Anyone else kind of mad at themselves for finding this weird little thing so cozy? Nothing in this story embodies cozy from beating animals to bloodied carrots to surrealist worm costumes, but the soundtrack and the weirdly Scorsese way the characters narrate all hit tons of cues of satisfaction in me. This one and Lords of Synth are truly the best at capturing an entire weird world that almost feels like cameras sent into an alternate universe.
iv watched this everynight for like two years. it comforts me and reminds me of a time where I felt free and did some of the curious wandering this guy does.
100% I feel exactly the same, I don’t even really like this one but I watch it every once in a while because it does make me feel a bit cozy as long as I ignore the dialogue
I think the frog team is actually a squad of hitmen. After a string of successful hits, they are hired by the mayor. After botching the job and getting caught, the yellow shirt guy leaves the frog team before the police catch up to him and arrest him. Using the yellow shirt guy as a lead, one of the only police officers who is not on the Mayor's payroll picks up the trail, and proceeds to dig into the mayor as a suspect in hiring a hitmen. When the mayor finds out he is suspected, he must kill the cop just as he has other witnesses, in order to tie up loose ends.
I was thinking about this today and I think "the frog team" is supposed to be a group of soldiers in Irag or Afghanistan and the "engineers" are all the high level US statesmen and high level pro-US Iraqis/Afghans they are supposed to protect. Eventually the pressure gets to him, he gets into a fight with a superior, and is discharged. He joins a private security group like Blackwater(Cape Canaveral) but doesn't like it and perhaps he is mentally breaking down at this point. Eventually he comes back to the US with PTSD and mental problems so he is homeless and wonders around doing strange things.
frog team was going after and intimidating/harassing/blackmailing "frogs" (a particularly noisey protester/activist). Frog team's assault on a turtle was an old recluse who had bonefied property rights/secure source of income over a property needed by the aerospace firm.. they were also harassed/blackmailed/intimidated until they "cracked"
For anyone wondering, this video is a parody of the William Faulkner writing style, which often contains multiple unreliable narrators and are set in the depressed south.
Hi, I really hope I follow up on this comment and check out some of Faulkner's work if it's anything like this. Mulchtown's always stuck in my head, and I really appreciate this additional context I wouldn't have been aware of, so thank you (if you're not just bullshitting)
The law are the frogs, the people are worms, and the actual animals are viewed as the inheritors of the earth. Usually Man eats frogs, frogs eat worms, and worms eat man. But in this case frogs consume the things they view as parasites. So it makes you ask yourself, if the “worms” are the parasites, why do frogs eat them? Why does society have to consume disorder to survive and is based around the constant opposing of disorder? Why do people force their ideas on others knowing it will have the opposite effect? Because everyone has their own idea of a parasite and everybody’s right. Secretly they want the worst for them, but the original sin was the introduction of the first parasite, Satan, which was to humor the idea that parasites even exist outside of Satan himself. In the act of doing that we make parasites of ourselves. Without eating the fruit, the idea wouldn’t have even entered our mind. As soon as you assume evil you create evil. The parasite is always the worm, but he can trick people into putting on the worm suit. No matter who you think the worm is you’re wrong, the only real worm is the parasite we choose listen to.
Two things that strike me: One: I’m confused so there’s some hidden meaning but I couldn’t begin to explain it Two: all adult swim shorts have this underlying feeling that something is wrong and that freaks me out more than any Jumpscare or story
Henry Colvin from what I can tell a lot of people have there own ideas. One is that the frog team is a squad of hit men and the worms are people in the mayors pocket as a cop finds what has happened he is killed. Another is that the strange guy and the frog squad were soldiers and the engineers were pro us politicians in Iraq and that he gets in trouble and attacks a politician or higher up and is discharged and joins a paramilitary force but quits. Then he walks around doing strange things due to his time. Another one is that frog team is meant to stop noisy protesters from doing bad things.
I love the retro feel this gives me. Looks like it was filmed in the 80s. Even the music gives me a nostalgic vibe and I'm sure this is what the producers were going for. I felt so calm watching this. I'm so happy.
This is one of the closest representations of actual serious insanity I've seen for a while. Dark comedy masterpiece - how this only has half a million views is beyond me.
Well that was either immensely subversive, or nonsensical for the sake of comedy leaving the viewer confused as to how the absurdity of people in worm costumes could possibly tie into what seemed to be an engrossing dark character piece that i wouldn't mind watching in theaters.
***** I didn't find a personal meaning,but did find a logical reason as to why the video might exist. It's a big middle finger to "modern art" and to people spinning fantastical meanings,"deep", and "existential" but irrelevant bullshit out of anything they see and touch. Especially when it's excruciatingly obvious that it's sole point is to be a series of logical cliffs. Everything escalates too fast, we get no real establishment or motivations for any character, and the viewer isn't given enough information to piece things together, especially when trying to cope with the strange nature of the information given. So if you were to try deduce some tangible meaning to it all you would be left wanting in more than a few areas. The person logging all this inconsequential information and doing the mental-gymnastics to try and siphon something of value from this video other than the entertainment needs to cut back on the dopamine and stop looking for assumed patterns. It's human nature to try and make sense of everything we come across, so what happens when humans start to make things purposely illogical and without any deeper meaning?
***** A "story" with severely muddled details, no discernible point, and it begins and trails off (not ends) inscrutably. At best it could be considered a passable abstract college-student film short,at worst it can be considered a tone deaf, meandering abstract college-student film short.
This made me cry somehow. Its just.. so beautiful. The simplicity of the dialogue covered in its vagueness is captivating. All throught out the film, I subject myself to find the meaning. But alas, I realized; It's not about the meaning all along. It's the expression of emotion through non-conventional ways. It's not meant to be understood literally, metaphorically and logically. It's the underlying tone , the emotions free flowing above the words and meanings.
I've noticed that the officer's story doesn't exactly match up to what is shown. He says the second worm guy is heading towards the road, but there isn't a road in sight, nor was the car. He doesn't mention the two worm guys following him, and claims that the bag of jewels was dropped by the first worm guy, but this is not shown for some reason. I don't know what it means (if it does have a meaning), just something worth noting.
The worm costume is a symbol of defiance. The worms don't obey the police, the mayor suffers pestilence at the hands of the worms. They watch when the mayor turns on the officer, knowing their work is being done for them.
Mulchtown is about people in a small, mediocre suburb kinda fuckin' around doing nothing. It's a mood piece. Kinda funny, kinda nostalgic, kinda creepy. Think about why the author had the first guy working for NASA of all places. It was for contrast, to contrast with his job killing critters with a shovel. The worms are a bit more abstract than what you're saying. Everyone in Mulchtown has their own 'worms' they deal with, the worms are an embodiment of the kinda pointless mediocrity of Mulchtown. Mulchtown's not a _bad_ place, but it is a small place.
This is like watching a dream unfolding but you are lucid, awake and aware of everything as it happens. You of course still have no control over what happens lol
This is fucking phenomenal. I've watched this 3 times today. There's just something so aesthetically pleasing about literally everything in this piece.
"I worked down at Cape Canaveral after that, ripping up cats with a big riding lawn mower whenever they wandered on to the field by the launchpad.". Lmao I suppose that's a vocation in the state of Florida
Just now saw this. Re-watched for a second time to find my own meaning. I love how this can have so many different interpretations. They way i see it. The man in stories one and two, ok. I feel its a story of how he became a murderer. He always had a thing for killing small animals, bugs, etc. He even became an exterminator with the "Frog Team". Due to an incident he got in a fight with the Vice President. This shows his anger. All is forgiven and he keeps his job but the thrill is gone. So he moves to where he is now. I feel the woman speaking is to show a different side of him, a new life, where he's lost all control. The thrill of killing animals is gone so he must move to humans, as most killers do. I'm not sure about the suitcase thing, as somebody said before maybe burning evidence? As for the Carrots. I think this is a body. He kidnapped this person and put them in a bag. Two things could have happened. First, he might have already killed them and put them in a freezer (the AC unit) but something went wrong and out of anger from all the things he hates/is mad at (such as the guys throwing things at him), he flipped and shot the dead body numerous times. OR he kept them alive and then just killed them while thinking of everything that angers him. Then he dumps it in the lake. He leaves a trail as a warning. It's like an imprint of what he did without being blatant it was him. Notice how the cops come? They probably saw the trail and traced it to him, in which he leaves when he see's them. As for the cop's story. I'm not sure how this all ties in. My best bet is the real criminals aren't "worms" The cop seems to be in cahoots with the Mayor, which a lot of political figures tend to be corrupt. The only other person the cop does not see as a worm, is the character from the rest of the video, who I can presume is a murderer. The Cop, Mayor and the main Character all hate worms (aka critters) in some form. They are the "normal" people of society I can assume. This is a bit of a stretch but I feel the ending has the Cop realizing his evil doing and "comes clean" by bringing the worms to the evil the Mayor does, or, metaphorically, his house. So the Mayor has the Cop killed for snitching basically. Mulchtown. A town of normal people (worms) and a serial killer (character one), a corrupt Mayor and a corrupt Cop. I'm wondering why it's called Mulchtown. I feel, since Mulch improves the health of soil and overall makes it better and kills the bad plants, this town is ran like this. Kill the bad, it will improve the town. Just my 2 cents. I now the last story is a bit of a stretch, maybe I'll come back to it but I fully believe stories 1 and 2 involve the man's descend into becoming a murder.
I agree with everything except the cop's story. Cop sees people who look like criminals/thugs as critters. He also sees all the people who are inconvenient to him and dont act like he expects them to (like his partner and people who kept passing him in their cars) as critters as well. He sees the actual murderer and and the mayor as normal people simply because he had no negative associations with them yet. When the cop comes to the Mayor's house and talks to him about his troubles, the Mayor starts perceiving him as an annoying critter so he kills the cop with a little garden shovel just like he did with the other worms he encountered.
This is my favourite video on the internet, could anyone recommend me something similar to this? I mean something that has the somewhat calm but sad atmosphere like this too
My favourite indie film of all time. I have shown this to everyone I care for, rarely got anyone to be into it as much as I am, but it's deeply fulfilling to have seen this piece of art for myself.
Its so interesting to see comedy writers take a shot at drama. It really creates a different type of product than someone who is comfortable in the genre. That's why Chris Morris' Jam works and that's why this works. Great job!
I could be wrong, but I think the worms represent how the police guy saw the world. being suspension of any and everyone. Until he realized that the Mayor told him to arrest most of those people because they were making too much money or "eating at his garden". Worms = the accused... Btw the main character is a retired hitman that later became a thief, retrieving "free snacks" because he can't afford food of his own... deep... even if the guy was a hitman/thief, I still felt sympathy...
Through the whole video I felt like it was just about to make sense, like I was about to understand some deeper meaning, but I never did. And I love that.
There's weird sense of childish wonder, and youth in this. You always amaze me with how well you paint some of the pointless intentions, and silliness of human behavior. This video is a collection of a man doing weird things, but it's also ideas, and fantasy's everyone can relate to. Beautiful.
I watched this half-asleep one late night 3 years ago... and for some irresistible reason, I came back yet again. Southern and mysterious, cozy and dangerous just like last time I watched it.
This is an amazing short bit that is very odd and satisfyingly artsy. Kudos to AS for making my ears perk up when I was planning on sleeping instead! Hope to see others like this.
@@Spaced-Station "Unedited Footage of a Bear" and "This House Has People In It" are both really good, and might be up your alley. Both from Adult Swim.
Yeah I think I saw M.O.P.Z. first then this one this one it was every Sunday morning around 2 or 3, can't recall but this was the best series Adult Swim ever did in my opinion, I hope they're able to bring it back and mix enough of the David Cross Icelandic Ultrablue and pieces like this and This House Has People in It style super deep stuff
I've watched this video several times over the years, because I find the storytelling and atmosphere of it so bizarre yet calming and fascinating. Is this some kind of parody of a movie? The only one that I can think of that's this calming would be like shawshank redemption. Although Shawshank redemption has an actual coherent storyline, and this is just feverdream nonsense. I'm just curious if anyone has seen any movies that have a similar vibe or maybe just recommendations based on this?
Ive seen this video like 50 times over the course of a year or so and im never good at “decoding” or solving art projects like this but I finally made the obvious realization that all the stories have to do with “critters” in some type of way
I watched this when it came out, I was 14, I've had this theme in my head for 7 years, not knowing why it gives me such melancholic dissonance, but also a sense of security. I love this so much.
Adult Swim, always pushing the boundaries of what really, really, really high people will find entertaining. For the record, I don't think I was high enough to glean any type of entertainment from this, maybe some other time.
This is so confusing. That guy is obviously very thrifty and knows how to use the valuable things he finds, but he walks right past a perfectly good Dumpster mattress at :57.
Loved it. Great sound track too. Reminded me of educational videos from when I was a kid. Half expected mr. Rogers to show up and take us on a tour of a crayon factory or something.
In a way I was kinda sad for the guy he’s homeless and his entertainment is seeing people go through something and the rich act like he’s a wild animal and he gets excited when he sees food but hates it when animals take his food
this is why I love Adult Swim they always give you the things that you don't even know that you want
David W exactly
Heh
You got to check out Nathan barnett's [adult swim] pilot
Youth Large it's so good
*didnt
Why is this true tho
"A denial died on my tongue."
What an amazing line.
have you never heard that figure of speech before?
u stupid?
@@Rewo42 Pompous much?
I'm glad you enjoyed it! LOL It was fun!
@@emelitagonzalez972 I'm a big fan of you and your voice!
No joke, I really dig that tune that keeps playing.
Me too (I'M NOT KIDDING)
***** What? That song is tight! For some reason it makes me think of both Silent Hill and Lucy Daughter of the Devil.
It reminds me of the old anti weed psa about the dog who was upset with his owner cause all he'd do is smoke weed
The one that plays at 10:39 you mean?
anyone have the name?
+Hash Head contacted the music composer I'll comment if I find the soundtrack.
Anyone else kind of mad at themselves for finding this weird little thing so cozy? Nothing in this story embodies cozy from beating animals to bloodied carrots to surrealist worm costumes, but the soundtrack and the weirdly Scorsese way the characters narrate all hit tons of cues of satisfaction in me. This one and Lords of Synth are truly the best at capturing an entire weird world that almost feels like cameras sent into an alternate universe.
Like Kane Pixels' Backrooms AU
iv watched this everynight for like two years. it comforts me and reminds me of a time where I felt free and did some of the curious wandering this guy does.
100% I feel exactly the same, I don’t even really like this one but I watch it every once in a while because it does make me feel a bit cozy as long as I ignore the dialogue
It's like that one type of song where you listen to it, and it sounds nice and happy...
*But, OH BOY, the LYRICS... the lyrics are sure something...*
Mulchtown: Nearly every novel set in the American South since 1950.
Yeah, giant worms are also common in those too.
Or southern California today.
Yup, like an Adult Swim Harry Crews edition...
Or in Spokane, Washington
@@Barrobroadcastmaster Ha, you know the vibes.
"God will always take the side of the critters, because he was born a skunk".
What a amazing statement.
I dunno what it means and I am ashamed
+Detective Derpy (Chris Tun) god is born of nature. where nothing is owned.
tom gray oh thanks for giving me a new perspective :)
no, it's something that's supposed to sound meaningful but is actually crap
Thanks, James!
I think the frog team is actually a squad of hitmen. After a string of successful hits, they are hired by the mayor. After botching the job and getting caught, the yellow shirt guy leaves the frog team before the police catch up to him and arrest him. Using the yellow shirt guy as a lead, one of the only police officers who is not on the Mayor's payroll picks up the trail, and proceeds to dig into the mayor as a suspect in hiring a hitmen. When the mayor finds out he is suspected, he must kill the cop just as he has other witnesses, in order to tie up loose ends.
Dude whoa
H O T L I N E M I A M I
which is why they are called worms
I was thinking about this today and I think "the frog team" is supposed to be a group of soldiers in Irag or Afghanistan and the "engineers" are all the high level US statesmen and high level pro-US Iraqis/Afghans they are supposed to protect. Eventually the pressure gets to him, he gets into a fight with a superior, and is discharged. He joins a private security group like Blackwater(Cape Canaveral) but doesn't like it and perhaps he is mentally breaking down at this point. Eventually he comes back to the US with PTSD and mental problems so he is homeless and wonders around doing strange things.
frog team was going after and intimidating/harassing/blackmailing "frogs" (a particularly noisey protester/activist).
Frog team's assault on a turtle was an old recluse who had bonefied property rights/secure source of income over a property needed by the aerospace firm.. they were also harassed/blackmailed/intimidated until they "cracked"
For anyone wondering, this video is a parody of the William Faulkner writing style, which often contains multiple unreliable narrators and are set in the depressed south.
Any title in particular?
@@edmondegreen5368 It's called Mulchtown
Hi, I really hope I follow up on this comment and check out some of Faulkner's work if it's anything like this. Mulchtown's always stuck in my head, and I really appreciate this additional context I wouldn't have been aware of, so thank you (if you're not just bullshitting)
I don't know what I just watched, but it touched me deeply.
I felt it touched me inappropriately...a wormy fondling really.
Embrace it; accept it and stop being silly.
wait...what?!
The law are the frogs, the people are worms, and the actual animals are viewed as the inheritors of the earth. Usually Man eats frogs, frogs eat worms, and worms eat man. But in this case frogs consume the things they view as parasites. So it makes you ask yourself, if the “worms” are the parasites, why do frogs eat them? Why does society have to consume disorder to survive and is based around the constant opposing of disorder? Why do people force their ideas on others knowing it will have the opposite effect? Because everyone has their own idea of a parasite and everybody’s right. Secretly they want the worst for them, but the original sin was the introduction of the first parasite, Satan, which was to humor the idea that parasites even exist outside of Satan himself. In the act of doing that we make parasites of ourselves. Without eating the fruit, the idea wouldn’t have even entered our mind. As soon as you assume evil you create evil. The parasite is always the worm, but he can trick people into putting on the worm suit. No matter who you think the worm is you’re wrong, the only real worm is the parasite we choose listen to.
@@hahnkf8111 Wow, this was deep. It seems as if you wrote the script almost.
Can't tell if this is insanity or art
Yes
Exactly
no?
Why not both
its a biography, he just replaced real people with animals, since you know to soften it up a little
Two things that strike me:
One: I’m confused so there’s some hidden meaning but I couldn’t begin to explain it
Two: all adult swim shorts have this underlying feeling that something is wrong and that freaks me out more than any Jumpscare or story
Henry Colvin from what I can tell a lot of people have there own ideas. One is that the frog team is a squad of hit men and the worms are people in the mayors pocket as a cop finds what has happened he is killed. Another is that the strange guy and the frog squad were soldiers and the engineers were pro us politicians in Iraq and that he gets in trouble and attacks a politician or higher up and is discharged and joins a paramilitary force but quits. Then he walks around doing strange things due to his time. Another one is that frog team is meant to stop noisy protesters from doing bad things.
The creeping dread of the unknown will give you more terror than any given cheap fright from a jumpscare
@@karlturner5678 facts exactly why This People ha sHouse is so Terrifying
I love the retro feel this gives me. Looks like it was filmed in the 80s. Even the music gives me a nostalgic vibe and I'm sure this is what the producers were going for. I felt so calm watching this. I'm so happy.
Adult Swim*
try watching early trailer park boys if you haven't already. same deal
Yeah actually got a hotline miami vibe from this a bit. Prob because of the music, mystery and violence
It looks so lonely and peaceful
I'm glad you enjoyed it! LOL It was fun!
This is what America means to me.
this was filmed in canada
+TheBestTH-camChannelEverTimesInfinity America is everywhere, unfortunately
@@AckzaTV No it wasn't. Around Atlanta you lying socialist bastards
What does this mean
Kromsmitesyou i cant believe how upset you are over a very simple comment
Support your local Frog Team Office
With weed in your car
with the shovel at the trunk
Frog team creates all wealth
I agree sir.
This is one of the closest representations of actual serious insanity I've seen for a while. Dark comedy masterpiece - how this only has half a million views is beyond me.
Well that was either immensely subversive, or nonsensical for the sake of comedy
leaving the viewer confused as to how the absurdity of people in worm costumes could possibly tie into what seemed to be
an engrossing dark character piece that i wouldn't mind watching in theaters.
I hope this isn't the last we've seen of that man. Nor the worms, for that matter.
"nonsensical"?
this video has a sense, its up to you to find it out, i personally did.
And a lot of people agree with this opinion.
***** I didn't find a personal meaning,but did find a logical reason as to why the video might exist.
It's a big middle finger to "modern art" and to people spinning fantastical meanings,"deep", and "existential" but irrelevant bullshit out of anything they see and touch.
Especially when it's excruciatingly obvious that it's sole point is to be a series of logical cliffs.
Everything escalates too fast, we get no real establishment or motivations for any character, and the viewer isn't given enough information to piece things together, especially when trying to cope with the strange nature of the information given. So if you were to try deduce some tangible meaning to it all you would be left wanting in more than a few areas.
The person logging all this inconsequential information and doing the mental-gymnastics to try and siphon something of value from this video other than the entertainment needs to cut back on the dopamine and stop looking for assumed patterns.
It's human nature to try and make sense of everything we come across, so what happens when humans start to make things purposely illogical and without any deeper meaning?
Ｓｔａｙｎｉｆｔｙ By sense, i mean its telling a story.
***** A "story" with severely muddled details, no discernible point, and it begins and trails off (not ends) inscrutably.
At best it could be considered a passable abstract college-student film short,at worst it can be considered a tone deaf, meandering abstract college-student film short.
This made me cry somehow. Its just.. so beautiful. The simplicity of the dialogue covered in its vagueness is captivating. All throught out the film, I subject myself to find the meaning. But alas, I realized; It's not about the meaning all along. It's the expression of emotion through non-conventional ways. It's not meant to be understood literally, metaphorically and logically. It's the underlying tone , the emotions free flowing above the words and meanings.
you're ready for Mulholland Drive, if you havent seen it already. You'll be in tears the whole time
i think you just took too much dude lol
I keep coming back to watch this. Whoever the team was that came up with this is, they're awesome.
Me too. I really like this style of video and hope they do more.
SchmidtStorm it was the frog team
Credits at the end. ;)
I'm glad you enjoyed it! LOL It was fun!
I hope AS does more artistic things like this.
+ForeverAloneMan
nice meme
+ForeverAloneMan
nice meme
Detective Derpy
nice meme
Fredrich Fernando
nice meme
It does, Infomercials to which this belong is an especially great initiative.
I will never get how adult swim can create such specific and yet hard to define moods with their content
I've noticed that the officer's story doesn't exactly match up to what is shown. He says the second worm guy is heading towards the road, but there isn't a road in sight, nor was the car. He doesn't mention the two worm guys following him, and claims that the bag of jewels was dropped by the first worm guy, but this is not shown for some reason. I don't know what it means (if it does have a meaning), just something worth noting.
I used to know how I felt, I don't anymore
Gummo: Where Are They Now?
Lol. That's exactly what this made me think of.
yes
Woah. 69 made gummo into a real thing after seeing it here.
Exactly!
Great minds think alike :)
Duuuuuuude.... I was wondering if anyone else would notice that..
The worm costume is a symbol of defiance.
The worms don't obey the police, the mayor suffers pestilence at the hands of the worms.
They watch when the mayor turns on the officer, knowing their work is being done for them.
Mulchtown is about people in a small, mediocre suburb kinda fuckin' around doing nothing. It's a mood piece. Kinda funny, kinda nostalgic, kinda creepy. Think about why the author had the first guy working for NASA of all places. It was for contrast, to contrast with his job killing critters with a shovel.
The worms are a bit more abstract than what you're saying. Everyone in Mulchtown has their own 'worms' they deal with, the worms are an embodiment of the kinda pointless mediocrity of Mulchtown. Mulchtown's not a _bad_ place, but it is a small place.
“Evil was born in the Garden of Eden when Adam let a critter nibble on snacks from his trees.” Absolute top of the fucking line poetry.
A perfect “short story” about waste of the human mind and waste of all that’s beautiful
Truly a work of art😊
This is like watching a dream unfolding but you are lucid, awake and aware of everything as it happens. You of course still have no control over what happens lol
it's like an even mix between trailer park boys, david firth's animation and boards of canada.
and a little Gummo too!
Spot on.
Not seeing the tpb?
"My job was to kill a bullfrog with a shovel."
LEAKY EYE LUCA
Thank you everyone who had a hand in that. That was beautiful.
"... the big rest area toilets that never clog or flush, as with anger." It's as though listening to my own thoughts. Unreal.
wow that was deep. I don't think I'm ever going to feel something this deep inside me ever again.
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wait until you got some of those worms up inside of you.
That's what she said
aww... this is still a thing?
This is fucking phenomenal. I've watched this 3 times today. There's just something so aesthetically pleasing about literally everything in this piece.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! LOL It was fun!
"I worked down at Cape Canaveral after that, ripping up cats with a big riding lawn mower whenever they wandered on to the field by the launchpad.". Lmao I suppose that's a vocation in the state of Florida
Just now saw this. Re-watched for a second time to find my own meaning. I love how this can have so many different interpretations. They way i see it. The man in stories one and two, ok. I feel its a story of how he became a murderer. He always had a thing for killing small animals, bugs, etc. He even became an exterminator with the "Frog Team". Due to an incident he got in a fight with the Vice President. This shows his anger. All is forgiven and he keeps his job but the thrill is gone. So he moves to where he is now.
I feel the woman speaking is to show a different side of him, a new life, where he's lost all control. The thrill of killing animals is gone so he must move to humans, as most killers do. I'm not sure about the suitcase thing, as somebody said before maybe burning evidence? As for the Carrots. I think this is a body. He kidnapped this person and put them in a bag. Two things could have happened. First, he might have already killed them and put them in a freezer (the AC unit) but something went wrong and out of anger from all the things he hates/is mad at (such as the guys throwing things at him), he flipped and shot the dead body numerous times. OR he kept them alive and then just killed them while thinking of everything that angers him. Then he dumps it in the lake. He leaves a trail as a warning. It's like an imprint of what he did without being blatant it was him. Notice how the cops come? They probably saw the trail and traced it to him, in which he leaves when he see's them.
As for the cop's story. I'm not sure how this all ties in. My best bet is the real criminals aren't "worms" The cop seems to be in cahoots with the Mayor, which a lot of political figures tend to be corrupt. The only other person the cop does not see as a worm, is the character from the rest of the video, who I can presume is a murderer. The Cop, Mayor and the main Character all hate worms (aka critters) in some form. They are the "normal" people of society I can assume. This is a bit of a stretch but I feel the ending has the Cop realizing his evil doing and "comes clean" by bringing the worms to the evil the Mayor does, or, metaphorically, his house. So the Mayor has the Cop killed for snitching basically.
Mulchtown. A town of normal people (worms) and a serial killer (character one), a corrupt Mayor and a corrupt Cop. I'm wondering why it's called Mulchtown. I feel, since Mulch improves the health of soil and overall makes it better and kills the bad plants, this town is ran like this. Kill the bad, it will improve the town.
Just my 2 cents. I now the last story is a bit of a stretch, maybe I'll come back to it but I fully believe stories 1 and 2 involve the man's descend into becoming a murder.
Nice interpretation!
I agree with everything except the cop's story. Cop sees people who look like criminals/thugs as critters. He also sees all the people who are inconvenient to him and dont act like he expects them to (like his partner and people who kept passing him in their cars) as critters as well. He sees the actual murderer and and the mayor as normal people simply because he had no negative associations with them yet. When the cop comes to the Mayor's house and talks to him about his troubles, the Mayor starts perceiving him as an annoying critter so he kills the cop with a little garden shovel just like he did with the other worms he encountered.
I know this was made as a joke but I actually find it super relaxing to listen to
This is my favourite video on the internet, could anyone recommend me something similar to this? I mean something that has the somewhat calm but sad atmosphere like this too
Favorite* no offense
Check out the movie "Welcome to the Dollhouse"
@@SackboyLBP lol, there's british spelling too mate, look it up
Favourite favorite, honour honor, labour labor
@@carlwinslo will watch it
Any of David Firth's work. He's a Brit, lol. Also check out Harmony Korine's Gummo.
Just realized at 4:40, he was probably there with the suitcase full of gasoline to start a tire fire lmao
This shit is fucking awesome. Adult Swim, thanks, for all the confused nightmares I so often have.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! LOL It was fun!
Oooooh now it makes sense why they kept finding "snacks" in the forest lol
I have this saved to a playlist of screenwriting inspirations.
It's like a David Lynch movie but funnier.
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I've never seen anything so stupid in my life
but that was fucking awesome !!
This is great. It has the dry, low-key vibe of comedy like Napoleon Dynamite, but the humor is much more constant.
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2:42 thanks for that Fsae car. Reminds me of good university memories
My favourite indie film of all time. I have shown this to everyone I care for, rarely got anyone to be into it as much as I am, but it's deeply fulfilling to have seen this piece of art for myself.
this is fantastic, "god will always side with the critters, because he was born a skunk"
Its so interesting to see comedy writers take a shot at drama. It really creates a different type of product than someone who is comfortable in the genre. That's why Chris Morris' Jam works and that's why this works. Great job!
Yay
Wby does this feel like an SCP task force interview
I would unironically watch an entire series about mulchtown
I could be wrong, but I think the worms represent how the police guy saw the world. being suspension of any and everyone. Until he realized that the Mayor told him to arrest most of those people because they were making too much money or "eating at his garden". Worms = the accused... Btw the main character is a retired hitman that later became a thief, retrieving "free snacks" because he can't afford food of his own... deep... even if the guy was a hitman/thief, I still felt sympathy...
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when the officer falls on the ground at the end....was he becoming a worm?
Through the whole video I felt like it was just about to make sense, like I was about to understand some deeper meaning, but I never did. And I love that.
This is oddly soothing
Toasty Brit it's all the monotone narrators.
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the delivery and imagery of the opening segment reminded me of the monologues in Blue Jam - good stuff!
There's weird sense of childish wonder, and youth in this. You always amaze me with how well you paint some of the pointless intentions, and silliness of human behavior. This video is a collection of a man doing weird things, but it's also ideas, and fantasy's everyone can relate to. Beautiful.
The team behind these shorts are geniuses.
I've been waiting for another video like THHPII and UEFOAB. This did not disappoint.
This is the best advertising for Florida that they've had in a long time. Cheers
its awesome how adult swim props up all these independent directors and writers for this you get some really cool stuff like this movie
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This is fucking art. Growing up I related adult swim to shit like family guy or Futurama. Now they are the prime purveyors of abstract film art.
I feel as though I could be happy in Mulchtown.
I watched this half-asleep one late night 3 years ago... and for some irresistible reason, I came back yet again. Southern and mysterious, cozy and dangerous just like last time I watched it.
This is an amazing short bit that is very odd and satisfyingly artsy. Kudos to AS for making my ears perk up when I was planning on sleeping instead! Hope to see others like this.
This is my favorite video on the entire internet. It is just weird as hell but I love it. And not to mention the bombass music.
This is absolutely, by far, and without a doubt the very best thing that I have seen on Adult Swim. Less mom jokes and more MoMA
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@@emelitagonzalez972 any suggested works I could explore next?
@@Spaced-Station "Unedited Footage of a Bear" and "This House Has People In It" are both really good, and might be up your alley. Both from Adult Swim.
WHY ISN'T THIS ATLEAST 100 MILLION VIEWS? THE WORLD MAKES NO SENSE.
Suburban Worm Mom? That's my favorite character from Sonic '06!
I wish more people would watch this. It was oddly touching, in a bittersweet sort of way. I hope you make more videos like this.
that was really creative! thank you adult swim!
its sounds like describing a crazy dream haha
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The memories of watching this when heavily sleep deprived at 3 AM
I remember watching this around the time World Peace was airing
Yeah I think I saw M.O.P.Z. first then this one this one it was every Sunday morning around 2 or 3, can't recall but this was the best series Adult Swim ever did in my opinion, I hope they're able to bring it back and mix enough of the David Cross Icelandic Ultrablue and pieces like this and This House Has People in It style super deep stuff
"God will always take the side of the critters.
For he was born a skunk."
Shit man.
I've watched this video several times over the years, because I find the storytelling and atmosphere of it so bizarre yet calming and fascinating. Is this some kind of parody of a movie? The only one that I can think of that's this calming would be like shawshank redemption. Although Shawshank redemption has an actual coherent storyline, and this is just feverdream nonsense. I'm just curious if anyone has seen any movies that have a similar vibe or maybe just recommendations based on this?
Ive seen this video like 50 times over the course of a year or so and im never good at “decoding” or solving art projects like this but I finally made the obvious realization that all the stories have to do with “critters” in some type of way
I watched this when it came out, I was 14, I've had this theme in my head for 7 years, not knowing why it gives me such melancholic dissonance, but also a sense of security. I love this so much.
grinning aggressively
I don’t know how I got here but, I’ve enjoyed my stay.
I love how the cop is so calm and the way he describes things
"All you have to do is follow the worms."
Off brand Ringle Dingles or Dongle Boys or somethin....
God will always take the side of the critter because he was born a skunk. Love the writting.
Alright, who authorized a sequel to Gummo?
a New Yorker story meets Night Vale.
This is fucking brilliant.
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Adult Swim, always pushing the boundaries of what really, really, really high people will find entertaining. For the record, I don't think I was high enough to glean any type of entertainment from this, maybe some other time.
Lost it at, "grinning aggressively."
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My girlfriend was the Asian driver in the worm costume driving by the cop. 😅
Did she say what any of this is supposed to mean?
@@MikeHunt-tf1rn No! Just something crazy the director made up! 🤷🏼♂️😅
Ayo! Adult Swim! We need more late night programming/ infomercial spoofs and y'all are the only guys that can do something about it. Help us please!
what a beautiful piece of media. sometimes, as in life, the simplest things adult swim puts out can be the most beautiful.
I really want one of those worm costumes for Halloween this year
GOOD IDEA
It's a sleeping bag
@@sarahoshea9603 Ohhhh, I see I see, it is!!
This is strangely therapeutic despite how surreal it is.
Splendid. Would watch again
I hesitate to ask how many hours of footage the staff has of this one guy just f*cking around in empty town environments.
This to me is one of the most depressing kind of thing to watch/see. People in a dead end town with no opportunities
This is so confusing. That guy is obviously very thrifty and knows how to use the valuable things he finds, but he walks right past a perfectly good Dumpster mattress at :57.
Loved it. Great sound track too. Reminded me of educational videos from when I was a kid. Half expected mr. Rogers to show up and take us on a tour of a crayon factory or something.
This is actually very nice! What music is that in the background?
This is art!
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In a way I was kinda sad for the guy he’s homeless and his entertainment is seeing people go through something and the rich act like he’s a wild animal and he gets excited when he sees food but hates it when animals take his food