as an aussie, this show is practically a right of passage as a youngster. it's honestly harder to find someone under the age of 30 that hasn't watched it 😆 glad it's getting the international recognition it deserves. Great video man hope it blows up 💪
Been watching since season 1 in the UK, the latest ep was the ghost train episode when i found the show, love Jarred and the team it made my early teen years
I legitemately cried after watching the final episode because i realized in that moment that one of the greatest things i have ever watched in animation was over
Choomah Island 2 is very important to me. Jarrad Wright really caught lightning in a bottle with that one. "Wake Up" is still one of my favourite pieces of music.
@@harryfromendschanged my life a bit when I was going through tough times and drug addiction. It literally woke me up to show me how much of a mess I was and helped me fix everything. I have alot to thank Jarrad for
Can't even describe the goosebumps and spiritual journey I went on when I first watched this show. Sassy and Lez's talk during the ego death trip on Chooma Island 2 will forever be solidified in my memory as the most profound thing I've heard in my adult life so far. "You wake up."
Oh for sure, im so happy i can explore my spiritual and religious side with this series, its made my whole experience welcoming and loving rather than scary and unexpected
@@harryfromendsI was actually going to say this myself. There's a level of enrichment I feel when watching big lez that no show or TH-cam video has ever given me. It's not just a show, it's a universe that questions its own foundations just as much as our own. Truly gives me shivers.
a friend of mine randomly showed me the clip of lez’s awakening. that was the first thing from the big lez universe that i ever saw lol. kinda wish it wasn’t, so that I could have experienced the show more organically, but I’m also not sure that I would have been 100% sold on the show if I had started at season 1
I still quote big lez on a nearly daily basis to this day. Greatest animated show of the 21st century, and right up there with the golden era of the simpsons imo.
“God bless jarrad wright” is a slogan in my friend group. In my town no one except my friend group of hippies knows about it. The jokes in the show have become our inside jokes, we have watch party’s for it at my house and my mom makes some incredible food and me and my friends get high as fuck and obliterate the food while watching sassy. This show has given me some great memories with my friends, and makes for a fun little ritual anytime someone else joins the group. Sit down, enjoy some food, watch sassy, and push the limits of weed. This show has helped me through so much and I am so thankful for it. God bless jarrad wright
I was introduced to this show by one of my greatest friends who passed away the same year. This show held me up when I was at my lowest and in chooma island 4 when quinton saw lez surfing with the boys I resonated with that so much. I saw my friend next to me laughing at clearence and crying over lez. Thank you jarred and thank you Harry for doing this show justice
That’s so touching mate, I’m sorry to hear about your friend and it must still feel awful but I’m glad the show could help a lot! Thank you for watching as well, means a lot!
My best friend introduced me and my friends to this show years ago when we’re kids, he passed away this year, I’m glad he got to see the ending❤️ me and some friends from the same group that he all introduced the show to just got a new flat when we went to view it the estate agent warned us of some graffiti next to the door, it was Mike Nolan with fuck cops across his chest, it was meant to be that we all got that flat
During my first 5meoDMT trip i played "Wake up" during the first puffs, the song guided me when it started kicking in, i was really scared of what will come because the effects really didnt feel familiar at all to other psychedelics. The tone of the song gave me reassurance when i couldnt convince it myself. This masterpiece guided me and made me surrender myself into the hands of the trip and the unexpected. Long story short, no other musical piece has resonated with me so much of what life really is as this one, i truely believe that the jarrads musical expression is one of the truest form of inner expression, cant thank him enough for that as it changed my life. I am forever grateful of Jarrad and what he brought to the physical realm♥️
Some of Jarred's other work is phenomenal too. The Mike Nolan Show is a great riff on but also homage to Australian tradesman (tradie) culture, and the second season goes one step further with jokes about the quirks of life on NSW's North Coast (tinnies, river culture, bragging about fish and the disagreement over time zones). It's such a quintessentially Australian piece of media and I love seeing it get attention not just here but all over the world.
This show made my late teens and early twenties so special, nothing beat sitting in a car park with all your friends packed into a shitty hatchback after blazing up and watching the latest big lez together!
I shed a tear watching the show for the first time, esp CI2. The greatest animated series ever created, all on MS Paint, all voiced by one man, all instrumentals and all sound effects mastered by a single individual. Jarrad, you are the sickest of CANTS. 😢❤
Just to re-iterate comments that have already made, I’m sure that jarryd would be blown away that people from other countries are now doing analysis on a show he started as a meme with his mates, this was fantastic mate, keep it up!
Crazy how a kid on his laptop recording voices in his car made a better comedy and drama series than most of Hollywood with million dollar budgets. No wonder the writers aren't getting paid much, the future is on the internet.
I'm a 35 year old Canadian and I loved The Big Lez Show. Jarrad Wright is an absolute legend. I cried at the end of the series too. Not ashamed to admit that. What a ride it's been. I'm subscribing so I can see the future videos on the Mike Nolan and Sassy series'.
As someone who grew up with this show, the setting of the show and creator and also my entire life is the northern reaches of the state of nsw. This part of australia was heavily settled by hippies escaping conscription during the Vietnam war and that has shaped the unique character of the place. Alongside other classics like the sugar cane fields and regular trips to the Gold Coast the show captures the funny state in which bogan aussie culture mixes with psychedelia and hippie culture which is the overarching feeling of life in northern nsw. It’s overall such a faithful and real representation of northern nsw culture and life
A lot of things now adays don’t end well, either underwhelming, rushed or just plain boring, but not big lez show, this show is and always will be a masterpiece, from start to end
An amazing summary of the show and its meanings. Harry, you deserve more exposure for sure, the quality of this video was outstanding. Whaddiyatalkinabeet
Whadiyatalkinabeet mate *sniffs* genuinely thank you so much, when I look at the video I still think there’s so much to improve but all part of the process - I’ll be making a video in the next week or so about the Sassy Show 💫
as an aussie it's great hearing that the big lez show is equally loved overseas, i originally thought way back when that a lot of the stuff wouldn't land nearly as well with a foreign audience without knowing all the culture its referencing and slang it's using but goes to show quality removes all barriers to entry
Whole heartedly agree, met Jarrad wright when I was 15 at the Choomah island 3 premier when he went around Australia. Amazing guy amazing show and just having a good laugh. Great introspection and deep thoughts
Yes it is, and when you have your own big lez choomah island moment where you snap back to reality and go "Hmmmm fuck yeah! I get it now" that the show will truly resonate with the whole show. Nice to see it getting its flower's. Well done jared and lads 😊
This is peak Aussie humour. Mike Nolan is the most True Blue Australian fella I have ever seen, old mate is legit the embodiment of all Aussie tradies. And holy shit is choomah island two one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
I remember when someone first quoted wadayatalkinabeet to me in 2012. Finally got round to watching it in 2013 and damn was it amazing. Choomah Island 2 is still one of my favourite pieces of art. I don't think The Big Lez Show's impact on British stoner culture can be understated.
I found this show after making a batch of edibles about two years ago, actually i first watched the first episode of sassy the sasquatch and it was so good that i went back to find the first episode of TBLS, that day my friend came over to try the edibles and we ended up spending the entire day/night laughing our asses off high as a kite and watched the entire show. Been rewatching ever since and showing everyone I know how amazing this show is. Thank you Jarrad for such an amazing experience, me and my buddy lost our minds when Terrence McKenna came up 😂
This is such a brilliant video makes me wanna go trough all of jarreds work againnnn i just wish he released physical copies of the soundtracks cause they are all so damn goood
I genuinely think Lez’s Awakening in CI2 might be one of the most profound pieces of fiction I’ve ever consumed. Top video, really cool insight I didn’t know about some of the stuff there, thank you!
Man, I can’t tell you how much I wish I would’ve found this show sooner, especially CI2. After watching this video and Jarrad’s own documentary on the making of the show, it put an experience I had with acid a few years ago into perspective. I wouldn’t say I had a “Kundalini Awakening” or anything super crazy like that, but I did have a major existential crisis as the result of a trip when I was 20 and it put me in a pretty rough place mentally for a while, I’d say i was in a pretty bad depressive state for around a year. I had some other stuff going on at the time, my childhood dog passed away, my grandma was diagnosed with a form of cancer, and COVID had everything shut down, I was severely overweight and borderline obese, I also really felt that most of my friends didn’t really care all that much for me, and just felt like in general nothing in life was really working out for me. I was angry at the world and everyone in it, when my dog died it felt like the last link to a time when I was truly happy was gone. My dog passing away was really the catalyst for the whole experience I had with acid, I never really sorted out my emotions on it, as well as everything else I was feeling down about. Me and a couple friends dropped acid one night a couple weeks after my dog had passed. I was just wanting to do it because I thought it’d help me get my mind off it for a night, and it was without a doubt the strongest acid I’ve ever taken, and I have taken my fair share, I used to view acid kinda like weed, it was just something to make brain go brrrr and nothing more. This particular trip though, I felt like something awakened in me on a deeper level. I started thinking about things and viewing life in a whole different way, I started looking inwards instead of out and I didn’t like what I saw. I started asking myself what I wanted out of my life and that was really the first time I had those conversations with myself and I didn’t know how to handle it. My whole life I had always done what my parents wanted me to do (aside from taking acid LOL) and I felt like I ultimately didn’t have much say in how I wanted my life to go. I didn’t have a girlfriend that I could open up to and I was not good at all about talking about deeper life topics with my friends and just opening up in general, so I just kinda slogged through it, the whole time questioning what life is as well as wondering how, and if, I could make myself happy again and about a year after the trip, I ultimately came to the same conclusions that Sassy tells Lez in CI2, life is what I make of it. One day I joined a gym and slowly lost weight, I also started noticing the beauty in small moments in my life, and realized everything I had taken for granted before. I’d say getting started in the gym is what grounded me back to earth and gave me a purpose again and it’s just snowballed since then. I never really pieced together my experience with that one acid trip until honestly a few weeks ago when I found the Big Lez Show and watched Choomah Island 2. I started watching it because of all I heard about CI2 and recently I’ve found myself in another rough spot mentally, an ugly breakup that left me confused, a close family member passing away very unexpectedly, and being done with college and not knowing what lies for me after and being scared about that, that truly now more than ever, my life and what I want out of it is up to me. Everything Sassy said to Lez is exactly what I needed to hear now and is what I wish I would’ve heard all those years ago during my first run in with these types of thoughts, it’s essentially Jarrad talking himself through his own experience and it was really comforting knowing that someone had a somewhat similar experience and that I wasn’t just crazy. After watching CI2 I see now that the trip years ago helped me see life in a whole new context and I didn’t fully understand that until just recently, it helped me appreciate life on a whole new level and, though it did not seem like it at all at first, helped me deal with my mental issues better than any therapist has. Turns out I didn’t need them all along, it was up to me the whole time. I realized how you view life and it’s ups and downs is ultimately up to you, a therapist can definitely help some, but at the end of the day it is on you to make you happy, no one else. it’s time to “wake up” and get back in the gym and truly dive into the things I love doing. I don’t plan on really doing psychedelics again, I had my fun with them and got what I needed to out of my experiences, I had my “last dance” with acid almost a year and half ago now and i’m content with it. Thank you paper squares and MS Paint 🫡
I remember my friend showing me this in middle school, 7th and 8th year, and since then I've probably watched it front to back 30 times with all assortments of people who later would become friends because of this show as an introduction.
I am a relatively new fan of this beautiful masterpiece of art, during the scene with Sassy and Lez, with Lez's awakening, I couldn't help but think of my feelings towards The Outer Wilds, after full completion and learning. There is something amazing about simply being, over doing.
This show helped me realize what living is all about. It gave new perspective that I never would have thought about. Thanks jarred for giving us perspective.
Aaaah, mate... Thank you so much for your video. Jarrad himself seems to be too humble to discuss the process in such spectacular detail. You have immortalised the author, and thus you have immortalised Sassy. And I am happy about that ... nah yeah .... hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Thank you so much mate, and I agree that Jarrad is very humble and probably wouldn’t want to to brag about his work, however I’d absolutely love to get more insight from him at some point!
It amazes me that I only found TBLS just a month ago. I grew up loving flash videos like the decline of video gaming, there's something about halo, the matrix has you and playing alien hominid. This brings back that old love of animation. And for that I thank Jarret.
So dope, watched halfway through up until you started talking about season 4 and I went back and fully watch it & the finale and wowza, am I ever glad I came across this. Twas a delight to get to truly indulge deeply within it all. Thx man
I only recently discovered it through word of mouth and eventually doscovering it on TikTok. Glad i found it bc I absolutely adore the series. Me and my buddies talk about the series all the time when we're stoned
I've been quoting this show since the scooby doo ride episode popped up on Facebook and watched every video with jarrad. Love this show and he's a legend
i literally never heard of this but this video has not only made me need to watch it but wanna start actually creating the story i’ve been wanting to for a while
Father’s Day is easily my favourite episode. Must say though I always felt bad for Jarrad when the fans put him under such immense pressure to continue on even when he said just be patient - not that anyone really knew how bad he was though. You watch interviews about that point in his life and it was pretty bad. But in a way thats what made his show so good, it was so relatable for young men. The highs and lows of growing up were shared across countries not just us Aussies
It’s hard to state how much the audio of TBLS touches me with a strange sense of Australian pride and the feeling has never been replicated. I fkn love that shit
Absolutely amazing video, TBLS is such an incredible series and has provided countless hours of laughs and comfort for so many , literally begging you to do a video on the mike nolan show and on sassy next!!
I've been a fan of this show for a while alot of my friends thought I was weird for watching it but my friend who I've told about this show like very often sent me this video and I didn't know anything about how the show was made I'm very happy you made this video !!!
being aussie and knowing people that talk this like in real life i hooked onto the show when i watched it probably around 2 years back. i recently remembered it again so ive been rewatching and this hit my recommended. overall great video on your end, i think you could of gone more indepth when talking about the drug trip in coomah island 2 because by the looks of it you had some strong feelings about it. overall this is really good quality of video
Yeah that’s true I definitely had more to say, could’ve gone into more detail and something to take into consideration for next time, appreciate the feedback my man!
Great breakdown, I just finished the Big Les Saga and the Nolan side series, now on Sassy. I discovered the show from clips on Tik tok, to the point I only wanted to use tik tok for the clips of Big Les universe
Hands down the most influential piece of animation in my life! Fantastic annotation of the series Harry, thank you!! I got a TBLS tatt too. Looking forward to seeing what jarrad hits us with next. ✌️🤙
23:28 I’m not sure how many people know this or not, but when Lez is shot in CI 3 it’s in the shape of the Southern Cross. Just some nice Aussie trivia 👍
Its heartwarming to see this Aussie cultural that is so close to home reach overseas, my Fiance is Texan and when I introduced her to the lovely comedy of Jarred Wright, she loved it. I am keen to see more episodes of the new Donny and Clarence show, bloody banger.
When I first joined the Army I was terrified for my future and what all I’ve done but a core memory of mine is watching this with my brother and just for some reason, I felt good and excited for the future. No clue why but this show has such an important spot in my heart
It would be cool if Jared remakes what the deleted episode was meant to be, and then creates an alternate story line from that episode, and to make sense to the storyline, it’s one of the alternate dimentions that Sassy enters. And then we see a completely alternate story play off from there or something.
Used to watch this as a youngster, so did my missus, now we both binge watch them every so often and watch out for every new release. I remember this hitting the UK like a storm
You got my Sub. This is the first person i have seen doing a video on the Big Lez Show! Its a cult show and i'm not surpised that its so important to so many. Its the best show on TH-cam without doubt.
You fucking druggo. Just smoked a fat bowl after walking my dog on top of a mountain in the rain. This video popped up. Fuck yeah. Jarrad, we love you brother. You are a true scholar. And to the guy who made this vid. Thanks man. Learnt new shit. I found TBGLS during covid! Changed my life.
@@harryfromends same. You planning on doing a full BLU summary once it’s done? Whatever he cooks up at least we know it’ll be awesome. The bias is skits on my part though
My personal favourite in the whole Big Lez Show universe was Choomah Island 2's wakeup sequence. Someone did a super cut called "MUSHROOMS PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE THE BIG LEZ SHOW" and it cuts the overt references to psychedelia from Choomah Island 2 into one coherent piece. Always worth a watch if you haven't got the time to watch the full episode of Choomah Island, and I think it emphasises the psychedelic experience of the Wake Up scene in a very fitting and enjoyable way. Mike Nolan's long weekend was great, but the Sassy show was brilliant and to me represents such growth by Jarrad, containing an incredible story line, mixed with compelling animation. Jarrad, if you read this mate, you created something so special to so many people, and did the psychedelic experience so much justice, influencing people to step beyond their fears and try the psychedelic experience for themselves. Without you, I don't think as many people would have tried tripping and the culture would have been far poorer for it. The Wake Up scene remains one of my favourite pieces of media of all time and came at a time in my life where I had begun my own foray into psychedelia, suffering from psychosis a few times along the way, but giving me hope that things would balance out in the end. All in all, the TBLS is a modern animation masterpiece, standing on it's own, as one of the first generation of viral media content, coming from an understated and humble creator and hitting that lightning in a bottle in just the right way. Kudos to Jarrad, and much love to anyone who enjoyed The Big Lez Show with their friends.
The “Wake Up” scene really changed so many lives, either through perspective or experimentation, and gave a lot of people a new look at what life is about, whilst also mixing in jokes at the same time - a rare talent that not many humans have 💫
I have a real bitter-sweet memory of this show. My girlfriend of the time, now my wife, was in town with me when my best bud called me up asking to hang out. My gf was happy to hang out with the two of us as wed hung out before and we were remarkably good about not third wheeling our friends. So we went to his house, went out to a few places, then went back and he said he had a show to show us. It was The Big Lez show. Of course this was after it went international. First impressions, it was crude and irreverent and just plain old goofy, but it was entertaining, had some decent jokes and gags, and really just fit the internet humor we all knew and loved, so we watched a decent amount of it. We talked some, stopped to make a fire outside and hang out there for a while until finally it was very late at night. I remember wanting to watch more of it with him at some point. Itd been a while since wed hung out and had kinda gone our separate ways as i hung out with certain groups of people and he hung out with others, but we were still ourselves and best friends. Well, he took a dive into these other friend groups and ended up getting into others less and less like me, my friend groups, and who he used to be. Id still hang out with him time to time, and often times when it was just us it was like nothing had changed. But more often his friends crashed at his place and we all hung out, and subsequently more often it was like i wasnt hanging out with the same person. Hell, id go to head home finally and, as we always had, hed walk to my car with me to talk and hang out just that little extra time. Even in that minute hed be his old self again, even apologizing for his new friends and whatnot. I still smiled and he was still my best friend, and i still wanted to get some more time to hang out with him. Well, after i proposed to my girlfriend and we were planning our wedding, i immediately knew who would be my best man. So i called him up, asked if he was ok with that and asked him to mark off the date. He was totally on board, even said that instead of the wedding gift list hed just get me a battleaxe. We played a game together a couple times, but each time he grew more distant, long pauses and just kind of being passively standoffish. I just hoped he was doing alright and let him know that if he needed any help, he could ask me. Well, he texted me just a month before the wedding to say he wouldnt be able to make it as he really had to study to get good grades or else hed fail his classes and no longer be able to attend the college he was going to. I was a little upset but you know what, id helped him with some of his classes before, sure, study and try your hardest and send me your grades as a wedding gift, you know? I wanted him to look to his future and get the one he wanted, and i sincerely hoped he could. Well, not but a few days later he called me the night before his exam he was so worried about and i could hear he was drunk and at a party. I honestly dont remember what he said or what he told me, but it had nothing to do with school, the wedding, or anything like that. I listened, i talked a bit with a tense smile on my face, entertained him, and then he said he had to go and he hoped i had a good day. I wish i could say i cried. I wish i could say id flipped the table. I wish i could say id done anything, but at that point i just looked at his name in my contacts list, at our last few texts, and i just sighed and sat there. My best friend, my best man to be at my wedding, the one person i could say without a shadow of a doubt just a year ago was my brother from another mother, had given up on being there for me so he could go party and hang out with his party friends. My soon to be wife was absolutely livid, but i could only shrug and shake my head. That day sort of broke me, because id been there for him and cared deeply for him, practically loved him as family, as brotherly love almost as high as the love i have for my wife. He hasnt tried to contact me since, and i havent tried to contact him. The wedding went on, as i switch my best man decision to someone else in our wedding party. I was there, and i was extremely happy. But the leadup was torture without him to take off the edge of a stressful situation. There was still an empty space in our lineup and in the chairs. And at the reception there was missing a part of my smile. It all had a bitter taste to it, however slight, because i genuinely had never been able to picture my wedding without him there to back me up. Its been years now. I still have his number in my contacts. I still look at it sometimes. I still see him online, and i know he still sees me too. Neither of us can seem to get rid of the other, but neither can say the first word. He did eventually graduate, and im happy for him. He got the degree he wanted and seems to be doing alright for himself. Whether he still hangs out with his friends from then, whether he still talks to other friends he had before them, if he has a significant other, i have no clue. But i look at The Big Lez show as a remnant of the time before all this. A time when we were still close friends, when we laughed and joked and talked with each other about things we never told anybody else. I still miss him, and i hope he does well in life. I dont know if or when ill be able to talk to him again, but if that day comes, maybe we will continue the story and watch more of the show. Play those games we meant to play. Go back to just messing around and being brothers again. Maybe.
Bro sent me a video essay back Ahah! Seriously though that’s an incredibly touching story and I’m sorry to hear that your relationship with him deteriorated over time, perhaps one day you’ll rekindle but of course if he doesn’t see you as important enough to try for then I completely get your position!
Brilliant video, amazing way to summarise what this series was and is to many people! I remember watching these episodes as they released back in my late teens as a stoner in the UK and all of my friends to this day still occasionally use random quotes from it! Thank you Jarrad for this masterpiece and well done to you Harry for such a wonderful tribute!
I started high school in 2012, and fuck I wish I knew about this show back then, I didn't know about it until 2018 when a coworker of mine got me into it.
Okay tbh, I'm about halfway through this video and was surprised when I noticed there was only 158 views!! This video is amazing so far and I hope it blows up in the coming days cos it really should.
I was lucky enough to stumble across it when season 2 ep 2 came out so I’ve been along for the ride and I would have never thought that when I went to Creamfields almost a decade later and I could say a quote and EVERYONE around me looked at me and did their own impressions of the characters 😂 I think my life peaked right there
When I met Americans on video games they would always ask if I knew the big lez show 😂 I mean obviously right and it would always make me laugh that this little series on TH-cam has been seen by so many I always thought it would stay in Australia just because of the humour I never really saw other countries other then Australia finding it funny but now I see that it’s more then just a joke it’s an awakening pretty much the way sassy is such a high being as you will learn in the sassy the Sasquatch episodes and the way sassy always says down to earth things such as “what’s the first thing you do before you start your day? You wake up” and that quote is awesome I have rewatched this series multiple times I do wish I can go back in time and watch it for the first time again
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as an aussie, this show is practically a right of passage as a youngster. it's honestly harder to find someone under the age of 30 that hasn't watched it 😆 glad it's getting the international recognition it deserves. Great video man hope it blows up 💪
Thank you my man ❤️ The Big Lez Show is absolutely loved in the UK!
It’s massive in the Uk among stoners as well
I've just fiscovrred it's as big a deal to me as pikerthcu on acid yo100
Been watching since season 1 in the UK, the latest ep was the ghost train episode when i found the show, love Jarred and the team it made my early teen years
I’ve single handily discovered and brought this beauty of a series to many stoners in New York. Viva la Lez
I legitemately cried after watching the final episode because i realized in that moment that one of the greatest things i have ever watched in animation was over
It’s over, but there’s still lots more to come from the Big Lez Universe 💫
That was me at the last episode of top boy 🤣
Same mate it was so bitter sweet
Then the sassy show did it all over again
Get ready for the video game on steam!@@harryfromends
Choomah Island 2 is very important to me. Jarrad Wright really caught lightning in a bottle with that one. "Wake Up" is still one of my favourite pieces of music.
I used to listen to “Wake Up” when I was writing and escaping reality at a local library, helped immensely with the creation process!
Still top 10 songs of all time for me
@@harryfromendschanged my life a bit when I was going through tough times and drug addiction. It literally woke me up to show me how much of a mess I was and helped me fix everything. I have alot to thank Jarrad for
go listen to digga g d or what ever it is ya uk dooog@@harryfromends
You're not the only one. The soundtrack for that episode alone rivals any hollywood movie.
Whatyatalkinabeet
First time seeing i was like: why he say "what you are talk to me"
I'm Scottish and my local dialect is whit ye talking aboot.
whityetalkingaboot 🤣
You druggo
It's waddyatalkinabeet ya druggo
no it's not, its spelt wadiyatalkinabeet @@HighVibesAU
Can't even describe the goosebumps and spiritual journey I went on when I first watched this show. Sassy and Lez's talk during the ego death trip on Chooma Island 2 will forever be solidified in my memory as the most profound thing I've heard in my adult life so far. "You wake up."
I get those exact same goosebumps, there’s something so spiritually rich about Lez’s awakening
Oh for sure, im so happy i can explore my spiritual and religious side with this series, its made my whole experience welcoming and loving rather than scary and unexpected
@@harryfromendsI was actually going to say this myself. There's a level of enrichment I feel when watching big lez that no show or TH-cam video has ever given me. It's not just a show, it's a universe that questions its own foundations just as much as our own. Truly gives me shivers.
a friend of mine randomly showed me the clip of lez’s awakening. that was the first thing from the big lez universe that i ever saw lol. kinda wish it wasn’t, so that I could have experienced the show more organically, but I’m also not sure that I would have been 100% sold on the show if I had started at season 1
I still quote big lez on a nearly daily basis to this day. Greatest animated show of the 21st century, and right up there with the golden era of the simpsons imo.
Absolutely agreed as someone who also frequently watches the golden age of the Simpsons
HMMMMMMMMMM fuck yeah!
“God bless jarrad wright” is a slogan in my friend group. In my town no one except my friend group of hippies knows about it. The jokes in the show have become our inside jokes, we have watch party’s for it at my house and my mom makes some incredible food and me and my friends get high as fuck and obliterate the food while watching sassy.
This show has given me some great memories with my friends, and makes for a fun little ritual anytime someone else joins the group. Sit down, enjoy some food, watch sassy, and push the limits of weed.
This show has helped me through so much and I am so thankful for it.
God bless jarrad wright
Great slogan ahah ❤️ and I’m
Glad that the show has helped you in your life mate
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Man this show was my youth. So glad people can come around and see this for the piece it is. God save Big Lez.
Truly an incredible show & hopefully this vid helps more people to see it!
I was introduced to this show by one of my greatest friends who passed away the same year. This show held me up when I was at my lowest and in chooma island 4 when quinton saw lez surfing with the boys I resonated with that so much. I saw my friend next to me laughing at clearence and crying over lez. Thank you jarred and thank you Harry for doing this show justice
That’s so touching mate, I’m sorry to hear about your friend and it must still feel awful but I’m glad the show could help a lot! Thank you for watching as well, means a lot!
My best friend introduced me and my friends to this show years ago when we’re kids, he passed away this year, I’m glad he got to see the ending❤️
me and some friends from the same group that he all introduced the show to just got a new flat when we went to view it the estate agent warned us of some graffiti next to the door, it was Mike Nolan with fuck cops across his chest, it was meant to be that we all got that flat
I watched this show in its entirety on my first shroom trip and it was the best decision I’ve ever made
Sounds skitz mate ahaha
Blue MEAN-iieeesss!!!
Ya facken druggo
Bro same 😂
I watched it on all on acid, along with trailer park boys. fuckin skitz times those were. I’d give anything to go back
During my first 5meoDMT trip i played "Wake up" during the first puffs, the song guided me when it started kicking in, i was really scared of what will come because the effects really didnt feel familiar at all to other psychedelics. The tone of the song gave me reassurance when i couldnt convince it myself. This masterpiece guided me and made me surrender myself into the hands of the trip and the unexpected. Long story short, no other musical piece has resonated with me so much of what life really is as this one, i truely believe that the jarrads musical expression is one of the truest form of inner expression, cant thank him enough for that as it changed my life.
I am forever grateful of Jarrad and what he brought to the physical realm♥️
Incredible mate I’m glad this song helped in the way it did, it really does have a special spiritually awakening feeling
Some of Jarred's other work is phenomenal too. The Mike Nolan Show is a great riff on but also homage to Australian tradesman (tradie) culture, and the second season goes one step further with jokes about the quirks of life on NSW's North Coast (tinnies, river culture, bragging about fish and the disagreement over time zones). It's such a quintessentially Australian piece of media and I love seeing it get attention not just here but all over the world.
This show made my late teens and early twenties so special, nothing beat sitting in a car park with all your friends packed into a shitty hatchback after blazing up and watching the latest big lez together!
I shed a tear watching the show for the first time, esp CI2. The greatest animated series ever created, all on MS Paint, all voiced by one man, all instrumentals and all sound effects mastered by a single individual.
Jarrad, you are the sickest of CANTS. 😢❤
Absolutely agreed, it takes a special type of talent to choreograph All of this
He had some help from his friends with voices but I agree with the overall sentiment
Greatest animated series, possibly the greatest series, of all time
I live in New York and recently discovered Jared's work, I have been telling friends about this hilarious, deeply existential show!
Incredibly existential in the best way!
Just to re-iterate comments that have already made, I’m sure that jarryd would be blown away that people from other countries are now doing analysis on a show he started as a meme with his mates, this was fantastic mate, keep it up!
Well put my man, I hope he sees the vid!
well put ?
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Whadayatalkinabeut
Crazy how a kid on his laptop recording voices in his car made a better comedy and drama series than most of Hollywood with million dollar budgets. No wonder the writers aren't getting paid much, the future is on the internet.
its just one of those shows that after watching u can come back time to time and enjoy it just as much as the first time.
What a masterpiece man.
Genuinely such a brilliant show that we can watch over and over again, what a gift from Jarrad 💫
I'm a 35 year old Canadian and I loved The Big Lez Show. Jarrad Wright is an absolute legend. I cried at the end of the series too. Not ashamed to admit that. What a ride it's been. I'm subscribing so I can see the future videos on the Mike Nolan and Sassy series'.
I think a lot of people cried at the end of Choomah island 3 absolutely no shame my man, goodbyes are always emotional 💫
A true masterpiece, and when you watch it whilst also dabbling in psychonautics, it hits hard. I recreated my own eyed hat cause I loved it soo much.
I can imagine that the philosophical backdrop of TBLS feels even more impactful when you’re on psychedelics
It’s my comfort show. Jarrad is a genius and I’m so thankful I stumbled across him and his work.
Jarrad is absolutely a genius, and I’m very thankful that he spent all the time he did making these shows for us to enjoy!
Think for yourself is genuinely my favorite beetles song, even before I watched the big Lexi show, it’s so good
Man I'm so glad I watched TBLS, What a great lore video. Thanks to all of those who keep this series alive
Thank you sir! I’m gonna post a vid on the Sassy the Sasquatch show soon 💫
As someone who grew up with this show, the setting of the show and creator and also my entire life is the northern reaches of the state of nsw. This part of australia was heavily settled by hippies escaping conscription during the Vietnam war and that has shaped the unique character of the place. Alongside other classics like the sugar cane fields and regular trips to the Gold Coast the show captures the funny state in which bogan aussie culture mixes with psychedelia and hippie culture which is the overarching feeling of life in northern nsw. It’s overall such a faithful and real representation of northern nsw culture and life
A lot of things now adays don’t end well, either underwhelming, rushed or just plain boring, but not big lez show, this show is and always will be a masterpiece, from start to end
Such a brilliant series and am incredible ending, and even the spin-offs are top tier 💫
An amazing summary of the show and its meanings. Harry, you deserve more exposure for sure, the quality of this video was outstanding. Whaddiyatalkinabeet
Whadiyatalkinabeet mate *sniffs* genuinely thank you so much, when I look at the video I still think there’s so much to improve but all part of the process - I’ll be making a video in the next week or so about the Sassy Show 💫
This genuinely is one of the best videos on TH-cam great work man
Thank you so much I’m genuinely so thrilled that people have enjoyed the vid! 💫
I have introduced about 6 or so people to the big lez show and I feel like a Big Lez show missionary
Doing God’s work there 💫
as an aussie it's great hearing that the big lez show is equally loved overseas, i originally thought way back when that a lot of the stuff wouldn't land nearly as well with a foreign audience without knowing all the culture its referencing and slang it's using but goes to show quality removes all barriers to entry
It helps if you go out of your way to learn some of the weird lingo
Whole heartedly agree, met Jarrad wright when I was 15 at the Choomah island 3 premier when he went around Australia.
Amazing guy amazing show and just having a good laugh. Great introspection and deep thoughts
Yes it is, and when you have your own big lez choomah island moment where you snap back to reality and go "Hmmmm fuck yeah! I get it now" that the show will truly resonate with the whole show. Nice to see it getting its flower's. Well done jared and lads 😊
This is peak Aussie humour. Mike Nolan is the most True Blue Australian fella I have ever seen, old mate is legit the embodiment of all Aussie tradies. And holy shit is choomah island two one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
I remember when someone first quoted wadayatalkinabeet to me in 2012. Finally got round to watching it in 2013 and damn was it amazing. Choomah Island 2 is still one of my favourite pieces of art. I don't think The Big Lez Show's impact on British stoner culture can be understated.
British stoner culture is massively impacted by the Big Lez Show, all of my friends love it
I found this show after making a batch of edibles about two years ago, actually i first watched the first episode of sassy the sasquatch and it was so good that i went back to find the first episode of TBLS, that day my friend came over to try the edibles and we ended up spending the entire day/night laughing our asses off high as a kite and watched the entire show. Been rewatching ever since and showing everyone I know how amazing this show is.
Thank you Jarrad for such an amazing experience, me and my buddy lost our minds when Terrence McKenna came up 😂
This is such a brilliant video makes me wanna go trough all of jarreds work againnnn i just wish he released physical copies of the soundtracks cause they are all so damn goood
Thank you so much and I would buy every vinyl if they did that!
I genuinely think Lez’s Awakening in CI2 might be one of the most profound pieces of fiction I’ve ever consumed.
Top video, really cool insight I didn’t know about some of the stuff there, thank you!
I love the humour on this show. The characters are just class
Honestly such an elite sense of humour
Man, I can’t tell you how much I wish I would’ve found this show sooner, especially CI2. After watching this video and Jarrad’s own documentary on the making of the show, it put an experience I had with acid a few years ago into perspective. I wouldn’t say I had a “Kundalini Awakening” or anything super crazy like that, but I did have a major existential crisis as the result of a trip when I was 20 and it put me in a pretty rough place mentally for a while, I’d say i was in a pretty bad depressive state for around a year. I had some other stuff going on at the time, my childhood dog passed away, my grandma was diagnosed with a form of cancer, and COVID had everything shut down, I was severely overweight and borderline obese, I also really felt that most of my friends didn’t really care all that much for me, and just felt like in general nothing in life was really working out for me. I was angry at the world and everyone in it, when my dog died it felt like the last link to a time when I was truly happy was gone. My dog passing away was really the catalyst for the whole experience I had with acid, I never really sorted out my emotions on it, as well as everything else I was feeling down about. Me and a couple friends dropped acid one night a couple weeks after my dog had passed. I was just wanting to do it because I thought it’d help me get my mind off it for a night, and it was without a doubt the strongest acid I’ve ever taken, and I have taken my fair share, I used to view acid kinda like weed, it was just something to make brain go brrrr and nothing more. This particular trip though, I felt like something awakened in me on a deeper level. I started thinking about things and viewing life in a whole different way, I started looking inwards instead of out and I didn’t like what I saw. I started asking myself what I wanted out of my life and that was really the first time I had those conversations with myself and I didn’t know how to handle it. My whole life I had always done what my parents wanted me to do (aside from taking acid LOL) and I felt like I ultimately didn’t have much say in how I wanted my life to go. I didn’t have a girlfriend that I could open up to and I was not good at all about talking about deeper life topics with my friends and just opening up in general, so I just kinda slogged through it, the whole time questioning what life is as well as wondering how, and if, I could make myself happy again and about a year after the trip, I ultimately came to the same conclusions that Sassy tells Lez in CI2, life is what I make of it. One day I joined a gym and slowly lost weight, I also started noticing the beauty in small moments in my life, and realized everything I had taken for granted before. I’d say getting started in the gym is what grounded me back to earth and gave me a purpose again and it’s just snowballed since then.
I never really pieced together my experience with that one acid trip until honestly a few weeks ago when I found the Big Lez Show and watched Choomah Island 2. I started watching it because of all I heard about CI2 and recently I’ve found myself in another rough spot mentally, an ugly breakup that left me confused, a close family member passing away very unexpectedly, and being done with college and not knowing what lies for me after and being scared about that, that truly now more than ever, my life and what I want out of it is up to me. Everything Sassy said to Lez is exactly what I needed to hear now and is what I wish I would’ve heard all those years ago during my first run in with these types of thoughts, it’s essentially Jarrad talking himself through his own experience and it was really comforting knowing that someone had a somewhat similar experience and that I wasn’t just crazy. After watching CI2 I see now that the trip years ago helped me see life in a whole new context and I didn’t fully understand that until just recently, it helped me appreciate life on a whole new level and, though it did not seem like it at all at first, helped me deal with my mental issues better than any therapist has. Turns out I didn’t need them all along, it was up to me the whole time. I realized how you view life and it’s ups and downs is ultimately up to you, a therapist can definitely help some, but at the end of the day it is on you to make you happy, no one else. it’s time to “wake up” and get back in the gym and truly dive into the things I love doing. I don’t plan on really doing psychedelics again, I had my fun with them and got what I needed to out of my experiences, I had my “last dance” with acid almost a year and half ago now and i’m content with it. Thank you paper squares and MS Paint 🫡
I remember my friend showing me this in middle school, 7th and 8th year, and since then I've probably watched it front to back 30 times with all assortments of people who later would become friends because of this show as an introduction.
I’ve had the same thing, it’s an incredible show to bond people together 💫
This video made me relive the whole show, what a quality vid to sum up a great story
Why thank you very much! Glad you gained something from the vid 💫
I am a relatively new fan of this beautiful masterpiece of art, during the scene with Sassy and Lez, with Lez's awakening, I couldn't help but think of my feelings towards The Outer Wilds, after full completion and learning. There is something amazing about simply being, over doing.
This show helped me realize what living is all about. It gave new perspective that I never would have thought about. Thanks jarred for giving us perspective.
Can't lie. The last few scenes of big lez made me cry
Aaaah, mate... Thank you so much for your video. Jarrad himself seems to be too humble to discuss the process in such spectacular detail. You have immortalised the author, and thus you have immortalised Sassy. And I am happy about that ... nah yeah .... hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Thank you so much mate, and I agree that Jarrad is very humble and probably wouldn’t want to to brag about his work, however I’d absolutely love to get more insight from him at some point!
Im almost 60 and this show is the best thing l’ve ever seen. Just came across it last week.
That’s incredible! Glad you found it & ofc enjoyed it as well
great to see some appreciation for Big Lez, it's a masterpiece
It amazes me that I only found TBLS just a month ago. I grew up loving flash videos like the decline of video gaming, there's something about halo, the matrix has you and playing alien hominid. This brings back that old love of animation. And for that I thank Jarret.
Ive never seen nor heard of this show. You did such a great job writing/editing this video I'll be checking it out.
Let’s gooo! Love to hear it and enjoy the show, it’s incredible!
So dope, watched halfway through up until you started talking about season 4 and I went back and fully watch it & the finale and wowza, am I ever glad I came across this. Twas a delight to get to truly indulge deeply within it all. Thx man
My pleasure brother glad it made you watch the end 💫
Loosing 7 minutes of that paint animation must have been so painful.
I couldn't even imagine what he was going through at that time - it's like losing a dissertation that you then animated
I only recently discovered it through word of mouth and eventually doscovering it on TikTok. Glad i found it bc I absolutely adore the series. Me and my buddies talk about the series all the time when we're stoned
I've been quoting this show since the scooby doo ride episode popped up on Facebook and watched every video with jarrad. Love this show and he's a legend
Honestly such an incredible experience watching the show the whole way through! 💫
Almost finished watching the entire show only finding it the other day shit is probably one of my favorite shows
i literally never heard of this but this video has not only made me need to watch it but wanna start actually creating the story i’ve been wanting to for a while
That’s incredible mate! And the exact reason why I made the vid in the first place - I wish you all the success in the world 💫
Im from northern Ontario Canada and honestly love the Big Lez show and universe… stumbled on it by accident and couldn’t stop watching.
Father’s Day is easily my favourite episode.
Must say though I always felt bad for Jarrad when the fans put him under such immense pressure to continue on even when he said just be patient - not that anyone really knew how bad he was though. You watch interviews about that point in his life and it was pretty bad. But in a way thats what made his show so good, it was so relatable for young men. The highs and lows of growing up were shared across countries not just us Aussies
Jarrad always produces magic in time 💫
i first discovered this show at 29 years old, 2 years ago. I've seen it 3 times and plan on going in for a fourth round. thank you Jared
Enjoy the fourth trip round my brother 💫
I've watched big lez show many times. It always surprises me how actually good it was from the very start.
It’s hard to state how much the audio of TBLS touches me with a strange sense of Australian pride and the feeling has never been replicated. I fkn love that shit
Absolutely amazing video, TBLS is such an incredible series and has provided countless hours of laughs and comfort for so many , literally begging you to do a video on the mike nolan show and on sassy next!!
You’re gonna be really happy soon Ahah new vids coming soon
I've been a fan of this show for a while alot of my friends thought I was weird for watching it but my friend who I've told about this show like very often sent me this video and I didn't know anything about how the show was made I'm very happy you made this video !!!
being aussie and knowing people that talk this like in real life i hooked onto the show when i watched it probably around 2 years back. i recently remembered it again so ive been rewatching and this hit my recommended. overall great video on your end, i think you could of gone more indepth when talking about the drug trip in coomah island 2 because by the looks of it you had some strong feelings about it. overall this is really good quality of video
Yeah that’s true I definitely had more to say, could’ve gone into more detail and something to take into consideration for next time, appreciate the feedback my man!
@@harryfromends il keep an eye on your channel this is really good content to keep in the background
Good luck on the next video
Great breakdown, I just finished the Big Les Saga and the Nolan side series, now on Sassy. I discovered the show from clips on Tik tok, to the point I only wanted to use tik tok for the clips of Big Les universe
mannnnn i miss this show! thanks for putting me onto how it was truly created
My pleasure! And I love the Jarrad is expanding the Big Lez universe, honestly so awesome to see the world expand
2 minutes in and I had no idea about this context. Love Billy’s and big lez So glad that I clicked don this.
The entire big lez series really is just a wonderful work of art.
I just finished all of the Big Lez saga, what a treat.
Honestly it’s such a brilliant show, glad you got that experience 💫
Hands down the most influential piece of animation in my life!
Fantastic annotation of the series Harry, thank you!! I got a TBLS tatt too.
Looking forward to seeing what jarrad hits us with next.
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Where is your tat mate? 💫
@@harryfromends back of the upper thigh 😎
I loved everything about the Big Lez show, hit me just as much watching some of those parts and this just brought it all back! Just a quality show!!!
23:28 I’m not sure how many people know this or not, but when Lez is shot in CI 3 it’s in the shape of the Southern Cross. Just some nice Aussie trivia 👍
I forgot this one 🥲
I love the Big Lez show, especially Choomah Island 2. I even put up my own video a few days ago. I can't believe you beat me to it! Amazing work
big lez will always be legendary, rip big lez 🙏
Rip Big Lez, hoping we see more of him throughout the Donny Show, or whichever Jarrad invention comes next!
Its heartwarming to see this Aussie cultural that is so close to home reach overseas, my Fiance is Texan and when I introduced her to the lovely comedy of Jarred Wright, she loved it. I am keen to see more episodes of the new Donny and Clarence show, bloody banger.
When I first joined the Army I was terrified for my future and what all I’ve done but a core memory of mine is watching this with my brother and just for some reason, I felt good and excited for the future. No clue why but this show has such an important spot in my heart
There’s a special feeling about the show & that’s incredible my man I’m glad it gave you that feeling!
Just found ur channel and im loving the vids man. Cant wait for a vid on the Donny and Clarence show!
Mate I absolutely love the big lee show and yeah choomah island 3 made me cry to
I’m an American and I no idea how funny the big lez show was until I started watching it with my roommates in my sophomore year of college.
Got recommended this not knowing anything about this show and now I def want to watch it . Great video
I’ve done my job! Have lots of fun watching the series it’s an absolute blast 🙌🏻
Same.
@@harryfromendsWhat have you done?!
Mate this show truly is a masterpiece! He deserves so much more recognition, incredibly well done!
It would be cool if Jared remakes what the deleted episode was meant to be, and then creates an alternate story line from that episode, and to make sense to the storyline, it’s one of the alternate dimentions that Sassy enters. And then we see a completely alternate story play off from there or something.
He ended up making a version of the episode with Vinally but it wasn’t directly linked 💫
Used to watch this as a youngster, so did my missus, now we both binge watch them every so often and watch out for every new release. I remember this hitting the UK like a storm
Scotland and England have adopted The Big Lez Show as a staple for sure
I had no idea TBL had such a big following. Its actually amazing what he achieved. Guess its time for a rewatch 🤘
You got my Sub. This is the first person i have seen doing a video on the Big Lez Show! Its a cult show and i'm not surpised that its so important to so many. Its the best show on TH-cam without doubt.
Thank you! And I agree it’s absolutely the best show on yt and I hope it continues to grow throughout time
You fucking druggo. Just smoked a fat bowl after walking my dog on top of a mountain in the rain. This video popped up. Fuck yeah. Jarrad, we love you brother. You are a true scholar. And to the guy who made this vid. Thanks man. Learnt new shit. I found TBGLS during covid! Changed my life.
It be me, the guy 💫 that sounds like a skitz mission mate
@@harryfromends good video my guy. Subbed. Gonna watch it all now. Any news on his next project ? I know I saw a teaser not long ago
@@tomevans5976my guess is the Donny Show, hbu?
@@harryfromends same. You planning on doing a full BLU summary once it’s done? Whatever he cooks up at least we know it’ll be awesome. The bias is skits on my part though
This is gonna blow up
Thank you! Hopefully people enjoy the vid ❤️
@@harryfromendsdamn i was right, cheers mate!
Chooma island 2 wake up dream/trip sequence was fucking biblical mate
this is my favorite show of all time and this video is fire bro also sick tattoo
You sir are a man with excellent taste ahah
My personal favourite in the whole Big Lez Show universe was Choomah Island 2's wakeup sequence. Someone did a super cut called "MUSHROOMS PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE THE BIG LEZ SHOW" and it cuts the overt references to psychedelia from Choomah Island 2 into one coherent piece. Always worth a watch if you haven't got the time to watch the full episode of Choomah Island, and I think it emphasises the psychedelic experience of the Wake Up scene in a very fitting and enjoyable way. Mike Nolan's long weekend was great, but the Sassy show was brilliant and to me represents such growth by Jarrad, containing an incredible story line, mixed with compelling animation.
Jarrad, if you read this mate, you created something so special to so many people, and did the psychedelic experience so much justice, influencing people to step beyond their fears and try the psychedelic experience for themselves. Without you, I don't think as many people would have tried tripping and the culture would have been far poorer for it. The Wake Up scene remains one of my favourite pieces of media of all time and came at a time in my life where I had begun my own foray into psychedelia, suffering from psychosis a few times along the way, but giving me hope that things would balance out in the end.
All in all, the TBLS is a modern animation masterpiece, standing on it's own, as one of the first generation of viral media content, coming from an understated and humble creator and hitting that lightning in a bottle in just the right way. Kudos to Jarrad, and much love to anyone who enjoyed The Big Lez Show with their friends.
The “Wake Up” scene really changed so many lives, either through perspective or experimentation, and gave a lot of people a new look at what life is about, whilst also mixing in jokes at the same time - a rare talent that not many humans have 💫
I have a real bitter-sweet memory of this show. My girlfriend of the time, now my wife, was in town with me when my best bud called me up asking to hang out. My gf was happy to hang out with the two of us as wed hung out before and we were remarkably good about not third wheeling our friends. So we went to his house, went out to a few places, then went back and he said he had a show to show us. It was The Big Lez show. Of course this was after it went international. First impressions, it was crude and irreverent and just plain old goofy, but it was entertaining, had some decent jokes and gags, and really just fit the internet humor we all knew and loved, so we watched a decent amount of it. We talked some, stopped to make a fire outside and hang out there for a while until finally it was very late at night. I remember wanting to watch more of it with him at some point. Itd been a while since wed hung out and had kinda gone our separate ways as i hung out with certain groups of people and he hung out with others, but we were still ourselves and best friends. Well, he took a dive into these other friend groups and ended up getting into others less and less like me, my friend groups, and who he used to be. Id still hang out with him time to time, and often times when it was just us it was like nothing had changed. But more often his friends crashed at his place and we all hung out, and subsequently more often it was like i wasnt hanging out with the same person. Hell, id go to head home finally and, as we always had, hed walk to my car with me to talk and hang out just that little extra time. Even in that minute hed be his old self again, even apologizing for his new friends and whatnot. I still smiled and he was still my best friend, and i still wanted to get some more time to hang out with him.
Well, after i proposed to my girlfriend and we were planning our wedding, i immediately knew who would be my best man. So i called him up, asked if he was ok with that and asked him to mark off the date. He was totally on board, even said that instead of the wedding gift list hed just get me a battleaxe. We played a game together a couple times, but each time he grew more distant, long pauses and just kind of being passively standoffish. I just hoped he was doing alright and let him know that if he needed any help, he could ask me.
Well, he texted me just a month before the wedding to say he wouldnt be able to make it as he really had to study to get good grades or else hed fail his classes and no longer be able to attend the college he was going to. I was a little upset but you know what, id helped him with some of his classes before, sure, study and try your hardest and send me your grades as a wedding gift, you know? I wanted him to look to his future and get the one he wanted, and i sincerely hoped he could. Well, not but a few days later he called me the night before his exam he was so worried about and i could hear he was drunk and at a party. I honestly dont remember what he said or what he told me, but it had nothing to do with school, the wedding, or anything like that. I listened, i talked a bit with a tense smile on my face, entertained him, and then he said he had to go and he hoped i had a good day.
I wish i could say i cried. I wish i could say id flipped the table. I wish i could say id done anything, but at that point i just looked at his name in my contacts list, at our last few texts, and i just sighed and sat there. My best friend, my best man to be at my wedding, the one person i could say without a shadow of a doubt just a year ago was my brother from another mother, had given up on being there for me so he could go party and hang out with his party friends. My soon to be wife was absolutely livid, but i could only shrug and shake my head. That day sort of broke me, because id been there for him and cared deeply for him, practically loved him as family, as brotherly love almost as high as the love i have for my wife.
He hasnt tried to contact me since, and i havent tried to contact him. The wedding went on, as i switch my best man decision to someone else in our wedding party. I was there, and i was extremely happy. But the leadup was torture without him to take off the edge of a stressful situation. There was still an empty space in our lineup and in the chairs. And at the reception there was missing a part of my smile. It all had a bitter taste to it, however slight, because i genuinely had never been able to picture my wedding without him there to back me up.
Its been years now. I still have his number in my contacts. I still look at it sometimes. I still see him online, and i know he still sees me too. Neither of us can seem to get rid of the other, but neither can say the first word. He did eventually graduate, and im happy for him. He got the degree he wanted and seems to be doing alright for himself. Whether he still hangs out with his friends from then, whether he still talks to other friends he had before them, if he has a significant other, i have no clue.
But i look at The Big Lez show as a remnant of the time before all this. A time when we were still close friends, when we laughed and joked and talked with each other about things we never told anybody else. I still miss him, and i hope he does well in life. I dont know if or when ill be able to talk to him again, but if that day comes, maybe we will continue the story and watch more of the show. Play those games we meant to play. Go back to just messing around and being brothers again. Maybe.
Bro sent me a video essay back Ahah! Seriously though that’s an incredibly touching story and I’m sorry to hear that your relationship with him deteriorated over time, perhaps one day you’ll rekindle but of course if he doesn’t see you as important enough to try for then I completely get your position!
Brilliant video, amazing way to summarise what this series was and is to many people! I remember watching these episodes as they released back in my late teens as a stoner in the UK and all of my friends to this day still occasionally use random quotes from it!
Thank you Jarrad for this masterpiece and well done to you Harry for such a wonderful tribute!
Thank you so much, I genuinely hope it reaches people who haven’t seen the show yet and an even bigger community grows for the show! 💫
Iv got to watch this show now, saw some of the sassy episodes and was blown away.
Definitely watch the Big Lez Show mate, such an incredible series which sets up the Sassy show excellently!
I started high school in 2012, and fuck I wish I knew about this show back then, I didn't know about it until 2018 when a coworker of mine got me into it.
I’m glad you got to see the show and tbh when I first watched it I only watched a few eps then properly got into it when I was 16 or so
Okay tbh, I'm about halfway through this video and was surprised when I noticed there was only 158 views!! This video is amazing so far and I hope it blows up in the coming days cos it really should.
Honestly thank you so much, glad you’re enjoying the vid and I hope the second half is just as good! 🙌🏻
I was lucky enough to stumble across it when season 2 ep 2 came out so I’ve been along for the ride and I would have never thought that when I went to Creamfields almost a decade later and I could say a quote and EVERYONE around me looked at me and did their own impressions of the characters 😂 I think my life peaked right there
Those Yulli's Brews were limited run. But yeah, it would be awesome if they would bring those back and maybe have them available in the states too?
I’d love to have one as a collectors item for sure! Particularly Sassy 💫
literally one of the best shows ever made, you just love to see it
mate bangin video u gotta do another one for sassy origins
Thank you my man! Sounds like a good idea 🙌🏻
I don't know how I found out about big lez, but it is my favorite thing ever
When I met Americans on video games they would always ask if I knew the big lez show 😂 I mean obviously right and it would always make me laugh that this little series on TH-cam has been seen by so many I always thought it would stay in Australia just because of the humour I never really saw other countries other then Australia finding it funny but now I see that it’s more then just a joke it’s an awakening pretty much the way sassy is such a high being as you will learn in the sassy the Sasquatch episodes and the way sassy always says down to earth things such as “what’s the first thing you do before you start your day? You wake up” and that quote is awesome I have rewatched this series multiple times I do wish I can go back in time and watch it for the first time again
The awakening scene forever changed my life, the “you wake up” bit gave me goosebumps when I first saw the show
@@harryfromends yes 100% i kinda hope a movie is made to sorta show the life of all the characters now that big lez is not around