Not really anything truly unnerving until 9:12 when he opens the door and you just see someone who looks like they overdosed and some blurred man staring into the camera. Everything plays for comedic purpose
This kind of like threateningly uncomfortable atmosphere is perfect setup to horror, every scene is so sterile and surreal, the characters are so complacent with everything around them that they could just stumble into something horrifying or pull something out without warning; the unease you feel is a result of the fact these characters are so foreign and unpredictable, and that they could drop the viewer into something utterly disturbing at a moment's notice without any prior indication. The lungs were like a taster, a threat of what could potentially appear later in the short, but didn't. It leaves you expecting it to pay off something horrible at a moment's notice.
I agree, my favourite part was that at the start i was scared for the people in the house, then I gradually started to feel scared for the cowboy guy. And then I started fearing for my own safety.
damn great explanation, couldnt have said it any better. Thats why I love to come back to this one at random moments in my life: Even after having seen it many times, it still creates the atmosphere you described and the feeling I get while watching it is so absurd and off, there is barely anything else that does that to me and I cant tell if I love or "hate" it, it just is
It's so weird that I had the exact opposite reaction. I felt like this was a super mellow and friendly world, it's relaxing to watch. Everything is just so optimistic and everyone is open with eachother. I just don't get the uneasy horror thing, but maybe some of that is because I've seen his other stuff so I'm not as put off guard by the weird tone and dialogue.
Hello. Hi. What are you upping to? I am doing normal human activities. Do you want to go and have an ice cream? Acceptable. We shall aquire ice cream and discuss the common sports activities.
I love creepy unsettling things, so I wish horror films would drop the jumpscare bullshit. That isn't real horror, it's just triggering the same response someone shouting with a megaphone behind you does. I want to feel deeply unsettled, unable to tear my eyes away from something terrifying, not forced to go AHHHHHH and look away every 10 minutes.
But if you notice he isn't looking at any of the objects or people reflected in the mirror as is typical. He's looking at the mirror intently like it's a wall.
Alan Tutorial, This house has people in it unedited footage of a bear, visitor information, cry of man, family dance, live forever as you are now, icelandic ultra blue, too many cooks, children of the mirror, commencement speech. I really recommend Children of the mirror, visitor information and too many cooks. @@finkretana
This acting was phenomenal. No matter how bizarre it got, they never actually felt like actors. So unusual yet so natural. So uncomfortable yes so enthralling
"You look really funny dressed up as that that firefighter that you're dressed up as" killed me, it's lines like that that make this video feel just slightly outside of reality
I cannot comprehend what people enjoy, my only way to calm is to binge on my own comforts. Which can be toxic in its own nature. “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
It's exactly what the moments before a panic attack feels like. With a hefty dash of De-Realization/De-Personalization thrown in, too... like I'm watching events that should concern me unfold from some weird, detached distance, where I'm powerless to understand or do anything about it. I used to get that all the time after decades of secondary PTSD leading into regular and terrifying Sleep Paralysis attacks with bizarre hallucinations would leave me feeling weird and emotionally and psychically detached all day, sometimes punctuated by a panic attack when I come crashing back to earth after other people get too weird and I'm not able to get out of the interaction (such as coworkers I can't avoid escalating workplace drama around me that I can't get out of.) It would be at the point of the panic attack setting in that reality would seem less real than the sleep paralysis night-terror did, and my interactions with other people would feel like I'm watching a Monty Python sketch with John Cleese gone violently wrong (the sort where his characters wold start screaming and ranting and randomly hitting people with hammers), after a day of watching a real-life "May I Please Enter" unfold around me building up to that moment of nameless, irrational, uncontrollable panic out of nowhere, like someone suddenly turned the sound and emotion on.... I almost miss those sleep paralysis episodes now, there was something strangely comforting about even the most unsettling and disquieting De-Realization/De-Personalization experiences. I don't miss the panic attacks, though.
I think it's about how socializing is hard and awkward in the modern era, but still fun and worth doing. People dont even look like theyre having fun when theyre having fun, like with the funny costume photo. IRL is messier than movie versions, which is why the whole thing had that fake jangly music reality show veneer for juxtaposition. In the end people still had a good time and all of the anxiety was misplaced.
Sean Stevenson It states that if you make something not actually human look too human, it becomes off-putting. That's why the word "uncanny" is in the phrase.
My favorite part is the hand motion that he makes while saying “we eat the cookies”, shortly followed by the friendly whap. I laugh about that regularly.
Alan Resnick is legitimately one of my inspirations, he's somehow incredibly relatable and pleasant while being the strangest little man I've ever encountered. If I can meet him in person someday that would blow my mind, I sometimes wonder if he's this much of a nut in real life. What a strange man he is.
Jack Black I kinda suspect that the house owners are part of some sort of commune or tribe considering how they both wear white and dawn spiritual looking necklaces.
I think a theme here is deception. The first things they say to Alan are lies: "We BOTH decided to let you in our home.", and, "No, leave your shoes on." When she clearly didn't decide to let him in and everyone else is barefoot. Upon rewatching, they lie about a lot... "This is our soft couch." "We watch television in the night." "The other people are asleep." They seem a little off when he asks where they got the "animated sayings". The cookies and coffee looked more like cakes and water. Alan asks a lot of questions that would be obvious to spot a lie, like "what room is this?" and "is this the mirror?" John doesn't make any statements that might be considered an opinion. Their "weapon" is a huge set of lungs and John is disturbed by it. After being lied to back-to-back by John, Alan goes upstairs and is about to jump over the railing. ...that's all I've got for now. Edit: and the whole premise of the bit is that their home looks beautiful from the outside, when viewed from afar
All perfectly fine observations, except for the fact that I wouldn't call telling him to keep his shoes on a lie. Just because they're barefoot in their own home doesn't mean they want him to be. As odd as the interaction is, it's still not an actual lie such as telling Alan that the people are asleep when one man is awake and looking at him and the others appear dead. That's all I have to add.
The quick shifting of pacing and tone from literally every shot shows Resnick's mastery as a jack of all. It feels discombobulated, it reminds me of when I'm in a manic episode, and also resembles what schitzofrenic people describe their life as, shattered perspectives that at the end can leave you confused and wandering. Much like Alan in the short, wandering from peice to piece, wondering what a full life could be.
@@ShadowStalky58052 SAME dude its uncanny. The random dissasociations, the leering eyes, random bouts of almost incoherent laughter, the slight hallucinations. Something about this video always felt familiarly freaky and I just couldnt put my finger on it until I read this
The shot of the the actual "dress-up" photograph is a clue that we have an unreliable narrator. Maybe he's on drugs, and the people are just going along with him because they are scared that he will get violent.
Wait.... this was actually reminds me of a Korean cable TV show called 한끼줍쇼 (Hankki Jubsyo) or 'Let's Have Dinner Together' as the english title. The show has 2 MCs, basically going around some neighborhood, and ask some households/families on that neighborhood if they want to have dinner together before the clock strikes 8 p.m. They sometimes have guests with them and competing as 2 different teams. If there happens to be no families want to have dinner together with them, they are considered lose (although there is no punishment whatsoever, bcs this show is, I think supposed to be 'healing', considering it was aired every Wednesday at night). If there happens to he 1 family willing to have dinner together with them, well, the MCs and crew going into the house, as the crew also films the dinner preparation of each household, while the MCs are often talk with the family abt pretty much everything (how many years they've been livinh in that house, how was the first encounter between the husband and wife, what kind of job the family do everyfay, etc etc), so I think this was like a twisted version of that show, but i also watched some Alan Resnick stuffs, and it's a bit wholesome compared to his other works hshdhd
I got some social media vibes from it. "May I Please Enter?" roughly equates to a friend request. Alan is an online persona of someone. The hosts showing the house is representative of them showing their posts. The photo section represents how we want to show ourselves at our best online, but the truth is sometimes the opposite. The sayings on shelf are just memes. The overarching theme is that social media is kind of a shitty way for humans to communicate with one another. ANyways, just my interpretation. The whole thing as a package is well done.
Man, confused messaging is clearly the theme of this video. It immediately starts by tilting back and forth between a horror film and “This Old Home” sort of show. He politely asks to enter their home, but his demeanor is anything but polite. She expresses serious fear about him entering their home, but then agree to let him in for 5 minutes (which ends up being way more than 5 minutes). The point of this entire thing is that things shift between two contradicting states and therefore it’s unreasonable to try to find a one-to-one correlation between this and anything else.
This is my favorite one of these that Alan's done. All the others seem so sinister and mean spirited, but this one almost feels wholesome by the end. It's sort of an allegory for "Letting someone in" initially it's really awkward and scary, but at the end it leaves you asking a lot of questions about yourself and enriching you through a shared experience.
Alan feels like a parent dropping in unannounced to visit their grown children: judge their living conditions, friends, political views, the friends family life etc. There's the commentary about a younger generation living in a houses together without any familial or romantic connection. John's hunching over in his chair like he's embarrassed, walking away from conversations when something controversial like the 'weapon' appears in the hallway. Alan even wearing what appears to be a dress at the end. Then there's the bit about Amy not trusting him because he's dressed like a colonialist, referencing a generation that took everything without apologizing or trying to make up for it. She seems kind of passive aggressive and resentful of Alan's present throughout. I don't know, maybe I'm just thinking about the holidays coming up. Could mean something else.
hm. they said they got their animated sayings from the internet. Alan went from interested to disappointed. might be a jab at how older people don't jive with technology.
@@autumnnicole1043 PLEASE try to learn some on your own, this one is very easy to interpret in your own ways and make theories as their are no codes, like thhpii
There's neckbeard cunts screaming like headless chooks about the "feminazi white genocide" because of the white jokes in there. You do not want those people reading into the subtext. They turn the subtext of everything into "white people are victims"
How. How do they do that. Keeping my mind from ever fully grasping what I’m watching. It’s a little draining actually. Continuously absorbing something new for 11 minutes and 13 seconds.
I didn’t like how he brought all of those cookies and that coffee, and how the coffee was clear. Where was he keeping that stuff? He didn’t have a bag upon entering the home?
I want someone too look at me the same way Alan stared and reached at John in the "cookies" scene. Also we need a 24/ live stream of Alan, Alan is love, Alan is life.
alan resnicks work is an amazing example of doing horror correctly. no jump scares or scary music, but rather an uncomforting atmosphere that keeps you on the edge of your seat, along with seemingly inhuman objects and actions.
This one has a really nice vibe to it. Just goes to show that you shouldn't be afraid of someone for being a little weird, you might just make a new friend who shares your love of cookies, coffee, and a little experimental biological weapons technology too!
I keep re-watching the intro, it terrifies me! That happy reality show exterior mixed with the chaotic manipulative energy of the character Alan plays: “May I please enter right now?!” says so much. 😬 I’ll definitely be back to dig into this further.
Man I got crazy Twin Peak's season 3 vibes when he first was going up those stairs at the start, and it did not stop being lynchian for any other part.
My favorite part is at 5:13 because of how genuinely unnatural it all feels. He gets off the couch as if the footage is reversed and proceeds to walk to and up the stairs in a way that looks really unnatural. I can't tell if the footage was reversed or if Resnick was such a good actor and the camera movements were so good that he made it look like it was.
At first I thought the cowboy guy was going to turn out to be a vampire because of the myth that vampires can only enter homes when invited in. He was strangely persistent in entering. I wonder if this video has any meaning to it or if it is just supposed to be random, strange, and uncomfortable to give a sense of humor.
Oh bro, you didn't get the real meaning? It's a metaphor for existance man the house is life and mr cowboy is the inner child and the chinese chick is God, bro get woke
i think it represents how america (the cowboy) likes to enter other peoples countries (homes), then force other people to explain their culture only to force individuals to comply and conform to american ideas
This is like what a child thinks being an adult is like
What demonic children do you spend time with?
I got the same feeling. It's like they were all acting out a skit out of the imagination of 5 year olds.
9:21 backs up this comment
Maybe adults should act better.
@@josiahpryor2073 it was intentional, they are acting good because it was meant to seem extremely awkward and surreal
I love how nothing actually scary happens, yet still manages to be super unnerving.
Not really anything truly unnerving until 9:12 when he opens the door and you just see someone who looks like they overdosed and some blurred man staring into the camera. Everything plays for comedic purpose
I love how odd it is.
I think the music really helps with that
that door bell was pretty scary
I find the video funny. It's still a little creepy but mostly funny
I hope Alan makes a movie one day. I want to be trapped in a chair for an hour and a half and made uncomfortable the whole way through
Thanksgiving is coming at my house
It's gonna be a blue chair
In the meantime you could always watch a David Lynch movie like Eraserhead or Inland Empire.
he said he wants to make one on the podcast
123 456 which podcast?
This kind of like threateningly uncomfortable atmosphere is perfect setup to horror, every scene is so sterile and surreal, the characters are so complacent with everything around them that they could just stumble into something horrifying or pull something out without warning; the unease you feel is a result of the fact these characters are so foreign and unpredictable, and that they could drop the viewer into something utterly disturbing at a moment's notice without any prior indication. The lungs were like a taster, a threat of what could potentially appear later in the short, but didn't. It leaves you expecting it to pay off something horrible at a moment's notice.
I agree, my favourite part was that at the start i was scared for the people in the house, then I gradually started to feel scared for the cowboy guy. And then I started fearing for my own safety.
damn great explanation, couldnt have said it any better. Thats why I love to come back to this one at random moments in my life: Even after having seen it many times, it still creates the atmosphere you described and the feeling I get while watching it is so absurd and off, there is barely anything else that does that to me and I cant tell if I love or "hate" it, it just is
You just blew my fucking mind
It's so weird that I had the exact opposite reaction. I felt like this was a super mellow and friendly world, it's relaxing to watch. Everything is just so optimistic and everyone is open with eachother.
I just don't get the uneasy horror thing, but maybe some of that is because I've seen his other stuff so I'm not as put off guard by the weird tone and dialogue.
Duh
Alan is a vampire. He must ask for permission to enter a home or he cannot.
Brandon C we need more vampire cowboys in media
@@vantablack8468 or a demon
@@vantablack8468 Lil nas X in rodeo lmfao
Cheese! Give a spoiler warning much?
No he put his foot into their house to block the door
I still think he’s a vampire though
This feels to me like three AIs trying to simulate humans communicating with each other
Hello.
Hi.
What are you upping to?
I am doing normal human activities.
Do you want to go and have an ice cream?
Acceptable. We shall aquire ice cream and discuss the common sports activities.
That's exactly what I was thinking, it's uncanny...
This is what living as one of the AI in "Live Forever As You Are Now" is like.
Resnick: become human
I thought that said “AL” as in “short for Alan” and tbh both work
Horror film directors could learn a thing or two from alan, creating an unsettling environment goes along way for developing nightmare fuel
I love creepy unsettling things, so I wish horror films would drop the jumpscare bullshit. That isn't real horror, it's just triggering the same response someone shouting with a megaphone behind you does. I want to feel deeply unsettled, unable to tear my eyes away from something terrifying, not forced to go AHHHHHH and look away every 10 minutes.
There’s something similar here with David Lynch’s work. This somehow reminded me of Inland Empire wich has an unsettling mood
Ari Aster does a wonderful job with this in his movies. Go and watch Midsommar for example
Tell that to those Hollywood hacks.
"Nah lets just do a bunch of jumpscares"
This looks like it was made by Martian high school students as their cultural presentation project after their first semester of Earth Studies.
This is exactly what it seems like.
Teacher: “B+, very good effort! Remember that human weapons are metal, and that humans only sleep during their night cycle!”
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That is EXACTLY what this is like omg
THE NATIVES WELCOME THE PILGRIM, THEN THEY PLAY AND HAVE FUN.
Imagine being so wealthy that your body stopped moving
I wish!
My body stopped moving.
It was disability.
Define wealth?
That's what it's like to own a house.
I ate horse
No shit that’s what I think
*intensively looks into mirror*
“Is this the mirror?”
My favorite line
looks can be deceiving
But if you notice he isn't looking at any of the objects or people reflected in the mirror as is typical. He's looking at the mirror intently like it's a wall.
I have never seen an Alan Resnick project that doesn’t fill me with joy and confusion
And sometimes dread.
can you name them all? i have seen this, footage of a bear and this house has people in it
Fink Alt alantutorial
Alan Tutorial, This house has people in it unedited footage of a bear, visitor information, cry of man, family dance, live forever as you are now, icelandic ultra blue, too many cooks, children of the mirror, commencement speech. I really recommend Children of the mirror, visitor information and too many cooks. @@finkretana
@@dfiers5943 I don't think they did Icelandic Ultrablue or Too Many Cooks...
Alan Resnick on his continuing series "Trying to be a regular person and failing""
Alan is the king of bringing fever dreams to life.
DougWildeTV explain pleade
It's not even "slow burn" comedy - it's like you find yourself laughing LATER after you're done seeing it
David Lynch though?
him and lynch definitely
“I think the news is getting way too political.”
*long awkward silence*
He knows too much
when your family discusses politics
He’s right!😁
tutorials are for kids
She thinks that cowboy are colonialists, of course she drank a bit too much kool aid.
That was the most uncomfortable 9 hours of my life
Wait what do you mean it was only 11 minutes?
Tell me, do you believe in gravity?
@Gary Winthorp oh boy here i go
i regret everything
I wish it was longer.
it was an inside hijab
the part where they were all laughing about the bathing suit bubble genuinely made me very happy
Sameeee!
Same! Very wholesome 😊
Damn, this house has people in it
~people~ A Weapon (im trying to do reddit strikethru but cant figure it out sorry)
This is so sad, we live in a house
@@LittleDinkens ~house~ cHiLd
@@gabrielgarza8245 Alexa, may i please enter?
And it’s not ever edited
ADULT SWIM, can you PLEASE give Alan Resnick his own show??
start a petition
I fear it would burn him out, and the novelty would wear off, I enjoy how they just randomly drop his shit.
the novelty is already worn off
SERIOUSLY
@@Arkain89 lol you so wrong kid
This acting was phenomenal. No matter how bizarre it got, they never actually felt like actors.
So unusual yet so natural.
So uncomfortable yes so enthralling
Just watch it again but imagine all actors are 5yo kids and this will make a lot more sense.
I'd like to think that in their universe, this is normal, and they've actually become really good friends.
i mean this is pretty much how you build friendships in the sims games sooooo
I thought the residents were going to be the normal people, but then they turned out to not be and I expected Alan to be normal. Then I was terrified.
I didn't know who to be more afraid of by the end, a truly confusing and bipolar experience.
I love how they're all smiling and posing, ready to take the picture at 10:00, but then it shows them just leering at the camera.
Alan is the 'images you can hear' meme personified to me
Quibilicious somehow this makes sense and I don’t know why. It just does
Unedited footage of this beautiful house with people in it
Oh my god
Too many cooks live there.
Wish they had someone on these houses to show us tutorials
@dizisill yeah, but what if they get locked out?
@@mixedexplosion3114 maybe they’d make some news after?
You really know when your social skills have degraded is when you don’t feel really uncomfortable or awkward from these confrontations.
Sameeee
First i was nervous then half way through i was happy then scared then happy again.
Fear, fear drives us... Because you can reheat your spaghetti, but you can't reheat your life.
😂😂😂😂 omg
In an analytical world
"I dont respect smaller white men"
"Oh wow"
Sure as hell he's spreading Lynks disease all over their lovely house.
Hopefully alan can give us a tutorial on how to get rid of lynk disease in your house
@@TheG_Boy only if alantutorial ever made it out of the woods
I blame Sam!!!!!
No Alan has cured himself by playing with Clay
Better get some clay!
"You look really funny dressed up as that that firefighter that you're dressed up as" killed me, it's lines like that that make this video feel just slightly outside of reality
it was perfect
“We got these animated sayings online”.
GENIUS
GIFnious
This is like a Google Dreams generated idea of being human
That is the most accurate description...
Agreed keys agreed
Great description.
Hahaaaa
This is a weapon we own.
We keep it here.
That's really cool. I really love that, I think that's so cool.
this room is the hallway.
Is this your soft couch?
@@ASadPorkChop
.....yes.
That's suck
please come into my house alan
Maciek you know that we don't tolerate strangers, leave and wait an appropriate amount of time to return. Thank you and good day.
@x5dgr Thanks for the offer but no
Or my eyes
I entered a house once- it was awesome.
is your house that nice?
this makes me feel an emotion that hasnt yet been invented
"Unsettled" a generic term for an unidentified negative emotion.
Dorcelessness
@@prismimic H U M B E R
this video is what a panic attack feels like
it totally is
I cannot comprehend what people enjoy, my only way to calm is to binge on my own comforts. Which can be toxic in its own nature. “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
I was thinking that the entire time
It's exactly what the moments before a panic attack feels like. With a hefty dash of De-Realization/De-Personalization thrown in, too... like I'm watching events that should concern me unfold from some weird, detached distance, where I'm powerless to understand or do anything about it.
I used to get that all the time after decades of secondary PTSD leading into regular and terrifying Sleep Paralysis attacks with bizarre hallucinations would leave me feeling weird and emotionally and psychically detached all day, sometimes punctuated by a panic attack when I come crashing back to earth after other people get too weird and I'm not able to get out of the interaction (such as coworkers I can't avoid escalating workplace drama around me that I can't get out of.)
It would be at the point of the panic attack setting in that reality would seem less real than the sleep paralysis night-terror did, and my interactions with other people would feel like I'm watching a Monty Python sketch with John Cleese gone violently wrong (the sort where his characters wold start screaming and ranting and randomly hitting people with hammers), after a day of watching a real-life "May I Please Enter" unfold around me building up to that moment of nameless, irrational, uncontrollable panic out of nowhere, like someone suddenly turned the sound and emotion on....
I almost miss those sleep paralysis episodes now, there was something strangely comforting about even the most unsettling and disquieting De-Realization/De-Personalization experiences. I don't miss the panic attacks, though.
no
I guess he’s coming to their house and asking them lots of personal questions to allow them to live forever
Alan's projects are always deeply unsettling. This one feels so... wholesome... it makes me feel unsettled...
Yeah, nothing more "wholesome" than a blatantly racist sign smack dab in the middle of the video. SMH
their*@JocelynLaVelle
I think it's about how socializing is hard and awkward in the modern era, but still fun and worth doing. People dont even look like theyre having fun when theyre having fun, like with the funny costume photo. IRL is messier than movie versions, which is why the whole thing had that fake jangly music reality show veneer for juxtaposition. In the end people still had a good time and all of the anxiety was misplaced.
@@headshot519 Wow... I really like this!
dave idmarx Is that a legitimate complaint, given the context of the video and the fact that it included “smaller than me”?
I like it ^^ I like how the social interactions fall into the "uncanny valley". Almost something considered as normal but a little bit off.
The Uncanny Valley merely states the more human something looks, the cuter it becomes.
Sean Stevenson very wrong friend
Sean Stevenson
It states that if you make something not actually human look too human, it becomes off-putting. That's why the word "uncanny" is in the phrase.
@@Saif-zf9vb Very wrong
@@Melvin7727 yes I am aware. Was playing off the cute rock bit lol. Obviously not a joke I should keep.
The gesture he makes when he explains the idea of eating cookies gives me life.
My favorite part is the hand motion that he makes while saying “we eat the cookies”, shortly followed by the friendly whap. I laugh about that regularly.
4:06 they lied. this appears to be a shoes-off household.
Foot fetish
If you are trepidatious about letting someone into your house and you might want them to leave, you’ll want them to keep their shoes on.
Alan Resnick is legitimately one of my inspirations, he's somehow incredibly relatable and pleasant while being the strangest little man I've ever encountered. If I can meet him in person someday that would blow my mind, I sometimes wonder if he's this much of a nut in real life. What a strange man he is.
Finn Lahey He is too precious.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say you think he's weird
He's actually pretty cool and seemingly normal. Nice guy.
Why little?
Finn Lahey too bad he stole all his ideas from David Cross. He’s literally a sham
The subtext that it took 6 people to afford that house was not lost on me.
The two other people who rented the home aren't related or even dating, they're just a random set of co-renters who happened to be awake.
Jack Black I kinda suspect that the house owners are part of some sort of commune or tribe considering how they both wear white and dawn spiritual looking necklaces.
Kahzu Well, I would be more than willing to see what you think
@@persononline123 they dont, they are a fucking NPC
@@schoolsout901 ah, the beginnings of psychosis
His voice went all Allantutorial at 9:40 there
@Jared Burgess literally said “thanks Alan”
"He's a white cowboy in boots, Doesn't that remind you of something?"
*DID SOMEBODY RING THE DINKSTER?*
I think a theme here is deception. The first things they say to Alan are lies: "We BOTH decided to let you in our home.", and, "No, leave your shoes on." When she clearly didn't decide to let him in and everyone else is barefoot.
Upon rewatching, they lie about a lot... "This is our soft couch." "We watch television in the night." "The other people are asleep." They seem a little off when he asks where they got the "animated sayings". The cookies and coffee looked more like cakes and water.
Alan asks a lot of questions that would be obvious to spot a lie, like "what room is this?" and "is this the mirror?"
John doesn't make any statements that might be considered an opinion.
Their "weapon" is a huge set of lungs and John is disturbed by it.
After being lied to back-to-back by John, Alan goes upstairs and is about to jump over the railing.
...that's all I've got for now.
Edit: and the whole premise of the bit is that their home looks beautiful from the outside, when viewed from afar
All perfectly fine observations, except for the fact that I wouldn't call telling him to keep his shoes on a lie. Just because they're barefoot in their own home doesn't mean they want him to be. As odd as the interaction is, it's still not an actual lie such as telling Alan that the people are asleep when one man is awake and looking at him and the others appear dead. That's all I have to add.
And when they take that picture, they all appear happy. But after the photo comes out, they all look bored.
Almost everything said here was not accurate?
Kyle Mills Err... What?
Did anyone else notice the middle picture slightly change when Alan asked if anyone else lived in the house at 8:52 ?
God damn shia lebouf actin crazy again
OH DAMN IKR HE LOOKS LIKE SHIA LOL
HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US
@@rektyrektingson4668 but he will come into your house
Now that you say it, I can't unsee it.
MINDBLOWN
The quick shifting of pacing and tone from literally every shot shows Resnick's mastery as a jack of all. It feels discombobulated, it reminds me of when I'm in a manic episode, and also resembles what schitzofrenic people describe their life as, shattered perspectives that at the end can leave you confused and wandering. Much like Alan in the short, wandering from peice to piece, wondering what a full life could be.
This definitely reminds me of my manic episodes too
Clazified Jack of all, master none.
@@ShadowStalky58052 SAME dude its uncanny. The random dissasociations, the leering eyes, random bouts of almost incoherent laughter, the slight hallucinations. Something about this video always felt familiarly freaky and I just couldnt put my finger on it until I read this
"Is that music?"
"It's not real music"
The shot of the the actual "dress-up" photograph is a clue that we have an unreliable narrator. Maybe he's on drugs, and the people are just going along with him because they are scared that he will get violent.
Underrated two year old comment.
@@Ad-im1ne Agreed, also I'll never stop loving this video
Oh...wow yeah that could be it, damn that's dark
Wait.... this was actually reminds me of a Korean cable TV show called 한끼줍쇼 (Hankki Jubsyo) or 'Let's Have Dinner Together' as the english title. The show has 2 MCs, basically going around some neighborhood, and ask some households/families on that neighborhood if they want to have dinner together before the clock strikes 8 p.m. They sometimes have guests with them and competing as 2 different teams. If there happens to be no families want to have dinner together with them, they are considered lose (although there is no punishment whatsoever, bcs this show is, I think supposed to be 'healing', considering it was aired every Wednesday at night). If there happens to he 1 family willing to have dinner together with them, well, the MCs and crew going into the house, as the crew also films the dinner preparation of each household, while the MCs are often talk with the family abt pretty much everything (how many years they've been livinh in that house, how was the first encounter between the husband and wife, what kind of job the family do everyfay, etc etc), so I think this was like a twisted version of that show, but i also watched some Alan Resnick stuffs, and it's a bit wholesome compared to his other works hshdhd
Thanks so much, I'm gonna see if I can watch this!!!
Thanks so much, I'm gonna see if I can watch this!!!
5:29 when an NPC notices you going up the stairs in their house
Basically just skyrim/oblivion
I got some social media vibes from it. "May I Please Enter?" roughly equates to a friend request. Alan is an online persona of someone. The hosts showing the house is representative of them showing their posts. The photo section represents how we want to show ourselves at our best online, but the truth is sometimes the opposite. The sayings on shelf are just memes. The overarching theme is that social media is kind of a shitty way for humans to communicate with one another. ANyways, just my interpretation. The whole thing as a package is well done.
pretty good especially the analogy wit the friend request.
privileged leftist facebook in a nutshell
Man, confused messaging is clearly the theme of this video. It immediately starts by tilting back and forth between a horror film and “This Old Home” sort of show. He politely asks to enter their home, but his demeanor is anything but polite. She expresses serious fear about him entering their home, but then agree to let him in for 5 minutes (which ends up being way more than 5 minutes). The point of this entire thing is that things shift between two contradicting states and therefore it’s unreasonable to try to find a one-to-one correlation between this and anything else.
Pretty solid interpretation
Or its just another weird adult swim video like it is
5:11 to 5:30 - That reverse shot was epic.
I like how the camera person was filming from within the house before he was even allowed in
I love how he simply walk into the wall at 6:25.
Alan Resnick always manages to make me feel several new kinds of uncomfortable I have never felt before And That's Fine
One of those artists you see and immediately like it before even watching it.
exactly. Resnick is a god at this shit
"Is this your soft couch?"
🤨 "..................yes"
This is how social interactions would work if everyone was suddenly me.
should i just do this every few days
who wouldn't want to have alan come to their door?
He had better stay away if he knows what's good for him.
I would be so scarred
I would give him a hug :D
He has lynks
I love your meth ravaged face drawing avatar.
This is some David Lynch type nightmare
Red Dead 2 DLC trailer?
gameplay
This is RDR2 online multiplayer gameplay. Camp customization looks amazing!
I heard this is just a fake rdr3 leak
Yes!
M P u win
I love how the cowboy dude of far from the only bizarre part of this skit, the interior of the house and their interactions are even more surreal
This feels like what watching TV when you're seconds from falling asleep feels like
This is my favorite one of these that Alan's done. All the others seem so sinister and mean spirited, but this one almost feels wholesome by the end.
It's sort of an allegory for "Letting someone in" initially it's really awkward and scary, but at the end it leaves you asking a lot of questions about yourself and enriching you through a shared experience.
Yessssssss this comment clicked it for me. Now the animated signs make so much more sense.
Alan feels like a parent dropping in unannounced to visit their grown children: judge their living conditions, friends, political views, the friends family life etc. There's the commentary about a younger generation living in a houses together without any familial or romantic connection. John's hunching over in his chair like he's embarrassed, walking away from conversations when something controversial like the 'weapon' appears in the hallway. Alan even wearing what appears to be a dress at the end. Then there's the bit about Amy not trusting him because he's dressed like a colonialist, referencing a generation that took everything without apologizing or trying to make up for it. She seems kind of passive aggressive and resentful of Alan's present throughout. I don't know, maybe I'm just thinking about the holidays coming up. Could mean something else.
RollandDynasty sounds pretty spot on in my opinion
hm. they said they got their animated sayings from the internet. Alan went from interested to disappointed. might be a jab at how older people don't jive with technology.
@@SoulSukkur Reminded me of memes in particular.
the weapon is lungs (speech)
this is pretty much a leftist social media account
@@Agaetis181 I Allan actually red pilled?
This is a weapon we own.
Yup this pretty much what living in San Fransisco is like.
8:53 - what was that in the reflection of the glass above Alan?
Hey, Coyote Peterson here! And I’m about to enter... this house!
Phillip Kao LMAO
I wish Alan would come to my house, turn my doorbell into a noodle, and then compliment my weapon.
im trying too hard to understand even a bit of this
(TW - a joke) Someone page Night Mind so he can get on an explanation video.
@@autumnnicole1043 PLEASE try to learn some on your own, this one is very easy to interpret in your own ways and make theories as their are no codes, like thhpii
and if your wondering how i know this, this was on the adult swim website, before it went to youtube
*Likewise*
@@autumnnicole1043 Yes, I too can't wait for some shitty UA-camr to tell me what to think.
Alan would make a great Shia Labeouf impersonator.
I hand to god thought that's who I was looking at for a second there
My first thought was how they could play believable Brothers in a movie.
He's also make a great Christopher Moltisanti.
The subtext is that Alan is a vampire who can only enter if welcomed in.
thats kind of antisemitic.
@@SCWood bruh I'm literally Jewish and ur nothing.
Oooh got 'im
@@spacesponge8732 I lol'd.
He's got chutz and nuts.
@@hendrik6720 actually technically vampires are a critique of surplus profit extraction.
Can't wait for somebody to analyse this and have every detail make sense
Never
There's neckbeard cunts screaming like headless chooks about the "feminazi white genocide" because of the white jokes in there. You do not want those people reading into the subtext. They turn the subtext of everything into "white people are victims"
Yeah thanks I'm gonna comment here so I'll remember to come back to this video
@@BibleStorm …What?
How. How do they do that. Keeping my mind from ever fully grasping what I’m watching. It’s a little draining actually. Continuously absorbing something new for 11 minutes and 13 seconds.
I didn’t like how he brought all of those cookies and that coffee, and how the coffee was clear. Where was he keeping that stuff? He didn’t have a bag upon entering the home?
This is what it feels like to try and be normal while on a bunch of acid.
I'm crazy. I watch this every morning, and am somehow left with a feeling of hope for the future at the end every time.
I love the idea of having something and someone else doesn't know what it is and just saying "yea, this is a weapon"
The new season of Westworld is weird...
Yay new Alan Resnick content!
ETA - Already so glad I saw this hit my dash. The writing and editing are incredible, as always.
I want someone too look at me the same way Alan stared and reached at John in the "cookies" scene. Also we need a 24/ live stream of Alan, Alan is love, Alan is life.
Insania Nevi YES PREACH!
alan resnicks work is an amazing example of doing horror correctly. no jump scares or scary music, but rather an uncomforting atmosphere that keeps you on the edge of your seat, along with seemingly inhuman objects and actions.
I remember seeing this on AS at 3 ish in the morning, and I swear, Alan has appeared every week in my dreams since.
1:25 Jesus Christ
I need a 13-episode contract immediately for this show
Is this going to be a series? I'd let Alan Resnick into my home.
he really does do a good job of making it feel litterally like a dream its freaky. some feeling that I cant describe are captured perfectly wtf
"May I Please Enter?" ...do you want to get vampires? Because that's how you get vampires.
This one has a really nice vibe to it. Just goes to show that you shouldn't be afraid of someone for being a little weird, you might just make a new friend who shares your love of cookies, coffee, and a little experimental biological weapons technology too!
Nice try Nosferatu! I know you are saying this to make us morals more willing to let you in your blood sucking fiend!
I keep re-watching the intro, it terrifies me! That happy reality show exterior mixed with the chaotic manipulative energy of the character Alan plays: “May I please enter right now?!” says so much. 😬 I’ll definitely be back to dig into this further.
Man I got crazy Twin Peak's season 3 vibes when he first was going up those stairs at the start, and it did not stop being lynchian for any other part.
My favorite part is at 5:13 because of how genuinely unnatural it all feels.
He gets off the couch as if the footage is reversed and proceeds to walk to and up the stairs in a way that looks really unnatural. I can't tell if the footage was reversed or if Resnick was such a good actor and the camera movements were so good that he made it look like it was.
It’s reversed
Alan has this kind of child-like wonder that makes him slightly unsettling but charming at the same time.
if someone's interested - the ending song is "good lifestyle" by ray davies
At first I thought the cowboy guy was going to turn out to be a vampire because of the myth that vampires can only enter homes when invited in. He was strangely persistent in entering. I wonder if this video has any meaning to it or if it is just supposed to be random, strange, and uncomfortable to give a sense of humor.
Oh bro, you didn't get the real meaning? It's a metaphor for existance man the house is life and mr cowboy is the inner child and the chinese chick is God, bro get woke
its both
i think it represents how america (the cowboy) likes to enter other peoples countries (homes), then force other people to explain their culture only to force individuals to comply and conform to american ideas
It feels like it's just a goofy and comically disturbing sketch.
GamerNation probs but it’s fun to try and make sense of this random shit, some I’m just gonna keep doing it
Goddamn I love Alan Resnick and his soft, featureless face
John Hogan Featureless? I'm pretty sure his beard is the MAIN feature. 😂
@John Hogan ) People say he is small like a tiny baby, but that's not true.
I love he just walks casually to the wall 6:26
This feels like a video you would watch in a high school class where you’re learning to speak English.