Modern Major General: Also parodied by XKCD as 'Every Major's Terrible' (university degrees). There's also Baby Got Back done in the style of (and set to clips from) Modern Major General. You're welcome. 9 Days a Week: Hyperbole to go beyond the Beatles. Toe The Line: There was a line drawn on the ground and you had to put your toe on the line to indicate you were ready to do something. Might be from boxing or other fighting originally. So not just compliance, but available and ready to [insert action here]. Did they do Fall in Line? If so I missed it.
Thanks for the reaction, man! Glad you enjoyed it! Was really hoping you'd pick up on the little Ghostbusters reference I snuck in at the end. ;) 'Production makes me feel goooood!'
One double meaning that took me a moment to pick up on: when they say "I am the very model of a model employee/Because I'm used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me", that's model as in "a good example" but also model as in "a small toy version of a real thing", like a model train set.
I take it as also a possible reference to the "Forest Keeper" enemy (or 'Giant' as theyre normally called), as in their bestiary entry it states that theyre very childlike and see humans, not as food, but as toys to be played with (and just like a toddler, putting toys in its mouth is something that happens alot).
I dont remember that lore from the game, but that does sound like something thatd be in there. Although i do know that that is absolutely the case in the game "Satisfactory", in that game all damage is met with the popup "⚠️ DAMAGE TO FICSIT PROPERTY DETECTED". Also Stupes has made a couple songs on that game in the past, so maybe youre thinking of that? There could easily be a "damage to company property detected" in lethal company and i just dont remember, but the company seems to value you alive more than they value the suit you wear, as when you die and dont retrieve the body you lose a large sum of money proportional to the amount of money you have saved (so its usually in the dozens or hundreds), meanwhile if you sell your dead body (and thus the suit) to the company you get a measley 5 credits. Even if the body is worthless to the company, that means the suit is worth 5 credits max, meanwhile a living employee is worth hundreds of credits
@@jc_art_ never heard of satisfactory before, may check it out. And no they never expressly state this information, (that they only care about the suit), but going back to what you said at the end. Yes I did know all that and this is how I thought about it: the company’s base expectation is that all 4 crew members are alive. If you die, and leave the body behind, you are heavily taxed for it, but if you bring the body back, _nothing happens_ . It’s only when you turn in the body that the company cares about the lost employee and gives you a $5 bonus on quota. I don’t think they value you at $5, I think that they give you that as a bare minimum incentive to turn the bodies in so they can strip it of the suit and give it to the next poor chap after washing the blood and such out. This would mean that they do not value you as a human being at all, and just want their suits back. They are company property after all and they probably don’t want to be constantly replacing them. Sure maybe a mending job here and there for bullet wounds and the such, but I’m fairly sure you can even faintly see some cracks on your visor even from day one. In summery: I think the company wants the suits, they don’t care if you leave it on the ship for them to collect, but they give you a lil bonus for going the extra length to turn them in yourselves.
@@wiggle143 the one issue with the thought of 'turning the suits in when you sell them' is that we know the thing inside the building is just a giant monster, and one of the selling lines tells us exactly why we do the job "Your work keeps the company happy" ('your work' referring to collecting and selling things at that door), so we're not selling things so that they can be reused later, we're selling them to keep whatevers on the other side of that wall happy. Another thing i just thought about, when you fail quota the ship "fires" you by flushing you and the suits (and all the other furniture, including the rack of empty suits) out into the void of space. Youd think that if they cared about the suits so much that theyd have some other way of "firing" its workers that would let them keep the suits, like, say, flooding the room with a deadly gas, or remotely disabling their oxygen supply (like what supposedly happens to living workers left behind on the moons), so that everything can be reused for future workers. If you think about what the company is all about, that being sending out workers to collect scrap to "sell" to an ever hungrier company until they cannot keep up with its demands to keep it happy anymore, then the workers seem like the most important part of this process, maybe behind the ship that takes them to and from the company building, as without them the company falls apart, or as dan bull puts it "if it werent for me then theyd be making a loss!" I imagine the reason why bringing a dead employee back to the ship is important and so heavily incentivized is because its likely that bringing a worker back from the dead is probably cheaper than getting a new employee altogether in this universe. We know that all injuries are repaired at some point after leaving any moon, so its somewhat reasonable to assume that if you bring back a body, it can be healed, but if you dont bring back the body, the employee is canonically replaced with someone else. Its also pretty likely that the gameplay doesnt show everything that actually happens in universe to the employees, as upon loading a new save there are beds present in the ship, implying that the employees do get rest in between work 'days.' Point is, the company *does* value its employees, it just values their work more than they value their lives or their suits or any of the ships furniture, so if they stop working, everything goes and replacements are found. Also you are fined upon bringing back a dead body, its just a very small amount, implying that even if everything else i said is wrong, the employees dying does cost money, which puts inherent value on living employees
It's subtle, but there's a homophone in "line/production line" at 27:01, as evidenced by the next words "we all bought the production line," which is ITSELF a double. It's "bought" in its main meaning of 'purchased,' and "bought" as in 'believed'. This makes "line" a reference to a "lie," meaning "we believed the lie," which makes "line/production line" a more obvious homophone of "lyin'/production line," which would ITSELF be a reference to the earlier reference to the 'moving of the goal posts,' aka the changing of the Quota. Oof. My head.
Stupes’ vocals were amazing. They keep getting better. Dan’s staccato rapping in between is such a good contrast to the melody. 20:05 Two of my favourite jokes in the song. “Pan” with Stupes cheekily pointing at themselves and “Whoopie” + “Gold bar”. I mean there had to be a pan joke there somewhere, am I right 😊? Great to see you back with reactions, Ian!
Hi I'm very pedantic, so here I go: The gantry is not the catwalk itself, but the sturdy metal structure it's attached to. That's where you also attach moving parts like a gantry carriage. That's why an overhead crane (like at the harbour) is called a gantry crane! Love your videos!
In the part where it talks about family diaries it shows Dan bull filling out a request to see his kid at his kid’s birthday party for only thirty minutes. The request gets denied though. It says he really needs to see his kid since he hasn’t in years.
A lot of Stupendium's outros tease his next songs. For example, in his Fallout 76 song remake his outro says "Its *Lethal* out there, but Vault Tec is the *Company* you can trust." clearly hinting at the next song being Lethal Company. I have no clue what the next song could be when he references 'pink slime' however. Its unlikely to be a comment about Lethal Company considering there is no pink slime or other similar creatures in the game, so its likely this is referencing... something else. What else? idk, but it's probably the next song.
Oddly specific, but with the new Fallout craze it *might* be a reference to the pink slime force-fed to kids in that one school. Then again he just recently remastered Vault 76, as you said. Probably too see for another Fallout song.
I love your content, especially on Stupes their stuff, because it helps me understand the jokes I'm missing and also understand the song from a more professional perspective
I'm almost certain the company song is a reference to Markiplier's Lethal Company series where they start that bit off in the the first episode and gradually make changes to it throughout the series.
Amazing, Mr.Pauzeman, (I dont mind it. Its actually nice to hear the definition of things I didnt get.) The Stupendium songs are always so amazing and so new every time, I like their songs every time. Doesnt matter what topic they do
A very enjoyable reaction as always! Thank you especially for the 20-minute section in the middle where you completely halted the video to praise my piano skills, you didn't have to 😤🙏 "the backbone of the entire track" "pretty much more important than the lyrics really" "puts everything else in this entire song to shame" all true words but kind nonetheless
9:28 I think I found another refrence to a song by Stupendium and Dan Bull. I could be reaching, but the line "Uncertain of the purpose of the service that were slaving over" sounds a lot like "Uncertain of what lurks under the surface of your consciousness" which is a line from Tune into the Madness. A Little Nightmares 2 song made by Stupendium and Dan Bull.
I loved The Production Line so much I made a genius account so i could help with annotating the lyrics, so thank you for reacting to this, I love listening to your reactions and the fact you actually go into the song.
16:56 Well, Beetles reference aside, technically you COULD work “9 days” a week. It’s a 72 hour work week. A work day without lunch is an 8 hour shift. As a shipyard worker, working 12 hour shifts Mon-Fri isn’t unheard of. That puts you at 60 hrs, so throw in 12 more over the weekend and you just worked 9 days in a week.
17:40 Also unfortunately common in the shipyard, but more due to inconvenience of location, trying to get out of the ship to a bathroom, especially for older folks or those with medical issues. Or sometimes they’re just lazy, inconsiderate twats. 🤷♂️
The piss bottle LONG predates Amazon. When I was helping my dad deliver packages (on his morning job) back in the late 90s, he didn't want to stop at a bathroom to take piss breaks, so he encouraged me to piss in a bottle. Or stop by the roadside and piss on the ground, only partly hidden from view by the truck.
P bottles (and other p containers, such as jars, canteens, cups, etc) have been around for practically as long as people have used handheld containers for storing liquids, yes, but the song was likely directly referencing amazon as it has more recently been in the spotlight as a company where this sort of overworking and unorthodox bathroom solution is very common
@@AlexanderAzarov also later in the song one of stupendiums lines references how they do all this work 'just to sell products on a screen', which doesnt sound like anything in lethal company, that sounds more like its talking about online shopping (Amazon). Honestly this song overall is much more about Amazon than it is about lethal company, as there is no "production line" or factory-like work in the game, but there is that in Amazon. Someone could tell me "they wrote this song about Amazon originally, but repurposed it into a Lethal Company song when that game became popular" and id probably believe them lol
Did you notice 28:06 and for a bit before it, which was referencing Ghostbusters with "production" repeated in the background and "production makes us feel good!"
One sort of meaning im suprised you didnt mention was they were saying that “We’re discounted, under the counter, half off” the first and last being discounts, but “Under the counter” means your being paid money that isnt on the books, its not official and your not taxed meaning their paying “Under the counter” (Less then legally for a contract company) for the labor and “in stocks at the gallows for the price drop” their comparing the prices dropping lower (cus their lives to the company dont mean much) to being on a death sentence about to be hanged and killed with the “Gallows” being what the last stop for death sentences was where you were hanged
There was some smaller changes throughout the two songs as well, a bit harder to notice especially if you’re just making sure it’s the end that changed but stupes was the one in the ship giving commands in his song the full time but in the dan bull version there was one time where Dan was giving instructions instead of
Speaking of endings, I think it got missed that the reason Stupes attacked Dan with the mask was because the mask is worn by dopplegangers in the game, so Dan came back to the company with a doppleganger instead of his partner.
Very topical song with a very topical analysis. I like how you also comment on the production and the costumes not just the music and lyrics, there’s so many little details I missed in my first watch through
Lethal company has hidden, but quite dark, lore, that boss is essentially monster, that we supposed to feed scrap to keep it at bay, otherwise it will break free.
Honestly I like that you have long break downs of the songs, and considering how much The Stupendium and even Dan Bull can fit into 7 minutes it is definitely worth taking the time to break down.
Learnt this one from a podcast about words sometime last week: "toe the line" comes from the UK navy in the 1800s or so, when the sailors lined on deck for inspection, along one of the seams of the deck floor, barefoot (because especially topmen who worked on the rigging of sailboats went barefoot). It generally means to follow commands, similar to "fall in line".
Flawless introduction, Ian! Not just the incredible Weird Al part, but everything you said before pressing Play. Overall great execution. What's even sadder is that the dance they're doing looks like pressing buttons and pulling levers. Just more work disguised as play.
I absolutely need that shirt! Also, how did the ‘mine’ pun go right over my head? Also-also, I feel like the ‘9 days a week’ thing was just an exaggeration on how long a week of work feels.
In the title of the vid it says "Stupendum" instead of "Stupendium"! which is rather funny, 'cause it is more similar to the word "stupendous" than his actual name! Apart from that, a great vid! Love your reactions! I send good vibes from Spain! Have a great day Ian!
16:44 I think the intent is that he's working hours equivalent to nine work days :') Which, considering a traditional weekday at 100% employment is 48 hours spread over six days... Yeah, those are about 12 hours days rather than the traditional 8.
ironclad is a type of boat usually made of the things in the line befoure, but its also an adjective meaning inescapable, connecting to the sealed your fate line 25-to life is also a reference to prison labour, as a popular fan theory is that you are prison workers. stupes also has sung a modern major general section in ad infinitum, drop shipping is a practice of having an online shop that takes orders from people and then orders it from another company, leeching money from you, in stock at the gallows for the price drop- stocks were a medeival punishment i think, then gallows and price drop are alluding to what happens when you fail to meet quota, even though the method is different . dark humour if this is the minimum level of comedy you react to, then i think the ribbon by stupes about alan wake 2 definitely counts as main channel worthy, tons of puns about writing.
27:36 you kind of paused at an awkward point, but I just wanted to note that I love the little “production makes me feel good” in the background. Also happens at 28:05.
Welcome back! If you haven't already, you may be amused if you go back and fully read the denied request during the rota screen bit. Any theory you're open to offering in regards to the mention of pink slime at the end? And did you try catch sight of the giant spider legs in one of the scenes?
Oh boy! Yet another anti evil corporation song Vaugly disguised as a song about a specific game in wich the song leans even further into the evil corporation themes then the game itself does. My favorite genre of stupendium songs
Ok. About the prison sentence thing. Im pretty sure its also a reference to how prisoners are treated like slaves in america, and are put to work, literally manual labor. They literally mine shit. On another note, just like workers need right. Prisoners do too. You could be put in jail for something, and then your judge hearing can be pushed back, indefinitely maybe, so you now have to do back-breaking work for who-knows how long(you sure don't) because the system wants more bodies to work.
The way that you make a relatively short video longer reminds me of the way I watch tutorials, because I watch a small section of the tutorial and then pause it so I can do the thing. I then unpause it and repeat so sometimes a ten minute tutorial can take me about 20 minutes to do the thing in the tutorial
Welcome Back! If you read this Ian/any body else with comedic music experience, might I have some advice? It’s okay, if not. By trade, I am a playwright. I write plays for theatre and my next project I would like to write a musical, preferably with some comedy music! I’ve written my own music before but never comedy music. So… could I ask for some advice when writing? How do you usually going about starting/writing lyrics? Are there any favourite conventions used in the genre? Feel free to skip on by this too, though.
Hi! Writing comedy music *does* have certain conventions, especially when in the context of a play. There are several styles and methods to writing comedy songs. Unfortunately, it's not something I can usually go over in a comment section on a video 😅 Reach out to me on social media, and I'll see if I can't help you there. What I will recommend here is: listen to songs from funny musicals. Wedding Singer, Beetlejuice, Book of Mormon, Avenue Q...I just saw Death Becomes Her which was hysterical. Listen to their soundtracks if you can and focus on the structure; how they punctuate the song with jokes, how many they include, stuff like that. Just to give yourself an idea of how others have done it, and see if any of those methods work for you!
@@Insaneian Thank you so much! I’ll definitely give those soundtracks a listen so I have a good clue of where to start. Thank you and I can’t wait to get started! I’ll keep you (if I remember) updated. I can’t say this enough, thank you!!!
Fun Fact! If you’re desperate for cash you can sell the bodies of your co-op players. For a grand total of $5. The cheapest item you can sell. Even items you buy sell for at least $10. So you are literally worth less than any of the scrap you can find. Edit: Also a little sad you missed the pop up of some asked for time off (at least half an hour) so they can see their son on their 18th birthday as they’ve never met them before. They got denied. The Tentacle grabbing them both can happen if you ring the bell too much.
* Throws Like cookie at the algorithm * Just started, and this song is a CHONKER. I'm so curious about Ian's commentary! And legit surprised the reaction is this short. XD
In terms of comedy music, the songs from Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss have some great moments and excellent comedy, not to mention character-building and lyrics that propel a story forward, so it would be interesting to see you try to digest all of that at once. I'd start with Helluva Boss because the story isn't as overarching as its sister series and thus doesn't need as much context for the music, but both are truly an experience.
This song is SO good,,, every time Danbull and Stupendium collab, they just spit out the hottest new Jazz single; I know it's Jazz because my voice is strictly built for Jazz and I can actually follow along with the lyrics well enough in this song rather than their other works, cause, as I said, my voice is built for Jazz, not Rap- /Lh either way I've been listening to this song on repeat for days.
I always anxiously await a long reaction like these to Stupes' songs from you! Also, are you going to react to Freshy Kanal's new rap battle "Cupid Vs The leprechaun Vs The Easter Bunny"?
Great reaction as always! You should react to Cupid vs Leprechaun Vs Easter Bunny by freshy kanal. If it boosts the odds I should tell you that Stupendium is in it. Have a great day!
While this song is a certified banger, I do feel like it misses part of the point of the game, which is that the company *isn't* making profits. They're making monsters. And all this scrap is to keep a particularly dangerous one docile, because otherwise *everyone* is fucked.
Some (hopefully constructive) feedback Would recommend trying to focus more on craft-based feedback that explains and enhances the appreciation the audience will have for the more technical things they are doing. A few too many times during the video it felt like you paused, and started to just explain a joke, and half the time you'd catch yourself realizing you're doing it and try to sidetrack to something. Also a lot of just pausing to gush without really describing much about it. There's a number of times where you do good analysis too, but it feels like the mix is a bit uneven overall. The 'x professional reacts' genre relies on your craftsmanship giving you insight that the average person doesn't, so focusing on more technical details and insight into the elements that aren't obvious to a layman audience is good. Joke explanations are rarely necessary, as good jokes are almost always inherently understandable to the audience, since having your audience not understand the joke makes it fall flat. Still interesting in a lot of parts! If the more complex insightful commentary would be difficult to do in a live reaction video, it might mean there's good space to do a more edited and prepared form of content that also lets you better prepare your statements so it's easier not to forget what you were talking about in the middle of it. Good luck with all future content, and your own comedy music ^^
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Modern Major General: Also parodied by XKCD as 'Every Major's Terrible' (university degrees).
There's also Baby Got Back done in the style of (and set to clips from) Modern Major General.
You're welcome.
9 Days a Week: Hyperbole to go beyond the Beatles.
Toe The Line: There was a line drawn on the ground and you had to put your toe on the line to indicate you were ready to do something. Might be from boxing or other fighting originally. So not just compliance, but available and ready to [insert action here].
Did they do Fall in Line? If so I missed it.
the exact line 'I'm the very model of a modern Major-General' is also used in the musical Hamilton by George Washington
Stupes also previously referenced Modern Major General in Ad Infinitum with the line "The very model of a modern major general store"
SFU Choir did a video for "Every Major's Terrible" that might make a nice reaction
@@Zadwon Alas, it looks like he never held the rank of Major General. It would have been a far better line if he had.
@@DJSchreffler true, he did hold the rank of General though
Thanks for the reaction, man! Glad you enjoyed it!
Was really hoping you'd pick up on the little Ghostbusters reference I snuck in at the end. ;)
'Production makes me feel goooood!'
I missed it and I'm ashamed!
moreso a neil cicierega reference
@@closetclockyoutube that'd only be if they just kept repeating "production production production production..."
@@Insaneian good point
I knew it! I was too afraid to say it if it want true but now its confirmed by THE Stupendium. Lez go!
One double meaning that took me a moment to pick up on: when they say "I am the very model of a model employee/Because I'm used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me", that's model as in "a good example" but also model as in "a small toy version of a real thing", like a model train set.
I take it as also a possible reference to the "Forest Keeper" enemy (or 'Giant' as theyre normally called), as in their bestiary entry it states that theyre very childlike and see humans, not as food, but as toys to be played with (and just like a toddler, putting toys in its mouth is something that happens alot).
"those far bigger than me" can mean both monsters and the company
Remember, the company doesn’t value it’s employees. It values the suits your wearing. Hence why they want them back when one of you dies.
I dont remember that lore from the game, but that does sound like something thatd be in there. Although i do know that that is absolutely the case in the game "Satisfactory", in that game all damage is met with the popup "⚠️ DAMAGE TO FICSIT PROPERTY DETECTED". Also Stupes has made a couple songs on that game in the past, so maybe youre thinking of that?
There could easily be a "damage to company property detected" in lethal company and i just dont remember, but the company seems to value you alive more than they value the suit you wear, as when you die and dont retrieve the body you lose a large sum of money proportional to the amount of money you have saved (so its usually in the dozens or hundreds), meanwhile if you sell your dead body (and thus the suit) to the company you get a measley 5 credits. Even if the body is worthless to the company, that means the suit is worth 5 credits max, meanwhile a living employee is worth hundreds of credits
@@jc_art_ never heard of satisfactory before, may check it out.
And no they never expressly state this information, (that they only care about the suit), but going back to what you said at the end. Yes I did know all that and this is how I thought about it: the company’s base expectation is that all 4 crew members are alive. If you die, and leave the body behind, you are heavily taxed for it, but if you bring the body back, _nothing happens_ . It’s only when you turn in the body that the company cares about the lost employee and gives you a $5 bonus on quota. I don’t think they value you at $5, I think that they give you that as a bare minimum incentive to turn the bodies in so they can strip it of the suit and give it to the next poor chap after washing the blood and such out. This would mean that they do not value you as a human being at all, and just want their suits back. They are company property after all and they probably don’t want to be constantly replacing them. Sure maybe a mending job here and there for bullet wounds and the such, but I’m fairly sure you can even faintly see some cracks on your visor even from day one.
In summery: I think the company wants the suits, they don’t care if you leave it on the ship for them to collect, but they give you a lil bonus for going the extra length to turn them in yourselves.
@@wiggle143 the one issue with the thought of 'turning the suits in when you sell them' is that we know the thing inside the building is just a giant monster, and one of the selling lines tells us exactly why we do the job "Your work keeps the company happy" ('your work' referring to collecting and selling things at that door), so we're not selling things so that they can be reused later, we're selling them to keep whatevers on the other side of that wall happy.
Another thing i just thought about, when you fail quota the ship "fires" you by flushing you and the suits (and all the other furniture, including the rack of empty suits) out into the void of space. Youd think that if they cared about the suits so much that theyd have some other way of "firing" its workers that would let them keep the suits, like, say, flooding the room with a deadly gas, or remotely disabling their oxygen supply (like what supposedly happens to living workers left behind on the moons), so that everything can be reused for future workers.
If you think about what the company is all about, that being sending out workers to collect scrap to "sell" to an ever hungrier company until they cannot keep up with its demands to keep it happy anymore, then the workers seem like the most important part of this process, maybe behind the ship that takes them to and from the company building, as without them the company falls apart, or as dan bull puts it "if it werent for me then theyd be making a loss!"
I imagine the reason why bringing a dead employee back to the ship is important and so heavily incentivized is because its likely that bringing a worker back from the dead is probably cheaper than getting a new employee altogether in this universe. We know that all injuries are repaired at some point after leaving any moon, so its somewhat reasonable to assume that if you bring back a body, it can be healed, but if you dont bring back the body, the employee is canonically replaced with someone else. Its also pretty likely that the gameplay doesnt show everything that actually happens in universe to the employees, as upon loading a new save there are beds present in the ship, implying that the employees do get rest in between work 'days.' Point is, the company *does* value its employees, it just values their work more than they value their lives or their suits or any of the ships furniture, so if they stop working, everything goes and replacements are found. Also you are fined upon bringing back a dead body, its just a very small amount, implying that even if everything else i said is wrong, the employees dying does cost money, which puts inherent value on living employees
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@@NoNameAtAll2 ah my bad
Dan and stupes’s styles FEEL so different to me but when they get together, magic happens.
It's subtle, but there's a homophone in "line/production line" at 27:01, as evidenced by the next words "we all bought the production line," which is ITSELF a double. It's "bought" in its main meaning of 'purchased,' and "bought" as in 'believed'. This makes "line" a reference to a "lie," meaning "we believed the lie," which makes "line/production line" a more obvious homophone of "lyin'/production line," which would ITSELF be a reference to the earlier reference to the 'moving of the goal posts,' aka the changing of the Quota. Oof. My head.
16:46 I interpreted the "nine days a week" thing as they're working enough hours in one week to be equivalent to a 9-day work week.
In feudal Poland it was even "funnier" as peasants had to work f.e. 20 days a week. That meant their women and children had to work too.
I just got it as a fun „It's so much, it's more than 7 days. You would say 8, but because you assume that, I say 9“
Stupes’ vocals were amazing. They keep getting better. Dan’s staccato rapping in between is such a good contrast to the melody.
20:05 Two of my favourite jokes in the song. “Pan” with Stupes cheekily pointing at themselves and “Whoopie” + “Gold bar”. I mean there had to be a pan joke there somewhere, am I right 😊?
Great to see you back with reactions, Ian!
AH! HOW DID I MISS THE "PAN"!?! AMAZING! And thanks!
@@Insaneian I seem to be the Resident Pan pointing out all the pan jokes 😛
I get the "pan" bit I don't understand the "whoopee + gold bar" part
@@j-train13 It’s a Whoopi Goldberg joke
Hi I'm very pedantic, so here I go: The gantry is not the catwalk itself, but the sturdy metal structure it's attached to. That's where you also attach moving parts like a gantry carriage. That's why an overhead crane (like at the harbour) is called a gantry crane! Love your videos!
Thank you! I appreciate the definition clarification, and the love!
Thanks for the info, Very pedantic! :v
16:15 he used the same line in ad infinitum with "the very model of a modern Major general store !"
In the part where it talks about family diaries it shows Dan bull filling out a request to see his kid at his kid’s birthday party for only thirty minutes. The request gets denied though. It says he really needs to see his kid since he hasn’t in years.
A lot of Stupendium's outros tease his next songs. For example, in his Fallout 76 song remake his outro says "Its *Lethal* out there, but Vault Tec is the *Company* you can trust." clearly hinting at the next song being Lethal Company. I have no clue what the next song could be when he references 'pink slime' however. Its unlikely to be a comment about Lethal Company considering there is no pink slime or other similar creatures in the game, so its likely this is referencing... something else. What else? idk, but it's probably the next song.
Slime Rancher, perhaps?
And so we fall remaster, but i doubt that
Oddly specific, but with the new Fallout craze it *might* be a reference to the pink slime force-fed to kids in that one school.
Then again he just recently remastered Vault 76, as you said. Probably too see for another Fallout song.
There is a slime in Lethal Company but it's blue not pink
theres a tiny pain in the but pink slime in terraria and they have lots of other slime colors. could be that but idk
I love your content, especially on Stupes their stuff, because it helps me understand the jokes I'm missing and also understand the song from a more professional perspective
Weeee looove the Compannyyy!!!
The Companyyyy, we love!!!
The Company!
@@chaotic_llama6989 WEEEEEEE LOOOOOOVE THE COOOOMPANYYYYY!!!!
I'm almost certain the company song is a reference to Markiplier's Lethal Company series where they start that bit off in the the first episode and gradually make changes to it throughout the series.
We love the Com...p. 🎶
Company? We love it!
Amazing, Mr.Pauzeman, (I dont mind it. Its actually nice to hear the definition of things I didnt get.) The Stupendium songs are always so amazing and so new every time, I like their songs every time. Doesnt matter what topic they do
A very enjoyable reaction as always! Thank you especially for the 20-minute section in the middle where you completely halted the video to praise my piano skills, you didn't have to 😤🙏 "the backbone of the entire track" "pretty much more important than the lyrics really" "puts everything else in this entire song to shame" all true words but kind nonetheless
I felt it was necessary to highlight.
9:28 I think I found another refrence to a song by Stupendium and Dan Bull. I could be reaching, but the line "Uncertain of the purpose of the service that were slaving over" sounds a lot like "Uncertain of what lurks under the surface of your consciousness" which is a line from Tune into the Madness. A Little Nightmares 2 song made by Stupendium and Dan Bull.
I loved The Production Line so much I made a genius account so i could help with annotating the lyrics, so thank you for reacting to this, I love listening to your reactions and the fact you actually go into the song.
16:56 Well, Beetles reference aside, technically you COULD work “9 days” a week. It’s a 72 hour work week. A work day without lunch is an 8 hour shift. As a shipyard worker, working 12 hour shifts Mon-Fri isn’t unheard of. That puts you at 60 hrs, so throw in 12 more over the weekend and you just worked 9 days in a week.
17:40 Also unfortunately common in the shipyard, but more due to inconvenience of location, trying to get out of the ship to a bathroom, especially for older folks or those with medical issues. Or sometimes they’re just lazy, inconsiderate twats. 🤷♂️
Welcome back! 💚
How did you... Comment 12 hours before the video came out?
@@captainpikle7444 ThatLuckyPanda is a time traveler (I might be too). Just don’t ask anything about lottery numbers. We’re not allowed to tell. 🤫
@@captainpikle7444channel membership or something similar usually is what lets people do that
The piss bottle LONG predates Amazon. When I was helping my dad deliver packages (on his morning job) back in the late 90s, he didn't want to stop at a bathroom to take piss breaks, so he encouraged me to piss in a bottle. Or stop by the roadside and piss on the ground, only partly hidden from view by the truck.
P bottles (and other p containers, such as jars, canteens, cups, etc) have been around for practically as long as people have used handheld containers for storing liquids, yes, but the song was likely directly referencing amazon as it has more recently been in the spotlight as a company where this sort of overworking and unorthodox bathroom solution is very common
@@jc_art_ quite plausible, yes.
@@AlexanderAzarov also later in the song one of stupendiums lines references how they do all this work 'just to sell products on a screen', which doesnt sound like anything in lethal company, that sounds more like its talking about online shopping (Amazon). Honestly this song overall is much more about Amazon than it is about lethal company, as there is no "production line" or factory-like work in the game, but there is that in Amazon. Someone could tell me "they wrote this song about Amazon originally, but repurposed it into a Lethal Company song when that game became popular" and id probably believe them lol
Did you notice 28:06 and for a bit before it, which was referencing Ghostbusters with "production" repeated in the background and "production makes us feel good!"
I DIDN'T
AAAAHHHH!
Yay!! He’s back! Every since Stupes released this song I’ve been waiting for Ian to cover it
One sort of meaning im suprised you didnt mention was they were saying that “We’re discounted, under the counter, half off” the first and last being discounts, but “Under the counter” means your being paid money that isnt on the books, its not official and your not taxed meaning their paying “Under the counter” (Less then legally for a contract company) for the labor and “in stocks at the gallows for the price drop” their comparing the prices dropping lower (cus their lives to the company dont mean much) to being on a death sentence about to be hanged and killed with the “Gallows” being what the last stop for death sentences was where you were hanged
There was some smaller changes throughout the two songs as well, a bit harder to notice especially if you’re just making sure it’s the end that changed but stupes was the one in the ship giving commands in his song the full time but in the dan bull version there was one time where Dan was giving instructions instead of
Speaking of endings, I think it got missed that the reason Stupes attacked Dan with the mask was because the mask is worn by dopplegangers in the game, so Dan came back to the company with a doppleganger instead of his partner.
@@DrayGon777 I don’t think Ian knows that much about the game to realize it was a doppelgänger attack that’s why it wasn’t brought up
Very topical song with a very topical analysis. I like how you also comment on the production and the costumes not just the music and lyrics, there’s so many little details I missed in my first watch through
Favorite bit is the “gift box, mine, no MINE, NO *MINE* “
Lethal company has hidden, but quite dark, lore, that boss is essentially monster, that we supposed to feed scrap to keep it at bay, otherwise it will break free.
Ian can I just say I don't think I've ever seen another channel that's nailed the intro down to be as smooth and flowy as you have
Honestly I like that you have long break downs of the songs, and considering how much The Stupendium and even Dan Bull can fit into 7 minutes it is definitely worth taking the time to break down.
Wel-come-back!
So glad to see you again. This song slapped!
I think the point of 9 days a week is that they work all 7 days a week plus enough overtime to make up an extra 2 days worth of working
Learnt this one from a podcast about words sometime last week: "toe the line" comes from the UK navy in the 1800s or so, when the sailors lined on deck for inspection, along one of the seams of the deck floor, barefoot (because especially topmen who worked on the rigging of sailboats went barefoot). It generally means to follow commands, similar to "fall in line".
Flawless introduction, Ian! Not just the incredible Weird Al part, but everything you said before pressing Play. Overall great execution.
What's even sadder is that the dance they're doing looks like pressing buttons and pulling levers. Just more work disguised as play.
I absolutely need that shirt! Also, how did the ‘mine’ pun go right over my head? Also-also, I feel like the ‘9 days a week’ thing was just an exaggeration on how long a week of work feels.
13:45 I love the unintentional rhyme there :D
Glad to see you back! Hope your time off was restful. It feels like it’s been a rich month for comedy music!
As someone who doesnt always parse jokes very well, its really nice to have ya back for this! Hope the break did good for ya ^,^
I really wasn't expecting this from you, but it's a very pleasant surprise
When i saw how long the song was I was expecting this video to be like 1 1/2 hours long
In the title of the vid it says "Stupendum" instead of "Stupendium"! which is rather funny, 'cause it is more similar to the word "stupendous" than his actual name! Apart from that, a great vid! Love your reactions! I send good vibes from Spain! Have a great day Ian!
Oh thanks! I'll fix that!
There is a teleportation machine that you can purchase in the game…now all we need is bread!
A bucket too
@@unknown-dc2qo dear god
@@1IteleportedBread theres more
@@unknown-dc2qo NO!
16:44 I think the intent is that he's working hours equivalent to nine work days :') Which, considering a traditional weekday at 100% employment is 48 hours spread over six days... Yeah, those are about 12 hours days rather than the traditional 8.
Always happy to see another Insane Ian video in my notifications
i was waiting for this 👀
edit: and yes anytime both dan and stupendium get on a track ITS FIRE 🔥🔥🔥
ironclad is a type of boat usually made of the things in the line befoure, but its also an adjective meaning inescapable,
connecting to the sealed your fate line
25-to life is also a reference to prison labour, as a popular fan theory is that you are prison workers.
stupes also has sung a modern major general section in ad infinitum,
drop shipping is a practice of having an online shop that takes orders from people and then orders it from another company, leeching money from you,
in stock at the gallows for the price drop- stocks were a medeival punishment i think, then gallows and price drop are alluding to what happens when you fail to meet quota, even though the method is different . dark humour
if this is the minimum level of comedy you react to, then i think the ribbon by stupes about alan wake 2 definitely counts as main channel worthy, tons of puns about writing.
Welcome back man,
Been watching for this one, i absolutely love the production line!
Have a great day 👋
It's great to see you back to reacting. Hope you're doing good
If you want a literal example of 'The workers are the product', think about temp agencies.
I wrote a song just about that! Check out "It's Hard Out Here for a Temp" here on my channel!
27:36 you kind of paused at an awkward point, but I just wanted to note that I love the little “production makes me feel good” in the background.
Also happens at 28:05.
Welcome back thank you for the video
Love the Super stupendous Stupendous shirts with all Of the stylish supreme styles
Welcome back! If you haven't already, you may be amused if you go back and fully read the denied request during the rota screen bit. Any theory you're open to offering in regards to the mention of pink slime at the end? And did you try catch sight of the giant spider legs in one of the scenes?
Thanks! No theories, and thankfully I missed the spiders legs....yuck.
He returns! That's *insane* !
Oh boy! Yet another anti evil corporation song
Vaugly disguised as a song about a specific game in wich the song leans even further into the evil corporation themes then the game itself does. My favorite genre of stupendium songs
Hey mate! Great reaction. Love your content.
9:48 It actually says more or less exactly that in the description lol
I immediately noticed this when Ian said it because he literally said what the description says word for word
*nods in approval* … you’re alright insane Ian, you’re alright.
Ok. About the prison sentence thing. Im pretty sure its also a reference to how prisoners are treated like slaves in america, and are put to work, literally manual labor. They literally mine shit.
On another note, just like workers need right. Prisoners do too. You could be put in jail for something, and then your judge hearing can be pushed back, indefinitely maybe, so you now have to do back-breaking work for who-knows how long(you sure don't) because the system wants more bodies to work.
Im glad you've seen the song (nice video btw)
The way that you make a relatively short video longer reminds me of the way I watch tutorials, because I watch a small section of the tutorial and then pause it so I can do the thing. I then unpause it and repeat so sometimes a ten minute tutorial can take me about 20 minutes to do the thing in the tutorial
Woah I love your shirt!
Welcome Back!
If you read this Ian/any body else with comedic music experience, might I have some advice? It’s okay, if not.
By trade, I am a playwright. I write plays for theatre and my next project I would like to write a musical, preferably with some comedy music! I’ve written my own music before but never comedy music. So… could I ask for some advice when writing? How do you usually going about starting/writing lyrics? Are there any favourite conventions used in the genre?
Feel free to skip on by this too, though.
Hi!
Writing comedy music *does* have certain conventions, especially when in the context of a play. There are several styles and methods to writing comedy songs. Unfortunately, it's not something I can usually go over in a comment section on a video 😅 Reach out to me on social media, and I'll see if I can't help you there.
What I will recommend here is: listen to songs from funny musicals. Wedding Singer, Beetlejuice, Book of Mormon, Avenue Q...I just saw Death Becomes Her which was hysterical. Listen to their soundtracks if you can and focus on the structure; how they punctuate the song with jokes, how many they include, stuff like that. Just to give yourself an idea of how others have done it, and see if any of those methods work for you!
@@Insaneian Thank you so much! I’ll definitely give those soundtracks a listen so I have a good clue of where to start. Thank you and I can’t wait to get started! I’ll keep you (if I remember) updated. I can’t say this enough, thank you!!!
Im pretty sure the engine lines a metaphor for not thinking about how the products you consume are made.
Well, considering that Stupes is converted by that SCP mask, you could say they are dead in both versions
17:51 without live savings seems like reference to ridiculous prices of privatised healthcare system in US
I love the new intro your doing
Fun Fact!
If you’re desperate for cash you can sell the bodies of your co-op players.
For a grand total of $5.
The cheapest item you can sell.
Even items you buy sell for at least $10.
So you are literally worth less than any of the scrap you can find.
Edit: Also a little sad you missed the pop up of some asked for time off (at least half an hour) so they can see their son on their 18th birthday as they’ve never met them before.
They got denied.
The Tentacle grabbing them both can happen if you ring the bell too much.
"Dying to give" has a different meaning if you play the game as people kill other players for an extra 15p for the Quota
Woot! New reaction
* Throws Like cookie at the algorithm * Just started, and this song is a CHONKER. I'm so curious about Ian's commentary! And legit surprised the reaction is this short. XD
In terms of comedy music, the songs from Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss have some great moments and excellent comedy, not to mention character-building and lyrics that propel a story forward, so it would be interesting to see you try to digest all of that at once. I'd start with Helluva Boss because the story isn't as overarching as its sister series and thus doesn't need as much context for the music, but both are truly an experience.
This song is SO good,,, every time Danbull and Stupendium collab, they just spit out the hottest new Jazz single; I know it's Jazz because my voice is strictly built for Jazz and I can actually follow along with the lyrics well enough in this song rather than their other works, cause, as I said, my voice is built for Jazz, not Rap- /Lh either way I've been listening to this song on repeat for days.
I love how there's almost no references to the sci-fi elements of Lethal Company in the lyrics. Just rub in that this isn't REALLY about the game.
I always anxiously await a long reaction like these to Stupes' songs from you! Also, are you going to react to Freshy Kanal's new rap battle "Cupid Vs The leprechaun Vs The Easter Bunny"?
Thanks! And it's on my list!
Hell yeah.
Fairly certainly the 9 days thing means they are doing essentially 2 extra days of work within there 7 days without additional pay
Apparently. In some countries, you will work 9 days a week.
We love corporate greed
THAT SHIRT I NEED THAT SHIRT
Edit: oh the 9 days are hyperbole btw
He's back!
My father, however...
have you heard of jocat's song about the dnd races? if not you could react to it :)
I thought you missed it but nvm ur back
Hey question when will you react to Devide! The gospel of greiger
@@nathanielboynton4561 next week!
@@Insaneian okay
....why is this the first time that i've noticed that Stupendium's logos have one eyebrow upside down?!?
It's not upside down so much as it's just raised, a la Spock on Star Trek, or The Rock's "The People's Eyebrow"
I think I caught a few Ghostbuster references at 5:55 and 6:20 in the video. :D
Oh crap, I missed references to my favorite movie?!?!
Maximum sinister capitalism!
hey where did you get that shirt I Need it
I got it from Stupes' merch store over a year ago. I don't think they make it anymore, tho.
Wait a minute did you say the pirates of Penzance (pen-zan-ce)
Yup!
I prefer not to get patron because I'm trying to teach myself patience. So far it working on certain things.
Where did you get the shirt? I tried looking for it but I couldn’t find it. Do you have a link?
It's a shirt Stupes offered a few years ago, but only for a limited time. Sorry.
@@Insaneian I didn’t know it was limited time! I would’ve bought it when I had the chance…
Whats the shirt called?
I don't remember, but it's not available anymore
@Insaneian dam, sucks for me I guess...anyway the video was great. I've actually been waiting for this for a while. 👍
I also think Stupes is transitioning their logo. Perhaps they don't want to be so bound to their current facial hair, image/brand-wise?
That's my theory as well.
WHERE IS THE STUPENDIUM SHIRT
Sadly, it's from a few years ago and no longer available.
@@Insaneian 😭
this song has been stuck in my head since i first listened to it, i had just got it out.
how dare you
No way Niko winspht??
@thumtak_ Yes, it is I, niko winspht
Great reaction as always!
You should react to Cupid vs Leprechaun Vs Easter Bunny by freshy kanal. If it boosts the odds I should tell you that Stupendium is in it. Have a great day!
@@IamTexas9766 thanks! And it's on my list! I'll hopefully get to it soon!
@@Insaneian No need to rush, I'll look forward to it :)
While this song is a certified banger, I do feel like it misses part of the point of the game, which is that the company *isn't* making profits. They're making monsters. And all this scrap is to keep a particularly dangerous one docile, because otherwise *everyone* is fucked.
Some (hopefully constructive) feedback
Would recommend trying to focus more on craft-based feedback that explains and enhances the appreciation the audience will have for the more technical things they are doing. A few too many times during the video it felt like you paused, and started to just explain a joke, and half the time you'd catch yourself realizing you're doing it and try to sidetrack to something. Also a lot of just pausing to gush without really describing much about it. There's a number of times where you do good analysis too, but it feels like the mix is a bit uneven overall. The 'x professional reacts' genre relies on your craftsmanship giving you insight that the average person doesn't, so focusing on more technical details and insight into the elements that aren't obvious to a layman audience is good. Joke explanations are rarely necessary, as good jokes are almost always inherently understandable to the audience, since having your audience not understand the joke makes it fall flat.
Still interesting in a lot of parts! If the more complex insightful commentary would be difficult to do in a live reaction video, it might mean there's good space to do a more edited and prepared form of content that also lets you better prepare your statements so it's easier not to forget what you were talking about in the middle of it.
Good luck with all future content, and your own comedy music ^^
The most anti-capitalist Stupendium song yet
Pretty sure 9 days a week is also hyperbole.
That's what I said! Or at least implied...
@@Insaneian Ah I thought you meant it was before but didn't add that this one was too. Either way, thank you for the analysis, I do enjoy these.