Imagine coming home from work and immediately your husband says, in a totally confused manner, "shouldn't you be in the kitchen?". I'd be pissed too! That line killed me! 😂😂😂
@arrogant cat oh, it's a name I just threw out there while making this account as a teenager. It's a play on the common refrain of animal rights activists: 'Meat Is Murder!'. I always thought it was funny because any time you eat something, even a damn carrot, you're still technically killing it. Honestly: I have no serious opinion either way on the issue. I'm not a rabid vegan or animal rights activist, nor am I a loud carnivore with a 'P.E.T.A.= People Eating Tasty Animals' bumper sticker. It was just something silly that popped into my mind many years ago.
@@MrSupdup it's 2 o'clock @ 0:13 and 20 after 2 @ 9:44. I'd say he bought the couch around 2 thirty five in the afternoon since he had to sprint to catch the girl from the tree at 2 twenty.
@@djmystery7235 if that's the case, the answer's easy! You're an alcoholic who gets drunk by noon and black out by 2pm while sitting on your bed, and then you wake up at 7pm because your internal clock alarm beeps when the sun's down and it's time to go get drunk!
Just imagine how many cranks he had to put Into the chair just to make it back to that moment . assuming it's only been 2 days he would have cranked 2880 times .
Why would you assume it's been two days? I would think it more reasonable it's been only one day. And considering the sun was high in the beginning and morning in the last day, I'd wager it's been less than 24 hours. I'd wager he pulled it no more than 1200 times, which is still ridiculous- both on his body and on the couch itself.
@@huuamai8151 Agreed that it likely hasnt been long. the stuff he bought hasnt come, the wife is wearing the same clothes the whole time if i remember correctly.
Gold Rose How is this a loop? He west back in time to save a girl he thought had died. She didn’t, it turned out HE for hit after returning to save her. No loop, just time travel.
He didn't put the universe into a time loop, the universe doesn't stop with him. He died, but in a situation where his death overlapped with a time when he was still alive.
I started to write a comment, “Wow! This is SO GOOD!” Then, in the comments, I noticed that I wrote the exact same comment a year ago. I don’t remember having watched this a year ago. But, I enjoyed watching it both times.
He can only got back one minute per use. Overusing broke it. This limited the kinds of bets. And while he might not be thinking of things in this way, the further back you go, the more likely events are likely to change. The dog race didn't change because he was not there for it and couldn't change it. But if he went back 1 hour at a time, that could have an effect. My main question is how did he get the chair back to his house? It's implied that he walked to the sale. Sure, carrying it is possible, but seems highly unlikely.
And what happens if you get up from the chair, and someone immediately sits in it and goes back in time 1 minute when you're supposed to be still sitting in the chair too?
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen. Theoretically It’s right up there with the grandfather paradox. With the lazy boy, he created a loop in the space time continuum. The point where he reclined repeatedly and then went to the tree is as far as the future will ever exist. What a concept!
He remembered that the van that hit a girl was supposed to be him so he decided to fix time by going back and saving her thereby completing the time loop.
@@jasongoodacre or he didnt know it was him but he thought the girl got hit so when his wife told him it was a girl they were having he remembered the girl he thought died ao he went back to change it but by doing so he didnt change the future he just fulfilled it.
Ok I GOTTA SAY IT! This channel has better quality short stories than most feature films I have seen in years. The storytelling is godlike! The way you fit so much information in such a short time, I always feel like I watched a full length feature film! You would think something like this should be a microwaveable version of an actual film, but it’s BETTER!
The most haunting part of this will be from the point of view of the wife. She will wonder where her husband went, find out that his body was found the day BEFORE he went missing, making her think that she was living with a ghost for 24 hours (whose last words were asking if they had a good time together, a very ghostly thing to ask). Spooky af for her.
Then take into consideration, he as the controller of time with the La-Z-Boy, will never allow time to go past the point of finding out he's having a girl. Every iteration of him will find that out, think of the girl in the tree, go back a day to save the girl, never be able to break the cycle. It's a legit time loop that can't be stopped. The world will never go past it
Hello all, What would happen, is time would continue in two progressions at once. 1. Once from his/the time machines perspective, stuck in an endless loop in which we never saw the first (by which I mean at the beginning of the video he actually is seeing a previous version of himself dying, not the little girl, forming a perfect loop). If it wasn't a perfect loop resulting in his death there would be a possibility of escape, but unfortunately his "older" self never interferes with past self before dying, so he will ALWAYS decide to go back and take the same actions. This effectively means he and the chair are trapped forever. 2. The other perspective is the girlfriends. From hers, the morning he got the chair, a version of him dies. This body never again time travels, so it remains in this timeline and will eventually be identified. That same day, the living version of him brings the chair home, socializes a bit, redoes a few moments with the last being (we had a good time right?). She reassures him and leaves. When she gets back, he will be gone and so will the chair. She will call and get no answer. Then eventually the police will recognize the body that was found BEFORE she last saw him and she will assume he visited her as a ghost and for some reason had a ghost chair as well lmao. In the end, the timeline looks like a shoelace with a knot in it, with him/timemachine stuck in the knot.
OMGGGG at the beginning there was a stroller beside the La-Z Boy! I didn't realize the importance of this until I replayed it. His wife is pregnant, he should have been buying the important thing but he chose the chair for comfort, he was being a lazy boy and ended up being was stuck in a loop of him dying. moral of the story don be lazy!
Interesting idea, however their baby wasn't born yet. He could have easily bought a new stroller from his winnings on the horse race but had no need at the time. He did however buy all kinds of junk he didn't need so he was quite selfish
@@MonteLeeMyPOV but he definitely looked at the stroller and sighed meaning he understands its importance but decides to push it out of his mind before sitting in the lazboy so he was definitely thinking about it...
@@MonteLeeMyPOV and then his wife goes "how did it go with the baby stuff" later when they are in the house, so it means he was meant to be responsible and purchase something like that stroller. The film makers wouldn't have inserted those details if it the concept of an unwilling soon to be father was not present.
If each crank was 1 minute and he had to account for the seconds inbetween to crank and push it back to normal, he'd have to crank it for at least 24 hours, that's 1440 minutes, meaning he'd have to make over at least fifteen hundred cranks!
Completely wrong. It's the next day, but he bought it around 2:30pm the previous day. He decided to go back in time in the morning, around 8 am (which is why the wife has to go to work). Which means he had to go back 17 hours and 30 mins. (17 * 60) + 30 = 1050 cranks.
My perfect ending - He keeps gambling and uses the money to surprise her with a fully furnished and beautifully finished room for the baby. Her faith in him is restored. He still gambles on the side and has fun since he has the one minute time machine. After seeing what he has done she believes the time machine is real. It will come in handy after the baby comes so they can take secret naps using the time machine. The whole family will always be safe because if a life threatening accident happens they can use the time machine to go back and save the child or family member using the chair. Everyone lives happily ever after. The end. ❤️❤️
Yeah everyone's here picking apart the infinite loop paradox and I'm just like.. "How do you get run over on a quiet suburban street standing still in the middle of the road". The guy even honks his horn..
Whole Food Plant-Based Man He was distracted about saving the girl then he relized that that was him in the garage sale and was trying to process the information cause he was confused till the truck hit him
To me it looked more like he accepted his death, because he thought he saved the girl and his family in that timeline. But of course he doesn't know that it now turned into a loop of him trying to save the girl just to get himself killed because the girl aleady ran out of his sight.
I'm just glad I don't live in movie-world where anyone standing in the road for 30 seconds doesn't slow traffic down, or get honked at as cars drive around you, but just gets fatally hit by a car going full speed. Reliable as clockwork in movie-land.
My conspiracy theory, so the guy selling the chair knew the girl would be saved and he also helped put the girl there. Then when the husband died the guy who sold the chair can go take his wife gang gang
"It's a time loop." "No it's not a time loop. He dies." It is a time loop. Yes he dies. But the younger self will buy the chair, he will rewind time, he will die, the younger self will buy the chair... The whole of existence is caught in a loop, unless something prevents him from using the chair.
I don't think so. The little girl doesn't die anymore so he'll just think that someone who looks exactly like him died. Then he'll put it together that it actually was him and died after going back to save her. He has no reason to go back now, cause she didn't die, so he just won't go back this time
@@MrDb4894, the little girl never died. He bought the chair, he rewinds time, saves the girl, then dies. He will always buy the chair, rewind time, save the girl, and die.
@@sunderlandtillidie5770, there is no paradox. There is nothing which changes the course of his actions, or his motivations. There is nothing which should logically prevent the series of events.
me neither, until it dawned on me as he was stood there in the road after saving the girl. Just as I realised what was about to happen, it was too late.....
Weird cuz that was exactly how I predicted it to be. He wasn’t just going to let that little girl die…so I was just waiting for when they’d have him remember her. Typically with these precise time, time travel…there’s always only 3 outcomes: they have their objective that they go back and fix/change…and all is great again. Or… After they fix whatever…They, then die, or get stuck in the time loop paradox. Watch next time you watch one! But there is always that main objective!
He could have just gotten her to sit down one day without saying anything about it being a time machine and like everyone does with a La-Z-Boy she would have reclined and experienced herself.
He could have also just gambled a bunch and then showed her the bank account balance. Or just tell her who's gonna win, and how. So many ways to prove that you have a time machine that don't involve looking like a lunatic.
i know its a joke but the logic whould be no it whould be one person going into heaven over and over again jesus whouldint know since the time keeps looping and looping meaning the babys father will forever be dead and stuck in a time loop a month earlier
Amazing video! The logic doesn't quite fit as much as "Stalled" though because throughout the beginning of the video there is only one of the main character and all the objects around him change, but at the end there are two versions and one is at the house.
Yea, becouse in the beginning he was always in the chair, he's going back to the past that he was in the same chair, so no duplicates. But once he went back so far into the past that he wasn't on the same chair at that time, duplicates. That's how I understood it
I kinda just realised, at the start when the van hits the "future self" guy, the older man doesn't react, because he knows there's gonna be a time loop......
@@rlrhys4194 If he'd gotten into a time loop himself with the chair, he wouldn't have known it and wouldn't be warning others or trying to hock it off cuz that would stop it. That would require knowledge of the loop, which you can't have, otherwise you could break the loop. And a loop you break out of isn't a loop...so the logic fails.
Jesus, that was a horrendous ending!! So he's stuck in a time loop where he'll never progress, become a good dad, or even get to see his daughter born?? Very well made, but yikes...
Andrew Elder No all he has to do is change 1 thing like step away from the street and that will change the entire space time continuum however to change something he must realize that he’s in a loop so that he can change anything which is impossible but common sense is what might eventually allow him to get out of the road and go stop his younger self from buying the chair, but in doing so he will change everything so if he never buys the recliner and waits there for his wife to come home afterwards then he may say something different and get in an argument which leads to a divorce. So what I’m saying is to get out of loop he must change something if he eventually realizes but when he does that something he does will ultimately change his life and others.
Here's the problem with this movie logic: When he goes back 1 minute, his "past self" is the same as his "present self". That is, there are no two "hims", just one him. So he goes back one minute, he does not encounter his past self sitting in the sofa. So when exactly does his past self become a different "he". Why does the movie think if he goes back two days, he will see a different "past self" in the garage sale? The movie uses two different sets of logic. The movie should have one of two sets of logic, not both. 1) where you turn back the time, so to speak--so you are not travelling through time, you are "turning back" time. There is only one line/ path, you are just walking backwards on it. This is what the one-minute time-machine logic is in the film until the last few minutes. 2)The "time-loop" logic where you go back into the past where another you is already present is a different set-up. This is used up in the final minutes... The movie screws up here.
woosterjeeves maybe it’s because the initial logic is applied after you own the chair, but the loop logic is from before you actually possessed it (Got this idea from another comment
Also, it implies at the end, that what he did after time traveling already happened. But when he first time travels on accident, the wife says two different things.
@@skalkin9656 Yep. The beer wasn't sitting it in a minute ago, thus, it duplicates. Question is: what if he wasn't sitting in it for more than a minute? Answer: He duplicates, just like the video shows in the end.
Love it...he should have just stayed home and got drunk. He ironically misused the chair, trying to be a hero, instead of being who he really is. A slob 😛
I need an extended version where it Time Loops over and over again, and he keeps dying over and over again. Then eventually something "weird" happens and it breaks the loop and he saves the girl and continues to have a good life. Using the chair never again, until someone else needs to learn a lesson - Just as he did. To treat his wife better, grow up, and take care of his family; all the while, learning a more important lesson of life.
The real thought is, since he actually died before he took home the chair, when the younger one takes the chair and they determine the time of the accident etc the wife and others will be perplexed. "I saw him this evening at home right before I left for work he had been at a garage sale and bought a chair, but you are telling me he died in front of the garage sale earlier today?"
@Smee Self outside the loop, people present would have seen him alive beyond the time of the accident Is what i meant. Not that incidents would have changed, but if he lived and went to the hospital they'd have a time for the incident that would be earlier than when he had talked to his wife.
Where are you getting that she left for work AT NIGHT??? The online dog race betting happened overnight, she spoke with him the next morning before she left for work.. He then repeatedly cranked the chair lever to travel to the day prior, minutes before he bought the chair at the garage sale.
What an enjoyable film this was! It has all the qualities of a winner! Great story line, excellent cast, brilliant directing, perfect music! This one has it all! I loved it! Bravo! ❤❤❤
Tragically sad and poignant. So, how many of us are stuck in our own seemingly infinitely negative "loops," where despite our best efforts we keep making the same mistakes?
While everyone is talking about the Recliner Back In Timer, im sitting here thinking to myself "This man got a Recliner for only $30? Forget about the one minute do-over for a second, thats a hell of a bargain man!" Its probably because i actually need one for my bedroom for when im playing video games so thats lowkey all i got from this.
Possible that there was only two of him here because he went back to a time before the chair was in his possession. :) Perhaps in order to assume the role of your past self you have to actually be in possession of the chair. ^_^
Considering that the Earth, solar system, and Galaxy are hurdling through space at billions of mph, he'd actually end up floating in space the first time and die, oh the joys of time travel paradoxes.
@@RoyBrush This still does not explain how he went back in time more than one minute before he put the chair right in that spot though (unless I am misunderstanding something)
Wait, so he basically made a time loop of him going back to save a little girl that results in his little girl growing up without a dad. That's pretty brutal
Austin J no, isn’t the whole universe stuck in this time loop now? How could the little girl grow up but the girl he saved is still climbing the tree that exact same day every time?
@@mbccgliczsdnm7627 kind of: this period of time will loop over and over again an infinite number of times, but the universe will *still* continue on in the time *after* the loop. for everyone outside the loop, time appears to pass as normal, even though an infinite amount of time has actually passed in this moment. its incredibly confusing, but its just how infinity works
@@nobody-fp5is But he's not stuck in a time loop. From his perspective, he simply went back in time and died. Thats what we see. He does not continue on with travelling back in time and dying over and over again. It happened once, although he kinda witnessed it twice. From everyone else's perspective, he bought a chair and vanished. And at some point, someone may have identified his corpse and then everyone gets really confused, except maybe for his girlfriend, who might get less confused and more sad when she realises that he was telling the truth. But he's not stuck in a time loop.
Spoilers! Nicely done! Very efficient storytelling. My only question is that while I can understand him (in his selfish phase) not going to see if the girl was okay (thinking she was the one hit by the van), why didn't the police come by the house afterwards to notify his wife that he was dead (as the real victim of the van crash)? Wouldn't there be some consternation (love that word) when the police show up to say "Your husband was killed earlier today.", but the wife says "No he wasn't. He's over there in that f-ing chair."? But logical paradoxes aside, it was a well done and enjoyable story. Kudos! :)
Pak De, fair enough. I suppose if his 'dead' body disappeared upon being hit, then the police wouldn't have a corpse to identify, thus no wife to notify. Things like that do grind away at the back of my tiny brain, but I did still enjoy the film. :)
I think I have a theory for that! What if, since he technically are still alive, and is existing, his body disappeared? I mean, no 2 EXACTLY same matters can coexist at the same time right? So technically by "dying" he "returns" to his "original" body.
CryMeALake, Ah, but then he couldn't have traveled back to that moment to save the girl in the first place, since two versions of him would have been existing at that point. Technically, it wouldn't have been 'exactly' the same, since the version of him from days later would have different atoms making up his substance (we lose and accumulate matter all the time). Time paradoxes are a fun concept, and I suppose that until we can prove how time-travel works, we'll just have to keep guessing... :)
Physical laws, as we understand them currently, don't preclude time travel as long as every particle never re-crosses the same frame of space-time. In the Everett-Wheeler model, particles can diverge, each new version separated by a probabilistic wave. In other words, what actually happens when you "time travel" is you are travelling to a different version of the Universe with an entirely different set of particles. Every time he uses the chair, if this model is correct, he vanishes forever from the Universe he used to occupy, and finds himself in a nearly identical Universe, presumably either switching places with his alternate self or simply causing his alternate self to cease existing. In other words, in _his_ Universe it was indeed the little girl who got hit by the van. He's arrived in a new Universe at a time _before he's used the chair for the first time,_ so there are two of him. In _this_ Universe he saves the girl and dies. And so what you describe will indeed happen, the police will find a doppelganger and it will create a lot of confusion. Of course, the man who owned the time travel chair will realize what happened. In fact, it probably already happened for him; I think we're supposed to guess that he's an older version of the protagonist who used the chair to go much farther back.
It's a time paradox. The one getting run over by the car had always been him, and will always be him. The girl would have never, and will never be, ran over.
I wonder what he would have done if he did see himself get hit but only realized it was him once he figured out the chair? Save the girl or avoid the time loop?
Not necessarily. Having been the chair's previous owner, he probably made the same discovery and made some mistakes with the time travel. Naturally, he would assume the buyer would make similar mistakes. He would not need any clairvoyance or foresight to know that the chair was a time machine and some form of warning would be a good isdea.
In the beginning I wondered why he made no effort to go back and save that little girl. Only at the end did I wonder if maybe he knew it was this guy all along and that's why he said "you seem like a nice guy." and "Use it wisely"
What surprises me most is that he stands in the middle of the road when he knows that a car is coming. And the driver of the car drives like he doesn't see anything, and only breaks instantly after hitting the guy - suggesting that the driver did see him, and drove him down on purpose.
he only ended his own timeline; although he seems to be a pretty lazy and undecisive guy therefore can make a different timeline by not going to go and save the girl, but the moment he was in (with his wife and all, first his wife wanting to divorce, then his wife saying he needs to change in the later 1 min reverse) made him want to be a better person, and he wanted to start with saving the girl. The world continues its not like time is limited to one person.
@@Oleka8 Well no. He witnesses a van hit something. He thinks it may be the girl in the tree, which his future self saves. His past self does not know of his future action that saves that girl. If his future self "died" by the van impact, the person they find in the road, is going to be "him." This doesn't happen. He brings the Lazy Boy home as normal. If "he" was dead in any timeline, his wife is going to know about it. The obvious reaction anyone witnessing a crash, is to run toward the accident and see if everyone is ok. This obviously didn't happen, because he brought that Lazy Boy home without a fuss. And he definitely didn't see "himself" in the road. So you have to ask what happens to all the other people he's interacted with BEYOND the point in which he travels 24 hours back in time. To die. Does his wife come home to find him gone? Does the garage sale owner set up his yard for sale again, or pack everything away? They can't! He has trapped everyone, everything, in an endless time loop. His wife leaves for work. The last thing she tells him is he has a baby girl, and she'll see him when she gets home. Well, his "future self" is dead, hit by a van. He never comes back home. If he was dead in the street at the garage sale, she'd be notified of his death. But he can't die and live at the same time. The Nature of Time says this is a paradox it won't allow. It's endless. And everything around him is in that loop with him.
@@marks6663 no its an endless loop it never hit the girl. it hit him he buys the chair then goes back, the first part where he buys the chair isnt the first time he buys it, he went back and he is always the one being hit even the first time.
Yato Kami but see it from his point of view, there is no loop for him, he just dies and that’s it. It’s only a loop from our point of view because we get to see him go back in time
jgrodriguez12 All I can say is yes and no. While ofcourse, it's not a time loop in the sense of one entity reliving a span of time forever, "his" point of view includes the next "him". It's still a loop, only there's a *stop* to each of the infinite amount of tracks, rather than an infinite spiral of one loop.
Drama fell flat except for the paradox setup and payoff at the end. His death being the cause of his death, good twist. Good acting and awesome set and wardrobe. Thanks for sharing
And if it's a time loop, there's a probability distribution curve that he saves the girl at some point and steps just a bit far enough not to get hit. And we don't know if he died for sure, be surprised what you can live through. And then of course, he might have made multiple other different decisions... everything replaying becomes uncertain... at least if you use the uncertainty principle. And if time travel is at all possible, it would mean each play back becomes uncertain once again. Which also means your bet on some lottery or game or stock could end up differently each time.
what i love/cant figure out about these kinds of time loops is how they came to be in the first place, since a loop like this can have no beginning or end. He bought the lazy boy, which made him loop back into the past but like...he never and will never had/have the option to not buy it.
But time existed long before this man was ever born. It didn't start existing when he did. That is why it's able to continue existing after he dies. Yes, that's right, its safe to assume that he died. It's not a "loop" the way everyone thinks, he doesn't buy the chair go back in time and then buy the chair again. He buys the chair, goes back in time, and DIES. That's it, NO LOOP. The younger version of himself that he was so distracted by when he was hit by the car, well his fate will be the same. But there is no loop that for whatever reason people seem to be thinking will cause the world to be "trapped in", time goes on as normal with him having died the day before his partner will last claim to have seen him.
Just imagine while trying to show her the time machine lazy boy she'd actually sat in it & tryd it...... he was in the seat a minute ago..... what would happen
Idea for part 2: Like someone else said maybe the van didn't kill him and he woke up a few days later in hospital (the hospital didn't know who to contact as he left his stuff at his place when he ran out to save the girl) . After a few years he managed to fix the chair and his whole family have learned how to use the chair. Plot twist, the girl in the tree is his daughter. And eventually the family needs a bigger house so they move to where the garage sale was and he becomes the old man
When I heard him say "girl" over and over I thought he was hopping into the time machine to go back and try for a boy lmao
I did too!! Wtf is wrong with us haha
I thought he was going back to not have a kid lol
Me too haha
Same 😂
what was he actually doin tho
"shouldn't you be in the kitchen?". ohhh such a bad choice of words
LMAO
Lol
Definitely bad choice of words
But at least finally a man that speaks the truth.
D Son amazing cinematography
You can tell it's Australian, because the first application he thinks of for time travel is, more beer
Matthew Sherborne or maybe you could just hear the voice
And there accent
could tell from cocoa pops
or the Victorian number plates....
He was drinking VB, that kinda gave it away
Thanks, Omeleto. Now, I'm never going to recline a La-Z-Boy nor go into a bathroom stall ( Stalled) ever again.
Hahaha! I just watched Stalled for the first time today as well
Great, found another people who watch this after Stalled!
Same here
@@socialyouniverse3086 same
also just watched stalled
my school work: unfinished
my room: in disarray
my life: falling apart
me: *watching hours of omeleto*
Asher Smith Films this comment hits different
Thought I was the only one...
same here. :)
looks like you need a time machine chair
Hotel:trivago
I had to do it to em
Finally a short film with a beginning, middle, AND a real ending. This was great.
real ending? It came back to the begginning... it's oroboros, there is no beggining nor an ending xD
Yeah I too think the same
Vinicius Carvalho oroboros? did your dead cat run across your keyboard?
Henry technically it was a short film with a beginning, middle, and beggining.
Martyr4JesusTheChrist when did god come into this ?
Imagine coming home from work and immediately your husband says, in a totally confused manner, "shouldn't you be in the kitchen?". I'd be pissed too! That line killed me! 😂😂😂
That's good to know. I gotta use that on the little lady when she gets home!
The truth hurts.
@arrogant cat oh, it's a name I just threw out there while making this account as a teenager. It's a play on the common refrain of animal rights activists: 'Meat Is Murder!'. I always thought it was funny because any time you eat something, even a damn carrot, you're still technically killing it. Honestly: I have no serious opinion either way on the issue. I'm not a rabid vegan or animal rights activist, nor am I a loud carnivore with a 'P.E.T.A.= People Eating Tasty Animals' bumper sticker. It was just something silly that popped into my mind many years ago.
@@kitkatrina1337 😂😂😂 That's the first time I've heard that response! I love it! Lol.
@@cedric3973 I was joking. I thought it was funny.
Fun Fact: he needed to grind the chair 1440 times just to get back a day.
We don't know if he was at the garage sale in the morning. Could have been midday to afternoon when he bought the couch.
You have 144 like the time I am writing the comment. Scary similarity of number😨😬😛
@@MrSupdup it's 2 o'clock @ 0:13 and 20 after 2 @ 9:44. I'd say he bought the couch around 2 thirty five in the afternoon since he had to sprint to catch the girl from the tree at 2 twenty.
No wonder it popped.
@@inaina8735 FTW
My bed is a time machine, I get in at 2PM I get up and it’s 7PM.
My only question is why you go to bed at 2PM.
I was talking about me sitting in my bed.
@@djmystery7235 if that's the case, the answer's easy!
You're an alcoholic who gets drunk by noon and black out by 2pm while sitting on your bed, and then you wake up at 7pm because your internal clock alarm beeps when the sun's down and it's time to go get drunk!
Chris Fuentes no, I’m just a HS kid with a phone that has an insane battery life and can easily go through 5+ hours of media like it’s 2-3 minutes.
Wait what?
Getting drunk off one can of beer. Now that's my kind of time machine.
My kind of time machine would be one that takes me back to all the times I did stupid stuff while drunk so I could stop myself.
@@RobertF- why? You get somebody pregnant!😅
@@amonra4126 Time machine birth control. I think you've got a money maker there, Ramona ;)
Lol
Nah its called Australians
spinkleborf
Federal Bureau of Investigation future or past
@@MangoMonster2007 the joke ---->
Your head
@@Glados1080 or you?
@@Glados1080 no not really
Mine too and it only goes forward
From comedy, to drama, to straight up temporal horror.
I'm sitting in my own lazy boy chair and I could have sworn that I just watched this video.
Sit in it and watch this short film like 10 times in a row. See if you start tripping out.
I'm sitting in my own lazy boy chair and I could have sworn that I just watched this video.
Big Skid Media YOOOOO YOURE TRIPPING ME OUT MAN
Sit in it and watch this short film like 10 times in a row. See if you start tripping out.
I'm sitting in my own lazy boy chair and I could have sworn that I just watched this video.
Just imagine how many cranks he had to put Into the chair just to make it back to that moment . assuming it's only been 2 days he would have cranked 2880 times .
Cranking that soulja boy
Why would you assume it's been two days? I would think it more reasonable it's been only one day.
And considering the sun was high in the beginning and morning in the last day, I'd wager it's been less than 24 hours.
I'd wager he pulled it no more than 1200 times, which is still ridiculous- both on his body and on the couch itself.
@@huuamai8151 that's why is said assuming but yeah
@@huuamai8151 Agreed that it likely hasnt been long. the stuff he bought hasnt come, the wife is wearing the same clothes the whole time if i remember correctly.
That sounds really annoying.
I just noticed that he finds the recliner exactly 1 minute in
he also buys it about a minute after he lays eyes on it too.
More like 56 seconds
@@kevinadam2945 aka 30 seconds
@@booty_hunter4207 30 seconds in he sees it, 1:30 he finishes the deal for it. 1 minute.
OH
Omeleto totally amazes me. Every once in a while I forget Omeleto, come across one of their short films by accident and always wind up impressed.
It's not 'their' films, they are just hosted on this channel.
@@jklavz Exactly, it works like Vevo used to
But "they" are the reason we all watched. @@jklavz
@@jklavzahh that makes sense
I'm more worried about his milk to cereal ratio at the start
Omg yes
Morty Smith I thought it was baked beans
That's the perfect ratio. You need just enough milk to lightly coat the cereal.
ßerrısırıs no you need a lot of milk so you can drink it after
@@Veela666
You scare me.
oh man that's horrible. nasty time loop he is stuck in now. :-)
I wonder if he'll ever get out of it?
At least he doesn't know he's stuck in it.
@@robertl30 hopefully one day he will realise he is...they always do ;)
He's not, that's not how time loops work. He just went back in time and died, that's all. His worldline ended at 10:46.
Nerys nop
This guy just single handedly put the universe into an infinite loop.
literally...
@Evan Koch i havent watched twilight zone
@Evan Koch might watch
Gold Rose How is this a loop? He west back in time to save a girl he thought had died. She didn’t, it turned out HE for hit after returning to save her. No loop, just time travel.
He didn't put the universe into a time loop, the universe doesn't stop with him. He died, but in a situation where his death overlapped with a time when he was still alive.
I started to write a comment, “Wow! This is SO GOOD!” Then, in the comments, I noticed that I wrote the exact same comment a year ago. I don’t remember having watched this a year ago. But, I enjoyed watching it both times.
It's a Loop yk?
ayo?
You're definitely in a time loop
No, you are stuck in a time loop. And now, so am I.
🤫
Yeah that's Alzheimer's my dude
Driver: Oh look, a fellow citizen who is just standing in the middle of the road after saving a little girl...𝕀'𝕄 𝔾𝕆𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝕋𝕆 ℝ𝕌ℕ ℍ𝕀𝕄 𝕆𝕍𝔼ℝ ℕ𝕆𝕎
TNovix Hell you’d think he would have you know, MOVED out of the road after catching her. He knew the truck was still coming
DUDE back when he bought the chair HE THOUGHT it was the girl who got ran over, not him. That’s why he saved her
@@karynjohnson he still should have known about the truck though
The lad wasn’t even in the middle of the road
mmmmm I like seeing mathbb in TH-cam comments
How was he not rich. Thinking small with the betting.
Exactly. I would of kept going.
He can only got back one minute per use. Overusing broke it. This limited the kinds of bets. And while he might not be thinking of things in this way, the further back you go, the more likely events are likely to change. The dog race didn't change because he was not there for it and couldn't change it. But if he went back 1 hour at a time, that could have an effect.
My main question is how did he get the chair back to his house? It's implied that he walked to the sale. Sure, carrying it is possible, but seems highly unlikely.
@@MrWeareone777 you would've kept going into your grave by thinking "would of" is correct
I’d make millions
I’d invest in stocks lol
The wife was driving the van.
omg,NO
Ahh delicious time homicide
And still to this day she is.
Wait was she really cuz you heard a car crash after he leaves and before he goes back in time to save the girl.
@@biscuitgidoni2804 ye maybe.... God bless
4:10 This was the true boy's moment.
And what happens if you get up from the chair, and someone immediately sits in it and goes back in time 1 minute when you're supposed to be still sitting in the chair too?
This is why time travel in films never makes logical sense
Very interesting. I'll ask my mate Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Whatever is in the same location in time and space will be displaced from existence. Your prior self will cease to exist in that moment in time.
Fusion
notahotshot jeez somebody thinks he knows what he’s talking about
I was so not expecting him to have a wife
Ikr
He's a bloomer
Ikr
@[BosS] HITMAN 20
Did he have a beautiful one?
Must have missed that.
F
This guy's life is extremely depressing.
Or he could just not be lazy
He could have had a bright future with that chair. By winning online bets like he did.
You must have an extremely easy life to think this is depressing lmao
And extremely common
Slimeustas I would like but you’re at 666 and I’m not ruining that
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen. Theoretically It’s right up there with the grandfather paradox. With the lazy boy, he created a loop in the space time continuum. The point where he reclined repeatedly and then went to the tree is as far as the future will ever exist. What a concept!
Yes bucle
See "Stalled"
I thought he was going back in time because he didn’t want a girl LOL
He remembered that the van that hit a girl was supposed to be him so he decided to fix time by going back and saving her thereby completing the time loop.
Me too
Jason Goodacre We know we’ve watched the video it’s just what he thought at that moment
Same tho!
@@jasongoodacre or he didnt know it was him but he thought the girl got hit so when his wife told him it was a girl they were having he remembered the girl he thought died ao he went back to change it but by doing so he didnt change the future he just fulfilled it.
That's a lot of reclines back, he must have extreme strength
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Ok I GOTTA SAY IT! This channel has better quality short stories than most feature films I have seen in years. The storytelling is godlike! The way you fit so much information in such a short time, I always feel like I watched a full length feature film!
You would think something like this should be a microwaveable version of an actual film, but it’s BETTER!
Every film is by a different writer and director. Omeleto only showcases many films that have won awards around the world. :)
Nicely done! Time travel plots are hard to do sensibly with a tidy, sensible outcome. This one nailed it.
what about the fact that now, there are 2 of him in the world
@@B_Chasnikano because the one we followed is now dead
whoever was driving the van has the slowest reaction time
Plot twist, it was his wife.
The most haunting part of this will be from the point of view of the wife.
She will wonder where her husband went, find out that his body was found the day BEFORE he went missing, making her think that she was living with a ghost for 24 hours (whose last words were asking if they had a good time together, a very ghostly thing to ask). Spooky af for her.
Then take into consideration, he as the controller of time with the La-Z-Boy, will never allow time to go past the point of finding out he's having a girl. Every iteration of him will find that out, think of the girl in the tree, go back a day to save the girl, never be able to break the cycle. It's a legit time loop that can't be stopped. The world will never go past it
You're a genius
Do you think she saw him incessantly reclining the Lazy-Boy a few thousand times to reverse time, or was her memory wiped with each recline?
@Shaun Asakura my theory for that is memory is connected to time, he is out of time, she is in time, so her memory is reversing with time
Hello all,
What would happen, is time would continue in two progressions at once.
1. Once from his/the time machines perspective, stuck in an endless loop in which we never saw the first (by which I mean at the beginning of the video he actually is seeing a previous version of himself dying, not the little girl, forming a perfect loop). If it wasn't a perfect loop resulting in his death there would be a possibility of escape, but unfortunately his "older" self never interferes with past self before dying, so he will ALWAYS decide to go back and take the same actions. This effectively means he and the chair are trapped forever.
2. The other perspective is the girlfriends. From hers, the morning he got the chair, a version of him dies. This body never again time travels, so it remains in this timeline and will eventually be identified.
That same day, the living version of him brings the chair home, socializes a bit, redoes a few moments with the last being (we had a good time right?). She reassures him and leaves. When she gets back, he will be gone and so will the chair. She will call and get no answer. Then eventually the police will recognize the body that was found BEFORE she last saw him and she will assume he visited her as a ghost and for some reason had a ghost chair as well lmao.
In the end, the timeline looks like a shoelace with a knot in it, with him/timemachine stuck in the knot.
OMGGGG at the beginning there was a stroller beside the La-Z Boy! I didn't realize the importance of this until I replayed it. His wife is pregnant, he should have been buying the important thing but he chose the chair for comfort, he was being a lazy boy and ended up being was stuck in a loop of him dying. moral of the story don be lazy!
Interesting idea, however their baby wasn't born yet. He could have easily bought a new stroller from his winnings on the horse race but had no need at the time. He did however buy all kinds of junk he didn't need so he was quite selfish
@@MonteLeeMyPOV but he definitely looked at the stroller and sighed meaning he understands its importance but decides to push it out of his mind before sitting in the lazboy so he was definitely thinking about it...
@@MonteLeeMyPOV and then his wife goes "how did it go with the baby stuff" later when they are in the house, so it means he was meant to be responsible and purchase something like that stroller. The film makers wouldn't have inserted those details if it the concept of an unwilling soon to be father was not present.
Or... be more lazy and don't go saving the girl 🙂
mac laren go BRRRRRRRRRRR
If each crank was 1 minute and he had to account for the seconds inbetween to crank and push it back to normal, he'd have to crank it for at least 24 hours, that's 1440 minutes, meaning he'd have to make over at least fifteen hundred cranks!
He could have started a crank factory with that many cranks! 😊😂🤣😅🤪
Completely wrong. It's the next day, but he bought it around 2:30pm the previous day. He decided to go back in time in the morning, around 8 am (which is why the wife has to go to work). Which means he had to go back 17 hours and 30 mins. (17 * 60) + 30 = 1050 cranks.
I thought each crank took him back 5 minutes
What a cranker! 😆
He'll have a really strong right arm
@@DocBree13 They show the clock going back exactly one minute when he's working out what it is that the chair does.
Should have just carried on with the gambling! That’s all I’m gona say 😬
Gambling saves lives
Not really gambling if you know who's gonna win
@@burntchickennugget8142 exactly. He should kept going and make millions of dollars
@@BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n Easy there Biff
My perfect ending - He keeps gambling and uses the money to surprise her with a fully furnished and beautifully finished room for the baby. Her faith in him is restored. He still gambles on the side and has fun since he has the one minute time machine. After seeing what he has done she believes the time machine is real. It will come in handy after the baby comes so they can take secret naps using the time machine. The whole family will always be safe because if a life threatening accident happens they can use the time machine to go back and save the child or family member using the chair. Everyone lives happily ever after. The end. ❤️❤️
I was surprised to see that the man selling the chair was not an old-white-haired-Chinese-man with a list of strict rules for the La-Z-Boy
Rule number 1: NEVER use the chair after midnight
@@henrygreber4763 exactly
@@henrygreber4763 what .... What happens if you do? 😕
i think that was the Australian equivalent to an old Chinese man
@@EL-ISS right now i’m curious
He was standing in on the road for a while so someone hit him intentionally.
SKullRose Productions texting while driving.
@@axlent123 Damn, that's a good point tho
the plot thickens
@@axlent123 Wasn't even texting. The idiot driver had time to floor the gas while honking the horn. Obviously intentional.
Yeah everyone's here picking apart the infinite loop paradox and I'm just like.. "How do you get run over on a quiet suburban street standing still in the middle of the road". The guy even honks his horn..
The guy just created a kind of living hell for himself.
He should have known the van would still be there.
Whole Food Plant-Based Man He was distracted about saving the girl then he relized that that was him in the garage sale and was trying to process the information cause he was confused till the truck hit him
To me it looked more like he accepted his death, because he thought he saved the girl and his family in that timeline. But of course he doesn't know that it now turned into a loop of him trying to save the girl just to get himself killed because the girl aleady ran out of his sight.
I'm just glad I don't live in movie-world where anyone standing in the road for 30 seconds doesn't slow traffic down, or get honked at as cars drive around you, but just gets fatally hit by a car going full speed. Reliable as clockwork in movie-land.
@@jerfbowers Distracted driver probably.
@@jerfbowers I mean, you would think that wouldn't happen. There's some idiotic drivers out there though.
The seller of the chair said it served him well. Then why get rid of it?
He's himself.
Wary simple, because his wife thinks it's getting old and she want something new, no matte how much he lows that lazy boy.
All good things come to an end.
My conspiracy theory, so the guy selling the chair knew the girl would be saved and he also helped put the girl there. Then when the husband died the guy who sold the chair can go take his wife gang gang
Because he doesn't want to be lazy anymore..
"It's a time loop."
"No it's not a time loop. He dies."
It is a time loop. Yes he dies. But the younger self will buy the chair, he will rewind time, he will die, the younger self will buy the chair...
The whole of existence is caught in a loop, unless something prevents him from using the chair.
notahotshot hell of a paradox
I don't think so. The little girl doesn't die anymore so he'll just think that someone who looks exactly like him died. Then he'll put it together that it actually was him and died after going back to save her. He has no reason to go back now, cause she didn't die, so he just won't go back this time
@@MrDb4894, the little girl never died.
He bought the chair, he rewinds time, saves the girl, then dies.
He will always buy the chair, rewind time, save the girl, and die.
Dylan he never actually saw the girl get hit by the car. It could’ve always been him in a loop.
@@sunderlandtillidie5770, there is no paradox. There is nothing which changes the course of his actions, or his motivations. There is nothing which should logically prevent the series of events.
Jeez that end was not what I was expecting lol.
me neither, until it dawned on me as he was stood there in the road after saving the girl. Just as I realised what was about to happen, it was too late.....
Weird cuz that was exactly how I predicted it to be.
He wasn’t just going to let that little girl die…so I was just waiting for when they’d have him remember her.
Typically with these precise time, time travel…there’s always only 3 outcomes:
they have their objective that they go back and fix/change…and all is great again.
Or…
After they fix whatever…They, then die,
or
get stuck in the time loop paradox.
Watch next time you watch one!
But there is always that main objective!
He could have just gotten her to sit down one day without saying anything about it being a time machine and like everyone does with a La-Z-Boy she would have reclined and experienced herself.
She did! Who do you think was driving the van
I thought about that, but having anyone else sit in the chair would risk HIM popping out of existence.
He could have also just gambled a bunch and then showed her the bank account balance. Or just tell her who's gonna win, and how. So many ways to prove that you have a time machine that don't involve looking like a lunatic.
^ What you guys are saying is exactly what i was thinking (not the her driving the van thing though).
How about her sitting on top of her think people think
My mans had $7.30 in his account lmao, rough
No, he had $107.30 and then played $100 to win $1000.
Julien u smart
He know how to read he must be very smart
he doesn't have a job 😂 His pregnant, working, cooking, wife does
Better than $ -7.30 in his account! 😆😒😢
Jesus is gonna be confused when he sees a infinite supply of Joes coming into heaven
i know its a joke but the logic whould be no it whould be one person going into heaven over and over again jesus whouldint know since the time keeps looping and looping meaning the babys father will forever be dead and stuck in a time loop a month earlier
TheFirstGameHD god damnit people are too smart
I’m assuming Jesus would just put everything in its proper place
LMAO
his name is ray
Amazing video! The logic doesn't quite fit as much as "Stalled" though because throughout the beginning of the video there is only one of the main character and all the objects around him change, but at the end there are two versions and one is at the house.
Yea, becouse in the beginning he was always in the chair, he's going back to the past that he was in the same chair, so no duplicates. But once he went back so far into the past that he wasn't on the same chair at that time, duplicates.
That's how I understood it
4:16 _Uses the time machine to endlessly drink beer_
You really ARE an Ozzy!
nope, he was drinking VB. WHO drinks VB?
@@snookies1224 No one.
Aussie. Not Osbourne.
I kinda just realised, at the start when the van hits the "future self" guy, the older man doesn't react, because he knows there's gonna be a time loop......
How would he know there's gonna be a time loop?
@@Christobanistan probably because he has had past experience with the chair, just a theory though
@@rlrhys4194 If he'd gotten into a time loop himself with the chair, he wouldn't have known it and wouldn't be warning others or trying to hock it off cuz that would stop it. That would require knowledge of the loop, which you can't have, otherwise you could break the loop. And a loop you break out of isn't a loop...so the logic fails.
@@Christobanistan Maybe he created the chair....
@@Christobanistan the main character remembers everything, though. am i not understanding your comment and this doesnt matter?
This is too real. I clicked to see a comedy not an emotional drama.
That's most of Omeleto lol
@@zarekjailal790 except the bloodthirsty narrator. That's hilarious
If time travel in a lazy boi is too real for you, pm me your address please.
Slimeustas actually when I saw the video I thought it was going to be some sort of documentary but instead I got a short film
Me too! I wanted to see him using the time machine and getting rich and happy, not to die
Excellent job! Wish it was a full length movie, or maybe a series of stories.
It is. It never stops.
I just watched this for the 23rd time in a row, and I assure you that nothing changes in the time loop.
good enough for me :)
😆 it's time for you to step away from the lazyboy!
thanks for all your sterling efforts AM
...the change comes on the 24th...😂
I should have seen that one coming. LOL
"Shouldnt you be in the kitchen?"
*Why do i hear boss music?*
Jesus, that was a horrendous ending!! So he's stuck in a time loop where he'll never progress, become a good dad, or even get to see his daughter born?? Very well made, but yikes...
He's dead. That's why he'll never progress, become a good dad, or see his daughter born. The time loop didn't do that, him dying did.
It's basically not a time loop. It is the future AND the past. And it's happening right in front of him till the end of time.
Andrew Elder
No all he has to do is change 1 thing like step away from the street and that will change the entire space time continuum however to change something he must realize that he’s in a loop so that he can change anything which is impossible but common sense is what might eventually allow him to get out of the road and go stop his younger self from buying the chair, but in doing so he will change everything so if he never buys the recliner and waits there for his wife to come home afterwards then he may say something different and get in an argument which leads to a divorce. So what I’m saying is to get out of loop he must change something if he eventually realizes but when he does that something he does will ultimately change his life and others.
Basically he dies for being altruistic, not selfish?
Who wrote this?
@@digitalmoonbooks the world is unfair that was the lesson i guess xd
"Nice arm biceps! have you been working out?"
"Nah.. I just saved someone's life"
Here's the problem with this movie logic:
When he goes back 1 minute, his "past self" is the same as his "present self". That is, there are no two "hims", just one him. So he goes back one minute, he does not encounter his past self sitting in the sofa.
So when exactly does his past self become a different "he". Why does the movie think if he goes back two days, he will see a different "past self" in the garage sale? The movie uses two different sets of logic. The movie should have one of two sets of logic, not both.
1) where you turn back the time, so to speak--so you are not travelling through time, you are "turning back" time. There is only one line/ path, you are just walking backwards on it. This is what the one-minute time-machine logic is in the film until the last few minutes.
2)The "time-loop" logic where you go back into the past where another you is already present is a different set-up. This is used up in the final minutes...
The movie screws up here.
woosterjeeves maybe it’s because the initial logic is applied after you own the chair, but the loop logic is from before you actually possessed it
(Got this idea from another comment
Yea I don’t think one min is enough lol
I think he was just telefragging his past self every time before.
To be fair the chair dissapears when he goes back far enough so that will be the time paradox
Also, it implies at the end, that what he did after time traveling already happened. But when he first time travels on accident, the wife says two different things.
Very offbeat. The story delivered well. I like the twist at the end.
Wouldn’t the beer he just drank not be in his stomach anymore
Ok i get it.
You are what you eat. The beer he drank was in the chair too.
The time machine doesn't affect the person sitting in it, therefore it doesn't affect the beer either.
@@skalkin9656 Yep. The beer wasn't sitting it in a minute ago, thus, it duplicates. Question is: what if he wasn't sitting in it for more than a minute? Answer: He duplicates, just like the video shows in the end.
You could put a diamond in your mouth and have 2 diamonds
@@xanniegaming8760 good one
The time machine could undo the broken mug but not the stain on that shirt xD
As futurama explains, a time paradox duplicate is always doomed. Lol.
Just like the tv show The Flash Time Remnants
Love it...he should have just stayed home and got drunk. He ironically misused the chair, trying to be a hero, instead of being who he really is. A slob 😛
@@bernlin2000 and the ending shows that he tried to be something hes not, thus closing/starting the loop
I need an extended version where it Time Loops over and over again, and he keeps dying over and over again. Then eventually something "weird" happens and it breaks the loop and he saves the girl and continues to have a good life. Using the chair never again, until someone else needs to learn a lesson - Just as he did. To treat his wife better, grow up, and take care of his family; all the while, learning a more important lesson of life.
but that ending wouldnt make you think about it as much
this isn't Disney
@@SangriaDracul I was thinking more like an Anime.
@@ThereIsNoSpoon678 haha
This is.....Requiem
The real thought is, since he actually died before he took home the chair, when the younger one takes the chair and they determine the time of the accident etc the wife and others will be perplexed. "I saw him this evening at home right before I left for work he had been at a garage sale and bought a chair, but you are telling me he died in front of the garage sale earlier today?"
Chaos Shepperson who said the crash killed him? He could live on to become the old man
Even funnier if they found it while he was still in the present.
“Sir we found you dead today”
@Smee Self outside the loop, people present would have seen him alive beyond the time of the accident Is what i meant. Not that incidents would have changed, but if he lived and went to the hospital they'd have a time for the incident that would be earlier than when he had talked to his wife.
Plot twist, the vehicle knocked him one week into the future
Where are you getting that she left for work AT NIGHT??? The online dog race betting happened overnight, she spoke with him the next morning before she left for work.. He then repeatedly cranked the chair lever to travel to the day prior, minutes before he bought the chair at the garage sale.
What an enjoyable film this was! It has all the qualities of a winner! Great story line, excellent cast, brilliant directing, perfect music! This one has it all! I loved it! Bravo! ❤❤❤
Tragically sad and poignant. So, how many of us are stuck in our own seemingly infinitely negative "loops," where despite our best efforts we keep making the same mistakes?
It’s not a loop.... he died
I'm stuck on a loop with TH-cam, lunch, instagram, dinner, TH-cam again, poop, pee, sleep, Wake up, Repeat.
@@DeathnoteBB But his other self is still alive, and he'll repeat the same mistake, thus creating a loop.
Very Clever Name From our perspective, sure. But in reality he went back in time once then died... Everyone is stuck in a loop if you’re omniscient.
@@DeathnoteBB i guess you're right. But it's still kind of a loop.
While everyone is talking about the Recliner Back In Timer, im sitting here thinking to myself "This man got a Recliner for only $30? Forget about the one minute do-over for a second, thats a hell of a bargain man!" Its probably because i actually need one for my bedroom for when im playing video games so thats lowkey all i got from this.
lowkey thanks for sharing highkey just kidding
He could have been rich if he kept duplicating money like the beers.
THIS IS GENIUS!!
But he has tu be altruist
@Tony Montresor how about gold bars
Or jewelry
new name
Those tend to be a tad bit difficult to sell in bulk
I love it, kisses from Puerto Rico 💋💋💋💋
"Shouldn't you be in the kitchen?"
*Monster aka Wife has entered the chat*
If this was the case he’d be on top of his self every time he went back a minute?
Possible that there was only two of him here because he went back to a time before the chair was in his possession. :) Perhaps in order to assume the role of your past self you have to actually be in possession of the chair. ^_^
RoyBrush yes I thought of that afterwards. Good observation!
Considering that the Earth, solar system, and Galaxy are hurdling through space at billions of mph, he'd actually end up floating in space the first time and die, oh the joys of time travel paradoxes.
His self/ him self/wtf?
@@RoyBrush This still does not explain how he went back in time more than one minute before he put the chair right in that spot though (unless I am misunderstanding something)
Why doesn’t he just let his wife set in it to prove to her it’s real
He tried to twice and she stubbornly refused to...
but then he would be in a different time then her
@@Rizebruh that wouldn't matter time just rolls back and he already knows about it
My thoughts also
@@forextroll Wrong, he didn't ask her to use it once
Oh my gosh, why wasn't I expecting that ending! Very nicely done!
Wait, so he basically made a time loop of him going back to save a little girl that results in his little girl growing up without a dad. That's pretty brutal
Austin J no, isn’t the whole universe stuck in this time loop now? How could the little girl grow up but the girl he saved is still climbing the tree that exact same day every time?
@@mbccgliczsdnm7627 kind of: this period of time will loop over and over again an infinite number of times, but the universe will *still* continue on in the time *after* the loop. for everyone outside the loop, time appears to pass as normal, even though an infinite amount of time has actually passed in this moment. its incredibly confusing, but its just how infinity works
His wife and unborn child are killed. Didn't you hear the crash? Watch 8:34 til 9.00
@@nibbletrinnal2289 Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of temporal loops?
@@Amperzand That’s just him remembering the earlier crash
Him: this chair is a time machine
Her: your selfish, you take me for granted, and you're going to be a terrible father.
Well that escalated quickly...
He'll never be a father now because he's stuck in a time loop.
@@michaelhuynh5760 He's not stuck in a time loop. He's dead.
@@9nikola he is dead but alive too because he is stuck in a time loop
@@nobody-fp5is But he's not stuck in a time loop.
From his perspective, he simply went back in time and died. Thats what we see. He does not continue on with travelling back in time and dying over and over again. It happened once, although he kinda witnessed it twice.
From everyone else's perspective, he bought a chair and vanished. And at some point, someone may have identified his corpse and then everyone gets really confused, except maybe for his girlfriend, who might get less confused and more sad when she realises that he was telling the truth.
But he's not stuck in a time loop.
@@9nikola yeah you are right,he died and another version of him will do the same thing
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Nicely done! Very efficient storytelling.
My only question is that while I can understand him (in his selfish phase) not going to see if the girl was okay (thinking she was the one hit by the van), why didn't the police come by the house afterwards to notify his wife that he was dead (as the real victim of the van crash)? Wouldn't there be some consternation (love that word) when the police show up to say "Your husband was killed earlier today.", but the wife says "No he wasn't. He's over there in that f-ing chair."?
But logical paradoxes aside, it was a well done and enjoyable story. Kudos! :)
This is an alternate reality where policemen got executed for harassing innocent people.
Pak De, fair enough. I suppose if his 'dead' body disappeared upon being hit, then the police wouldn't have a corpse to identify, thus no wife to notify. Things like that do grind away at the back of my tiny brain, but I did still enjoy the film. :)
I think I have a theory for that! What if, since he technically are still alive, and is existing, his body disappeared? I mean, no 2 EXACTLY same matters can coexist at the same time right? So technically by "dying" he "returns" to his "original" body.
CryMeALake, Ah, but then he couldn't have traveled back to that moment to save the girl in the first place, since two versions of him would have been existing at that point.
Technically, it wouldn't have been 'exactly' the same, since the version of him from days later would have different atoms making up his substance (we lose and accumulate matter all the time). Time paradoxes are a fun concept, and I suppose that until we can prove how time-travel works, we'll just have to keep guessing... :)
Physical laws, as we understand them currently, don't preclude time travel as long as every particle never re-crosses the same frame of space-time. In the Everett-Wheeler model, particles can diverge, each new version separated by a probabilistic wave. In other words, what actually happens when you "time travel" is you are travelling to a different version of the Universe with an entirely different set of particles.
Every time he uses the chair, if this model is correct, he vanishes forever from the Universe he used to occupy, and finds himself in a nearly identical Universe, presumably either switching places with his alternate self or simply causing his alternate self to cease existing. In other words, in _his_ Universe it was indeed the little girl who got hit by the van. He's arrived in a new Universe at a time _before he's used the chair for the first time,_ so there are two of him. In _this_ Universe he saves the girl and dies. And so what you describe will indeed happen, the police will find a doppelganger and it will create a lot of confusion.
Of course, the man who owned the time travel chair will realize what happened. In fact, it probably already happened for him; I think we're supposed to guess that he's an older version of the protagonist who used the chair to go much farther back.
He’s now on time loop😂
The Back to the Future parallels with the girl in the tree are hilarious. he's gone and messed up the space time continuum.
What if the person in the van, was his wife
It was
Faith Sanders how do u know
@@JoeMama-yb7ws because
@@JoeMama-yb7ws no but actually I read something on it, and said it was so in going by that
@@faithsanders2730 nice theory 😑
Hehe 10:57 dude got himself stuck in a paradox
Spoiler: he definitely didn't use it wisely
He did in the end, to save the girl's life.
@@AzureKyle but she wasn't the one that got run over
@@cuadiko0 if he did nothing, she would have been
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It's a time paradox. The one getting run over by the car had always been him, and will always be him. The girl would have never, and will never be, ran over.
Nicely done. We truly do live in the age of great acting. So much talent out there.
That’s weird because now his life would be in a loop because he never saw himself get hit. So he’ll just keep living this scenario without knowing it.
I wonder what he would have done if he did see himself get hit but only realized it was him once he figured out the chair? Save the girl or avoid the time loop?
That old dude is actually a fortune teller, but he kept it to himself.
Not necessarily. Having been the chair's previous owner, he probably made the same discovery and made some mistakes with the time travel. Naturally, he would assume the buyer would make similar mistakes. He would not need any clairvoyance or foresight to know that the chair was a time machine and some form of warning would be a good isdea.
In the beginning I wondered why he made no effort to go back and save that little girl. Only at the end did I wonder if maybe he knew it was this guy all along and that's why he said "you seem like a nice guy." and "Use it wisely"
What surprises me most is that he stands in the middle of the road when he knows that a car is coming.
And the driver of the car drives like he doesn't see anything, and only breaks instantly after hitting the guy - suggesting that the driver did see him, and drove him down on purpose.
His mother-in-law was driving!
So basically he ended the world... With a time loop
Technically, the world will never end ;)
he only ended his own timeline; although he seems to be a pretty lazy and undecisive guy therefore can make a different timeline by not going to go and save the girl, but the moment he was in (with his wife and all, first his wife wanting to divorce, then his wife saying he needs to change in the later 1 min reverse) made him want to be a better person, and he wanted to start with saving the girl. The world continues its not like time is limited to one person.
@@Oleka8 Well no.
He witnesses a van hit something. He thinks it may be the girl in the tree, which his future self saves. His past self does not know of his future action that saves that girl.
If his future self "died" by the van impact, the person they find in the road, is going to be "him." This doesn't happen. He brings the Lazy Boy home as normal. If "he" was dead in any timeline, his wife is going to know about it. The obvious reaction anyone witnessing a crash, is to run toward the accident and see if everyone is ok. This obviously didn't happen, because he brought that Lazy Boy home without a fuss. And he definitely didn't see "himself" in the road.
So you have to ask what happens to all the other people he's interacted with BEYOND the point in which he travels 24 hours back in time. To die. Does his wife come home to find him gone? Does the garage sale owner set up his yard for sale again, or pack everything away? They can't! He has trapped everyone, everything, in an endless time loop. His wife leaves for work. The last thing she tells him is he has a baby girl, and she'll see him when she gets home. Well, his "future self" is dead, hit by a van. He never comes back home. If he was dead in the street at the garage sale, she'd be notified of his death. But he can't die and live at the same time. The Nature of Time says this is a paradox it won't allow.
It's endless. And everything around him is in that loop with him.
@@DrTomoculus we literally have the same point, he goes in a loop of saving the girl and dying constantly, assuming time works that way.
No loop or paradoxon at all. He just died.
Most people don’t get that the girl never died he will continue to die saving the girl and it will be a never ending cycle.
the girl had to have died the first time because the first time he went to buy it, the van slammed on its brakes after hitting something.
@@marks6663 no its an endless loop it never hit the girl. it hit him he buys the chair then goes back, the first part where he buys the chair isnt the first time he buys it, he went back and he is always the one being hit even the first time.
Yeah its a causal loop
History abhors a paradox. This happened to Raziel from the game Soul Reaver
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It's a paradox he's stuck in an endless loop and won't ever realise it
It is a paradox, but he is not stuck in anything, the whole thing happens once. He dies. The end.
Miguel And then his past self does the exact same thing. boom: a loop...
Yato Kami but see it from his point of view, there is no loop for him, he just dies and that’s it. It’s only a loop from our point of view because we get to see him go back in time
jgrodriguez12 All I can say is yes and no. While ofcourse, it's not a time loop in the sense of one entity reliving a span of time forever, "his" point of view includes the next "him". It's still a loop, only there's a *stop* to each of the infinite amount of tracks, rather than an infinite spiral of one loop.
What if we're all in infinite loops and when we die the simulation repeats itself and death vu is the code glitching just slightly
Drama fell flat except for the paradox setup and payoff at the end. His death being the cause of his death, good twist. Good acting and awesome set and wardrobe. Thanks for sharing
I would have made a fortune with that chair and told no one.
I thought he was gonna go back and change all that star wars stuff and get it for a girl instead 💀😭
He’s stuck in in infinite time loop. That he will never be able to pull himself out of.
Technically he's dead, another version of him with their own mind and body exists in his place who will experience what he did, but he just died.
And if it's a time loop, there's a probability distribution curve that he saves the girl at some point and steps just a bit far enough not to get hit.
And we don't know if he died for sure, be surprised what you can live through.
And then of course, he might have made multiple other different decisions... everything replaying becomes uncertain... at least if you use the uncertainty principle. And if time travel is at all possible, it would mean each play back becomes uncertain once again. Which also means your bet on some lottery or game or stock could end up differently each time.
yep, he's screwed
He's not aware of it, so does not have a need to pull himself out.
what i love/cant figure out about these kinds of time loops is how they came to be in the first place, since a loop like this can have no beginning or end. He bought the lazy boy, which made him loop back into the past but like...he never and will never had/have the option to not buy it.
But time existed long before this man was ever born. It didn't start existing when he did. That is why it's able to continue existing after he dies. Yes, that's right, its safe to assume that he died. It's not a "loop" the way everyone thinks, he doesn't buy the chair go back in time and then buy the chair again. He buys the chair, goes back in time, and DIES. That's it, NO LOOP. The younger version of himself that he was so distracted by when he was hit by the car, well his fate will be the same. But there is no loop that for whatever reason people seem to be thinking will cause the world to be "trapped in", time goes on as normal with him having died the day before his partner will last claim to have seen him.
“Dark“ in a nutshell.
Just imagine while trying to show her the time machine lazy boy she'd actually sat in it & tryd it...... he was in the seat a minute ago..... what would happen
They become 1 person lol
Lol that's funny but a good question. Both of them would be on the chair eh?
I think that chair looks mighty comfortable! I may have to buy one now!
Idea for part 2:
Like someone else said maybe the van didn't kill him and he woke up a few days later in hospital (the hospital didn't know who to contact as he left his stuff at his place when he ran out to save the girl) .
After a few years he managed to fix the chair and his whole family have learned how to use the chair. Plot twist, the girl in the tree is his daughter. And eventually the family needs a bigger house so they move to where the garage sale was and he becomes the old man
This is brilliant...
but the girl would recognise her own father
@@katya2907Maybe not if he was 10 years younger when he saved her
Excellent!
I... actually really dig this idea. It could use a few tweaks but yeah that'd be amazing.
oof his forearms tho after all that time travel
If he had to crank it at each minute that would mean he cranked it 60 times in an hour and 1440 times a day
That’s why that salesman was telling him ‘use it wisely’
Helping the girl, he probably thought it was a good thing to do.
The Earth gets destroyed by a supernova and then he can use that couch to keep going back in time for one minute. What a lucky man.
Then the handle broke and you know that in a few hours you'll be dead.
But the chair and him would be destroyed as well