Genie can see the future. At the end of the movie he says "your not gonna find another girl like her in a million years. Believe me I know. I looked.' ... just had to bring that up.
KelniusTV if you think about it, it changes nothing. If he just can look in the future or he even lived it once, the questions in the video are still unanswered.
lol, I love this exchange 01:47 "Daniel, are you worried??" *Daniel looks around panicked* "What?? Yes! Always! About every--! Everything's terrible - stop it!"
i have a theory. in this episode, all four of the after hours crew are wearing blue. that's because they're all just the genie, having a conversation with himself.
You're missing a darker angle to his time-travelling. The genie experiences time out of order and when he gets free we see him live the world in "one hot second" suggesting he can move freely throughout time once free. What if, while chained to the lamp, he doesn't control his time travel power. There's just one lamp and anyone who finds it at any time calls just the one genie to their time period to use his power. So the genie was forced to experience the 20th century and possibly the dark post-internet wastes that lie ahead before he experienced the 14th century. The genie never objected to the wishes and helping people, he objected to being forcibly dragged across human history unable to grow relationships in a linear fashion or see how anything turns out - because he only ever gets to see the few weeks tops it takes each person to exhaust 3 wishes. THAT'S why he goes back to Aladdin. Aladdin and Jasmine's romance, their friends and their new life together is the genies first opportunity in 10,000 years to fit in somewhere and actually see something through.
So Genie was able to form a closer bound with Aladdin over the course of 3 days than he did any of his previous masters over the course of "weeks"? I think we read WAY too much into cartoons...but it's fun. :)
SupraViperhead He has not necessarily bonded that deeply with Aladdin at the end of the first film. Aladdin is, however, the first person he's met/knows when he begins to experience linear time (and is in some ways responsible for his new freedom) so he's good a person as any to start an attempt at human relationships with. This theory is solid, not even Dan could disprove it.
SupraViperhead to be fair Aladdin did do one of the most selfless things anyone could have done, after his 1st 2 wishes flopped Genie tried to talk him into wishing for the girl, but he instead decided to use his last wish to Genie's benefit, if you dont feel a special bond to someone after that then you literally have no heart
+okmann98 I assume that his wrapped napkin didn't hold a knife and fork (like Soren has), but held two knives instead. I'm almost positive I saw him unwrap it and loo confused but can't seem to find it now
My theory is that after the Genie is freed, because he has no limits to what he can do except the three Genie rules, he traveled through space and time to check out other universes and has seen everything pop culture and such. And then, because it was proven that he was the Merchant at the beginning of the film, he decides to tell HIS version of the story, using pop culture references of things non-existent at the time of Agrabah. Thus, all that comedy and those references he said during the movie... NEVER happened! He was a dignified Genie, with only knowledge of what was going on at the time. After space-and-time traveling, he learned about comedy and movies, and other worlds and such, so when he told the story, he inserted those elements in to make his story more interesting and funny to the audience. -- How's THAT for a theory? -- Oh, and he's also the reason why certain Disney Easter Eggs appear in other Disney movies.
I mean it would make sense. Genie just traveling through space and time being a less active Doctor Who character, seeing everything, going to Disneyland and writing the screenplay for Aladdin. Who said that Genie wasn't also one of the writers?
Maybe Genie is multi dimensional, so while he's aware of our future, history and dimension, he's also aware of Alladin's, and chooses to occupy it instead.
xRedTnt Well, technically speaking, since no one was there to see, it can't be proven he did it himself. Though I will admit he has a history that certainly supports the theory, but it can't be proven.
Here's a topic. Is the "Dark Side of the Force" truly evil? And is the "Light Side" truly good? If you have studied the extended Star Wars Universe, you learn that the difference between the two, the truly deciding factor, is that the "Dark Side" is using the force through passionate emotions, which is easier with negative emotions, and the "Light Side" is used through reason and lack of emotions. Therefore, it is POSSIBLE for a person who only uses strong emotions to control the force which will technically be the "Dark Side" and they can still do the right thing, and for a cold, reason based person to use the "Light Side" to accomplish evil.
I like how there is a balance and a middle way in your post, a master of the flow, from all forces, all diverse forms of life , consciousness, and energy and expressions of truth in existence of our Universe. Buddha. To rest in ZEN when the balance of ego tips, to rebalance. To adjust focus of consciousness from all life and consciousness to a single life and consciousness, only as a way to navigate all. To do no harm, and to stay in votive to all life, consciousness, and to continue the flow, or Mandelbrot of existence. Caretakers , teachers, protectors , nurturers , providers for all life and consciousness, only as a choice, offered. Giving eternal possibility, with that higher consciousness and truth, to be manifested from imagination into reality. Truth, and unity. I just agree. I stated why. I think I went crazy thinking too much. I am in the ethos. Now. On a good page. I think I can chill now. I spammed from emotional content, but only simple truth, to cope with a ever changing and scary world. It comes from a complete idiot, but my humanity forced me to. My apologies to all the internet. Da TrollTrampler , I admit defeat, for I should have based my questions and rants, in the form of such elegant StarWarsian. I need to check myself. I shall leave the internet, and get myself back to the lab and perfect my game some more. Besides there were two sarcastic statements that were brilliant observations. Not by you. A sign for me though. So Erin Monat disguised troll , and good intentioned troll out. Please enjoy your day.
I actually just watched Equilibrium because it was streaming on Netflix and the society in it was surprisingly close to how the Light Side of the Force is portrayed in the Star Wars series and it shows the realistic and horrifying outcome of if the Jedi Order were given real control over the universe. Think about it, Jedi are all about how all emotion is bad right? Well, in Equilibrium, the entire society is forced to take a drug that gets rid of emotion all together and anyone with feelings is shot on sight. In that movie, the people with feelings are the good guys, who in the Star Wars universe would actually be the Sith. If you think about it, the Sith really are the good guys of the SW universe, they are just power hungry and corrupt and focus way too much on hate, but ideologically they are far closer than the Jedi ever were. Somewhere along the way the Jedi thought that no emotion was the opposite of hate, when in reality love is the opposite of hate. Their entire system is flawed. If they did allow love, and encouraged it like they should have to counter hate, the prequels would have never happened, George Lucas would be several million dollars poorer, and fans everywhere wouldn't have that burning sensation when they pee. Seriously though, go watch Equilibrium. Its a shitty movie, but gives interesting insight into the Star Wars universe, albeit unintentionally.
Luke introduces dark side teachings into his new jedi order in the extended universe because he knows that it's the person using it and why they use it that makes a sith. In fact it's said that Mace Windu knew some dark side techniques because that is what his purple light-saber means.
Trevor Merrill I don't care what Disney says, we all know the truth and enjoyed the lore presented over decades of work. If Disney wants to throw it out as non canon then fine, but I have my own version and I'm sure others are right there with me.
In Aladdin the Magic Carpet Ride song scene (A Whole New World) there is an Egyptian chiselling the nose of the Sphinx, if he is actually putting the finishing touches on it this would be 2500B.C, however if he is restoring it, it could be any time. But then they fly over China and China has clearly invented gun powder as we see fireworks, this places it around the 10th century or later. Needless to say there are continuity issues.
How is that continuity issues? the 1300s are in the 14th Century, and therefore after the invention of gun powder, and as you said, he may well just be restoring the Sphinx.
LastLaughStudios True, it is believed the Sphinx nose was damaged in the late 1300's A.D, so this would be the setting, however quoting popular culture is a continuity issue, unless as they say, the Genie can exist outside of linear time or can time travel, another possibility is he still lives now and was a writer for a number of famous movies.
To be fair, does the Genie have any way to tell time inside his lamp? The 10k years thing isn't necessarily fact, it could just be his perception, or even just an exaggeration on his part.
I think what your saying is how would he know how many years when by I mean normally ppl would probably make 3 quick wishes then he's back in it it's not like they told him the time or anything and it's not like he could actually see outside during his time In the bottle
Utherix I don't remember Genie being the most reliable person for technical details with exact measurements. I remember him being the guy who made shit up and exaggerated everything.
The Genie is Doctor Who. He's blue, he lives in all space and time and he cannot stop moments fixed in time, like Agrabah being destroyed. Aladin and Jasmine are simply the Doctor's assistants.
+Hemlockable The merchant and the Genie were both voiced by Robin Williams, that doesn't make them the same character. And the third movie actually does end with that same merchant showing up again as if he's been telling the story non stop for all three movies. It's never shown that he was the Genie, he just happens to have the same voice actor. By that logic Rattrap, Dinobot, Waspinator, and Silverbolt are all the same character.
Hemlockable 1. I've never seen whatever interview you're talking about so link or it didn't happen. 2. Even if that was the intention, it never actually made it into the finished movie. It wasn't in any of the three movies or the series. By that logic Arcee, Soundwave, Devastator, and Vortex were all in the 2007 Transformers movie. Oh they weren't, that's because they were cut from the final draft of the script. A creators intentions are often much different than the final product.
Hemlockable I'm sorry who's the lazy one? You made a claim, I asked for a link to proof of said claim. It's your responsibility to provide that evidence because you made the claim so it's YOU who is being lazy.
+D. Lyrium i'm pretty sure non genies went inside the lamp at some point, so it's also maybe bigger on the inside. I do like the point about them both being blue though.
+D. Lyrium I just realized, the genie and the doctor both have a major thing in common: Their name is their job. The genie is a galifreyan, the lamp is his tardis.
Actually, I have to disagree with Dan and Katie. Agrabah MUST be in a future where everyone's reverted to ancient times, because in the 1300's the Sphinx was not being constructed and the Parthenon was not in it's prime as depicted in the montage of Jasmine and Aladdin exploring "A whole new world". The only way that those 3 places could exist at the same time is if the people of the future cherry picked their favorite century of the past and replicated their society because they thought it was better than their current one.
Why couldn't Genie conserve his own personal favorites, like Dan is saying, and he was bringing in that in so that Aladdin and the citizens of Agrabah wouldn't have any idea... Eternal ant farm type stuff. Genie has all these "sets" from different time periods because he liked them (hence the Sphinx before it was built and the Parthenon being in it's prime) and he's kept it all there just for his amusement, like they're saying. Just, Genie's own little aquarium of people and monuments. Forever kept away from the rest of the world. Never to realize they're just stuck in a never ending time loop.
Nightingale Fallen in the film, the Sphinx doesn't look like it's being built--more like being renovated. Also that's not the Parthenon. The Forbidden City firmly places it after the 14th century, so you're still correct that Dan was wrong.
Nightingale Fallen or it just takes place in an alternate timeline/universe where history played out differently. It the writers just never thought about it that deeply.
So you think all the countrys collapsed and decidet. "when was the last time our country wasn't shit?" and some went for 14 century china and otheres decided on 2000 bc Egypt? Thats not that bad of a theory
What if The Genie just had the ability to time travel and he came to the present and saw Groucho and Jack Nicholson and Rodney Dangerfield and cars when a previous "master" wished for the ability to see the future? And what if he had been stuck there for 10,000 years because that same previous master, on his third wish, asked to be sent ~10,000 years into the past, probably without realizing it was his third wish. He was out of wishes and The Genie wasn't discovered for another 10,000 years.
that works, but failes to explain the city of Agrabah not being recorded or existing, but that could possibly be explained by the Mongol Horde raising the city to the ground after the Genie left, wiping it from history and leaving no trace, with Agrabah being a local name, and therefore not recorded in any documents outside of the city
@@FieldMarshalFry i mean citys have a lot of names. History is also really hard with place names. We know that the ancient empire of Kush existed south of Egypt, but we have no ideas what it was. We have texts about citys on the silk road that we don't know if they were in Persia or India because the only person that wrote them down did a shit job. Some city state near the Persian golf could have just been Agrabah but we would never know because why would we.
The Aladdin directors recently talked about fan theories about the movie. The specifically turned down the distant future theory. They did confirm that the intro song guy is actually Genie in disguise.
Maybe Genie just genuinely likes helping people. Remember, as soon as he's freed by Aladdin, a man he has never met before and knows nothing about, he does a big, showy song-and-dance routine about having phenomenal cosmic powers and being able to grant wishes. He even says throughout the song that he "has a powerful urge" to help him out and "he really wants to know" what his wishes are. In fact, the only thing Genie complains about regarding his job is the fact the he goes back into the cramped, dark, lonely bottle for long stretches of time when it's done. He doesn't seem to mind doing things for people, he even insists on it a lot of the time. There are people in real life who like going out of their way to do nice things for others, especially their friends, and most of them don't have the ability to do that within a fraction of a second, at no personal cost to themselves. Think about it, if you somehow had infinite money, wouldn't you pay for things for your friends whenever they were short on cash? Or help them out if they needed money for a major car/home repair or a serious operation? Really, the scary thing about Genie is the fact that he's ONLY helping out his friends with these powers and not helping out the entire world. Or the prospect that Genie's presence and eventual discovery by the rest of the world will lead to an upheaval by the major world religions. The best case scenario there is that the entire world becomes Muslim, either due to the proven existence of Djinn, or forcibly because they have a goddamn Djinn. The worst case scenario is even more Crusades than in real life, and the Umayyad Caliphate taking a lot more of Europe than just Cordoba.
Exactly. If you're a Genie with limitless power, why WOULDN'T you help people? Just because you could? It's not like you gain anything from selfishness, you can literally do anything. There's no cost for Genie to use his powers for Aladdin and his friends. Presumably he doesn't go any higher up the societal ladder than that because there's a lot more grey areas involved.
You guys shut down the possibility of Aladdin existing in another universe because of Genie's references, but isn't it possible that Genie is able to move to other universes? It certainly would explain why he's able to make references to things that shouldn't even exist during their time period. Genie knows about cars and various actors because he's been to our universe.
John Kent Was he always trapped in the lamp? One would think he, and any other genies, were once free before being trapped in their lamps by a being more powerful than themselves.
But if genie were randomly traveling to other possible universes, some of his wouldn't make sense to us. He must only be traveling between then and now in our own universe because all of his references are two people and things that we recognize
+Captain Marvelous Or even more likely, those things ALSO exist in their alternate universe. That's like me arguing, "Tigers exist in the Aladdin Universe, they exist in our universe, therefore they must be the same universe!"
Watching a bunch of these I realized there were a bunch of references to what they're talking about in the background...except for this one. In this one, EVERYONE IS WEARING A BLUE SHIRT!!!
+Brian Cabbit Soren is wearing a 'Genie Blue' shirt underneath a black shirt. Dan is wearing a similarly colored shirt under neath a white one. Michael is wearing a faded blue shirt under a brown sweater and Katie is wearing a blue buttoned shirt.
Not only that, but assuming the animated series is canon to the movies, it had to take place thousands of years before the 1300's seeing as how Aladdin teamed up with Hercules in a crossover episode.
No, the dark thing about Aladdin is the mortality of Al, Jasmine, and the rest of Genie's friends. You see the reason why Genie came back to Agrabah was because Al was his first real friend. Like he explained in the oasis in the first movie his previous masters just treated him like a tool to grant their wishes without any thoughts to his wants or dreams. Aladdin was the first person not to do this and even risked never being with the woman of his dreams in order to keep his promises of freeing the Genie. That act of putting someone's needs before your own isn't just a prime example of friendship, and even love, but was the first type of affection Genie has ever experienced. And it wasn't like Aladdin just kept him around for all the stuff he could give him since multiple times in the animated series he has risked his life to help Genie and only asked him to use his powers to save people, thus cementing their friendship. The sad thing about this is that despite all of his deeds Aladdin is still a human who will age and eventually die and the Genie will be helpless to stop it. Even when he had all of his powers the act bringing somebody back to life was strictly forbidden so when his mortal friends pass away he won't be able to bring them back. Hell, even at some point the kingdom of agrabah itself will die and Genie will be forced to watch it decay into nothing. Now you could say that he watches over Aladdin and Jasmine's children and descendants but then he would have to go through the pain of losing the people he cares about every 60 or 90 years. The dark thing about Aladdin isn't that Genie doesn't know how to deal with freedom but that he will have to suffer never being able to be with the people he loves and cares about because of his immortality.
I never thought about it like that, the genie or " djinn " being immortal. They can outlive their masters until their receptacles are discarded or forgotten about. & I never thought about a genie / djinn desiring a friendship ( with the exception of " I Dream of Jeannie ", where Barbara Eden as Jeannie was crushing hard on her master ). Interesting !
One of the rules is he can't bring people BACK from the dead there have been examples of Aladdin 'loop-holing' his rules before when he tricked genie into freeing without explicitly wishing for it. So i would say its is quite possible for genie to keep people from dying so the immortal time bubble still seems plausible to me
Honestly, I always thought that Genie continued to hang around with Aladdin because, while free, he remembered that he's immortal and his little buddy who was so kind that he was willing to give up the love of his life to free him, wasn't. Therefore, he figured that he'd have his entire life to enjoy his freedom while running about to different places AFTER Aladdin was dead. In the meantime, he only had so much time with his best friend, so he wanted to spend it all with him. It's kind of like how I know that my aunt is probably going to pass away next month due to cancer, so I really want to just drop everything and be with her until then.
3:33 What?! The Aladdin TV show didn't take place after the movies - it took place after the first two movies, but before the third movie. The third movie had Aladdin and Jasmine marrying each other, and Iago leaving them for good to travel away with Aladdin's father. The whole point of the King of Thieves movie was to give us closure to the whole entire story of Aladdin - how could you possibly have missed that? The show aired BEFORE the last movie. It basically was the show's finale, more or less. This alone also destroys the status quo control theory with Genie you had. Also, thousands of movies not taking place in our world has pop culture reference, so it's downright absurd to suggest Aladdin must be taking place in our world. Of course it's meant to be a fictional world. If you're going to talk like geeks about this... how about acting like ACTUAL geeks/nerds, rather than pretending to be? Don't go "Big Bang Theory" on us - we real life geeks and nerds can tell the difference. :P
While you are right on the show taking place between both sequels and I saw that too and it bothered me as well, and that as joke by the end they are over thinking the whole movie and all the choices.
benson55545 But that's also the problem - if the joke is that they are overthinking it... why wouldn't they know then the show is before the last movie? It's rather inconsistent.
I always just assumed that someone from the future wished for Genie to take them back in time, and never wished to go back, so Genie was just stuck in the past with all these Pop Culture references stuck in his head.
No no no! You guys have it all wrong! The Kingdom Hearts series proves why your time travel theory does not work. Agrabah is literally in a completely separate world from our own. One of the Genie's masters obviously knew about this and wished to travel to another world and landed in ours. That why the Genie knows about technology and pop culture. After returning to Agrabah his master made his last wish and the Genie was forced to return to his lamp until his next master found it. And how do we know he was really stuck in there for 10,000 years? The Genie was trapped in the lamp in the Cave of Wonders with no source of sunlight and probably was not able to use his magic in such a small environment, he had no way of knowing day from night. For all we know he could have only been there for a month but he was so messed up from major claustrophobia, lack of sleep and no way of telling time that in his mind he was stuck there for thousands of years.
+RandiumOmen The fact that they spend the majority of the video trying to argue that Aladdin is based on actual history proves that anything goes as far as arguments.
+Alley Cat It's actually tomorrow. :) According to a website: "This year’s festive offering - The Return of Doctor Mysterio - will air on BBC One at 5.45pm on Christmas Day. US fans are being treated to a Doctor Who marathon on BBC America. The channel is airing non-stop episodes from now until Christmas night, with the new special airing at 9pm ET/8pm CT on December 25." So 9pm for me. :)
6:29 Makes sense, but only if you include in the genie's cosmology all of the Greek Pantheon and the monsters that came with it. Remember, the Disney cartoon also had the Hercules cartoon show, and both *Aladdin* and *Hercules* had crossover episodes with no time travel involved. You even see the art style (of the Hercules movie) in the first Aladdin movie, during the "A Whole New World" song. Both series take place at the same time period, which makes the entire "13th century Agrabah" theory fall apart. So unless both series are encapsulated within a "bubble universe" (a la "Phenomenal Cosmic Power!!!"), then something else is going on.
Agrabah doesn't exists in Arabian Nights, it's just "China", many adaptations of the Aladdin story changed the name of the place because it doesn't make sense to be in China.
“Western China” isn’t anywhere close to Syria, dude. But the story was written by a Frenchman in the 18th century, who wanted to keep the feel of the rest of One Thousand and One Nights, but for some reason set it in China. Oh, and he forged two backtranslations of his story in Arabic to trick people into thinking it was a traditional story. He apparently did steal it from a Syrian scholar who regaled him with the story years before. Still makes no sense he’d set it in China.
Not intentional, more like inevitable since the problem of evil is kind of an obvious flaw that exists whenever someone can see future, has the power to stop bad things but does nothing. It's actually worse for the genie, since you could make the argument that the afterlife is eternal and this life is finite so God can do whatever he wants while still being good, but the genie doesn't have this out.
I diiiiid think that Dan's final idea was going to be that the Genie had set himself up as God/Allah and Agrabah was one of the major middle-eastern cities (which would be another version of 'him catching us all in his lamp'). But not really being a god, just a macropotent blue entity. Actually I like that better, subversive Disney.
Would you really watch "Why Aladdin is actually cheerful and life-affirming"? Even if you would, no one else would. Mainly because it's dumb to discuss how a disney movie- of all movies- might have certain implications that mean their characters are *gasp* living out a happy story! I mean... come on. Disney= Happy. This kind of thing is intriguing because it is contrary.
Schwinn D. Dude, it doesn't have to be airy-fairy in order to be positive. Why can't it be analysing Aladdin as a metaphor for something like, say, "We are our own genies, and sometimes we end up like Jafar and sometimes we end up like Aladdin."?
You notice that when he goes on his trip around the world, he comes back with a variety of modern things, like postcards and a Hawaiian shirt. Is it possible that Agrabah already existed in its own pocket-dimension, and Genie managed to break that boundary without thinking anything of it? Maybe he did know about it and trapped Agrabah that way millennia before the start of the movie, and forgot the events that found him imprisoned in the lamp. There's no solid evidence in any scenario we cook up, so there's no point getting too worked up. This is fun, though. I should mention that in the original story, Aladdin was set somewhere "East" of the author's home. East of the Middle East is either India or possibly China. A lot of other adaptations of the story use Chinese cultural themes.
How did the Genie become 're-enslaved' after the Aladdin film? After he comes back to Aladdin (the person, not the film) he's wearing the Lamp-Servitude-Bands again. For someone who's been enslaved for much, MUCH longer than 10,000 years (only 10,000 years in the Cave of Wonders, much longer before hand with the previous Masters), keeping what amounts to your identification brand is not something you would want. Though if we go to the whole 'Genie exists outside of time' theory then wouldn't he in a perpetual state of 'Schrodinger's Cat Existence' where is always and never enslaved to the Lamp? Actually the Genie could have his "Phenomenal Cosmic Power!" due TO his existence outside of time. Without being subject to laws of reality because he is existing in state of omnipresence, he could alter reality to his will. This got a lot more metaphysical and quantum philosophical than I meant it to and I'm out.
These guys all have annoying voices and personalities, its a shame because some of the things they talk about are almost interesting. I wish this was watchable.
Honestly...the difference between Aladdin's Genie and the "Thousand and One Nights" Djinn trapped in a vessel for 10,000 years are hilarious...One's like "I'm your servant, here's 3 wishes!!", other is like "I waited so freaking long, forget the wishes...hey you, you get to make a wish, choose your own death."
The Genie is a probably omnipotent being. I doubt he cares much about being compensated after basically poofing a wedding into existence, especially when he's probably having fun doing it. Also, he probably realized that freedom is great, but he also wanted to be with his friend Al.
I don't think the Genie has Stockholm Syndrome at all. If someone let me out of solitary confinement after 10,000 years, treated me with respect, and asked my opinion on how to use wishes, that guy would be my best friend for life (or until the end of his)!
The proof of your theory is right in the first clip you showed. After he is freed, genie visits the great wall, paris, and modern day new york, before returning seconds later. Clearly Agrabar is trapped outside of time while all of human history passes it by. Hmm an all powerful immortal being, older than time itself, creates an extradimentional space where he punishes the wicked for all time... Why does that sound familiar?
you guys are awesome you've inspired me to write two stories off of your ridiculous but very believable theory and don't forget all their worlds are connected remember when in jasmines little miniseries a mermaid mentioned Ariel from little mermaid
Well, time travel/characters that exist outside of time are often faced with the issue knowing when things happen and knowing they can't change anything big. Doctor Who is the big one that comes to mind. Killing Hitler before WW2 means that the Nazi party never rises to power. all the tensions following WW1 are never resolved, and the technological advancements made during that time out the world behind several years. Medicine , communicatuons, transportation, computers, space travel, science, math, it all gets put back. And all the world tension that was caused by Ww1 remains for years. The economic depression in several countries and the economic boom following WW2 also never happens. Sure a lot of pain and suffering came from WW2, but a lot of things that are objectively good also came about because of it.
Why are the TH-cam titles of every After Hours, and even many Cracked in general videos "secretly" something? Why is it a secret? Is it a secret at all? Why can't it just be an observation you happened to have and maybe just IS a thing without it being a secret?
It's just what some of the first episodes of this series were called, and it's become kind of a trademark of afterhours to be called something like "why x is secretly y," even if it's not much of a secret. It's probably better not to question Cracked logic anyways.
4:40 Maybe Genie is Aladdin's buddy, but only specifically Aladdin's. He cares about the one guy who freed him, but the rest of humanity can go suck it. That's why he stuck with Al and never lifted a finger to stop 9/11.
ok finally, I have watched about eight of these and found one where they let the girl have more than a bit or reactionary part. She actually says something of substance in this one instead of one lining arguments and scrunching up her face.
have you ever noticed what part Michael always plays ? The dumb one. Always the dumb one. And it's hilarious everytime, they're all playing roles, and she does say a lot of insightful stuff in many other videos, sometimes stupid edgy stuff as well. Stop being offended and enjoy the damn video
wow you guys really put waaaaaay to much into it.Its Robin Williams he probably wrote a lot of those jokes himself. Whats Disney gonna do " hey Robin the jokes are awesome but can you make em without any of our pop culture references"? You know since he comes from the vest only time days.
the animators let him do whatever he wanted and had over 20 hours of improv to choose from. they later drew the scenes based on the stuff they thought was the funniest stuff. these guys didn't even bother to watch the behind the scenes stuff from the special edition dvd :(
Taco Bell Nacho Wrap? What the hell was wrong with that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Yes, I know it's a joke line)
for a short amount of time I got a disney magazine subscription as a kid and it featured a comic of genie's origin as a rookie genie. He was trained buy his mentor. Don't really remember much else of it.
The thing is, though, the genie doesn't need to be compensated. I'm sure he just enjoys Aladdin's company. I mean, what would Aladdin do for the genie? "Hey, Al, can you get me a drink? Oh, wait, nevermind, I got one already. I time-travelled back to one second before I got thirsty and conjured up my past self one out of thin air. I did this in less than a picosecond, by the way. Thanks all the same, Al. ... Wanna see an impression of a guy who is either long dead or hasn't been born yet?"
Genie can see the future. At the end of the movie he says "your not gonna find another girl like her in a million years. Believe me I know. I looked.'
... just had to bring that up.
+Serph Black
oooh true
Wow. That honestly blew my mind
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Yeah, it bothers me that they never even referenced that, since it's clearly the answer...
KelniusTV if you think about it, it changes nothing. If he just can look in the future or he even lived it once, the questions in the video are still unanswered.
lol, I love this exchange 01:47
"Daniel, are you worried??"
*Daniel looks around panicked*
"What?? Yes! Always! About every--! Everything's terrible - stop it!"
Dan panickedly attempting to eat with two knives
Mood.
@@Azi084 Yeah, and I mean in 2014 I feel like things didn't seem near as bad as they've gotten, so imagine how different it would be now.
The writers of Aladdin watching this like, "We just wanted him to be funny."
I can see them now...
DAMNIT ROBIN WILLIAMS, WHY'D CHA' HAVE TO PULL THE TRIGGER!
What if Genie created it?
Jakemax10 exactly!
DevilsDebt4Becky yeah, why not years sooner?
Khaled Rapp all author's or just the ones from alladin? and what is it of theirs that is dead?
"I'm gonna stop making things forever now, because of comments."
Excellent foreshadowing of the future of Cracked.
And they got rid of the comments too.
i have a theory. in this episode, all four of the after hours crew are wearing blue. that's because they're all just the genie, having a conversation with himself.
+pojot best theory.
lol that's cool
thats true
oh. my. gawd.
I like this theory a lot.
Anyone else noticed that they're all wearing a Blue Shirt?
+thescaredshadow Hey, you're right. Maybe this was intentional... because blue genie.
I just did
+thescaredshadow I did too
It could have been a quiet reference to Rom.com which they had just started before releasing this episode. Like, a couple months before this.
+thescaredshadow maybe they're each taking on one of the many persona of the genie and having an argument about it the way he would have
You're missing a darker angle to his time-travelling. The genie experiences time out of order and when he gets free we see him live the world in "one hot second" suggesting he can move freely throughout time once free. What if, while chained to the lamp, he doesn't control his time travel power. There's just one lamp and anyone who finds it at any time calls just the one genie to their time period to use his power. So the genie was forced to experience the 20th century and possibly the dark post-internet wastes that lie ahead before he experienced the 14th century. The genie never objected to the wishes and helping people, he objected to being forcibly dragged across human history unable to grow relationships in a linear fashion or see how anything turns out - because he only ever gets to see the few weeks tops it takes each person to exhaust 3 wishes. THAT'S why he goes back to Aladdin. Aladdin and Jasmine's romance, their friends and their new life together is the genies first opportunity in 10,000 years to fit in somewhere and actually see something through.
This make sense to me.
Oh, I like that one!
So Genie was able to form a closer bound with Aladdin over the course of 3 days than he did any of his previous masters over the course of "weeks"?
I think we read WAY too much into cartoons...but it's fun. :)
SupraViperhead He has not necessarily bonded that deeply with Aladdin at the end of the first film. Aladdin is, however, the first person he's met/knows when he begins to experience linear time (and is in some ways responsible for his new freedom) so he's good a person as any to start an attempt at human relationships with. This theory is solid, not even Dan could disprove it.
SupraViperhead to be fair Aladdin did do one of the most selfless things anyone could have done, after his 1st 2 wishes flopped Genie tried to talk him into wishing for the girl, but he instead decided to use his last wish to Genie's benefit, if you dont feel a special bond to someone after that then you literally have no heart
Why is daniel holding two knives to eat at when asked if he's worried?
+okmann98 I assume that his wrapped napkin didn't hold a knife and fork (like Soren has), but held two knives instead. I'm almost positive I saw him unwrap it and loo confused but can't seem to find it now
@@LadyKakataRendevour 0:16
Also his food isn’t something you need to cut
@@LadyKakataRendevour he resorts to using his finger at 4:46, but he might just be spacing out
My theory is that after the Genie is freed, because he has no limits to what he can do except the three Genie rules, he traveled through space and time to check out other universes and has seen everything pop culture and such. And then, because it was proven that he was the Merchant at the beginning of the film, he decides to tell HIS version of the story, using pop culture references of things non-existent at the time of Agrabah. Thus, all that comedy and those references he said during the movie... NEVER happened! He was a dignified Genie, with only knowledge of what was going on at the time. After space-and-time traveling, he learned about comedy and movies, and other worlds and such, so when he told the story, he inserted those elements in to make his story more interesting and funny to the audience.
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How's THAT for a theory?
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Oh, and he's also the reason why certain Disney Easter Eggs appear in other Disney movies.
I mean it would make sense. Genie just traveling through space and time being a less active Doctor Who character, seeing everything, going to Disneyland and writing the screenplay for Aladdin. Who said that Genie wasn't also one of the writers?
Is it? Was it? DO YOU? Love this line.
Maybe Genie is multi dimensional, so while he's aware of our future, history and dimension, he's also aware of Alladin's, and chooses to occupy it instead.
This makes the most sense really. I was thinking he could time travel, but this makes sense as well.
according to the show you can be stronger than the genie by giving your arm flesh to a magic glove.
Or he just sees into the future
Gerald L he’s a jinn so he’s a fire demon
R.I.P Robin Williams
Y U REMIND ME I HATE YOU D':
How did he die
***** Or did he?
Bill Cipher
He did.
xRedTnt Well, technically speaking, since no one was there to see, it can't be proven he did it himself. Though I will admit he has a history that certainly supports the theory, but it can't be proven.
Here's a topic. Is the "Dark Side of the Force" truly evil? And is the "Light Side" truly good? If you have studied the extended Star Wars Universe, you learn that the difference between the two, the truly deciding factor, is that the "Dark Side" is using the force through passionate emotions, which is easier with negative emotions, and the "Light Side" is used through reason and lack of emotions.
Therefore, it is POSSIBLE for a person who only uses strong emotions to control the force which will technically be the "Dark Side" and they can still do the right thing, and for a cold, reason based person to use the "Light Side" to accomplish evil.
I like how there is a balance and a middle way in your post, a master of the flow, from all forces, all diverse forms of life , consciousness, and energy and expressions of truth in existence of our Universe.
Buddha. To rest in ZEN when the balance of ego tips, to rebalance.
To adjust focus of consciousness from all life and consciousness to a single life and consciousness, only as a way to navigate all.
To do no harm, and to stay in votive to all life, consciousness, and to continue the flow, or Mandelbrot of existence.
Caretakers , teachers, protectors , nurturers , providers for all life and consciousness, only as a choice, offered. Giving eternal possibility, with that higher consciousness and truth, to be manifested from imagination into reality. Truth, and unity.
I just agree. I stated why. I think I went crazy thinking too much. I am in the ethos. Now. On a good page. I think I can chill now.
I spammed from emotional content, but only simple truth, to cope with a ever changing and scary world. It comes from a complete idiot, but my humanity forced me to.
My apologies to all the internet. Da TrollTrampler , I admit defeat, for I should have based my questions and rants, in the form of such elegant StarWarsian.
I need to check myself. I shall leave the internet, and get myself back to the lab and perfect my game some more.
Besides there were two sarcastic statements that were brilliant observations. Not by you. A sign for me though. So Erin Monat disguised troll , and good intentioned troll out. Please enjoy your day.
I actually just watched Equilibrium because it was streaming on Netflix and the society in it was surprisingly close to how the Light Side of the Force is portrayed in the Star Wars series and it shows the realistic and horrifying outcome of if the Jedi Order were given real control over the universe. Think about it, Jedi are all about how all emotion is bad right? Well, in Equilibrium, the entire society is forced to take a drug that gets rid of emotion all together and anyone with feelings is shot on sight. In that movie, the people with feelings are the good guys, who in the Star Wars universe would actually be the Sith. If you think about it, the Sith really are the good guys of the SW universe, they are just power hungry and corrupt and focus way too much on hate, but ideologically they are far closer than the Jedi ever were. Somewhere along the way the Jedi thought that no emotion was the opposite of hate, when in reality love is the opposite of hate. Their entire system is flawed. If they did allow love, and encouraged it like they should have to counter hate, the prequels would have never happened, George Lucas would be several million dollars poorer, and fans everywhere wouldn't have that burning sensation when they pee. Seriously though, go watch Equilibrium. Its a shitty movie, but gives interesting insight into the Star Wars universe, albeit unintentionally.
Luke introduces dark side teachings into his new jedi order in the extended universe because he knows that it's the person using it and why they use it that makes a sith. In fact it's said that Mace Windu knew some dark side techniques because that is what his purple light-saber means.
prejudgedcrowd Unfortunately nothing you just said is true anymore. All EU content is disregarded as myth and fiction in the SW universe now.
Trevor Merrill I don't care what Disney says, we all know the truth and enjoyed the lore presented over decades of work. If Disney wants to throw it out as non canon then fine, but I have my own version and I'm sure others are right there with me.
Has anyone else noticed what Dan is doing @ 4:43
Brandinnoo you got me there .i usually watch this with other windows open
Brandinnoo covered in jewels
UnderGrowth same here
Brandinnoo And what's lit up in 5:11?
Brandinnoo Damn! I was going to say the same thing.
In Aladdin the Magic Carpet Ride song scene (A Whole New World) there is an Egyptian chiselling the nose of the Sphinx, if he is actually putting the finishing touches on it this would be 2500B.C, however if he is restoring it, it could be any time. But then they fly over China and China has clearly invented gun powder as we see fireworks, this places it around the 10th century or later. Needless to say there are continuity issues.
Oh and Aqaba is not fictional, it is a Jordanian city.
How is that continuity issues? the 1300s are in the 14th Century, and therefore after the invention of gun powder, and as you said, he may well just be restoring the Sphinx.
LastLaughStudios True, it is believed the Sphinx nose was damaged in the late 1300's A.D, so this would be the setting, however quoting popular culture is a continuity issue, unless as they say, the Genie can exist outside of linear time or can time travel, another possibility is he still lives now and was a writer for a number of famous movies.
Ray Butler im just surprised someone other than me knows about Aqaba. SOmeone else watched lawrence of arabia lately :)
Andrew Meyer I watched an episode of NCIS that they reference Aqaba in, I seen Lawrence of Arabia as a kid and don't remember much of it.
To be fair, does the Genie have any way to tell time inside his lamp? The 10k years thing isn't necessarily fact, it could just be his perception, or even just an exaggeration on his part.
You're saying the guy with near infinite power can't tell time?
I think what your saying is how would he know how many years when by I mean normally ppl would probably make 3 quick wishes then he's back in it it's not like they told him the time or anything and it's not like he could actually see outside during his time In the bottle
Utherix more like have no need for it.
Utherix I don't remember Genie being the most reliable person for technical details with exact measurements. I remember him being the guy who made shit up and exaggerated everything.
The Genie is Doctor Who. He's blue, he lives in all space and time and he cannot stop moments fixed in time, like Agrabah being destroyed. Aladin and Jasmine are simply the Doctor's assistants.
I agree.
Sweet! I never looked at it that way!
Yeah.
Interesting... Thinking outside the box! I like it 😝
Georgia Turner or outside the lamp, or outside a British 1950s police box
Dan's theory sounds like it came from an episode of Doctor Who
Crystal Wong Right! Where's that fan fiction, I wonder? Hmm... *off to search the netherwebs for Aladdin/Doctor Who stories*
Rae Prite If there's Flappy Bird fanfiction, there's gotta be Aladdin/DW crossover fics
Crystal Wong haha definitely!
Crystal Wong I literally just subscribed to this channel, randomly clicked this, watched less than one half of it, and I'm unsubscribing.
electrojones Good for you...???
Y'all seem to be ignoring the part at the beginning where a merchant is just telling you an elaborate story to get you to buy his fucking lamp
+BlazingRedSky There was an editing issue. Basically the scene where the genie reveals himself as the merchant mysteriously disappeared.
wait holy crap so it's all fake?
+Hemlockable The merchant and the Genie were both voiced by Robin Williams, that doesn't make them the same character. And the third movie actually does end with that same merchant showing up again as if he's been telling the story non stop for all three movies. It's never shown that he was the Genie, he just happens to have the same voice actor. By that logic Rattrap, Dinobot, Waspinator, and Silverbolt are all the same character.
Hemlockable 1. I've never seen whatever interview you're talking about so link or it didn't happen.
2. Even if that was the intention, it never actually made it into the finished movie. It wasn't in any of the three movies or the series. By that logic Arcee, Soundwave, Devastator, and Vortex were all in the 2007 Transformers movie. Oh they weren't, that's because they were cut from the final draft of the script. A creators intentions are often much different than the final product.
Hemlockable I'm sorry who's the lazy one? You made a claim, I asked for a link to proof of said claim. It's your responsibility to provide that evidence because you made the claim so it's YOU who is being lazy.
Wait, so Agraba is timelocked? Like Gallifrey?
+Flicka115 YAAAAAS!
+Flicka115 What if the genie is a TIMELORD?!
ahgrahbah?
+D. Lyrium i'm pretty sure non genies went inside the lamp at some point, so it's also maybe bigger on the inside. I do like the point about them both being blue though.
+D. Lyrium I just realized, the genie and the doctor both have a major thing in common: Their name is their job. The genie is a galifreyan, the lamp is his tardis.
Actually, I have to disagree with Dan and Katie. Agrabah MUST be in a future where everyone's reverted to ancient times, because in the 1300's the Sphinx was not being constructed and the Parthenon was not in it's prime as depicted in the montage of Jasmine and Aladdin exploring "A whole new world". The only way that those 3 places could exist at the same time is if the people of the future cherry picked their favorite century of the past and replicated their society because they thought it was better than their current one.
Why couldn't Genie conserve his own personal favorites, like Dan is saying, and he was bringing in that in so that Aladdin and the citizens of Agrabah wouldn't have any idea... Eternal ant farm type stuff. Genie has all these "sets" from different time periods because he liked them (hence the Sphinx before it was built and the Parthenon being in it's prime) and he's kept it all there just for his amusement, like they're saying. Just, Genie's own little aquarium of people and monuments. Forever kept away from the rest of the world. Never to realize they're just stuck in a never ending time loop.
Nightingale Fallen in the film, the Sphinx doesn't look like it's being built--more like being renovated. Also that's not the Parthenon. The Forbidden City firmly places it after the 14th century, so you're still correct that Dan was wrong.
Nightingale Fallen or it just takes place in an alternate timeline/universe where history played out differently. It the writers just never thought about it that deeply.
So you think all the countrys collapsed and decidet. "when was the last time our country wasn't shit?" and some went for 14 century china and otheres decided on 2000 bc Egypt? Thats not that bad of a theory
What if The Genie just had the ability to time travel and he came to the present and saw Groucho and Jack Nicholson and Rodney Dangerfield and cars when a previous "master" wished for the ability to see the future? And what if he had been stuck there for 10,000 years because that same previous master, on his third wish, asked to be sent ~10,000 years into the past, probably without realizing it was his third wish. He was out of wishes and The Genie wasn't discovered for another 10,000 years.
that works, but failes to explain the city of Agrabah not being recorded or existing, but that could possibly be explained by the Mongol Horde raising the city to the ground after the Genie left, wiping it from history and leaving no trace, with Agrabah being a local name, and therefore not recorded in any documents outside of the city
That just blew my mind
@@FieldMarshalFry i mean citys have a lot of names. History is also really hard with place names. We know that the ancient empire of Kush existed south of Egypt, but we have no ideas what it was. We have texts about citys on the silk road that we don't know if they were in Persia or India because the only person that wrote them down did a shit job. Some city state near the Persian golf could have just been Agrabah but we would never know because why would we.
Agrabah, fixed point in time and space - Doctor Who.
It's where the genie goes to die
The Aladdin directors recently talked about fan theories about the movie. The specifically turned down the distant future theory. They did confirm that the intro song guy is actually Genie in disguise.
Maybe Genie just genuinely likes helping people. Remember, as soon as he's freed by Aladdin, a man he has never met before and knows nothing about, he does a big, showy song-and-dance routine about having phenomenal cosmic powers and being able to grant wishes. He even says throughout the song that he "has a powerful urge" to help him out and "he really wants to know" what his wishes are. In fact, the only thing Genie complains about regarding his job is the fact the he goes back into the cramped, dark, lonely bottle for long stretches of time when it's done.
He doesn't seem to mind doing things for people, he even insists on it a lot of the time. There are people in real life who like going out of their way to do nice things for others, especially their friends, and most of them don't have the ability to do that within a fraction of a second, at no personal cost to themselves. Think about it, if you somehow had infinite money, wouldn't you pay for things for your friends whenever they were short on cash? Or help them out if they needed money for a major car/home repair or a serious operation?
Really, the scary thing about Genie is the fact that he's ONLY helping out his friends with these powers and not helping out the entire world. Or the prospect that Genie's presence and eventual discovery by the rest of the world will lead to an upheaval by the major world religions. The best case scenario there is that the entire world becomes Muslim, either due to the proven existence of Djinn, or forcibly because they have a goddamn Djinn. The worst case scenario is even more Crusades than in real life, and the Umayyad Caliphate taking a lot more of Europe than just Cordoba.
Exactly. If you're a Genie with limitless power, why WOULDN'T you help people? Just because you could? It's not like you gain anything from selfishness, you can literally do anything. There's no cost for Genie to use his powers for Aladdin and his friends. Presumably he doesn't go any higher up the societal ladder than that because there's a lot more grey areas involved.
They are wearing blue shirts like the Genie.
You guys shut down the possibility of Aladdin existing in another universe because of Genie's references, but isn't it possible that Genie is able to move to other universes? It certainly would explain why he's able to make references to things that shouldn't even exist during their time period. Genie knows about cars and various actors because he's been to our universe.
Yep. The genie being powerful enough to break the fourth wall is actually a simpler explanation.
+Captain Marvelous But since he was "trapped" in a lamp doesn't that mean he isn't able to go to other universes?
John Kent Was he always trapped in the lamp? One would think he, and any other genies, were once free before being trapped in their lamps by a being more powerful than themselves.
But if genie were randomly traveling to other possible universes, some of his wouldn't make sense to us. He must only be traveling between then and now in our own universe because all of his references are two people and things that we recognize
+Captain Marvelous Or even more likely, those things ALSO exist in their alternate universe.
That's like me arguing, "Tigers exist in the Aladdin Universe, they exist in our universe, therefore they must be the same universe!"
Watching a bunch of these I realized there were a bunch of references to what they're talking about in the background...except for this one.
In this one, EVERYONE IS WEARING A BLUE SHIRT!!!
JamesCPotter13 OH MY GOD! You just blew my mind.
I just noticed it...
JamesCPotter13 You are a GENIE-us.
+JamesCPotter13 Not even counting the employees, I saw two white shirts and at least 2 black shirts, never saw a blue shirt.
+Brian Cabbit Soren is wearing a 'Genie Blue' shirt underneath a black shirt.
Dan is wearing a similarly colored shirt under neath a white one.
Michael is wearing a faded blue shirt under a brown sweater
and Katie is wearing a blue buttoned shirt.
"Is it? Was it? Do you?!" LOL
The 2 knifes are killing me
+AlphaAchilles Because the chili is hot ;)
Can't be in the 1300s because during Aladdin's and Jasmines carpet ride they come across some guy working on the nose of the Sphinx.
Not only that, but assuming the animated series is canon to the movies, it had to take place thousands of years before the 1300's seeing as how Aladdin teamed up with Hercules in a crossover episode.
No, the dark thing about Aladdin is the mortality of Al, Jasmine, and the rest of Genie's friends. You see the reason why Genie came back to Agrabah was because Al was his first real friend. Like he explained in the oasis in the first movie his previous masters just treated him like a tool to grant their wishes without any thoughts to his wants or dreams. Aladdin was the first person not to do this and even risked never being with the woman of his dreams in order to keep his promises of freeing the Genie. That act of putting someone's needs before your own isn't just a prime example of friendship, and even love, but was the first type of affection Genie has ever experienced. And it wasn't like Aladdin just kept him around for all the stuff he could give him since multiple times in the animated series he has risked his life to help Genie and only asked him to use his powers to save people, thus cementing their friendship.
The sad thing about this is that despite all of his deeds Aladdin is still a human who will age and eventually die and the Genie will be helpless to stop it. Even when he had all of his powers the act bringing somebody back to life was strictly forbidden so when his mortal friends pass away he won't be able to bring them back. Hell, even at some point the kingdom of agrabah itself will die and Genie will be forced to watch it decay into nothing. Now you could say that he watches over Aladdin and Jasmine's children and descendants but then he would have to go through the pain of losing the people he cares about every 60 or 90 years.
The dark thing about Aladdin isn't that Genie doesn't know how to deal with freedom but that he will have to suffer never being able to be with the people he loves and cares about because of his immortality.
I never thought about it like that, the genie or " djinn " being immortal. They can outlive their masters until their receptacles are discarded or forgotten about. & I never thought about a genie / djinn desiring a friendship ( with the exception of " I Dream of Jeannie ", where Barbara Eden as Jeannie was crushing hard on her master ). Interesting !
One of the rules is he can't bring people BACK from the dead there have been examples of Aladdin 'loop-holing' his rules before when he tricked genie into freeing without explicitly wishing for it. So i would say its is quite possible for genie to keep people from dying so the immortal time bubble still seems plausible to me
I imagine that sitting next to them in that cafe would be incredibly annoying.
"In Aladdin 3 King of Thieves-" "Dope flick" I don't know why but I can't stop laughing at that 😂
Honestly, I always thought that Genie continued to hang around with Aladdin because, while free, he remembered that he's immortal and his little buddy who was so kind that he was willing to give up the love of his life to free him, wasn't. Therefore, he figured that he'd have his entire life to enjoy his freedom while running about to different places AFTER Aladdin was dead. In the meantime, he only had so much time with his best friend, so he wanted to spend it all with him. It's kind of like how I know that my aunt is probably going to pass away next month due to cancer, so I really want to just drop everything and be with her until then.
3:33 What?! The Aladdin TV show didn't take place after the movies - it took place after the first two movies, but before the third movie. The third movie had Aladdin and Jasmine marrying each other, and Iago leaving them for good to travel away with Aladdin's father.
The whole point of the King of Thieves movie was to give us closure to the whole entire story of Aladdin - how could you possibly have missed that? The show aired BEFORE the last movie. It basically was the show's finale, more or less. This alone also destroys the status quo control theory with Genie you had.
Also, thousands of movies not taking place in our world has pop culture reference, so it's downright absurd to suggest Aladdin must be taking place in our world. Of course it's meant to be a fictional world.
If you're going to talk like geeks about this... how about acting like ACTUAL geeks/nerds, rather than pretending to be? Don't go "Big Bang Theory" on us - we real life geeks and nerds can tell the difference. :P
Booh!
While you are right on the show taking place between both sequels and I saw that too and it bothered me as well, and that as joke by the end they are over thinking the whole movie and all the choices.
benson55545 But that's also the problem - if the joke is that they are overthinking it... why wouldn't they know then the show is before the last movie? It's rather inconsistent.
kurvos You don't watch after hours much do you.
Scott Hall I've watched most of them.
Katie's "Is it? WAS IT? DO YOU?!" cracks me up every time :)
I always just assumed that someone from the future wished for Genie to take them back in time, and never wished to go back, so Genie was just stuck in the past with all these Pop Culture references stuck in his head.
love your after hours videos!!! I can't stop watching them!!!
Every Disney world is horrifying. Just play Kingdom Hearts.
No no no! You guys have it all wrong! The Kingdom Hearts series proves why your time travel theory does not work. Agrabah is literally in a completely separate world from our own. One of the Genie's masters obviously knew about this and wished to travel to another world and landed in ours. That why the Genie knows about technology and pop culture. After returning to Agrabah his master made his last wish and the Genie was forced to return to his lamp until his next master found it.
And how do we know he was really stuck in there for 10,000 years? The Genie was trapped in the lamp in the Cave of Wonders with no source of sunlight and probably was not able to use his magic in such a small environment, he had no way of knowing day from night. For all we know he could have only been there for a month but he was so messed up from major claustrophobia, lack of sleep and no way of telling time that in his mind he was stuck there for thousands of years.
Yaaasss Kingdom Hearts reference!
When you walk away you don't hear me say...
Gootothesecond pleeeeeease, oh baby, don't go
Crimson Ace Simple and clean is the way that your making me feel....Tonight
+RandiumOmen The fact that they spend the majority of the video trying to argue that Aladdin is based on actual history proves that anything goes as far as arguments.
The points about Agrabah at the end remind me of how Galifrey was sealed away in Doctor Who. :)
omg a whovian in the comments. be my friend
+Alley Cat Sure. :)
JoyStar did I miss the Christmas special? Been anticipating it forever
+Alley Cat It's actually tomorrow. :) According to a website:
"This year’s festive offering - The Return of Doctor Mysterio - will air on BBC One at 5.45pm on Christmas Day.
US fans are being treated to a Doctor Who marathon on BBC America. The channel is airing non-stop episodes from now until Christmas night, with the new special airing at 9pm ET/8pm CT on December 25."
So 9pm for me. :)
After Hours! Oh how long have I waited for you...
6:29 Makes sense, but only if you include in the genie's cosmology all of the Greek Pantheon and the monsters that came with it. Remember, the Disney cartoon also had the Hercules cartoon show, and both *Aladdin* and *Hercules* had crossover episodes with no time travel involved. You even see the art style (of the Hercules movie) in the first Aladdin movie, during the "A Whole New World" song. Both series take place at the same time period, which makes the entire "13th century Agrabah" theory fall apart.
So unless both series are encapsulated within a "bubble universe" (a la "Phenomenal Cosmic Power!!!"), then something else is going on.
The view of the palace @5:10 is really reminding me of the original VHS cover for "The Little Mermaid."
Y'all do know Aladdin was already a story long before Disney got their hands on it
Wasn't it part of 1001 Nights, which itself was a collection of (considerably less than 1001) stories from various, often unknown authors?
Couldn't you say that agrabah evolved into a modern city?
I know! I was waiting for them to say that but they never did!
***** Or . . . not.
Like modern day Baghdad?
S Kitazawa Agrabah is Baghdad scrambled
***** Why they changed it, I can't say....
According to 1,001 Arabian Nights,
"Aladdin was a little Chinese boy" and the Agrabba exists in western China eastern Syria/Iraq/Iran area.
Agrabah doesn't exists in Arabian Nights, it's just "China", many adaptations of the Aladdin story changed the name of the place because it doesn't make sense to be in China.
“Western China” isn’t anywhere close to Syria, dude. But the story was written by a Frenchman in the 18th century, who wanted to keep the feel of the rest of One Thousand and One Nights, but for some reason set it in China. Oh, and he forged two backtranslations of his story in Arabic to trick people into thinking it was a traditional story. He apparently did steal it from a Syrian scholar who regaled him with the story years before. Still makes no sense he’d set it in China.
Ryan Houk china in old arab tales is the equivalent of far far away
2700 comments and not one of you pointed out how they were all wearing blue shirts here
I love these vids. They are really cool. I don't care what others say or their comments. Y'all are pretty cool. Keep it up!
okay were all the analogies to religious apologetics and atheist arguments like the problem of evil intentional
I don't think they were. I honestly didn't even notice/think of anything like that.
Not intentional, more like inevitable since the problem of evil is kind of an obvious flaw that exists whenever someone can see future, has the power to stop bad things but does nothing. It's actually worse for the genie, since you could make the argument that the afterlife is eternal and this life is finite so God can do whatever he wants while still being good, but the genie doesn't have this out.
I diiiiid think that Dan's final idea was going to be that the Genie had set himself up as God/Allah and Agrabah was one of the major middle-eastern cities (which would be another version of 'him catching us all in his lamp'). But not really being a god, just a macropotent blue entity. Actually I like that better, subversive Disney.
I'm still trying to figure out if you meant to say "where" or really meant "were" which is significantly more confusing.
Really? It makes perfect sense to me to say 'were', but none at all to say 'where'. Now I'm really confused and curious at what you think he meant.
I'm just waiting for the "Why After Hours Is Secretly Horrifying" episode.
And they titled this 5 years BEFORE they saw Disney's live action, blue-face Will Smith version of Aladdin. Amazing.
Did they do something to the palace at the 5:10-5:12 mark? Is that a part of King Triton's palace? Or am I crazy?
Daniel's reaction to being asked if he's worried is so goddamn relatable for me
Katie’s delivery is always hilariously spot on.
Can these guys do something other than framing things in their most negative light? How about putting things in a positive context?
Then it wouldn't be funny.
Ture, but this is the internet. If they were positive, it wouldn't be a proper representation of the internet.
Would you really watch "Why Aladdin is actually cheerful and life-affirming"? Even if you would, no one else would. Mainly because it's dumb to discuss how a disney movie- of all movies- might have certain implications that mean their characters are *gasp* living out a happy story! I mean... come on. Disney= Happy. This kind of thing is intriguing because it is contrary.
Schwinn D.
Dude, it doesn't have to be airy-fairy in order to be positive. Why can't it be analysing Aladdin as a metaphor for something like, say, "We are our own genies, and sometimes we end up like Jafar and sometimes we end up like Aladdin."?
Craig Cooper Because that analysis would be incorrect. We aren't our own genies. LOL
Or mabye our world is the one in the bubble and Aladdin and Genie are having a laugh while watching the tiny people run around
1:50 What does Dan think about 2016?
You notice that when he goes on his trip around the world, he comes back with a variety of modern things, like postcards and a Hawaiian shirt. Is it possible that Agrabah already existed in its own pocket-dimension, and Genie managed to break that boundary without thinking anything of it? Maybe he did know about it and trapped Agrabah that way millennia before the start of the movie, and forgot the events that found him imprisoned in the lamp. There's no solid evidence in any scenario we cook up, so there's no point getting too worked up. This is fun, though.
I should mention that in the original story, Aladdin was set somewhere "East" of the author's home. East of the Middle East is either India or possibly China. A lot of other adaptations of the story use Chinese cultural themes.
What if Genie can tell the future...
True..
+Jacket-sama-senpai -Kun Or a fourth dimensional being? Vonnegut character?
+Dan Rudy exactly
That would make sense
My favorite thing in all of After Hours is when Dan calls Katie "Wilbert".
How did the Genie become 're-enslaved' after the Aladdin film? After he comes back to Aladdin (the person, not the film) he's wearing the Lamp-Servitude-Bands again. For someone who's been enslaved for much, MUCH longer than 10,000 years (only 10,000 years in the Cave of Wonders, much longer before hand with the previous Masters), keeping what amounts to your identification brand is not something you would want.
Though if we go to the whole 'Genie exists outside of time' theory then wouldn't he in a perpetual state of 'Schrodinger's Cat Existence' where is always and never enslaved to the Lamp? Actually the Genie could have his "Phenomenal Cosmic Power!" due TO his existence outside of time. Without being subject to laws of reality because he is existing in state of omnipresence, he could alter reality to his will. This got a lot more metaphysical and quantum philosophical than I meant it to and I'm out.
What is that behind the palace @ 5:11
at 5:09 ,why is the dick castle from the little mermaid behind aghraba's castle ,are they easter egging us?
Stolen from Cracked.com: Soren thinks friends require compensation? Soren has confused prostitution with friendship again.
These guys all have annoying voices and personalities, its a shame because some of the things they talk about are almost interesting. I wish this was watchable.
My thoughts exactly...
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that thinks it.
Honestly...the difference between Aladdin's Genie and the "Thousand and One Nights" Djinn trapped in a vessel for 10,000 years are hilarious...One's like "I'm your servant, here's 3 wishes!!", other is like "I waited so freaking long, forget the wishes...hey you, you get to make a wish, choose your own death."
First Cracked video I've watched, immediately subscribed.
The Genie is a probably omnipotent being. I doubt he cares much about being compensated after basically poofing a wedding into existence, especially when he's probably having fun doing it. Also, he probably realized that freedom is great, but he also wanted to be with his friend Al.
I don't think the Genie has Stockholm Syndrome at all. If someone let me out of solitary confinement after 10,000 years, treated me with respect, and asked my opinion on how to use wishes, that guy would be my best friend for life (or until the end of his)!
The proof of your theory is right in the first clip you showed. After he is freed, genie visits the great wall, paris, and modern day new york, before returning seconds later. Clearly Agrabar is trapped outside of time while all of human history passes it by. Hmm an all powerful immortal being, older than time itself, creates an extradimentional space where he punishes the wicked for all time... Why does that sound familiar?
they're all wearing blue!
Natasha Hsu Apparently blue registers best on camera, Genie is blue, PepsiCo cuts down rainforests.
God this was entertaining, thanks muchly. Glad I subscribed to your channel. Mmd! :)
I rewatch these every few years, and get jokes I missed all those other times.
This time it was the opposite of stockholmes syndrome
Bonds-holm Virtuedrome. Best joke in the whole thing.
This one went over my head, can you elucidate the underlying joke/reference?
The opposite of stocks are bonds (sort of) and the opposite of syn (sin) is virtue. It was so out there, that it made me laugh.
Definitely wish these were more regular, always love me some after hours.
R.I.P The Genie, Robin Williams
2:12 Um, actually, in the Aladdin video game, there is an old Stop Sign.
you guys are awesome you've inspired me to write two stories off of your ridiculous but very believable theory and don't forget all their worlds are connected remember when in jasmines little miniseries a mermaid mentioned Ariel from little mermaid
buzzfeed just posted an article about this, today. pointing out everything in this video without even mentioning cracked. I'm not a fan of plagiarism.
Well, time travel/characters that exist outside of time are often faced with the issue knowing when things happen and knowing they can't change anything big. Doctor Who is the big one that comes to mind. Killing Hitler before WW2 means that the Nazi party never rises to power. all the tensions following WW1 are never resolved, and the technological advancements made during that time out the world behind several years. Medicine , communicatuons, transportation, computers, space travel, science, math, it all gets put back. And all the world tension that was caused by Ww1 remains for years. The economic depression in several countries and the economic boom following WW2 also never happens. Sure a lot of pain and suffering came from WW2, but a lot of things that are objectively good also came about because of it.
clever costuming choices in the vid guys, dig the genie color y'all're wearing ;)
Cracked someone please tell me are you doing south by southwest or not :)
7:11 Cracked... A group of people who all have no idea where the subscribed-button is.
Disney was being funny by letting the genie reference to modern day customs.
No shit.
fizzledizzle62 Watch your language.
The point is that they overthink things to the point of absurdity.
It's interesting to see where they can go with these things.
Sarvis The Buck It really isn't. It dumbs people down. However, they often show their quality when they dish out facts. Like REAL facts
Nothing is meaningless you bully!
Why are the TH-cam titles of every After Hours, and even many Cracked in general videos "secretly" something? Why is it a secret? Is it a secret at all? Why can't it just be an observation you happened to have and maybe just IS a thing without it being a secret?
Karlos1234ify
Yo, shhhhhhh!
You can't ask about that.....(its a secret)
reddir So there is a secret behind why everything is considered a secret? Secret - ception.
Oh my God Spiro, you can't just ask something why it's a secret.
It's just what some of the first episodes of this series were called, and it's become kind of a trademark of afterhours to be called something like "why x is secretly y," even if it's not much of a secret.
It's probably better not to question Cracked logic anyways.
So this is late but... is that the suspicious gold tower from the little mermaid at 5:10
4:40
Maybe Genie is Aladdin's buddy, but only specifically Aladdin's. He cares about the one guy who freed him, but the rest of humanity can go suck it.
That's why he stuck with Al and never lifted a finger to stop 9/11.
ok finally, I have watched about eight of these and found one where they let the girl have more than a bit or reactionary part. She actually says something of substance in this one instead of one lining arguments and scrunching up her face.
have you ever noticed what part Michael always plays ? The dumb one. Always the dumb one. And it's hilarious everytime, they're all playing roles, and she does say a lot of insightful stuff in many other videos, sometimes stupid edgy stuff as well. Stop being offended and enjoy the damn video
"KING KONG AIN'T GOT SHIT ON ME!"
wow you guys really put waaaaaay to much into it.Its Robin Williams he probably wrote a lot of those jokes himself. Whats Disney gonna do " hey Robin the jokes are awesome but can you make em without any of our pop culture references"? You know since he comes from the vest only time days.
the animators let him do whatever he wanted and had over 20 hours of improv to choose from. they later drew the scenes based on the stuff they thought was the funniest stuff. these guys didn't even bother to watch the behind the scenes stuff from the special edition dvd :(
They even lampshaded that they're incredibly over-analyzing things and you still miss the point.
This looks like it is in a public place. May I ask how the sound is so good and the noise room is slim?
Love it. And you mentioned Dark City, one of the rarest gems ever . SHUT IT DOWWWWWWNNNN. 😂😂 I hope at some point y’all covered that movie .
Is that chick Velma from the Scooby Doo movie?
Nope.. Velma is played by the Girl from freaks and geeks
Taurosa No. The chick in this video is Katie Willert. Velma is played by Linda Cardellini
Taurosa No. The chick in this video is Katie Willert. Velma is played by Linda Cardellini
Taco Bell Nacho Wrap? What the hell was wrong with that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Yes, I know it's a joke line)
Roku Jones I hate you
Am I the only one thats only seen the original Alladin and doesnt have any intention to see the 2nd and 3rd?
+Darren M , at least watch the TV show. The Genie deserves a girlfriend named Eden.
+Darren M no
Nope
+Darren M
No. I haven't either.
for a short amount of time I got a disney magazine subscription as a kid and it featured a comic of genie's origin as a rookie genie. He was trained buy his mentor. Don't really remember much else of it.
I just realized after watching this several times over many months that they're all wearing blue. HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT?!
The thing is, though, the genie doesn't need to be compensated. I'm sure he just enjoys Aladdin's company. I mean, what would Aladdin do for the genie? "Hey, Al, can you get me a drink? Oh, wait, nevermind, I got one already. I time-travelled back to one second before I got thirsty and conjured up my past self one out of thin air. I did this in less than a picosecond, by the way. Thanks all the same, Al.
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Wanna see an impression of a guy who is either long dead or hasn't been born yet?"