This is simultaneously a 6 minute comedy sketch, and a feature length life long horror movie

@austinembry2809

Жыл бұрын

Joel has an uncanny ability to make the most simple of concepts profound. He's the embodiment of: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour."

@bilboswagginz2808

Жыл бұрын

DAN BULL!! woah

@Jackenack

Жыл бұрын

blast from the past right here, cool to see

@blitheringape5321

Жыл бұрын

it's got that adult swim energy

@JaneNayes

Жыл бұрын

Well it's not horror, it's existentialism.

The fact that he didn't get his longing embrace actually made me feel so sad.

@MLBlue30

Жыл бұрын

A lot of it just hits way too close to reality and it pisses me off lol.

@marcus8710

Жыл бұрын

The moment the scene switched to the apartment, I cried "NO! INTERIOR APARTMENT!"

@MitchellD249

Жыл бұрын

That was it for him. All he wanted was that moment.

@AdamLord

Жыл бұрын

Start the video over, he did

@thegrandnil764

Жыл бұрын

Only meta stuff makes no sense at all. There is no deciphering this because it's paradoxical. It's just the hand of the author pointing at the medium and telling us to laugh. This is not funny.

this is honestly genius. It feels a lot like how in life we obsess over trying to figure everything out and then in the end its over, and the answer never mattered. We have the option to panic or go along with it and laugh at the joke that makes no sense.

@AshleyBubbles27

Жыл бұрын

I love how deep of your response is! Its really true... its not about the "destination" (The answers), its about the "journey" (living life for moment and not trying to over analyze everything).

@SkylarStJohn-mo4yi

Жыл бұрын

@@AshleyBubbles27 amazing comments

@NaeroSpace

Жыл бұрын

underrated comment

@dynawesome

Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what Absurdism claims, and the video reminds me of works from the Theater of the Absurd movement like Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead

@SaaDN1

Жыл бұрын

The answer does matter though; if a certain religion is true, that changes everything.

i love how certain characters know more than others. some seem deeply invested in their roles in life, like joke guy, others seem like they just accept it as reality, like "hard cut" guy, others question, like party guy and protag, but some choose to embrace the moment while it lasts, even knowing their purpose, but choosing that brief purpose over a prolonged existential dread of what's to come, like loving embrace guy.

@electroshock1021

Жыл бұрын

you realize hard cut guy and longing embrace guy are the same guy, right? and that his name is neither of those. He's guy who help with box and encourage and then party and then talk on balcony

@tsriftsal3581

Жыл бұрын

We are in a prison.

@longebane

Жыл бұрын

@@electroshock1021 small correction- he's not guy who help with box, his name is guy who helped with box

@wyleFTW

Жыл бұрын

This video reminds me of acid tripping lol

@ndrmartin2416

Жыл бұрын

@@longebaneI’m pretty sure it’s help with box. In the scene he’s says he is guy who help with box, and then motions that he helped with box, so now it’s time for longing embrace. The worst part though, is that he never got that embrace…

The whole "Longing Embrace" scene is perfect. It's such a mixture of comedy, tragic, and existential horror that you can't help but nervously smile. The acting is so unnecessarily great in that scene.

@seanwade8188

Жыл бұрын

“I’m guy I help with box and encourage” killed me

@Meraxes6

Жыл бұрын

“You’re the guy Jim” got me 😭

@nickhinton8888

Жыл бұрын

You’re Jim! At some point we said that right?

@johnpooperton

Жыл бұрын

@@Meraxes6 "Give me this moment Jim! This is it for me man."

@ChadCardwell66

Жыл бұрын

Mr. Meeseeks existential horror vibes

You know it's a Joel Haver video when you don't know whether to laugh or to cry from existential dread.

@deadmo1

Жыл бұрын

High quality content, Joel is a hero.

@neonclown2727

Жыл бұрын

i am currently in tears and im not sure why

@percythecryptid

Жыл бұрын

why not both?

@someguy4489

Жыл бұрын

I love it but that existential dread is real lol

@lowgrs1

Жыл бұрын

I feel like this could be a full movie.

I literally say “I help with box and encourage, Jim” every time I have to move something for someone

@shadbadrkhan7413

Жыл бұрын

did you keep your promise

@rjelavic

Жыл бұрын

sure you do

@Alixdkari

Жыл бұрын

no you don't...

@sonan333

Жыл бұрын

Sure, but how many times did you help move in the two months that this video was out, and have you helped since? If so, have you continued your weirs, new, tradition?

@Heizenberg32

11 ай бұрын

And here I am, just a small town boy. I've got a box I can't handle on my own, and I am borderline discouraged.

"Maybe when they play it back, it's like I'm alive again." Something about that line just hits me so hard... I've watched plenty of KZreadrs who have since passed away, and I've been avoiding watching their old videos to keep from digging up painful memories. But somehow I feel like, even though that probably wasn't the intention of that line, that's what it feels like to me.

@CasualDandyAkaSqwrty

Жыл бұрын

Be one of the better people on the internet when you go there. Remember that for every single person who thinks that their "RIP Trevor Moore" was a good idea, there were countless others who were just there to laugh and have a good time. RIP Trevor Moore.

@ThomasMarnwill

10 ай бұрын

Ugh what memories? You didn't know them. They weren't your friends. Why would you cry over some person on the internet who felt nothing for you. Of course, it's sad that they're gone and I feel for their families, but don't act like you were buddies with anybody in that situation you didn't know them

@Lechgang

10 ай бұрын

@@ThomasMarnwill Mhm, mhm, I hear you. One question though, who hurt you? I get what you're trying to say, people take para-social relationships too far, but that's not what this is. They don't know you, but you do know them, at least a part of them, and you can grow to respect and admire them for it. So when they pass away unexpectedly, you can grieve for them. You wouldn't do it in the same way that their family would, obviously, but it's kind of ridiculous to insinuate that some KZreadrs and celebrities haven't changed people's lives just with their content. It's clear to most people that their importance to culture and the communities they foster can reach this level. So while I understand what you're *trying* to say, this whole "UGH, WHY YOU SAD, THEY DON'T KNOW YOU" schtick, just comes off as overly cynical and disrespectful. You don't have to have a mutual connection with someone to feel for their loss.

@sterowentUS

9 ай бұрын

what the fuck are you talking about? i feel things for stories, people, moments that i am not exclusively a part of all the time. that's what compassion is, that's what empathy is. @@ThomasMarnwill

@Jebu911

9 ай бұрын

oh yeah watching dead youtubers does make em feel like they are alive again

I have this video on repeat so you guys will never die

@yesno7889

Жыл бұрын

Is it really worth being alive, when everything repeats meaninglessly, endlessly?

@kdiggity4802

Жыл бұрын

@@yesno7889 To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to.

@sharpieman2035

Жыл бұрын

Hello Ben

@NormanTiner

Жыл бұрын

You're killing them over and over. You monster.

@greatestyoutuber

Жыл бұрын

@@kdiggity4802🤓

This feels like gaining consciousness during a dream and realizing that nothing makes any sense

@breakmeoffapiece8404

Жыл бұрын

and then you tell the other people in the dream that they dont exist but they dont believe you

@diracflux

Жыл бұрын

Philip K. Dick level mind blowing.

@holbvgbbbbkfz

Жыл бұрын

I once argued with a dream character about who between us was real we even rock paper scissored and we drowed So we came to the conclusion that we were from different universes in a shared consciousness

@Oscarous64

Жыл бұрын

@@breakmeoffapiece8404 I have these dreams where I'm hanging out with my best buddy only to wake up and realize that he doesn't exist, like the characters in the short film, they don't know who they are or why they're even interacting with each other, they only live in the moment.

@fred_bauer

Жыл бұрын

@@breakmeoffapiece8404 And until know those guys want to convince me that I am awake and this is not a dream, instead of just accepting it. Completely lost those guys xD

That part on the balcony was so well done lmao, that longing embrace guy is a great actor. I actually started to feel bad when he said "i dont think so..... i dont think so....."

@arthurjeremypearson

11 ай бұрын

Now I need to do a part 2 when someone is replaying the video, and they realize that someone is replaying their video, and they get to live again, but they know the end is coming again

@miikavihersaari3104

7 ай бұрын

Damn it Joel! You gotta stop not making more of these and just... make more. Please.

I love how Joel explores the more uncomfortable parts of life, the awkward shadows we pretend don't exist, and avoid at all costs. It takes some balls, good job, Mr. Haver of balls.

@whirled_peas

Жыл бұрын

Navigator of the jungian shadow

@lukepedersen2899

9 ай бұрын

I know it's seven months late but I just wanted to say I appreciate your punch line.

@grabble7605

9 ай бұрын

I understand in text that this is a pun on 'haver of balls' but because I know how his name is said, it sounds in my head like an old-timey name ala Jesus of Nazareth: Haver of Balls.

It's so good. I just wish there was a post-credits scene so I could see Jim alive, one last time.

@ImTheWarlock64

Жыл бұрын

we will keep him alive, don't worry :)

@anonymous71207

Жыл бұрын

play the video again, and pause it at the beginning of the party scene. he's there, forever, having fun. Forever.

@Manhandle730

Жыл бұрын

@@ImTheWarlock64 That’s right! In fact he’s here right now. It’s where he’s always been and always will be…..(taps your chest where I assume your heart is located)….right here. As long as you remember him fondly, he will stick with you. Keep your chin up, champ.

@MarcosElMalo2

Жыл бұрын

He was never alive. Joel fooled your eyeballs. It’s been Joel all along, fooling our eyeballs. The post credit scene is two short vertical lines, two triangles, and an arrow curved in a circle. The arrow is pointing counterclockwise. The ultimate mocking F.U. to all our eyeballs.

@yesmaybe7394

Жыл бұрын

I'm more of a "Guy who carries box" guy myself.

Joel just casually drops a cinematic masterpiece

@serickpellerin4131

Жыл бұрын

Actually tho

@ryanhutchinson4467

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@violentbenevolence

Жыл бұрын

It's so fucking good

@beauregardheer

Жыл бұрын

This is actually genius if this concept was played differently it could be a full movie

@rabbitspliff

Жыл бұрын

Scrolled down before watching and thought you were exaggerating. You weren't.

I love how Joel takes a seemingly impossible to modify cliché and flips it on it's head in the most creative way.

That last cutoff just sent chills down my spine the sheer horror while staring at the credits knowing that he won't exist anymore after that

@TropicalCyc

Жыл бұрын

The parallels to life, one moment you exist, the next your gone. Leaving only the scenes of your life in others, and when they remember you, its like your alive again. You can relive these memories, but its not the same anymore.

@Dorin_Azril

9 ай бұрын

knowing or believing?

@MrSponge56

8 ай бұрын

Hey at least you wouldn't see it coming lol no time to react just gone which means you would not suffer in the slightest

"I'm...I'm...man with box, moves the boxes" - had me howling

@ArcYT

Жыл бұрын

I help with box and encourage

@javsandarts

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcYT thats the first line in My resume

@Yipper64

Жыл бұрын

I love it when people in videos speak in a slightly grammatically incorrect way

@rykemapo

Жыл бұрын

So close to saying Guy #1

This would be such a good concept for a psychological horror film

@effjesse_

Жыл бұрын

You should check out David Lynch's work.

@juicy.oranges

Жыл бұрын

It’s called Truman show

@Zionswasd

Жыл бұрын

It's called Resolution (2012)

@EdgarRoock

Жыл бұрын

It's called Stranger Than Fiction.

@ingenious_crab1952

Жыл бұрын

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is also based on the concept

Props to the balcony scene and those two actors!!! I don’t know whether to be embarrassed at how sensitive I am or impressed at how good their acting is, or both but I teared up a little at the hard cut front he balcony to interior new apartment. Also the composition was so clever in using shots that never had both of them on screen at the same time. It showed that they weren’t in it together like they think, and they’re more alone than they think too.

This is genuinely horrifying and a smart way of breaking the fourth wall. I like how none of the characters made it overly obvious that they were doing so and that they reacted how people IRL would react to world shattering information like that. The subtlety makes it a lot more emotional and funny. Great work!

I really appreciate the fact that Joel doesn't always make himself the main character and allows others to have the spotlight!

@finfrog3237

Жыл бұрын

Joel turns into a light, almost a spotlight. We've been had!

@northwestguru1

Жыл бұрын

Yeah! I had no idea who The Guy was until Help-With-Box-Encourage-Then-Party-Guy said so. A real twisteroo.

@ShermanLeungpointofgravity

Жыл бұрын

Man, sometimes I wish I was The Guy...

@RyanHarville

Жыл бұрын

Who's Joel?

This was sad, horrifying, and hilarious at the same time. In other words, INSANEO STYLE

@jakek1735

Жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who's bothered by the fact that it's not pronounced "insane-e-o style"?

@N0V-A42

Жыл бұрын

@@jakek1735 I thought it was "insane-o-style" or "insane-o style". Were do you get the extra 'e' from?

@OneNamelessHero

Жыл бұрын

@@N0V-A42 It is all because of this 'neo' at the end. Neo is a prefix that means 'new', and also it sounds freaking cool, thus you could interpret insaneo as a portmanteu of insane and neo - they blend well greatly and the idea of insanity is in intself opening to the usage of a prefix as a suffix, birthing in itself an insane word that expresses the new level of insanity, a higher level of something truly groundbreaking. Truly an insane-e-o word

@28porkchop

Жыл бұрын

@@OneNamelessHero in-say-nee-o like a mix of insane an neo

@asgacc8789

Жыл бұрын

Wow this comment thread is going INSANEO STYLE

It takes a special kind of sketch to give you an existential panic attack while laughing your ass off. Kudos, guys, very good job

This is one of my favorite videos Joel has ever made. I’ve watched it like 5 times and it’s better every time

@sarcasm-83

Жыл бұрын

I still can't believe it was his vending machine the whole time :D

@hunterwilk

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for keeping the characters alive.

@DPresidential

Жыл бұрын

Facts. This was brilliant.

@Jonaperq

9 ай бұрын

Me too

Box Guy is actually a good actor. I felt his pain.

@ralek592

Жыл бұрын

God, if he had just teared up and that scene was just a bit longer, I'd have let it flow, ngl

@davidlandry3487

Жыл бұрын

All he wanted was a longing embrace. It's quite literally all he ever lived for.

@crimsonchaos5

Жыл бұрын

genuinely a great performance from all, this was unironically palpable. kudos to Joel.

@tabcreedence6553

Жыл бұрын

I carry box, I encourage, and I party

@WinkLinkletter

Жыл бұрын

I like his determination in being willing to hold his box forever. Inspiring.

Jim and Ben are both talented and sincere creators in their own right. Joel has highlighted so many worthy entertainers over the last 18 months.

@Joel-Haver

Жыл бұрын

They both make amazing weekly videos, love their stuff, happy you do too :)

@crimsonchaos5

Жыл бұрын

@@Joel-Haver this was unironically palpable. thanks, Joel.

@BennyBall

Жыл бұрын

Thanks ramen! And thanks Joel! ❤️

@victorkreig6089

Жыл бұрын

That's the whole point of Joel's channel, to let people see the many talented artists out there that go unnoticed

@assmane999

Жыл бұрын

@@victorkreig6089I don’t know if that’s the whole point. Definitely something he loves to do with his influence, though.

Its like a universe where existence is strictly only within each cutscene, there is no before, between or after. It's honestly an incredible base for a mind-bending thriller.

I NEED this concept to be a full length movie..I didn't know that I needed it but it's so apparent now. Please, someone make this happen 🙏🏿

@cheddarssalad1230

Жыл бұрын

Rosenkratz and Gildenstern are Dead.

@digiquo8143

Жыл бұрын

Watch 'In the Mouth of Madness' with Sam Niel.

@empurplednut

Жыл бұрын

whyyyy cannn't weeee just enjoy these 6 minutes.

@cactusdemar

Жыл бұрын

There is a full lenght movie, it's called the truman show

@tony2888

Жыл бұрын

The movie The Game is kinda like this but without the existential horror

... and then I was like "wait, this isn't a comedy sketch, its a tragedy!" Gets me every time.

@blueninja012

Жыл бұрын

comedies and tragedies are disturbingly similar

@MLBlue30

Жыл бұрын

@@blueninja012 Tragedy is when I cut my finger, Comedy is when you fall through an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks.

@Dannymon

Жыл бұрын

Society

@sozius0

Жыл бұрын

@@MLBlue30 I'm sure we can make cutting one's own finger a comedy.

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

Жыл бұрын

My Mother is Kentempolous, I am Sorcia, she sent me here to find you... It took me awhile to figure out that the video was over and that I was listening to an ad that played afterwards.

The idea that these characters can barely create new sentences and all they can do is repeat dialogue and script directions because that's all that they know is terrifying

4:15 The "I don't think so..." is legit existentially scary and sad - wasn't expecting it. Lol good stuff bois

@bigsweatyboy1

Жыл бұрын

Question where did you get that pfp?

Now that I've finished watching this I feel like it's my moral duty to keep replaying this video so they stay alive. But now I feel trapped in my own loop, playing this video over and over again. Is this really what you wanted Joel?

This is genuinely Joel’s magnum opus, the cinematography is amazing, the acting is brilliant, everything is perfect.

@StefanCreates

Жыл бұрын

magnum opuses is an oxymoron

@hjf3022

Жыл бұрын

@@StefanCreates You can't have more than one great work? Can there not be a "great works" of shakespeare? only one?

@DougerArt

Жыл бұрын

@@hjf3022 magnum opus is generally taken as meaning "greatest work"

@StefanCreates

Жыл бұрын

@@DougerArt yeah exactly, the single best work of an artist's career

@DougerArt

Жыл бұрын

@@StefanCreates I'd say this is his Magnum Opus though, as of yet. that or the hammer video on goodlongpee.

Guy who helps with box and talks on balcony for longing embrace nailed it. Rewatching now to keep him alive

03:20 Just imagining the neighbors in the balcony below them listening in to this conversation.

I know nothing about Jim and have no connection to him whatsoever, yet I start rooting for him until the end of the video and feel sad for him. Amazing storytelling all in just 6 minutes!!

“I carry box, I encourage, and then I party” Getting that as my next tattoo that is fucking genius 😂

What's so striking about this is how accurate it feels to when someone does move away, they just kind of vanish into the aether and it becomes like they never really existed at all.

@greenmuso

Жыл бұрын

Shit, yes, and trying to keep in contact with them is like trying to revisit a video game you once loved, but when you do it's like "I can't enjoy this game anymore, I can only enjoy my memories of playing it before" or something like that.

@thomashill1340

Жыл бұрын

I feel that. I moved away and ironically I ended up going to an expo at the city where I used to live. Met up with some old friends. Felt like I basically died to them because one day I was in their life, the next I was gone.

@kevgmei

Жыл бұрын

Then they say they will keep in touch, but you never hear from them again

@into.the.wood.chipper.

Жыл бұрын

I agree! **moves away**

@xmisterpilgrimx4869

Жыл бұрын

As someone who has moved around a lot, often starting from scratch and reinventing myself, I always feel like my previous life was a work of fiction, or a totally separate existence lived by a different person. Every time I leave my life behind and start over, I'm born again as someone else.

This is a disturbingly accurate analogy for life, something I've been struggling to put into words. Joel (and co), you've made another masterpiece.

I love moments like 2:29-2:30 in Joel's videos where he is about to bust out laughing but it cuts off or he's able to stop himself from cracking up. Always gets me and I have to replay it every time HAHA

Joel Haver drops an existentialist masterpiece and pretends it's a "weeky short film"

I want this as an actual plot for a movie. Where the edits and cuts from the director are the cause for the characters suffering. And then there'd be a pre/sequal the first of it's kind where it's the continuation of the past and they'll regain consciousness again within the same movie just reacting with prior knowledge of what had already occurred. It'll be called "THE Director's Cut" and it'll be the greatest thing we've ever seen....

@exiszentriker2952

Жыл бұрын

I have to see that movie

@n0vwls247

Жыл бұрын

Watch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. It's basically this but the main characters are side characters from Hamlet

@guyr.6053

Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@Matt-pb7ds

Жыл бұрын

I know it's not exactly this kind of existential horror scenario but if you haven't seen the Truman Show I recommend it.

@Dequerk

Жыл бұрын

There is a k-drama and manhwa called "Extraordinary You" or "July Found by Chance"

One day, someone will play this video one final time, and that is the day this group of friends will truly cease to exist.

"Maybe when they play it back, it's like I'm alive again." Man

I am going to play this on a loop forever, so that these characters never die.

@CptPatch

Жыл бұрын

I won't. But because you're doing it I don't have to feel guilty about abandoning then to the void! Thanks friend!

@nautdead3197

Жыл бұрын

Do you think they want to be stuck going through the same actions unable to change anything for eternity? Sounds like hell let them rest

@steeltits1650

Жыл бұрын

More like reviving them from death.

@MLBlue30

Жыл бұрын

No, they can't keep repeating the same stagnant hell over and over. Let them go. What has been can never be again.

@saaudzuberi8709

Жыл бұрын

Watch it once, they die once. Play it on loop, they die on loop. You're a monster.

The idea that the characters aren't only self-aware that they are in a video, but also only have the same information that the audience knows from their own vapid, expository dialogue is pretty interesting. In any other sketch like this it would be one character that is totally self aware with everyone else being like "What are you on, dude? Haha." Until it goes too far and comedy ensues, But by making every single character self-aware, it creates this deep existential dread that is shared by all the characters in this little world. In reality, even though we know it's a joke, and these actors will move on from the video itself, the characters themselves won't. They won't exist anymore after the video ends. Each character then has this little motivation to get the most out of each scene where they "exist." It's almost a little metaphor for the moments that you "exist" in other people's lives. When others go away, leave, disconnect from you, all that's left is the memory of you, just like characters in a video. You have to make the most out of the little time you spend on the "screen" of another person.

@nickb8755

Жыл бұрын

So true

@hedonistic_ambition9060

Жыл бұрын

wow, well said

@Marceau.

Жыл бұрын

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭👏👏👏👏🥺🥺🥺🥺💅

@1stepatatime

Жыл бұрын

Well said. It felt like these characters were alive when I first watched this video. When I replay this video and see that others have watched this video to, they don't feel so alive anymore. Why is that? Anyway, .... I believe the nature of reality is quantum.and that time is spherical and spiral....so I'm not so sure if what exists in memory is unchangeable?...

@apinkgoat

Жыл бұрын

I want a full feature length film based on this concept of self aware characters

I wish there was an actual movie with this concept

@nothosaur

4 ай бұрын

Now that Joel is doing a movie per month instead of a short video per day, maybe we'll get something like this.

I can't believe how good the acting was in this. From everyone, but special props to guy who carries box.

I am SO PROUD of Jim! He and I went to high school together and acted in plays and musicals together, so seeing him playing such a big role in a comedy sketch made by Joel makes me so happy for him. If you're seeing this Jim, keep doing what you're doing.

@ThatShaggyMatt

Жыл бұрын

Jim set the box down, he's gone now.

@BennyBall

Жыл бұрын

Jim is the best! Such a nice and talented guy. Love his channel and his whole vibe. 🙏

@dillonkeller4477

Жыл бұрын

How are you still here if Jim isn't in the high school part of the story anymore?

@theterminaldave

Жыл бұрын

@@ThatShaggyMatt some people believe that when your picture is taken a little piece of your soul is captured, maybe it's like that black mirror white christmas episode and a part of you really is trapped forever in that place, imagine being stuck helping friend move... forever

@tellmeninetails5819

Жыл бұрын

@@ThatShaggyMatt No but noah created an extended narrative. It's called fanfiction.

By my calculations, the characters have gotten to live for five days from the 12,000 people who've viewed the video. And thanks to Joel's script half of that was spent in existential dread without longing embrace

@subwayslut

Жыл бұрын

with 147,000 people who've now viewed this video, these characters have gotten to live for a year and a half

@user-yn3qv5vn3i

Жыл бұрын

@@subwayslut thats a long time to go without longing embrace 😔

@Dylanschannelodoom

Жыл бұрын

Joel doesn’t write scripts, he comes up with a premise and everything is improvised from there

@weebjeez

Жыл бұрын

@@user-yn3qv5vn3i did you not watch the video? It starts with longing embrace!!

@isthisthingoH_NO

Жыл бұрын

2023 UPDATE:The characters have now lived for 2.68 YEARS

I… don’t think I can ever look at a movie or sketch the same way again. What a masterpiece.

As someone who has moved around a lot, often starting from scratch and reinventing myself, I always feel like my previous life was a work of fiction, or a totally separate existence lived by a different person. Every time I leave my life behind and start over, I'm born again as someone else.

"I help with box and encourage" is my new self-motivational mantra to focus on the small, achievable, but meaningful goals in my life.

@j.enantiodromia3940

Жыл бұрын

Just remember... You don't need to focus on the embrace at the end, because you got an embrace at the start! 😁 Big picture perspective and memory, with small, achievable, but meaningful goals, will set you up for life my friend. Even if it's short, you'll be remembered. 🥲

The facial expressions from Longing Embrace guy were so good. Subtle, yet told so much.

@Killary-Klinton

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he was so impressive in that scene

@pablovirus

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and Jim in the last scene also did a great job too

When Joel returns at 5:00 through a voice, it seems like in Joel's universe, the characters do go somewhere (the light?) after their final scene ends (and then maybe Joel figured out how to return again through a voice)

@Cyberian_Khatru

Жыл бұрын

No, he revealed it was all part of the script. The only reason he's talking again is because the script demands so.

@o1OrangeLeopard

Жыл бұрын

"No, uh, this was the plan from the start"

@joseville

Ай бұрын

Joel incited the whole thing. Guy helps with box asks Jim "are you above this." Joel reveals to Jim he hadn't been totally honest, while talking from above.

Petition for Joel to make a sequel to this video so the characters can keep on existing

@pepperbytez8128

10 ай бұрын

That would kinda ruin the point

@LootFragg

9 ай бұрын

With different actors.

Still feels weird to have Joel back after he was gone for so long, we're very thankful

@CITGProductions

Жыл бұрын

It seems like a part of him remained in the heavens.

@MrJ3

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I don't understand how they revived him. I didn't think that was possible.

@juanktrumpet10

Жыл бұрын

Oh Joel's back? Ok cool...

@The_Conundrum_Crew

Жыл бұрын

Joel 2.0 was a perfect replica. Nobody will notice. Except for the added sass. Too much sass if you ask me!

@RHGameDev

Жыл бұрын

@@MrJ3 just google it, is the first spell

"that's my vending machine" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sticking with the classics

@EktoplazmMusic

Жыл бұрын

What is that? Seriously what are you talking about??

@meathandsmans

Жыл бұрын

@@EktoplazmMusic brother it was his was his vending machine!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@The-official-grindel

Жыл бұрын

@@EktoplazmMusicit wasn’t really a piñata, that’s the joke. You’re supposed to think it is from the buildup scene prior, and then the misdirection happens. Hope to have cleared this up for you!

@ralek592

Жыл бұрын

@@The-official-grindel What? What buildup scene? What misdirection? What?

@MarcosElMalo2

Жыл бұрын

@@EktoplazmMusic Let’s try an alternate punchline. Ready? “Piñata? I hardly knew her. Oh, it was a vending machine.”

this deserves a nomination at the oscars' shorts.

This was such a simple idea yet the execution was brilliant! It has a mix of comedy, existential horror and tragedy. I swear, if this was put up in film festivals, it would be up there.

This is some of Joel's best work, a silly joke executed flawlessly and with heartfelt emotion.

“Maybe when they play it back, it’s like I’m alive again.” I feel like this was a statement from Joel, who I assume wrote this script. Don’t worry Joel, you won’t be forgotten. I have a premonition you’re going to be remembered for a long, long time. Thanks for these sketches :)

@namstel9225

Жыл бұрын

Joe who?

@ShidaPenns

Жыл бұрын

@@namstel9225 Joe L or something, I dunno.

@SyenPie

Жыл бұрын

That’s a reach.

@littleoldmanboy

Жыл бұрын

@@ShidaPenns Joe mama

@ShidaPenns

Жыл бұрын

@@littleoldmanboy What does Joe's mama have to do with this?

Every now and then I watch this video so that they may live once more, Jim, Joel, guy who helps with moving, parties, and encourages Jim on balcony, and of course my favorite... guy who tells punch line with no set up

this is a cinematic masterpiece. It made me cry and it gave me goosebumps on several occassions.

Damn, I actually got chills at the balcony scene. A testament to their acting, it feels so genuine.

I'd like to watch a movie with this concept, where throughout the movie the characters try to regain consciousness and try to make sense of things but at every new scene they lose awareness and have to regain consciousness and memory and have to continue their quest of trying to make sense.

@anthonystrangio

Жыл бұрын

Groundhog Day is kinda close to that

@taysem321

Жыл бұрын

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind isn't that but somewhat similar

@plancton4058

Жыл бұрын

"The Good Place" uses a similar concept.

@brichess8227

Жыл бұрын

Just don’t make a whole series out of it or you get haruhi endless eight

@Domek971

Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the episode of futurama when time keeps skipping

Absolutely loved this. How the music didn't stop or change at the party, how scenes would end still, regardless of the outcome. This is absolutely genius and one of the many reasons why I love your work, Joel.

I won't replay this. I won't let them live this hell again. Imagine looping it and keeping them trapped forever!

@pup838

Жыл бұрын

That would be like scp1733 where people are stuck inside a basketball game recording foerver

I had a friend when I was in High School that always made fun of this trope, so he started doing it in real life. So for example if we were in a group talking and then someone approached us to talk, he'd just shout out of nowhere "AND TURNS OUT IT WAS HIS EX-WIFE!" and then started laughing in a very loud and obviously fake manner (I never knew why that was always the punchline but it was always that phrase). I don't think many people understood what he was doing beyond our friend group but every time he did it I thought it was hilarious.

@MLBlue30

Жыл бұрын

Great story, I'd play along with him.

This feels like Stanley Parable. This is so cool! Your skits are the best! Keep it up!

@bellabellabellabella

Жыл бұрын

THIS IS WHAT I WAS THINKING!!! TOTALLY STANLEY PARABLE

@beenblack90

Жыл бұрын

👍👍

@doozy_daisy_dah

Жыл бұрын

I only thought about the stanley parable just bc one of the guy's name was jim 💀

A true actor fully embodies the role, to the point where they forget all that makes them a person outside the confines of the scene and so must then question the constructed reality they have found themselves occupying.

How he manages to be so philosophical and hilarious at the same time I’ll never know 👏🏾

i've never felt such a mix of humor and existential dread. Masterfully done Joel. ...but like, you never know if it's the last scene with someone in your life. Or your last scene in theirs...

@brandonwiley5372

Жыл бұрын

Stop, the crisis was already crisis-y enough

@WeirdVideoGames

Жыл бұрын

Don't do this to me, man

@breeeegs

Жыл бұрын

@@WeirdVideoGames It's not your fault

@More.h

Жыл бұрын

Perhapes both?

I feel like they could make a full-length comedy film with this concept

@genericname2747

Жыл бұрын

I want Ryan Reynolds to act in it

@jubies6286

Жыл бұрын

Never knew how much I wanted a comedic existential horror film until this.

@Flairis

Жыл бұрын

@@jubies6286 Probably the best way they can do comedic existential horror, with this template

@RaJaoeGris

Жыл бұрын

Watch Truman show

@whoisanarnb

Жыл бұрын

@@genericname2747 Free Guy but instead of a video game it's about a short movie and all the characters understand they have a limited time left until they don't exist anymore, but MC (Ryan Reynolds) tries to stop it, in the end making a way into real life, escaping the nightmare of playing out 45 minutes of your "life" over and over. The movie ends with them saying, "If we were still in the movie, the credits would start ro-" only to be cut off by the credits rolling, implying that the real life in the movie isn't our real life, and now they're trapped repeating 2 and a half hours of them escaping into one fake reality into another.

I was so sure that they were going to cut to bloopers after the credits, and within the bloopers after like the 2nd or 3rd, the guys would realise it wasn't over and they could still do something about it. Then they would all be staring at a sunset, and Guy Who Helps With Boxes would get his longing embrace. He deserves that much.

@Doppelganger31

Жыл бұрын

Meh he got a hug at 00:10

Truly talented comedians will often point out something profound, and I feel like this is one of those times.

A longer form of this would be incredible I just want more of this sketch Joel please they need to exist again

@TorvicIsSanta

Жыл бұрын

Sorta like the Truman show

@zackquillan7292

Жыл бұрын

I'm working on a screenplay for a shitty Hallmark movie where the main character goes through a psychotic break and starts to think they're in a shitty Hallmark movie and then they get thrown in a shitty Hallmark sanitarium. Very similar vibe to this short.

@stevenpolkinghorn4747

Жыл бұрын

I think the ultimate mind blowing arc is they get extremely close to full consciousness/4th wall break and then slowly go back to being oblivious but there’s one character who realizes if he doesn’t he’ll be written out of the universe by a maniacal writer who wants to keep them in the dark.

@ruludos1977

Жыл бұрын

try Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, it's this but with Hamlet

@ildpusio7134

Жыл бұрын

@@zackquillan7292 cool , are you planning on filming it?

Jim’s facial expression at 2:38 as he begins questioning things is amazing. This might be Joel’s best video, it’s perfect

"i help with box and encourage" this will be my Tinder profile out of context

This is my favourite video Joel has made

@nothosaur

4 ай бұрын

Yes. This one and the video about finding tech support in the forest.

the last conversation between Jim and Joel had an eternal sunshine of the spotless mind vibe. beautiful 🥲

@yukononun

Жыл бұрын

I love that film.

@bnamsrom2

Жыл бұрын

@Pdersey both of those, and a third Jim Carrey movie.

Watched this video as a break from studying interpersonal psychology about the human agency and I feel like I learned more from this than the contents of my curriculum. Great job as always!

@dopaminecloud

Жыл бұрын

@sun diver wanna talk about it?

@ComradeKoopa

Жыл бұрын

What did you learn specifically?

they're slowly peering through the veil but not with full comprehension. Enough to question but not enough information to know.

The pacing and structure is absolutely perfect in this one, holy crap!

Finally, a realistic answer to a question I've always wondered about.

@zwenkwiel816

Жыл бұрын

Ikr I always thought it was a piñata as well...

@The_Rand-Man

Жыл бұрын

@@mezzb It turns out the answer was lack of agency all along. Thanks Joel

@MLBlue30

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes you get to be the main character, Sometimes you just get to moves boxes, but the movie ends for us all.

Man, this just hits home. No agency just floating through life one scene to another. Life does feel like a hard cut sometimes. Where did all the time in between go?

@mbeecher9921

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you should look into "dissociation". We're not supposed to go through life like that.

@MLBlue30

Жыл бұрын

It does tend to feel like that. One day you are doing what you do and then it all just sto

@inconsistizzy

Жыл бұрын

this is how i live my life

@godsfool5284

Жыл бұрын

Free will is an illusion

@E-Brightvoid

Жыл бұрын

I stole it.

I love seeing Jim slowly turning existential, you can see his face turn into "what the fuck is life" after the smash cut I love Joel lmaooooo

I've watched this every day since discovering this video because I need to make sure Jim stays alive.

This is like a deleted scene from Inception

@kazioo2

Жыл бұрын

There was nothing about arriving train, so have to disagree on that.

@YourGuyWedge

Жыл бұрын

Inception is about dreams not sure this matches

This is some next level existential dread lmao. Well done.

Joel has the most unique, genius sketch ideas, man should be in the big leagues by now

For a "comedy sketch", Joel, this sure filled me with a large amount of existential horror. Great job!

This concept is good enough to be its own feature length movie, I'd die to ever get to see that

@KLondike5

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps you'd like a film called Adaptation by Charlie Kaufman. It turns in on itself. Bonus, filming scenes of Being John Malkovich also occurs within Adaptation.

@EyelessEntity

Жыл бұрын

Just had the same thought

@clint5406

Жыл бұрын

@@KLondike5 Nic Cage was so good at playing 2 versions of the director in that film.

@bosonbreeder

Жыл бұрын

@@KLondike5 Great suggestion, Adaptation is definitely one of my all time favorites. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Vanilla Sky (Abre los ojos) are also well worth watching if you enjoy similar concepts.

@Oscarous64

Жыл бұрын

@@KLondike5 cool, I will check it out!

Wasn't sold on the title but jeez surprising creativity amaze

This really gives me hope for the future generation of Filmmaking. Thank you so much!

Loved this so much! Great writing great acting

lmao the acting in this is too good. when they are in character you can tell they're acting but when they start questioning their existence they aren't acting any more and just sound like a real person. Very well done.

Hands down the most incredible skit I have ever seen across all media, well done!

@peradean

Жыл бұрын

Dang! This is a massive compliment 😳

@1stepatatime

Жыл бұрын

1000% agreed!!!! It's the best!!!!!!

Right after he put the box down, the world somehow felt even more silent than before the video even started.

Part of me wants to replay the video again so that they can again have existence, but part of me doesn’t want to make them relive the moment where they realize they’re not real and will end with the video