7 Movies That Don't Realize They're Horror Movies - After Hours

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  • @Nicolas.Vincent
    @Nicolas.Vincent 8 років тому +673

    Truman Show was a straight up Horror flick about the publicly staged gaslighting of a studio owned slave for his entire life...

    • @RobinClower
      @RobinClower 8 років тому +74

      But that was addressed in the movie quite a bit, people protested against it saying that he was in a prison and tried to let him know/get him out. But yeah, still creepy that most of the world is okay with it.

    • @Blodhelm
      @Blodhelm 8 років тому +64

      Also felt like the ending was just the beginning. The real world would be horribly strange to Truman and he definitely has a great lawsuit to get on with. With how gritty and unfriendly things would seem, it might be like leaving a vault from the Fallout series XD

    • @Seriona1
      @Seriona1 8 років тому +24

      Except Truman has no legal grounds. Remember the beginning? The court ruled that corporations could own people. That's why Truman was where he was. After Truman left, he would not have any legal rights.

    • @Blodhelm
      @Blodhelm 8 років тому +30

      Caesar Seriona
      However they could very easily challenge the earlier ruling as unconstitutional on the grounds that owning a person is equal to slavery. If their courts are okay with slavery, then his world has a much larger problem in which he could be the revolutionary trying to fix it and that is a movie I'd want to see XD

    • @Nicolas.Vincent
      @Nicolas.Vincent 8 років тому +18

      Essentially, everyone alive in his lifetime in his country would know him, but all he would know is disillusion & deceit. They'd have found his body looted and violated laying face down in a ditch by then.
      Truman Show II: "In case I don't see ya, Good Night!"

  • @electricbayonet2
    @electricbayonet2 8 років тому +371

    Also in Harry Potter, it seems like you can count on one hand the number of wizards/witches who think that nonmagical people have even the most basic human rights. Dunno if it made it into the movies, but I remember the Quidditch World Cup had a normal, nonmagical guy collecting entry fees, and every time he expressed how odd it was whenever some wizard didn't realize that they're supposed to pay with mundane money instead of gold doubloons, a wizard would dash out of the nearby shrubs and wipe the poor sap's memory.
    Seriously, that shit is disturbing. Why did it need to be a normal person with no knowledge of magic? Why couldn't it just be some wizard teenager getting paid minimum wage? Hell, why couldn't it be the asshole on mind-wiping duty? Because it was very explicitly shown that the repeated mindwipes was having lingering effects on the poor guy. He literally didn't know what *month* it was. What's the backstory there? Does some poor family think that their brother/son/father/whatever relation is suffering from some kind of early-onset dementia?

    • @electricbayonet2
      @electricbayonet2 8 років тому +40

      ***** I have no goddamn clue. If they absolutely needed to have it there...well, fuck. They're wizards. *Gold coins* are used as normal currency. Just buy the fucking land and be done with it.
      But instead, they give a man brain damage because...reasons.

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine 4 роки тому +51

      Hell, they barely give themselves human rights. Azkaban anyone? A ten year sentence means that you'll come out a drooling idiot and everyone knows and no one cares.

    • @DavidLopez-en6el
      @DavidLopez-en6el 4 роки тому +43

      They deprive their children of basic general education beyond the 2nd grade, of course they're going to do this stuff. The civil rights movement, the holocaust, social studies, literally anything about muggle history (A.K.A 99%of history) is ignored.

    • @DavidLopez-en6el
      @DavidLopez-en6el 4 роки тому +6

      @@MySerpentine How is that different from out prison system lol

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine 4 роки тому +9

      @@DavidLopez-en6el We're not deliberately torturing prisoners, guards and anyone who happens to get too close?

  • @zayahnah2089
    @zayahnah2089 8 років тому +2141

    After hours continues to be the most entertaining show on youtube

    • @zayahnah2089
      @zayahnah2089 8 років тому +27

      and swaim never ceases to make me chuckle

    • @dogbiscuit1649
      @dogbiscuit1649 8 років тому +2

      Zayahnah swaims a legend indeed matey! :-) and soren is so much like my poor brain!

    • @ChunkyTheClown
      @ChunkyTheClown 8 років тому +12

      Just gonna point this out: Hogwarts CAN'T be found by humans. The same charm put on the Quidich finals is placed on almost all major magical gathering places AND Hogwarts specifically looks like an unsafe, dilapidated ruin, so no one would ever want to enter it. If a muggle gets too close, their subconscious starts to turn them away. Also, there's an entire section of the Ministry of Magic that goes around Men in Black-ing every muggle who comes into contact with magic and they do a MUCH better job at covering it up than MIB. The video was great other than that.

    • @ThatBloodyHobo
      @ThatBloodyHobo 8 років тому +7

      I dont know , a lot of youtubers seem to like roaming around dilapidated buildings lately.

    • @zayahnah2089
      @zayahnah2089 8 років тому +2

      David Bruder i was thinking the same thing honestly

  • @livdrawz6234
    @livdrawz6234 8 років тому +893

    Nice Stranger Things group costume

    • @Exil3dVip3r
      @Exil3dVip3r 8 років тому +48

      Didn't notice it till now, but it's suddenly so obvious... Not sure who Daniel is supposed to reference if that's the case though.
      EDIT: Nvm... he must be Barb; the forgotten Stranger Things character...

    • @saltshaker1691
      @saltshaker1691 8 років тому +41

      I couldn't figure it out either. How horrible is it that we continue to forget about poor Barb.

    • @henriettapussycat6239
      @henriettapussycat6239 8 років тому +4

      Wouldn't he be Eleven? She escapes in a hospital gown and her nose bleeds when she uses her powers.

    • @roguecactus7
      @roguecactus7 8 років тому +2

      lulu Sparkles fucking Barb...😆

    • @Exil3dVip3r
      @Exil3dVip3r 8 років тому +10

      Lanique Davis Eleven is Soren. The one to the left of the two male side of the camera. He has both the gown and the neural net cap or whatever they are actually called. Something frequently seen as part of Eleven's flashbacks.

  • @ackbarfan5556
    @ackbarfan5556 7 років тому +579

    "Hold on, I'm losing track on who's actually a racist."
    Don't ever change, Michael.

  • @ChickenGeorgeClooney
    @ChickenGeorgeClooney 8 років тому +312

    I know they're Stranger Things, but Dan looks like a Golden Girl

    • @Gonk
      @Gonk 8 років тому +7

      Ty I had no idea who they were dressed up as till u said it LOL

    • @NotCodyGlonek
      @NotCodyGlonek 8 років тому

      Jackson DeStefano c

    • @sandrarauda2088
      @sandrarauda2088 8 років тому +7

      Is he Barb???

    • @ChickenGeorgeClooney
      @ChickenGeorgeClooney 8 років тому +1

      Sandra Rauda I think that's what he was going for but I'm not sure

    • @evan1686
      @evan1686 8 років тому +7

      ohhhhhhhhhh
      that was a shitty barb

  • @GregTom2
    @GregTom2 8 років тому +1095

    The real horror about Harry Potter is that they've had limitless drinkable water for centuries and still let people die of cholera and dysentery, and other such diseases well into the 21st century, just because some jumpy fanatics tried to burn witches in a couple of isolated incidents in the middle ages.
    The real horror is that thousands of magical incidents which very well could be deadly affect muggles every year and are swept under the rug, their memories of it erased.
    The real horror is that consent altering "love potions" are sold to minors.
    The real horror is that despite having alternative sources of energy, the wizards still let the muggles destroy the earth with fossil fuels. And still use slavery well into a technological age where it should have become obsolete.
    The real horror is that cancer treatment potions weren't disclosed to muggles.
    The real horror is that tens of millions of people died in concentration camps around the world, or on the battlefield, whereas a couple of imperio curses could have prevented it all, if the wizards had only cared to look outside of their own community.
    The real horror is that the wizards seldom realize that the muggle's technology has surpassed theirs, and that the muggles have weapons infinitely more powerful than some "elder wand".
    The real horror is that the world is divided in a curtain of secrecy and hate, instead of being united under one righteous leader who could guarantee the greater good of all humans, end all war, and let science and magic benefit each other.
    The real horror is that Grindelwald lost and that Dumbledore won.

    • @696190
      @696190 8 років тому +65

      (SPOILER ALERT) I may be a little rusty here, but wasnt Grindelwalds end goal similar to Voldemorts, ie wizard supremacy? Would the world be EVEN MORE of a shitstorm of class division and slavery and wanton cruelty if he won?

    • @GregTom2
      @GregTom2 8 років тому +55

      696190 Well, the above statement about imperio curses being used to prevent war kind of implies wizard supremacy. But it's not a "general wizarding supremacy". It's more like a dictatorial supremacy of Grindelwald over everyone else.
      As a counter argument, if Grindelwald's goals had been aligned with voldemort's, then why did he resist torture, refuse to disclose the location of the elder wand, and get killed in his cell? Shouldn't that be a hint that he doesn't agree with Voldemort's vision and that he was ready to die for his own vision?

    • @Zephyr_Zeitgeist
      @Zephyr_Zeitgeist 8 років тому +136

      You left off squibs being so disregarded by the wizarding community that Neville's uncle subjected him to two tests, one that could have killed him, and one that definitely would have killed him, to force Neville, a tiny child, to use magic to save himself. Better dead than squib. Denied a Hogwarts education, despite many classes requiring zero magic, including, I will argue, potions, rendering them basically unemployable. Filtch only has his job as groundskeeper of Hogwarts because Dumbledore pity hired him.

    • @jojodelacroix
      @jojodelacroix 8 років тому +52

      Honestly this comment is much more convincing than anything in the video. Lol It really does make you realize how isolationist the wizards are.

    • @davidunkown1925
      @davidunkown1925 8 років тому +23

      GregTom2 this comment kind of assumes that wizards are responsible for the world, but theyre not? they have pretty much separated themselves from normal human society and created their own. it'd be like if the amish could supernaturally cure cancer, that doesnt mean they have to travel the world to heal everybody, they'd still be isolationists...

  • @goonerOZZ
    @goonerOZZ 8 років тому +93

    the Dobler-Dahmer theory anyone? Any one act or gesture can be interpreted as lovable or creepy depending on the feeling of the recipient of the act to the perpetrator.

  • @tinytravisty6686
    @tinytravisty6686 4 роки тому +52

    The quarantine makes me miss this more, it was my favorite thing on cracked. Now I live vicariously through the screen, sitting with my friends who talk pop culture

    • @trueaidooo
      @trueaidooo 2 роки тому +1

      Make sure you watch the two other ones they made on Swaim's Small beans channel

  • @00qverlord40
    @00qverlord40 7 років тому +65

    Actually the comparison between Damien and Harry was one of the weirdest but most real statements I've ever heard

  • @chloe1-2-3-4-5
    @chloe1-2-3-4-5 8 років тому +84

    Really, creepy behaviour being categorised as romantic or cute is fairly common in movies.

  • @Connor_Tyler
    @Connor_Tyler 7 років тому +224

    Literally just noticing this, where did Soren get that waffle?!

    • @marlowener
      @marlowener 6 років тому +18

      ELEVEN LOVES WAFFLES DAMNIT THIS IS NECESSARY

    • @wagesofsinn3881
      @wagesofsinn3881 6 років тому +15

      Ok Fair point, but I agree with the original question. Where did Soren get that Waffle from? It wasn't in that bucket he dumped out and his outfit has no pockets. So where did Soren get that Waffle?

    • @GoneZombie
      @GoneZombie 6 років тому +9

      Well, Eleven is telekinetic, at the cost of brain and nose bleeds. He clearly magicked it over off screen and had an anurism.

    • @biterface03
      @biterface03 6 років тому +2

      It Was An Offering From The Graveyard Bro...

    • @stephaniesummer2663
      @stephaniesummer2663 6 років тому +5

      At 5:25 his nose starts bleeding.

  • @abibaby1000
    @abibaby1000 8 років тому +171

    Queue a million comments about how you're only subscribed to Cracked for After Hours

    • @jakubjanicki3989
      @jakubjanicki3989 8 років тому +14

      And Obsessive Popculture Disorder.

    • @jamietodd2560
      @jamietodd2560 8 років тому +1

      ...and Today's Topic

    • @BigDaddyBerkut
      @BigDaddyBerkut 8 років тому

      James Todd ...can we throw in honest commercials as well?

    • @jamietodd2560
      @jamietodd2560 8 років тому +2

      Ooh, and Escort Mission.

    • @drakshal403
      @drakshal403 8 років тому

      and their sketches like that superhero one, and that space one

  • @ondrabroz888
    @ondrabroz888 2 роки тому +18

    I have rewatched the shows about 5 times now and it’s still pure gold. I wish the After hours came back

  • @jamesflowers1295
    @jamesflowers1295 8 років тому +39

    "I'm losing track of who's an actual racist."Best way to sum up this year

  • @TrapNerdMusic
    @TrapNerdMusic 8 років тому +203

    Let's be honest here. This is the only reason a lot of us are still subscribed.
    Not complaining. Just stating a fact. I love this show.

    • @xxDrain
      @xxDrain 8 років тому +4

      Eh, I like a whole bunch of their other content too. Statistically, so do plenty others :d else they wouldn't be making it.

    • @Samael1113
      @Samael1113 8 років тому +2

      Nope I unsubbed a year ago because their content relies too much on unironic clickbait, including After Hours.
      And considering I've found the quality of many of the recent AH's to be severely lacking, I'm happier without Cracked in my subscribed feed.
      (And I'm not saying they don't put work in to AH, but they are struggling to find strong inspiration, and rehashing past ideas in the effort. It has been something like 6 years since the first one IIRC - just double-checked, it looks like tomorrow is the 6 year anniversary)

    • @keithklassen5320
      @keithklassen5320 8 років тому +9

      Whatcha doing over here, eh, Sammy? Just, uh, sayin hi? Just sayin hello to all yer pals?

    • @AmaranthOriginal
      @AmaranthOriginal 8 років тому

      Likes usually aren't the deciding factor in content creation.

    • @RaulDiaz-mp8ms
      @RaulDiaz-mp8ms 8 років тому +1

      Pff, I'm not subscribed. I just go to the trending part and boom, AfterHours.

  • @falleneldor
    @falleneldor 8 років тому +362

    Another After Hours? uggh. I only watch Cracked for the text based videos with no voice over.

    • @cacksm0ker
      @cacksm0ker 8 років тому +3

      I thought I was the only one!

    • @literosexual6541
      @literosexual6541 8 років тому +2

      Shawn I honestly love the text based videos.

    • @thedrawingplauge
      @thedrawingplauge 8 років тому

      Shawn are you kidding? If not why bother clicking on this one?

    • @Crimsaur
      @Crimsaur 8 років тому +7

      This comment gave me cancer.

    • @SmashLiXs
      @SmashLiXs 8 років тому +1

      i watch any video that that talks about a movie i've seen

  • @johns6014
    @johns6014 8 років тому +43

    If you're going to bring up anything from Harry Potter in this context, at least mention Dumbledore in passing. His actions have a field of potential interpretations that you just missed out on completely. So much so that he's become one of the most bipolar characters within the fanon, just working off of the books alone.
    Look at the first scene of the first book. Albus leaves an infant on the doorstep of people who he has been warned of, and who he knows - as he admitted himself later, at the end of the fifth book - who he knows will most likely mistreat the child at best. Not only this, but he does this in the dead of night, within the first few days of November. In Britain. He did not apply any sort of protective magic on the child that night, leaving him to the cold. Or to wake and wander off. Or to be noticed by a passing stranger or a hungry dog. Or to be stepped on by Vernon as he left for work the next day.
    Think what you will of Albus Dumbledore, but he left a child to die, knowing that if the child survived, he would grow up in a household that would mistreat him. In this context, I don't know how you can reference Harry, who during the instances you mentioned was but a child, but then fail to look into perhaps one of the most well known Harry Potter characters outside of Voldemort and Harry himself.
    Also, muggle repelling charms are noted multiple times throughout the series, as is the obliviation spell and a departement of the Ministry of Magic that's literally known as the Obliviators, who act much like your Men in Black reference in cases of magic.

    • @ryppt
      @ryppt 3 роки тому +4

      Villain Cafe needs a table for Dumbledore, Glinda, Charles Xavierand the rest of the 'Heroic Mentors' who turn out to be narcissistic sociopaths who send children to face deadly peril for their own amusement.

    • @lightsidesoul
      @lightsidesoul 6 місяців тому +1

      Not only did he leave Harry with his abusive relatives, it's implied in Order of the Phoenix that he threatened or blackmailed Petunia into keeping him thanks to him sending that "Remember my last" Howler. No context, just three words, and Petunia goes from being ready to let Vernon throw Harry out to telling him to go to his room.
      Then the fact that, in eleven years, Dumbledore never checked up on Harry, never popped by to make sure that Vernon and Petunia were OK raising The Boy Who Lived, and when Harry strait up *tells* Dumbledore that he's abused, Albus sent him back to the Dursleys with nothing but a vague warning delivered by Moody that they're being watched.

  • @spyrofan9681
    @spyrofan9681 8 років тому +574

    Muggle's can't see Hogwarts, it just looks like an unsafe ruin to them

    • @lugia361
      @lugia361 8 років тому +15

      Is that canon?

    • @spyrofan9681
      @spyrofan9681 8 років тому +81

      ToastierCarp
      Yup it's one of the facts about Hogwarts that Hermione brings up to reiterate how smart she is

    • @MiniNymph
      @MiniNymph 8 років тому +88

      Because nobody ever goes to explore creepy abandoned buildings, right?
      (JK, they do. It's like the premise of a whole bunch of horror movies.)

    • @LiamAnthony_
      @LiamAnthony_ 8 років тому +13

      That can't be true, because Mr. Filch, the caretaker at Hogwarts, is a muggle.

    • @garavonhoiwkenzoiber
      @garavonhoiwkenzoiber 8 років тому +62

      Probably why he's so angry all the time.
      "GOD DAMMIT I JUST CLEANED THIS ROOM! It looks like a 200 year old abandoned ruin again!"

  • @karsten69
    @karsten69 8 років тому +93

    I love the co-op with Cyanide & Happiness.

    • @texjones1993ify
      @texjones1993ify 8 років тому +17

      I've been wondering why no one has been mentioning that

    • @dumpeeplarfunny
      @dumpeeplarfunny 8 років тому

      Yeah, I saw that too.

    • @jayden8107
      @jayden8107 8 років тому

      karsten69 when

    • @karsten69
      @karsten69 8 років тому

      presdent hutch did you not see the cartoon part of the episode? go watch it again

    • @wenna8394
      @wenna8394 7 років тому +3

      7:32

  • @JonnyBgamer
    @JonnyBgamer 8 років тому +26

    "my teen years being filled with animal mishaps and wand explosions" 4:35 i laughed at this way too much.

  • @Saint_nobody
    @Saint_nobody 8 років тому +28

    curb-stomped by decor. that's gonna be the name of my Nu metal band. who's with me?

  • @LilAnnThrax
    @LilAnnThrax 8 років тому +27

    Dan is the only man that is just as adorable in awful 80s glasses as he is without. He's a favorite.

  • @Ten_Thousand_Locusts
    @Ten_Thousand_Locusts 8 років тому +27

    I like that Cyanide and Happiness is doing the animations for After Hours now.

  • @Gambito99100
    @Gambito99100 8 років тому +226

    "Now imagine if that power wasn't given to Mel Gibson but some lunatic who has no respect for women"
    like... Mel Gibson?

  • @ganjjabarsmedium2347
    @ganjjabarsmedium2347 Рік тому +30

    Still watching in 2023 🤘

  • @skyrogue1977
    @skyrogue1977 8 років тому +203

    Can you guys do a video about South Park, like what you did for the Simpsons.

    • @Teyuqueuiquop
      @Teyuqueuiquop 8 років тому +6

      This dude! This dude right here! YES! Please Cracked, do a video about South Park!

    • @gwouru
      @gwouru 8 років тому +5

      why? it's a parody show already. South Park mocks everybody.

    • @Teyuqueuiquop
      @Teyuqueuiquop 8 років тому +8

      Why not? It would be a meta parody!

    • @cptnoremac
      @cptnoremac 8 років тому +1

      No, don't. South Park is dumb.

    • @Teyuqueuiquop
      @Teyuqueuiquop 8 років тому

      cptnoremac You're dumb... On that.

  • @pixxelwizzard
    @pixxelwizzard 3 роки тому +6

    Actually, I was totally creeped out by just about every scene in Love Actually. Such a bizarre movie that I found hard to take seriously.

  • @cosmok-1367
    @cosmok-1367 8 років тому +21

    Omg! I love how they were character from Stranger Things this year. Katie was the sherif, Daniel was Barb, Soren was Eleven and Micheal was.....the one kid who did not have his front teeth I forgot his name! But still, that was good cause for a second I was thinking (hoping) they would talk about the series

    • @Illier1
      @Illier1 8 років тому +4

      Dustin?

    • @cosmok-1367
      @cosmok-1367 8 років тому +1

      Illier1 Was that his name? Thanks! I only remember Lucas and Will.

    • @thehawkian
      @thehawkian 8 років тому +1

      Yep, Dustin, and I'll always remember the fourth kid's name cause of this:
      "Well, my name's Mike, short for Michael... How about we call you 'El', short for Eleven?

    • @Prologue18
      @Prologue18 6 років тому

      Cosmo K-13 dustin

    • @Rougarou99
      @Rougarou99 5 років тому +1

      I really need to watch Stranger Things. I thought Katie was Rick Grimes.

  • @Bloodglas
    @Bloodglas 2 роки тому +5

    back in "11 Movie Alternate Dimensions With Horrifying Downsides" Katie had considered living in Pleasantville but now she rightfully calls it a nightmare.

  • @nathandiefenbach1274
    @nathandiefenbach1274 2 роки тому +3

    Here in 2022, Cracked never rose back to its golden era. I get companies doing dumb stuff becasue of some potential to make money, but they could've just left Cracked alone.

  • @MajicLaMa
    @MajicLaMa 8 років тому +189

    British people wear trousers

  • @frodothedodo
    @frodothedodo 8 років тому +368

    Werther's. Because you're werth it

    • @smaakjeks
      @smaakjeks 8 років тому +11

      Werther's. If you like to wear her's.

    • @jennifermanning8029
      @jennifermanning8029 8 років тому +26

      Werther's. Kills bugs dead.

    • @gunzenbombzinc6688
      @gunzenbombzinc6688 8 років тому +26

      you're either werther's or against ers

    • @TCt83067695
      @TCt83067695 6 років тому +3

      FrodoTheDodo i put my thing down flip it and reverse it?

    • @JamesSmith-vk2ky
      @JamesSmith-vk2ky 5 років тому +1

      @@gunzenbombzinc6688 👍👍😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ionlymadethistoleavecoment1723
    @ionlymadethistoleavecoment1723 8 років тому +15

    Love actually has been on After Hours way more times than any movie should.

  • @TaekoZ
    @TaekoZ 8 років тому +69

    Swaim as the kid from Stranger Things is perfect

    • @Beriorn
      @Beriorn 8 років тому +18

      Aren't they all characters from Stanger Things? Soren as Eleven, Katie as the sherrif who punches everyone and Dan as... dunno, the mom who goes crazy?

    • @TaekoZ
      @TaekoZ 8 років тому +12

      Beriorn Yes but I wouldn't call Barb, Eleven or the cop "the kid from Stranger Things".

    • @livdrawz6234
      @livdrawz6234 8 років тому +7

      Beriorn Dan is Barb0

    • @livdrawz6234
      @livdrawz6234 8 років тому +2

      *Barb* My finger hit the zero

    • @arizonasunflowers7165
      @arizonasunflowers7165 7 років тому +2

      lulu Sparkles good for your finger

  • @samanthabraker2977
    @samanthabraker2977 8 років тому +44

    Muggles/No Majs can't see Hogwarts, it just looks like a pile of ruins to them. It's in the books.

    • @cats3537
      @cats3537 8 років тому +5

      what if someone researches the area and looks into the history and turns these "ruins" into a museum and invite people for tours of the castle.

    • @sailorpsycho
      @sailorpsycho 8 років тому +11

      it's also said in the books that once yo approach the "ruins" a spell makes you to think you forgot something and go away

    • @GoddoDoggo
      @GoddoDoggo 8 років тому +11

      Then how can _I_ see Hogwarts, huh?! I don't have magic powers, and I saw that damned school in every single Harry Potter movie, AND at Universal Studios!

    • @zedeighty
      @zedeighty 8 років тому +2

      If I saw some ruins I'd be like, "sweet, let's go check out those ruins. I'll bring my camera"
      Do they have a spell for cameras too? Is that what happened to that blank roll of film I got developed?

    • @joshuawroe1014
      @joshuawroe1014 8 років тому +7

      I believe places like Hogwarts are also surrounded by Muggle-repelling charms, so if they get close enough they suddenly remeber urgent stuff they have to do.

  • @jasonblalock4429
    @jasonblalock4429 8 років тому +22

    Just as an aside, whoever reads this: If you haven't seen the Japanese movie Katie mentioned - House (or Hausu) - SEE IT. It's easily one of the just balls-out weirdest movies you will ever experience. It's not even a horror movie so much as a dark, dark comedy from the POV of psychotic ghosts.

    • @mastermarkus5307
      @mastermarkus5307 8 років тому +1

      That's the one where a guy gets turned into bananas for no reason, right?

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 8 років тому +1

      +Master Markus Yep. And that's one of the LEAST weird things that happen.

    • @elliel8626
      @elliel8626 8 років тому +1

      Jason Blalock it's on hulu, yall. watch it.

    • @cptnoremac
      @cptnoremac 8 років тому

      Is it related to the two American horror moves called House and House 2?

    • @elliel8626
      @elliel8626 8 років тому

      cptnoremac absolutely not. it came out in 1977 and is an experimental art film in the criterion collection

  • @flaetsbnort
    @flaetsbnort 8 років тому +13

    I feel that in some another, parallel world, there is a charming and wacky rom-com that's a prequel to our world's Jessica Jones netflix series.

    • @Ratchet4647
      @Ratchet4647 8 років тому

      why?

    • @unmazing
      @unmazing 7 років тому +4

      "He was a mind-controlling supervillain. She was a fledgling superhero. But what happens when the only power you can't control . . . is love?"

  • @izzy1221
    @izzy1221 8 років тому +17

    This may seem weird but Dan looks...good in that outfit. Huh. The more ya know.

  • @vallraffs
    @vallraffs 8 років тому +243

    I think you've used Beauty and the Beast a good few too many Times now, cracked.

    • @LaineyBug2020
      @LaineyBug2020 8 років тому +15

      Valter Östberg , lol, it is the 25th anniversary after all...

    • @Crondo420ReFrEsHe
      @Crondo420ReFrEsHe 7 років тому +2

      Valter Östberg Theres alot to it that people dont see until these people bring it out into the open. Also they just remade the movie.

    • @sierra3644
      @sierra3644 6 років тому

      i thought they were going to use monsters inc when talking about “literal monsters”

    • @georgesmoke9614
      @georgesmoke9614 6 років тому

      Billy and Ted, Back to the Future, and Beauty and the Beast; this is Cracked's wheelhouse.

  • @jackmendoza5604
    @jackmendoza5604 8 років тому +5

    I have now binge watched at least 50% of your channel in the course of a week

  • @superhakujin
    @superhakujin 7 років тому +2

    "Much like H.P., my adolescence was a series of conspicuous animal mishaps and wand explosions."

  • @taxuenowoz4038
    @taxuenowoz4038 8 років тому +43

    Is that Jesus working the grill?

    • @carultch
      @carultch 6 років тому

      Jesus, as in the common Spanish name? Or Jesus as in biblical character?

    • @yesmansam6686
      @yesmansam6686 4 роки тому

      @@carultch its the second coming foreshadowed by a cook named jesus(latin).

    • @carultch
      @carultch 4 роки тому

      @@yesmansam6686 Jesus's name is Iesus in Latin. The J didn't exist in the original Latin alphabet, and was originally the letter "i". It would be said as "ee-yessoos".
      Just like what we know as Jehovah, was Iehova in Latin, as Indiana Jones is painfully aware of learning.

    • @yesmansam6686
      @yesmansam6686 4 роки тому

      @@carultch whoops

  • @nitroneonicman
    @nitroneonicman 8 років тому +20

    thank god I'm not the only one who thought love actually is actually fucked up

    • @mikehenderson7907
      @mikehenderson7907 5 років тому

      緑先輩
      If you're interested (and I know this is a super old comment, but whatever) the I Hate It But I Love It podcast did an entire episode of how fucked up Love Actually is.

  • @Clearbluejay
    @Clearbluejay 7 років тому +45

    What Women Want is disturbing, imagine a What Men Want. I have a feeling that film would end with the heroine becoming a lesbian.

    • @MehmetOezil
      @MehmetOezil 7 років тому +5

      Somebody hasn't seen True Blood

    • @Clearbluejay
      @Clearbluejay 7 років тому +4

      The episodes were too damn long.

    • @tokioobsessed1983
      @tokioobsessed1983 6 років тому +1

      Well it looks like you will get to see exactly how that would end!

    • @lawrencecalablaster568
      @lawrencecalablaster568 6 років тому +4

      Good news; I'm from the year 2018 and many bad things are happening, but they're making What Men Want and it stars Taraji P. Henson!
      No word on any sexuality-forming denouement at this juncture.

    • @jr9529
      @jr9529 5 років тому +1

      You know... I'm surprised it didn't make the dude gay XD

  • @sarukun1228
    @sarukun1228 8 років тому +88

    It started out strong, but then got confusing and kinda meh

  • @kedagrant4504
    @kedagrant4504 7 років тому +5

    I love how Soren keeps having these episodes where he is having a mental breakdown. Its funny to me

  • @noemogjiiohc6134
    @noemogjiiohc6134 8 років тому +4

    that "once you become enlightened" bit wow shit was funny af😂

    • @noemogjiiohc6134
      @noemogjiiohc6134 8 років тому +3

      Im so high I watched this whole video without noticing stranger things costumes
      and I just rewatched it after realizing it was shot in GA and I've been enchanted by my not noticing that at first...😤

  • @hollyadam9307
    @hollyadam9307 8 років тому +12

    love the Stranger Things costumes!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

  • @mayakalyn8618
    @mayakalyn8618 8 років тому +1

    I JUST FUCKING REALIZED THAT THEYRE ALL CHARACTERS FROM STRANGER THINGS. OH LORD I LOVE THIS CHANNEL. PLEASE DONT EVER STOP MAKING AFTER HOURS. IT IS GENIUS

  • @jorgeramirez7434
    @jorgeramirez7434 8 років тому +25

    Is Daniel supposed to be Barb? Hot

  • @GRIMGORIRONHIDEROCKS
    @GRIMGORIRONHIDEROCKS 8 років тому +5

    I totally came up with the Theory that Rowan Atkinson was meant to be Christmas Spirit in Love Actually! I never looked to see if it had already been come up with, but now I learn it was supposed to be in the original script. Makes sense now how I came to that conclusion. * sigh * Just another ingenious idea I've had that someone more successful than me had already come up with first. :/

    • @jojodelacroix
      @jojodelacroix 8 років тому +5

      Whenever I have an idea that ends up already existing or getting made shortly thereafter I take that as a compliment. Especially if it was a successful implementation of my idea. It really just shows that you're onto some good ideas. All you gotta do is keep at it and eventually you'll find something to pursue that hasn't been done previously.

    • @GRIMGORIRONHIDEROCKS
      @GRIMGORIRONHIDEROCKS 8 років тому +4

      John Edwards I was always too cautious of looking at it as a compliment in case people thought I was already being pretentious. Thanks. ^-^ Perhaps I'll start patting myself on the back a little more.

    • @jojodelacroix
      @jojodelacroix 8 років тому

      Conor Langford I don't see it as being pretentious myself, unless you are going around saying,"I had that awesome idea too! So I basically came up with that!" lol But yeah, why not? We all need a little encouragement and self-confidence/sel-assuredness. Heck, I'll pat you on the back too! *pat pat* :D

    • @GRIMGORIRONHIDEROCKS
      @GRIMGORIRONHIDEROCKS 8 років тому +1

      John Edwards Earth needs more people as natural supporter like yourself. >w

    • @jojodelacroix
      @jojodelacroix 7 років тому +1

      Conor Langford Thx. That makes me happy to hear. :)

  • @ethanmathoo2117
    @ethanmathoo2117 7 років тому +3

    Okay, Katie is Hopper, Michael is Dustin, Soren is Eleven, and Dan is Weird Al? The science teacher? Mike and Nancy's dad? WHO IS HE!!!?

    • @jessimarim_m9387
      @jessimarim_m9387 7 років тому +2

      Ethan Muncy i know right!!! wills mum!? who the heck IS HE!

    • @jessimarim_m9387
      @jessimarim_m9387 7 років тому +4

      Ethan Muncy BARB! dammit hes barb! 😂😂😂 i see it now!

    • @ethanmathoo2117
      @ethanmathoo2117 7 років тому +2

      JESSICA MENDES MARTINS God dammit how did I not notice that! I don't deserve to call myself a ST fan. smh

    • @Zanian19
      @Zanian19 7 років тому +2

      To be fair though, everyone forgot about Barb :P

    • @ethanmathoo2117
      @ethanmathoo2117 7 років тому

      Zanian19 ha

  • @viviananthony384
    @viviananthony384 8 років тому +6

    All dressed as characters from stranger things my favourite is Daniel as Barb lol

  • @silverzdk
    @silverzdk 8 років тому +178

    Well nice to see the only good content on this channel

    • @vnikyt
      @vnikyt 8 років тому +11

      Peter Klint This and Pop Culture Disorder

    • @anonymousmammal1741
      @anonymousmammal1741 8 років тому +2

      I miss AoC and Does Not Compute

    • @hankytorious
      @hankytorious 8 років тому +2

      vnikyt today's topic has some charm too

    • @krombopulos_michael
      @krombopulos_michael 8 років тому +20

      Escort Misson and OCD are both great too

    • @fallout3fan623
      @fallout3fan623 7 років тому +3

      The spit take has some good momments

  • @shakyelarnold7392
    @shakyelarnold7392 2 роки тому

    It's been five years, and I still come back to these videos often 😩😩🤦🏾

  • @seansinger3984
    @seansinger3984 7 років тому +7

    "Monsters who feed on fear"?
    .... Monsters Inc, anyone?

  • @jakubklein
    @jakubklein 3 роки тому +2

    Don't get me wrong Jordan is amazing, but I really miss those after-hours! Four years later still gets me :)

  • @Jah_LEASE_yah
    @Jah_LEASE_yah 8 років тому +9

    if there is any movie that doesn't know its a horror its Eyes Wide Shut.

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 8 років тому +4

      Nah, Eyes Wide Shut is a deliberate genre swerve. It wants the audience to *think* it's a horror\suspense story, but it's not.

  • @cjwrench07
    @cjwrench07 8 років тому +4

    This and OPCD are the main reason I'm on this channel.

  • @mikehab7453
    @mikehab7453 8 років тому +6

    Cyanide & Happiness ftw!!!

  • @marcusgoodspeed7062
    @marcusgoodspeed7062 5 років тому

    Please bring this show back...I'm going weeks without watching these just so I can forget the genius banter and enjoy it like it's new.

  • @sartanko
    @sartanko 8 років тому +6

    It took a solid 4 minutes for me to notice the Stranger Things outfits.

  • @janeisannoying
    @janeisannoying 8 років тому +1

    Nope. Love Actually actually creeped me out. I thought it was so weird that your husband's friends could just show up at your house and tell you that he loves you.

  • @bear22192
    @bear22192 3 роки тому +3

    Still the only show on cracked worth watching.

  • @PittsburghSportsFan35
    @PittsburghSportsFan35 8 років тому +1

    I wish they had played Skinner's line in that X-Files clip. His comeback to CSM there was one of my favorite Skinner scenes.

  • @freyab5066
    @freyab5066 8 років тому +5

    These stranger things costumes are the best!!!!

  • @avi2578
    @avi2578 4 роки тому

    Love that I can still watch this in 2020 and After Hours is one of the best things on UA-cam.

  • @DrMontgomeryMontgomery
    @DrMontgomeryMontgomery 7 років тому +3

    Was that ending a reference to the Black Mirror episode "White Bear" ?

  • @skiddni8665
    @skiddni8665 8 років тому

    I'm sooooooo glad u guys brought back after hours 😭😭😭😭😭 nvr stop plz

  • @kathrynpotts3318
    @kathrynpotts3318 6 років тому +3

    4:24 No-Maj is the American term for muggles, not what the muggles refer to be called.

  • @benthediceman1
    @benthediceman1 8 років тому +1

    Ah man, Love Actually struck a cord with me since day 1.
    It is terrifying for sure.

  • @abcamericanbullcrap3056
    @abcamericanbullcrap3056 8 років тому +3

    Ok, so, I have to point this out. "No-Maj" is just the American wizard's term for muggles. Muggle is still the right word, just for England.

  • @andrewjensen8128
    @andrewjensen8128 6 років тому

    I'm not sure if it is mentioned but Amelie is a horror movie. It is about a young woman who cannot emotionally connect to others and breaks into the homes and gaslights those she deems worthy of her vengeance. She also stalks the object of her affection; it's okay because she is attractive and he is also damaged.

  • @bridgethammond7
    @bridgethammond7 7 років тому +5

    If Rick Grimes came to my house with love cards I wouldn't be creeped out

  • @magicalwizard99
    @magicalwizard99 8 років тому

    Charlie Kaufman was approached to make a horror movie and he made Synecdoche, New York which isn't a traditional "boo" jump scare horror movie but more about the fear that you're a passive observer in your own life and time is just passing you by

  • @IrriguousValleys
    @IrriguousValleys 8 років тому +21

    flies to FRANCE ........ france. france

    • @stugod5000
      @stugod5000 8 років тому +18

      Yeah I thought it was Portugal he flies to

    • @ReelSchool
      @ReelSchool 8 років тому +1

      Guess that's the one movie they haven't actually watched.

    • @sharky0922
      @sharky0922 7 років тому

      its not france

    • @hugothepoet
      @hugothepoet 7 років тому +1

      it's France alright. Marseilles to be precise. Very high population of Portuguese there. They moved there in the 50's to escape their dictator.

    • @AlastairjCarruthers
      @AlastairjCarruthers 7 років тому +2

      Yup, he flew to Marseilles in France, where there's a large Portuguese population and where the restaurant Aurelia worked in is actually located in real life. The director has confirmed this.

  • @themr_wilson
    @themr_wilson 3 місяці тому

    5:49 "Stop, my brain can't not categorize these!" Felt that. Don't need to burn resources and storage space on those brilliant titles for a passing joke

  • @ItsMeTheSteph
    @ItsMeTheSteph 7 років тому +12

    "Dustin" got the muggle/no mag thing wrong. They don't prefer to be called no mag now. It's a difference of cultural slang. U.K. Peeps say Muggle and stateside it's no mag.
    PS Hufflepuffs rule!

    • @adaoraelliott9254
      @adaoraelliott9254 7 років тому +1

      Slytherin for the win.

    • @ItsMeTheSteph
      @ItsMeTheSteph 7 років тому +3

      Marvel. Thalia Clearly, you never saw the "honey badgers just don't give a f***" video. The badger rips a snake apart and just doesn't care. Again, Hufflepuffs rule! 👍🏻💪🏻🍕

    • @charlcielove21
      @charlcielove21 7 років тому

      Ravenclaw!!! And Wampus for my Ilvermorny house. Damn I'm a nerd.

    • @MykiiMescal
      @MykiiMescal 5 років тому

      Marvel. Thalia ravenclaw is an eagle. Eagles eat sneks

  • @_texas_pete_beats_the_meat4500
    @_texas_pete_beats_the_meat4500 5 років тому +1

    Hi, your favorite meat-beating bear Texas Pete from the future (2019). That black and white joke is risque but still brilliant in my society... We miss you guys...

  • @aaronclark6366
    @aaronclark6366 8 років тому +5

    Took me a while to realize Dan was dressed as Barb

    • @cainsoren8963
      @cainsoren8963 8 років тому +2

      Dicks out for HaramBarb #DicksoutforHaramBarb : )

    • @ufotofu9
      @ufotofu9 7 років тому

      Haha, I knew Swaim was Dustin, She was Hopper and Soren was El, but I thought he was somebody's mom. Then I got it. Barb. Haha, that's cute.

  • @Randallonion
    @Randallonion 2 роки тому +1

    Not me in 2022 rewatching every single one of these videos to give me some symbolism of happiness of the past while making the past sad 😭🤣

  • @bakaichigo
    @bakaichigo 7 років тому +3

    *Breathes deep and lets loose the inner nerd.* Aaaaaaaaaaaactually MUGGLES (Hogwarts is in the UK, not North America!) don't and can't stumble into Hogwarts because there are, and I quote *"Powerful muggle repelling charms on every inch of the grounds and castle"* which make it look like a mouldy, rotting old pile of debris and ruins that are fenced off and labeled as 'dangerous' and which cause approaching muggles to *"Spontaneously remember things they suddenly have to do"* causing them to always turn around and leave if they get close.
    :'D I tried so hard not to post, but suddenly I was here, writing. Do you even Potter, bros?!

    • @bakaichigo
      @bakaichigo 7 років тому

      Lol, was that Rick I saw in the clips from Love Actually? *CARL*

  • @danielnavarro3713
    @danielnavarro3713 5 місяців тому +1

    A comfort show I’ve been watching since it first posted! Now show on UA-cam like it

  • @hollymorgan4189
    @hollymorgan4189 8 років тому +5

    There are spells on the castle preventing muggles from seeing hogwarts or any other magic school.

    • @viljamtheninja
      @viljamtheninja 8 років тому +1

      But what if they actually go there on, like, a field trip and just happen to start bumping into walls and getting attacked by trees n shit?

    • @dasaunmcclinton68
      @dasaunmcclinton68 8 років тому +2

      viljamtheninja If they try to enter they get confused and turn around

    • @hollymorgan4189
      @hollymorgan4189 8 років тому +3

      viljamtheninja all they see is an old shack saying danger. And if they chose to enter they get confused and walk away

  • @Zakkleberg
    @Zakkleberg Рік тому

    The opening of this episode has my favorite "someone states something and gets proven wrong immediately" jokes ever

  • @brunofuentes3585
    @brunofuentes3585 8 років тому +6

    I love the costumes!!!!!!!!

  • @jayhlovelady
    @jayhlovelady 8 років тому

    This is instant gold; one of those episodes that is equal parts funny, insightful and actual brilliant ideas.

  • @M1ckTheMan
    @M1ckTheMan 8 років тому +6

    Felt that way about MIB for YEARS!

    • @ObaREX
      @ObaREX 8 років тому +1

      Read the comics, they pretty much admit to just trying to take over the world.

    • @M1ckTheMan
      @M1ckTheMan 8 років тому

      Edward Gil Heard that, yeah, probably because the writer knew what LOGIC is, but the movie people were all "Screw that, let's make them completely justified superheroes!"

    • @ObaREX
      @ObaREX 8 років тому

      yoshimickster Pretty much.
      Just look at the movie "Wanted."

    • @M1ckTheMan
      @M1ckTheMan 8 років тому

      Yeah, that seems more accurate...also, is the comic better? I legitimately ask because well...Mark Millar.

    • @ObaREX
      @ObaREX 8 років тому

      yoshimickster Well, I actually just bought the book a few weeks ago and haven't finished it yet.
      It's pretty good and the concept is pretty cool.
      It's not about some pro assassins just being... pro assassins.
      It's about a world where the super heroes have been erased from history, any that are remaining are crippled and have no memory of how things used to be.
      And it's kinda cool seeing a comic about villains without trying to make it seem like they are just misunderstood people. They are all bad people and we're just seeing them as themselves.
      That said, typical to Mark Millar fashion, it is filled with a lot of swearing and profanity. Some of the characters have some really dumb names. But that's sort of the point since in a way, it is satire on the super hero genre.

  • @daerdevvyl4314
    @daerdevvyl4314 6 років тому

    0:39 The best pickup line in history!
    "You ever wonder what it would be like to... die in a plane crash?"

  • @thomasadamo5350
    @thomasadamo5350 8 років тому +7

    Hogwarts is invisible to muggles, In the books it says that if a muggle stumbles on to the site they will just see a broken castle and a sign which says "danger stay out"

    • @phantom_knight25
      @phantom_knight25 8 років тому +3

      Thomas Adamo yeah but even if Hogwarts is invisible to a human and by chance a human stumbled upon the school what's stopping them from checking out the ruins. coz I know if I found a ruined castle in the middle of nowhere I would check it out.

    • @Mistershongmail
      @Mistershongmail 8 років тому

      The Unknown but them got also magically remember an important appointment you must attend that doesn't actually exist or something

    • @msjkramey
      @msjkramey 8 років тому

      Jayson Storm lots of times there's protection spells that make muggers suddenly remember that they have something very important to do and leave lol

    • @joserobertosolismerlin5527
      @joserobertosolismerlin5527 8 років тому

      The Unknown Hey dude i give you 10 pounds if you enter that spooky castle!

    • @Mistershongmail
      @Mistershongmail 8 років тому

      The Unknown doesn't matter magic lol

  • @eligra
    @eligra 7 років тому +1

    I love the Soren subplot they're working on.

  • @danpowers2398
    @danpowers2398 8 років тому +6

    Why is Rick Grimes using signs to flirt with some random chick?

    • @Gbeat-
      @Gbeat- 8 років тому +7

      Dan Powers The character is telling his best friend's fiancé he loves her, he using the signs because the guy is in the next room and doesn't want to make noise. It is as messed up as they made it sound lol

  • @kathrynpotts3318
    @kathrynpotts3318 6 років тому +1

    3:54 if you had read the pottermore articles (or you know, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), you would know Hogwarts have extensive muggle-repelling charms, including one that makes it appear to be ruins to a muggle. There's also a muggle-repelling charm making muggles suddenly "remember" something they had to do, but I’m not sure if those were placed on Hogwarts.

  • @jackmendoza5604
    @jackmendoza5604 8 років тому +7

    Is Daniel supposed to be Barbara going to heaven?

    • @EvilJohnny81
      @EvilJohnny81 8 років тому

      I was gonna say Madea.

    • @jackmendoza5604
      @jackmendoza5604 8 років тому +2

      But everyone is dressed up as characters from stranger things

    • @l.tc.5032
      @l.tc.5032 8 років тому

      Jack Mendoza Maybe

    • @jackmendoza5604
      @jackmendoza5604 8 років тому +11

      they are. Soren is El in her hospital gown. Mike is Dustin with the curly hair. Katie is Chief Hooper, and Daniel seems to be playing Barbara because of the glasses, but she never wore that white gown in the show. This leads me to believe that he is dressing up as the angel of Barbara as she ascends to heaven or something of that sort

  • @SakiChronicles
    @SakiChronicles 2 роки тому +1

    2017: "Who's going to stumble upon a secluded wizarding school? I mean, the whole success to the Harry Potter franchise is that muggles are oblivious to magic."
    2022: A muggle is walking around in Hogwarts in the new Fantastic Beasts movie.
    *Sigh* What a time to be alive.

  • @breckhodges3177
    @breckhodges3177 8 років тому +4

    Hogwarts is loaded with enchantments to keep muggles out

  • @That.Channel593
    @That.Channel593 7 років тому +1

    The best series from Cracked HANDS DOWN!

  • @Werewolf_Korra
    @Werewolf_Korra 8 років тому +4

    Ok, so I recognize Swaim as the fat kid from Stranger Things, but are the rest of them themed that way too?

    • @ryanwilliams9712
      @ryanwilliams9712 8 років тому +4

      noobmaster117 the others are dressed as Hopper, Barbara and Eleven.All also from stranger things

    • @sboyd8312
      @sboyd8312 8 років тому +2

      noobmaster117 Yes, Dan is Barb, Soren is Eleven, Katie is Hopper

    • @Werewolf_Korra
      @Werewolf_Korra 8 років тому

      Ryan Williams I would have gotten Eleven if Soren shaved his head.
      You need to commit to the part!

    • @logandh2
      @logandh2 8 років тому +2

      That kid isn't fat though.

    • @danyul4u186
      @danyul4u186 8 років тому

      logandh2 I mean he is though. He's definitely overweight

  • @cb034
    @cb034 8 років тому

    I know it was for comedy and theyre probably only using the movies, but the HP books explicitly state that there are charms around the school to make it seem like a crumbling decaying abandoned castle with a Keep Out sign in front. also No-Maj is only used in America