that show.
Cowboy Curtis, for those not familiar.
As an American, I didn't know about paid toilets. Honestly, wtf is up with that? So if I don't have money on me and I get my period I just have to sit in my blood until I get home? That's bs.
I watched Big Top Peewee as a double feature with Critters 2. It was a weird evening for teenage me.
Peewees' first movie was weirder, and it was bullshit how they kicked him off TV for being seen at an adult novelty store/theater. No rape, no kiddie porn, no drugging people. Bullshit.
My new favourite iteration of Simon.
Idea for a new brain Blaze. Simon watches Pee-wee's Big Top and gives a review
“I pay for premium TH-cam because of course I’ve never heard of Adblock”
Big brain.
That was one of the best ad reads I've ever seen, tbh. Didn't know Crossout had any kind of campaign. Is it PvE?
Thank god someone agrees with me about how unromantic Romeo and Juliet is. In truth the actual moral of the story is about two warring houses and the damage it causes. The romance was just a way to bring in more than just men, and the rude nature of it talking about Juliet is a way to keep the men interested during those parts. it is why there was a dwarf/elf romance in the Hobbit movie, rather than staying true to the source material. it also explains the over sexualization of both men and women in movies, because it touches the basest instincts and keeps people interested who would normally not be. it is also why a lot of kid's shows and movies have jokes for the parents, because parents are far less likely to watch something that is just for kids, or let their kids watch something they just find annoying. IE: in Ed Edd and Eddie where there were Crumpled up tissues under Eddie's bed and magazines on the ground. something a kid would not catch onto but the parents would.
Fun fact Keira knightley was about 17 when love actually was made
Great Blaze, guys.
No, Factboy, No. You don't fuck with Peewee. He's a loner, factboy, a rebel. Also, loving the end credits.
At 6:58 - It's not Kevin who is insane. The movie is that ridiculous.
YES FINALLY PETER
Fucking LOOOOOLLLL
That old school BB callback was sooo worth it
Paid toilets exist in the US, just not very common. LA Fashion District has them.
OMG!! You'd been PERFECT, Simon, to have starred in the movie The Revenge of The Nerds. Absolutely,,,,,Legendly...Perfect.
“Whatever, r**e” - Simon Whistler
I'm so glad Kevin started writing BB scripts, his decoding the unknown episodes are fire
I have no idea what an "Edi" is but it's nice to see you hired some Scandinavian thunder to do whatever that job is.
I don't get it ei ther.
Edit(h)or.
Love Crossout! I usually build the most ridiculous thing possible to simply distract the enemy. 😄
Congratulations I found myself authentically facepalming for the first time in...forever. The DTF miss was just perfect.
The Sonic reaction cut was perfect!
Crossout can be so frustrating, but I do thoroughly enjoy it. They have taken so much of my money over the last few years as there just isn't anything better. I just wish it had a multiplayer open world.
Praise the Blaze Brothers!!!
🎉Congratulations Kevin! Love your presentation style, psyched that the boys of the blaze now number 4 🎉 {one of us, one of us!} 😘 Business, err i mean Brain Blaze, is, imho, the ichiban of Simon's cornucopia of TH-cam offerings & as your reward for earning a permanent spot, Danny gets company in the basement! 😂🎉
Kevin didn't actually watch Love Actually either. XD The friend was not asked to film the wedding. He filmed it for himself, and when the actual videographer's wedding video was messed up, they asked about his footage, because he had been filming photographing the wedding too.
I love the way you Jiggle Simon aka the Jiggler
I’ve been in many german toilets, which were 50 cents, and they are always extremely nice, clean and homey. I’ve been in american toilet, which was free, and it had doors with gaps that got stuck inside the cubicle and a sign saying „don’t drink from the toilet bowl”.
I performed in Urinetown in college. I always thought the story was a bit of a downer. I interpreted the ending as a commentary on mankind's inability to find a reasonable middle road, going from tyranny to anarchy in short order because our individual selfishness is just that great. We can only seem to work with one overpowering tyrant or a thousand equally-powerful tyrants, and both lead to misery.
Simon, some TV ads were way more clever, funnier and memorable than most of the TV shows. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Rape seed oil is Canola oil (Canada and oil, get it?) Apparently it was changed so the American market would be more open to Rap...er Canola oil. Pretty merchantile considering the Americans consider Canada almost "Commie."
Finally I've found someone other than me who noticed the ages in Romeo and Juliet, I remember reading this and highschool and being very concerned that people thought it was romantic in any way
It’s from the late 16th century, of course it’s “weird” by modern standards, but it’s still a good story. I never got hung up on the age thing, it was a different time back then.
These movies were all comedies, except for Romeo & Juliet which is a tragedy. They were never meant to convey a moral message. (Especially not a Pee-wee Herman movie.)
That being said, 40 Days and 40 Nights is completely horrible and I remember being actually _angry_ at the stupidity of the premise when it came out (oh no, you have to go a _whole forty days_ without sex, you poor little boy, because most people have _never_ had to go forty days without having sex.) Love Actually really is totally creepy and messed up.
And Romeo & Juliet really, really does get a seriously misplaced veneration for being romantic, when it's really a tragedy about how stupid teenagers are are, especially spoiled rich kids, and _especially_ especially when it comes to their kind of shallow "love" that would have only lasted a few more days before they got bored with each other, if they hadn't killed themselves out of pure stupidity. How anyone can find it romantic rather than infuriating is beyond me.
me and Kevin, same page.
(people who think Romeo and Juliet is a romance and not a tragedy about dreadfully stupid teenagers, istg, why)
Hi Simon does Kevin live in the basement, chained up with Danny?🤣
Except when he lets me out to make intro and outro videos for our game on Decoding the Unknown
Love Actually is def a Christmas movie in the States! One of my faves - but I skip over a few couples because it’s too heartbreaking.
Pee Wee was arrested for playing his Pee Wee in an adult theater....