"This music's bringing me back, dude." "To _what_ ?" "To LIFE."

@TheMCzorro

2 жыл бұрын

Can't wake up

@auvionx8940

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite Evan Essence song

@vodsanity4861

2 жыл бұрын

SAVE ME FROM THE NOTHING I'VE BECOME

@V3RZ3

2 жыл бұрын

WAKE ME UP INSIDE

@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai

2 жыл бұрын

@@auvionx8940 ahh the essence of Evan, what a delight

It’s so funny to me that the intro to this game completely glosses over the fact that Scott Calvin unalived Santa Claus. The coat didn’t just “find” him lmao

@gracewheeler3347

2 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine that in the first rendition of this game before they released it, there was a cutscene of previous Santa just getting WRECKED, and then some corporate guy had to be like "no we can't include this, do you know how much we'll have to raise the rating for that?"

@Sez56

2 жыл бұрын

He killed him

@wooshycruzers8156

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sez56 Correct

@Blaizk

2 жыл бұрын

I just like how it said "Something wonderful happened!" And looking back at the movie, that "wonderful" thing the fact that Scott killed Santa...it's a miracle.

@Ari180_RE

2 жыл бұрын

I also only now realized that Scott Calvin might also need to be killed next for it to continue on

Arin: "theres a temperature meter" God. They should make a word for that.

@Kevinsyel

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it's called a "Gleter"

@LuckySketches

2 жыл бұрын

A tempometer.

@galaxyads3040

2 жыл бұрын

Thempometorertoremportoeroterorthemomopoteroproeroer

@boorish8354

2 жыл бұрын

A memometerthermos?

@vodsanity4861

2 жыл бұрын

Thermo Mateer

We got a jingle jangle problem on our hands!!! Tim Allen's goin' NUTTS!!!!!!!

@MARKOoo

2 жыл бұрын

AEUHHH???

@RabblesTheBinx

2 жыл бұрын

That's not Tim Allen! It's a bird!

@MarcyMarcCassidy

2 жыл бұрын

@@RabblesTheBinx It's a plane

@gargoyles9999

2 жыл бұрын

Looks like the chickens have come home to roost

@RabblesTheBinx

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarcyMarcCassidy it's Superman! (Not the reference I was going for, but I'll take it anyways 🤣😂)

18:40 I'm not gonna lie, the animation in this game is unreasonably good, considering. The walk cycle has a lot of expression, and it's super fluid, especially for a GBA game. They also made the Santa model actually look like Tim Allen as Santa (check out when he does the coat-parachute thing and look at his face). It's surprisingly solid.

@frknspacewizardbrett6044

2 жыл бұрын

There's even sub-pixel animation, which is where individual pixels shift colour so that is seems like there's movement less than 1 pixel big. You can especially see it on Santa's hat during his idle animation, where the bottom of it shifts between white and black. WAY more effort than they could've gotten away with.

@Lowekinder

2 жыл бұрын

Goes to show even the most cynical cashgrabs have artists working on them who give a shit about their craft but still need to make a paycheck.

@HawtDawg420

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you decided not to lie. That was considerate.

I love how this game avoids talking about how this man pushed Santa off a roof

@pureorangeness

2 жыл бұрын

He didn’t push him, he just scared him and watched him fall to his death without even trying to help

@sigheyeroll

2 жыл бұрын

Could be worse, originally he was meant to shoot Santa. Ho ho ho-micide! 🎅

@RabblesTheBinx

2 жыл бұрын

@@pureorangeness I mean, exactly what was he gonna do, teleport a mattress into the fat man's path?

@BlackwingGuru

2 жыл бұрын

That's probably because he didn't push him off a roof

@CrazeeAdam

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure in the movie he was literally woken up by someome on his roof. He went to go see said "Hey," Santa was surprised and fell. Like something very close to that.

I will never tire of the Home Improvement grunt/growls any and every time Tim Allen is brought up. Never. NEVER!

I enthusiastically support Dan's recommendation of _House of Leaves._ I don't read many books but this is one that'll stay in my mind forever.

@psycless

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I feel like he would like the game little misfortune. (unreliable narrator)

@teaghlachcrann

2 жыл бұрын

Read that years ago and I still remember each story thread throughout it. Really a captivating book that I remember really made me reexamine sympathy vs empathy vs antipathy for characters. A lot of hopelessness in that book that makes you consider your stances on things.

@verdantViridity

2 жыл бұрын

@@psycless right?????? I'd also LOVE to see their reactions to, um......... shall we say the genre subversion?

@brad533

2 жыл бұрын

I hope Dan reads some of his other works, his writing techniques are insane

@jackieofreinharts

2 жыл бұрын

House of Leaves is such a good book. I read it like 15 years ago and it's still fresh in my mind like it was yesterday. And the author's sister wrote a companion album to the book that is also killer and totally worth a listen Edit: guess I should watch the whole video before commenting 🤣

I love it when Dan talks about the books he's reading. Makes me feel like we're in a book club. House of Leaves is a great pick, too.

@rapidloaf

2 жыл бұрын

Doki Doki Dan's Literature Club

"Suzy, we got a jingle jangle problem over here. Santa's going NUTS!"

"Unreliable Narrators are scary" *Anxiety internal monologue* "Hold my beer"

Aw heck yeah, House of Leaves is such an adventure. If you go into it blind, it's a very disorienting, but it's such a slippery and ethereal and haunting thing to read through. Definitely recommend for people who are a fan psychological horror and the sort of incomprehensible horror of something that is beyond human comprehension; there's something almost cosmic about it. Thrilled to hear Dan was reading it!

@Dragontongue18

2 жыл бұрын

I need to start it again because the first time I read it I tried to read like all of the footnotes and stuff and then go back to the story and that was the wrong choice. I heard that XX and The Raw Shark Texts are similar styles to House of Leaves

Just to let you guys know it's about the in-laws coming in to the north pole, first movie was him having a better relationship with his son, the second one was his niece finding out he was Santa along with finding a ms. claus clause that made him gradually lose his santa power the more unmarried he stayed

@demonzabrak

2 жыл бұрын

"The more unmarried he stayed" is without a doubt the best way to describe that.

@GracefullyAutistic

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget that in the this movie him and Mrs.Claus are having a baby.

@TheAVJ2

2 жыл бұрын

@@GracefullyAutistic that's right! and i also forgot the second one had the toy santa almost takeover the north pole

@FourTwenT

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAVJ2 wait that wasn’t a fever dream? That actually happened?

@TheAVJ2

2 жыл бұрын

@@FourTwenT loll

Santa: What else could possibly go wrong? Arin: What went wrong? Jack Frost, still taking his makeup off from the intro: Dunno what you're talking about, but I'm absolutely unrelated to the flash cold!

And in *this* comment section, you'll find that apparently everyone and their mother has read House of Leaves.

I can't believe Danny can't tell the difference between a Gameboy and a SNES. You'd think they were playing on an emulator

Arin: "why don't you know these (Christmas) things?" Dan: "idk I was too busy reading" me thinking: "Danny never celebrated Christmas"

@charleswisconsin9196

2 жыл бұрын

he celebrated Jewish Christmas.

@robertperlaky8849

2 жыл бұрын

He celebrates Christmas; it's the one with the candles.

Nothing like a good old Jingle Grumps to get into the festive spirit

It makes me so happy to hear Dan talk about House of Leaves, Poe, and Haunted. They are all so amazing, and I'm really happy Dan enjoys them too! Easily my favorite book and album of all time.

They always play the highest quality of games in Christmas

I actually had a Charlie the Unicorn tshirt from Hot Topic. Bless these merry old Grumps.

@mintiestfreshness

2 жыл бұрын

The creator made a movie called Charlie the Unicorn: The Grand Finale and it is so good!

"It's the happiest time of the year. Why? Because consumerism consumes us all, and we will all die a capitalist death." Merry Jingle, everyone 🥲

My favourite part about Game Grumps is when Dan is telling a story or speaking about something he's really invested in and Arin is very clearly trying to pay attention but, because all we as the viewers can see is Arin's gameplay, we immediately notice everything that distracts him. It's like we're looking directly into the part of his brain that doesn't care at all about what Dan is saying and is only invested in the game and I find that hilarious.

I read house of leaves my senior year of high school when a friend brought it for me to borrow. I had honestly forgotten about it until Dan mentioned and unlocked a forgotten part of my mind.

Arin after any amount of adversity in a game: "i will kill everyone in this room and then myself!" XD

@vodsanity4861

2 жыл бұрын

So, my little brother.

Nothing fills me with as much Christmas spirit than game grumps playing Santa Clause 3 for the gameboy advance. Starring Tim Allen.

OH MY GOD How have I never thought of this. Dan's talk about the spooky unreliable narrator stuff made me realize we NEED a Grumps Disco Elysium run. They've proven they can get traction with mostly narrative games with their DanganRonpa runs, and even as a Danganronpa fan- Disco Elysium slaps *so* much harder. I BEG OF YOU GRUMPS, T'WOULD DRAIN MINE BALLS TO SEE THAT PLAYTHROUGH!!!

Somehow I knew Dan was talking about House of Leaves before he even name dropped it! It’s such a bizarre book

@maddiedavis9963

2 жыл бұрын

Same! Just finished it a few weeks ago. Makes me think that book has way more power over my mind than I previously thought haha.

@catehowell735

2 жыл бұрын

Same, as soon as he said unreliable narrator I knew. 😂

did i hallucinate that arin once explained the plot of santa clause to dan and dan was in utter fucking dismay over it

@QuadrupleJane

2 жыл бұрын

"You killed Santaaaaa!!" -Arin Hansen 20smthg

@shyguyrocks1

2 жыл бұрын

Nah pretty sure it was a Sonic Adventure

Dan’s failed imitation of Martin Short always gets me

Oh heck yeah I didn’t think they were going to do this game but I’m psyched. Edit: I love when Arin being Santa keeps telling the elves to Shut the F Up and pushes their faces out of the way. 😂

Dan referencing Charlie The Unicorn brought me back ten years holy shit.

Highly recommend House of Leaves, very good book! Excellent taste in literature.

"Worthy soul?" He got the job because he killed the previous Santa!

Twas the night before Christmas, When suddenly, on a whim, Carbonated Cum, Began playing Skyrim The Grumps inhaled a feast, It was late, they were starving. The boys soon found themselves, Both shidding and farding (Keep it going)

@ari1758

2 жыл бұрын

(Inhales…) it’s snowing on mount fuji

@cassieshea7758

2 жыл бұрын

When, much to their surprise, OMG it's more food! But the driver entered wrong codes, and it spoiled the mood. So they turned on a game about Santa and elves Arin quickly turning it into Dan's own personal hells.

@KaelTheAdventurer

2 жыл бұрын

Cookies and milk At this time of year Had our dear Grumps So full of good cheer! Their progress went on; Dan feared they would slow, But nothing could stop That Santa Claus(e) flow!

@OHG_Fawx

2 жыл бұрын

@@cassieshea7758 "We're playing this!", said Arin, "A fun Christmas Caper!" "I love it!" Dan exclaimed, "You whimsical japer!"

@OHG_Fawx

2 жыл бұрын

@@cassieshea7758 "How colorful! How bright!" Dan's smile big and wide. "DAMNIT MAN! COME ON!" Once again, Arin lied...

House of Leaves is an absolutely amazing book. Would highly recommend reading it but you need to have the actual physical copy to truly enjoy it.

For what it's worth, House of Leave was a great book. A challenging read at times, but that's by design. Makes you feel disoriented in the same way the characters in the book do.

This movie deserves to be in the Olympus of holiday movies. Actually, scratch that. The entire “Santa Clause” series is a masterpiece.

@nopickles420

2 жыл бұрын

No.

@BeanSparrow

2 жыл бұрын

so true they are all great must be a real grinch if anyone not like them they are just so happy and cheerful movies

@effluviah7544

2 жыл бұрын

100%, Santa Clause is still my go-to holiday movie. It rules so fucking hard. I cry every time the one dude gets the Oscar Meyer wiener whistle.

@waltercyborggg

2 жыл бұрын

If you kill Santa, you absorb his powers

@cloudlockheart93

2 жыл бұрын

I missed these movie tie-in games. For some reason the GBA had an abundance of it back in the day.

That intro was... Very energetic

@resileaf9501

2 жыл бұрын

Either Arin and Dan sounding so tired makes me tired too or this is an exceptionally tired holiday season for everyone.

I had a gut feeling that Dan was talking about _House of Leaves_ before dropped the title name. And he's right--that book is seriously messed up from cover to cover.

I would so love to watch Arin and Dan react to actually watching the Santa Clause movies... I can't imagine that not being absolutely fun to watch.

@subcutaneouscat6167

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah itd be like Mystery Science Theater 3000

Too funny to hear them talk about Charlie the Unicorn. Jason Steele just finished the series not too long ago with a finale special. Took him like 10 years, but it's done. Llamas with Hats and Marshmallow People are my other favorites by him.

House of Leaves is the weirdest book ever - but definitely agree with Dan. It's a very claustrophobic book and is just incredibly unsettling. its got unreliable narrator, a book within a book, "mixed media" book. its absolutely worth checking out

@dragonscales2758

2 жыл бұрын

What is an “unreliable narrator”? I’ve never heard of that before

@lauramichelle6976

2 жыл бұрын

@@dragonscales2758 it’s a narrator who tells you a story in first person but you can’t trust what they’re saying. A great example is the Girl on the Train. Because our narrator is always drunk she can’t rely on her memory to be accurate. Usually they have ways of twisting the truth in ways that are believable to the reader that don’t feel like outright lies for a twist when you uncover the truth. It can be used in non thrillers too but it’s most common in the thriller horror genre to keep the audience from knowing too much up front while still allowing the protagonist to technically know more (and sometimes can avoid an exposition dump - because they can recover the truth in pieces. But poorly done can also create an exposition dump.)

Minute 0 - "You wanna see me speed run this shit" Minute 15 - "This game is way too hard!"

Ah yes, the best worst Christmas movie ever, in a game. This'll be fun.

@BeanSparrow

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kevmaster2000 i kinda like all three honestly dont know why anyone could hate them maybe some people just take movies way to serious

@Sportsgrump

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kevmaster2000 guess I have a goal this Christmas season

@charleswisconsin9196

2 жыл бұрын

i'm more of a Jingle All the Way guy.

@bleachablemoments4618

2 жыл бұрын

@@BeanSparrow Oh, they're good movies. I make it a tradition to watch them all every beginning of December.

16:27 had me cracking up so I’m putting it here just in case anyone else wants to re-experience it as well

I did not think I could love Dan any more. House of leaves is one of the best horror books ever written in my opinion. The only book I ever read, where I turned in my seat an got paranoid about.. well about pretty much everything while reading.

As soon as he said, “It’s an unreliable narrator horror book not for when you’re in a bad place,” I immediately thought House of Leaves. It’s a great book. But it does get to ya.

someone needs to animate the struggling delivery guy😂

Also shout out to how truly weird House of Leaves is, Dan's so right

Knew exactly what book he was talking about when Dan said it had an unreliable narrator. Still haven't finished House of Leaves but should probably get back into it

i will NEVER forget the sonic dx clip where arin explains the conflict of the santa clause to dan and how he *literally dies*

Man ever since Arin guess garlic chicken and grilled shrimp on wheel of fortune you can really tell that Dan hasn't really gotten over it and is much more critical of Arin during the grumps sessions

@Pwnr145

2 жыл бұрын

@@cmmartti is joke men

Really appreciate arin getting those missing cookies to 100% the game and get the good ending.

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause the Game is clearly the Dark Souls of The Santa Clause video game franchise!

Duuude time for the Jingle Grumps! I always make sure to come back to your channel around the holiday season! Happy Holidays!

I love that a lot of the comments are about House of Leaves, it really shows that that book impacts you deeply. It is a book that you can't forget.

It's obvious you guys haven't seen the Santa clause in a while, the kid knew his dad was Santa he was there the whole time

Me watching Dan describe the book: "Wait, is he about to say House of Leaves? Please say House of Leaves."

For the first time being a part of jingle grumps I am highly highly enjoying myself this is soooo cute and freaking hilarious

1:53 "But then something wonderful happened-" He killed Santa.

1:04 did game grumps just blow my effing mind when they started talking about the contract!? Am I going insane now cause I didn’t realize that was what the movie was talking about!? THE FACT THAT SCOTT HAD A CONTRACT TO BE SANTA CLAUSE!? *WHICH IS WHY THE MOVIE IS CALLED ~THE~ SANTA CLAUSE!?!?!?!?*

On the House of Leaves vein; for both those who enjoyed House of Leaves and also for those who want to check out the format without going quite as intense, I also recommend Only Revolutions by the same author. Simpler presentation and lighter story, but still a very worthy read.

I literally threw my hands up when Dan said "House of Leaves," I KNEW that's where he was going, I fucking love that book!

Dan bringing up Charlie the unicorn made me feel simultaneously too old and too young at the same time. He's such a dad sometimes 😂

YES JINGLE GRUMPS. NOW MY CHRISTMAS IS COMPLETE. THANKS GUYS 4 ALL THE HARD WORK AND LAUGHS ALL THESE YEARS. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILYS🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Dan, thanks for bringing up House of Leaves. I'm not a reader but your description of it sounded so interesting that I immediately bought it and it is truly an amazing book!

"'What else could possibly go wrong?'" "What went wrong?" that killed me xD

Oh I can tell this is gonna be a special Jingle grumps already

Omg I fucking knew Dan was talking about house of leaves before he even said it, it's the only horror book with an unreliable narrator that I know of It's pretty good, people should read it

@michaelcollins1358

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh, theres a book called like. “And the trees crept in” and it’s fantastic, its a psychological horror book that you may like (it has an unreliable narrator as well)

13:00 For those of y'all that I'm sure we're dying to know....Bud and Sylvia were Santa's Mother and Father in law, because I'm sure you remember that the 2nd Santa Clause was that he had to go and find a wife in order for him to keep being Santa.

House of Leaves is such an interesting, genre- and medium-subversive book that I really enjoyed reading and definitely recommend, but my own personal neurosis means the primary thing I remember from it is the repeated use of stuff like "could of" instead of "could've" throughout the whole thing.

on the topic of helping children that are troubled, wasn't coal used to warm homes when the idea of being naughty gets you coal? and this would mean being naughty would be beneficial to your family when you'd need coal the most. I'd also suspect that poor people need the coal more than wealthier families leading me to believe it was a bit more of middle class America trying to instill that poor people are bad

I love how Arin shits on easy games for kids like "ohh this is for babies and I'm gonna beat it". Once he starts getting into it and realizing more mechanics he starts getting pissy and calling it bullshit like most of the games he plays lol.

This feels like a classic episode of Game Grumps and I'm living for it

...this video is taking me back to high school, over ten years ago; between the references to Charlie the Unicorn, and those to House of Leaves (my then-bestie-now-partner and I binged Alan Wake, back then, and Poe's "Haunted" featured in that game...and any time I hear House of Leaves, that song IMMEDIATELY springs to mind, as well as the tidbit about Poe collabing with her brother to reference his book in her song ["Here in November, in this House of Leaves, we'll pray"])... ...thanks for that, guys; especially Dan, because Poe's "Haunted" plays rent-free in one of the corners of my mind, from time to time, and has a bittersweet sense of nostalgia mixed with remorse to it...far more impactful than the weird Tim Allen Christmas films, at least.

Lol I thought the edit over, "This your hell!" was very funny! Great job!🤣🤣 This was funny thanks guys!

The first Santa Clause is my favorite Christmas movie. It was just so magical as a child and the music is gorgeous

Oooo “Hey Pretty” is my favorite Poe song ✨ thanks for teaching me something new & random, Dan

Man, for all y'all out there who want to trigger your art friends, just hit 'em with the ol "Isnt the color black just the color black?" Boom, instant hour-long lecture about relative color and tints.

@charleswisconsin9196

2 жыл бұрын

orange is the new black.

Hearing Dany recommend House of Leaves when that's the current book I'm reading really made my morning

it wouldn't be the holiday season without at least one find-the-items game for me~

holy fuck santa clause 3 was my favorite movie growing up i used to/still do watch it all year around

Can't believe that Dan is reading House of Leaves. Absolutely loved it. What a fucking weird, bizarre book. So many hidden, creepy aspects of it.

love how the Santa sprite slides down slopes with the "walk like an Egyptian" pose.

Cannot WAIT for the House of Leaves Grump Bump, and can't believe Dan is here in a goddamn Santa Clause 3 game talking about the book that changed my life. House of Leaves is an absolute behemoth of a novel, but it's so worth it. Took me three months to read it the first time in high school a decade ago, and now I own Danielewski's entire published works, met the man twice, constantly wear text-fused apparel from the author's clothing line, and recommend him to everyone I know, on the same level as Sleep No More here in NYC. And then he goes even further and brings up Poe and Haunted, my absolute favorite album of all time. (Their collaborative process between novel and music is really astounding, if anyone wants any stories about it hit me up!) What a wonderful treat. I love these guys.

I was today years old when I found out this had a damn game lmao

Arin: When you work from? Your home is work. And that’s Santa dude. Really makes you think. Wise words from Arin Hanson

Man, this really was the episode that kept of giving. Insofar as it wouldn’t end.

I knew he was gonna say House of Leaves before he said it. My friend bought me a copy which my roommate picked up one day then wouldnt talk about it for days.

Jack Frost: This ought to slow the big man down a bit. *proceeds to send a giant snow ball at Santa, making him rush through the stage much faster. *

Randomly click on an episode and hear we are discussing a) a formative book from my high school years and b) one of my favorite albums from the 90s. Today is a good day. Ps definitely started singing 5 & 1/2 minute hallway as soon as Dan said “do you know Poe?” Man what a time to be alive.

On the subject of siblings doing things together, the best advice I can offer is media. Find something you can both get into, whether that's a genre of music, movies, or books, and then find things to say about it. My sister and I both watched Red vs. Blue, and now I'm very involved in helping her write a fanfiction and flesh out the AU to go with it. So it doesn't surprise me at all that a musically talented sister wrote a soundtrack for her brother's book.

Always appreciate a little christmas jank this time of year

Awh the jingle grumps just gave me so much happy festive feels! I love it! Jingle Grumps is one of my favorite times of the year :D now where is Krampus lol

The fact that Dan could recall two Canadian NHL teams that quickly makes me very happy.

As a Canadian, I enjoy seeing something that takes place in Canada, and Dan saying the words "Edmonton Oilers versus the Ottawa Senators"

Merry Christmas Grumps! And Happy Hanukkah!🖤

16:50 (ish) : Okay, editors, that earned my like.

I love Santa's catchphrade "Shut teh fucc up", its a classic.