But that was addressed in the movie quite a bit, people protested against it saying that he was in a prison and tried to let him know/get him out. But yeah, still creepy that most of the world is okay with it.
Also felt like the ending was just the beginning. The real world would be horribly strange to Truman and he definitely has a great lawsuit to get on with. With how gritty and unfriendly things would seem, it might be like leaving a vault from the Fallout series XD
Except Truman has no legal grounds. Remember the beginning? The court ruled that corporations could own people. That's why Truman was where he was. After Truman left, he would not have any legal rights.
Caesar Seriona However they could very easily challenge the earlier ruling as unconstitutional on the grounds that owning a person is equal to slavery. If their courts are okay with slavery, then his world has a much larger problem in which he could be the revolutionary trying to fix it and that is a movie I'd want to see XD
Essentially, everyone alive in his lifetime in his country would know him, but all he would know is disillusion & deceit. They'd have found his body looted and violated laying face down in a ditch by then. Truman Show II: "In case I don't see ya, Good Night!"
Also in Harry Potter, it seems like you can count on one hand the number of wizards/witches who think that nonmagical people have even the most basic human rights. Dunno if it made it into the movies, but I remember the Quidditch World Cup had a normal, nonmagical guy collecting entry fees, and every time he expressed how odd it was whenever some wizard didn't realize that they're supposed to pay with mundane money instead of gold doubloons, a wizard would dash out of the nearby shrubs and wipe the poor sap's memory. Seriously, that shit is disturbing. Why did it need to be a normal person with no knowledge of magic? Why couldn't it just be some wizard teenager getting paid minimum wage? Hell, why couldn't it be the asshole on mind-wiping duty? Because it was very explicitly shown that the repeated mindwipes was having lingering effects on the poor guy. He literally didn't know what *month* it was. What's the backstory there? Does some poor family think that their brother/son/father/whatever relation is suffering from some kind of early-onset dementia?
***** I have no goddamn clue. If they absolutely needed to have it there...well, fuck. They're wizards. *Gold coins* are used as normal currency. Just buy the fucking land and be done with it. But instead, they give a man brain damage because...reasons.
Hell, they barely give themselves human rights. Azkaban anyone? A ten year sentence means that you'll come out a drooling idiot and everyone knows and no one cares.
They deprive their children of basic general education beyond the 2nd grade, of course they're going to do this stuff. The civil rights movement, the holocaust, social studies, literally anything about muggle history (A.K.A 99%of history) is ignored.
Just gonna point this out: Hogwarts CAN'T be found by humans. The same charm put on the Quidich finals is placed on almost all major magical gathering places AND Hogwarts specifically looks like an unsafe, dilapidated ruin, so no one would ever want to enter it. If a muggle gets too close, their subconscious starts to turn them away. Also, there's an entire section of the Ministry of Magic that goes around Men in Black-ing every muggle who comes into contact with magic and they do a MUCH better job at covering it up than MIB. The video was great other than that.
the Dobler-Dahmer theory anyone? Any one act or gesture can be interpreted as lovable or creepy depending on the feeling of the recipient of the act to the perpetrator.
Didn't notice it till now, but it's suddenly so obvious... Not sure who Daniel is supposed to reference if that's the case though. EDIT: Nvm... he must be Barb; the forgotten Stranger Things character...
Lanique Davis Eleven is Soren. The one to the left of the two male side of the camera. He has both the gown and the neural net cap or whatever they are actually called. Something frequently seen as part of Eleven's flashbacks.
The real horror about Harry Potter is that they've had limitless drinkable water for centuries and still let people die of cholera and dysentery, and other such diseases well into the 21st century, just because some jumpy fanatics tried to burn witches in a couple of isolated incidents in the middle ages. The real horror is that thousands of magical incidents which very well could be deadly affect muggles every year and are swept under the rug, their memories of it erased. The real horror is that consent altering "love potions" are sold to minors. The real horror is that despite having alternative sources of energy, the wizards still let the muggles destroy the earth with fossil fuels. And still use slavery well into a technological age where it should have become obsolete. The real horror is that cancer treatment potions weren't disclosed to muggles. The real horror is that tens of millions of people died in concentration camps around the world, or on the battlefield, whereas a couple of imperio curses could have prevented it all, if the wizards had only cared to look outside of their own community. The real horror is that the wizards seldom realize that the muggle's technology has surpassed theirs, and that the muggles have weapons infinitely more powerful than some "elder wand". The real horror is that the world is divided in a curtain of secrecy and hate, instead of being united under one righteous leader who could guarantee the greater good of all humans, end all war, and let science and magic benefit each other. The real horror is that Grindelwald lost and that Dumbledore won.
(SPOILER ALERT) I may be a little rusty here, but wasnt Grindelwalds end goal similar to Voldemorts, ie wizard supremacy? Would the world be EVEN MORE of a shitstorm of class division and slavery and wanton cruelty if he won?
696190 Well, the above statement about imperio curses being used to prevent war kind of implies wizard supremacy. But it's not a "general wizarding supremacy". It's more like a dictatorial supremacy of Grindelwald over everyone else. As a counter argument, if Grindelwald's goals had been aligned with voldemort's, then why did he resist torture, refuse to disclose the location of the elder wand, and get killed in his cell? Shouldn't that be a hint that he doesn't agree with Voldemort's vision and that he was ready to die for his own vision?
You left off squibs being so disregarded by the wizarding community that Neville's uncle subjected him to two tests, one that could have killed him, and one that definitely would have killed him, to force Neville, a tiny child, to use magic to save himself. Better dead than squib. Denied a Hogwarts education, despite many classes requiring zero magic, including, I will argue, potions, rendering them basically unemployable. Filtch only has his job as groundskeeper of Hogwarts because Dumbledore pity hired him.
GregTom2 this comment kind of assumes that wizards are responsible for the world, but theyre not? they have pretty much separated themselves from normal human society and created their own. it'd be like if the amish could supernaturally cure cancer, that doesnt mean they have to travel the world to heal everybody, they'd still be isolationists...
The quarantine makes me miss this more, it was my favorite thing on cracked. Now I live vicariously through the screen, sitting with my friends who talk pop culture
Ok Fair point, but I agree with the original question. Where did Soren get that Waffle from? It wasn't in that bucket he dumped out and his outfit has no pockets. So where did Soren get that Waffle?
If you're going to bring up anything from Harry Potter in this context, at least mention Dumbledore in passing. His actions have a field of potential interpretations that you just missed out on completely. So much so that he's become one of the most bipolar characters within the fanon, just working off of the books alone. Look at the first scene of the first book. Albus leaves an infant on the doorstep of people who he has been warned of, and who he knows - as he admitted himself later, at the end of the fifth book - who he knows will most likely mistreat the child at best. Not only this, but he does this in the dead of night, within the first few days of November. In Britain. He did not apply any sort of protective magic on the child that night, leaving him to the cold. Or to wake and wander off. Or to be noticed by a passing stranger or a hungry dog. Or to be stepped on by Vernon as he left for work the next day. Think what you will of Albus Dumbledore, but he left a child to die, knowing that if the child survived, he would grow up in a household that would mistreat him. In this context, I don't know how you can reference Harry, who during the instances you mentioned was but a child, but then fail to look into perhaps one of the most well known Harry Potter characters outside of Voldemort and Harry himself. Also, muggle repelling charms are noted multiple times throughout the series, as is the obliviation spell and a departement of the Ministry of Magic that's literally known as the Obliviators, who act much like your Men in Black reference in cases of magic.
Villain Cafe needs a table for Dumbledore, Glinda, Charles Xavierand the rest of the 'Heroic Mentors' who turn out to be narcissistic sociopaths who send children to face deadly peril for their own amusement.
Not only did he leave Harry with his abusive relatives, it's implied in Order of the Phoenix that he threatened or blackmailed Petunia into keeping him thanks to him sending that "Remember my last" Howler. No context, just three words, and Petunia goes from being ready to let Vernon throw Harry out to telling him to go to his room. Then the fact that, in eleven years, Dumbledore never checked up on Harry, never popped by to make sure that Vernon and Petunia were OK raising The Boy Who Lived, and when Harry strait up *tells* Dumbledore that he's abused, Albus sent him back to the Dursleys with nothing but a vague warning delivered by Moody that they're being watched.
Nope I unsubbed a year ago because their content relies too much on unironic clickbait, including After Hours. And considering I've found the quality of many of the recent AH's to be severely lacking, I'm happier without Cracked in my subscribed feed. (And I'm not saying they don't put work in to AH, but they are struggling to find strong inspiration, and rehashing past ideas in the effort. It has been something like 6 years since the first one IIRC - just double-checked, it looks like tomorrow is the 6 year anniversary)
Omg! I love how they were character from Stranger Things this year. Katie was the sherif, Daniel was Barb, Soren was Eleven and Micheal was.....the one kid who did not have his front teeth I forgot his name! But still, that was good cause for a second I was thinking (hoping) they would talk about the series
Yep, Dustin, and I'll always remember the fourth kid's name cause of this: "Well, my name's Mike, short for Michael... How about we call you 'El', short for Eleven?
Aren't they all characters from Stanger Things? Soren as Eleven, Katie as the sherrif who punches everyone and Dan as... dunno, the mom who goes crazy?
back in "11 Movie Alternate Dimensions With Horrifying Downsides" Katie had considered living in Pleasantville but now she rightfully calls it a nightmare.
Here in 2022, Cracked never rose back to its golden era. I get companies doing dumb stuff becasue of some potential to make money, but they could've just left Cracked alone.
Just as an aside, whoever reads this: If you haven't seen the Japanese movie Katie mentioned - House (or Hausu) - SEE IT. It's easily one of the just balls-out weirdest movies you will ever experience. It's not even a horror movie so much as a dark, dark comedy from the POV of psychotic ghosts.
Then how can _I_ see Hogwarts, huh?! I don't have magic powers, and I saw that damned school in every single Harry Potter movie, AND at Universal Studios!
If I saw some ruins I'd be like, "sweet, let's go check out those ruins. I'll bring my camera" Do they have a spell for cameras too? Is that what happened to that blank roll of film I got developed?
I believe places like Hogwarts are also surrounded by Muggle-repelling charms, so if they get close enough they suddenly remeber urgent stuff they have to do.
緑先輩 If you're interested (and I know this is a super old comment, but whatever) the I Hate It But I Love It podcast did an entire episode of how fucked up Love Actually is.
Im so high I watched this whole video without noticing stranger things costumes and I just rewatched it after realizing it was shot in GA and I've been enchanted by my not noticing that at first...😤
@@yesmansam6686 Jesus's name is Iesus in Latin. The J didn't exist in the original Latin alphabet, and was originally the letter "i". It would be said as "ee-yessoos". Just like what we know as Jehovah, was Iehova in Latin, as Indiana Jones is painfully aware of learning.
Good news; I'm from the year 2018 and many bad things are happening, but they're making What Men Want and it stars Taraji P. Henson! No word on any sexuality-forming denouement at this juncture.
I JUST FUCKING REALIZED THAT THEYRE ALL CHARACTERS FROM STRANGER THINGS. OH LORD I LOVE THIS CHANNEL. PLEASE DONT EVER STOP MAKING AFTER HOURS. IT IS GENIUS
5:49 "Stop, my brain can't not categorize these!" Felt that. Don't need to burn resources and storage space on those brilliant titles for a passing joke
3:54 if you had read the pottermore articles (or you know, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), you would know Hogwarts have extensive muggle-repelling charms, including one that makes it appear to be ruins to a muggle. There's also a muggle-repelling charm making muggles suddenly "remember" something they had to do, but I’m not sure if those were placed on Hogwarts.
I totally came up with the Theory that Rowan Atkinson was meant to be Christmas Spirit in Love Actually! I never looked to see if it had already been come up with, but now I learn it was supposed to be in the original script. Makes sense now how I came to that conclusion. * sigh * Just another ingenious idea I've had that someone more successful than me had already come up with first. :/
Whenever I have an idea that ends up already existing or getting made shortly thereafter I take that as a compliment. Especially if it was a successful implementation of my idea. It really just shows that you're onto some good ideas. All you gotta do is keep at it and eventually you'll find something to pursue that hasn't been done previously.
John Edwards I was always too cautious of looking at it as a compliment in case people thought I was already being pretentious. Thanks. ^-^ Perhaps I'll start patting myself on the back a little more.
Conor Langford I don't see it as being pretentious myself, unless you are going around saying,"I had that awesome idea too! So I basically came up with that!" lol But yeah, why not? We all need a little encouragement and self-confidence/sel-assuredness. Heck, I'll pat you on the back too! *pat pat* :D
I find it hilarious that I first took the 'actually they prefer to be called 'No Maj' now' as a joke, and then I saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
I have loved what you all have been doing with this specific part of Cracked, After Hours, for years! I absolutely love it please don't ever stop! At least for a very long time 😁 you 4 are great and what you do, analyzing pop culture and the like is beyond entertaining! Thanks so much for your time and effort and please keep it up! Fantastic, just bloody brilliant stuff!
Edward Gil Heard that, yeah, probably because the writer knew what LOGIC is, but the movie people were all "Screw that, let's make them completely justified superheroes!"
yoshimickster Well, I actually just bought the book a few weeks ago and haven't finished it yet. It's pretty good and the concept is pretty cool. It's not about some pro assassins just being... pro assassins. It's about a world where the super heroes have been erased from history, any that are remaining are crippled and have no memory of how things used to be. And it's kinda cool seeing a comic about villains without trying to make it seem like they are just misunderstood people. They are all bad people and we're just seeing them as themselves. That said, typical to Mark Millar fashion, it is filled with a lot of swearing and profanity. Some of the characters have some really dumb names. But that's sort of the point since in a way, it is satire on the super hero genre.
Yup, he flew to Marseilles in France, where there's a large Portuguese population and where the restaurant Aurelia worked in is actually located in real life. The director has confirmed this.
I'm not sure if it is mentioned but Amelie is a horror movie. It is about a young woman who cannot emotionally connect to others and breaks into the homes and gaslights those she deems worthy of her vengeance. She also stalks the object of her affection; it's okay because she is attractive and he is also damaged.
*Breathes deep and lets loose the inner nerd.* Aaaaaaaaaaaactually MUGGLES (Hogwarts is in the UK, not North America!) don't and can't stumble into Hogwarts because there are, and I quote *"Powerful muggle repelling charms on every inch of the grounds and castle"* which make it look like a mouldy, rotting old pile of debris and ruins that are fenced off and labeled as 'dangerous' and which cause approaching muggles to *"Spontaneously remember things they suddenly have to do"* causing them to always turn around and leave if they get close. :'D I tried so hard not to post, but suddenly I was here, writing. Do you even Potter, bros?!
4:35 "much like HP, my adolescence was a series of conspicuous animal mishaps and wand explosions" Michael nonchalantly made a joke about having sex with animals and masturbating and the whole gang just glossed over it like it was nothing 💀
"Dustin" got the muggle/no mag thing wrong. They don't prefer to be called no mag now. It's a difference of cultural slang. U.K. Peeps say Muggle and stateside it's no mag. PS Hufflepuffs rule!
Marvel. Thalia Clearly, you never saw the "honey badgers just don't give a f***" video. The badger rips a snake apart and just doesn't care. Again, Hufflepuffs rule! 👍🏻💪🏻🍕
I started reading a webtoon recently that is pretty much of this exact premise. A lady dresses up and tactical gear so she can get close to her superhero crush, not realizing she became a supervillain along the way.
Truman Show was a straight up Horror flick about the publicly staged gaslighting of a studio owned slave for his entire life...
But that was addressed in the movie quite a bit, people protested against it saying that he was in a prison and tried to let him know/get him out. But yeah, still creepy that most of the world is okay with it.
Also felt like the ending was just the beginning. The real world would be horribly strange to Truman and he definitely has a great lawsuit to get on with. With how gritty and unfriendly things would seem, it might be like leaving a vault from the Fallout series XD
Except Truman has no legal grounds. Remember the beginning? The court ruled that corporations could own people. That's why Truman was where he was. After Truman left, he would not have any legal rights.
Caesar Seriona
However they could very easily challenge the earlier ruling as unconstitutional on the grounds that owning a person is equal to slavery. If their courts are okay with slavery, then his world has a much larger problem in which he could be the revolutionary trying to fix it and that is a movie I'd want to see XD
Essentially, everyone alive in his lifetime in his country would know him, but all he would know is disillusion & deceit. They'd have found his body looted and violated laying face down in a ditch by then.
Truman Show II: "In case I don't see ya, Good Night!"
Also in Harry Potter, it seems like you can count on one hand the number of wizards/witches who think that nonmagical people have even the most basic human rights. Dunno if it made it into the movies, but I remember the Quidditch World Cup had a normal, nonmagical guy collecting entry fees, and every time he expressed how odd it was whenever some wizard didn't realize that they're supposed to pay with mundane money instead of gold doubloons, a wizard would dash out of the nearby shrubs and wipe the poor sap's memory.
Seriously, that shit is disturbing. Why did it need to be a normal person with no knowledge of magic? Why couldn't it just be some wizard teenager getting paid minimum wage? Hell, why couldn't it be the asshole on mind-wiping duty? Because it was very explicitly shown that the repeated mindwipes was having lingering effects on the poor guy. He literally didn't know what *month* it was. What's the backstory there? Does some poor family think that their brother/son/father/whatever relation is suffering from some kind of early-onset dementia?
***** I have no goddamn clue. If they absolutely needed to have it there...well, fuck. They're wizards. *Gold coins* are used as normal currency. Just buy the fucking land and be done with it.
But instead, they give a man brain damage because...reasons.
Hell, they barely give themselves human rights. Azkaban anyone? A ten year sentence means that you'll come out a drooling idiot and everyone knows and no one cares.
They deprive their children of basic general education beyond the 2nd grade, of course they're going to do this stuff. The civil rights movement, the holocaust, social studies, literally anything about muggle history (A.K.A 99%of history) is ignored.
@@MySerpentine How is that different from out prison system lol
@@DavidLopez-en6el We're not deliberately torturing prisoners, guards and anyone who happens to get too close?
After hours continues to be the most entertaining show on youtube
and swaim never ceases to make me chuckle
Zayahnah swaims a legend indeed matey! :-) and soren is so much like my poor brain!
Just gonna point this out: Hogwarts CAN'T be found by humans. The same charm put on the Quidich finals is placed on almost all major magical gathering places AND Hogwarts specifically looks like an unsafe, dilapidated ruin, so no one would ever want to enter it. If a muggle gets too close, their subconscious starts to turn them away. Also, there's an entire section of the Ministry of Magic that goes around Men in Black-ing every muggle who comes into contact with magic and they do a MUCH better job at covering it up than MIB. The video was great other than that.
I dont know , a lot of youtubers seem to like roaming around dilapidated buildings lately.
David Bruder i was thinking the same thing honestly
"Hold on, I'm losing track on who's actually a racist."
Don't ever change, Michael.
Cracked did
@@DavidLopez-en6el yeah
@@DavidLopez-en6el *Sniffle* Yeah... yeah they did.
It’s Katie, Katie’s the racist
the Dobler-Dahmer theory anyone? Any one act or gesture can be interpreted as lovable or creepy depending on the feeling of the recipient of the act to the perpetrator.
"Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound" ~ Queensrÿche, from Another Rainy Night
Nice Stranger Things group costume
Didn't notice it till now, but it's suddenly so obvious... Not sure who Daniel is supposed to reference if that's the case though.
EDIT: Nvm... he must be Barb; the forgotten Stranger Things character...
I couldn't figure it out either. How horrible is it that we continue to forget about poor Barb.
Wouldn't he be Eleven? She escapes in a hospital gown and her nose bleeds when she uses her powers.
lulu Sparkles fucking Barb...😆
Lanique Davis Eleven is Soren. The one to the left of the two male side of the camera. He has both the gown and the neural net cap or whatever they are actually called. Something frequently seen as part of Eleven's flashbacks.
The real horror about Harry Potter is that they've had limitless drinkable water for centuries and still let people die of cholera and dysentery, and other such diseases well into the 21st century, just because some jumpy fanatics tried to burn witches in a couple of isolated incidents in the middle ages.
The real horror is that thousands of magical incidents which very well could be deadly affect muggles every year and are swept under the rug, their memories of it erased.
The real horror is that consent altering "love potions" are sold to minors.
The real horror is that despite having alternative sources of energy, the wizards still let the muggles destroy the earth with fossil fuels. And still use slavery well into a technological age where it should have become obsolete.
The real horror is that cancer treatment potions weren't disclosed to muggles.
The real horror is that tens of millions of people died in concentration camps around the world, or on the battlefield, whereas a couple of imperio curses could have prevented it all, if the wizards had only cared to look outside of their own community.
The real horror is that the wizards seldom realize that the muggle's technology has surpassed theirs, and that the muggles have weapons infinitely more powerful than some "elder wand".
The real horror is that the world is divided in a curtain of secrecy and hate, instead of being united under one righteous leader who could guarantee the greater good of all humans, end all war, and let science and magic benefit each other.
The real horror is that Grindelwald lost and that Dumbledore won.
(SPOILER ALERT) I may be a little rusty here, but wasnt Grindelwalds end goal similar to Voldemorts, ie wizard supremacy? Would the world be EVEN MORE of a shitstorm of class division and slavery and wanton cruelty if he won?
696190 Well, the above statement about imperio curses being used to prevent war kind of implies wizard supremacy. But it's not a "general wizarding supremacy". It's more like a dictatorial supremacy of Grindelwald over everyone else.
As a counter argument, if Grindelwald's goals had been aligned with voldemort's, then why did he resist torture, refuse to disclose the location of the elder wand, and get killed in his cell? Shouldn't that be a hint that he doesn't agree with Voldemort's vision and that he was ready to die for his own vision?
You left off squibs being so disregarded by the wizarding community that Neville's uncle subjected him to two tests, one that could have killed him, and one that definitely would have killed him, to force Neville, a tiny child, to use magic to save himself. Better dead than squib. Denied a Hogwarts education, despite many classes requiring zero magic, including, I will argue, potions, rendering them basically unemployable. Filtch only has his job as groundskeeper of Hogwarts because Dumbledore pity hired him.
Honestly this comment is much more convincing than anything in the video. Lol It really does make you realize how isolationist the wizards are.
GregTom2 this comment kind of assumes that wizards are responsible for the world, but theyre not? they have pretty much separated themselves from normal human society and created their own. it'd be like if the amish could supernaturally cure cancer, that doesnt mean they have to travel the world to heal everybody, they'd still be isolationists...
Actually the comparison between Damien and Harry was one of the weirdest but most real statements I've ever heard
I know they're Stranger Things, but Dan looks like a Golden Girl
Ty I had no idea who they were dressed up as till u said it LOL
Jackson DeStefano c
Is he Barb???
Sandra Rauda I think that's what he was going for but I'm not sure
ohhhhhhhhhh
that was a shitty barb
Really, creepy behaviour being categorised as romantic or cute is fairly common in movies.
The quarantine makes me miss this more, it was my favorite thing on cracked. Now I live vicariously through the screen, sitting with my friends who talk pop culture
Make sure you watch the two other ones they made on Swaim's Small beans channel
Literally just noticing this, where did Soren get that waffle?!
ELEVEN LOVES WAFFLES DAMNIT THIS IS NECESSARY
Ok Fair point, but I agree with the original question. Where did Soren get that Waffle from? It wasn't in that bucket he dumped out and his outfit has no pockets. So where did Soren get that Waffle?
Well, Eleven is telekinetic, at the cost of brain and nose bleeds. He clearly magicked it over off screen and had an anurism.
It Was An Offering From The Graveyard Bro...
At 5:25 his nose starts bleeding.
Queue a million comments about how you're only subscribed to Cracked for After Hours
And Obsessive Popculture Disorder.
...and Today's Topic
James Todd ...can we throw in honest commercials as well?
Ooh, and Escort Mission.
and their sketches like that superhero one, and that space one
I have rewatched the shows about 5 times now and it’s still pure gold. I wish the After hours came back
"I'm losing track of who's an actual racist."Best way to sum up this year
If you're going to bring up anything from Harry Potter in this context, at least mention Dumbledore in passing. His actions have a field of potential interpretations that you just missed out on completely. So much so that he's become one of the most bipolar characters within the fanon, just working off of the books alone.
Look at the first scene of the first book. Albus leaves an infant on the doorstep of people who he has been warned of, and who he knows - as he admitted himself later, at the end of the fifth book - who he knows will most likely mistreat the child at best. Not only this, but he does this in the dead of night, within the first few days of November. In Britain. He did not apply any sort of protective magic on the child that night, leaving him to the cold. Or to wake and wander off. Or to be noticed by a passing stranger or a hungry dog. Or to be stepped on by Vernon as he left for work the next day.
Think what you will of Albus Dumbledore, but he left a child to die, knowing that if the child survived, he would grow up in a household that would mistreat him. In this context, I don't know how you can reference Harry, who during the instances you mentioned was but a child, but then fail to look into perhaps one of the most well known Harry Potter characters outside of Voldemort and Harry himself.
Also, muggle repelling charms are noted multiple times throughout the series, as is the obliviation spell and a departement of the Ministry of Magic that's literally known as the Obliviators, who act much like your Men in Black reference in cases of magic.
Villain Cafe needs a table for Dumbledore, Glinda, Charles Xavierand the rest of the 'Heroic Mentors' who turn out to be narcissistic sociopaths who send children to face deadly peril for their own amusement.
Not only did he leave Harry with his abusive relatives, it's implied in Order of the Phoenix that he threatened or blackmailed Petunia into keeping him thanks to him sending that "Remember my last" Howler. No context, just three words, and Petunia goes from being ready to let Vernon throw Harry out to telling him to go to his room.
Then the fact that, in eleven years, Dumbledore never checked up on Harry, never popped by to make sure that Vernon and Petunia were OK raising The Boy Who Lived, and when Harry strait up *tells* Dumbledore that he's abused, Albus sent him back to the Dursleys with nothing but a vague warning delivered by Moody that they're being watched.
Let's be honest here. This is the only reason a lot of us are still subscribed.
Not complaining. Just stating a fact. I love this show.
Eh, I like a whole bunch of their other content too. Statistically, so do plenty others :d else they wouldn't be making it.
Nope I unsubbed a year ago because their content relies too much on unironic clickbait, including After Hours.
And considering I've found the quality of many of the recent AH's to be severely lacking, I'm happier without Cracked in my subscribed feed.
(And I'm not saying they don't put work in to AH, but they are struggling to find strong inspiration, and rehashing past ideas in the effort. It has been something like 6 years since the first one IIRC - just double-checked, it looks like tomorrow is the 6 year anniversary)
Whatcha doing over here, eh, Sammy? Just, uh, sayin hi? Just sayin hello to all yer pals?
Likes usually aren't the deciding factor in content creation.
Pff, I'm not subscribed. I just go to the trending part and boom, AfterHours.
"my teen years being filled with animal mishaps and wand explosions" 4:35 i laughed at this way too much.
Another After Hours? uggh. I only watch Cracked for the text based videos with no voice over.
I thought I was the only one!
Shawn I honestly love the text based videos.
Shawn are you kidding? If not why bother clicking on this one?
This comment gave me cancer.
i watch any video that that talks about a movie i've seen
Dan is the only man that is just as adorable in awful 80s glasses as he is without. He's a favorite.
Muggle's can't see Hogwarts, it just looks like an unsafe ruin to them
Is that canon?
ToastierCarp
Yup it's one of the facts about Hogwarts that Hermione brings up to reiterate how smart she is
Because nobody ever goes to explore creepy abandoned buildings, right?
(JK, they do. It's like the premise of a whole bunch of horror movies.)
That can't be true, because Mr. Filch, the caretaker at Hogwarts, is a muggle.
Probably why he's so angry all the time.
"GOD DAMMIT I JUST CLEANED THIS ROOM! It looks like a 200 year old abandoned ruin again!"
I like that Cyanide and Happiness is doing the animations for After Hours now.
Can you guys do a video about South Park, like what you did for the Simpsons.
This dude! This dude right here! YES! Please Cracked, do a video about South Park!
why? it's a parody show already. South Park mocks everybody.
Why not? It would be a meta parody!
No, don't. South Park is dumb.
cptnoremac You're dumb... On that.
I love the co-op with Cyanide & Happiness.
I've been wondering why no one has been mentioning that
Yeah, I saw that too.
karsten69 when
presdent hutch did you not see the cartoon part of the episode? go watch it again
7:32
Werther's. Because you're werth it
Werther's. If you like to wear her's.
Werther's. Kills bugs dead.
you're either werther's or against ers
FrodoTheDodo i put my thing down flip it and reverse it?
@@gunzenbombzinc6688 👍👍😂😂😂😂😂
curb-stomped by decor. that's gonna be the name of my Nu metal band. who's with me?
"Now imagine if that power wasn't given to Mel Gibson but some lunatic who has no respect for women"
like... Mel Gibson?
That's the joke.
Anthony Sforza and women, and probably a lot of people
I'm kind of afraid to actually research the guy's dark side; I have yet to even start enjoying his films and he's already ruined himself for me.
WOOOOOSH
R/woosh
Omg! I love how they were character from Stranger Things this year. Katie was the sherif, Daniel was Barb, Soren was Eleven and Micheal was.....the one kid who did not have his front teeth I forgot his name! But still, that was good cause for a second I was thinking (hoping) they would talk about the series
Dustin?
Illier1 Was that his name? Thanks! I only remember Lucas and Will.
Yep, Dustin, and I'll always remember the fourth kid's name cause of this:
"Well, my name's Mike, short for Michael... How about we call you 'El', short for Eleven?
Cosmo K-13 dustin
I really need to watch Stranger Things. I thought Katie was Rick Grimes.
Actually, I was totally creeped out by just about every scene in Love Actually. Such a bizarre movie that I found hard to take seriously.
Swaim as the kid from Stranger Things is perfect
Aren't they all characters from Stanger Things? Soren as Eleven, Katie as the sherrif who punches everyone and Dan as... dunno, the mom who goes crazy?
Beriorn Yes but I wouldn't call Barb, Eleven or the cop "the kid from Stranger Things".
Beriorn Dan is Barb0
*Barb* My finger hit the zero
lulu Sparkles good for your finger
back in "11 Movie Alternate Dimensions With Horrifying Downsides" Katie had considered living in Pleasantville but now she rightfully calls it a nightmare.
Still watching in 2023 🤘
...and 2024 🤘
and 2024
And 24!
And?
10/26/24
Wait, how did Idiocracy not make this list?? It's supposed to be a comedy, but it's really the scariest movie I've ever seen!!
And still has a chance at being our future.
Here in 2022, Cracked never rose back to its golden era. I get companies doing dumb stuff becasue of some potential to make money, but they could've just left Cracked alone.
Just as an aside, whoever reads this: If you haven't seen the Japanese movie Katie mentioned - House (or Hausu) - SEE IT. It's easily one of the just balls-out weirdest movies you will ever experience. It's not even a horror movie so much as a dark, dark comedy from the POV of psychotic ghosts.
That's the one where a guy gets turned into bananas for no reason, right?
+Master Markus Yep. And that's one of the LEAST weird things that happen.
Jason Blalock it's on hulu, yall. watch it.
Is it related to the two American horror moves called House and House 2?
cptnoremac absolutely not. it came out in 1977 and is an experimental art film in the criterion collection
British people wear trousers
Ewwww
What about "jumpers"?
Jumpers are sweater I think
What abouy grapes?
Corect.
Still watching 2024🎉
4:24 No-Maj is the American term for muggles, not what the muggles refer to be called.
Muggles/No Majs can't see Hogwarts, it just looks like a pile of ruins to them. It's in the books.
what if someone researches the area and looks into the history and turns these "ruins" into a museum and invite people for tours of the castle.
it's also said in the books that once yo approach the "ruins" a spell makes you to think you forgot something and go away
Then how can _I_ see Hogwarts, huh?! I don't have magic powers, and I saw that damned school in every single Harry Potter movie, AND at Universal Studios!
If I saw some ruins I'd be like, "sweet, let's go check out those ruins. I'll bring my camera"
Do they have a spell for cameras too? Is that what happened to that blank roll of film I got developed?
I believe places like Hogwarts are also surrounded by Muggle-repelling charms, so if they get close enough they suddenly remeber urgent stuff they have to do.
I feel that in some another, parallel world, there is a charming and wacky rom-com that's a prequel to our world's Jessica Jones netflix series.
why?
"He was a mind-controlling supervillain. She was a fledgling superhero. But what happens when the only power you can't control . . . is love?"
I think you've used Beauty and the Beast a good few too many Times now, cracked.
Valter Östberg , lol, it is the 25th anniversary after all...
Valter Östberg Theres alot to it that people dont see until these people bring it out into the open. Also they just remade the movie.
i thought they were going to use monsters inc when talking about “literal monsters”
Billy and Ted, Back to the Future, and Beauty and the Beast; this is Cracked's wheelhouse.
I love how Soren keeps having these episodes where he is having a mental breakdown. Its funny to me
"Much like H.P., my adolescence was a series of conspicuous animal mishaps and wand explosions."
It started out strong, but then got confusing and kinda meh
Well, that's what happens after you turn 30.
*20
*13
Alister No
Nimesh Singh Yes.
thank god I'm not the only one who thought love actually is actually fucked up
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If you're interested (and I know this is a super old comment, but whatever) the I Hate It But I Love It podcast did an entire episode of how fucked up Love Actually is.
love the Stranger Things costumes!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
OHHHH! THEY"RE DRESSED AS THE KIDS FROM STRANGER THINGS!
it only took me 7 years to figure this out.
I have now binge watched at least 50% of your channel in the course of a week
This may seem weird but Dan looks...good in that outfit. Huh. The more ya know.
that "once you become enlightened" bit wow shit was funny af😂
Im so high I watched this whole video without noticing stranger things costumes
and I just rewatched it after realizing it was shot in GA and I've been enchanted by my not noticing that at first...😤
Is that Jesus working the grill?
Jesus, as in the common Spanish name? Or Jesus as in biblical character?
@@carultch its the second coming foreshadowed by a cook named jesus(latin).
@@yesmansam6686 Jesus's name is Iesus in Latin. The J didn't exist in the original Latin alphabet, and was originally the letter "i". It would be said as "ee-yessoos".
Just like what we know as Jehovah, was Iehova in Latin, as Indiana Jones is painfully aware of learning.
@@carultch whoops
What Women Want is disturbing, imagine a What Men Want. I have a feeling that film would end with the heroine becoming a lesbian.
Somebody hasn't seen True Blood
The episodes were too damn long.
Well it looks like you will get to see exactly how that would end!
Good news; I'm from the year 2018 and many bad things are happening, but they're making What Men Want and it stars Taraji P. Henson!
No word on any sexuality-forming denouement at this juncture.
You know... I'm surprised it didn't make the dude gay XD
I JUST FUCKING REALIZED THAT THEYRE ALL CHARACTERS FROM STRANGER THINGS. OH LORD I LOVE THIS CHANNEL. PLEASE DONT EVER STOP MAKING AFTER HOURS. IT IS GENIUS
Well nice to see the only good content on this channel
Peter Klint This and Pop Culture Disorder
I miss AoC and Does Not Compute
vnikyt today's topic has some charm too
Escort Misson and OCD are both great too
The spit take has some good momments
A comfort show I’ve been watching since it first posted! Now show on TH-cam like it
No show* sorry for the typo
Is Daniel supposed to be Barb? Hot
5:49 "Stop, my brain can't not categorize these!" Felt that. Don't need to burn resources and storage space on those brilliant titles for a passing joke
All dressed as characters from stranger things my favourite is Daniel as Barb lol
0:39 The best pickup line in history!
"You ever wonder what it would be like to... die in a plane crash?"
Still watching in 2024 🤘
3:54 if you had read the pottermore articles (or you know, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), you would know Hogwarts have extensive muggle-repelling charms, including one that makes it appear to be ruins to a muggle. There's also a muggle-repelling charm making muggles suddenly "remember" something they had to do, but I’m not sure if those were placed on Hogwarts.
"Monsters who feed on fear"?
.... Monsters Inc, anyone?
I'm sooooooo glad u guys brought back after hours 😭😭😭😭😭 nvr stop plz
I totally came up with the Theory that Rowan Atkinson was meant to be Christmas Spirit in Love Actually! I never looked to see if it had already been come up with, but now I learn it was supposed to be in the original script. Makes sense now how I came to that conclusion. * sigh * Just another ingenious idea I've had that someone more successful than me had already come up with first. :/
Whenever I have an idea that ends up already existing or getting made shortly thereafter I take that as a compliment. Especially if it was a successful implementation of my idea. It really just shows that you're onto some good ideas. All you gotta do is keep at it and eventually you'll find something to pursue that hasn't been done previously.
John Edwards I was always too cautious of looking at it as a compliment in case people thought I was already being pretentious. Thanks. ^-^ Perhaps I'll start patting myself on the back a little more.
Conor Langford I don't see it as being pretentious myself, unless you are going around saying,"I had that awesome idea too! So I basically came up with that!" lol But yeah, why not? We all need a little encouragement and self-confidence/sel-assuredness. Heck, I'll pat you on the back too! *pat pat* :D
John Edwards Earth needs more people as natural supporter like yourself. >w
Conor Langford Thx. That makes me happy to hear. :)
6:13 "Or an entire race of people", what? He's a anti-Semitic not a racist. Their religious culture not a race.
Was that ending a reference to the Black Mirror episode "White Bear" ?
The opening of this episode has my favorite "someone states something and gets proven wrong immediately" jokes ever
If Rick Grimes came to my house with love cards I wouldn't be creeped out
I find it hilarious that I first took the 'actually they prefer to be called 'No Maj' now' as a joke, and then I saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Cyanide & Happiness ftw!!!
I have loved what you all have been doing with this specific part of Cracked, After Hours, for years! I absolutely love it please don't ever stop! At least for a very long time 😁 you 4 are great and what you do, analyzing pop culture and the like is beyond entertaining! Thanks so much for your time and effort and please keep it up! Fantastic, just bloody brilliant stuff!
Felt that way about MIB for YEARS!
Read the comics, they pretty much admit to just trying to take over the world.
Edward Gil Heard that, yeah, probably because the writer knew what LOGIC is, but the movie people were all "Screw that, let's make them completely justified superheroes!"
yoshimickster Pretty much.
Just look at the movie "Wanted."
Yeah, that seems more accurate...also, is the comic better? I legitimately ask because well...Mark Millar.
yoshimickster Well, I actually just bought the book a few weeks ago and haven't finished it yet.
It's pretty good and the concept is pretty cool.
It's not about some pro assassins just being... pro assassins.
It's about a world where the super heroes have been erased from history, any that are remaining are crippled and have no memory of how things used to be.
And it's kinda cool seeing a comic about villains without trying to make it seem like they are just misunderstood people. They are all bad people and we're just seeing them as themselves.
That said, typical to Mark Millar fashion, it is filled with a lot of swearing and profanity. Some of the characters have some really dumb names. But that's sort of the point since in a way, it is satire on the super hero genre.
It's been five years, and I still come back to these videos often 😩😩🤦🏾
These stranger things costumes are the best!!!!
0:40 what movie is that?
Twin peaks I think
It took a solid 4 minutes for me to notice the Stranger Things outfits.
Awesome. Love the show. Best on TH-cam!! Thanks for the great work!
if there is any movie that doesn't know its a horror its Eyes Wide Shut.
Nah, Eyes Wide Shut is a deliberate genre swerve. It wants the audience to *think* it's a horror\suspense story, but it's not.
Please bring this show back...I'm going weeks without watching these just so I can forget the genius banter and enjoy it like it's new.
Okay, Katie is Hopper, Michael is Dustin, Soren is Eleven, and Dan is Weird Al? The science teacher? Mike and Nancy's dad? WHO IS HE!!!?
Ethan Muncy i know right!!! wills mum!? who the heck IS HE!
Ethan Muncy BARB! dammit hes barb! 😂😂😂 i see it now!
JESSICA MENDES MARTINS God dammit how did I not notice that! I don't deserve to call myself a ST fan. smh
To be fair though, everyone forgot about Barb :P
Zanian19 ha
Don't get me wrong Jordan is amazing, but I really miss those after-hours! Four years later still gets me :)
Still the only show on cracked worth watching.
Bring back OG afterhours!!
flies to FRANCE ........ france. france
Yeah I thought it was Portugal he flies to
Guess that's the one movie they haven't actually watched.
its not france
it's France alright. Marseilles to be precise. Very high population of Portuguese there. They moved there in the 50's to escape their dictator.
Yup, he flew to Marseilles in France, where there's a large Portuguese population and where the restaurant Aurelia worked in is actually located in real life. The director has confirmed this.
I'm not sure if it is mentioned but Amelie is a horror movie. It is about a young woman who cannot emotionally connect to others and breaks into the homes and gaslights those she deems worthy of her vengeance. She also stalks the object of her affection; it's okay because she is attractive and he is also damaged.
*Breathes deep and lets loose the inner nerd.* Aaaaaaaaaaaactually MUGGLES (Hogwarts is in the UK, not North America!) don't and can't stumble into Hogwarts because there are, and I quote *"Powerful muggle repelling charms on every inch of the grounds and castle"* which make it look like a mouldy, rotting old pile of debris and ruins that are fenced off and labeled as 'dangerous' and which cause approaching muggles to *"Spontaneously remember things they suddenly have to do"* causing them to always turn around and leave if they get close.
:'D I tried so hard not to post, but suddenly I was here, writing. Do you even Potter, bros?!
Lol, was that Rick I saw in the clips from Love Actually? *CARL*
This is instant gold; one of those episodes that is equal parts funny, insightful and actual brilliant ideas.
Took me a while to realize Dan was dressed as Barb
Dicks out for HaramBarb #DicksoutforHaramBarb : )
Haha, I knew Swaim was Dustin, She was Hopper and Soren was El, but I thought he was somebody's mom. Then I got it. Barb. Haha, that's cute.
Love that I can still watch this in 2020 and After Hours is one of the best things on TH-cam.
Ok, so, I have to point this out. "No-Maj" is just the American wizard's term for muggles. Muggle is still the right word, just for England.
I wish they had played Skinner's line in that X-Files clip. His comeback to CSM there was one of my favorite Skinner scenes.
Hogwarts is loaded with enchantments to keep muggles out
4:35 "much like HP, my adolescence was a series of conspicuous animal mishaps and wand explosions"
Michael nonchalantly made a joke about having sex with animals and masturbating and the whole gang just glossed over it like it was nothing 💀
I love the costumes!!!!!!!!
and I watched the end bit 4 times.
Curb stomped by decor. Best line ever.😂😂
There are spells on the castle preventing muggles from seeing hogwarts or any other magic school.
But what if they actually go there on, like, a field trip and just happen to start bumping into walls and getting attacked by trees n shit?
viljamtheninja If they try to enter they get confused and turn around
viljamtheninja all they see is an old shack saying danger. And if they chose to enter they get confused and walk away
The best series from Cracked HANDS DOWN!
"Dustin" got the muggle/no mag thing wrong. They don't prefer to be called no mag now. It's a difference of cultural slang. U.K. Peeps say Muggle and stateside it's no mag.
PS Hufflepuffs rule!
Slytherin for the win.
Marvel. Thalia Clearly, you never saw the "honey badgers just don't give a f***" video. The badger rips a snake apart and just doesn't care. Again, Hufflepuffs rule! 👍🏻💪🏻🍕
Ravenclaw!!! And Wampus for my Ilvermorny house. Damn I'm a nerd.
Marvel. Thalia ravenclaw is an eagle. Eagles eat sneks
I started reading a webtoon recently that is pretty much of this exact premise.
A lady dresses up and tactical gear so she can get close to her superhero crush, not realizing she became a supervillain along the way.
Love actually has been on After Hours way more times than any movie should.