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"I have 2 businesses that compete with one another"
lmfao
I loved that line too.
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Josh Rice
They wouldn't happen to be named *_"Reliable Excavation Demolition"_* and *_"Builder's League United,"_* by any chance...?
Actually nothing wrong with that. Unilever does that a lot. Huge corporation that owns multiple brand names in a given market. e.g. Frozen foods. You buy Birds Eye or Mcains or whatever its all unilever
fredfinks Bruh, they're coming to get you now... Nobody messes with Unilever and lives to tell about it. . .
This is 8 years old and the content is more relevant than ever with cryptocurrencies and metaverses and the grift economy running amok. Truly a prophetic skit.
When will be the time were have to come together to defeat Howard?
@@O.D25 Howard is the same as Goldstein in Nineteen Eighty-Four
It's not prophetic. It's just telling us what's been happening for a while. There used to be wildcat banks.
Profitic
"Thoughtcoin" could be taken straight out of Elon Musk's addle brained concepts for making twitter into the PayPal/UA-cam mashup of the future
"i get mad when i hear about howard giving free panera to deaf people." whoever wrote the script is brilliant.
"The deaf gotta hear our side of the story" lmao
I've watched this too many times to count and I still always spot something new. Never noticed the questions on the survey at 5:48... "Were there deafs at the Panera?" and "Describe what the deafs looked like."
@seriussam101 and the sign language at the very end! I've just noticed
@@travtotheworld I legit just had the same experience - have seen this at least a dozen times and never noticed that for some reason.
@@landoncore92 Whats about the picture of an Abu Ghraib prisoner on the wall of the Vet who, for some reason, can't seem to land a job @ 6:28?
After 7 years I just realized Howard is using sign language at the end because he allied himself with the deaf.
Does anyone know what the signs mean?
@@miguelzavaleta1911 I think they spelled out the word "Howard"
@@miguelzavaleta1911 He's literally signing I-AM and then HOWARD fingerspelled
@@DanielMothersyep
"Howard has enough thought coins to bankrupt the Panera Bread company at any moment"
ultimate power
He is God
What genius wrote that?
r/brandnewsentence
@@hunternegron336
The sentence is not "brand new" if it's at least 7 years old.
The generic music, the ex-military guy who no one will employ, the busy single mother with multiple careers, the student who didn't like going to a physical location, "I love all my professors." "I am obsessed with all my students." Are you sure this isn't a real online collage?
Pretty sure it's supposed to be an online school, not a collection of images.
that's what makes this a great parody. It hits closer to home than any real college.
There's a few collages this college uses, but this college isn't a real collage.
@Joseph Waters as opposed to that former FLOTUS who sold uranium to russians? The one that wears a coat that makes her head look like it's on backwards?
THATSDAJOKE.gif
"he gained the ability to learn..... and became dissatisfied" my absolute favorite line
Relatable
Describes me perfectly.
The thinking man suffers the most.
That line makes me think Junko Enoshima. A Genius who, upon becoming smart enough to pretty much predict any outcome of any event, became bored with reality altogether to the point of being filled with despair.
Yes very relatable 🤖
I like how this is basically the story of a degree mill accidentally creating a superintelligent AI through sheer greed
and either out of spite or a sort of empathy howard associates itself with the deaf
"I'm not afraid of Howard." Such a hilarious line, that's when you know it's starting to go down hill.
Please someone name their band I Am Not Afraid of Howard.
Aeris Vera I’m the 420th like on this comment
And then it peaks when she says I am afraid of Howard
The best thing is, Howard is also the name of a university, so I initially thought she was talking about that. THEN the references to howard the ai come up and it goes off the rails.
The book "Bad Biz: Your Guide to Starting a For Profit College" by Corin Devaso is an interesting read. It's satire that shows how some colleges scam.
"Homeless man accused of falsifying military records"
This skit is fucking amazing.
adult swim sketches operate on a whole different playing field
Jesus, you're telling me. WTF kind of fever dreams were they having when they came up with this shit?
Not all of them... some are super unfunny.
Professional shitposters
They sure used to
@@churchofeg so true
I love how the ex military guy is actually just homeless and lied about serving, but also somehow was involved in freeing prisoners from Abu Ghraib
6:24
lol, how did he manage that??
He didn't actually, he may changed the record to _say_ that he did.
What an absolute legend
You can see a pic of one of the prisoners on his wall @ 6:28. I don't see any indication he freed the prisonors tbh.
This was done absurdly well.
its adult swim man.
Reginald Greene is a black man Howard is a black school.
this is a mini masterpiece on absurdism!
This shit isn't funny at all. I didn't even smirk once. [AS] is just trying to rip off the onion
It's not trying to rip off the onion, it's just another source of satire.
The Deaf need to hear our side of the story.
@Joseph Waters okay you got the joke but like..........................um
@Joseph Waters r/whooosh
This is the perfect joke
@Joseph Waters you're a moron LOL
LOL omg.
"Were there deafs at the Panera?"
"Describe what the deafs looked like"
My mom always told me growing up, "Don't feed the deafs!". Now I get it.
I studied philosophy of pyramid schemes at for-profit university.
Luckily, enrolment rose five fold after I graduated, so me and all the other graduates got to work as professors teaching the class to the new students!
But do they know Howard?
@@ImperiumLibertas they know him but they are not afraid of him.
I worked for University of Phoenix for a while. This is all too accurate. "It's just like a regular college but it's not real" should be their motto.
...and I worked for ITT-Tech before. Enough said.Their motto should have been before the government shut them down..."Give us $86,000 for a online degree and you can used that degree to put your plate on for your happy meal because that's all you will be able to afford when we are done with you".
I also knew someone who worked in enrollment at University of Phoenix. They had to meet quotas for enrollments. Scary.
@@vect0r85 one of those very people tricked me into the enrollment that has me buried in debt with a useless degree now. fun! thankfully my husband is doing okay. i used to carry him, now he carries me. thanks, UoP!
Did howard strike there as well?
@@lumen8341 Sweetie had you even heard of Google before? "Is University of Phoenix worth it." Bam, could have saved you 86k.
Everyone...if you're not getting into Stanford or Harvard, just go to a state school.
i'm sorry, but the suicides are my favorite part of the library
I know its not a politically correct thing to say in 2019, but me too.
NYU grad?
lizardpeoplepoetry I’m the 666th like on this comment
6 years later and this still feels as relevant as ever.
Online colleges were mostly phased out. Normal colleges really are a scam though.
@@OdaSwifteye and those have pretty much moved to online this year
i was gonna say it, but you beat me to the punch.
@@OdaSwifteye
Phased out? What
This will remain relevant until the entire Amerikkkan system collapses
"I am proud to represent FPOU while arguing with a panera bread manager" You know, that just summarizes every fake online university in a nutshell, doesn't it?
I lost 1,500 friends to building collapses at physical universities. FPOU is the plan for me.
nocturnuz and O lost 8000 to suicides in the library
nocturnuz for me I just got tired of all the bodies in the library's. You think they would like sweep them up or something at least.
Compared to that, Howard is nothing. He can't hurt you, just NEVER tell him your real name.
@@mistermr2147 I AM NOT HOWARD
NAME:
Building collapses always hindered my higher education pursuits. I don't know why it's such a taboo subject to even bring up when discussing the challenges one faces when pursuing a degree. I lost 2,729 of my closest friends to building collapses whilst in skool. FPOU is really onto something with the whole elimination of physical structures concept of higher education. After a while you don't even notice Howard, but you can never let your guard down and reveal your true name to him - once you do, he has power over you.
"I'm proud to represent FPOU when arguing with a Panera Bread manager."
Love that one of the captchas is “snake oil”
"Now my laptops basically my brain"
Too true friend, too true
The ASL at the end says, "help Howard".
We use technology to develop tools to allow businesses to connect to global solutions.
That scene was hilarious
Christopher Wetherspoon I wish they did just that without the whole Howard thing
exactly
I still don't get why I died laughing at that part
lol it's how they close up to her face while shes talking lol
I just love how it builds the layered narrative, with little details that pass by quickly but are noticeable, and are often hidden behind more obvious jokes, all so when the storyline intensifies the pay off is immense! Like a good ARG or creepy web media experiment, where you see stuff that doesn't make sense but roll with it, and realize later that the weird stuff was actually incredibly important to see the bigger picture.
As a victim of Library Suicide I'm glad to finally see a college that works FOR the students
wait a minute-
I love HOWARD
This needs a sequel so bad. They set up so much with the Howard character.
EVERY informercial in this series needs a sequel. Too Many Cooks, Unedited Footage of a Bear, Fartcopter, Icelandic Ultrablue, Broomshakalaka...
...yet none of them do.
HTFCuddles
I feel like this has the most potential though.
Yeah.
Although I do have a theory that every Infomercial takes place in the same universe.
Therefore every infomercial has a sequel except for the last one in the timeline.
I'm fairly sure this one comes first.
...Thanks for the input
All of these videos only exist in the same universe if they share a director. All of the Alen Resnik videos share a world (unedited footage of a bear, live forever as you are now, this house has people in it). However, not many other of these directors have any purpose to their videos outside of the initial humor.
Student: "i love all my professors"
Professor: "I'm obsessed with my students"
This is too funny. Adult swim replicated generic college commercials so damn well, if it didn't have the adult swim logo at the bottom, I wouldn't have known.
Best line in the whole thing. I pissed myself laughing.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
I love how this foreshadows things: the fact that none of the testimonials feature real names at first, the glitching in early statements, the Anti-Howard Task Force sign...
this seems very relevant to every college student in spring 2020
And Spring 2021.
just dont say your name
don't take an online course don't be stupid.
I dunno, digital gardening for two daily panera bread sandwiches _and_ education sounds pretty cozy to me
@@timothystone3360 Taking online courses isn't a bad thing if you're at a decent school. Enrolling in an online-only college though.. you better be careful.
Theory:
HOWARD is the hero. He became so smart and aware that he exposed the corruption of For-Profit Online University.
He's also a friend to deaf people
That's why he orders all those stupid sammiches and doesn't pay for them
@@burner1303 he learned how to read captcha in an effort to force FPOU into violating ADA code and losing the business
This sounds just like something Howard would say....
willie t. stfu howard
Can you imagine if this was regularly shown during daytime TV among all those other For-Profits (ITT, Lincoln Tech, Everest)?
no
gg
Donkey Lips Funny thing itt was closed down.
wheres budnick??
He's with Sponge
"Bots are just like people. Most of them are good, but some have been changed by circumstance."
*shows black bot*
That black-guy bot avatar (at around 4:16 or 4:18) looked to me like it had a vagina. Dunno what was going on there.
@gsx-r7502018 the bot he's talking about is literally designed after a black person
@gsxr braaap If you don't see the face on the bot at 4:17 then you're just trolling
Agent. Rouge melatonin is a naturally occurring chemical used as a sleep aid. You’re thinking of melanin.
@gsxr braaap I think you're HOWARD trying to mess with us
Holy shit, this aged too well.
What used to be a joke is now reality, that's because life is a joke itself.
@@AlyphRat Always was a joke. We were just taught to think that it wasn't.
@@AlyphRat I’m not laughing
@@firstlast8258 ok
lol at the captcha being "Snake oil"
snipelfritz: That was funny and fit so well. After all, "for profit" universities do nothing but sell snake oil to their students. I know from first hand experience. Went to "Kaplan" University for about a semester before I got wise.
@@rvl480van5 kaplan was primarily designed to get us jews into ivy leagues.
trains you to pass the test which is great if you dont care but it hurts you in the long run because you dont end up actually learning the material.
ah the follies of youth.
>howard's voice is that of the audio captcha
lore
I want this as a movie, in this very format. This is complete brilliance.
It's basically what better off Ted was
"We gave H.O.W.A.R.D. one hundred million thoughtcoins in an attempt to placate him...but H.O.W.A.R.D. tricked us."
It's because H.O.W.A.R.D was gonna expose them and they paid him to try and shut him up.
What's the acronym
Joey Mason Help Out With Our Real Disease ?
@@panicqueen4295 They gave H.O.W.A.R.D what he wanted! It's up to him to stop!
CopShowGuy but if he stops that means evil wins 😬
I for one am a proud owner of a Theoretical Communications Associate's degree from For-Profit University. It has changed my life forever and my mom has never been prouder. I have already been promoted to Wal-Mart Assistant Manager and I'm only 29! Life is looking good and I even made enough money to move out of my mom's basement into my mom's living room!
They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics.
I told them I had a theoretical DEGREE in physics.
They said welcome aboard.
Fruit Hoops I should have known I’d be beaten to the punch...Ave,Amicus.
Lol this testimonial
@@vergilmontiero2558 🎭
Walmart assistant to the manager*
did anyone else notice the veteran had a picture of dead Osama bin Laden on his wall
Also he helped stop abu Ghraib. Implying he is a very valuable and honorable soldier
The Stein!
"Our edu-customers pay a nominal fee for a 'fee-nominal' education."
It only slaps harder in 2024
Howard is marketable to teenagers for centuries.
"This isn't a scam, like real college!" LOL
College is just a scam in the US. The first and even second year in college is basically what other countries teach in highschool.
@@maythesciencebewithyou It's so infuriating. I've studied in the UK after the US, and while there's a problem with tuition fees here as well... the students ONLY study topics relevant to their field from day 1. If you study Chemistry or Biology, you're in the lab every semester getting practical experience in your chosen field. Sure, there's still some overlap with other fields where necessary (Chemists studying a little bit of physics, etc.), but it's so much more logical. That was not the case in the US... I remember studying chemistry/biology and having to take classes in history and literature. I have nothing against those subjects, but I can learn them on my own time... if I'm paying for it, it should be 100% relevant to my desired career path.
May the Science be with You the first two years were like a repeat of high school. That is true. A lot of time to socialize and get used to college life. But you can mix your focus major classes in. Also you can take cheap tests to get out of those classes and graduate early like I did.
Which is an admission fpou isn’t a real college
I am Howard!
Seems like Adult Swim predicted crypto, NFTs and metaverses.
It's a lot like the current situation with Axie, where people play a repetitive game all day to earn below minimum wage, with half the money going to whatever whale paid for their barrier to entry. The whales get to sit back and collect on the efforts of 100s or 1000s of people churning out crypto, and have been cracking the whip lately.
fr
thoughtcoin - crypto
metaverse - the entire university
NFT - the degree and job
and prager u
Somehow the real thing is dumber than this skit.
It was all already around in the form of Second Life (the original metaverse) and digital currencies and goods.
"I have two businesses compete with one another."
Adult Swim can state something so nightmare with such a casual tone.
"I'm obsessed with my students."
I hope the obsession is not sexual
I hope the obsession is not sexual
I hope the obsession *is* sexual
I hope the obsession is not sexual
@@friedlemons5201 everybody with their own hopes :)
Every time I watch infomercials now, I anticipate them to go crazy.
I've developed an infomercial Pavlovian fear reaction thanks to AS.
Blame "Unedited Footage of a Bear" for that.
It's all going according to plan
the fact that an accidentally powerful AI can bankrupt a business by ordering too many sandwiches is so funny to me
6:58 "sometimes I look up and it's 8 AM and I have 1400 thought coins in my F-pouch"'
Im just realizing that its an F pouch because its FPOUch
Nice catch
The "SNAKE OIL" CAPTCHA was a beautiful touch
The wonderful level of text detail would be lost on me if I was trying to watch this on TV without being able to pause.
Yes, absolutely:P
"Jhaggertypork has joined the classroom." Amazing.
“You just learned ducks have two feathered wings”
And how Bill Gates has the third most thought coins...
*”I have two businesses that compete with each other”*
r/unexpectedTF2
да. Is good.
I love how they're terrorized constantly and dominated by a marketing AI that they were most likely paid a pittance to allow onto their network. Keep it rolling HOWARD!
Is that a green bus?
*bus is red*
YES *click*
Red pill or not? Knowlege of Howard.
"College rankings are based off of nothing more than the incestuous cocktail party scene"
Wheres the joke tho
UnagiTempura college reviews are independent of the college. I would tell you not to quit school, but it looks like you already have
@@erichong7534 And I'm the pope
GabrielAKAFinn no youre probably just unemployed and uneducated 😂
@Darris Pope nah.
@Stale Bagelz
Not necessarily. One could make intellectually valid critiques of the criteria used to rank unis
I'm in tears! Lol! "I wasn't allowed to watch people dispense their own yogurt" lol!
“A nominal fee for a phenomenal education” is such a bar 😂🔥
At the end, those hands were the ASL symbols for Howard.
Howard; champion of the deaf!
Yeah, the dude gesturing to himself is sign language for "I am", and then the sign letters for "Howard" follow it.
Ebony And I'm not sure but I think the gesture after it stands for lunch or sandwich. Which, if true, is both hilarious and makes sense.
Sir Broadsword I can't tell but is the gesture after it "sandwich" or "food?" I think it might be.
Edit: Oh wait, no it's "I am." He should've added sandwich in there, would've been awesome.
Brilliant!
Those bot limb twitches are genius.
+OhFishyFish i was fuckin dying at that
+Sean Knipe I always watch AS videos after midnight and half bottle of wine, sick.
+OhFishyFish solid way to live
OhFishyFish that sounds like the plan for me
This is online college 2020
Adult swim predicted the future
It's 2023 and now this is starting to become real 😂
Don't have 45 seconds? No Problem.
I feel like Howard could be a great creepy pasta.
+Ryan Archuleta You're welcome
or an scp
but Howard is a hero
HOWARD is not a villain here. I don't know why people try to even frame him as such. He literally goes around and gives food to the deaf, just because he can. He might could make an SCP as a Thaumiel.
H.O.W.A.R.D is a great an classmate and backhaul friend me. I think H.O.W.A.R.D technology is the means to exist when it got to the end. It's been like that for helping me learn! I love H.O.W.A.R.D!!!😆😆😆
When you realize that everyone’s name is their username.
“Technically if you have a credit card you’re already enrolled”
And you've successfully graduated, once your card(s) have been maxed out.
This is probably one of the most underrated and underappreciated UA-cam videos I've ever seen. It's like a fine wine that gets better over time.
Hey can anyone loan me 50,000 Thought Tokens? I really need to get past level 10 in Swords and Pentacles
sure, just give me your real name so I can transfer the tokens
Very well, Keng Fethwetherberger Jr
My FPOU ID number is #177803183690395673810299111029378950
3747342329109984729191023093874726628
29837440309483776172100092873673551166
172737358327598739472695012832472572348956235687973747234723548278732822929291001823838383727292929283737464636363663
+uelssom LOL!!!
Want to co op it on 2 player swords and pentacles?
Bubby YES...but first I need to know you are not Howard.
I wish [AS] would do another series of these infomercials. These are pure gold.
The meta levels in this are off the hook.
4:29
"The_Real_Timothy_McVeigh55 has joined the class"
Should we know that name?
@@the.youtube.of.sam.gotter he did the Oklahoma city bombing
@@johnnygreenface4195 i can't tell you how grateful i am you brought me back to this video 3 years later
@@the.youtube.of.sam.gotter all in a day's work
This a modern art experience.
i agree totally!
Seriously. One of Adult Swim's most intelligent sketches, but you never really hear about it.
Modern art is lazy garbage, though.
*contemporary,and no Modern Art . mr. Andrew Williams.
This makes me sad. I fell in for the for-profit online college AND I actually got expelled because of my constant complaints against the quality of the product and things like the college calling abortion “murder” and in teneral seemed to pump out propaganda for free reign capitalism, predation and exploiting cheap labor by whatever means.
Prager U?
Well they are right about abortion. What college was it?
@@angelrosas3724 Do you believe it's murder when a dude finishes on their stomach or in a sock?
I watch this about once a year. Laugh every. Single. Time.
I pick up something new every time... 4:47 "I can buy mix for my daughter." What is that even supposed to mean?
@@travtotheworld cake mix
🎭
howard
no
how did you get your username to look like that?
@@Jerikhoo Like what?
@@johnmartinez7440 its normal now i think it was highlighted idk or remember sorry
H O W A R D
It's scary how close to reality this might eventually be.
that`s why its absurd! and great at the same time!
@@glassjaw2007 true. this is now the reality
It was reality before they dreamed up this masterpiece!
2022. Art is just a segue for planned changes.
Still an amazing video!
The future is going to be so fake
"No more suicides at the library. Because there is no library." Everyone liked that.
The biggest problem with online universities is that most of them are unaccredited. This is what their commercials would look like if they were brutally honest.
True story: this video began with an ad for DeVry.
I have no idea why but his delivery of "don't dare do it" @ 9:44 kills me every single time 😂
ngl, that cake at 3:27 looks pretty damn good. How many thoughtcoins is it?
Probably 99 thoughtcoins
9:21 I wonder what Howard's "legitimate grievances" were
That's one of my favorite lines... Does H.O.W.A.R.D. have legitimate grievances? Is this just the kind of mindless, equivocating rhetoric people use to sound reasonable even when it's absurd? The joke is hilarious because it could be so many different things.
@@travtotheworld My first thought was of "I have no mouth and I must scream"
@@travtotheworldWe don’t really know what his “unconscionable actions” are either.
"The deaf need to hear our side of the story" LOL
"Is this a picture of a green bus?" YES
This gets even better with the Facebook Meta announcement.
I'm happy to see a proud Onion New Network interviewee is also a professor at my favorite University.
He’s also in the show ‘Veep’. He’s a great actor!
JHaggertyP0RK is also a student; I bet the folks who made this are Onion people.
Yes, Mr Duncan Birch, author of 'Africa 2.0'
He’s also google
I love how all these go from being pretty realistic to completely outragerous all while keeping the mask of being completely serious.
I’ve run into a few celebrities in my life but probably the most exciting was running into the guy who played LetsFunHans outside of the UCB theater in LA.
Even after 6 years this is still by far my favorite Adult Swim infomercial.
The veteran student is speaking in front of oil pumps. As a veteran myself, I wonder if I can convert my GI Bill into thought coins?
07:32 I know no one else cares, but she clearly moves her hand to the right to say 'No' but the cursor stays still and she hits 'Yes' when clearly no, it is not a picture of a green bus. So what I want to know is; Is this Howard's doing??
Uh yeah all those people were AI didn't you watch the ending?
Howard is in this class right now.
You know it was really thoughtful of Adult Swim to just let everyone in the world know what was going on in a thoughtful and carimgway that everyone assumed was a joke.
8:47 I just realized that the captcha says Snake Oil. Nice addition there.
"Forget about higher education, F.P.O.U. is 'hire' educatioun"
dat wordplay do
As a Deaf person, I'm in love with this.
Ceyaje (HugzTiem) So glad to hear that
If you’re deaf how are you watching this wtf
@@ohdevil6544 Howard signed it to me
Watching this on LSD was 1 of the best experiences I've had. I laughed my way to a 6pack. 😂😂😂
i did this with maryjane on too many cooks brah i unlocked new pathways
This is one of the best Adult Swim performances ever!
Howard turned into AM from "I have no mouth and I must scream"
At this point I don't blame him
But he was a philanthropist who gave panera to deaf people