Wow. That song by the Other Father wasn’t made for Coraline’s entertainment, but to warn her about the Other World. It’s sad to see the Beldam turn her husband into a pumpkin for trying to help our hero. I have a question to ask about him: In the Neil Gaiman novel, the Other Father’s true form is a grub, whilst in the movie, his true form is a pumpkin. When making the film adaptation, why did the animators change the Other Father’s true form from a grub to a pumpkin?
I love how many places in pop culture TMBG have showed up in, how many generations they're relevant to, and most importantly how much they respect each other.
Technically there’s the song the other father sings. Would’ve been cool to get a creepy reprise of it later after he’d deteriorated- with the lyrics being slurred and maybe altered to show the more sinister nature of the other world?
I love how once you discover tmbg, you find out they were EVERYWHERE. And every day you find out some other crazy big thing they were in and you difn't know
I never ever knew anything about TMBG's involvement with this movie, nor did I even know that much about the band, but somehow the moment I heard the Other Father signing in that promo you posted it clicked immediately. It was hiding in plain sight!
I adore how much it feels like this video is practically exploding at the seams with how much you love tmbg. So so excited to have gotten to be part of this.
i love the inclusion of the deep cut instrumentals in the background! was very surprised to hear Sunshine, Triboro, C-Town, The Leonard Lopate Show Theme, Radio Peace also i feel honored you used my channel for at least some the music oh wait you posted both of my channels at the end awesome
This video just feels like a thinly veiled excuse to talk about two Johns for half an hour and I'm all for it. Been a TMBG fan since I was a kid (And no, not because of their kids albums, but from CDs of the Pink Album and Apollo 18, and Doctor Worm).
5:23 I was at a showing of the movie that preceded an interview with the Johns and their reasoning was that it would've made it seem like they were trying to make 9/11 about themselves
WELCOME TO THE TMBG FANDOM! I love the band, I grew up with my dad playing their music all the time fun fact, my dad actually got to meet John Linnell and listened to them when they were ACTUALLY underground (they'd play at random bars and venues in NYC) and still has one of the classic Dial-A-Song t-shirts best band ever. I so badly want to animate some of their songs cause, like you said, this band is MADE to be animated
i loved this video as someone who is hyperfixated on tmbg. it was still really informative for me like i had no idea that careful what you pack was originally for coraline or that they had a heardle (that i’ll now be playing everyday!!!)
Imagine being laika and hyping up the 15th anniversary of a movie and the author of the book turns out to be a rapist the same time you rerelease the movie in cinemas
Fantastic video. Thanks for doing my favorite band justice with such a thoughtful deep dive - it's incredible to me how much you've absorbed and researched in such a short period of time. Looking forward to more TMBG content from you in the future!
8:09 Fun fact: The same studio that worked on the Puffs commercials (the same animated characters on screen,) also were the ones who made the I’m Impressed music video!
TMBG is one of my favorites. their album no and here comes science and the abcs were the only albums i listened to as a kid lmao and when i grew up my dad showed me all their “normal adult” music like apollo 18 and flood and i just love them. i’ve seen 2 of their shows. one halloween kids show at the house of blues when i was like 10 which was so iconic. the other was at good records in dallas, (its a cd/vinyl store) very small only like 100 people and everyone lined up after to meet them after and i got their signatures and it was awesome.
I grew up (born 2002) with Here Comes the ABCs and then discovered their adult music for myself in high school. Glad to see my favorite of all time band get more love!!
it's so funny to go through the comments of this video+see person after person that i recognize from tmbg youtube. you really just have to mention the band+we all come running, don't we? also thrilled to see that this video's thumbnail artist gave flans the chessmaster instead of a generic guitar :D clued me in right away to a certain level of familiarity with the band that i need in order to watch a video about them, because they're so frequently misunderstood+misrepresented and if i absorb too much of an outsider "novelty band" take on them that presents itself as a fair exploration of their work i turn into a chimpanzee. that, and i'm always happy to see the chessmaster. it's probably my favourite individual musical instrument on planet earth
lol I’ve loved see comments from so many people in the community I recognize too! I wanted to go with the Johns’ most iconic 90s looks. Couldn’t not include such a cool looking instrument.
yeah seeing people I recognize from obscure yt videos of old dial-a-song demos and live show recordings & interviews from the 90's. this video has so much love and effort put into it and acknowledges more than just the 80's and 90's with great accuracy and attention to detail!
Two of the biggest facets of my childhood coming together. An old friend's father worked on coraline.. was really cool to see the chocolate beetles some people got from production!
i haven't even watched the video yet- BUT THEY MIGHT BE GIAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
They Might Be Giants are my favorite band of all time, and have been since I was 10. Outside of their many TV and movie stuff, they have written some of the most amazing stuff I have ever heard, and made my favorite album of all time, Lincoln. Linnell’s solo album State Songs is also really damn good.
@@musstakrakish Well, I guess because of lyrics like “It’s a human skull on the ground”. Also, as NICKtendo already said, because Laika did the video for B*****d Wants To Hit Me (TH-cam really doesn’t like it when people swear).
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS!!!! such a wonderful video, despite being obsessed with they are probably gnomes for over a year now and reading the wiki like scripture I still learned something new from this video!! I appreciated all the little references/jokes/details such as the chapter titles and spy sound cues!! Also great to see appreciation for the spine and john henry, two of my favorite albums ever and some from their discography I rarely see people talk about. Huge props to the thumbnail artist as well, it looks sick as hell
I grew up listening to They Might Be Giants! My aunt had many of their CDs. Would have loved to hear the songs they would have made for the flick, but I don't know how well that would have worked for Coraline.
I absolutely need the retrospective on the rest of TMBG’s animated projects! Their “Here Comes” Albums were a huge part of my childhood and showed me how animation and music go hand in hand.
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Making up a video about Coraline...
She’s a peach, she’s a doll, she’s a pal of mine
I never thought that you would but I'm glad
@@fryguy9704she’s as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on coraline
Wow. That song by the Other Father wasn’t made for Coraline’s entertainment, but to warn her about the Other World. It’s sad to see the Beldam turn her husband into a pumpkin for trying to help our hero. I have a question to ask about him:
In the Neil Gaiman novel, the Other Father’s true form is a grub, whilst in the movie, his true form is a pumpkin. When making the film adaptation, why did the animators change the Other Father’s true form from a grub to a pumpkin?
Let's go, an excuse to talk about They Might Be Giants.
Seriously there a band not talk that munch
...make a little birdhouse in your soul.
@@mrvgsdoesstuffnot to put too fine a point on it!!
You 3 are the cool people i see 😅😂😂😂 Gotta love it!!!
I love how many places in pop culture TMBG have showed up in, how many generations they're relevant to, and most importantly how much they respect each other.
I KNOW YOU
@@BanksBanks420where there is TMBG, flordiaflamingogirl3119 will go
Songs in a movie like this would kinda feel out of place, but I would be lying if I didn’t like this to have a proper song or two.
It worked for Beetlejuice
Technically there’s the song the other father sings. Would’ve been cool to get a creepy reprise of it later after he’d deteriorated- with the lyrics being slurred and maybe altered to show the more sinister nature of the other world?
Yeah the songs are really good but I think only keeping the “mysterious” songs keep and match the movie story and vibe more
@@spa2damax But Coraline takes it self more seriously than Beetlejuice.
@@orangeslash1667Musicals can be serious
They Might Be Giant seem like the unholy love child between Simon and Garfunkel and Weird Al
Love how i took one look at the thumbnail and went "yep those are the johns"
they're so easy to draw in any style. Linnell is the hair swoop and Flans is the glasses
@@Vileplume87 also Linnell is angular and Flans is circular
I love how once you discover tmbg, you find out they were EVERYWHERE. And every day you find out some other crazy big thing they were in and you difn't know
Retroactively appreciating the TMBG foreshadowing you slipped in your last few videos
I never ever knew anything about TMBG's involvement with this movie, nor did I even know that much about the band, but somehow the moment I heard the Other Father signing in that promo you posted it clicked immediately. It was hiding in plain sight!
Exactly what I was going to say! I didn’t realize until I heard it in this video.
I adore how much it feels like this video is practically exploding at the seams with how much you love tmbg. So so excited to have gotten to be part of this.
I would honestly love to see a stage musical adaptation of Coraline that used some of the scrapped ideas and songs of this version of the film.
I hate to burst your bubble but there's already a Coraline musical and it was based more on the book than the film.
@@2MKcreationsI mean there are like 7 great gatsby musicals or something, y’know? It’s still a possibility
Always a good day when Nick gives they might be giants the respect they so rightfully deserve
i love the inclusion of the deep cut instrumentals in the background! was very surprised to hear Sunshine, Triboro, C-Town, The Leonard Lopate Show Theme, Radio Peace
also i feel honored you used my channel for at least some the music
oh wait you posted both of my channels at the end awesome
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS FIRST BAND EVER TO GROSS ONE JOHNMILLION DOLLARS
I really love how all the chapters in this video are named after TMBG songs, it's really the cherry on top.
Nicktendo said, "How can i talk about my They Might Be Giants addiction on my animation channel?"
This video just feels like a thinly veiled excuse to talk about two Johns for half an hour and I'm all for it.
Been a TMBG fan since I was a kid (And no, not because of their kids albums, but from CDs of the Pink Album and Apollo 18, and Doctor Worm).
NICK. NICK IM ANIMORPHING INTO A RABID DOG NICK THANK YOU FOR THIS FOOD IVE BEEN WAITING FOR A NEW TMBG VIDEO ESSAY FOR SO LONG GRAHH
2:47 relatable 😍
7:05 OOO JOHN LINNELL FLASH ANIMATIONS MENTIONED
5:23 I was at a showing of the movie that preceded an interview with the Johns and their reasoning was that it would've made it seem like they were trying to make 9/11 about themselves
6:23 I haven't heard any reference to Higglytown Heroes in well over a decade, and that's a shame I remember really liking that show
You should definitely watch Athena P's video of unpacking Higglytown lore. It's hilarious
Welcome to the fandom, Nick!
Be sure to prove your commitment to the band by obsessing over which John is the best one (spoilers: it’s both of them).
I'm sorry, but I gotta go with John.
bro the best John is obviously Marty
@@NICKtendoReviews i agree…… john is cool but john………..
22:13 I'm sorry I know that the term existed in the past, but hearing someone say "cringy" in the 90s feels anachronistic,
It being early 1990 makes it even weirder, almost 35 years ago
like that clip of david bowie saying "meme school"
WELCOME TO THE TMBG FANDOM! I love the band, I grew up with my dad playing their music all the time
fun fact, my dad actually got to meet John Linnell and listened to them when they were ACTUALLY underground (they'd play at random bars and venues in NYC) and still has one of the classic Dial-A-Song t-shirts
best band ever. I so badly want to animate some of their songs cause, like you said, this band is MADE to be animated
As someone raised on their kids albums i've been WAITING for a video essay on them!
i loved this video as someone who is hyperfixated on tmbg. it was still really informative for me like i had no idea that careful what you pack was originally for coraline or that they had a heardle (that i’ll now be playing everyday!!!)
YOOOO! TMBG MENTIONED! I'm so glad to see you talk about them after I saw your comment on Sapphire Bullets but on the Pink Album.
Imagine being laika and hyping up the 15th anniversary of a movie and the author of the book turns out to be a rapist the same time you rerelease the movie in cinemas
Literally my favorite scene in the movie is the other father's introduction. I want to learn piano but just that one song
Sadly I am also part of the 'First heard Particle Man on that one Mr.Enter video' club.
I mean there are worse ways to discover a band you like... I found Tally Hall through hearing about Joe Hawley's downard spiral first...
@@UnderTheUmbrella_I found tally hall thanks to an intro for a video made by my favorite Italian TH-camr
@@UnderTheUmbrella_ I found tally hall through an animation meme
Fantastic video. Thanks for doing my favorite band justice with such a thoughtful deep dive - it's incredible to me how much you've absorbed and researched in such a short period of time. Looking forward to more TMBG content from you in the future!
Thank you! Your preservation of the band’s live & TV performances was useful in helping me research for this video and get into band last summer.
I love how the Thumbnail of this video resembles the title card for "The New Scooby-Doo Movies".
Let's gooooo, you've become part of the TMBG hive mind
When I hear about Flansburgh leaving live-action music videos, I feel heartbroken
“I’ve been trying to explain this to my parents for 20 years and they still don’t get it.”
Bro should just buy them a flip book. 📕
8:09 Fun fact: The same studio that worked on the Puffs commercials (the same animated characters on screen,) also were the ones who made the I’m Impressed music video!
Ohhhh that’s cool
shaking like a chihuahua i love they might be giants
They be on my might till I'm giant
They Might Be Giants are my favorite band. Saw them at back to back shows in June.
OKAY adding they might be giants to the title... now you have my attention
10:00 After all these years i still cant believe they got away with putting an almost naked old lady with big torpedos in this film
3:53 >sees Weird Al listed in regards to certain TMBG MP3s having incorrectly listed Weird Al instead of the two John’s
Classic LimeWire right there…
TMBG is one of my favorites. their album no and here comes science and the abcs were the only albums i listened to as a kid lmao and when i grew up my dad showed me all their “normal adult” music like apollo 18 and flood and i just love them. i’ve seen 2 of their shows. one halloween kids show at the house of blues when i was like 10 which was so iconic. the other was at good records in dallas, (its a cd/vinyl store) very small only like 100 people and everyone lined up after to meet them after and i got their signatures and it was awesome.
I feel like I just watched three videos simultaneously
RAAAAAH I LOVE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS!!!!!!!!
Being honest, a horror version Boss of Me would fit good in Coraline.
i loved that last quote at the end, it was a wonderful bookend to a fantastic video!
Here Comes Science turned 15 yesterday. Shout out to a *real* one.
kicking my feet and giggling like a school girl i am so fully of joy
hell yes. coraline video that's secretly all about my favorite band
I can not tell you how much I spiraled when I first heard the Other Father's song and swearing up and down that it was TMBG. Slapped me out of nowhere
I grew up (born 2002) with Here Comes the ABCs and then discovered their adult music for myself in high school. Glad to see my favorite of all time band get more love!!
it's so funny to go through the comments of this video+see person after person that i recognize from tmbg youtube. you really just have to mention the band+we all come running, don't we?
also thrilled to see that this video's thumbnail artist gave flans the chessmaster instead of a generic guitar :D clued me in right away to a certain level of familiarity with the band that i need in order to watch a video about them, because they're so frequently misunderstood+misrepresented and if i absorb too much of an outsider "novelty band" take on them that presents itself as a fair exploration of their work i turn into a chimpanzee. that, and i'm always happy to see the chessmaster. it's probably my favourite individual musical instrument on planet earth
lol I’ve loved see comments from so many people in the community I recognize too! I wanted to go with the Johns’ most iconic 90s looks. Couldn’t not include such a cool looking instrument.
yeah seeing people I recognize from obscure yt videos of old dial-a-song demos and live show recordings & interviews from the 90's. this video has so much love and effort put into it and acknowledges more than just the 80's and 90's with great accuracy and attention to detail!
Greatest thumbnail of the year this goes so hard
14:41 Ween did songs for Pizza Hut that were never used
Also Slayers album “God hates us all” also released on 9/11 weirdly enough
lol this was brought up in TMBG’s office hours live interview
where'd the motherfuckin cheese go at?
This video feels like it was made specifically for me oh my god
So Laika wanted They might be giants to do Oingo boingo got it
Two of the biggest facets of my childhood coming together. An old friend's father worked on coraline.. was really cool to see the chocolate beetles some people got from production!
In the sixth grade, my history teacher played the Mesopotamian song for us while we covered that time in class
Had it played for me during an art history class
You could make a really cool sci-fi anthology based entirely off of tmbg songs, maybe. "Hotel detective in the future," "2082," etc.
I literally just saw the movie for the first time last night in 3D, so this is perfect timing.
HOMESTAR RUNNER MENTIONED IN A VIDEO ABOUT CORALINE AND THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS IM LOSING IT
GRAHHHH TMBG AND CORALINE VIDEO, LETS GOOOOOO
Yay! Even more people will now also be obsessed with my favorite band!
one of us! one of us!
Ok, but having They Might Be Giants on the ost would have gone hard
WE WERE ROBBED
i would be SO down for this
Love how many names you used for Wow! I can't belive there's a chance they are giants!
9:21 Huh, I never realized how Johnny 2 Cellos kinda sounds like Flansburgh.
i haven't even watched the video yet- BUT THEY MIGHT BE GIAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LITERALLY THE ONLY WAY THIS MOVIE COULD GET MORE BASED WAS IF IT WERE A THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS MUSICAL
I can't even watch this video because when I think too hard about how we didn't get a TMBG musical I get so annoyed I feel a little sick
This is one of my favorite TMBG facts and I am glad you covered it!!
They Might Be Giants are my favorite band of all time, and have been since I was 10. Outside of their many TV and movie stuff, they have written some of the most amazing stuff I have ever heard, and made my favorite album of all time, Lincoln. Linnell’s solo album State Songs is also really damn good.
I love em too! But it is very weird that they went to them for a horror movie... really not sure what the studio expected.
@@musstakrakish Well, I guess because of lyrics like “It’s a human skull on the ground”. Also, as NICKtendo already said, because Laika did the video for B*****d Wants To Hit Me (TH-cam really doesn’t like it when people swear).
5:40 more like top 10 anime twists!!!
this is the OTHER coraline musical
SPY USED AS AN AUDIO CUE YAAAAAAAAY
oh nice, someone found it
AHHHHSHSHBSBSBBSBSH
johnny 2 cellos was a jump scare
Oh good, now I feel less guilty about my introduction to Particle Man being... The same as Nick's.
Coraline musical when
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS!!!! such a wonderful video, despite being obsessed with they are probably gnomes for over a year now and reading the wiki like scripture I still learned something new from this video!! I appreciated all the little references/jokes/details such as the chapter titles and spy sound cues!! Also great to see appreciation for the spine and john henry, two of my favorite albums ever and some from their discography I rarely see people talk about. Huge props to the thumbnail artist as well, it looks sick as hell
Great video! I really liked the newly released song, although it really is just the same scene with music. Very haunting though
If this were how it turned out i'd watch it 100 percent. TMBG is always a fun time
So… I went to figure out if I had heard of them and they’re the most recent band I added to my Spotify playlist, gi figure
I don't hate musicals. I like 'They Might Be Giants', but I'm glad this wasn't a musical.
22:13 And here I thought no one said that word back then!
I still haven’t seen Coraline, but those giant fellows did great with the Oblongs theme!
They Might Be Giants is freaking peak.
I love the other Johns art in the tumbnail!!
Legendes tell that til this very day
Istanbul still, is not, Constantinople
22:39 Oh, I don’t know. You must be thinking of some other band.
I LOVE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
I grew up listening to They Might Be Giants! My aunt had many of their CDs. Would have loved to hear the songs they would have made for the flick, but I don't know how well that would have worked for Coraline.
first time I heard Particle Man was in an MLP animation
Oh my god the Seven interp from hell showing up in this video sent me
MORE THEY MIGHT BE GAINTS CONTENT
I’m a huge fan of this band, glad to see them getting more recognition!
Not knowing who TMBG is a crime
I absolutely need the retrospective on the rest of TMBG’s animated projects! Their “Here Comes” Albums were a huge part of my childhood and showed me how animation and music go hand in hand.
While I don't agree with your views on talking animals, this was a very well researched and presented video, loved it!
Scott's Powerhouse is a great litemotif to personify the abstract concept of thought.
I like chocolate milk. Edit: 17:08 NO WAY HE INCLUDED THAT!!!!