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"Human fear is nothing more than the manifestation of our aversion to the archetypal other and our nagging doubt we and they are one and the same." Which is why psychological horror is the best kind of horror there is. Psychological horror presents things as what they are. There's no projecting onto others. There's no outsider. The monster is inside us, as it's been the whole time. And the most terrifying thing is: we are completely helpless to stop it.
Funny thing is it took me 3and a half minutes to realize she was Leela because I was distracted by her "awesome" tank top and trying to understand why she had a mask with a dot on it. Almost thought it was an poorly thought out Obito mask
"Human fear is nothing more than the manifestation of our aversion to the archetypal other, in a nagging doubt, we and they are the same." This should be framed, or at least, remembered.
The kind of falls short through when you realize that humans fear things other than other humans. I'm afraid of dying. That has nothing to do with some perceived fear of an other. It's a nice quote though it implies we only fear things that have active agency.
I do miss After Hours, but I’m glad Michael is doing his podcast and having Soren, Katie and Dan on as guests reviewing movies. Satiates my need for more of these episodes.
Soren and Dan have a podcast called Quick Question with Soren and Dan, which is basically just them shooting the shit and being funny once a week. It's awesome.
infoaddict84 I thought that was supposed to be her "only" eye, a la Leela from "Futurama" (purple hair swept over one side of her head, the white wife-beater shirt, etc.).
infoaddict84 No probs; I bet I know "where else" your mind was - I was similarly distracted. Can you imagine if that source of, um, "distraction" was as singular as her and Leela's source of vision? The cartoon would have never been cancelled.
infoaddict84 That's what Saturday mornings are for (rolling the bones, not the SNL Jack Handeyesque deep thoughts); would that I could join you in that endeavor. I was speaking of Leela's bi-lateral mammary glands as opposed to it being singular like her eye - ratings would have soared if Groening could have gotten the "single" version past the censors.
You know, I've watched this video more times than I Care to admit. How in the ever loving hell did I not realize that Soren is Capitan Malcolm Reynolds until tonight?
@@bhope13not even an alias really, it’s a patronymic title that he used in real life His father Vlad II was Vlad Dracul (the dragon) Dracula (or Drăculea more accurately) means Son of the Dragon
@@deadpool3982 I meant the use of the title "Count" in the book and its movie adaptations. His title was "Voivode", which is commonly translated to "Prince". The "Count" title seemed like something he used to disguise his true identity and nature, since he couldn't just outright tell people he was THAT Dracula
I know that these videos are not being made anymore, and the channel is basically dead, but I keep watching these over and over again. I love these characters.
Kruger scared me when I was younger for much the same reason as the Bodysnatchers: sleep-reliant monsters have already won, since you must sleep sometime. They're inevitable, much like death itself.
You know technically speaking, the zombie apocalypse would last about an hour. Without blood circulation or anything else holding them together, they'd fall apart and be nothing more than a pile of bones. We could probably just stand and watch a zombie try to attack us from 5 feet away and still never get touched. The real apocalypse would be disposing of all the zombie remains.
***** but that wouldn't be possible. They were dead and stopped breathing. Their blood stopped circulating and either someone took the blood out of them or it dried up. Besides, they are already crumbling to dust. The freshest dead ones would last the longest and that still isn't that long.
they died then came back, which leaves the possibility that their blood starts pumping again. in most movies when someone dies or gets bit it only takes about an hour to turn, blood wouldn't dry out that fast
does anyone else find it really adorable that when Dan mentions that you are able to imagine any of the biggest terrors, and where they all have their own thoughts, that Dan's biggest fear is shown to be all alone with no friends?
The Finale pissed me off. Katie just HAD to make it about feminism. She just had to throw her feminist views into something so pure like After Hours. She ruined it.
Actually, Freddy Krueger's pretty scary. Anything that attacks you inside your mind preys on one of our deepest fears-losing control of the one place that is supposed to safe and completely under your control.
As a conservative political science major, that was still beautiful. Even though I am relatively sure I was compared to a zombie at some point (but I was laughing so hard I didn't hear every word so I maybe misinterpreted at some point).
A lack of bias in political discourse reveals a lack of knowledge in politics. "Objectivity" is for journalists, not actresses portraying comedy writers on internet shorts about pop culture.
M. Roy Clark actually the term now is just actor, for a woman as well, and secondly i believe that is your opinion. If you talk politics with a bias even if it's for comedy you can alienate your other views so to pick at both is the best way to do it
"Only say things I agree with or else you're biased" seems to be the trend here. Maybe there's some impetus to not allow oneself to be easily alienated?
I agree with Dan. 19th century horror writers like Poe were masters at using their readers own fears against them like the fear of being buried alive as seen in the fall of the house of usher.
DOB doesn't quite have it, though. The fear of the unknown is fear of potential, not personal-application. Before I see the creature reveal I am not worried of my greatest fear (spiders, I guess), I am worried about what might happen. Once the monster is revealed it is quantified and no matter how scary, it could always be worse (basically just whatever it is plus more teeth). Not showing a monster means it might be the WORST THING EVER, it is just that the filmmakers aren't showing it. Until the reveal it can draw upon some shadowy ideal of absolute terror, afterwards it is like: oh, the monster is a big lumpy thing with tentacles, eyes, teeth etc. Big whoop. Example: Cloverfield
Blue guy is right - unknown is scariest because it makes your own brain work against you. In high school, college, and grad school I won a Halloween scariest costume contest with the same outfit - the Invisible Man - trenchcoat, gloves, bandages wrapped around the head and sunglasses. Completely blank slate for people to project their fears onto.
I like how 3 out of 4 of their costumes are from amazing shows that were canceled by fox. (Futurama was moved to comedy central, the other two just died :/) EDIT: The costumes are in the video description
I like how Dan flails when he starts to fall back and then quickly bends his neck camera left, as if he practiced this... or obviously he's psychic, holy shit, i think i've Cracked this case
they missed something. Exclusion: The fear that we are alone and isolated from our friends and families, that we are the only one outside the joke, or are in fact "the joke." Mr. wrong is the best example. while it might present itself as a comedy, it is a great Horror movie. the movie is all about exclusion. the woman meets a charming man who seems perfect, who then works his way into her life, befriends everyone in her life, and then takes over her life, becoming the driving force in it all with no one for her to turn to. Invasion of the Body snatchers, Stepford wives, these movies work of the fear of indoctrination, yes, but they also work on our fear of exclusion. that the world is somehow changing and we are left alone. Truman show, etc
OMG I'm so glad I stumbled on this comment because otherwise I never would have figured out that Soren is dressed as Mal Reynolds and it had been driving me nuts for...well I don't want to say how long. But thank you, missing puzzle piece commenter!
Really nothing about H.P. Lovecraft? About the fear that we are all nothing, that everything we do in life be it good or bad is worthless in the grand scheme of things.
Is that because you fear that too.? You feel like you not are good enough for your friends and someday there is a chance, that they will leave you alone.
Ankur Deb I don't think so... I think it's because I find Dan adorable and the other fears were quite funny by comparison. But maybe deep down I fear it! Who knows? :)
He's the one that I identify the most with but he is much more exaggerated. I'm afraid I annoy all my friends and they only hang out with me because of pity or something.
I actually used this segment to create a Debate lesson for my students! Each group was assigned a monster and they had to debate which was the scariest. It was a lot of fun!
To the question of which monster is the scariest, I'd have to answer "Reavers", from Firefly. Not the ridiculous creatures we got to meet in the Serenity movie, no, the Reavers as portrayed in the series. The simple mention of those things would make me want to crawl under my covers and hug my childhood teddybear every time. And I watched Firefly as an adult.
Seriously? Multiple comments about Katie's boobs and a few about how attractive Soren is? Why not talk about what they actually say in this video? There are a lot about the content, I know, but the fact that the top comment isn't just makes me sad. What they're saying is pretty interesting, more so than their appearances.
I was admiring her rack when I thought I'll check the comments to see what other people thought about it. I reached this comment before I reached any others and was very glad with reading it because it reminded myself, "hey, I like her rack, but that doesn't mean I need to worry about if other people like it, keep watching the video." and volia, so thank you for your comment. Although I do wonder if I can take someone with the user name "thenighttroll13" seriously. Are you one of these internet trolls, or actually have an active interest in night trolls in which case that'd be awesome!
Logan Watts It's a reference to A Very Potter Sequel (second in a trilogy of Harry Potter parodies by a group called Starkid). A lot of people call Hermione a night troll in it, so I used it because I like Hermione and Starkid.
thenighttroll13 xD It is by default that everyone here enjoys and are interested by what they say, but they are very thrall; there is little to add except some compliments on the good job they are doing. As a result people comment on and discuss other aspects of the video.
Scariest thing I've ever seen in film & literature? Stephen King's "The Stand" and "The Shining". The Stand, you have no way to defend yourself from both devastating virus' which may either kill you or blind your senses and the other people who go insane after restrictions of law and morality are lifted. As for The Shining, it wasn't so much the ghosts and spirits, but the madness of isolation which manifests itself into the people trapped in the hotel, this madness goes to insanity and one may even fear themselves.
I have watched this I don't know how many times over the course of years. I just now realized that Dan is dressed as David Cross from Arrested Development when her tried to join the Blue Man Group. That is a REALLY specific costume and I applaud you, Dan, for it.
What about werewolves, the media is only focusing in on zombies or vampires. Don't get me wrong I think that each is cool in there own ways, but werewolves don't get any attention. The thing that I think is scary is that they could be ANYONE, think about it and they don't have any control over the curse. Once that moon rises it's game over for everybody within a 29 mile radius.
but with werewolves there are too many pros to the transformation. You regenerate like crazy making you difficult to hurt and almost impossible to kill, you become 7 times stronger and faster, your metabolism goes up like crazy, and like you said the curse only takes hold on the night of the full moon; vampires are stuck afraid of daylight and holy water 24/7 constantly having to refill on blood whereas Werewolves can easily arrange for them to be restrained on the night of the full moon.
No, what is so scary about werewolves is that they are beasts like the ones early humans evolved to cope with, primal animals that hunt us down in the night, but they are also humanoid giving them superior intelligence. It combines the primal fear of predators with superior intelligence to match your own, and that can give you some very horrifying monsters. That is also what's scary about monsters like the alien from the Alien movie.
aSStronaut111 Maybe its envy is the reason we arent scared of werewolves. Think abot it, Vamps have the weakness of garlic and sunlight. Werewolves have silver but if you really think about it, if I shoot you with a silver bullet, are you really more or less likely to die. I honestly wish I was a lycanthrope because that is our own primal rage. Its like wht they said in the russian sleep experimet "We are what you supress when you enter the realm of dreams" . Werewolves are surpressed by our need to feel superior to the common beast.
Essentially speaking if youre a werewolf.....everything around you is either your territory or your killzone. And a powerful one is able to transform at anytime. The bloodlust that has been festering inside of your body for decades, contained ecause of societal standards can finally be unleashed and be given a personification.
Had to take the time out of my day to Stare at the Rack for a second. Wish I could have a convo with Katie. Cute, and can think (unless the writers wrote this, then I'm gonna have coffee with one of them lol).
I think that Dan has the most accurate analysis. You are the only one who can freak yourself out worst of all because you know your deadliest fears and they work against you. I also think that when the 'monsters' aren't actually monsters at all are the scariest. When the situations are gory and scary but plausible enough for you to think that it could happen. Like how so many horror movies take places in houses, or creepy mansions or in forests. Houses, most of the population live in or near one. Creepy mansions, many tourists visit these places and there are various circumstances where you could end up in one. Forests, camping, hiking, summer vacation, retreat. Then there are the already existing horror movie villains, the ones like serial killers or murderers. Fact of the matter is, there are a lot more of these guys in real life than horror movies made about them. Even a concept like a stalker can be chilling when put into context, the person doesn't even know someone is watching them just like you might not know someone is watching you. They're creepy but aren't necessarily supernatural.
Goddammit, a screamer in the first 30 seconds? Really, Cracked? I had a cat in my lap, for fuck's sake! ...Also, I get everyone's costumes but Soren's. We got Leela, Count Choc and Tobias/Blue Man, but is Soren just not wearing a costume?
Young Ponymancer I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on that. I mean, in terms of their abilities and general vampire-ness, they're pretty solid, but no matter how I try--and believe me, I have tried--I just cannot. Get. Past. The SPARKLING. I'm sorry, but no vampire that sparkles is objectively cool. And the werewolves don't rule either. Nobody get werewolves right anymore! What happened to the ravenous, half-human half-wolf beasts of the night that used to dominate the lycanthropic scene? Now it's just pretty people who can turn into pretty wolves--not *were*wolves, just wolves. That does not objectively rule, either.
Michael Noell Actually, if you were a vampire, sparkling in the sunlight is far preferable to dying, so in a sense, that is "cool", if you want to be a vampire. It's the reason the Twilight vampires are so terribly conceived. There's literally no drawback to becoming a vampire in that universe. Also, the Quiliettes were shapeshifters that happened to take the form of dire wolves.
CommanderCorner Well sure, if you're one of the vampires, sparkling is great. But I'm not. I'm an observer from beyond the fourth wall. And from my perspective, the sparkling sucks. If it had been almost anything else besides sparkling, even if it wasn't the traditional horrific death, I would have no problem with the vamps. Maybe if, in the sunlight, they showed their ages and took on the appearance of the shriveled, ancient corpses they would be without their vampirism (a la Pirates of the Carribean), they'd be cooler. Then they'd still have a non-death reason to avoid sunlight, and it'd solve the problem you bring up about there being no drawbacks from becoming a vamp. And plus, if Bella could still love Edward even if he looked like a mummy in the sunlight, that would make her a slightly less Mary-Suish character. BOOM. And as for the wolf thing, sure, that might be her explanation, but come on. They're shapeshifters, based on wolves, in the same fictional universe as vampires, and in which they have a rivalry with said vampires. They're frigging werewolves.
I love this show. Such fantastic cast, writing, set design, music, and funny af. Make it again and take all my money. Seriously, James Mitchell in SF,CA
That doctor who villain that attacks you and slowly kills you, but as you are dying traps you inside a dream to keep you happy or at least make you think you are still alive, or awake.
John Hofer Nah, weeping angels transport you to a different place and let you live there peacefully, dream crabs make you sleep and then killl you while your sleeping
Snipper Joey I don't remember much of it (i really need to review stuff -_- ) but eggs represent birth/rebirth and since most literature focus on humans,it often represents human reproduction.There were stuff about Jesus Christ too ( I'm not a Christian so I hope you're more familiar on the subject /awkwardly laughs/ I really need to look over my notes -_- )
I think they just mean all eggs bro. It's a general, sweeping statement. Inclusive of all different types of eggs. Big eggs, small eggs. Heck, even some as big as your head! Eggs... can you dig it?
I love how "Count Chocula" poured Hershey's syrup on EVERYTHING. As a matter of fact, Michael's food choices are usually hilarious.
I actually literally just noticed him pouring it on the hot dog.
Fun fact: it's what they used in Psycho for the blood in the shower scene. I assumed it was a reference to that
Dan's biggest fear is that he's sitting alone in the diner with his cards and no friends
Why am I so attached to these fricken characters it's so sad
Probably because they resonate with you somehow
DeathGodRiku I feel oddly called out and I don’t like it
Sadly still here, but they are gone RIP friends.
@@robertsmith-williams5255 Check "Off Hours" on Michael's channel SmallBeans
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"Human fear is nothing more than the manifestation of our aversion to the archetypal other and our nagging doubt we and they are one and the same."
Which is why psychological horror is the best kind of horror there is. Psychological horror presents things as what they are. There's no projecting onto others. There's no outsider. The monster is inside us, as it's been the whole time. And the most terrifying thing is: we are completely helpless to stop it.
The threat of death or eternal suffering is what scares me.
Oh man Katie even got Leela's whole "pale lipgloss" thing right. That's amazing.
Funny thing is it took me 3and a half minutes to realize she was Leela because I was distracted by her "awesome" tank top and trying to understand why she had a mask with a dot on it. Almost thought it was an poorly thought out Obito mask
I hate being a guy sometimes. I see titties and go 😍
wow, Katy brought up such good points in this conversation, she never ceases to impress me.
yeah, i remember vividly at least two.
m smith talkin bout some boobs
She definitely had the breast argument....I mean BEST.
You mean Bret Herholz? Because he wrote her lines.
@@getpumped87 Does Bret Herholz have tits? Because if it doesnt, then she is right and wonderful and precious and blah blah blah because tits
"Boom! Facehugger! Which incidentally looks like a human vagina sewed onto a spider"
This is an epic description of Alien.
Sadly, I laughed at the chair gag ... every. damn. time.
Ha, was pretty funny. I also loved the cameo from my favorite zombie kid, "I love turtles!".
"Human fear is nothing more than the manifestation of our aversion to the archetypal other, in a nagging doubt, we and they are the same." This should be framed, or at least, remembered.
Santiago Guzmán Cué it sounds like something ultron would say
Sighs... Too bad Katie didn’t say that this year.
The kind of falls short through when you realize that humans fear things other than other humans. I'm afraid of dying. That has nothing to do with some perceived fear of an other. It's a nice quote though it implies we only fear things that have active agency.
Put it on a Baby T-Shirt, like all of Katie's best quotes~
@@sardonicus1739 "In a nagging doubt" really focuses on fear of the unknown as well, which death mostly falls under, no?"
I thought Dan was the worst Mystique ever
OMG IS THAT WHAT HE WAS?!
Read the description. He wasn't.
+Jorge Ascensão *sigh....I know that, it's called a joke.
I was just saying that in case the one who replied (or anyone who didn't bother to read the description) didn't.
Hahaha! Your comment made me internally laugh. I would like it if my android would let me. *death glares at my Samsung*
I do miss After Hours, but I’m glad Michael is doing his podcast and having Soren, Katie and Dan on as guests reviewing movies. Satiates my need for more of these episodes.
Soren and Dan have a podcast called Quick Question with Soren and Dan, which is basically just them shooting the shit and being funny once a week. It's awesome.
i didnt realize she had the third eye until 5 mins in...
infoaddict84 I thought that was supposed to be her "only" eye, a la Leela from "Futurama" (purple hair swept over one side of her head, the white wife-beater shirt, etc.).
612Tiberius yeah...i mis-spoke...my mind was else where...
infoaddict84 No probs; I bet I know "where else" your mind was - I was similarly distracted. Can you imagine if that source of, um, "distraction" was as singular as her and Leela's source of vision? The cartoon would have never been cancelled.
612Tiberius damn dude, that was pretty deep for a Saturday morning. i feel like i need to roll me a doober to fully take in that comment lol.
infoaddict84 That's what Saturday mornings are for (rolling the bones, not the SNL Jack Handeyesque deep thoughts); would that I could join you in that endeavor. I was speaking of Leela's bi-lateral mammary glands as opposed to it being singular like her eye - ratings would have soared if Groening could have gotten the "single" version past the censors.
You know, I've watched this video more times than I Care to admit. How in the ever loving hell did I not realize that Soren is Capitan Malcolm Reynolds until tonight?
Always something new to notice lol.
Daniel's scariest thing was so sad... just him... alone in the booth... god he needs a hug.
I just realized that Katie is dressed as Leela, a character who's played by another Katie. Kati-ception
Wow, I never would have gotten that. Thank you for pointing that out...oh, and damn you for making me feel dumb.
I love that Soren's fear of old people goes back this far.
He's afraid of being old.
Is Dan dressed up as Blue Man Tobias from Arrested Development?
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Indeed. Apparently, he blue himself.
There's got to be a better way to say that.
Ah, let's not forget about Dracula, a character that is ironically far less scary than his non-fictional counterpart, Vlad the Impaler.
I always just assumed Count Dracula was just an alias that Vlad III started using, long after he was vampirized
@@bhope13not even an alias really, it’s a patronymic title that he used in real life
His father Vlad II was Vlad Dracul (the dragon)
Dracula (or Drăculea more accurately) means Son of the Dragon
@@deadpool3982 I meant the use of the title "Count" in the book and its movie adaptations. His title was "Voivode", which is commonly translated to "Prince". The "Count" title seemed like something he used to disguise his true identity and nature, since he couldn't just outright tell people he was THAT Dracula
I know that these videos are not being made anymore, and the channel is basically dead, but I keep watching these over and over again. I love these characters.
"Dicks until the End of Time!"
That quote needs to be a meme.
Double Rape!
men trying to come up with an argument against feminism.
when you’re trying to act straight
when your in your baby gay phase
The monsters I'm most scared by are the weeping angels.
Dam straight
I'm with you tgere. They'er creepy af.
+Katherine Sanderson the what?
Vince Shadell They're from Doctor Who.
Katherine Sanderson I've never seen Doctor Who, so I'm afraid that that doesn't specify anything for me.
Kruger scared me when I was younger for much the same reason as the Bodysnatchers: sleep-reliant monsters have already won, since you must sleep sometime. They're inevitable, much like death itself.
You know technically speaking, the zombie apocalypse would last about an hour. Without blood circulation or anything else holding them together, they'd fall apart and be nothing more than a pile of bones. We could probably just stand and watch a zombie try to attack us from 5 feet away and still never get touched. The real apocalypse would be disposing of all the zombie remains.
or....zombies still circulate their blood
***** but that wouldn't be possible. They were dead and stopped breathing. Their blood stopped circulating and either someone took the blood out of them or it dried up. Besides, they are already crumbling to dust. The freshest dead ones would last the longest and that still isn't that long.
they died then came back, which leaves the possibility that their blood starts pumping again. in most movies when someone dies or gets bit it only takes about an hour to turn, blood wouldn't dry out that fast
***** Good point but aren't they _un_ dead? Meaning their hearts aren't pumping and bloods not circulating?
Nana Asmah who knows lol i guess you could argue with infinite possibilities, but i do see your point
does anyone else find it really adorable that when Dan mentions that you are able to imagine any of the biggest terrors, and where they all have their own thoughts, that Dan's biggest fear is shown to be all alone with no friends?
Anybody else come back to check this one out after the finale?
The Finale pissed me off. Katie just HAD to make it about feminism. She just had to throw her feminist views into something so pure like After Hours. She ruined it.
AND the second finale.
@@Tkieron lol you know they don't write their own dialogue right?
@@Tehan123 Also it's not like she has never brought it up before. Such a weird criticism.
@@Tkieron i imagine you weeping into your marshmallow mateys every time a woman is allowed to speak and it's pretty cool and good, please continue
"Ramming it's cylindrical meat tube down his throat..." Everyone's reaction here is priceless!
Whoop for Katy! She won this and not because of her sexy Futurama outfit.
+Edward Gil (ObaREX) but instead of tittehs
Finally got it. Ugh.
nice rack.
+Edward Gil (ObaREX) it was the way she attacked that hot dog
Very nice
Can we just get a video of Dan falling? Like a full 5 minutes.
Sodium isn't salt.
That's sodium chloride.
That's like saying Hydrogen is water.
Seriously? We're splitting hairs about this common knowledge? You can't seriously think Katy didn't know that
+spike blake nobody said NaCl was the ONLY salt, did they?
+Slarti Bartfast Check the etymology though...
to accomplish what?
Adam Borison
Sodium Chloride is a type of salt...more specifically its called Halide.
Sodium (Na) is a soft metal...very different.
Actually, Freddy Krueger's pretty scary. Anything that attacks you inside your mind preys on one of our deepest fears-losing control of the one place that is supposed to safe and completely under your control.
"Transexual Arachnajina" Oh Michael, this is why I love you.
Katie was super cool this episode. SUPER cool
Leela
Oznerol I agree, her boobs were amazing this episode
Keldon Chavez I Second That 🙂
Fuck you and Antifa
Loved the Lela outfit...
“L-E-L-A, LEE LAH!” As sung by Zap Brannigan.
As a political science major that was beautiful
As a conservative political science major, that was still beautiful. Even though I am relatively sure I was compared to a zombie at some point (but I was laughing so hard I didn't hear every word so I maybe misinterpreted at some point).
@@meaghanreid7308 it's been eight years. what have you done with your degree in this time
@@blank4227 I actually can't tell you. But it's a lot
@@meaghanreid7308 cool!
This will always be my favourite episode. I love Katie's parts so much!
Lol
I'm not sure what it is, but Katie just seemed, like, so super smart and cool in this episode.
But... I actually do want to hear Kate talk politics...
Darcy Litster she's very biased, it's boring
but the way she did it on this episode didn't com across as bias to me
A lack of bias in political discourse reveals a lack of knowledge in politics. "Objectivity" is for journalists, not actresses portraying comedy writers on internet shorts about pop culture.
M. Roy Clark actually the term now is just actor, for a woman as well, and secondly i believe that is your opinion. If you talk politics with a bias even if it's for comedy you can alienate your other views so to pick at both is the best way to do it
"Only say things I agree with or else you're biased" seems to be the trend here. Maybe there's some impetus to not allow oneself to be easily alienated?
Me: I should go to sleep soon...Eh, one more After Hours video.
**intro plays**
Me: **needs new pants and is never sleeping again**
I agree with Dan. 19th century horror writers like Poe were masters at using their readers own fears against them like the fear of being buried alive as seen in the fall of the house of usher.
DOB doesn't quite have it, though. The fear of the unknown is fear of potential, not personal-application. Before I see the creature reveal I am not worried of my greatest fear (spiders, I guess), I am worried about what might happen. Once the monster is revealed it is quantified and no matter how scary, it could always be worse (basically just whatever it is plus more teeth). Not showing a monster means it might be the WORST THING EVER, it is just that the filmmakers aren't showing it. Until the reveal it can draw upon some shadowy ideal of absolute terror, afterwards it is like: oh, the monster is a big lumpy thing with tentacles, eyes, teeth etc. Big whoop. Example: Cloverfield
This show, n this episode are truly gems you just don't get this on TH-cam anymore
I'm extremely very attracted to Soren. That is all.
soren's hot as hell...and I'm a straight male saying that
Loften Henderson I second that :3
Loften Henderson Can't say you're wrong.
And he's dressed as Malcolm Reynolds. Talk about my fantasy come true
Loften Henderson As another straight guy, I agree with you.
It took me 8 years of rewatching this episode over and over. To realize she's Leela from Futurama lol
love how katie always makes the most possible and most realistic points, and then they just blow it off, kind of like many other things you see
Katie here has three things going for her in this episode. Her strong arguments are one of them.
That was honestly one of the most interesting after hours. love the political bit pretty cool
Some of their musings fall into that category where it's either the product of an absolute genius or the ravings of a flaming psychotic.
Blue guy is right - unknown is scariest because it makes your own brain work against you. In high school, college, and grad school I won a Halloween scariest costume contest with the same outfit - the Invisible Man - trenchcoat, gloves, bandages wrapped around the head and sunglasses. Completely blank slate for people to project their fears onto.
Blue guy's name is Dan
Holy Smokes.
The Conclusion on human fear was....profound. And Accurate.
*Fistbumps Katie*
Katie really just philosophized the hell out of monster movies.
I'm so glad I've never eaten a meal with someone who's revelled in describing THAT scene from Alien to me in great detail.
My favorite part:
Reporter: That's some lovely face paint you got there.
Kid: I like turtles.
I like how 3 out of 4 of their costumes are from amazing shows that were canceled by fox. (Futurama was moved to comedy central, the other two just died :/)
EDIT: The costumes are in the video description
What's the blue guy.
+xXMinniNinJaXx Mystique From X-Men?
+xXMinniNinJaXx Tobias from Arrested Development.
+chasenallimcam Who the f*** is Sorin dressed as????
+Sabrina Miller Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. They're in the description.
I like how Dan flails when he starts to fall back and then quickly bends his neck camera left, as if he practiced this... or obviously he's psychic, holy shit, i think i've Cracked this case
lol Cracked
Bruce Willis would be afraid!
they missed something. Exclusion: The fear that we are alone and isolated from our friends and families, that we are the only one outside the joke, or are in fact "the joke." Mr. wrong is the best example. while it might present itself as a comedy, it is a great Horror movie. the movie is all about exclusion. the woman meets a charming man who seems perfect, who then works his way into her life, befriends everyone in her life, and then takes over her life, becoming the driving force in it all with no one for her to turn to. Invasion of the Body snatchers, Stepford wives, these movies work of the fear of indoctrination, yes, but they also work on our fear of exclusion. that the world is somehow changing and we are left alone. Truman show, etc
That was sort of covered in the rape section by the the teenage boy fear that they will be alone and isolated for not knowing about "lady bits".
Craig King true, but this is also a huge fear of older generations, particularly the MRA and those who fight for "traditional values"
Didn't notice she was Leela until 6:45 and I'm a huge Futurama fan...
Wait a minute, I just noticed that Soren yelled out "Reavers!" WHERE WAS HE GOING WITH THAT? FIREFLY IS ALWAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT.
OMG I'm so glad I stumbled on this comment because otherwise I never would have figured out that Soren is dressed as Mal Reynolds and it had been driving me nuts for...well I don't want to say how long. But thank you, missing puzzle piece commenter!
I wished After Hours would come back.
Really nothing about H.P. Lovecraft? About the fear that we are all nothing, that everything we do in life be it good or bad is worthless in the grand scheme of things.
Fuck that intro man! I had the volume on high... Now my keyboard is half machine half cola
yeah fuck those fuckers that i like
I had my cat in my lap when that happened. I think I just lost a pint of blood...
Am I the only one who felt really sad that Dans biggest fear is the others leaving him all alone? :(
Is that because you fear that too.?
You feel like you not are good enough for your friends and someday there is a chance, that they will leave you alone.
Ankur Deb I don't think so... I think it's because I find Dan adorable and the other fears were quite funny by comparison. But maybe deep down I fear it! Who knows? :)
Mich Blackie well we can never know.
Mich Blackie Dan is so adoreable, right?
He's the one that I identify the most with but he is much more exaggerated. I'm afraid I annoy all my friends and they only hang out with me because of pity or something.
Katie's last monologue was actually pretty amazing
5:40 the I like turtles kid did an interview again now that he is a young man, and he still likes turtles
I actually used this segment to create a Debate lesson for my students! Each group was assigned a monster and they had to debate which was the scariest. It was a lot of fun!
im dissapointed in myself for how long it took for me to figure out Katie's costume
"My eye is up here."
Oh gods I've only just realised that Katie is dressed as Leela.
Distracted by the boobs
anybody else notice Ghostbusters playing in the back round?
......WHO YA GONNA CALL?
GHOSTBUSTERS !!!!!!!!!!!
*****
Thanks Lt. Dickwad of the Grammar Patrol... but the question was about music not spelling
or spellcheck
HE-MAN! HE-MAN! HE-MAN!
3:33 Chocolate syrup on a hot dog? Okay, Count Chocula.
This was the first after hours I ever saw back in the day ❤️
Respect for Soren in his Malcolm Reynolds costume.
Sadly, I didn't realize he was supposed to be Mal until he mentioned reavers.
Does anyone else think that the girl in this is really hot...BECAUSE she is smart AND obsessed with pop culture?
Not when she kept saying "If you know what I'm sayin'" and making Indiana Jones innuendos
To the question of which monster is the scariest, I'd have to answer "Reavers", from Firefly. Not the ridiculous creatures we got to meet in the Serenity movie, no, the Reavers as portrayed in the series. The simple mention of those things would make me want to crawl under my covers and hug my childhood teddybear every time. And I watched Firefly as an adult.
I watched firefly when i was 13 and i totally agree with you. And raven sometimes scared the shit out of me
I cant believe none of you noticed that the dude is dressed up as Malcom Reynolds -_-
Jakub Grygiel
Of course I noticed, it's written in the freaking description XD I just didn't have anything to say about it =P
Does anyone know what the sax riff at 5:58 comes from? I've heard it everywhere but I don't know what song it's from and it's driving me crazy.
Malcolm Reynolds, Tobias Fünke, Count Dracula, and Turanga Leela?
Sounds good to me. Pick that shit up for 16 seasons. We will keep it going long after it starts to suck
@@greasycheesers9885 lmao
Count Chocula
Katie really took it to another level in this vid. Bravo!
Plus when she stroked that hot dog! Wowowee
Seriously? Multiple comments about Katie's boobs and a few about how attractive Soren is? Why not talk about what they actually say in this video? There are a lot about the content, I know, but the fact that the top comment isn't just makes me sad. What they're saying is pretty interesting, more so than their appearances.
I see this is your first day on the internet! Welcome and please leave all your hopes at the door.
I was admiring her rack when I thought I'll check the comments to see what other people thought about it. I reached this comment before I reached any others and was very glad with reading it because it reminded myself, "hey, I like her rack, but that doesn't mean I need to worry about if other people like it, keep watching the video." and volia, so thank you for your comment. Although I do wonder if I can take someone with the user name "thenighttroll13" seriously. Are you one of these internet trolls, or actually have an active interest in night trolls in which case that'd be awesome!
Logan Watts It's a reference to A Very Potter Sequel (second in a trilogy of Harry Potter parodies by a group called Starkid). A lot of people call Hermione a night troll in it, so I used it because I like Hermione and Starkid.
thenighttroll13 xD It is by default that everyone here enjoys and are interested by what they say, but they are very thrall; there is little to add except some compliments on the good job they are doing. As a result people comment on and discuss other aspects of the video.
Can we talk about how he's dressed as the Captian in the tight pants
Scariest thing I've ever seen in film & literature?
Stephen King's "The Stand" and "The Shining".
The Stand, you have no way to defend yourself from both devastating virus' which may either kill you or blind your senses and the other people who go insane after restrictions of law and morality are lifted. As for The Shining, it wasn't so much the ghosts and spirits, but the madness of isolation which manifests itself into the people trapped in the hotel, this madness goes to insanity and one may even fear themselves.
Speaking of Stephen King, isn't the bombing abortion clinics and driving a Prius with a coexist sticker a reference to Insomnia?
I have watched this I don't know how many times over the course of years. I just now realized that Dan is dressed as David Cross from Arrested Development when her tried to join the Blue Man Group. That is a REALLY specific costume and I applaud you, Dan, for it.
Katies analysis of vampire politics still makes sense, bravo
Rewatching this video 5 years later and I forgot the jumpscare intro 😂
"No one here wants to talk about politics". The Cracked mission statement really changed over the years, huh?
+Captain Jin Trump's campaign happened.
+Captain Jin thank god
Then they immediately start discussing religion.
Yeah... And it's pretty left, especially now.
+Captain Jin They succeded in talking about four presidents while _not talking about politics_
What about werewolves, the media is only focusing in on zombies or vampires. Don't get me wrong I think that each is cool in there own ways, but werewolves don't get any attention. The thing that I think is scary is that they could be ANYONE, think about it and they don't have any control over the curse. Once that moon rises it's game over for everybody within a 29 mile radius.
but with werewolves there are too many pros to the transformation. You regenerate like crazy making you difficult to hurt and almost impossible to kill, you become 7 times stronger and faster, your metabolism goes up like crazy, and like you said the curse only takes hold on the night of the full moon; vampires are stuck afraid of daylight and holy water 24/7 constantly having to refill on blood whereas Werewolves can easily arrange for them to be restrained on the night of the full moon.
No, what is so scary about werewolves is that they are beasts like the ones early humans evolved to cope with, primal animals that hunt us down in the night, but they are also humanoid giving them superior intelligence. It combines the primal fear of predators with superior intelligence to match your own, and that can give you some very horrifying monsters. That is also what's scary about monsters like the alien from the Alien movie.
aSStronaut111 Maybe its envy is the reason we arent scared of werewolves. Think abot it, Vamps have the weakness of garlic and sunlight. Werewolves have silver but if you really think about it, if I shoot you with a silver bullet, are you really more or less likely to die. I honestly wish I was a lycanthrope because that is our own primal rage. Its like wht they said in the russian sleep experimet "We are what you supress when you enter the realm of dreams" . Werewolves are surpressed by our need to feel superior to the common beast.
Essentially speaking if youre a werewolf.....everything around you is either your territory or your killzone. And a powerful one is able to transform at anytime. The bloodlust that has been festering inside of your body for decades, contained ecause of societal standards can finally be unleashed and be given a personification.
AllyOJustice Some powerful Vampires aren't bothered by sunlight only weakened by it.
This show is smart... it only took me a decade to find something like this on youtube. Good job!
I'm like "wow! she made horror educational."
she made some good point and I agree.
Had to take the time out of my day to Stare at the Rack for a second. Wish I could have a convo with Katie. Cute, and can think (unless the writers wrote this, then I'm gonna have coffee with one of them lol).
Apparently, Katie's Brain belongs to Bret Herholz. Which also means that Bret Herholz in the form of Katie's Brain wants to bang Indiana Jones.
Daniel writes these so you want to have coffee with him.
Pitchguest Those guys draw the arty thought bubbles you see (Bret Herholz draws Katie's gothy Tim Burton-y thoughts).
Pitchguest and thus comes the starling revelation...
Batman Lannister Robert Broackway wrote this one.
Still waiting for that snorks episode.
I just noticed Katie is dressed as Lela from Futurama
*leela
oh! now i get it. She has three eyes not one.....
BadWolfGirl
Well she needs to see
Soren's firefly costume - this is why I am subscribed. I was devo when Firefly was cancelled
I think that Dan has the most accurate analysis. You are the only one who can freak yourself out worst of all because you know your deadliest fears and they work against you. I also think that when the 'monsters' aren't actually monsters at all are the scariest. When the situations are gory and scary but plausible enough for you to think that it could happen. Like how so many horror movies take places in houses, or creepy mansions or in forests. Houses, most of the population live in or near one. Creepy mansions, many tourists visit these places and there are various circumstances where you could end up in one. Forests, camping, hiking, summer vacation, retreat. Then there are the already existing horror movie villains, the ones like serial killers or murderers. Fact of the matter is, there are a lot more of these guys in real life than horror movies made about them. Even a concept like a stalker can be chilling when put into context, the person doesn't even know someone is watching them just like you might not know someone is watching you. They're creepy but aren't necessarily supernatural.
Is the one dude Malcolm Reynolds?
+riedstep yes, hence the reaver mention.
+Paddy Hugill I missed that ty
So is Daniel Dr. Manhattan or the guy from Arrested Development?
no he is the guy who drank a ton of silver nitrate
PurpleIsALetter it's in the description
Katie's scared of... Being stalked, maybe?
Michael's has the usual sexual fears.
Dan is afraid of being alone.
Soren is afraid of being ugly/weak.
Soren fears the elderly and becoming one.
I could hear Dan's falling noise five times a day and still chuckle. I love the guy, but that noise is hilarious.
Goddammit, a screamer in the first 30 seconds? Really, Cracked? I had a cat in my lap, for fuck's sake! ...Also, I get everyone's costumes but Soren's. We got Leela, Count Choc and Tobias/Blue Man, but is Soren just not wearing a costume?
Soren is dressed as Malcolm Reynolds. Malcolm is a character on the show Firefly.
Indeed. Know your roots! And contribute to the Indiegogo for your malicious ignorance!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/con-man
That was sad when the horse gave up and sank. I cried.
um. Twilight vampires are "cool"?
Dave Robson About as "cool" as the president to whom they're compared...
Objectively, Twilight vampires rule. In fact, almost everything about the Twilight universe except for the romance does
Young Ponymancer I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on that. I mean, in terms of their abilities and general vampire-ness, they're pretty solid, but no matter how I try--and believe me, I have tried--I just cannot. Get. Past. The SPARKLING. I'm sorry, but no vampire that sparkles is objectively cool.
And the werewolves don't rule either. Nobody get werewolves right anymore! What happened to the ravenous, half-human half-wolf beasts of the night that used to dominate the lycanthropic scene? Now it's just pretty people who can turn into pretty wolves--not *were*wolves, just wolves. That does not objectively rule, either.
Michael Noell Actually, if you were a vampire, sparkling in the sunlight is far preferable to dying, so in a sense, that is "cool", if you want to be a vampire. It's the reason the Twilight vampires are so terribly conceived. There's literally no drawback to becoming a vampire in that universe.
Also, the Quiliettes were shapeshifters that happened to take the form of dire wolves.
CommanderCorner Well sure, if you're one of the vampires, sparkling is great. But I'm not. I'm an observer from beyond the fourth wall. And from my perspective, the sparkling sucks. If it had been almost anything else besides sparkling, even if it wasn't the traditional horrific death, I would have no problem with the vamps. Maybe if, in the sunlight, they showed their ages and took on the appearance of the shriveled, ancient corpses they would be without their vampirism (a la Pirates of the Carribean), they'd be cooler. Then they'd still have a non-death reason to avoid sunlight, and it'd solve the problem you bring up about there being no drawbacks from becoming a vamp. And plus, if Bella could still love Edward even if he looked like a mummy in the sunlight, that would make her a slightly less Mary-Suish character. BOOM.
And as for the wolf thing, sure, that might be her explanation, but come on. They're shapeshifters, based on wolves, in the same fictional universe as vampires, and in which they have a rivalry with said vampires. They're frigging werewolves.
I love this show. Such fantastic cast, writing, set design, music, and funny af.
Make it again and take all my money.
Seriously,
James Mitchell in SF,CA
"Remove the head and distract... Brian".
Freud said it best: "Sometimes, a zombie is just a zombie."
Katie still won the argument
That doctor who villain that attacks you and slowly kills you, but as you are dying traps you inside a dream to keep you happy or at least make you think you are still alive, or awake.
Dream crabs? The one from Last Christmas, where there is Santa and such?
The Djinn from Supernatural?
isn't that a weeping angel?
John Hofer Nah, weeping angels transport you to a different place and let you live there peacefully, dream crabs make you sleep and then killl you while your sleeping
+John Hofer Yeah he's talking about the Dream Crabs from Last Christmas (Season 8 Christmas Special)
Thank you for answering the only question I've ever had about Futurama. So very much.
I've seen this video a thousand times and I'm only realizing NOW that the Ghostbuster theme is playing in the background in the beginning🤦🏽♀️👻
Ok, so apparently eggs of all things are the universal symbol of HUMAN reproduction.
Snipper Joey In Literature? That's usually the case,yes.
Gökçe Baz Okay, but it's just that since when do humans reproduce via eggs?
Snipper Joey I don't remember much of it (i really need to review stuff -_- ) but eggs represent birth/rebirth and since most literature focus on humans,it often represents human reproduction.There were stuff about Jesus Christ too ( I'm not a Christian so I hope you're more familiar on the subject /awkwardly laughs/ I really need to look over my notes -_- )
Gökçe Baz I still find it weird. Unless by egg they mean the egg inside women.
I think they just mean all eggs bro. It's a general, sweeping statement. Inclusive of all different types of eggs. Big eggs, small eggs. Heck, even some as big as your head!
Eggs... can you dig it?