"I didn't want to attract the kind of people who know what Sonichu was" - yeah. Good call. To say the least.
@thacobell4700
4 ай бұрын
To be fair, most of the people who know what Sonichu is, did not want to know.
@dm3588
4 ай бұрын
I first learned about Sonichu via Fredrick Knudson. That was all the information I ever needed on the subject.
@doyleharken3477
4 ай бұрын
@@thacobell4700 i don't think i can agree with that. from my experience most of those people are archreactionary douchebags, proto-nazis and nazis who are constantly on the lookout for outrage bait, because they're dead inside and the depraved spectacle gives them the illusion of feeling alive.
@snakebitcat
4 ай бұрын
That made the ad I got for Pokémon Go when I watched this kinda hilarious, not gonna lie.
@gozerthegozarian9500
3 ай бұрын
Alas, I wish I'd never learned what Sonichu was!
@robstewartstewart98
4 ай бұрын
It’s fascinating to consider the “trilogy” that the film Cape Fear, the Simpson’s episode Cape Feare, and Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play form.
@robstewartstewart98
4 ай бұрын
And now I’ve learned there was a 1957 novel that was then made into a 1962 movie that the 1991 Cape Fear was a remake of! I’m now low-key obsessed with the transmission path that goes from John D. MacDonald to Anne Washburn
@TheActualCathal
3 ай бұрын
Abbas Kiarostami could never
@snakebitcat
4 ай бұрын
"Even in dark times, there will be singing ... about the dark times" was an absolutely beautiful statement.
@hagbardceline7118
4 ай бұрын
I will always defend Chumawamba, they donated every dime from tubthumping to radical causes and crust punks to this day still respect em, that's the roots.they came from and we're still their biggest fan base.
@monoverantus
4 ай бұрын
I must say I can't think of a job you're better suited for than a dramaturge. Your ability to connect so many seemingly distant dots in service of dramatical catharsis is awe-inspiring.
@levierina
3 ай бұрын
I'm from Russia and was born a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union. The funny thing is I first came across Fallout around six years old as my much older brother was playing. And I distinctly remember the feeling that everything happening in the game is right here, around the corner, a few kilometres down the road. Russia was Fallout in the nineties. It was the world after the end, the world of scavengers and bands of raiders. But, as first two Fallouts themselves, it was hopeful, as you can build new things and new societies out of the rubble. Like in two first games. The funny thing is that first, pirate-made localization of Fallout games, by Fargus group, had dubbed the game Renaissance (or Rebirth, in Russian Vozrozhdenie (Возрождение) covers both meanings) But nowadays it seems more like New Vegas: old structures restored in all their shitty and false glory. For me it feels like this feeling of lived through apocalypse is a bit more universal among Russians around my generation. But the idea of hopeful rebuilding of something new is less universal, unfortunately.
@sabretoo
3 ай бұрын
That's so interesting. Thank you for sharing.
@ravendelacour1917
3 ай бұрын
By that metaphor, Putin is both Mr. House and Caeser. Once he's gone the warlords once under his command will tear everything apart between them seeking their own thrones.
@WensleydaleCheddar
3 ай бұрын
Well, Kyle, you are a strange fellow, but I have to admit: you video a good essay 🥔
@David_Diaz713
4 ай бұрын
Oh my god… the first episode of WandaVision was steamed hams
@KyleKallgrenBHH
3 ай бұрын
There was a whole draft of my script that originally delved deep into the history of the American Sitcom, with all of the complex social history that would entail. Wandavision is a fairly good deconstruction of the sitcom, as is Mr Burns
@sabretoo
3 ай бұрын
@KyleKallgrenBHH I liked the sitcom episodes, and then fast forwarded through all the spy stuff at the end
@user-eq5vy4he7w
Ай бұрын
@@KyleKallgrenBHH I'd love to see that!
@rjmayo
4 ай бұрын
The first time I read Mr. Burns was a couple months ago (prompted by knowing this video was coming-- thought it had been on my list for a long time). One of the things I found most stood out most were Washburn's notes at the start of the play about how the characters have a different relationship with death than we do and are somewhat detached about it, combined with the section that she's referring to when the characters all have notebooks of people they're trying to track down. Reading it post-COVID, it felt like a really accurate depiction of the way that new shared language and social conventions fall into place in response to massive shifts in how we live in the world. It was really striking to watch these characters go through a ritual that has become part of how they greet new people. The world ends, but not for every one, and the people who are left adapt surprisingly quickly. This was a great video!! Hearing you bring in your theatre knowledge to videos is always a good time. The section with Lindsay discussing the risks (or lack thereof) of nuclear power as compared to other fuel sources was especially interesting as someone currently doing stage management on a play about the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown. I also appreciated the nods to Station 11, by a coincidence of library availability I read it just after Mr. Burns and it made for a good companion piece with regards to post-apocalyptic theatre and how a post-apocalyptic society would remember, hold onto, and adapt the remnants of the past. 🥔 (Also, it was cool to get the surprise of seeing the Lysistrata clips with my face in them in the video for a tiny bit! It was a nice throwback to a fun production.)
@Tamlinearthly
4 ай бұрын
I was lucky enough to interview Washburn for the San Francisco premiere of "Mr. Burns" a decade ago, and she related that they workshopped and rehearsed the earliest version of the play in a rental space that was actually an abandoned bank vault deep underground on or near Wall St (I forget which). So if you choose to interpret this as a "Fallout" play, you have some material to work with. EDIT: She also said they originally started with "Lisa the Vegetarian" instead of "Cape Feare"--which is baffling to think about now.
@LethargicScientist
4 ай бұрын
How the hell would Lisa the Vegetarian work in this context?
@klisterklister2367
4 ай бұрын
@@LethargicScientist and thats why she changed it. All part of the artistic process of filing off the things that don't work
@Tamlinearthly
4 ай бұрын
@@klisterklister2367: Actually they changed it because nobody could remember enough of "Lisa the Vegetarian."
@Tamlinearthly
4 ай бұрын
@@LethargicScientist: Well, the first two acts would presumably be very similar, just with a few different jokes. How "Lisa the Vegetarian" would play into the apocalyptic tone of the final act I can't imagine, so at that point I assume it'd have been a very different play. I dunno, maybe they'd have Lisa interrupting Homer's human sacrifice instead of a barbecue, and Paul and Linda would be angels, who knows?
@LethargicScientist
4 ай бұрын
@@Tamlinearthly i could see them totally treating Paul and the Beatles like how fallout New Vegas treats Elvis. A semi-mythical figure whose actions were known by all before the world ended.
@TalysAlankil
3 ай бұрын
"it's too normal to be dada" unearthed something deep within me 🥔
@ZephLodwick
4 ай бұрын
This is so funny. I used to be able to recap _Simpsons_ and _Blackadder_ episodes from memory, and would regale my family with every line of dialogue, trying to suppress my own laughter.
@dylanbrinkley636
4 ай бұрын
I’m 90% sure I can quote the whole of series 2 of blackadder from memory so it’s good to know if the end of days should come I’ll at least have a use 😂
@randomjunkohyeah1
4 ай бұрын
In second grade, there was a weekly reading activity where one by one it would be our turn to… well, read something to the class. Eight year old me, big surprise, chose a graphic novelization of a SpongeBob episode. Except, as I started reading it, I noticed that much of the dialogue was “wrong”. (Perfectly normal adaptational changes, but I was too young to understand that kind of thing.) So I stopped actually reading it, and instead just recounted the entire thing perfectly from memory, using the comic as a guide. To this day I have almost all of seasons 1-3 near-perfectly in my memory banks.
@Feasco
4 ай бұрын
in some distant times travelers will approach an old grand edifice made by small in perspective to the distance between it and them, taking a moment to appreciate its magnificence before one declares, "It's only a model."
@crashchannel_2787
3 ай бұрын
The joke with Ma kettle is that she was able to learn and figure out new things while Pa kettle couldn't bc he was too ignorant. Joke being Chief Wiggums is Pa kettle and is the ignorant one.
@gozerthegozarian9500
4 ай бұрын
My only memory of the Waltons is the bit where the grandmother mentions that they have to be careful with money in order for them to be able to afford shoes for all members of the family in the winter. So I guess Bush & Co did succeed at making American families more like the Waltons than the Simpsons.
@NigelXW
3 ай бұрын
"I'm grim, pretentious, and dull" won my upvote. also relatable
@Nathanatos22
2 ай бұрын
100%
@tandnmom100
4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for making this video, Kyle - I was in a production of this show at Middle Tennessee State University in January of 2020, just a few months before the lockdown. I was Gibson in the first two acts and the titular Mr. Burns in the third, and I still consider it to be one of my favorite theatre experiences. I get so excited whenever I see other people on the Internet acknowledging this show's existence, and I'll definitely be recommending this video if I ever see that anyone else is producing the show. 🥔
@afterdinnercreations936
4 ай бұрын
This play sounds like it should star Katie, Dan, Soren, and Michael.
@biznaz6969
4 ай бұрын
Those were the days
@TheGhostofAbigailMills
4 ай бұрын
Holy shit, the double-take your comment just made me do ... I have whiplash. Had a whole chain-smoking, staring off into the distance "that's a name I haven't heard in so long" kind of moment
@daelen.cclark
4 ай бұрын
As long as we know what the stuff we love represents, then there’s something salvageable.
@LaurianeG.
4 ай бұрын
"Oh hi, how are you holding up? BECAUSE I'M A 🥔" [clap, clap]
@weezerifitwereatadbitmores894
4 ай бұрын
I literally watched Mr. Burns for the first time an hour ago and the fact I could find an anti-capitalist video essay on it made 10 hours ago this fact is wonderful
@Ruffhouse789
3 ай бұрын
I can't express how great it was to see you bring in a science communicator to speak on nuclear technology in realistic terms and not, as so often happens, treating it simply as an object of fear.
@GeekMasterGames
4 ай бұрын
If I had a nickel for every video essay about the apocalypse from Kyle Kallgren within a year's time, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice. 🥔
@hartthorn
4 ай бұрын
Well, we are going through, what... four apocalypses right now? So we can maybe expect two more.
@VuotoPneumaNN
4 ай бұрын
It isn't weird.
@Xarfax321
4 ай бұрын
Always with the drama... 😄
@BretGammons
3 ай бұрын
Man, I wish I had two nickels.
@rnbrineg
3 ай бұрын
I don’t understand why this channel isn’t much more popular ❤ Have always loved your stuff Kyle since Channel Awesome Also 🥔
@hughbarlow9957
4 ай бұрын
After the apocalypse, when youtube videos are the only remaining texts, we shall bless each other with the words: "May the algorithm smile upon you"
@crimsondynamo615
4 ай бұрын
And if you want to feel spiteful towards someone you say, “May the algorithm bury you!”
@ZephLodwick
4 ай бұрын
I have to say, even your descriptions of the play with Mr. Burns as the devil gave me chills.
@hannahbevan7055
4 ай бұрын
I was involved in a student production of this show as the lighting designer. We didn't have the resources to actually avoid using the theatre lights we had, nor did we have the ability to do the end bit with Burns cycling. Instead, we reintroduced electricity with fairy lights we had strung off the rig, which lit up on the last line of the final song: "I will live life gloriously". It always got a satisfied gasp, and always left me feeling remarkably sentimental, there's something about promising to be 'glorious' despite the circumstances. This video was fab :) Would love to hear more of your thoughts on plays you care for
@sisterbloomers
3 ай бұрын
A graphic novel of this play with different artist doing each act would be so badass
@ThePonderer
4 ай бұрын
Is it bad that when Lysistrata came up I just thought back to Chi-Raq?
@MasterL9
4 ай бұрын
How am I just learning now that this play exists?🥔
@DoodTheDoodler
4 ай бұрын
Adore you are making a video of this play. I've known Mr Burns since my community college did a production back in 2019 which happened to coincide with a regional production nearby, so it's always interesting to see the same play directed differently right after each other 🥔
@hagbardceline7118
4 ай бұрын
*ahem* "NEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD!" "EGGHEAD LIKES HIS BOOKY BOOKS!" "Cut the Borax, Poindexter!" etc
@ruewinterbourne
4 ай бұрын
It's an odd experience to see stuff like this as someone whose primary subject was history and whose family was so defined by the holocaust -- both my parents came from families forced to move due to changes wrought by those conflicts, some killed by them, fortunes ruined, nations liberated, sending common people fleeing as refugees because the specific structures they relied on collapsed. Shit goes to hell sometimes. Bodies become injured and diseased, including governmental and societal bodies. Afterwards, we try to reason out what happened, to encode it into stories sweetened with incentivizing 'interesting' elements for a social species, so the information persists. We put romances in, and wronged people getting revenge, and terrible foes overthrown by the strong and heroic, because conflicts like that often happen in life and make immediate sense. You can't really do that with, for example, the tendency for certain personalities, educated with certain customs and beliefs, to see the constant, short-sighted extraction of resources as a worthwhile thing to turn their life to. These people see restrictions on their trade as a threat and try to undermine them. They want the monopoly on insulin, or chemical power, and they don't seek death and suffering -- they seek the numbers in their portfolios getting bigger, because our instincts fear famine and not having what we need, and we didn't evolve with money, money evolved from our needs. So they end up as the devil wanting to destroy everything, when a real adversary just wants to destroy what is yours because it is yours, and the actual problem people just don't notice or care. The struggles of literary criticism to cope with basic forces of history seem kind of... overcomplicated, maybe. People have always lived on the ruins of what came before. Always. Apocalyptic narratives go back forever, and post-apocalyptic narratives to the end of Rome at least, with your quixotic NPCs digging through tattered sources resembling the Arab scholars with old Greek texts venerating the works of Aflatun (Plato), Sukrat (Socrates) and Arastu (Aristotle). None of this is new. The metaphor I'd use is coral -- we build on the expired remains of the last generation, and that has been the case since life emerged. The stones of ruined, formerly splendid castles get taken by peasants to shore up their houses and mark boundaries of their fields. That's just life, not a 'punk' genre to me, and that's what seems overcomplicated. We are uniquely *aware* of consequences now, and risks to us, but nuclear power still just fits into a slot of anxieties that originates from ancient human nature -- invisible contamination by toxins and disease in the environment. It's also nothing new. This is our nature and always has been. One piece of one generation in one region co-opts an ancient good luck symbol to feel like they're part of an ancient and legitimate lineage destroying a terrible foe rather than shitty young dudes with nothing going on because their economy sucks and they're mad about it. Another piece-generation-region co-opts symbols of farm tools, but none of the actual philosophical drivers or leaders farmed a day in their lives, but it makes the narrative work to get hopeless people to kill who they want. Both groups destroyed the lives and dreams of my family. Are they different? Some words, some styles of footwear, but the substance is the same: inept gangsters who like big gestures and big ideas but fundamentally lacked the ability to do what they wanted, killing or driving away the people with expertise. So Roman patricians owning everything caused the plebes to leave the cities looking for opportunity elsewhere, and Rome decayed. It's always the same song, just remixed. Great video! Roommate and I both watched to the end so you get two potatoes. 🥔🥔
@hannahmoran3660
Ай бұрын
I know, I'm two months late to the party, but this was (another) amazing deep dive into a work that I really didn't think I would understand. I didn't grow up with the Simpsons and still haven't watched it, so I figured "Mr. Burns" would be filled with Easter eggs and in-jokes that I, a hopeless plebeian, would never be able to appreciate. The fact that "Mr. Burns" is, in no small part, about that very gap between "I guess you had to be there" and "Let me explain it to you" is a total revelation. Thank you for making me feel a little more hopeful and a little less alone during these end times. Also 32:45, that's ME, I'm the Corinthian!
@ZyllasAthenaeum
4 ай бұрын
Came out brilliantly, my friend. Have a potat. 🥔
@XainRussell
4 ай бұрын
I definitely feel like we’ve been constantly living in the “End Times,” but even in the face of disaster, there is opportunity for renewal. Just keep walking, we’ll pick each other up and keep wandering the wastes that are our lives. Excellent video as always Kyle. 🥔
@watchm4ker
4 ай бұрын
I'll give you a 🥔, but I'm sticking this 🧅 in my belt. It's the style, you see.
@DylanFergusC
4 ай бұрын
One of my favorite apocalypse narratives! Think I've got time to rewatch it a couple times!
@StephSottile
3 ай бұрын
As a Simpsons nerd and a theatre actor/director, this was a lovely addition to the discourse. It only reinvigorates my want to direct this play 🥔
@alexiszaninetti1387
3 ай бұрын
Incredibly charming video as always 🥔 - I shall have to see if there is a slime tutorial somewhere for Mr Burns, it sounds fascinating
@classmovie89
17 күн бұрын
I am SO glad you dedicated a short section talking about the concept of the DRAMATURGE! I first came across the position while I was studying theatre at University and if I wasn’t practicing Technical Directing, chances are, I would have tried out being one instead. In fact, I have been thinking about introducing the Dramaturge position to my high school students. Our Fall musical (last year) would have been perfect for its introduction. Maybe in the not too distant future. I watched a little of your remote plays during the lockdown. I’m definitely curious to give them another watch. Once again, this was a great installment to your content. Thank you for introducing me to this “new” play. Definitely reminds me of classic Greek tragedies (which is my bread-and-butter). Until the next one 🎭
@verabos7000
4 ай бұрын
Speciaal voor Kyle: Een 'aardappel'- emoji🥔. Dank voor wederom een uitstekende video!
@davehandelman2832
3 ай бұрын
Goddamn, i ALWAYS get smarter watching you, Kyle!! Thank you sooooo much!!
@Readingeye
4 ай бұрын
I can't find the potato emoji on my hand-me-down phone so I'm just gonna say it in quotes. "Potato Emoji"
@faxpaladin
4 ай бұрын
"Because *I'm* a *potato*." 🥔 (Oops, sorry, different post-apocalypse.) Brilliant as always. Thanks!
@TheMadwomen
4 ай бұрын
🥔 We survive. We always do. And art is proof of it.
@atomicgoblin
4 ай бұрын
Not me immediately looking up how much the rights are going for. The way the company I act with does shows, it would be around 400 to do it for a 3 show run. Hmmmm might put this show in the ear of the board to consider lol
@direktive4
4 ай бұрын
no mention of fukushima daiichi being exactly what we'd see with a boiling water reactor meltdown?
@kestreldomann2787
3 ай бұрын
One of my friends is a Tech Theatre Major and Film Minor, and I remember she was telling my other friend (Acting Major) and I (Teach theatre Major) about how interesting it is to see how Film major sees adaptation v. Theatre Major, and how one time her Film professor asked her class about whether they would rather do a remake of Hamlet or of Star Wars, and she was the only one who picked Hamlet. And everyone's justification it was interesting because iirc a lot of people felt that they were like nervous to touch something so like. Deeply ingrained in the world and literary canon that they didn't want to touch it, and my friend couldn't really get them to understand that every time a theatre company performs Hamlet we *are* doing an adaptation in a way. It's the same words and all, but the context and the setting and everything changes. Yes we're using the same words that Shakespeare wrote, but director/actor intent and line delivery and everything changes the context and things of the show. And I can't explain it, but I feel like if someone like that saw this play it would help them to understand it. I don't know if that makes any sense, but imo I just think it'd be interesting
@Paradukes
3 ай бұрын
Your videos are always worth the wait 🥔
@hmertel
3 ай бұрын
Missed your work. It gives a kind of hope. Please keep singing. 🥔
@GallowglassVT
4 ай бұрын
Salvagepunk is definitely something I want to engage with more. It's kinda what the play I'm writing is about. I can't go into too much because spoilers, but that theme of apocalypse as revelation is a very important aspect.
@hotaruFirefly2
4 ай бұрын
Look up Australian bush mechanics, they build stuff with limited supplies and nothing goes to waste.
@GallowglassVT
4 ай бұрын
@hotaruFirefly2 just looked it up. I like that it's focusing in on indigenous Australians and it's in the Warlpiri language too.
@jessie-buns839
3 ай бұрын
Maybe look up a TTRPG called Wyldesea. Think you might like it
@celestialcass
3 ай бұрын
Really fantastic video! So well-researched and absolutely poignant and relevant in many ways.
@sataprescott7588
3 ай бұрын
The not-quite-REM's-"It's the End of the World" playing over "Apocalypse, Always" is breaking my brain.
@showinglight359
3 ай бұрын
Fantastic 🥔 captivated the whole time and explored thoroughly. Really good stuff.
@Nukle0n
3 ай бұрын
Ironically, the first Mad Max movie is set in the stages of the apocalypse. There's still some sort of government and civilization but it's coming to an end. the Eternal desert doesn't really become a thing until the 2nd movie, which is also the earliest movie in the series most people have seen. 🥔
@xux
3 ай бұрын
I watched this over a period of a few days and somehow dreamt about meeting you, lol. Thank you for another great video. 🥔
@TheBurkissWay
4 ай бұрын
Amazed that every time this video reminded me of a different obscure piece of apocalypse media and made me go, "But surely he won't have a reference to Spike Milligan's 'The Bed Sitting Room', but lo and behold, voom there it be! My favorite of many offshoot thoughts this spawned in me, is just how many times theatre itself has already shaped our views of other media-it's been argued that the classic Unversal Studios versions of Frankenstein, Dracula, etc. owe more to the many bootleg play adaptations than to the actual novels, and Baum's own 'Wizard of Oz' sequels were said to feature moments written purely to create fabulous stage effects rather than for any actual plot reasons. 🥔
@mallarieanderson6439
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for all you do 🤎🥔🍠🥔🤎
@macthemeh
2 ай бұрын
I was in a student run production of Mr. Burns once. I played Sam/Mr. Burns. We were going to do it in this really big space in the campus’s art museum that a lot of acting classes took place in. But we were kicked out when a coke can was discovered next to one of the pieces of electrical equipment, which went against our agreement to use the space. This was done really late into rehearsal and we had to emergency relocate to a different, much smaller location. And the production was downgraded to a stage reading production. It was still a lot of fun and I still list the character of Mr. Burns as one of the most emotionally exhausting roles I’ve ever done. 🥔
@AccaLarentia90
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for telling me about the play! If there’s ever a production of it nearby i’m definitely in 🥔
@rudetuesday
3 ай бұрын
I hadn't realized there was a space in me the rough shape of this video. It's really something. 🥔
@jaqlynwithaq5408
3 ай бұрын
🥔! Amazing video.. I’ll be sure to watch this play when enough time has passed for me to forget all the spoilers I just witnessed
@crewarly7451
4 ай бұрын
Another good book to consider is The Next Apocalypse by archaeologist Chris Begley. While it can at times be a tad dry, it is a fascinating read about real apocalypses faced (such as by Indigenous Americans) and how humans adapt, overcome, and survive. He has an interesting ending where he elaborates on the idea of apocalypse as revelation - not an end, but a revealing of new knowledge and adaptation to that. I found it quite hopeful. 🥔
@kalka1l
3 ай бұрын
As someone who never watched the Simpsons beyond adjacent exposure, I enjoyed this much more than how those show glimpses made me feel.
@dangerwaffle2153
3 ай бұрын
This video has crazy timing for me specifically, as I just did the play at college. it released around tech week and i just finished it now, closing night Its hard to put into words just what this play means to me, but you did a fantastic job -Gibson/Homer
@PhantasmicBlue404
12 күн бұрын
Oh god, I was in a production of Lysistrada in college and this was so lovely to see brought up
@darynvoss7883
3 ай бұрын
There was a time when you could expect people to get basic Simpsons refs: not everyone, not all of them, but enough. But the colleagues I have now, 25 to 30 years old, have literally never seen an episode. They know it from memes etc.
@Wraithfighter
4 ай бұрын
A great look at a... lot of stuff here, frankly. That said, at this point, I don't think the Simpsons should die. I'm a big fan of a series that goes on for a limited time and then ends, story complete. And I certainly tired of the Simpsons long ago... ...but at the same time, the show has apparently gotten better, I loved last year's Treehouse of Horror, and... there's something appealing about an actual Forever Show, one that will never die, will always cycle in new talent, giving new interpretations on the same characters and adding something new... It's like a petri dish that I want to be able to check back in on every so often, just to see what's changed... 🥔
@TheDanishGuyReviews
3 ай бұрын
I've been a watcher for many years, but I'm still amazed at how much Kyle looks like me.
@jessaminemanchester
4 ай бұрын
I saw a production of this show at my college a month into my freshman year and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since, truly one of the most impactful pieces of theater I've ever seen
@MainelyMandy
3 ай бұрын
Finally getting a chance to watch this and its so good! Great job!
@FlourishCaster
3 ай бұрын
"a 🥔 flew around my room before you came in"
@joshpadula3105
3 ай бұрын
There's a lot of video essayists out there, but I don't think anyone does it like Kyle does, still one of my favorites, and best to do it, going past 10(!) years now. He. Is Neat. 🥔
@chungbertflabbergast5995
3 ай бұрын
🥔 Thanks for this meaningful art about art. This video got me thinking and feeling both, when even a lot of video essays I enjoy struggle to do much of either. Your channel remains my favorite. :)
@Sarahchamorro
3 ай бұрын
Never heard of this channel or play but I'm sold on the title and the first 2 minutes of the video.
@CylonLab
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this. I had heard about this play years ago and never bothered to seek it out and watch it.
@EyebrowCinema
3 ай бұрын
I don't know how to leave a potato emoji on desktop, but it's always such a treat when you upload a new video essay. Every work is like a sumptuous meal that I need time to both savor and digest. I suspect this will enter into my frequently rewatched works.
@Rupert3434
4 ай бұрын
Look, that trans joke was way better than nearly anything else in the 90s because nobody was grossed out and everyone just kind of rolls with it. Though there is the implication that Abe has to keep their transness a secret to make it work with Jasper in the pre credits voice over but still, it's kind of way better than Ace Ventura's trans joke or Buffalo Bill.
@Rupert3434
4 ай бұрын
Also, keeping in mind that everything at the end of each Simpsons episode just stops and doesn't (usually) affect the cannon of future episodes, does anyone else wonder if there was a universe where Abe goes along with it but ends up getting her egg cracked by the experience, and tells Jasper, and he's unsure at first but then totally supportive and they end up having a cute little romance together for the rest of their days?
@dannytheman1313
3 ай бұрын
To be fair to the Waltons (yes I can't believe I'm saying that) that wasn't the family patriarch. Those were the crazy moonshiner sisters that lived a few miles over. They were intended to be annoying and over the top yeah I found it strange that Jhon-Boy of all people comes to their defence when they learn the truth but still it technically wasn't their family.
@munsunsnight
9 күн бұрын
Cheers from the Salvage Capital of the World: Guatemala!! We love your work, keep it up!!! Thank you!!!
@Leofilmperson
3 ай бұрын
Regarding the nose, everything about Burns' character design seems to be based on a vulture made human.
@DjynnFlyssa
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for keeping up the good work. 🥔
@DennisBratland
3 ай бұрын
I had forgotten all those nuclear industry talking points. Nobody talks about nuclear power much any more. It's not really necessary. The money to build nuclear plants doesn't exit. The resources to build them don't exist. Nobody needs to fight to stop nuclear power because it's moot. Part of the reason is that 40% of the energy we consume is dedicated to the fossil fuel industry. Without fossil fuels, we only need to replace 60% of our power consumption with renewables. Its a far easier task than we first thought. And the cheapest, quickest route is with almost anything except nuclear. The guy saying a meltdown at a plant would be no big deal hasn't heard of Fukushima? Never heard of steam explosions, or hydrogen explosions? Or the need to cool waste storage? There's really people who think it's all good as long as it's not an RBMK reactor? I did not know that.
@dev7938
3 ай бұрын
wow. really good video! i had never heard abt this play before and now i have to read it. 🥔
@turbolamp9471
4 ай бұрын
Mike Reiss also came out of the woodwork last year to defend the guy behind the murder-submarine. For what his opinion is worth. Edit: And that Grandpa bit at the end of the episode? It used to be longer. There's a whole extra scene (found on the DVD) where Grandpa and Jasper go on a date. 🥔
@herecomemacOnTT
4 ай бұрын
Damn, I had no actual idea that this show existed, and though I fell out of love with The Simpsons ages ago, I could easily recite moments from it that I love, though not full episodes.
@Starhound
3 ай бұрын
🥔 Your videos always bring me joy, and a new look at things.
@mossandthings2457
3 ай бұрын
This play will be my last play of the season. Thank you so much for making this, I can never find any info about this play
@emisformaker
4 ай бұрын
More proof, if it were needed, that this is the best channel on KZitem.
@SquroundSquircle
3 ай бұрын
Excellent work, as usual. I'm glad to see you discussing something simply because you enjoy it. Truly, I wish more of the thoughtful KZitemrs did that! I hope you're doing better, feeling better. Please don't despair. We are in this together. Thank you for being you, and being here, doing what you do.
@alwaysapirateroninace443
3 ай бұрын
The beginning of this about the lighting reminded me of a book I read lately, Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West by: Leslie Downer, about Japan's first female actress. Much of it talks about theatre, both Japanese and European, and shows the impossibility of attempting to relate theatre into narrative. How I wish I could have watched her plays!
@andreareventon
3 ай бұрын
🥔 Excellent and thought-provoking work as always.
@LaurianeG.
4 ай бұрын
I know I already made my potato comment, but if I may be more serious, thanks a bunch for this video, really love it! I know you don't share the same passion for his work I do, but with everything you talk about in the video, I'd be remiss not to mention Miyazaki's work as he touches on the apocalypse actually quite a bit. But never as an end. Nausicaa and Future Boy conan both takes place after mass destruction, war and everything, yet they focus on people continuing to live, building communities, learning to live with our environnement, and overall talk about building empathy as opposed to just a fight for survival where everybody wants the remaining pieces of pie. Mononoke actually very, very explicitly says that life continues, that as long as there is life, there is hope. And then there's Laputa, where for all the bravado that the ancient civilisation of, well, Laputa had, all the fear and power it commanded over the world, all it's technological wonders, it's the very same society that caused it's downfall and the film ends with an explicit rejection of that model. Sorry just thought that was relevant to the point talked about. I owe my love of cinema to Miyazaki, he is my favorite filmmaker and his work was formative for me, so naturally it will direct how I relate to and think about a lot of other stuff.
@Digi-Tanuki
3 ай бұрын
"The most fascinating aspect of our end-of-the-world obsession is our insistence that whatever cataclysm we have in mind would, in fact, be the end. The reality is that our history could actually be described as a series of apocalypses: a plague here, a famine there, a worldwide war that arrives with both in tow. What occurs in the aftermath of each is instructive. [....] Our apocalyptic fiction depicts a world in which humans revert to the savagery of the jungle the moment our institutions fall, survivors tearing each other to pieces even as they are dying of plague or stalked by the undead. In our real history, we have been in that situation many times-left without government or law enforcement, none of the modern institutions we take for granted. From each of these scenarios what emerged was not savagery, but cooperation. When the pillars of our culture crumble, we rebuild them." -Jason Pargin, _What the Hell Did I Just Read_ (2017)
@vfaulkon
3 ай бұрын
🥔 The oral tradition is awful for maintaining accurate records of stories, but great for adaptability. In Mr. Burns, I see the play evolving not just because of how it's passed down, but because of what people in that time need. In a post-nuclear wasteland, people don't need a story of a clownish obsessive killer stepping on rakes repeatedly, they need to believe that good can and should conquer evil. Although your thoughts at the end bring up an interesting point about making 'meaningless' art in a meaningful world, I wonder if it's possible to do both. I mean, let's be real - some epic story of good vs. evil has been done so often in the course of human history, it's almost meaningless in its predictability... but we still tell it. Over and over again, good triumphs over evil because evil is bad, and I think we do that because it's reassuring to some fundamental part of ourselves. It's such a common, reoccurring theme it's meaningless to hash it out for the umpteenth time, but it's meaningful because it's still important to us and worth repeating. There's my deep thought for the day. Mostly, I'm happy to think that, no matter what comes for us as a species, as long as we're around we'll still find joy and satisfaction in songs, stories and the like. :)
@batjutsu
3 ай бұрын
🥔Thank you for another great episode 🥔
@20th_century_Ghost
3 ай бұрын
A new video from Kyle is always a very pleasant amd welcome surprise.
@BeckyScottFairley
4 ай бұрын
🥔 Thinking about the thesis of this video while I am going through an apocalypse (personal) of family cancer where I had to stop my one creative outlet I had going because it got too hard to think about. It was just GMing an RPG but it was the art I wanted to create for a group of 5 or so people to enjoy. when I go into the post-apocalypse part of this and start creating my art again I have to think about how my art will have changed because of it. I am still planning stuff for when I have time and I will see how the journey and changes change me too.
@austinreed7343
4 ай бұрын
I could only imagine this treatment given to other IP such as SpongeBob or Touhou… or even how much further this story goes into the future beyond 82 years after the end.
@mathieuleader8601
9 күн бұрын
it would be interesting if the Simpsons themselves decide to adapt Mr. Burns as an episode
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