Fun fact: before "Little Women", Louisa May Alcott's main source of income was this collection of thrillers and magical fantasies. She didn't even want to write "Little Women" because she felt she didn't have a knack for writing about girls.
@@darkstarr984 So true .... but I think it was because "Little Women" is a variation on her own family, so it was very much a write what you know (and love!). My first Alcott book was "Jack and Jill", an old book in our grandparents' collection. It was a favorite of mine. She did end up writing a bunch of ya books: "Eight Cousins" and "Rose in Bloom", and a few others. And about her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War. I have a feeling, though, that she truly kind of loved her thrillers and horror stories!
@@Lemonade-Tree Absolutely true! And it makes sense because Jo is the representation of Louisa herself in the novel. Meg is Anna, the eldest sister, who did marry and had two children, and who did have aspirations of acting; Beth is Elizabeth, who died young; and Amy is youngest sister May, who, in her lifetime, went to Europe and became a successful painter, exhibited twice at the Paris Salon (a very big deal, especially for a woman and an American one at that). May married in Europe, but died very soon after her daughter was born. Little Lulu was sent to Louisa to raise, but Louisa, who had been horribly ill off and on since a stint as a nurse in the Civil War, died when Lu was still really young. There are descendants of this family, from this daughter of May's. (I'm sorry: the Alcott family's always been interesting to me, and I can spout on about the various members till people leave the room out of frustration).
Yes. Doyle and Houdini fell out because Doyle brought Houdini to a seance with Doyle’s wife acting as the medium and his wife claimed to channel Houdini’s mom. The problem was that Doyle’s wife wrote the so-called responses in English, referred to Houdini as Harry instead of by his birth name or Hebrew name, and referenced Christian ideas of heaven and Christian symbols. It was a triple strike out and really pissed off Houdini who could call BS several different ways. Meanwhile, while Lovecraft was afraid of everything, he wasn’t gullible and insisting that things which were blatantly untrue were real. Lovecraft could separate fact from fiction and recognize a stage persona vs. the actual person. Thus Houdini liked being around him.
Yeah, but Lovecraft was a known racists and probably antisemitic. Don't know if Houdini knew that or if Lovecraft knew of Houdini's Jewish roots. But by this time, Houdini's many and varied attempts at breaking into Hollywood were finally done, and this was his last attempt at getting fame beyond the escape art acts.
@@jackielinde7568 Lovecraft's opinions on the Jewish is complicated to say the least, he was recorded to have great respect for Albert Einstein and love for his wife (who was openly Jewish). But there's also instances of him being more traditionally anti-Semitic. I have heard it all explained on his opinions relating to how Anglicanised the people in question are, but the answer in short is, It's Complicated.
I now DESPERATELY want a movie where no-longer-friends Conan Doyle and Houdini are forced to team up to investigate a possibly-supernatural mystery. Especially since it would be Conan Doyle who is the believer!
@@fredchallenger5278 Bigots making exceptions for people they like, even though they're part of the "inferior" group, is surprisingly common. Part of the inherent irrationality of bigotry, I guess. It's plausible he was antisemitic, but saw his wife and others as "one of the good ones." Lovecraft's bigotry is definitely complicated, especially with how his views changed later in life.
@@justbrowsing9697 If the recently-concluded election isn't good for anything else, it certainly is an excellent collection of examples of just how irrational bigots are, and how difficult it is to have a logical conversation with them.
"Second category: did I have fun? not really a category, but it's important" has the same energy as "question two: steal the spice trade. that's not a question, but the Dutch did it anyway"
The reason The Mummy (1932) had such good camera work was because the director was Karl Freund. And back in his native Germany he was the cinematographer for such films as The Golem, The Last Laugh and Metropolis. He was part of a wave of German movie people brought over to Hollywood by Carl Laemmle jr to add some expressionist zing to Universal’s films.
@@thirdcoinedge Strictly speaking he was the cinematographer for Metropolis and Golem, not the director; Metropolis was directed by Fritz Lang and Der Golem by Paul Wegener. OP does state this, but I can get the confusion- especially since Fritz Lang came over as part of that movement... albeit it had much more to do with the Nazis banning a film he made critical of them and then being "asked" to make propaganda films. Carl Laemmle (the elder) actually helped quite a number of German-Jewish refugees escape the regime
I think he might have had something to do with Dracula too, IIRC? And the connection wouldn't stop there; "white boy de jour" and the older archaeologist are both playing the EXACT same parts they did in Dracula the yr before (namely, bland love interest and wise monster hunter, respectively) Same actors too.
Germany really shot themselves in the foot with that stupid WWII idea. So many great minds left the country due to that. It is always impressive to look some inventor or pioneer of a field up and learn that they were basically a German refugee.
I was thinking a lot about the Night at the Museum visuals when watching the original video, so I'm glad you guys actually touched on it in this one because honestly it might be my favorite depiction of the mummy trope BECAUSE of how subversive and grounded in realism it is. I remember thinking the same thing on first watch like "Oh man this mummy is commanding the statues with his powers and now he's gonna be this shambling menace around the museum" but instead it was Egyptian-American actor Rami Malek and he's like "Hi, I'm just a chill prince from ancient Egypt and I know English because they carted me around between various British museums and universities before I ended up here in New York." It's just such a humanizing take on the trope. Like he's introduced late in the first movie and therefore plays a small role outside of owning the much more important magic tablet, but I just loved how he wasn't an evil sorcerer or brute strength zombie, just a nice Egyptian dude :)
What I love is that kids watching it are surprised cause he's normal, the adults watching it are surprised cause he's hot and if you watched it after Mr Robot and Boehemian Rhapsody you are surprised cause that's Oscar and Emmy award winner Rami Malek. It's a good joke that builds on itself both intentionally and unintentionally
It was also a very smart decision, probably made because it's a very good movie, to have him be a chill dude cause he's in charge of the Magic MacGuffin that facilitates the plot, so having him as a nice dude who isn't malevolent and wants to use his powers to come to life at night and chill in the museum works really well for the subsequent sequels.
Red isn’t kidding about the mummy being irrelevant to the middle part of A Tale of the 22nd Century. The protagonist accidentally gets involved with the King of Ireland’s war to restore the monarchy in Spain and it has basically nothing to do with the mummy or even the other political drama aside from the fact the king of Ireland is secretly another character mentioned earlier in the book. And that the author really wanted to talk about monarchy.
20:56 Fun fact: in The Murders in the Rue Morgue (the first modern detective story, coincidentally written by Edgar Allen Poe), the killer is an escaped Orangutan.
It's interesting what you were saying about Seven Stars incorporating cutting-edge Egyptology, astronomy, and so on. Because that's really the same thing you get in War of the Worlds (the only-just-popularly-accepted concepts of germ theory and microorganisms) and Dracula (using modern medicine, railways, steam power, and telegraphs to get ahead of Dracula's oldschool ways). It's probably not coincidence that those books were written in 1903, 1895, and 1897 respectively. Clearly many of the authors of the turn of the century were excited to incorporate the newest scientific discoveries into their books, even those that were not in what we would now call the Sci-Fi genre.
It's interesting to think of Stoker and HG Wells as early proponents of hard sci-fi, considering that The Invisible Man is "what if chemistry + albinism?" shenanigans and The Time Machine and The Island of Dr Moreau are even softer and more nebulous, but you can see the early adoption of evolution there.
"How might fantastic and folkloric things interact with modern science and technology" is such a fascinating and underutilized form of Speculative Fiction.
36:00 It really sounds like a mixture of the two endings would have been better. The ritual "fails" and everyone but Jeremy and Margaret are killed in the aftermath (mummy rampage or death smoke or whatever). Then, they cut to the epilogue when he talks about the mummy not getting what she wanted and she gives him that look... While petting her cat, enjoying her resplendent wealth. She's just staring at him thinking, 'What the Hell do you mean, 'it failed'?' "You're so lucky you're charming and handsome, my love." Margaret is living her best life with full memory and power of being an Egyptian sorceress queen. And cursing the shit out of her enemies. 😂
Now here a better theory you know zombies right, mummies are just updated version, no organ that produces fluid to rot, no brain to damage and dryed out
@@migrivp2672 I just realised that zombies in the future are probably gonna be super well-looking going by embalming standards for today: beautiful skin, plenty of structure (formaldehyde) inside to keep them walking steadily. Their eyes will be glued shut, but hey - new zombie design!
@ew6483 sure would make a fun movie with a joke about a guy mistakenly shooting and a Kardashian thinking it was a zombie... or the classic joke of "braiiin." (Zombies ignore the idiots and walk pass them even if wounded) and for a last joke a whorehouse but it's to bang Zombies that still look human enough.
fun fact: the mummy eating was mostly just the pleasantly scented oils that ancient egyptians used for the mummification process. so it's only slightly not cannabalism
@@AmbrGlw I don't know cannibalisms is one of those things that is going to get a side eye and these hands up no matter how many asterixis you put on in.
I vote for someone to make a book series about not-Watson from Conan Doyle's story going around easily resolving other Victorian literary horror stories by pointing a gun at characters before they do something stupid. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll... the possibilities are endless!
I first came across the Houdini / Lovecraft crossover when I was researching background for a Dresden Files RPG adventure set in Detroit, and I found out that they'd been collaborating on a non-fiction book intended to debunk fake spritualists and the like but had only got as far as an introduction when Houdini died in semi-mysterious circumstances, after which Houdini's wife buried the project. You can imagine how something like that could play out in an urban fantasy setting.
It would feel disrespectful to make it actually supernatural, so I think you have to make it seem like it's tied in with all the weird urban fantasy magic stuff, but it turns out that Houdini did, in fact, just die from appendicitis.
@@DKdrop Complicating matters, several separate groups of mediums (including at least one composed entirely of frauds) claim responsibility for Houdini's death. For the clout.
12:40 Poe actually has quite a few goofy/satirical pieces in his stories. I remember in particular the tale of a circular town with a set number of identical houses, in each of which an essentially identical family lives on an identical time frame dictated by the central clock tower. until one day the tower rings one more time than it should have, and everyone panics
I just paused at this point; people often pigeonhole Poe stories as all macabre evening eeries (and he has many and they're wonderful), but he really was a very versatile writer who was VERY fond of satire; he famously created many hoaxes that fooled thousands just to prove how easily people could be fooled. He also has many works that are their own serious fiction, most famously Dupin. Overall, a deeply fascinating author that I love returning to. Thank you for your comment, internet friend!
Red: I dunno if you're supposed to empathize with the mummy as much as I did. My mom: I think so, with all the movie monsters from that era. Me: What about... _(I dunno, uh)_ Creature from The Black Lagoon? Mom: *_My first love._*
I genuinely mean this with complete sincerity, 'Some words with a mummy' is the funniest story i have ever read other than the discoworld novels. Highly recommend
Poe just flexing his writing skills to remind us that he could do more and we should be thankful he mostly stuck to gothic horror, or else he might have dominated all of American literature in his era and we wouldn’t have any of the other notable writers.
@@phastinemoon King Pest (his other plague story), Dr Tarr and Professor Fether, Three Sundays in One Week, Bon-Bon, A Predcament, The Spectacles, The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade, Loss of Breath. I am sure there are copious others - Poe wrote a lot.
@@phastinemoonIt's like the opposite of Ryan North flexing his writing skills and proving he can do more than humor by making an *Iron Man* book one of the most horrific stories the medium has seen.
I know you’re doing Mummies, but it would be cool is you did an OSP video on other vampire stories like Varney or Carmilla at some point. It’s always a joy to see your summaries and art style.
@@hadriandwyer2191 Carmilla is one of the oldest written vampire stories, and it has a webseries adaptation (sponsored by a menstrual products company 😂)
When it comes to mummy rizz you can't fail to mention "mummies alive", it's basicaly the 90s gargoyles cartoon but with mummies that get power ranger style super suits and vehicles
Came to say exactly this. Like, it’s obviously a toy commercial designed to sell a product capitalizing on the 90s wave of Egyptomania, but it’s also a superhero action comedy because kids show from the 90s. While it’s only one season, that is still 42 different 22 minute episodes. If anyone wants to know if they’ll like it, watching the opening sequence and listening to theme song should tell you whether it’s your jam or not.
It was strange but I enjoyed it. I would say its more like the Turtles since again they have the random car and stuff. Isn't it also one of the shows with a technically disabled character? Only he's the big guy, and he gets a msgic arm when he transforms.
I've always been fond of the Magnus Archives mummy. It's one of the Statment monsters, so Jon and his team never meet it, but it's an example of my personal favorite version of undead, which I usually only see in vampires: "I don't want to be undead, but I can't do anything about it". I'm paraphrasing, but the idea the show posits is: "To the ancient Egyptians, dying was the most important thing a person would ever do. They spent their whole lives preparing for it, collecting everything they would need for the journey. Imagine what they would do to someone who couldn't die."
Finally, another comment bringing up this episode! I personally ranked it C+ for mummy rizz and B- for how much fun I had, since I liked the concept of a Nathaniel Thorp death character getting mummified but thought the execution could have been scarier.
37:00 fun fact, Lovecraft had dinner with Houdini and his wife. I know this because I’m listening to a podcast about Lovecraft’s letters to people. Also fun fact about this story, Houdini didn’t like the amount of times he passed out in it.
... Oh my god. I am one of those people who fit into the ven diagram of mummy appreciators and owns 2 sets of steampunk goggles. getting that book asap.
The thing most people don't realize is that we do (Sort of) still live in a steampunk world, any traditional or nuclear power plant is still just the same old boil water and make things spin of Victorian times. We're just a step removed from it because electricity is so flexible and scalable; and because our man-machine interfaces are so refined.
I have read the Jewel of Seven Stars this past week (because oh my gods it sounded so interesting in the halloween video, PDF is free yall), and I am so glad you included that it was the mummy cat, I had been screaming that since the third chapter
The only mummy not mentioned I can think of is the one from Night At The Museum, which was basically “ooh a mummy!” “wow so handsome” “*gasp* magic!” and “he can communicate with the hun, so educated!” but... apart from that NATM movie where his parents and brother show up, it’s not really about the mummy. It’s really just mostly Rami Malek being a very handsome Egyptian man clad in shiny gold for me.
Around the 14:30 mark, everyone wanted to use trains for big items. According to the Guinness wolrd record site: The largest single object transported by railway was a 32 m (106 ft) tall reactor weighing 558.01 tonnes (1.23 million lb) which was transported between Birmingham, Alabama, and Toledo, Ohio, USA on 12 November 1965. *The Sears catalog shipped HOMES on the railway from 1908-1914. Sorry I couldn't find another example that would be more related to the time period, but the Sears catalog is easy enough to look up, same with records from Guinness.
I believe the nuclear reactor was transported by a steam train, making it a very large and expensive boiler being hauled around by another very large and expensive boiler.
@@mikakestudios5891That's pretty cool. I vaguely recall, from a short UA-cam documentary, there's an effort to collect the data on Sears Catalog homes. It's fascinating how many are still standing. Maybe look up if that house is recorded. Although, I have no idea where that record keeping is.
To be fair the Sears catalog homes were shipped in the form of building materials and a booklet of plans, to be built on site. Like the worlds most ambitious Ikea project.
The elections? Yeah, sore losers are the worst. If they're not storming the Capitol then they're making tutorials on how to deport minorities who didn't vote for their favourite party.
10:20 Venn-diagram: overlap of people who click on this video because of mummy-rizz and people who own 2+ pairs of steampunk goggles Might be a little bit larger than the original reaction may imply. (Both combine pretty well with '(post-)post-apocalypse' fandom) The overlap between 'owns steampunk stuff' and 'click on this video because it is an OSP-video' .... i'm gonna go with substantial.
I distinctly remember being introduced to Imhotep through a skit in a comic book. Basically the owner of the house is bald, and his maid is a troll, so when she goes to wake him up she does this ritual, most likely ripped out of the mummy movies, and calls her master "Imhotep".
@EyeOfEld Pugad Baboy, which is in Filipino so a bit difficult to read for others. Someone tried translating it into English but I don't know what happened after that. They only managed a few strips before stopping.
_"All_ architecture is Euclidean, dummy." "Not if the angles of its triangles add up to more or less than 180 degrees!" "What, are geodesic domes non-Euclidean, you hack?"
@@timothymclean technically not, the windows and drawings on those are drawn in a different type of geometry whose name escapes me because it's been 9 years since I read the only thing about non-euclidean geometry I ever had... Which makes lovecraft writing all the more boring to me. "non-euclidean geometry ooooOOooOooo" yea right, come back when that's gonna be on the test if you want to scare me
The second Frasier mummy movie has one of my favorite interactions in these adventure style movies. Bay, see's the bracelet mcguffin on the kids arm, "by putting this on you have started a chain of events that will bring about the next apocalypse!" Child, gasps O'Connell, to Bay," You, lighten up." O'Connell to his son, "You, big trouble."
Yes!! The movie isn't the greatest, but it's so wonderfully self aware and Rick is so done with all the mummies from the very beginning. My personal favorites (paraphrased): Jonathon: If there's going to be any hysterics, they'll be from me! (to his 8-year-old nephew) Rick: And they were never heard from again. Evy: How did you know? Rick: I didn't, but that's always the story. Evy: No harm ever came from opening a chest. Rick: Yeah, and no harm ever came from reading a book. Remember how that one went?
Definitely love Doctor Who's "Mummy on the Orient Express". Mummy Rizz - 8/10. The mummy's visuals are amazing and it is a genuinely threatening monster, with a great twist at the end. Personal enjoyment - 10/10. One of my favorite Dr Who episodes ever. The gimmick of the Mummy killing someone in a specific amount of time is so much fun every time he's on screen. You would enjoy this if - you like mysteries. It takes place on the Orient Express for cryin out loud. Like any good mystery things slowly get revealed until a final tell-all at the end.
Fun fact: they used to lift buildings to make sewage pipes and such, so there is a tiny bit of president for a little residential relocation. edit: tara means star in hindi edit 2:precedent
IIRC the whole of Chicago got that treatment during the start of sewage systems especially. Like dozens of scissor jacks holding up entire blocks of structures, while the buildings themselves were still in operation.
I mean they move buildings all the time. I can't count how many times I've seen a house, or even pieces of a house, being hauled on the interstate via with a flashing "Warning: extra wide load" truck following them.
Thank you so much for your snark and sass in these trying times. Seriously, I love you guys. I can't begin to express how much I need this, and I know I'm not alone. PLEASE. STAY SAFE.
I baked a loaf of bread and made breakfast while listening to this one, but I definitely hear you. I used to do deburring, weld inspection, grit blasting, ect. and OSP material was one of the ways I stayed sane.
Rail enthusiast here: They abaolutely did try putting buildings on trains. And even succeeded technically, Travelling Post Office for collection and sorting en route, Ticket Offices in vans for lines with unstaffed stations, some extravagant folk even had "rail homes" but they were very rare. And literature of the day did speculate the idea of entire settlements contained aboard trains.
Hey OSP, just wanted to say that I love the channel and appreciate your guys’ perspective on things. I relistened to the Satirizing Superman episode day before yesterday, and Red’s soapbox about how caring is good and matters helped me feel better. Thank you for making videos, y’all rock!
I sent this video to my mom along with the Halloween special, and her verdict was this: "I saw it was an hour and a half, so I knew I'd watch it over a few days. An hour and a half later, I had seen all of it."
"We Egyptians are not allowed to dig up our own tombs, so I'm conscripting you white boys to do it for me. " And that's how I died, lungs crushed as my chest caved in from laughing too hard.
"The Mummy: The Animated Series" was a 2001 cartoon on Kids WB that was a spinoff of the 1999 film. I was obsessed with it when I was a kid. It's got some wild stuff in it. I don't actually remember it all that well, so I'm grading it based on my memories, but: Mummy rizz: A. Imhotep is voiced by Jim Cummings, and Jim Cummings is incapable of giving a bad voice performance, so that's pretty cool. He can fly around the world in a whirlwind, I think? There's an episode where he accidentally fuses with a giant spider and becomes like a spider-centaur: top half is Imhotep, bottom half is giant eight-foot-legspan spider, and then together they blow up a power plant, or something. Fun: A+. We actually taped several episodes of it so that we could watch them again. You might enjoy it if: You are about 8 years old, and it is 2001.
Hey Red, are we getting a Detail Diatribe on Warhammer 40K next time? There's so many great literary themes to explore: - The Aesthetics of Entropy - The Failure of Fascism - Poe's Law on subtlety in satire Etc.
She brings it up naturally in the Trope Talk article about grimdark, but I'm not 100% sure Red and Blue are as deep into it as other people are. Not to mention the comments section is gonna be a HELL of a minefield if they did do that. It could certainly be an interesting side adventure to take of course.
@@charliebasar9068 that's true, but it's also why I think Red would do a great breakdown of it. I know the whole "Warhammer Fan teaches Non-Warhammer Fan about Warhammer" video template is practically a subgenre of UA-cam at this point, but a greater variety of perspectives is always needed.
A great perspective on this is Alfabusa's video "A Reason Why I Like Inq28 (A Quick Talk on Warhammer's Aesthetic"), which I'll paraphrase as: «The satire inherent to Warhammar varies in its efficiency: an uncensored depiction of decay, totalitarian power structures, inarticulate class divisions, slavery to ideology, to tradition, aristocracy, submission to mindless servitude, stagnation, wanton paranoia and hatred of the other. However, this depiction, often becomes blurry, because: "Epic Space Marine Purge The Xenos Heresy HERESY!!" Which is an aesthetic that appeals to Monkey Action Brain. It's an aesthetic I'm sure helped most of us get into Warhammer, but it kind of shoots us in the part of the brain that helps us understand what Warhammer is saying with its lore and aesthetic. In the Imperium especially, there isn't a single rational thought behind any design decision. Rationality is excised, because reason requires thought, and thought is dissent. Reason, is heresy. It is aesthetic over practicality taken to its lowest depths.»
I now want OSP to give their take on Conan the Barbarian. If only because Lovecraft was actually a very good friend with Howard. It's actually pretty funny that the extreme omniphope that was Lovecraft was friends with so many people.
I guess if it's a scary world, you need a lot of scary friends so none of it GETS you, and if your friends turn out to be mixed up in the scary stuff, maybe they'll spare you?
Gotta say the bit with "the alignment of the stars is actually a date the mummy wishes to be woken up" might be one of the coolest things I've heard of in a while
An escaped ape, eh? Is that a reference/dig to/at “Murders in the Rue Morgue?” ‘Cause it wouldn’t be the first time Doyle threw shade on Poe’s forerunner-detective.
More comfy watching! For a future Miscellaneous Myths, could you please consider making an episode on Nyx? She's my favorite of Greek gods and there's like nothing on her, and I'm curious how your art style would depict her too!
@@cxfxcdude It’s more that Red is putting the individual myth retellings on the back burner as they aren’t fun. The deep dives into various gods, etc. are still interesting and might still be made, just at a slower pace.
I feel unworthy having THIS MUCH of a long Detail Diatribe and laughing and enjoying it so much alongside Red who is just KILLING it here! So comfy, so awesome, ya'll are having fun, we're getting such a wonderful video after a turbulent and busy week in society that...man...ya'll are so damn great. Keep up the quality please. We love ya'll and your team so much!
The traveling by balloon market probably burst and wasn't something one would write home to their 1827 Mummy about when houses were put on railways so that trains would allow entire houses to travel by rail to wherever the houseowner wanted.
HELL YEAH (I was up, couldn’t sleep due to nightmares. Then I found out y’all posted. Will be feeling a lot better. Hopefully I’ll calm down enough to asleep now.)
I'm honestly kinda surprised that Abbot and Costello Meets The Mummy didn't make it into this list of media I grew up with those movies and they're so much fun man
Whole buildings get moved on rails/tracks all the time, and there was a lot of it happening in the 1800's to preserve historic buildings as cities expanded. It is still done for historic buildings but more commonly in the modern world we have prefab trailer-style homes and offices shipped by rail often. Also, whole houses were being shipped by boat in the early 19th century (ie: Longpoint Floater houses in Provincetown, MA)
Thank you guys for all the content this week. My week has had an unholy amount of bullcrap coming up. Thank you for being a source of comfort amidst a death & a cancer diagnosis.
@@naomistarlight6178 I will die on this hill next to you, he changed the established rules of engagement, riddles aren't questions about random shit, jhfhfjklkjgjkbljnb--
I will say, I do feel like the first ending of the Jewel of the Seven Stars is kinda compelling in its own way? I feel like I'd have the point of failure in the ritual be a character beat, like maybe Margaret becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the ritualists ogling her body and starts to tussle with them trying to let them do the ritual herself or something. There's such a potential for a Junji Ito-esque sting with Malcolm realizing he's carried up the disintegrating body of Tera, like maybe in the smoke she does get up and maybe she mumbles things to Malcolm along the way before he's out of the smoke and he sees the dust coating her clothes and his hand, with this dawning sense of horror before he has to steel himself to go find Margaret. Maybe Margaret survives, and you can kind of include some of the second ending as well, where maybe Malcolm reflects on the experiment the same way and there's a sort of knowing glance from Margaret.
my favorite part about the first ending is the chapter that foreshadows that it has to fail because other wise the protagonists will have to deal with proving that gods other than God did have and still have real power over the worlds of man, thus disproving the claims of all Christendom ever that that was never the case. the second ending pulled that chapter entirely (which is fine it was a strong soporific of an existential crisis) and just kind of summarized it as part of the "well I guess it's ok that the whole thing fizzled out into nothing" conclusion everyone who was so thoroughly invested in the success of the experiment decides to come to.
From what I'm hearing, The Mummy (1932) raises some really interesting questions about identity and agency in the context of reincarnation. Assuming Helen retains the memories of Ankesenamun afterwards, where does Helen end and Ankesenamun begin? If not, who's the dominant personality? Is the ending really a display of Helen's agency when she's not even Helen during the climatic moment? These questions would've made for an easy sequel, or at the very least could inspire future stories.
Just had a weird thought. Ancient Egyptians, and mummies in general, are pretty much irl versions of necrons, just without the fancy tech, and hopefully the waking up
Who in turn after later editions were made tomb kings in space, and tomb kings neatly sidestepped the whole “ancient Egypt cool modern Egypt lame” issue by having the most powerful necromancer the world has or will ever know cast a spell that killed literally everything down to the cell level in Nehekara including himself. He got back up later on and then so did all of the dead nehekarans. *all of them*
@@vkgamimg8493 tbh tomb kings in fantasy do the mummy thing better. on top of being literal mummies who are just normal nobles and sorcerers except now they're undead there wasn't a time limit on Nagash's spell. So literally every reasonably well preserved person in Nehekara across hundreds if not thousands of years is now waking up and asking the question, "Who is king?" Settra is the answer of course, but some of them died before he was born
I'm going to make some spiced apple cider soon. Also, I was initially (jokingly) like, "Ah, eating well like the rich Brits with their mummy medicine?" but then you clarified that you were making burgers.
This was entertaining as hell. Not only because it was a great presentation of really weird subject matter, but because Red & Blue were just having SO MUCH FUN doing it.
I don't know who did it, but I have to give so so so much credit to whoever did the subtitling on this video - the all lowercase for all of this detail diatribe in contrast to the normal proper capitalization on the regular scripted video, but is still a really really good transcription of the video, A+ to you
Honestly, I saw the Hammer Mummy years ago. It was really fun. Peter Cushing as the lead again, and Christopher Lee as the Mummy. Plus, it all takes place in a mansion near a swamp. Classic spooky with great actors
Red and Blue thank you so much for posting this week its one of the few things thats still good right now, and i think we all really needed it. I hope your both doing okay and know that you guys are very important to all of us. If you guys need time we understand but at the same time, we are so thankful your still putting things out
27:11 I had noticed in the actual video on mummies that Tera had seven fingers! I paused and counted, cuz I was like "that.. ain't right". Figured it must have been something specific from the book, so good to know!
Ann Rice wrote; The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned It's been a long time, but I recall it being 'okay' when it comes to how the mummy is used. Thank you for these videos, both of you!
Ramses was ok in the book, surprisingly horny though. Cleopatra on the other hand is very fascinating, definitely an interesting way to show what a survivor the real one was.
The mummy 1999 was the first pg13 movie I saw when I was 8 because my dad didn't read the ratings and the scarab scene haunted me for weeks afterwards; and thus does the red death contest your assertion that its hard to have a bad time watching this movie!
"Selecting for a narrow Venn diagram of people who came to this video for mummy rizz and are also avid steampunk fans" That segment of the Venn diagram is made up entirely of Necron players
Great video as always. Unfortunately, I have to dock points because you forgot to mention Scooby Doo: Where’s My Mummy? Velma teaming up with an actual Egyptian prince to protect a lost tomb from treasure hunters by dressing up as Cleopatra and her undead army is peak. They even got Oded Fehr to cameo, playing a character that’s a very obvious reference to Ardeth Bey!
"'This football star-' It's england, it's probably not football" No, it probably would be football. Just the version that uses your feet. Alternatively, given the social class, it might be rugby. Which is like american football, but less wimpy.
I'm so glad that I actually guessed the topic again this year and researched it before the video came out... (I even had a mummy themed birthday party because I got so into it) ...BECAUSE NOW I CAN NERD OUT WITH Y'ALL ABOUT THE THE STORIES!!!
Fun fact: before "Little Women", Louisa May Alcott's main source of income was this collection of thrillers and magical fantasies. She didn't even want to write "Little Women" because she felt she didn't have a knack for writing about girls.
She was so wildly wrong about not being good at writing about girls which is pretty great.
@@darkstarr984 So true .... but I think it was because "Little Women" is a variation on her own family, so it was very much a write what you know (and love!).
My first Alcott book was "Jack and Jill", an old book in our grandparents' collection. It was a favorite of mine. She did end up writing a bunch of ya books: "Eight Cousins" and "Rose in Bloom", and a few others. And about her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War. I have a feeling, though, that she truly kind of loved her thrillers and horror stories!
Huh, kinda matches Jo’s character arc as she starts by writing horrid crap (for the standards if the time) and ends up writing about her sisters
@@Lemonade-Tree Absolutely true! And it makes sense because Jo is the representation of Louisa herself in the novel.
Meg is Anna, the eldest sister, who did marry and had two children, and who did have aspirations of acting;
Beth is Elizabeth, who died young; and Amy is youngest sister May, who, in her lifetime, went to Europe and became a successful painter, exhibited twice at the Paris Salon (a very big deal, especially for a woman and an American one at that). May married in Europe, but died very soon after her daughter was born.
Little Lulu was sent to Louisa to raise, but Louisa, who had been horribly ill off and on since a stint as a nurse in the Civil War, died when Lu was still really young. There are descendants of this family, from this daughter of May's.
(I'm sorry: the Alcott family's always been interesting to me, and I can spout on about the various members till people leave the room out of frustration).
How good was her earlier work (to a modern reader?)
Yes. Doyle and Houdini fell out because Doyle brought Houdini to a seance with Doyle’s wife acting as the medium and his wife claimed to channel Houdini’s mom. The problem was that Doyle’s wife wrote the so-called responses in English, referred to Houdini as Harry instead of by his birth name or Hebrew name, and referenced Christian ideas of heaven and Christian symbols. It was a triple strike out and really pissed off Houdini who could call BS several different ways.
Meanwhile, while Lovecraft was afraid of everything, he wasn’t gullible and insisting that things which were blatantly untrue were real. Lovecraft could separate fact from fiction and recognize a stage persona vs. the actual person. Thus Houdini liked being around him.
Yeah, but Lovecraft was a known racists and probably antisemitic. Don't know if Houdini knew that or if Lovecraft knew of Houdini's Jewish roots. But by this time, Houdini's many and varied attempts at breaking into Hollywood were finally done, and this was his last attempt at getting fame beyond the escape art acts.
@@jackielinde7568 Lovecraft's opinions on the Jewish is complicated to say the least, he was recorded to have great respect for Albert Einstein and love for his wife (who was openly Jewish). But there's also instances of him being more traditionally anti-Semitic. I have heard it all explained on his opinions relating to how Anglicanised the people in question are, but the answer in short is, It's Complicated.
I now DESPERATELY want a movie where no-longer-friends Conan Doyle and Houdini are forced to team up to investigate a possibly-supernatural mystery. Especially since it would be Conan Doyle who is the believer!
@@fredchallenger5278 Bigots making exceptions for people they like, even though they're part of the "inferior" group, is surprisingly common. Part of the inherent irrationality of bigotry, I guess. It's plausible he was antisemitic, but saw his wife and others as "one of the good ones."
Lovecraft's bigotry is definitely complicated, especially with how his views changed later in life.
@@justbrowsing9697 If the recently-concluded election isn't good for anything else, it certainly is an excellent collection of examples of just how irrational bigots are, and how difficult it is to have a logical conversation with them.
"Second category: did I have fun? not really a category, but it's important"
has the same energy as
"question two: steal the spice trade. that's not a question, but the Dutch did it anyway"
I had to google that quote because I was pretty sure it was from a Bill Wurtz video but I wasn't 100% sure
and then all the hipsters moved to Amsterdam
@@kenanjones3481you could make a religion out of this 🚬🌿
I said we were sorry!! XD it matches PERFECTLY lmao
@@kenanjones3481 Damn said Amsterdam
The reason The Mummy (1932) had such good camera work was because the director was Karl Freund. And back in his native Germany he was the cinematographer for such films as The Golem, The Last Laugh and Metropolis. He was part of a wave of German movie people brought over to Hollywood by Carl Laemmle jr to add some expressionist zing to Universal’s films.
The Metropolis and Golem director did The Mummy? Damn, you really do learn new things every day.
@@thirdcoinedge Strictly speaking he was the cinematographer for Metropolis and Golem, not the director; Metropolis was directed by Fritz Lang and Der Golem by Paul Wegener. OP does state this, but I can get the confusion- especially since Fritz Lang came over as part of that movement... albeit it had much more to do with the Nazis banning a film he made critical of them and then being "asked" to make propaganda films. Carl Laemmle (the elder) actually helped quite a number of German-Jewish refugees escape the regime
I think he might have had something to do with Dracula too, IIRC? And the connection wouldn't stop there; "white boy de jour" and the older archaeologist are both playing the EXACT same parts they did in Dracula the yr before (namely, bland love interest and wise monster hunter, respectively) Same actors too.
Germany really shot themselves in the foot with that stupid WWII idea. So many great minds left the country due to that. It is always impressive to look some inventor or pioneer of a field up and learn that they were basically a German refugee.
@@Xaiclun I think summarizing WWII as "that stupid idea" is both extremely funny and somehow deeply profound^^
Thank you for being one of my comfort channels after such a crap week. I deeply appreciate you guys ❤🥹
So real
Agreed
Yeah, same here! 😅🥲😢
Amén
I do hope that you have a great weekend and that your next week is the best :)
I was thinking a lot about the Night at the Museum visuals when watching the original video, so I'm glad you guys actually touched on it in this one because honestly it might be my favorite depiction of the mummy trope BECAUSE of how subversive and grounded in realism it is. I remember thinking the same thing on first watch like "Oh man this mummy is commanding the statues with his powers and now he's gonna be this shambling menace around the museum" but instead it was Egyptian-American actor Rami Malek and he's like "Hi, I'm just a chill prince from ancient Egypt and I know English because they carted me around between various British museums and universities before I ended up here in New York." It's just such a humanizing take on the trope. Like he's introduced late in the first movie and therefore plays a small role outside of owning the much more important magic tablet, but I just loved how he wasn't an evil sorcerer or brute strength zombie, just a nice Egyptian dude :)
as opposed to his big brother in the sequel (who wasn't a mummy but I digress), who was basically a villain in a Monty Python sketch.
What I love is that kids watching it are surprised cause he's normal, the adults watching it are surprised cause he's hot and if you watched it after Mr Robot and Boehemian Rhapsody you are surprised cause that's Oscar and Emmy award winner Rami Malek. It's a good joke that builds on itself both intentionally and unintentionally
It was also a very smart decision, probably made because it's a very good movie, to have him be a chill dude cause he's in charge of the Magic MacGuffin that facilitates the plot, so having him as a nice dude who isn't malevolent and wants to use his powers to come to life at night and chill in the museum works really well for the subsequent sequels.
Red isn’t kidding about the mummy being irrelevant to the middle part of A Tale of the 22nd Century. The protagonist accidentally gets involved with the King of Ireland’s war to restore the monarchy in Spain and it has basically nothing to do with the mummy or even the other political drama aside from the fact the king of Ireland is secretly another character mentioned earlier in the book. And that the author really wanted to talk about monarchy.
Was the author getting paid by the word?
The Mummy was the dead and forgotten leadership of the hollow bodies of monarchy all along.
@@loadeddice4696I can only assume so. Had to stretch it out to a three volume novel somehow.
I feel like complaining about the lack of mummy would be less justified if they hadn't entitled it "The Mummy!" with a frickin' exclamation point.
20:56 Fun fact: in The Murders in the Rue Morgue (the first modern detective story, coincidentally written by Edgar Allen Poe), the killer is an escaped Orangutan.
Escaped murderous apes was a trope up until like, the 40s.
It could be one once again
@@mithril5869 Mike Mignola is working on it.
@@mithril5869 yep, Nope. (And yes, we have no bananas... Which might be part of the reason the escaped apes are so mad.)
@@teogonzalez7957Judging by... every single cartoon, somehow, the tropes didn't completely died in the 40s
It's interesting what you were saying about Seven Stars incorporating cutting-edge Egyptology, astronomy, and so on. Because that's really the same thing you get in War of the Worlds (the only-just-popularly-accepted concepts of germ theory and microorganisms) and Dracula (using modern medicine, railways, steam power, and telegraphs to get ahead of Dracula's oldschool ways). It's probably not coincidence that those books were written in 1903, 1895, and 1897 respectively. Clearly many of the authors of the turn of the century were excited to incorporate the newest scientific discoveries into their books, even those that were not in what we would now call the Sci-Fi genre.
And yes I know Seven Stars and Dracula were the same guy. Just to be clear. 😁
It's interesting to think of Stoker and HG Wells as early proponents of hard sci-fi, considering that The Invisible Man is "what if chemistry + albinism?" shenanigans and The Time Machine and The Island of Dr Moreau are even softer and more nebulous, but you can see the early adoption of evolution there.
"How might fantastic and folkloric things interact with modern science and technology" is such a fascinating and underutilized form of Speculative Fiction.
36:00 It really sounds like a mixture of the two endings would have been better. The ritual "fails" and everyone but Jeremy and Margaret are killed in the aftermath (mummy rampage or death smoke or whatever).
Then, they cut to the epilogue when he talks about the mummy not getting what she wanted and she gives him that look... While petting her cat, enjoying her resplendent wealth.
She's just staring at him thinking, 'What the Hell do you mean, 'it failed'?' "You're so lucky you're charming and handsome, my love." Margaret is living her best life with full memory and power of being an Egyptian sorceress queen. And cursing the shit out of her enemies. 😂
Insert Imhotep smirk gif here
*adds in his goofy CGI mouth for added fun*
Settra the imperishable
@@spartanhawk7637 add Ardeth Bae meme for extra hilarity
Imhotek as the necrons call him
Such is the power of Nagash
“Why are you removing the organs?” “Oh don’t worry about it, makes it easier for the brits to eat in a few thousand years” “huh?” “Huh?”
Now here a better theory you know zombies right, mummies are just updated version, no organ that produces fluid to rot, no brain to damage and dryed out
@@migrivp2672 I just realised that zombies in the future are probably gonna be super well-looking going by embalming standards for today: beautiful skin, plenty of structure (formaldehyde) inside to keep them walking steadily. Their eyes will be glued shut, but hey - new zombie design!
@ew6483 sure would make a fun movie with a joke about a guy mistakenly shooting and a Kardashian thinking it was a zombie... or the classic joke of "braiiin." (Zombies ignore the idiots and walk pass them even if wounded) and for a last joke a whorehouse but it's to bang Zombies that still look human enough.
fun fact: the mummy eating was mostly just the pleasantly scented oils that ancient egyptians used for the mummification process. so it's only slightly not cannabalism
@@AmbrGlw I don't know cannibalisms is one of those things that is going to get a side eye and these hands up no matter how many asterixis you put on in.
I vote for someone to make a book series about not-Watson from Conan Doyle's story going around easily resolving other Victorian literary horror stories by pointing a gun at characters before they do something stupid. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll... the possibilities are endless!
Hell, Watson's public domain. Use him until the Doyle estate sends you a cease & desist.
"Victor, you either go back there and properly raise your giant child or your nephew won't be this book's first casualty."
I first came across the Houdini / Lovecraft crossover when I was researching background for a Dresden Files RPG adventure set in Detroit, and I found out that they'd been collaborating on a non-fiction book intended to debunk fake spritualists and the like but had only got as far as an introduction when Houdini died in semi-mysterious circumstances, after which Houdini's wife buried the project. You can imagine how something like that could play out in an urban fantasy setting.
It would feel disrespectful to make it actually supernatural, so I think you have to make it seem like it's tied in with all the weird urban fantasy magic stuff, but it turns out that Houdini did, in fact, just die from appendicitis.
Wait wait wait, Dresden files? Nice! My mom likes that series and I’m a couple books in, nice to see it in the wild!
@@DKdrop Complicating matters, several separate groups of mediums (including at least one composed entirely of frauds) claim responsibility for Houdini's death. For the clout.
@@timothymclean I mean... _all_ groups of mediums are composed entirely of frauds. I suppose some mediums might not realize they're frauds, though....
Scooby Doo but it’s a crazy crossover between Houdini and lovecraft lmao
12:40 Poe actually has quite a few goofy/satirical pieces in his stories. I remember in particular the tale of a circular town with a set number of identical houses, in each of which an essentially identical family lives on an identical time frame dictated by the central clock tower. until one day the tower rings one more time than it should have, and everyone panics
Us autistic people can relate
I just paused at this point; people often pigeonhole Poe stories as all macabre evening eeries (and he has many and they're wonderful), but he really was a very versatile writer who was VERY fond of satire; he famously created many hoaxes that fooled thousands just to prove how easily people could be fooled. He also has many works that are their own serious fiction, most famously Dupin. Overall, a deeply fascinating author that I love returning to. Thank you for your comment, internet friend!
Red: I dunno if you're supposed to empathize with the mummy as much as I did.
My mom: I think so, with all the movie monsters from that era.
Me: What about... _(I dunno, uh)_ Creature from The Black Lagoon?
Mom: *_My first love._*
NGL that's based as hell
The Shape of Water agrees
I genuinely mean this with complete sincerity, 'Some words with a mummy' is the funniest story i have ever read other than the discoworld novels. Highly recommend
Poe just flexing his writing skills to remind us that he could do more and we should be thankful he mostly stuck to gothic horror, or else he might have dominated all of American literature in his era and we wouldn’t have any of the other notable writers.
@@phastinemoon Poe mostly wrote comedies, and was bad at it. His gothic horrors are remembered because they're the stories that were actually good.
@@danielstride198 Which other comedies are YOU thinking of?
The only other I can think of is 'Angel of the Odd'
@@phastinemoon King Pest (his other plague story), Dr Tarr and Professor Fether, Three Sundays in One Week, Bon-Bon, A Predcament, The Spectacles, The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade, Loss of Breath. I am sure there are copious others - Poe wrote a lot.
@@phastinemoonIt's like the opposite of Ryan North flexing his writing skills and proving he can do more than humor by making an *Iron Man* book one of the most horrific stories the medium has seen.
I know you’re doing Mummies, but it would be cool is you did an OSP video on other vampire stories like Varney or Carmilla at some point. It’s always a joy to see your summaries and art style.
Wait I thought they just got made up for the castlevania anime are they from like actual folklore?
@ No, they were based off of actual vampire stories, apparently. Carmilla, I heard, was actually written before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula.
Osp dark shadows.... mwah
@@hadriandwyer2191 Carmilla is one of the oldest written vampire stories, and it has a webseries adaptation (sponsored by a menstrual products company 😂)
yes PLEASE
A "oops all mummies" podcast episode would make a holy trinity but I won't fool myself believing
"Isis has laser powers."
"They *did* say she was the goddess of light."
When it comes to mummy rizz you can't fail to mention "mummies alive", it's basicaly the 90s gargoyles cartoon but with mummies that get power ranger style super suits and vehicles
loved that show and the transformations where so awesome.
WOO~! \o/
Make sure the HOT-RA is fully charged! XD
Came to say exactly this.
Like, it’s obviously a toy commercial designed to sell a product capitalizing on the 90s wave of Egyptomania, but it’s also a superhero action comedy because kids show from the 90s. While it’s only one season, that is still 42 different 22 minute episodes.
If anyone wants to know if they’ll like it, watching the opening sequence and listening to theme song should tell you whether it’s your jam or not.
I loved that show so much as a kid it was up there with Reboot as favourite kids media!
It was strange but I enjoyed it. I would say its more like the Turtles since again they have the random car and stuff.
Isn't it also one of the shows with a technically disabled character?
Only he's the big guy, and he gets a msgic arm when he transforms.
"doing better on the sleep thing" is my new personal goal
Better?*
@cxfxcdude i apologize, i am not doing better on the sleep thing at the moment
God has that been a challenge this week
Fucking mood, honestly.
I've always been fond of the Magnus Archives mummy. It's one of the Statment monsters, so Jon and his team never meet it, but it's an example of my personal favorite version of undead, which I usually only see in vampires: "I don't want to be undead, but I can't do anything about it". I'm paraphrasing, but the idea the show posits is: "To the ancient Egyptians, dying was the most important thing a person would ever do. They spent their whole lives preparing for it, collecting everything they would need for the journey. Imagine what they would do to someone who couldn't die."
Finally, another comment bringing up this episode! I personally ranked it C+ for mummy rizz and B- for how much fun I had, since I liked the concept of a Nathaniel Thorp death character getting mummified but thought the execution could have been scarier.
Oh no! It seems our heroes have unlocked the tomb of the 200+ years worth of mummy lore! The curse has been unleashed! THE END TIMES ARE UPON US!
What do you mean? 2020 has already come and gone.
Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria...
37:00 fun fact, Lovecraft had dinner with Houdini and his wife. I know this because I’m listening to a podcast about Lovecraft’s letters to people.
Also fun fact about this story, Houdini didn’t like the amount of times he passed out in it.
“I can’t believe you used Papyrus, you hack” is such a good way to end lol
... Oh my god.
I am one of those people who fit into the ven diagram of mummy appreciators and owns 2 sets of steampunk goggles.
getting that book asap.
Target spotted!
The thing most people don't realize is that we do (Sort of) still live in a steampunk world, any traditional or nuclear power plant is still just the same old boil water and make things spin of Victorian times. We're just a step removed from it because electricity is so flexible and scalable; and because our man-machine interfaces are so refined.
@@basharic3162 But the aesthetic isn't there. It's just got no punk.
I have read the Jewel of Seven Stars this past week (because oh my gods it sounded so interesting in the halloween video, PDF is free yall), and I am so glad you included that it was the mummy cat, I had been screaming that since the third chapter
I REALLY want a modern reinterpretation of this book
Thank God OSP uploaded a video! I need this in my soul
Yay for mummies
The only mummy not mentioned I can think of is the one from Night At The Museum, which was basically “ooh a mummy!” “wow so handsome” “*gasp* magic!” and “he can communicate with the hun, so educated!” but... apart from that NATM movie where his parents and brother show up, it’s not really about the mummy. It’s really just mostly Rami Malek being a very handsome Egyptian man clad in shiny gold for me.
He WAS mentioned tho?
Yes, Rizz: the most statistically objective category humanity has crafted
@@3Midlo Watching this shortly after rewatching the Charismaniacs episode is a treat.
54:28 "crunched like a jpg" is such an amazing wording for exactly how i also felt hearing that, 10/10 will be using that phrase
Around the 14:30 mark, everyone wanted to use trains for big items.
According to the Guinness wolrd record site:
The largest single object transported by railway was a 32 m (106 ft) tall reactor weighing 558.01 tonnes (1.23 million lb) which was transported between Birmingham, Alabama, and Toledo, Ohio, USA on 12 November 1965.
*The Sears catalog shipped HOMES on the railway from 1908-1914.
Sorry I couldn't find another example that would be more related to the time period, but the Sears catalog is easy enough to look up, same with records from Guinness.
I grew up in one of those
I believe the nuclear reactor was transported by a steam train, making it a very large and expensive boiler being hauled around by another very large and expensive boiler.
@@mikakestudios5891That's pretty cool. I vaguely recall, from a short UA-cam documentary, there's an effort to collect the data on Sears Catalog homes. It's fascinating how many are still standing.
Maybe look up if that house is recorded. Although, I have no idea where that record keeping is.
To be fair the Sears catalog homes were shipped in the form of building materials and a booklet of plans, to be built on site. Like the worlds most ambitious Ikea project.
@melissahughes4205 Amazon is now doing the same thing... But I think Sears did it better
Ah yes. A detail diatribe to ease the nerves after.... events.
Ah yes… _events…_
Orange mummy 2, the sequel no one wants to talk about.
The elections? Yeah, sore losers are the worst. If they're not storming the Capitol then they're making tutorials on how to deport minorities who didn't vote for their favourite party.
10:20
Venn-diagram:
overlap of people who click on this video because of mummy-rizz
and people who own 2+ pairs of steampunk goggles
Might be a little bit larger than the original reaction may imply.
(Both combine pretty well with '(post-)post-apocalypse' fandom)
The overlap between 'owns steampunk stuff' and 'click on this video because it is an OSP-video'
.... i'm gonna go with substantial.
Made me think of the Soulless series by Gail Carriger. The last book takes place in Egypt afterall.
All we need is Blue Egypt video and we get Mesopotamia Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
☝️🤓 erm aqxewally ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia are two very distinct geographical locations with vastly different civilizations
I mean he did make Gilding the Nile like a month ago
I distinctly remember being introduced to Imhotep through a skit in a comic book. Basically the owner of the house is bald, and his maid is a troll, so when she goes to wake him up she does this ritual, most likely ripped out of the mummy movies, and calls her master "Imhotep".
What comic? That sounds amazing.
@EyeOfEld Pugad Baboy, which is in Filipino so a bit difficult to read for others. Someone tried translating it into English but I don't know what happened after that. They only managed a few strips before stopping.
@eveakane6563 Alas... Still, thanks for answering!
41:18 “Wow! This architecture sure is Euclidean!”
_"All_ architecture is Euclidean, dummy."
"Not if the angles of its triangles add up to more or less than 180 degrees!"
"What, are geodesic domes non-Euclidean, you hack?"
@@timothymclean technically not, the windows and drawings on those are drawn in a different type of geometry whose name escapes me because it's been 9 years since I read the only thing about non-euclidean geometry I ever had...
Which makes lovecraft writing all the more boring to me. "non-euclidean geometry ooooOOooOooo" yea right, come back when that's gonna be on the test if you want to scare me
Off topic but your castlevania video made me watch the whole series and nocturne, what a show man
The second Frasier mummy movie has one of my favorite interactions in these adventure style movies.
Bay, see's the bracelet mcguffin on the kids arm, "by putting this on you have started a chain of events that will bring about the next apocalypse!"
Child, gasps
O'Connell, to Bay," You, lighten up."
O'Connell to his son, "You, big trouble."
Yes!! The movie isn't the greatest, but it's so wonderfully self aware and Rick is so done with all the mummies from the very beginning.
My personal favorites (paraphrased):
Jonathon: If there's going to be any hysterics, they'll be from me! (to his 8-year-old nephew)
Rick: And they were never heard from again.
Evy: How did you know?
Rick: I didn't, but that's always the story.
Evy: No harm ever came from opening a chest.
Rick: Yeah, and no harm ever came from reading a book. Remember how that one went?
The Halloween Special baked meats did coldly furnish forth the Detail Diatribe…
Ayyyyy, congrats on the OSPod Shoutout!
Definitely love Doctor Who's "Mummy on the Orient Express". Mummy Rizz - 8/10. The mummy's visuals are amazing and it is a genuinely threatening monster, with a great twist at the end.
Personal enjoyment - 10/10. One of my favorite Dr Who episodes ever. The gimmick of the Mummy killing someone in a specific amount of time is so much fun every time he's on screen.
You would enjoy this if - you like mysteries. It takes place on the Orient Express for cryin out loud. Like any good mystery things slowly get revealed until a final tell-all at the end.
Yes!! That's one of my favorite of 12's episodes!
Fun fact: they used to lift buildings to make sewage pipes and such, so there is a tiny bit of president for a little residential relocation.
edit: tara means star in hindi
edit 2:precedent
Because if you can't make a reference in one language make it in another lol
I'm going to assume you meant precedent, and that's really cool to hear! Read? Eh, you know what I mean.
IIRC the whole of Chicago got that treatment during the start of sewage systems especially. Like dozens of scissor jacks holding up entire blocks of structures, while the buildings themselves were still in operation.
I mean they move buildings all the time. I can't count how many times I've seen a house, or even pieces of a house, being hauled on the interstate via with a flashing "Warning: extra wide load" truck following them.
@maromania7 Oh snap, what country?
Thank you so much for your snark and sass in these trying times. Seriously, I love you guys. I can't begin to express how much I need this, and I know I'm not alone. PLEASE. STAY SAFE.
When I have to layout circuits on CAD for two hours and the perfect OSP viseo drops to help me.
Agreed. These videos are great for having something interesting to listen to while getting stuff done
I baked a loaf of bread and made breakfast while listening to this one, but I definitely hear you.
I used to do deburring, weld inspection, grit blasting, ect. and OSP material was one of the ways I stayed sane.
Rail enthusiast here: They abaolutely did try putting buildings on trains. And even succeeded technically, Travelling Post Office for collection and sorting en route, Ticket Offices in vans for lines with unstaffed stations, some extravagant folk even had "rail homes" but they were very rare. And literature of the day did speculate the idea of entire settlements contained aboard trains.
Hey OSP, just wanted to say that I love the channel and appreciate your guys’ perspective on things. I relistened to the Satirizing Superman episode day before yesterday, and Red’s soapbox about how caring is good and matters helped me feel better. Thank you for making videos, y’all rock!
I sent this video to my mom along with the Halloween special, and her verdict was this:
"I saw it was an hour and a half, so I knew I'd watch it over a few days. An hour and a half later, I had seen all of it."
OSP: We did a Mummy video
Fans: Yaay.
OSP: We'll fucken do it again.
"We Egyptians are not allowed to dig up our own tombs, so I'm conscripting you white boys to do it for me. "
And that's how I died, lungs crushed as my chest caved in from laughing too hard.
"The Mummy: The Animated Series" was a 2001 cartoon on Kids WB that was a spinoff of the 1999 film. I was obsessed with it when I was a kid. It's got some wild stuff in it. I don't actually remember it all that well, so I'm grading it based on my memories, but:
Mummy rizz: A.
Imhotep is voiced by Jim Cummings, and Jim Cummings is incapable of giving a bad voice performance, so that's pretty cool. He can fly around the world in a whirlwind, I think? There's an episode where he accidentally fuses with a giant spider and becomes like a spider-centaur: top half is Imhotep, bottom half is giant eight-foot-legspan spider, and then together they blow up a power plant, or something.
Fun: A+.
We actually taped several episodes of it so that we could watch them again.
You might enjoy it if: You are about 8 years old, and it is 2001.
Hey Red, are we getting a Detail Diatribe on Warhammer 40K next time? There's so many great literary themes to explore:
- The Aesthetics of Entropy
- The Failure of Fascism
- Poe's Law on subtlety in satire
Etc.
Also makes sense with the Space Marine 2 live stream
She brings it up naturally in the Trope Talk article about grimdark, but I'm not 100% sure Red and Blue are as deep into it as other people are. Not to mention the comments section is gonna be a HELL of a minefield if they did do that. It could certainly be an interesting side adventure to take of course.
Main issue with 40k is how many people missed the whole, "Failure," part and fully embraced the fascism.
@@charliebasar9068 that's true, but it's also why I think Red would do a great breakdown of it. I know the whole "Warhammer Fan teaches Non-Warhammer Fan about Warhammer" video template is practically a subgenre of UA-cam at this point, but a greater variety of perspectives is always needed.
A great perspective on this is Alfabusa's video "A Reason Why I Like Inq28 (A Quick Talk on Warhammer's Aesthetic"), which I'll paraphrase as:
«The satire inherent to Warhammar varies in its efficiency: an uncensored depiction of decay, totalitarian power structures, inarticulate class divisions, slavery to ideology, to tradition, aristocracy, submission to mindless servitude, stagnation, wanton paranoia and hatred of the other.
However, this depiction, often becomes blurry, because:
"Epic Space Marine Purge The Xenos Heresy HERESY!!"
Which is an aesthetic that appeals to Monkey Action Brain. It's an aesthetic I'm sure helped most of us get into Warhammer, but it kind of shoots us in the part of the brain that helps us understand what Warhammer is saying with its lore and aesthetic.
In the Imperium especially, there isn't a single rational thought behind any design decision.
Rationality is excised, because reason requires thought, and thought is dissent. Reason, is heresy.
It is aesthetic over practicality taken to its lowest depths.»
I can't believe that Red talked about mummys for almost two hours and never once mentioned Pyramids by Sir Terry Pratchett
Oh? I’m interested
I now want OSP to give their take on Conan the Barbarian. If only because Lovecraft was actually a very good friend with Howard. It's actually pretty funny that the extreme omniphope that was Lovecraft was friends with so many people.
I guess if it's a scary world, you need a lot of scary friends so none of it GETS you, and if your friends turn out to be mixed up in the scary stuff, maybe they'll spare you?
Gotta say the bit with "the alignment of the stars is actually a date the mummy wishes to be woken up" might be one of the coolest things I've heard of in a while
An escaped ape, eh? Is that a reference/dig to/at “Murders in the Rue Morgue?” ‘Cause it wouldn’t be the first time Doyle threw shade on Poe’s forerunner-detective.
More comfy watching! For a future Miscellaneous Myths, could you please consider making an episode on Nyx? She's my favorite of Greek gods and there's like nothing on her, and I'm curious how your art style would depict her too!
She may be putting Myths on the backburner for a while friendo :|
@@cxfxcdude It’s more that Red is putting the individual myth retellings on the back burner as they aren’t fun. The deep dives into various gods, etc. are still interesting and might still be made, just at a slower pace.
@ a much better summary of her words, thank you friend :)
I feel unworthy having THIS MUCH of a long Detail Diatribe and laughing and enjoying it so much alongside Red who is just KILLING it here! So comfy, so awesome, ya'll are having fun, we're getting such a wonderful video after a turbulent and busy week in society that...man...ya'll are so damn great. Keep up the quality please. We love ya'll and your team so much!
The traveling by balloon market probably burst and wasn't something one would write home to their 1827 Mummy about when houses were put on railways so that trains would allow entire houses to travel by rail to wherever the houseowner wanted.
To be fair the houses are explicitly only owned by the super rich and balloons are somewhat more affordable
HELL YEAH (I was up, couldn’t sleep due to nightmares. Then I found out y’all posted. Will be feeling a lot better. Hopefully I’ll calm down enough to asleep now.)
I'm honestly kinda surprised that Abbot and Costello Meets The Mummy didn't make it into this list of media
I grew up with those movies and they're so much fun man
I really like this review format and I hope it makes a return sometime in the future.
Whole buildings get moved on rails/tracks all the time, and there was a lot of it happening in the 1800's to preserve historic buildings as cities expanded. It is still done for historic buildings but more commonly in the modern world we have prefab trailer-style homes and offices shipped by rail often. Also, whole houses were being shipped by boat in the early 19th century (ie: Longpoint Floater houses in Provincetown, MA)
Mummy Rizz and Steampunk?
My two pairs of steampunk goggles are literally hanging from my cheap knock-off "Egyptian" cat statue.
"ancient evil eldritch nightmares" scans perfectly to "teenage mutant ninja turtles". just thought everyone should know that
Not quite. 😕
So happy to be here within 1 minute, especially since I was just watching the last Mummy video; what a coincidence!
Thank you guys for all the content this week.
My week has had an unholy amount of bullcrap coming up.
Thank you for being a source of comfort amidst a death & a cancer diagnosis.
57:33 I love that they basically recreate this scene in The Mummy Returns. Such good call-backs.
Man, Red and Blue are really living up to their channel name this diatribe
"What's in my pocket levels of bullsh*t riddles" Blue zingers be ZINGIN this sesh
We all agree that that was a bullshit riddle and Bilbo should get 0 points!
@@naomistarlight6178 I will die on this hill next to you, he changed the established rules of engagement, riddles aren't questions about random shit, jhfhfjklkjgjkbljnb--
I will say, I do feel like the first ending of the Jewel of the Seven Stars is kinda compelling in its own way? I feel like I'd have the point of failure in the ritual be a character beat, like maybe Margaret becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the ritualists ogling her body and starts to tussle with them trying to let them do the ritual herself or something. There's such a potential for a Junji Ito-esque sting with Malcolm realizing he's carried up the disintegrating body of Tera, like maybe in the smoke she does get up and maybe she mumbles things to Malcolm along the way before he's out of the smoke and he sees the dust coating her clothes and his hand, with this dawning sense of horror before he has to steel himself to go find Margaret. Maybe Margaret survives, and you can kind of include some of the second ending as well, where maybe Malcolm reflects on the experiment the same way and there's a sort of knowing glance from Margaret.
my favorite part about the first ending is the chapter that foreshadows that it has to fail because other wise the protagonists will have to deal with proving that gods other than God did have and still have real power over the worlds of man, thus disproving the claims of all Christendom ever that that was never the case.
the second ending pulled that chapter entirely (which is fine it was a strong soporific of an existential crisis) and just kind of summarized it as part of the "well I guess it's ok that the whole thing fizzled out into nothing" conclusion everyone who was so thoroughly invested in the success of the experiment decides to come to.
From what I'm hearing, The Mummy (1932) raises some really interesting questions about identity and agency in the context of reincarnation. Assuming Helen retains the memories of Ankesenamun afterwards, where does Helen end and Ankesenamun begin? If not, who's the dominant personality? Is the ending really a display of Helen's agency when she's not even Helen during the climatic moment? These questions would've made for an easy sequel, or at the very least could inspire future stories.
I remember a tv show I used to watch called Tutenstein, the mummy was a 10 year old kid pharoah brought back by a magical staff
Just had a weird thought. Ancient Egyptians, and mummies in general, are pretty much irl versions of necrons, just without the fancy tech, and hopefully the waking up
Who in turn after later editions were made tomb kings in space, and tomb kings neatly sidestepped the whole “ancient Egypt cool modern Egypt lame” issue by having the most powerful necromancer the world has or will ever know cast a spell that killed literally everything down to the cell level in Nehekara including himself. He got back up later on and then so did all of the dead nehekarans. *all of them*
My brother, Necrons are just sci-fi mummies
@@vkgamimg8493 tbh tomb kings in fantasy do the mummy thing better. on top of being literal mummies who are just normal nobles and sorcerers except now they're undead there wasn't a time limit on Nagash's spell. So literally every reasonably well preserved person in Nehekara across hundreds if not thousands of years is now waking up and asking the question, "Who is king?" Settra is the answer of course, but some of them died before he was born
Gee it's almost like GW to inspiration from somewhere, truly a mystery
Tbf it truly is a Mystery, considering gw only inspiration these days is just “money”
The intro to the Karloff Mummy movie is hilarious. "Well, this was sealed. Did you open it? 'Of course! Science, you know.'"
The OSP crew, my current hyper fixation. releasing a video on my birthday? Now that an awesome coincidental gift.
Oh, I’m eating good tonight.
No, really. I have plans to make myself some burgers while listening to this.
Hope you have a wonderful time friend
I'm going to make some spiced apple cider soon. Also, I was initially (jokingly) like, "Ah, eating well like the rich Brits with their mummy medicine?" but then you clarified that you were making burgers.
This was entertaining as hell. Not only because it was a great presentation of really weird subject matter, but because Red & Blue were just having SO MUCH FUN doing it.
6:25 "that ghastly Godless land of America"
Well ain't that accurate.
Endlessly frustrated that I have work right around the time you guys post videos so I really really want to watch it but have to wait
I don't know who did it, but I have to give so so so much credit to whoever did the subtitling on this video - the all lowercase for all of this detail diatribe in contrast to the normal proper capitalization on the regular scripted video, but is still a really really good transcription of the video, A+ to you
What a great video to clean to ❤️ such beautiful ramblings, I love it all
2 mummy videos, you spoil us.
Honestly, I saw the Hammer Mummy years ago. It was really fun. Peter Cushing as the lead again, and Christopher Lee as the Mummy. Plus, it all takes place in a mansion near a swamp. Classic spooky with great actors
Another mummy video to WRAP UP your thoughts?
Buh dum *tss*
Eyyyyyy
*air horn noises fill the air*
Red and Blue thank you so much for posting this week its one of the few things thats still good right now, and i think we all really needed it. I hope your both doing okay and know that you guys are very important to all of us. If you guys need time we understand but at the same time, we are so thankful your still putting things out
27:11 I had noticed in the actual video on mummies that Tera had seven fingers! I paused and counted, cuz I was like "that.. ain't right". Figured it must have been something specific from the book, so good to know!
The Mummy (1999) is absolutely peak cinema. I will now definitely check out the 1932 The Mummy movie now though
genuinely hyped about this one, i was SO CURIOUS about the literature you referenced in the mummy video!!
Ann Rice wrote; The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned
It's been a long time, but I recall it being 'okay' when it comes to how the mummy is used.
Thank you for these videos, both of you!
Ramses was ok in the book, surprisingly horny though. Cleopatra on the other hand is very fascinating, definitely an interesting way to show what a survivor the real one was.
My miserable morning got a 180 after this showed up on my notification feed!
I love the lore we're getting about Red's dad, old school comic nerd and eager Stoker reader and critic.
THANK YOU BOTH WITH THESE RANDOM THINGS
The mummy 1999 was the first pg13 movie I saw when I was 8 because my dad didn't read the ratings and the scarab scene haunted me for weeks afterwards; and thus does the red death contest your assertion that its hard to have a bad time watching this movie!
"Selecting for a narrow Venn diagram of people who came to this video for mummy rizz and are also avid steampunk fans"
That segment of the Venn diagram is made up entirely of Necron players
Great video as always. Unfortunately, I have to dock points because you forgot to mention Scooby Doo: Where’s My Mummy? Velma teaming up with an actual Egyptian prince to protect a lost tomb from treasure hunters by dressing up as Cleopatra and her undead army is peak. They even got Oded Fehr to cameo, playing a character that’s a very obvious reference to Ardeth Bey!
"'This football star-' It's england, it's probably not football"
No, it probably would be football. Just the version that uses your feet.
Alternatively, given the social class, it might be rugby. Which is like american football, but less wimpy.
Football was originally a 'gentlemanly sport', which died out as new football clubs formed, who paid their players, which was a bit of a scandal?
Allamistakeo sounds like an Asterix and Obelix character. And I love it.
It was worth watching all 1 1/2 hours of this just to hear the “I can’t believe you used Papyrus. You _hack_ .”
I'm so glad that I actually guessed the topic again this year and researched it before the video came out...
(I even had a mummy themed birthday party because I got so into it)
...BECAUSE NOW I CAN NERD OUT WITH Y'ALL ABOUT THE THE STORIES!!!