And honestly I'm glad. Kids need some wholesome silliness in their lives. It helps them fight against the void of horrific depression that is adulthood.
My favorite genre of middle school girl books back in the early 2010s was “group of intelligent animals with their own detailed government systems and religious beliefs go on big adventures in the forest (also there’s a surprising amount of death and you will cry your 12 year-old eyes out).”
I remember trying to read one of those, one line wrote “He looked delicious in a gray top and khakis” Ever since then, I STILL frequently wear gray tops and khakis. Just tryna look delicious out here.
Super accurate, when you said "scoundrels, outlaws, and punks" I knew it was going to be one of those books that tries to make historical figures cool with the youth
And the cover has an ink of George Washington recolored in a pop art style with neon blue and orange, maybe there’s sunglasses and a bubblegum bubble somewhere.
where the fuck were they finding those and how were they getting hooked on volume 1. I never managed to ask. I used to think Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief was one of those books but I've seen some absolutely crazy ones in the past.
Middle school books for girls are either the same vibe “boys are gross life is embarrassing” or young girls single handedly fighting a fascist regime and cause shes perfect and badass
woah this just made me realize how fast the time passed. i used to read these books in elementary school imagining about what middle school and high school would be like, and now it’s over. graduated and onto other things. i was just checking out a book on library day, now im paying bills. SOBBING
There's The Simpson''s joke where Flanders hands out Biblical trading cards and the kids love it at first but then Flander's says "see, I knew this would make learning about the Bible fun" and the kids are like "learning? you tricked us". That's pretty much how school happens
Same here lol. I read the lord of the rings trilogy as a second grader and read almost nothing but middle grade fantasy for a while. It’s a step down lol but I had an addiction as a kid.
Don't forget about The Maze Of Burp Fartkus. The book about a mischievous but lovable goblin who traps people in his maze of fun and riddles. Although it was a bit weird in the third book when Burp Fartkus had an existential crisis after falling through a portal to NYC
@@uflstallions_dynasty Even longer apparently. My dad was a kid in the 60s and I remember him telling me about the works of Seymour Butt's as well as his contemporary I.P Daley.
@uflstallions_dynasty yep, that was our go-to when I was a kid in the 70s. During the disco era he wrote under the pseudonym Seymour Booties. And we also talked about I.P. Freely, but I can't remember what he wrote.
I don't know exactly how to explain it, but the tongue flicks/movements, as well as the arm movement and placement at the end, are all a part of the actual titles as well.
I STILL HAVE THAT BLACK PIRATE-OLOGY BOOK TOWARD THE END. WAS EPIC AROUND THE TIME PotC 2 AND 3 CAME OUT! Those are great books for kids, and they make them for all sorts of subjects
My mom worked as a nurse, so my brother was more comfortable talking to her about puberty rather than our deadbeat dad. If she didn't know the answer she would just ask one of her male coworkers about it.
Bro he’s not talking about your childhood he’s talking about kids born in the late 80s to about 1995…. We grew up in a magical time, that unfortunately you will never get to experience
In 4th grade (2001), I bought a copy of The Day My Butt Went Psycho from the school Book Fair, then when I got back to class, my teacher Mrs. Harness said that even though i bought it from the Book Fair she was still confiscating it because it said "butt". Like it says "Scholastic" on the cover. To this day it's still one of my favorite anecdotes from school lol.
Talk all the crap you want about em’, there still all pretty cool books. The Pirateology book especially. I even got a second copy a couple Christmases back it was that good, the art is totally badass!
well this stuff got me into reading and i'm still doing it so i'm very glad things like this exist to engage with young boys and cultivate a love for knowledge and fiction.
I know that compass book sick as hell pirate book. bro I read it with friends with some of its pages missing it had secret messages and we spent a couple week deduced what the secret messages were like it was my first experience with cryptology
I was always reading some sort of history book. I liked some I guess “feminine” topics like princesses or something but the Revolutionary War had a chokehold on me for a long time.
I would love to see the Gordon take on a non-descript show about old ladies all retired in Florida in their Golden years. All sass, but we learn some lessons along the way 😅
Anybody else spend their boyhood years reading encyclopaedias and classic novels? I feel like people have absurdly low expectations for what boys will read on their own. All they really need is an exciting jacket cover as a hook (except for the Brittanicas; they had great pictures!)...
And the “Do not read this book! (Unless you wanna be an awesome ninja)” almost never actually pertains to anything about ninjas. It’s always journal entries from a middle schooler and if anything karate is a minor aspect of it. The “Bad Boys of the Continental Congress” one is also always just one issue of an anthology of history graphic novels that are heavily dramatized.
What should we do next?
Every 'alpha male'
Every alpha male like me 🐺🐺🐺😈😈
Do the prizes from the scholastic book fair. They had the stupidest prizes and things you could buy
I could use more videos about oddly specific types of people from the 30s, or even the 1910s 😂
every book for middle school girls
Wait, you're telling me this _isn't_ an official Scholastic book fair ad?
_What book fair?_
They killed man, they killed the book fair.
😭😭😭
@@mr_h831THEY KILLED THE BOOK FAIR?! YOU BASTARDS!
@@mr_h831book fairs are still a thing. They happen on the children’s parent conference nights mainly.
@@mr_h831say sike right now!!!
The only thing they need now is a randomly placed ad for zoobooks in the middle
And honestly I'm glad. Kids need some wholesome silliness in their lives. It helps them fight against the void of horrific depression that is adulthood.
I think i just trauma bonded woth you comment!
Are you ok?😅
Agreed, life is supposed to be fun after all
Trying to make history more appealing by calling the founding fathers "epically twisted bad boys" is the icing on the cake for me
i know nothing about hamilton but i've heard this is what the fandom is
G WASH is so bad he got slaves teeth in his mouth
Ha ha freaking radical... wait no it's not, that's really fucked up
Twisted is... is very accurate.
George Washington was such a bad boy. You won't believe where he got his grill from 😍🦷🥵
@@stardustgeckowe DONT fuck with Hamilton. Bro gave us taxes in America fuck him imma go piss in his grave
'My lab partner is a dragon' sounds like it's written for 14 year old girls. I am pretty sure i read something like that on wattpad.
LMAOOO
Every iseaki title in a nutshell
It could go either way honestly. Either you go on wacky adventures for a ‘boys’ book or they fall in love for a ‘girls’ book
yooo the wattpad days were wiiiiild lol
I'm a boy, but I want to fall in love with the dragon 😣💖
Scoundrels, bad boys and punks sounds like an actual banger
And in reality it’s literally just a history book about the founding fathers. It’s so perfect I love it 😭
The best part is that it’s not a wholly inaccurate description of the founding fathers (I’m looking at you John Adams)
Reminded me of six of crows
The music is perfect. I feel like I’m about to hear Greg Heffley say that it’s a journal not a diary and start saying sociopathic nonsense
Dear God, this is too accurate, it's scary. Please do a sequel with "girl books"!!
Yesssss
My favorite genre of middle school girl books back in the early 2010s was “group of intelligent animals with their own detailed government systems and religious beliefs go on big adventures in the forest (also there’s a surprising amount of death and you will cry your 12 year-old eyes out).”
@@jessw38 Not Warrior Cats 😂😂😂
I remember trying to read one of those, one line wrote “He looked delicious in a gray top and khakis”
Ever since then, I STILL frequently wear gray tops and khakis. Just tryna look delicious out here.
@@TheAuxiliaryCord hol up that was in a middle school book???
Super accurate, when you said "scoundrels, outlaws, and punks" I knew it was going to be one of those books that tries to make historical figures cool with the youth
And the cover has an ink of George Washington recolored in a pop art style with neon blue and orange, maybe there’s sunglasses and a bubblegum bubble somewhere.
@@joethesmith2175personally I think it would be a cartoon picture of the founding fathers with sunglasses
Two people: the nerdy goth and the extroverted class clown
They were classmates!
And they were roommates
Eventually they were like family
Orihara Izaya: Why not be both?
Both very gay
nahhh cuz the long and outlandish names of ridiculously long series of books is SO REAL
where the fuck were they finding those and how were they getting hooked on volume 1. I never managed to ask. I used to think Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief was one of those books but I've seen some absolutely crazy ones in the past.
@@thelonelyislands1 To be fair, Percy Jackson is actually well written and it's basically just trying to promote inclusivity for disabled people.
All books I would have begged my mom to order from the Scholastic book catalogue 💀
The only book i got from the catalog was THAT Greek mythology book
Even the what's happening to my butt book?!?
@@samrobacker346The one with the casual incest? Wait that’s all of them.
Middle school books for girls are either the same vibe “boys are gross life is embarrassing” or young girls single handedly fighting a fascist regime and cause shes perfect and badass
You forgot the 8 sequels that are terribly written but fly off the shelves regardless.
Keepers of the lost cities lol
@@m_str043 the trauma response I had upon seeing this
@ I wasted so much of my life reading 840 page installments lmao 😖
Dare I say Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
That’s what I was going for
YOOO THAT PIRATE BOOK YOU CALLED AN ENCYCLOPEDIA WAS PART OF MY CHILDHOOD IT WAS AMAZING
I used to work at a bookstore. This is 100% accurate
It is 😮😮😮
The instrumental Goldfinger is just perfect lol
This is the realest shit I’ve seen today.
Don't forget the "only boys can read this book!"
The Goldfinger song always gives me a strong feeling of nostalgia. Perhaps I’m being brought back to better times here.
I’ve had these books. 🤣
I had the same feeling. Clicked for the skit stayed for the Goldfinger
Fitting since the song is actually about nostalgia and growing old.
So glad someone mentioned it. Definitely brings me back to my elementary/middle school days whenever I hear it. 😪
What song is it?
"_____ from a ____th grade _____" seems like a must-have for these types of books
You've reminded me of my child hood. Thank you man
Not thee Dr. Schtinkeldoink of the Hanover Schtinkeldoinks? Amazing! 😁
As a book for middle school boys, I can agree.
Brother.
@@datboi5913 Brother!
@@insertnamehere7228 not funny
@@IPịneâpplē_officialI I formally apologize.
Nice😮
woah this just made me realize how fast the time passed. i used to read these books in elementary school imagining about what middle school and high school would be like, and now it’s over. graduated and onto other things. i was just checking out a book on library day, now im paying bills. SOBBING
0:32 alright jokes aside, the book is holding was such an awesome book in my childhood and made me love pirates and history so much
Same! Pirate-ology, if I remember right! And they had them for a lot of different stuff, like Egyptology, too.
same i still have it on my bookshelf
What’s it called?
Name pls
The Ology series in general was so fucking goated
even the clothes match the vibe💀
I’d have definitely read this book. We had the dangerous book for dangerous boys in the uk.
It told me how to make a campfire and kite.
It’s so funny how all these “obnoxious” books our parents semi-hate where just big plots to encourage us to read.
There's The Simpson''s joke where Flanders hands out Biblical trading cards and the kids love it at first but then Flander's says "see, I knew this would make learning about the Bible fun" and the kids are like "learning? you tricked us". That's pretty much how school happens
That last one SLAPS
Finithir Galadrios Borlath of Aladrian vol 39 The Wager. That was me..
Same here lol. I read the lord of the rings trilogy as a second grader and read almost nothing but middle grade fantasy for a while. It’s a step down lol but I had an addiction as a kid.
This is officially my favorite video so far. Its so accurate it's scary
I hear that goldfinger in the background 🫵
Love this song
Was about to say 😂❤
Superman
@@Mr.paint123 Yup
I had this CD when I was 12 lmfao 😂
This one’s a banger. Possibly his best work.
Don't forget about The Maze Of Burp Fartkus. The book about a mischievous but lovable goblin who traps people in his maze of fun and riddles.
Although it was a bit weird in the third book when Burp Fartkus had an existential crisis after falling through a portal to NYC
Was that a reference to A Troll in Central Park?
@@gooeydude574 Nope, mainly just a vauge pastiche of edgy non-dystopian YA low fantasy.
@@cavecreaturenorth4840 Why are there so many words
Thanks for that nostalgic trip. 😂😂😂
Tales of a Fourth grade nothing, Horrible Harry, Capt Underpants....good times
The accuracy! 😂😂 as a former bookseller, these kinds of titles were highly requested from teachers
“Help, my lab partners a dragon” sounds like the name of some random romance anime
Underneath the Bleachers by Seymour Butts
Seymour Butts has been writing books for a while apparently, because his name has been circulating since the 80s 😂
@@uflstallions_dynasty Even longer apparently. My dad was a kid in the 60s and I remember him telling me about the works of Seymour Butt's as well as his contemporary I.P Daley.
@uflstallions_dynasty yep, that was our go-to when I was a kid in the 70s. During the disco era he wrote under the pseudonym Seymour Booties.
And we also talked about I.P. Freely, but I can't remember what he wrote.
@@FritzMonorail Very interesting, that was before my parents’ generation. Good to know the extent of his legacy!
I don't know exactly how to explain it, but the tongue flicks/movements, as well as the arm movement and placement at the end, are all a part of the actual titles as well.
The ska punk music in the background😂
As a mother of a young boy -- this is still very accurate!!!!
I STILL HAVE THAT BLACK PIRATE-OLOGY BOOK TOWARD THE END. WAS EPIC AROUND THE TIME PotC 2 AND 3 CAME OUT! Those are great books for kids, and they make them for all sorts of subjects
This is honestly one of your most hilarious and accurate videos yet😭
My mom worked as a nurse, so my brother was more comfortable talking to her about puberty rather than our deadbeat dad. If she didn't know the answer she would just ask one of her male coworkers about it.
Middle school is a weird time where some people are reading what are essentially picture books with more words and other are reading the Silmarillion.
Don't forget about all those Minecraft guidebooks at Scholastic book fairs
not when I was in middle school lmao
@raizen1364 They had those at my school, but I was more of a How They Croaked kid, to be honest. Still have that book today
Kyle is a little bit too old for those to have been part of his middle school experience.
Bro he’s not talking about your childhood he’s talking about kids born in the late 80s to about 1995….
We grew up in a magical time, that unfortunately you will never get to experience
@@dewwwd3431 Well, we did have some of those kinds of books in my generation too. At least some of them
I swear every book after 6th is just fanasty so complicated it would knock your socks off
Casually finding vol.39 of some obscure teen fantasy series is a real one
I swear dr shdinkledoink taught me in primary 😂
In 4th grade (2001), I bought a copy of The Day My Butt Went Psycho from the school Book Fair, then when I got back to class, my teacher Mrs. Harness said that even though i bought it from the Book Fair she was still confiscating it because it said "butt". Like it says "Scholastic" on the cover. To this day it's still one of my favorite anecdotes from school lol.
the tongue killed me
I had the -ology series of books as my aunt worked for the publisher, the Egyptology gave me nightmares for years (and a deep love of Egyptology)!
Nostalgia overload
You’re missing those off brand Minecraft “Diaries” about “My life as an awesome Epic Minecraft Gamer” or whatever
Brilliant tune
Talk all the crap you want about em’, there still all pretty cool books. The Pirateology book especially. I even got a second copy a couple Christmases back it was that good, the art is totally badass!
The ska music in the backround😭😭😭
Diary Of A Whimpy Kid books were ELITE
Ah yes, the early 2000s. I didn't ask for it, but there's no alternative.
The funny thing is those last ones are still bangers
Good choice on the Goldfinger in the background
😂😂😂😂 as a mom of a 10-yo boy who likes to read, this really made me laugh!! Thanks Kyle!
well this stuff got me into reading and i'm still doing it so i'm very glad things like this exist to engage with young boys and cultivate a love for knowledge and fiction.
The pop punk soundtrack and in-your-face close-ups really sealed the deal. 😂
Bro that is ska
Goldfinger's Superman playing in the background did not go unnoticed
lowkey “picked last again” sounds like a good fuckin read 😭
the zoom-ins is the cherry on top
I know that compass book sick as hell pirate book. bro I read it with friends with some of its pages missing it had secret messages and we spent a couple week deduced what the secret messages were like it was my first experience with cryptology
"the day in my life as a secret undercover spy: the awesomest ninja ever"! sounding book
I had that book with a compass I think it was about pirates and had a map inside
And then mixed in somewhere there’s a really fucking violent one that somehow made it into the library
Where's the books on how to draw race cars?
This is your best one yet.
Song is Superman by gold finger
The ska in this is spot on.
I was always reading some sort of history book. I liked some I guess “feminine” topics like princesses or something but the Revolutionary War had a chokehold on me for a long time.
Love that song, it was in the first Tony Hawk Pro Skater on the first playstation.
It’s great but it’s missing a hint of “diary of a 7th grade reject who’s a complete sociopath”
I would love to see the Gordon take on a non-descript show about old ladies all retired in Florida in their Golden years. All sass, but we learn some lessons along the way 😅
Anybody else spend their boyhood years reading encyclopaedias and classic novels? I feel like people have absurdly low expectations for what boys will read on their own. All they really need is an exciting jacket cover as a hook (except for the Brittanicas; they had great pictures!)...
Haha!! ❤😂 this is too silly, I love it! Perfect first vid of the day to start out my birthday!
AFAB over here and these books all shaped my childhood
Okay but i used to read a useless fact book with an almost exact description like that and it was my favourite thing 😂❤
Where's the introduction where they go "WIGGITY-WIGGITY-WWWWHATS UP GANG???"
I work in a library and this is actually so accurate lol
Damn boy you making me wish I was a school kid again.
I loved these as a kid. I ate them up ong
The ska in the background is painfully accurate. It was always playing when I read anything by Shtinkledoink Barfupalot III.
The books at the scholastic book fair that day 12+:
I do children book illustration for this target audience, I can confirm it's like this
I love this mf so much
*PRETENDING IM A SUPERMAAAAN* 🛹🤘
“Book of 100% Useless Crap”
*ends up teaching you a life lesson*
And they were all BANGERS 👏👏
the ska music is what ties this together
I NEED the Encyclopedia of Absolutely 100% Pointlessly Random Book of Useless Crap.
And the “Do not read this book! (Unless you wanna be an awesome ninja)” almost never actually pertains to anything about ninjas. It’s always journal entries from a middle schooler and if anything karate is a minor aspect of it.
The “Bad Boys of the Continental Congress” one is also always just one issue of an anthology of history graphic novels that are heavily dramatized.
Superman, in the background seems to fitting!
“DONT READ THIS BOOK… unless you wanna be an awesome ninja”. So accurate 🤣