The delivery of the line "But none of it deters Grover. He brought the Glock with him," is simultaneously one of the most hilarious and badass lines I've ever heard.
I love how it just assumes we know. Not he brought any ol glock with him. He brought THE Glock with him. (THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE AND CHEERING FROM THE AUDIENCE.)
Someone out there not only took the time to write a fanfiction about a sesame street character trying to kill god, but also made every line in it hit as hard as humanly conceivable. Humanity was not a mistake
@@Poindexterfredrickmistakes & Perfection are synonyms in the eyes of eternity. A symphony of woe & agony yet also Triumph & Joy. To deem the only thing that can fathom that symphony anything but its whole is foolish.
@@pixellordm8780 humans are not perfect by any means. infact, we are filled with flaws. our bone structure is so fucked up its a wonder we can walk at all. and dont get me started on child birth
@@ege8240 never said humans were without flaw, there are boons & issues, that’s what i said. We are simply the only living thing that can grasp the world around us & perceive it all.
Oh my gosh, someone brought up the difference and said, "Wow they really just added those steps to mess with him" but I had not inkling that it may be because he sinned that many times more.
@@xtfgrw another funny interpretation. Kermit said the total and then 30 seconds later narrator says its about 200 less. Just a joke on the fact that we already knew the exact amount so theres no point in saying the wrong estimate. *OR" my preferred interpretation. That kermit is in fact an embodiment of god. There to watch him struggle from the very beggining. That climbing the stairs wasn't necessary to kill god if only grover had realized before his journey. And that as you said, grover had added 200 steps of his own through this whole escapade through the sins he commits in pugatory. But being that all instances of time had already occurred kermit tells him exactly how it will end before it began and grover is still cluessless blinded by rage. And that in grover's quest to kill god he made it harder on himself as is the very nature of taking on an impossible task. God won't let grover kill himself, grover is trapped in an endless eternity.
@@christopherthompson5400"kermit is an embodiment of god" kermit at the beginning: "you think yours is long, wait till youve seen mine" i dont like the implications here
Well Kermit actually could depending on how these work in the afterlife. As he has a staircase of his own which means he has to have sins. So not likely entirety of God if he is God. But he could possibly be Jesus as all sins were given to Jesus on the cross meaning his staircase would the largest by far and would explain how Gover has his own staircase and mentions no other and how Kermit is right there as he appears and gets up before Grover and calls him his child. Additionally God has extreme luminosity meaning that glow could be the Father and that puddle showed him because the Holy Spirit is inside everyone. So really to kill God in the first place you need to kill everyone but die and kill the last person in a way so that you don’t immediately get sent to Hell for suicide, kill the Son which is entirely different problem which solved itself in the story, and kill the Father which probably is the hardest because you have to climb a stair for every sin which includes the murder and also probably try not to go blind while doing all of this. Here is thing tho Grover never died as he entered through a portal so he could never ever possibly kill god as he didn’t die.
I dunno, the way he spoke leads me to believe he was a former sinner turned angel, he climbed his own steps duitifully and confessed his regrets, and was given a second chance in the afterlife.
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference." is such mind-fuckingly good writing for a shitpost.
Without a thought I will see everything eternal Forget that once we were just dust from heavens far As we were forged, we shall return perhaps someday I will remember us and wonder who we were - VNV Nation, "Further"
I love how Grover actually commiting 1,048,376 sins but getting 1,048,576 steps implies that either God or Kermit threw in an extra 200 steps just to fuck with him
So basically, Grover: - Commited over a million sins - Stole a gun - Snuck his gun into the afterlife - Climbed up to all 1 million steps to Heaven in under a week - Was sent back to the bottom of the stairs for doing that thing where you walk up 2 steps at a time because you think you’re cool - Climbed up to Heaven again - Threw Kermit into Hell - Became God - Still tried to kill God even though now he was God - Was flung down to Hell by God for trying to kill God after becoming God Is that right?
@@Dante.-sorry, but you gotta see the body to make sure. If God weren't a bitch ass, he'd climb up those stairs instead of doing a Greek fable fake out
I am in awe of this story. The drama, the growth; a tragic heroes' downfall as he realizes all he ever wanted, wasnt what he ever wanted at all. Truly a saga to rival Gilgamesh of Beowulf, you've outdone yourself Sir.
Reminds me of that game where you start in a prison with monsters lurking but if you manage to escape it's centuries of an endless desert because it's based on some form of afterlife hell. It has that indie click to continue vibe and I think I watched Markiplier play it probably a decade from now 😂
@@iamcerealman102 I think I remember that game! Do you refer to "Antumbra"? I'm pretty sure there's a section like that in the game when he played it. His video was called "How to go insane | antumbra" if you want to look at it. Wow, this comment made me remember of such an old video, although I'm glad people remember it too.
By making it his mission to kill God, to the point of acquiring a weapon and smuggling it to the Pearly Gates, Grover shows disdain to the concept of divinity and has already killed Him on his mind. By steeling himself enough to go up the Stairway to Heaven not once, but SEVERAL times, no matter how infinitely great or infinitesimally small were the steps he had to take, and ending it by making Kermit take the entire brunt of his sins, Grover has outwilled God. By defying the all-binding, all-blinding light of He Who Comes From Above with the sheer strength of his purpose, demanding that He showed Himself before him, Grover had defeated God -- The very concept of God purpose-wise. Three times had he killed The Father, both in mind, body and spirit. All without firing a single bullet. He had already shown that The Holy Trinity was below him, but Grover still groveled on his spite and foolishness to prove a point, that he would kill God by means as mundane and low as the treason of His own children. The rejection of the gift of Life, the sin against brethren and the audacity to challenge His judgement of life and death: A single tool of murder, the Glock. Little did Grover know, however, that God has already shown enough mercy. As He once did with Lucifer, his rebellious legion of angels and with several iterations of Mankind, He'd reciprocate his wicked, unfathomable purpose. And so, God broke Grover beyond what anyone would expect. He broke Grover's purpose by putting the Damocles above his head, "rewarding" him with power over everything and promptly letting it crush his murderous intent. He broke Grover's body by weighing his mortality against the infinity of the sins of His creation on an endless, relentless flight of stairs. Finally, He broke Grover's mind by making him experience his insignificance when compared to the entire span of Creation, so that when Time and Space have no more meaning than a speck of dust, his mortal brain would wither. Three times had He killed The Muppet by condemning him to sempiternal Death, unending Failure and overwhelming Oblivion. Grover would forever experience everyone's pains and sins, the existence and decay of everything, and everywhere and everywhen that which has been, that is and forever will be. This was God's will. This was Grover's ultimate fall. EDIT: Wow. Fellas... You don't know *how many people* asked if I have any other works in this comment thread. Not that I'm complaining, much on the contrary, it has inspired me to try and start with something. Bad news: I don't have any other works _yet._ This here comment is was my first public coin toss, a personal interpretation. I didn't really expect it to have *that much* traction. Again...! Not complaining. Good news: Although I admit I'm not very versed on literature or any such artistic ventures, the fact that this comment brought so much joy to many and, through their enjoyment and kind words, to myself, I reckon it's time to pursue this path. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.
BertStrip story writers are truly a special kind of Internet creators. They are able to create wonderful written insane stories, ranging from both comedy and tragedy, while having to use Muppet characters and screenshots as part of the story. Stuff like this genuinely takes talent, and blurs the line between art and s#$tpost.
You don't have to censor the word "shitpost" The youtube overlords are master ballbusters but they have SOME and I do mean some limit to their pettiness.
@@highpotencyiron4529 The funny thing is, the reason I censored it actually wasn't because of UA-cam's stupidity, it was because I just didn't feel comfortable writing a curse word. I know that sounds ridiculous, especially since the video I'm praising isn't exactly the cleanest video on the site, and I would only be writing it down instead of actually saying it, but unless it's from a quote or title, writing curse words just doesn't feel right to me. I even tried to thing of other words to substitute the aforementioned word, but after some thinking, the word really was the best one to use in the sentence, so I used a censored version of it.
Truly a work of art. The story grabbed me by the lapels from the very beginning, and wouldn't let go until its spine-tingling narrative drew its last word.
The perfect balance of jokes and existentialism. You made me both giggle like a schoolgirl and feel the same emotions as an animal taking its last breath as the jaws of a predator clench its trachea shut. Beautiful.
In a manner of speaking... did he not? In assuming the mind of God, did Grover not determine the singular way to dispose of Him? That is to say... did Grover cast himself down to suffer the Eternal Curbstomp to save man from the eternal cycle of apotheosis and deicide? Let us not so hastily assume Grover's failure. Only in death, can He rise above all.
A literal stairway to heaven, with its length and difficulty adjusted to match your sins, is actually a decent concept for purgatory. Redemption is possible, but proportionally challenging.
“Grover saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference”. No way a shitpost delivers one of the hardest lines I’ve heard
@@Yu-Gi-Oh36508 i can attempt to explain: imagine, if you will, the birth of the universe as the "big bang". a massive explosion of so many energies, and so much of them, and in its terrifying wake, it leaves life. the heat-death of the universe is expected to be just as big a bang, but will leave no life in its wake-- but from far, far away, (let's say a Divine Creator's point of view), the life that first bang creates is so much smaller than something all-powerful, all-seeing, and all-knowing. it's so small, he can't see it. he can only see the explosions, the chaos, not what it will leave when the explosion has ended.
Just watch _history of the entire world, I guess_ looped on repeat long enough for Your mind to start blending the beginning & the end in Your perception. You will get it eventually ;)
@@basedokadaizoAnother take: the birth and the death of the universe are just the same thing. The beginning is the end. The end is the beginning. Grover cannot tell if he has witnessed life's birth or life's death.
I like how memes went from goofy ms paint doodles and a baby with his fist up to a guy voice acting an existential tale of Grover killing and becoming god
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death, and he could not tell the difference" Such a raw fucking line I did not expect to find in this video
I love the implication that Kermit had also killed God. He wasn't the first two. By saying his staircase was much longer than Grover's implies his staircase has infinite sins as well for usurping God before. And just like Kermit, Grover usurped God and had to pay his own infinite torture. No wonder Kermit was already at the top.
@@AndresHernandez-zw3ugGrover usurped God and became God. But he didn't know it. He willed himself to kill "God", which is himself. And so, Grover inadvertently did a cosmic suicide, and cast himself out of Creation
no. Grover is not human like we are, so our philosophy of stoicism does not apply in Grover's case. Grover isn't driven by happiness, Grover is driven by rage and resentment. happiness isn't what Grover is after, he's on a singular mission. and his will to push forward will not cease until that mission is accomplished.
@@env0xanger and rage can only exist within the context of an attempt to attain happiness, whatever definition of happiness that individual assigns. Without this context anger and rage serve no purpose for the individual having that subjective experience and they simply would not exist. They are behaviors dependent upon the causal force of a desire for subjective happiness. Grover believes killing god will make him happy, because he believes it is impossible for him to be happy having not killed god. His conclusion is an attempt to understand his own desire for happiness via process of elimination, if he cannot be happy with god then he can only be happy without him.
The ending feels oddly calming to me, though it leaves to different interpretations (which is good). But I guess it depends on how you interpret difference becoming null. Either you accept it as something you can't change or you fight against it, even if the struggle is futile. And neither option is necessarily a bad one.
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference." WHY DID SUCH A COLD ASS LINE COME OUT OF A FUCKING MUPPETS MEME
For eternity, Grover knew he would be stuck, watching the cycle for longer then eternity, for he was older then eternity itself, trapped in the shifting tides of the universe, knowing time had left him behind, forced to watch it start, and end, only to start again, for all of existence.
I think it took this story for me to truly understand what infinity is. What forever would be. “A second… a million years… all the same” is fucking chilling
I like the idea that Kermit had committed his own sins, and in his own cycle of torment went to kill God, only to become what he went to destroy. So he planned the entire thing as a test to condemn Grover to the same fate, only for Grover to condemn himself to eternal death in the end, having become his own God. 10/10 to this existentialist masterpiece!🤯
You know, in a way this plays out like a Seasme street episode in a way that you can take multiple lessons and messages out of it. That's the true beauty in this genius piece of literature.
The narration has such strange wording and tense that it makes me feel like I'm reading translated three times over ancient languages in fragments of a single myth. Like the part where he becomes God and Kermit was God but then when he is thrown down the steps by God, it is confusing and breaks the flow, but it kind of works I guess.
To me, God is omnipresent. God is both Kermit and Grover. Though, at that time Grover still thinks he's a mortal. Therefore, he could still see the difference between him and himself. In a world, where time doesn't exist, there is no past or future, and the present erases both. Existence works the same way. There is no Grover or Kermit, there is only God, for all eternity.
In 5th grade me and my friends wrote a story about Grover working with a race of inter dimensional oranges with legs to get rid of Elmo and achieve ultimate power by finding a weird octahedron is space. I’m adding this to the lore.
@@JavierEmmanuelAlvarez ok We made a google slides point and click called Elmo's woodland survival where Elmo (aged up) is on a plane to Alaska (parodying the book hatchet) when his plane mysteriously crashes. Grover is secretly doing rituals somewhere in the forest bc he just hates Elmo for some reason, teams up with orang from the bagel boy surreal memes series, and then in a second game, you meet stonks guy and an even older Elmo who has been living in the woods for 3 years and go on a quest to steal a magical octahedron that gives you godlike powers from Grover and Orang, who also set Elmo's shelter on fire and send a hydra with the face of my friend Sonny to kill you. We never finished the series because we kind of started drifting away but it was amazing.
It’s a book about Grover and he’s scared because the title of the book says there’s a monster at the end, so he tries to stop you turning the pages and then it turns out that he was the monster at the end all along
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference." Is such a fucking good line, for a shipped about Grover from fucking SESAME STREET trying to kill god. All the writing is incredible!
Props on you on the music selection, the sound design is 50% of the reason this video is so great. The other 50% is the script and the other 50% is all the VA
Pretty much the fact that grover has only one mission kill god but kermit stops him by pushing him . he doesnt stop right there he climbs again and his ambition keeps growing every Day he has to climb but he doesnt realize hes own mortality . Thats what grows on me and what makes it deep for me showing me what i struggle to write something similar but i can find the words for describing it , i know its a meme but a incredibly well writen one. 😅
I think this video poses an interesting question that I’ve never thought about before, “To an immortal being, does time even exist?” I think that it depends on whether or not the universe resets. An immortal being could count down the seconds to when the sun explodes, but if the universe were to reset, I doubt the being would care to. An immortal being could sit around for someone’s entire lifetime and watch them die, and the being would still be able to live a long enough time to forget that even occurred. That’s what makes us so pathetic I think, our reliance on time. We time out our day to ensure that we make it to work on time or that we have enough time to take the kids to band practice, or when will we expire. We have to waste our precious time doing things we don’t want to do in a life that we did not ask to be thrust into. Let’s hope that if the universe does reset, we do it right next time. I’ll be seeing you again soon.
I think the essence of immortality is immutability. Consider a toilet that, by some freak accident, has been flung into intergalactic space. It's moving at a constant rate, there's nothing around; no lights, no gravitational forces--nothing. Physically speaking, it is impossible to say (based purely on the toilet as an inertial reference frame) whether it's been there for twelve seconds or a million years. It doesn't change at all, so figuring out the change--which is the essence of time--is like dividing by zero. Regardless of the world around it, that toilet exists in a perfect eternal space. I don't think it's possible to be alive and immortal at the same time. Living means to change constantly. Even if you could make yourself functionally undying, your self and the world around you would always be shifting. You'd eventually become something totally dissimilar to how you started, which is the death of the idea of you--what some would call a soul. To live authentically means to accept that flow, come what may.
Saint Agustine in his philosophical writings on God stated that evil is not the opposite but the absence of God, if God was the sun, evil would be shadows were light cannot reach. So by performing the ultimate act of rejection, to seek to kill God himself (something even lucifer himself would not commit), he has been swallowed by the void itself, subjected to an eternal punishment with no hope of redemption as God's light will never reach him.
@@WarhammerFan2002 Yes, but that's not proof of God's vulnerability, just of Lucifer's arrogance and wrath, starting a war he knew was unwinnable, one with nothing to gain, and everything to lose
There will be people in the year 450307 ad who will find this particular clip on a USB drive, built a device to decipher it and believe this is real. Im going to make sure they do.
this is one of the most masterful pieces of art I have ever seen, I wanted to watch it a few more times since I have seen it when it was first released. Truly spectacular.
The idea of each of your sins being a step you have to climb to get to heaven is actually a decently good idea for a fair way to determine how to get into heaven
IMMEDIATELY going in my collection of things I save to watch while stoned after literally 2 seconds according to the timestamp. This is the good shit. I live for this.
What was the thought that pushed you to make this? Did you wake up and think "Grover really would want to pop a cap in God?" Did you see a blue jay's egg fall out of it's nest, shatter on the ground and think "It's all truly futile?" Did you hear "Elmo's got a gun" and think "I can top that?"
Philosophically, I see it as a reflection of mandkind's hubris. We lived off of the land, and when that wasn't enough, we set our sights on the stars. But those weren't enough. We had to see the universe. To know how it works, what makes it tick. When we grew tired of this limited existence, we wanted to transcend death. Science and everything we had learnt about the universe was for nothing. We saw past the fabric of reality and revealed the real innards. The universe was a test subject. A sick twist of fate. God's messengers were just his attempt at balancing the elaborate equation. Then, Grover woke up. The collective idea of a character from a children's show manifested itself out of the pure disgust, despair, and hatred shared by humanity, memes a tool of their will. He had a singular goal, no matter the obstacle: Kill God.
This Bertstrip is in line with Sartre and Kierkegaard. Grover revolts against the absurd but is punished by the real but uncaring God that watches humans struggle for naught. This is a universe far worse than one without any God. It is a cosmic terror.
The delivery of the line "But none of it deters Grover. He brought the Glock with him," is simultaneously one of the most hilarious and badass lines I've ever heard.
"He would be the Muppet to kill God," is up there too.
He only had one to defend himself from Elmo, to be fair. That, and if the bastards who robbed Hooper's ever came back for more...
"Now who wants the first spanking?" -Hoss Delgado
I love how it just assumes we know. Not he brought any ol glock with him. He brought THE Glock with him. (THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE AND CHEERING FROM THE AUDIENCE.)
@striker8961
Brilliant 👏 🤧
“At this point he wondered if god was that frog he just shoved down the stairs” will never not be the funniest fucking sentence I’ve heard
Adding it to the list. And literally every other line is added to the _other_ list(that one list of insanely raw lines from weird sources)
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The story shoulda ended there
Yeah that part killed me
Someone out there not only took the time to write a fanfiction about a sesame street character trying to kill god, but also made every line in it hit as hard as humanly conceivable. Humanity was not a mistake
It was a mistake for the most part, but not this magnificent masterpiece of storytelling lol
@@Poindexterfredrickmistakes & Perfection are synonyms in the eyes of eternity. A symphony of woe & agony yet also Triumph & Joy. To deem the only thing that can fathom that symphony anything but its whole is foolish.
Well even humanity’s fûçk ûpš are hilarious, even if their only use lies in their entertainment value.
@@pixellordm8780 humans are not perfect by any means. infact, we are filled with flaws. our bone structure is so fucked up its a wonder we can walk at all. and dont get me started on child birth
@@ege8240 never said humans were without flaw, there are boons & issues, that’s what i said. We are simply the only living thing that can grasp the world around us & perceive it all.
i like how grover managed to commit 200 more sins in his initial journey to the top
Oh my gosh, someone brought up the difference and said, "Wow they really just added those steps to mess with him" but I had not inkling that it may be because he sinned that many times more.
@@xtfgrw another funny interpretation. Kermit said the total and then 30 seconds later narrator says its about 200 less. Just a joke on the fact that we already knew the exact amount so theres no point in saying the wrong estimate.
*OR" my preferred interpretation. That kermit is in fact an embodiment of god. There to watch him struggle from the very beggining. That climbing the stairs wasn't necessary to kill god if only grover had realized before his journey. And that as you said, grover had added 200 steps of his own through this whole escapade through the sins he commits in pugatory. But being that all instances of time had already occurred kermit tells him exactly how it will end before it began and grover is still cluessless blinded by rage. And that in grover's quest to kill god he made it harder on himself as is the very nature of taking on an impossible task. God won't let grover kill himself, grover is trapped in an endless eternity.
There is a version of Grover who kills himself because he thinks he is too immoral
@@christopherthompson5400"kermit is an embodiment of god"
kermit at the beginning: "you think yours is long, wait till youve seen mine" i dont like the implications here
@fravonzonbonn I on the other hand really like the implication there
Ok but in all honestly, that part of Grover falling down to all eternity and not being able to die is the scariest thing i have ever heard
"Eventually, Grover stopped thinking."
Go read or listen to "I have no mouth and I must scream" if you want an even more intense version of that feeling
Can't wait till you discover hell
Nah, it's edgy af and cringe
@@dedmed8139 your pfp is cringe bro
Jury’s still out on whether or not Kermit was actually God
Well Kermit actually could depending on how these work in the afterlife. As he has a staircase of his own which means he has to have sins. So not likely entirety of God if he is God. But he could possibly be Jesus as all sins were given to Jesus on the cross meaning his staircase would the largest by far and would explain how Gover has his own staircase and mentions no other and how Kermit is right there as he appears and gets up before Grover and calls him his child.
Additionally God has extreme luminosity meaning that glow could be the Father and that puddle showed him because the Holy Spirit is inside everyone.
So really to kill God in the first place you need to kill everyone but die and kill the last person in a way so that you don’t immediately get sent to Hell for suicide, kill the Son which is entirely different problem which solved itself in the story, and kill the Father which probably is the hardest because you have to climb a stair for every sin which includes the murder and also probably try not to go blind while doing all of this.
Here is thing tho Grover never died as he entered through a portal so he could never ever possibly kill god as he didn’t die.
Trinity
@@user-pr6ed3ri2kthe holy Trinity of Kermit, Kermitson, and Holy Kermit 😂
🤣🤣🤣 don’t forget jiminy fûçkêñ cricket lmao
I dunno, the way he spoke leads me to believe he was a former sinner turned angel, he climbed his own steps duitifully and confessed his regrets, and was given a second chance in the afterlife.
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference." is such mind-fuckingly good writing for a shitpost.
This is such a fucking masterpiece
Without a thought I will see everything eternal
Forget that once we were just dust from heavens far
As we were forged, we shall return perhaps someday
I will remember us and wonder who we were
- VNV Nation, "Further"
That final line was devastating.
holy shit, I randomly read this as it was said in the video, gave me a chill
@@Eidako Damn that goes hard
“You think yours is long? Wait until you’ve seen mine.” is the most significant line in the entire video
...this implies kermit is jesus
as jesus took on the sins of every mortal in existance
and also he called gover "my child"
“He could not tell the difference ” carries more weight
@zenityracer75wait were still talking about stairs right?
Kermit is god, and he created the greatest sin. Life itself. Sin's birthplace.
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I love how Grover actually commiting 1,048,376 sins but getting 1,048,576 steps implies that either God or Kermit threw in an extra 200 steps just to fuck with him
Plot twist: Grover actually decided to climb Kermit's staircase instead of his own...which is why Kermit was at the top! :O
I Believe that the 200 were added for Grover skipping a step as in he tried to cheat death and was punished for it.
he committed 200 sins on his way up
He wanted his sins to be a power of 2 so he did
not all sin is equal
This shitpost hit harder than the stairs
A moment of silence to everyone who never finds this video
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Amen
I appreciate that
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So basically, Grover:
- Commited over a million sins
- Stole a gun
- Snuck his gun into the afterlife
- Climbed up to all 1 million steps to Heaven in under a week
- Was sent back to the bottom of the stairs for doing that thing where you walk up 2 steps at a time because you think you’re cool
- Climbed up to Heaven again
- Threw Kermit into Hell
- Became God
- Still tried to kill God even though now he was God
- Was flung down to Hell by God for trying to kill God after becoming God
Is that right?
He gave him his personal heaven, he forgave him and gave him exactly what he wanted
He then cast him down for wanting more
@@Dante.-sorry, but you gotta see the body to make sure. If God weren't a bitch ass, he'd climb up those stairs instead of doing a Greek fable fake out
I think those are different endings
Basically the plot of "Preacher"
But if Grover had basically attained omnipotence, how was he still fallible?
I am in awe of this story. The drama, the growth; a tragic heroes' downfall as he realizes all he ever wanted, wasnt what he ever wanted at all. Truly a saga to rival Gilgamesh of Beowulf, you've outdone yourself Sir.
The Gilgamesh of Beowulf is a pretty good saga, loved that crossover
What does one of vergil's devilarms have to do with muppets?
Grover is for sure the Main protagonist but definitely not the hero
I regret ever forgetting this story
“You’ve come a long way for your purpose, my child.” was almost exactly spot on with Jim Henson’s Kermit.
Sounds like Kai Winn.
He's in hell. Not realizing that fact is part of his punishment.
He has some great cardio. He was ascending those steps at a rate around 105 steps a minute
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probably why he was kicked down at first because there's no way he did that without atleast skipping 2 steps a second
That's slightly faster than All Star.
He skipped a few though
What do you mean a minute? There is no time.
These feel like non-animated cutscenes in a really well done indie game that take place every time you complete a chapter.
Reminds me of that game where you start in a prison with monsters lurking but if you manage to escape it's centuries of an endless desert because it's based on some form of afterlife hell. It has that indie click to continue vibe and I think I watched Markiplier play it probably a decade from now 😂
@@iamcerealman102 I think I remember that game! Do you refer to "Antumbra"? I'm pretty sure there's a section like that in the game when he played it. His video was called "How to go insane | antumbra" if you want to look at it. Wow, this comment made me remember of such an old video, although I'm glad people remember it too.
@@C4xR34 Yes it is that, thank you for remembering it
It's like super paper mario
ultrakill does this
By making it his mission to kill God, to the point of acquiring a weapon and smuggling it to the Pearly Gates, Grover shows disdain to the concept of divinity and has already killed Him on his mind.
By steeling himself enough to go up the Stairway to Heaven not once, but SEVERAL times, no matter how infinitely great or infinitesimally small were the steps he had to take, and ending it by making Kermit take the entire brunt of his sins, Grover has outwilled God.
By defying the all-binding, all-blinding light of He Who Comes From Above with the sheer strength of his purpose, demanding that He showed Himself before him, Grover had defeated God -- The very concept of God purpose-wise.
Three times had he killed The Father, both in mind, body and spirit. All without firing a single bullet. He had already shown that The Holy Trinity was below him, but Grover still groveled on his spite and foolishness to prove a point, that he would kill God by means as mundane and low as the treason of His own children. The rejection of the gift of Life, the sin against brethren and the audacity to challenge His judgement of life and death: A single tool of murder, the Glock.
Little did Grover know, however, that God has already shown enough mercy. As He once did with Lucifer, his rebellious legion of angels and with several iterations of Mankind, He'd reciprocate his wicked, unfathomable purpose. And so, God broke Grover beyond what anyone would expect.
He broke Grover's purpose by putting the Damocles above his head, "rewarding" him with power over everything and promptly letting it crush his murderous intent. He broke Grover's body by weighing his mortality against the infinity of the sins of His creation on an endless, relentless flight of stairs. Finally, He broke Grover's mind by making him experience his insignificance when compared to the entire span of Creation, so that when Time and Space have no more meaning than a speck of dust, his mortal brain would wither.
Three times had He killed The Muppet by condemning him to sempiternal Death, unending Failure and overwhelming Oblivion. Grover would forever experience everyone's pains and sins, the existence and decay of everything, and everywhere and everywhen that which has been, that is and forever will be. This was God's will. This was Grover's ultimate fall.
EDIT: Wow. Fellas... You don't know *how many people* asked if I have any other works in this comment thread. Not that I'm complaining, much on the contrary, it has inspired me to try and start with something.
Bad news: I don't have any other works _yet._ This here comment is was my first public coin toss, a personal interpretation. I didn't really expect it to have *that much* traction. Again...! Not complaining.
Good news: Although I admit I'm not very versed on literature or any such artistic ventures, the fact that this comment brought so much joy to many and, through their enjoyment and kind words, to myself, I reckon it's time to pursue this path.
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.
this is fantastic 💀
Holy shit, this goes hard
The perfect comment doesnt ex
You ever consider becoming a writer?
this perfectly encapsulates the very soul of the original text. I commend you, good sir.
Dear Hollywood,
This is how you tell a story.
It’s amazing how a five minute shit post has better writing than an hour long Hollywood movie
Determination to kill God aside, Grover thinking he can kill God with a Glock is like black widow training to fight Thanos using pistols.
God canonically loses a wrestling match against a normal bloke and then also loses a battle to iron chariots. I'm pretty sure a glock would kill him.
@@MrCmon113canonically?!
@@MrCmon113bro's reading the reddit edition of the bible
BertStrip story writers are truly a special kind of Internet creators.
They are able to create wonderful written insane stories, ranging from both comedy and tragedy, while having to use Muppet characters and screenshots as part of the story. Stuff like this genuinely takes talent, and blurs the line between art and s#$tpost.
Thank you, for informing me of the origins of this post. I will now dive into this rabbit hole.
@@EverGreenRiversGood luck. You're going to need it.
“Blurs the line between art and shitpost”
Who says it can’t be both?
You don't have to censor the word "shitpost"
The youtube overlords are master ballbusters but they have SOME and I do mean some limit to their pettiness.
@@highpotencyiron4529 The funny thing is, the reason I censored it actually wasn't because of UA-cam's stupidity, it was because I just didn't feel comfortable writing a curse word. I know that sounds ridiculous, especially since the video I'm praising isn't exactly the cleanest video on the site, and I would only be writing it down instead of actually saying it, but unless it's from a quote or title, writing curse words just doesn't feel right to me. I even tried to thing of other words to substitute the aforementioned word, but after some thinking, the word really was the best one to use in the sentence, so I used a censored version of it.
The most upbeat German fairy tale
Truly a work of art. The story grabbed me by the lapels from the very beginning, and wouldn't let go until its spine-tingling narrative drew its last word.
The perfect balance of jokes and existentialism. You made me both giggle like a schoolgirl and feel the same emotions as an animal taking its last breath as the jaws of a predator clench its trachea shut. Beautiful.
0:40 "he brought the glock with 'em"
I literally chocked on my tea
'chocked'? I'm pretty sure you meant Glocked.
I thought Grover was going to shoot himself after realizing he became god.
You weren’t the only one. Did grover bring the god gun?
same here
Me too
In a manner of speaking... did he not?
In assuming the mind of God, did Grover not determine the singular way to dispose of Him?
That is to say... did Grover cast himself down to suffer the Eternal Curbstomp to save man from the eternal cycle of apotheosis and deicide?
Let us not so hastily assume Grover's failure. Only in death, can He rise above all.
I really wonder where the story would have went if he chose to do that.
I love how during the climb he committed 200 more sins LMAO
Probably muttered 200 blasphemous phrases on his ascension.
@@sloshed-ratand how many of them do you think is him cursing God out like a damned sailor on steroids going ahab on Leviathan?
This is unironically one of the best videos on UA-cam. This will be a classic for years to come.
A literal stairway to heaven, with its length and difficulty adjusted to match your sins, is actually a decent concept for purgatory. Redemption is possible, but proportionally challenging.
“Grover saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference”.
No way a shitpost delivers one of the hardest lines I’ve heard
legit dont get the line and why everybody is saying "its so well-written!"
@@Yu-Gi-Oh36508 i can attempt to explain:
imagine, if you will, the birth of the universe as the "big bang". a massive explosion of so many energies, and so much of them, and in its terrifying wake, it leaves life.
the heat-death of the universe is expected to be just as big a bang, but will leave no life in its wake-- but from far, far away, (let's say a Divine Creator's point of view), the life that first bang creates is so much smaller than something all-powerful, all-seeing, and all-knowing. it's so small, he can't see it.
he can only see the explosions, the chaos, not what it will leave when the explosion has ended.
Just watch _history of the entire world, I guess_ looped on repeat long enough for Your mind to start blending the beginning & the end in Your perception.
You will get it eventually ;)
@@basedokadaizoAnother take: the birth and the death of the universe are just the same thing. The beginning is the end. The end is the beginning.
Grover cannot tell if he has witnessed life's birth or life's death.
@@Yu-Gi-Oh36508literally just look up the word entropy
Good Lord, I wasn’t expecting such an intricate story.
Now they just gotta get morgan freeman to help Ulysses narrate the damn thing lmao
I liked it primarily because I would be the 666th like🤟
I like how memes went from goofy ms paint doodles and a baby with his fist up to a guy voice acting an existential tale of Grover killing and becoming god
That was incredible. Truly one of the greatest pieces of literature published in our modern era
"Show me GOD!!"
He already saw him, it was 𝐊𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐭
This, not ironically, is a high level of literature. And the voice is incredible
Yeah, this seems like the only voice appropriate for such a classical epic as "Grover steals a gun to kill god".
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death, and he could not tell the difference"
Such a raw fucking line I did not expect to find in this video
I love the implication that Kermit had also killed God. He wasn't the first two. By saying his staircase was much longer than Grover's implies his staircase has infinite sins as well for usurping God before. And just like Kermit, Grover usurped God and had to pay his own infinite torture. No wonder Kermit was already at the top.
But God punished Grover
@@The_Preacher_of_Seraphiela new one, who had usurped him
minor grammatical error 💀
@@augustus6224You mean Grover got usurped afterwards?
@@AndresHernandez-zw3ugGrover usurped God and became God. But he didn't know it. He willed himself to kill "God", which is himself. And so, Grover inadvertently did a cosmic suicide, and cast himself out of Creation
The fact such a stupid concept had such phenomenal writing goes to show it’s really all in the execution.
2:22 “We look to find ourselves, to see our own face. And we find the face of god.”-Scott Free/Mister Miracle
Damn... Stairs Arc is by far the best arc of Groverlord we've seen since at least the Ultra Instinct arc.
Groverlord...lol.
Don't forget Groverlords "Final Solution Arc". The arc with the most consequences that lead him to find god.
@anglosaxiphone8246 I think you meant the 'best decisions' instead of 'most consequences'. 😏
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference."
RAW
One must imagine Grover happy
Yes
no. Grover is not human like we are, so our philosophy of stoicism does not apply in Grover's case. Grover isn't driven by happiness, Grover is driven by rage and resentment. happiness isn't what Grover is after, he's on a singular mission. and his will to push forward will not cease until that mission is accomplished.
the myth of grover
@@env0xnot gonna lie it’s kinda metal to imagine as a muppet as completely inhuman and driven only by malice, anger and a will to see everything burn
@@env0xanger and rage can only exist within the context of an attempt to attain happiness, whatever definition of happiness that individual assigns. Without this context anger and rage serve no purpose for the individual having that subjective experience and they simply would not exist. They are behaviors dependent upon the causal force of a desire for subjective happiness. Grover believes killing god will make him happy, because he believes it is impossible for him to be happy having not killed god. His conclusion is an attempt to understand his own desire for happiness via process of elimination, if he cannot be happy with god then he can only be happy without him.
Can I just pay to have this man narrate everything from now on?
Him and morgan freeman should voice everything from ATM’s to public self serve checkout machines lmao
I love how god never appeared and grover just flew out of heaven from some mysterious force
It's about damn time someone made a story about Grover that was in-character
Always knew he was a wrong'un.
I came for the hilarious “every step is a sin you committed” line, but god I was not expecting existential dread near the end…
The ending feels oddly calming to me, though it leaves to different interpretations (which is good). But I guess it depends on how you interpret difference becoming null. Either you accept it as something you can't change or you fight against it, even if the struggle is futile. And neither option is necessarily a bad one.
the second image implies grover skipped over 200 steps on his first climb, hence being declared a cheater
He saw the birth of the universe. He saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference.
Cold.
As
F***.
Line.
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference."
WHY DID SUCH A COLD ASS LINE COME OUT OF A FUCKING MUPPETS MEME
It’s a good depiction of omniscience.
@@DrBright5558makes death sound so beautiful.
For eternity, Grover knew he would be stuck, watching the cycle for longer then eternity, for he was older then eternity itself, trapped in the shifting tides of the universe, knowing time had left him behind, forced to watch it start, and end, only to start again, for all of existence.
Fun fact: In order to climb all those stairs on time Grover would have to step on one stair every 1.73 seconds.
I think it took this story for me to truly understand what infinity is. What forever would be. “A second… a million years… all the same” is fucking chilling
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death, and he could not tell the difference."
I like the idea that Kermit had committed his own sins, and in his own cycle of torment went to kill God, only to become what he went to destroy. So he planned the entire thing as a test to condemn Grover to the same fate, only for Grover to condemn himself to eternal death in the end, having become his own God. 10/10 to this existentialist masterpiece!🤯
2:16 Chills, literal chills.
You know, in a way this plays out like a Seasme street episode in a way that you can take multiple lessons and messages out of it. That's the true beauty in this genius piece of literature.
The narration has such strange wording and tense that it makes me feel like I'm reading translated three times over ancient languages in fragments of a single myth. Like the part where he becomes God and Kermit was God but then when he is thrown down the steps by God, it is confusing and breaks the flow, but it kind of works I guess.
To me, God is omnipresent. God is both Kermit and Grover. Though, at that time Grover still thinks he's a mortal. Therefore, he could still see the difference between him and himself. In a world, where time doesn't exist, there is no past or future, and the present erases both. Existence works the same way. There is no Grover or Kermit, there is only God, for all eternity.
@@thatbloomer5642there is only God and the absence of God. Heaven and Hell.
*SHOW
ME
GAWWWWWD*
Yeah, the odd grammatical items here and there are pretty jarring. Not unlike these comment replies that don't seem to get what you were talking about
@@benzojamin4399 I bet you get a ton of pussy, don't you tiger?
In 5th grade me and my friends wrote a story about Grover working with a race of inter dimensional oranges with legs to get rid of Elmo and achieve ultimate power by finding a weird octahedron is space. I’m adding this to the lore.
What was the full story?
@@JavierEmmanuelAlvarez ok We made a google slides point and click called Elmo's woodland survival where Elmo (aged up) is on a plane to Alaska (parodying the book hatchet) when his plane mysteriously crashes. Grover is secretly doing rituals somewhere in the forest bc he just hates Elmo for some reason, teams up with orang from the bagel boy surreal memes series, and then in a second game, you meet stonks guy and an even older Elmo who has been living in the woods for 3 years and go on a quest to steal a magical octahedron that gives you godlike powers from Grover and Orang, who also set Elmo's shelter on fire and send a hydra with the face of my friend Sonny to kill you. We never finished the series because we kind of started drifting away but it was amazing.
"but none of hit deterred grover. he brought the glock with him."
nearly fucking lost it and choked to death on my drink at work 👍
Finally, a Grover story with a twist compelling enough to rival The Monster at the End of This Book.
What's that? I haven't heard of it.
I was looking for a comment about the book.
It’s a book about Grover and he’s scared because the title of the book says there’s a monster at the end, so he tries to stop you turning the pages and then it turns out that he was the monster at the end all along
Somehow.
@@Dies420 It also has a sequel with Elmo that basically runs through the same scenario.
Ulysses narrating a story about Grover killing God was not what I expected to be the best video of 2023.
If this was replaced with Joshua graham and the courier it would sound like Ulysses explaining a drug trip
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not tell the difference." Is such a fucking good line, for a shipped about Grover from fucking SESAME STREET trying to kill god. All the writing is incredible!
The second form of humanity is a never ending fractal.
2:48
Grover became so gangster he started talking with a Mexican accent.
“Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?”
-Spy Kids 2
If I were a space alien I’d stay the fûçk âwäÿ from earth and humans too lol
This is a masterful work of art. and if this doesn't blow up in the next 48 hours, I'm gonna make Kermit's stairway look like 2 Legos.
for a joke story that was legit amazing. and your voice work just adds that special touch that ties it all together.
Props on you on the music selection, the sound design is 50% of the reason this video is so great. The other 50% is the script and the other 50% is all the VA
tfw the video is so good that you have 150% of reasons to justify it! :O
4am and youtube recommends this video. and you know what? this shit slaps, 10/10 recommendation.
The ultimate heretic: Grover
But he has become God himself, does that mean he is still a heretic. This is truely one of the great questions of our time
@@penguinguy2167truely?
Right along side *HIM*
Dante wishes he could've written something as great as this.
If this was a video game, god would be the final boss, and this music would be his theme.
"Top 5 Games where the main character dies"
This is actually a good lesson on history telling , it draws you in and makes you feel invested on the history.
Can you elaborate on this? How does it draw you in and what history?
Pretty much the fact that grover has only one mission kill god but kermit stops him by pushing him . he doesnt stop right there he climbs again and his ambition keeps growing every Day he has to climb but he doesnt realize hes own mortality . Thats what grows on me and what makes it deep for me showing me what i struggle to write something similar but i can find the words for describing it , i know its a meme but a incredibly well writen one. 😅
The sound design is insane in this video, such a vibe, I rewatched it like 5 times already.
"He saw the birth of the universe, and he saw the heat death. And he could not see the difference" goes so hard
I think this video poses an interesting question that I’ve never thought about before, “To an immortal being, does time even exist?” I think that it depends on whether or not the universe resets. An immortal being could count down the seconds to when the sun explodes, but if the universe were to reset, I doubt the being would care to. An immortal being could sit around for someone’s entire lifetime and watch them die, and the being would still be able to live a long enough time to forget that even occurred. That’s what makes us so pathetic I think, our reliance on time. We time out our day to ensure that we make it to work on time or that we have enough time to take the kids to band practice, or when will we expire. We have to waste our precious time doing things we don’t want to do in a life that we did not ask to be thrust into. Let’s hope that if the universe does reset, we do it right next time. I’ll be seeing you again soon.
I think the essence of immortality is immutability. Consider a toilet that, by some freak accident, has been flung into intergalactic space. It's moving at a constant rate, there's nothing around; no lights, no gravitational forces--nothing. Physically speaking, it is impossible to say (based purely on the toilet as an inertial reference frame) whether it's been there for twelve seconds or a million years. It doesn't change at all, so figuring out the change--which is the essence of time--is like dividing by zero. Regardless of the world around it, that toilet exists in a perfect eternal space. I don't think it's possible to be alive and immortal at the same time. Living means to change constantly. Even if you could make yourself functionally undying, your self and the world around you would always be shifting. You'd eventually become something totally dissimilar to how you started, which is the death of the idea of you--what some would call a soul. To live authentically means to accept that flow, come what may.
@@albertskoften1452 I love that and I love you, you smart cookie
My good, you two have some really hard existencial conversations.
@@albertskoften1452I don’t think that changing is exclusive to living thing only tangible thing 😂 so a immortal being would just not be tangeable
@@moosesues8887 What precisely do you mean by "intangible"?
Kermit just casually kicks Grover down the stairs. That’s gotta sting
The world record for climbing 1 million stairs is 135 days. Grover got that dawg in him.
I went from laughing to being awestruck. This was absolutely amazing!
I like how "he was handed down ultimate power" suggests there's a more powerful, possibly more sadistic being than God.
Saint Agustine in his philosophical writings on God stated that evil is not the opposite but the absence of God, if God was the sun, evil would be shadows were light cannot reach.
So by performing the ultimate act of rejection, to seek to kill God himself (something even lucifer himself would not commit), he has been swallowed by the void itself, subjected to an eternal punishment with no hope of redemption as God's light will never reach him.
There is - God trying to kill himself, which is exactly what Grover is and what he does.
@thatonejoey1847 Wasn't the point of the war in heaven to kill God and for Lucifer to take his throne?
@@WarhammerFan2002
Yes, but that's not proof of God's vulnerability, just of Lucifer's arrogance and wrath, starting a war he knew was unwinnable, one with nothing to gain, and everything to lose
@@WarhammerFan2002 yesn't. It was to prove a point, in simple terms.
This seems like the kind of thing you’d write while blacking out from mixing NyQuil and Red Bull together
Truly unhinged. Beautiful
3:58 Burialgoods stutters (rare 1% occurrence Legendary event)
There will be people in the year 450307 ad who will find this particular clip on a USB drive, built a device to decipher it and believe this is real.
Im going to make sure they do.
this is one of the most masterful pieces of art I have ever seen, I wanted to watch it a few more times since I have seen it when it was first released.
Truly spectacular.
This is an absolute masterpiece, this is what the internet was meant for.
The writing on this is actually fucking phenomenal. "He was still thinking like a Mortal, Grover knew."
GRRM would be proud XD.
When he says, "Show me God," it actually hits pretty hard. The effects of it all made it one hell of a line
The idea of each of your sins being a step you have to climb to get to heaven is actually a decently good idea for a fair way to determine how to get into heaven
What counts as a sin? Is the only issue besides the obvious
No. All "sins" are God's fault and there's no point in tormenting people after the fact.
This is like that one fever dream you had 5 years ago and remember everything about it
IMMEDIATELY going in my collection of things I save to watch while stoned after literally 2 seconds according to the timestamp. This is the good shit. I live for this.
Grover after God just says, "Lmao no" and pushes him down
Great story. Unironically brings me back to some of my most fond childhood stories.
If Grover lived to be 70 years old, that is more than 41 sins per day
What was the thought that pushed you to make this? Did you wake up and think "Grover really would want to pop a cap in God?" Did you see a blue jay's egg fall out of it's nest, shatter on the ground and think "It's all truly futile?" Did you hear "Elmo's got a gun" and think "I can top that?"
He did top it tho
Philosophically, I see it as a reflection of mandkind's hubris.
We lived off of the land, and when that wasn't enough, we set our sights on the stars. But those weren't enough. We had to see the universe. To know how it works, what makes it tick.
When we grew tired of this limited existence, we wanted to transcend death.
Science and everything we had learnt about the universe was for nothing. We saw past the fabric of reality and revealed the real innards.
The universe was a test subject. A sick twist of fate. God's messengers were just his attempt at balancing the elaborate equation.
Then, Grover woke up. The collective idea of a character from a children's show manifested itself out of the pure disgust, despair, and hatred shared by humanity, memes a tool of their will.
He had a singular goal, no matter the obstacle: Kill God.
@@tomd96You need to hired NOW. You are too talented to be a shitposter.
@@tomd96 Nietzsche: "..."
"...First time?"
-???
This Bertstrip is in line with Sartre and Kierkegaard. Grover revolts against the absurd but is punished by the real but uncaring God that watches humans struggle for naught.
This is a universe far worse than one without any God. It is a cosmic terror.
Future historians believing this was a religious event:
It is
This is the kind of shit you find on a Thursday morning and then have to sit with it for the rest of the day
Anyone who wanted the music at 3:47 its Portal 1 Self Esteem Fund
Gonna save this in a random obscure playlist so I can confuse and slightly scare my future self. Thank you for the suggestion youtube