Yeah, I work in the trades, and I often use and hear the term gremlin, in relation to unexplainable issues with equipment. Especially in relation to electronics. Those pesky electrical gremlins are quite prolific.
When my Uncle was working at the UK Air Ministry in the early days of WW2, he was involved in the production of a regular training memorandum which was to be released every month and circulated to all units. To ensure it was widely read, they decided to make it light hearted with cartoons and jokes mixed with the serious information they were sharing. They called it Tee Emm and it became very popular with RAF crews. As well as introducing hapless characters like Pilot Officer Prune, it regularly featured Gremlins of different varieties. One article i remember from my childhood was Mind your Marcolins, describing the gremlins who got inside the radio sets, but there were various other breeds.
Slight correction - Gizmo was the only Mogwai with a nice disposition. The other Mogwai were already mischevious monsters (hanging barney in lights, sabotaging the clock, etc), just cute.
If I remember right from the novelization: the Mogwai were an artificially created species by a mad scientist member of the intergalactic community! They were supposed to be cute and harmless and spread love and understanding, but a genetic programming flaw made any of the ones born by water contact turn out to be mischievous little terrors.
Just letting everyone know, there was a recent revival of the Gremlins franchise "Gremlims- Secrets of the Mogwai"-- a cartoon show that actually digs more into the Chinese lore of mogwai and other Chinese folklore. The kid featured in it is implied to grow up to be the old man in the movie. It's surprisingly good!
Thank you. I've been finding myself out of the loop these last several years, and I don't want to fall out of touch. I've always loved animation & I don't want to fall into the trap of nostalgia & retreat into what was popular when I was growing up. This seriously helps. :)
"Why had your plane crashed Pilot Lynn?" *Under breath "This is looking grim Lynn..." "Gremlin?" "Uh, yes! It's like a Goblin, but it messes with machines!" "...Sure, whatever."
I ride a motorbike, we have a little thingy named a Gremlin Bell. if it is gifted to a rider and they hang it as low as they can to the motorbike it's supposed to keep the gremlins off our bikes keeping us safe. I got one from a friend, one of the sweetest gifts in my opinion.
I'm now just picturing the creator of the first plane seeing these little men just wreaking havoc on his work and being like "The consummer doesn't need to known they come too"
It was a clip of this Bugs Bunny short that made a cameo in "Gremlins 2: The New Batch." I figured someone had to have brought up this classic Bugs Bunny cartoon.
As a kid, I saw it as a syndicated re-run in the 1970's. It was titled - "Falling Hare" (1943) - I like the altimeter scene - where the dial (with 5 side-by-side numbers rolling up) is spinning wldly as the plane (whose wings have already been torn off) is in a nausiating power dive. So, the altimeter is spinning and spinning and all of a sudden it stops to read ""Incredible Ain't It?" and then continues spining.
I was on the train in Atlanta, GA with a coworker on the way back to the hotel. We were talking about something that happened at work that we couldn't understand. The train stops, an older gentleman gets up, walks up to us and says, "There are IT gremlins," and turns and gets off the train.
Similar, but with my car. It would have the weirdest problems. If anyone else drove it there were ZERO problems, but when I drove it there would be problems of various sorts. Weird, inexplicable smells (trust me, I had the car triple checked for this), engine light would start flashing only when I drove, etc. The mechanics called my car the white gremlin and the Japanese dude called it yokai.
Thanks Doc. The first many of us heard about "Gremlins" was on the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Falling Hare" (as mentioned by another fan of your channel.) which aired on the 30th of October 1943! Apparently news of the Foo Fighters traveled fast, because thats ridiculously quick! All the best!
I've been riding motorcycles most of my life. Every old school biker I know mounts a small brass bell on the bottom frame if their bike. Gremlins hide in pot holes and cracks and will attach themselves to your bike as you ride over them. The bell rings when you hit a bump or hoke and the sound drives them away. I've had the same bell for a bunch of bikes over the decades and it was given to me by an old biker who couldn't ride anymore when I first started.
My grandmother did the same thing but with bells around the house, she would get ‘weird shakes’ around the house and blamed them on ‘Gramblins’. She said they would have the desire to ring every bell before tampering with things in the house, so she would be able to catch them in the act!
Terrific episode. It has everything I love about Monstrum - the history, etymology, place in pop culture, and cultural implications of the creature, along with Dr. Zarka's enthusiasm and charm.
I remember when I first saw Gremlins in the TV screen. To me, the idea of a kind, innocent creature turning into a devilish monster was insane. What’s even more insane that I later find out where gremlins came from and that it was older than I thought. With this video, it truly demonstrates the foundations of this being that first arrived during the Great War. Funny how such details have an interesting backstory but like all things in this world, everything has an origin. Thank you, Dr. Zarka.
As a kid, I made the error of watching the Terror At 20000 ft episode of twilight zone on late night TV. It was awesome and gave me years of nightmares
Some of these already go along with things they've done, they have episodes on: loch ness & caddy (sea serpent/monsters) sirens & nixie (Merfolk) Kappa Nishi (ghost) Draugur, Modern zombies, Origin of zombies (undead) Dracula (vampires) Tokoloshe (goblin) A lot of these are topics not suitable topics for a single 20ish minute video, like how the zombie episodes were basically a 3 part series
some dear friends of mine a few years back worked on a NZ produced film about this very subject. It's called Shadow in the Cloud and we got to see it in theatres and its SUPER good. highly reccommend!
There are in fact Gremlins, they create a problem that makes you take your car in for service, only to have it work perfectly at the repair shop, so they can't diagnose the issue, then start acting up, as soon as you take it back out of the shop
Fun Fact about the gremlins that were created by Walt Disney and Roald Dahl: although the movie about them was never finished, they do appear in the Epic Mickey franchise.
I love that you touched on the Disney Gremlins! Those guys are so cute and I love that book! And yes, the proposed film never got made but they do appear in the Epic Mickey games as inhabitants of the Cartoon Wasteland where forgotten Disney Toons live.
In the days of the giant dirigibles, Hindenburg and before, mysterious goings on with short creatures, wearing grey overalls was frequently noted... Gremlins in WW I , around airports etc ...
@@OwlCatStudios AND at the same time giving the studio a giant middle finger because you didn't want to make the film while still managing to produce something audiences will love. Tricky is a real understatement. Just taking all those things into account, I can't think of any other film that manages to balance so much while still being so unbelievably fun and entertaining. I was only being a little facetious when I said it was the finest piece of cinema committed to celluloid.
My dad used to say 'gremlins" with a half wink when things would go missing. We flatly said it again years later when something we thought missing was just suddenly back in a spot there's no way we wouldn't have looked at all the time
I think I saw that episode way before the Gremlins movie. It is true that is a parody of the Twilight Zone episode she mentions, but it's memorable enough to deserve mention.
I watched the Nightmare at 20,000 feet as a kid (first run on TV). I loved to be scared but I could get really scared. For years, and I mean years, that show haunted me. My bedroom was upstairs and there was a window where the staircase took a turn. That window looked out over the roof the back porch and I was always convinced that, at night, that gremlin from the airplane wing would be peering in the window. So I would run as fast as I could without looking at the window. Twilight Zone had the perfect blend of scary, wonder, mystery, etc.
one thing i love the gremlins in the movies is that they love to mess with anything electrical and mechanical like the ones in the 1920s, causing malfunctions. they mess with street lights, car brakes, elevators and even ms Deagle's stair lift. its a fun call back to thier origins.
When I was a generator mechanic in the USAF, and gremlins we discussed frequently. Either when you had a piece of equipment that just didn't work properly no matter how much you replaced/repaired parts, or if a repair went very smoothly on a high priority piece of equipment that had been constantly having problems. The only difference was if a repair went smoothly and bench tested properly, we'd say the gremlins were assisting us so that when the equipment was needed, they'd know what to screw up so it didn't work.
So fun fact about the Gremlin movies: During the Gremlin party scene in the sequel, we see a Gremlin dressed as Jennifer Beals' character from Flashdance, recreating one of the dances from that movie, which is a nod to Michael Sembello, best known for the one-hit wonder "Maniac" from Flashdance, but also because Sembello would go on to write the song "Gremlins...Mega-Madness" for the first Gremlins movie!
"for those who want to understand where we stand in the fight against climate change". Girl there's two types of people in this world. Those who don't want to understand that, and those who already know
Mogwai don't breed gremlins when fed after midnight. They breed more mogwai when water falls on them, and then those turn to gremlins when fed after midnight.
Where did you find the physical description of them having suction cup feet? I’ve been researching gremlins for a book I’m working on and I didn’t come across that, but it makes sense in a fantastical way, and I love it. Reminds me of a dragon I made for D&D with a kangaroo-like pouch for holding treasure because it never made sense to me how dragons gathered their gold
They probably swallow it immediately, then regurgitate or defecate it out. It's how most animals will move things they can't easily carry. Either on purpose, or just inincidentally.
I remember a scene from Tiny Toons Night Ghoulery parodying the Twilight Zone episode. Plucky: "Hamton, wake up, there's a gremlin eating the engine!" Hamton, not opening his eyes: "Don't worry Plucky, Gremlins don't eat much gas, they're a lot like Pintos."
The optics of naming the AMC Gremlin was in-your-face for sure, but the police department in my hometown actually used them as cruisers in 1975! It was hilarious, but AMC made fairly sound, butt-uggly, cars like the Pacer, Gremlin and Javelin but then again those were a far sight nicer looking than the things on the road now, and they didn't require online subscriptions to operate.
I used to work as an engineer for TWA and one time a plane came in for emergency landing. Some guy went nuts when an engine failed and was being taken away in an ambulance. I got up on the wing and said "Holy Smokes!". There were claw marks all over and wires were pulled out. True Story
Motorcycles pick up gremlins easily and that's why you attach a guardian bell. The idea is that the bell rings as you ride and it hurts their ears so they ley go to cover their ears and subsequently fall off. And that's how potholes are made.
I thought there already was an episode on gremlins, but I guess I remembered wrongly. I love the more modern legends like this one, especially for how we can study its spread and evolution. I would have preferred some more minutes on the movie impact on this legend though and on why they went for a creature that isn't at all like the one in the movie.
Dang, as someone who spent a bunch of time researching all sorts of airplane related creatures, mysteries, and strange events for an airplane horror game I'm developing, I never heard of these before!
Now we finally get the infamous sabatougimg monsters that also ended up getting associated with Christmas, despite not being a part of the holiday originally, like the Yeti/Abominable Snowmonster.
When some major asked a loely mechanic why the planes failed, gremlins. When the Colonel asked the Major why the planes were failing, Gremlins. When the General asked, Gremlins. Thats how they were born.
Dead Like Me had a recurring motif of gremlins (only visible to the grim reapers) causing deadly accidents for fated people by messing with mechanical stuff and causing people to die by electrocution or heavy things falling on them.
I've got a gremlin in my Sedona. I think we've come to the understanding I won't stop it's knocking as long as it doesn't screw with any other functions
I work as an industrial electrician/technician in the US (troubleshooting malfunctioning industrial machines) and we still use gremlins to describe a problem which was fixed, but that we never figured out the cause of. For example, sometimes there is a loose connection somewhere, and in the process of troubleshooting something else we might nudge or reconnect it, and a bit later when you check, it's working again, because it's slightly less loose and able to make a better connection. The reason they're called gremlins is because usually if something has failed once, it'll fail again, but we can't really troubleshoot an issue that no longer exists, so if we never found what caused the issue, there's still a "gremlin" hiding somewhere. Some of the funnier gremlins I've seen: a machine which, every once in a while, when powered up, will just sit there beeping until you power it off again. The reason it's funny is because the safety horns are very loud, so the operator will call us, and every other word they said is drowned out by a loud "BEEEEEP." Thankfully we can tell who is calling us just from the beeping, lol. Another machine will throw an e-stop until you smack a panel back into place. Strange thing is, this panel isn't connected to anything, just attached to the frame, and the frame is grounded, so the panel doesn't interact with the e-stop circuit at all. Our best guess is that there is a loose connection somewhere on the machine, and somehow banging this panel jostles it just enough that it starts working again. Another machine will make a super loud BANG noise, about once a month, just a single BANG. No other symptoms, and we have checked everything we can think of checking, none of us have observed the bang aside from security camera footage.
I wish more movies and tv shows would use the Tommy Knockers legend, which is similar to the gremlins, bit in caves. They are called Tommy Knockers because when miners would hear knocks and bangs that didnt come from any of them, it meant the mine was about to collapse, and they blamed these knocks and bangs on the Tommy Knockers. The Tommy Knockers would go around kocking the timber supports used to keep the mine from collapsing, either to keep the humans from taking their gold or just for plain fun. Legends can be scary, and while the tomy knockers are something that would cause an intense fear, deep in a mine or cave, but in reality, the scaries thing you could hear in a mine, was the canary going silent. Also the Tomy Knockers was probably coined by a kid who worked in the mines who didnt have a good explination for the noises they where hearing, so they atributed it to some monster their mind conjured up, which just puts a depressing twist on the whole thing.
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I've been working in IT for 15 years now and Gremlins has been a standard term for whenever something stops working properly the entire time.
Dang gremlins putting all these bugs everywhere
It's always good to know that it wasn't PEBKAC.
Yeah, I work in the trades, and I often use and hear the term gremlin, in relation to unexplainable issues with equipment. Especially in relation to electronics. Those pesky electrical gremlins are quite prolific.
I believe in gremlins. They like to test the skills of aerospace engineers.
@@Fyrverk Unclench that fist. It is a weak one.
When my Uncle was working at the UK Air Ministry in the early days of WW2, he was involved in the production of a regular training memorandum which was to be released every month and circulated to all units. To ensure it was widely read, they decided to make it light hearted with cartoons and jokes mixed with the serious information they were sharing. They called it Tee Emm and it became very popular with RAF crews. As well as introducing hapless characters like Pilot Officer Prune, it regularly featured Gremlins of different varieties. One article i remember from my childhood was Mind your Marcolins, describing the gremlins who got inside the radio sets, but there were various other breeds.
Slight correction - Gizmo was the only Mogwai with a nice disposition. The other Mogwai were already mischevious monsters (hanging barney in lights, sabotaging the clock, etc), just cute.
yup! thank you!
I like to think that Gizmo used to be like the others but was trained to be good.
If I remember right from the novelization: the Mogwai were an artificially created species by a mad scientist member of the intergalactic community! They were supposed to be cute and harmless and spread love and understanding, but a genetic programming flaw made any of the ones born by water contact turn out to be mischievous little terrors.
"I would never, ever... make more than one."
According to the series, if the other mogwai lived for hundreds of years, they wouldn't be mischievous anymore.
Today Boeing is the lead employer of gremlins
better watch what you say or boeing will send their "gremlins" to "have a word"
I appreciate the joke, but that would explain a lot
Gremlins are known to test the skills of aerospace engineers.
There are plenty of things that people believe are fiction but my question is what lead you to believe it was fiction?
😂😂😂
Just letting everyone know, there was a recent revival of the Gremlins franchise "Gremlims- Secrets of the Mogwai"-- a cartoon show that actually digs more into the Chinese lore of mogwai and other Chinese folklore. The kid featured in it is implied to grow up to be the old man in the movie. It's surprisingly good!
Thank you. I've been finding myself out of the loop these last several years, and I don't want to fall out of touch. I've always loved animation & I don't want to fall into the trap of nostalgia & retreat into what was popular when I was growing up. This seriously helps. :)
"Why had your plane crashed Pilot Lynn?"
*Under breath "This is looking grim Lynn..."
"Gremlin?"
"Uh, yes! It's like a Goblin, but it messes with machines!"
"...Sure, whatever."
Nanobots strait from the Kremlin
Nanobots straight from the Kremlin.
I love when monsters pay attention to modern timezones.
I ride a motorbike, we have a little thingy named a Gremlin Bell. if it is gifted to a rider and they hang it as low as they can to the motorbike it's supposed to keep the gremlins off our bikes keeping us safe. I got one from a friend, one of the sweetest gifts in my opinion.
If you feed a Gremlin Bell after midnight it turns into Truck Nuts.
@@andersonic😂😂😂
Apparently they have to be gifts to work
@@andersonic LOL
I'm a life long race car mechanic and we still to this day use Gremlins as the reason for failures in gest.
Jest*
I'm now just picturing the creator of the first plane seeing these little men just wreaking havoc on his work and being like "The consummer doesn't need to known they come too"
Gremlins appeared in Bugs Bunny cartoons too. "Falling Hare," was its title.
They were also depicted in an episode of "The Real Ghostbusters."
I knew I saw them in a Looney Tunes too. I had wondered what they were supposed to be. They weren't aliens nor some woodland animal; it was so unique.
It was a clip of this Bugs Bunny short that made a cameo in "Gremlins 2: The New Batch."
I figured someone had to have brought up this classic Bugs Bunny cartoon.
We used to watch a ton of the old Warner Bros cartoons when we were growing up and this was number one on the list of ones I used to watch.
He is favourite gremlin 😀
The Warner Brothers cartoon where Bugs Bunny encounters a gremlin is one of my all-time favorites. It's hilarious!
As a kid, I saw it as a syndicated re-run in the 1970's. It was titled - "Falling Hare" (1943) - I like the altimeter scene - where the dial (with 5 side-by-side numbers rolling up) is spinning wldly as the plane (whose wings have already been torn off) is in a nausiating power dive. So, the altimeter is spinning and spinning and all of a sudden it stops to read ""Incredible Ain't It?" and then continues spining.
I was on the train in Atlanta, GA with a coworker on the way back to the hotel. We were talking about something that happened at work that we couldn't understand. The train stops, an older gentleman gets up, walks up to us and says, "There are IT gremlins," and turns and gets off the train.
Gremlins-a modern urban legend created by British Aviation industry in early 1900s.
It was the go to excuse when a faulty component was used in an aircraft
I had a work truck with so many problems, the mechanic's shop we took it to for repair called our truck "the gremlin".
Similar, but with my car. It would have the weirdest problems. If anyone else drove it there were ZERO problems, but when I drove it there would be problems of various sorts. Weird, inexplicable smells (trust me, I had the car triple checked for this), engine light would start flashing only when I drove, etc. The mechanics called my car the white gremlin and the Japanese dude called it yokai.
"Otto, you've got to do something. There's a gremlin on the side of the bus!" - Bart Simpson
**Immediately steers bus into Moleman, driving him off the road.**
Mole man; (weakly says) “oh no, I just paid it off”
-one of many classic last thing moleman says before catastrophe
Thanks Doc. The first many of us heard about "Gremlins" was on the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Falling Hare" (as mentioned by another fan of your channel.) which aired on the 30th of October 1943! Apparently news of the Foo Fighters traveled fast, because thats ridiculously quick! All the best!
"Falling Hare" 1943 Bugs Bunny , truly one of the best ever!!
WHAT AM I DOING!
I love that one! "We ran out of gas. Yall know about the A Card" 😂
It has one of Bugs' best freakouts. The ones in which he isn't in full control are extra amusing.
i had always wondered where that gremlin came from. its a Strato-Gremlin 🤯
@OvalTBandit "with their dy-a-bo-lick-l sab-o-taugeeee" 😂😂😂😂
I've been riding motorcycles most of my life. Every old school biker I know mounts a small brass bell on the bottom frame if their bike. Gremlins hide in pot holes and cracks and will attach themselves to your bike as you ride over them. The bell rings when you hit a bump or hoke and the sound drives them away. I've had the same bell for a bunch of bikes over the decades and it was given to me by an old biker who couldn't ride anymore when I first started.
My grandmother did the same thing but with bells around the house, she would get ‘weird shakes’ around the house and blamed them on ‘Gramblins’. She said they would have the desire to ring every bell before tampering with things in the house, so she would be able to catch them in the act!
Terrific episode. It has everything I love about Monstrum - the history, etymology, place in pop culture, and cultural implications of the creature, along with Dr. Zarka's enthusiasm and charm.
And the great artwork and animations too! ❤
DR. Zarka wore a plane necklace. I love the detail
I love the idea of sprites who mess with tech so revenge of the fay
‘Goblin Mode’ was a relatable epithet for some of us 😂
That’s my cat when she’s crazed.
At least it's nice to know Roald dahl's gremlins have been going strong in the epic mickey video game
I remember that
We wastelanders love em
I remember when I first saw Gremlins in the TV screen. To me, the idea of a kind, innocent creature turning into a devilish monster was insane. What’s even more insane that I later find out where gremlins came from and that it was older than I thought. With this video, it truly demonstrates the foundations of this being that first arrived during the Great War. Funny how such details have an interesting backstory but like all things in this world, everything has an origin. Thank you, Dr. Zarka.
As a kid, I made the error of watching the Terror At 20000 ft episode of twilight zone on late night TV. It was awesome and gave me years of nightmares
Gremlins are the perfect explanation for when everything is fine and dandy with a machine and suddenly it decides to break down
I would like all these chapters to be in the future seasons of Monstrum.
*Sea Serpents
*Leviathan
*The Headless Horseman ✅
*Phantom Vehicles
*Boogeyman
*Ghosts
*Possessed Dolls ✅
*Shadow People
*Undead
*Goblins
*Bigfoot ✅
*Man-Eating Plants ✅
*Creepy Clowns ✅
*Killer Robots
*Swamp Monsters
*The Mummy ✅️
*Living Scarecrows
*The Invisible Man
*Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
*Merfolk
*Demons
*Skeletons
*Stingy Jack
*Gnomes
*Sea Monsters that attacked Submarines
*Alien Abductions ✅
*Ogres
*Ghouls
*Lich
*Cyborgs ✅
*Witches
*Cthulhu ✅
*The Rake
*Revenants
*Vampires
*Dagon
*Ogopogo
*Colossal Claude
*Spectral Carriages
*Kappa
*Flatwoods Monster
*The Flying Dutchman
*El Charro Negro
*La Santa Compaña
*Davy Jones & the Undead Pirates
*Mutants
*Beast People of Dr. Moreau
*The Picture of Dorian Gray
*Haunted Houses
*Jiangshi ✅
*Ahuizotl
*Gremlins ✅
Some of these already go along with things they've done, they have episodes on:
loch ness & caddy (sea serpent/monsters)
sirens & nixie (Merfolk)
Kappa
Nishi (ghost)
Draugur, Modern zombies, Origin of zombies (undead)
Dracula (vampires)
Tokoloshe (goblin)
A lot of these are topics not suitable topics for a single 20ish minute video, like how the zombie episodes were basically a 3 part series
We should also put phobias (fear of snakes, deep ocean, darkness, mirrors, etc.) into your suggestion list.
YESSSS!!!!!!!!! I am so excited to see Gremlins being covered!
I dated a gremlin once
Melissa?! /S
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Wow! I think I did too! Maybe more than once lol….🤗❤️🐝
My dad drove a Gremlin back in the 70s
@StreetHierarchy a friend of mine did. We called it "the soup can", bc it was the color of tomato soup😅
I love both Grimlin's one and two. The movies in the 80s and early 90s.
🔥🔥🔥🔥Classic movies
@newera5238 Oh yeah, they are. It's to bad they blackout making a 3rd movie.
some dear friends of mine a few years back worked on a NZ produced film about this very subject. It's called Shadow in the Cloud and we got to see it in theatres and its SUPER good. highly reccommend!
I saw this and loved it. Didn't know the lore until now.
"There's something out there on the wing!"
There are in fact Gremlins, they create a problem that makes you take your car in for service, only to have it work perfectly at the repair shop, so they can't diagnose the issue, then start acting up, as soon as you take it back out of the shop
Fun Fact about the gremlins that were created by Walt Disney and Roald Dahl: although the movie about them was never finished, they do appear in the Epic Mickey franchise.
I love that you touched on the Disney Gremlins! Those guys are so cute and I love that book! And yes, the proposed film never got made but they do appear in the Epic Mickey games as inhabitants of the Cartoon Wasteland where forgotten Disney Toons live.
In the days of the giant dirigibles, Hindenburg and before, mysterious goings on with short creatures, wearing grey overalls was frequently noted... Gremlins in WW I , around airports etc ...
0:32 That's horrifying
I honestly can't hear the phrase B17 Bomber without hearing the Angry videogame Nerd's voice yelling "BEEE 17 BOLMBER!! BEEEEEEEE 17 BOMBER!!!!!" 🤣🤣💯
I just wanted to slide in here and state the obvious, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is the finest piece of cinema ever committed to celluloid.
Joe Dante is awesome!
It's tricky to parody a film while also being its direct sequel.
@@OwlCatStudios AND at the same time giving the studio a giant middle finger because you didn't want to make the film while still managing to produce something audiences will love. Tricky is a real understatement.
Just taking all those things into account, I can't think of any other film that manages to balance so much while still being so unbelievably fun and entertaining. I was only being a little facetious when I said it was the finest piece of cinema committed to celluloid.
Please keep making these! I love this channel so much and you are so smart I aspire to become like you in the future.
My dad used to say 'gremlins" with a half wink when things would go missing. We flatly said it again years later when something we thought missing was just suddenly back in a spot there's no way we wouldn't have looked at all the time
In the Simpsons S05E05 Treehouse of Horror episode, there is a Gremlin too! It tears the school bus apart (and a UFO).
I think I saw that episode way before the Gremlins movie. It is true that is a parody of the Twilight Zone episode she mentions, but it's memorable enough to deserve mention.
Poor Hans Moleman
@@mattbatesteacher The literal joke is that Moleman is driving an AMC gremlin (as featured in the video)
@@simonbolivar6169 oh I know lol
absolutely loved this - and thank you so much for the accurate sketches.... SE5s, Dolphins and camels galore! awesome! thank you!!
I watched the Nightmare at 20,000 feet as a kid (first run on TV). I loved to be scared but I could get really scared. For years, and I mean years, that show haunted me. My bedroom was upstairs and there was a window where the staircase took a turn. That window looked out over the roof the back porch and I was always convinced that, at night, that gremlin from the airplane wing would be peering in the window. So I would run as fast as I could without looking at the window. Twilight Zone had the perfect blend of scary, wonder, mystery, etc.
That's why if your car don't start you thud the dash to shake up the gremlins
6:40 That's a very cool poster
Nothing like Dr. Z and her friendly smile to brighten my day.
Now please tell me about terrifying monsters, Doc.
As far as naughty people can go I AM a gremlin **menacing cackle**
Good recap of Gremlin lore, I would add the gremlin from "the twilight zone" classic "nightmare at 20000 feet" both the series and the movie.
It's mentioned.
one thing i love the gremlins in the movies is that they love to mess with anything electrical and mechanical like the ones in the 1920s, causing malfunctions. they mess with street lights, car brakes, elevators and even ms Deagle's stair lift. its a fun call back to thier origins.
When I was a generator mechanic in the USAF, and gremlins we discussed frequently. Either when you had a piece of equipment that just didn't work properly no matter how much you replaced/repaired parts, or if a repair went very smoothly on a high priority piece of equipment that had been constantly having problems. The only difference was if a repair went smoothly and bench tested properly, we'd say the gremlins were assisting us so that when the equipment was needed, they'd know what to screw up so it didn't work.
So fun fact about the Gremlin movies: During the Gremlin party scene in the sequel, we see a Gremlin dressed as Jennifer Beals' character from Flashdance, recreating one of the dances from that movie, which is a nod to Michael Sembello, best known for the one-hit wonder "Maniac" from Flashdance, but also because Sembello would go on to write the song "Gremlins...Mega-Madness" for the first Gremlins movie!
Sure someone is doing their best William Shatner impression right now.
I'm doing the Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura re-enacting the William Shatner-made-famous scene.
Those old Bugs Bunny cartoons were more educational than we thought.
"for those who want to understand where we stand in the fight against climate change". Girl there's two types of people in this world. Those who don't want to understand that, and those who already know
Mogwai don't breed gremlins when fed after midnight. They breed more mogwai when water falls on them, and then those turn to gremlins when fed after midnight.
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The Last Emperor!
One of my favorites and one of the best!
If I was huffing all those exhaust fumes at altitude I don't know what I would be seeing either.
For real, that had to be annoying when you need to concentrate 110%!
3:48: That 1 Look Like Gus From Epic Mickey.
“Try and try again, thats my motto”
THERE'S A MAN ON THE WING! God the scene where the gremlin stares through the window scared the crap out of me when I saw it as a kid
"Scottish and British"
Scotland is in Britain.
Warner Brothers also did a fantastic Bugs Bunny cartoon during World War II depicting a gremlin trying to sabotage the US Air Force.
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We have found the ancient Book of Zarka's, the world shall be OURS!!!!
Not all heroes wear capes
Loved it when Bugs Bunny tangled with a gremlin ! 😂
Love this channel! 😍😍 thank you doctor z for giving us more details on all these amazing creatures 🥰
I knew about gremlins in the WWII era, but I didn’t know they went back as far as WWI!
Seems like everything we thought was a "product" of WWII really started in WWI. Which kinda makes sense if you think about it.
Where did you find the physical description of them having suction cup feet? I’ve been researching gremlins for a book I’m working on and I didn’t come across that, but it makes sense in a fantastical way, and I love it. Reminds me of a dragon I made for D&D with a kangaroo-like pouch for holding treasure because it never made sense to me how dragons gathered their gold
They probably swallow it immediately, then regurgitate or defecate it out. It's how most animals will move things they can't easily carry. Either on purpose, or just inincidentally.
Or draconic cheek pouches. 😂😂 I don't think dragons would be as terrifying if they looked like scaly chipmunks! 😂😂
@@Caldor64 ants, bees, birds, and canines: they carry it in their gut to bring back home.
@@teresaellis7062 they surely would if you saw them chew and mangle livestock(or humam) to make it fit the cheek more comfortably.
pretty sure most of the "facts" presented in this video are very much fictional in nature. Anything without documentation should be suspect.
great stuff emily... ive been watching for years now here in the uk
I KNEW IT.. Daaamn man, I knew we'd lost WW1 because of the Gremlins. YO MAN, I knew it !
Wish they hadn't disappeared for ww2 😂
The gremlin car had a little goblin with his hands on his hips as a gas cap. So, yep, for sure named after the creature. My aunt drove one.
BART SIMPSON: "There's a gremlin on the side of the bus!"
My grandfather told me about them when we went to an aeronautic museum for a PSA reunion, lol.
"Gremilins are like the mascot of malfunction." That is an interesting comparison, indeed. It would be a good title for a character to have.
I remember a scene from Tiny Toons Night Ghoulery parodying the Twilight Zone episode.
Plucky: "Hamton, wake up, there's a gremlin eating the engine!"
Hamton, not opening his eyes: "Don't worry Plucky, Gremlins don't eat much gas, they're a lot like Pintos."
Very interesting and informative video !!
i'm growing quite fond of this series and the variety of figures covered. just gonna, hit that subscribe button over there.. aaaaannd.. we're good :)
The optics of naming the AMC Gremlin was in-your-face for sure, but the police department in my hometown actually used them as cruisers in 1975! It was hilarious, but AMC made fairly sound, butt-uggly, cars like the Pacer, Gremlin and Javelin but then again those were a far sight nicer looking than the things on the road now, and they didn't require online subscriptions to operate.
I used to work as an engineer for TWA and one time a plane came in for emergency landing. Some guy went nuts when an engine failed and was being taken away in an ambulance. I got up on the wing and said "Holy Smokes!". There were claw marks all over and wires were pulled out.
True Story
Motorcycles pick up gremlins easily and that's why you attach a guardian bell. The idea is that the bell rings as you ride and it hurts their ears so they ley go to cover their ears and subsequently fall off. And that's how potholes are made.
I loved the little Gremlin in the WW II era Bugs Bunny cartoons.
The AMC Gremlin(car) actually has a picture of a Gremlin right on its badging .
I thought there already was an episode on gremlins, but I guess I remembered wrongly.
I love the more modern legends like this one, especially for how we can study its spread and evolution.
I would have preferred some more minutes on the movie impact on this legend though and on why they went for a creature that isn't at all like the one in the movie.
Dang, as someone who spent a bunch of time researching all sorts of airplane related creatures, mysteries, and strange events for an airplane horror game I'm developing, I never heard of these before!
The ship I work on 210% has gremlins. Also we named our wheelchair assist machine "Gizmo", referencing the movie.
The Bugs Bunny episode Falling Hare 1943 had a gremlin in it. I’m really surprised this episode wasn’t mentioned in this.
Now we finally get the infamous sabatougimg monsters that also ended up getting associated with Christmas, despite not being a part of the holiday originally, like the Yeti/Abominable Snowmonster.
In case if anyone is interested there is also a prequel cartoon series of Gremlins on (HBO) Max that takes place in 1920s Shanghai.
I believe in gremlins. I’m not going to go into the long story about why but believe me….. I’m pretty sure gremlins exist.
Love the GW artwork.
When some major asked a loely mechanic why the planes failed, gremlins.
When the Colonel asked the Major why the planes were failing, Gremlins.
When the General asked, Gremlins. Thats how they were born.
Dead Like Me had a recurring motif of gremlins (only visible to the grim reapers) causing deadly accidents for fated people by messing with mechanical stuff and causing people to die by electrocution or heavy things falling on them.
3:03 Wow! I guess Grenlins are still plaguing Boeing to this day!
So far Boeing has not tried to blame Gremlins for Boeing 737 MAX crash
Gremlins sabotaging it would explain pretty much everything
I've got a gremlin in my Sedona. I think we've come to the understanding I won't stop it's knocking as long as it doesn't screw with any other functions
I work as an industrial electrician/technician in the US (troubleshooting malfunctioning industrial machines) and we still use gremlins to describe a problem which was fixed, but that we never figured out the cause of. For example, sometimes there is a loose connection somewhere, and in the process of troubleshooting something else we might nudge or reconnect it, and a bit later when you check, it's working again, because it's slightly less loose and able to make a better connection.
The reason they're called gremlins is because usually if something has failed once, it'll fail again, but we can't really troubleshoot an issue that no longer exists, so if we never found what caused the issue, there's still a "gremlin" hiding somewhere.
Some of the funnier gremlins I've seen:
a machine which, every once in a while, when powered up, will just sit there beeping until you power it off again. The reason it's funny is because the safety horns are very loud, so the operator will call us, and every other word they said is drowned out by a loud "BEEEEEP." Thankfully we can tell who is calling us just from the beeping, lol.
Another machine will throw an e-stop until you smack a panel back into place. Strange thing is, this panel isn't connected to anything, just attached to the frame, and the frame is grounded, so the panel doesn't interact with the e-stop circuit at all. Our best guess is that there is a loose connection somewhere on the machine, and somehow banging this panel jostles it just enough that it starts working again.
Another machine will make a super loud BANG noise, about once a month, just a single BANG. No other symptoms, and we have checked everything we can think of checking, none of us have observed the bang aside from security camera footage.
I wish more movies and tv shows would use the Tommy Knockers legend, which is similar to the gremlins, bit in caves. They are called Tommy Knockers because when miners would hear knocks and bangs that didnt come from any of them, it meant the mine was about to collapse, and they blamed these knocks and bangs on the Tommy Knockers.
The Tommy Knockers would go around kocking the timber supports used to keep the mine from collapsing, either to keep the humans from taking their gold or just for plain fun. Legends can be scary, and while the tomy knockers are something that would cause an intense fear, deep in a mine or cave, but in reality, the scaries thing you could hear in a mine, was the canary going silent. Also the Tomy Knockers was probably coined by a kid who worked in the mines who didnt have a good explination for the noises they where hearing, so they atributed it to some monster their mind conjured up, which just puts a depressing twist on the whole thing.
Great, now I’m checking my appliances for gremlins. If my microwave acts up, I know who to blame!
Chris Columbus only wrote the initial script of Gremlins, and it was a more dark horror movie in his draft. Joe Dante actually directed the movie.
I still remember Ms. Kidwell from “Gremlins Don’t Chew Bubblegum.”