🚨 ATTENTION 🚨This video was recorded 4 months ago. It's only JUST NOW been approved from the copyright holders. So yeah, this is a one-off and I'm not reacting to the rest of the season because of that BUUUT I will be uploading the first episode of TOOL ACADEMY SEASON 2 next week and do the entire season of that. Ok enjoy and also why is this dude so sweaty?? Disgusting
Please watch Claim to Fame season 1 after after you're done Tool Academy season 2. The difference between how the cast behaved from 1 season to the next is very whiplash like
Parents deserve a vacation though. A lot of them probably had 10 years of non stop work and taking care of them. What's wrong with a 40 day vacation? I really don't see a problem with this. The kids can leave and it teaches them really some invaluable social skills and how to manage it. Not being able to call was a bit extreme. They should've been granted at least a 10 minute call per day but I guess that's their way of weeding out the ranks. Overall, with a decent support staff it would be beneficial.
@@tigerwoods373 yeah but that's why you take your kid to an actual summercamp or send them off somewhere cool where they aren't blasted on television for all to see as the kids are traumatized and not allowed to call their parents lol. My city has free programs to help families who don't have money to get summercamp. Or if they participate in fundraisers they get to go for free in a much more stable setting with appropriate handling of the kids not making a lord of the fly's situation. And it's very very clear the host was manipulative about it making the kids feel like they should be ashamed to leave like they're whimps lol. I had to go to rehab when I was younger a few times.. If I left I'd be kicked out on the street. I was the only person there for that reason because I had nowhere else to go and it'd piss me tf off when I said I felt trapped and forced to be there they'd be like "but you can leave any time you want!" Sure true... But with a bunch of barriers, fucking up my insurance, being kicked out on the literal street to be homeless... I know that's a more extreme situation but sometimes you are technically free to leave shit like this but not really
Yeah, and you can really see who was really fit to be a leader from the first 2 days. They thought that putting a bunch of smartasses in charge was a good idea.
But this is how usa started. It didn’t start with systematic democracy. It took a long time of what you’re seeing here with these kids to even establish a system. Y’all think thousands of ppl just came over then went to the polls to select a leader lol?
There were adults, the host and camera crew, but they couldn't intervene in any way, except for major emergencies (making sure no kid dies, gets severe burns, etc.) The youngest kid Jimmy said in the JonTron interview that he was hungry and shivered at night each day he was there.
Oh god! That makes me sick to even think about putting one of my kids through that. You couldn’t pay my kids (or certainly not me, because let’s be real, it’s the parents getting the pay day) to go on this show or anything like it. My kids are 10 and 14. Just that 4 year age gap shows they are truly in TOTALLY different age groups with different emotional maturities, life skills, development, ability to cope in difficult situations, and dependence on adults. I can’t believe parents, let alone a tv network, let this show happen.
@@PandaMom9230If I remember correctly, production was very misleading when explaining the show to the parents. “We have to cook our own meals” doesn’t sound too crazy when you don’t know there’s like 1 stove and barely any food. They probably think the kids are getting meat and stuff to actually make simple but filling food
No one commented on this because 231+ people agreed, knowing it to be a unanimous observation. Gunnar truly had personified the kid that won’t stop crying and vomiting.
That was me at summer camp. I threw up everyday and the counselors yelled at me to stop crying because it was making the other kids homesick. Fun times.
Either That or i could totally see Gunnar to be acting all cool and stuff at first but then like stub his toe or trip and just it completely turn around and leave Edit: As i continue to watch i have to say gunnar is definitely jimmy
Kinda fucked that the modt physically fit kids were all put in the upper and merchant classes and all the small and weak kids were put on the cooks and hard labor teams.
Tbh, yellow is pretty shit tier, especially when they get cooks. Like yes it is mostly 10, but they had a clique. Green? They are actually the imo, strongest overall. Won most gold, and late early game to end, they usually were on top. Like Green had a 3 episode debuff, but after that they were top tier.
Putting 8 year olds in with 15 year olds is pretty ridiculous. When you're 8 a 15 year old is like a fully grown adult in your eyes. My older sister is 6 years older than me and when I was that age her and her friends were like adults to me. FFS I've seen 15 year olds get served in pubs and get into night clubs.
I am 5 and 7 years younger than my siblings. They were like gods to me. I mean obviously not actually gods but you get my point. Also unfortunately puberty hit me hard and it hit me early so I definitely had bar tenders at events try to serve me when I was twelve. To be fair I was 5’8 with a c cup and “child baring hips” by that point and highly educated so I don’t entirely blame them.
That's honestly better though, if it was JUST 8 year olds it would have been fucking carnage. The 14 and 15 year olds kind of took charge and made sure everything got done like washing up and cooking and stuff (eventually, they were a bit shit at it to start with)
At 15 I was drinking smoking and smoking weed I would have been so out of place with 8 year olds lol. I promise I'm not saying this to look cool it's very embarrassing looking back now I'm just stating that it would have been a very odd pairing..but also I wouldn't have applied or been chosen for something like this 😂
They decimated the entire premise of the show by inserting a monetary system and a class system and took it a step further by forcing them to compete for jobs. I don't get how these kids are supposed to create a civilization if it's already been done for them. This is just Survivor with children and it doesn't take a third grader to figure out this is wrong, as is evident by the fact that the child participants of the show very quickly realized how wrong this was but were too young to understand the veracity of that epiphany, while the adults that produce the show either didn't understand or more likely, just didn't gaf.
@@stevejobs132 Same, dude-especially with Gunnar talking about pooping in random places. Also, Greg lowkey reminds me of Merridew/Jack with how he acts.
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out. Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
@@Alici_EvansYES! That’s exactly what I was thinking when Gunnar said that the oldest kids were the worst, the first thing I thought of was Jack and how he was the oldest and clearly the worst!
@@nbunnysnowboard Glad to see that someone agrees! Also, I feel like Mike is like Simon-the smart guy that people aren’t listening to-or Ralph in that he’s in a leadership position, but people like Greg refuse to cooperate. Jimmy is like the twins in the book. The fact there are quite a few parallels is crazy though, ngl.
I was way more into this before they just started arbitrarily adding all of the things to it. I'm wondering what solutions these kids are going to come up with on their own and the show just says naw. Here's some segregation and money and class warfare. This isn't kid nation at all. It's bullshit.
That's what I was thinking when they got all that shit lol like why are we creating a society for them instead of watching them struggle to make a society loosely based off of what they know TO BE society in the "real world"..
Big agree! I wanted to see the kids make a better society than our current one because they still believe in fairness. It’s so lame to divide them and introduce a class system
Right? I was interested to see what system and hierarchy the kids would come up with on their own, but then the producers started to arbitrarily shoehorn in concepts. It's not really Kid Nation, more like "town full of kids who are doing everything exactly by the rules that adults decided they should follow", so what's even the fucking point of isolating them at this point
Right off the bat when the host introduces the “town council”, 4 kids who are automatically in charge and above the competition, they threw the idea of a kid nation out the window. It would have been interesting to see which kids naturally established themselves as leaders.
The writer of lord of the flies was a drunk who hated his dad and his kids. In real life there were kids stuck on islands in the South Pacific and they worked out how to work together. They took care of hurt, divided up chores, and figured out how to resolve conflict. These boys were on their island for 9 months, if I’m remembering correctly. Lord of flies is one man’s dystopian view of humanity because he hated himself and everyone else.
Yeah, it shouldn't be viewed as a realistic take of child psychology or human nature. It's a fictional story. Even here you can tell the show runners are trying to create conflict because otherwise it wouldn't be "entertaining" enough for TV.
I seriously hate how lord of the flies is a cultural staple and most people agree that it’s an accurate depiction of humanity. I strongly believe humanity is inherently kind and caring. We’re pack animals who have only made it this far by working together. There’s evidence the cavemen took care of their sick and elderly. And I really believe that if left alone, these kids would’ve worked out something fair and good
@@Shoulderpads-mcgeelol look at Katrina, COVID in America hell no . Ppl are crazy an care about themselves, then get crazy an violent burn crap. Now other countries I'm sure are nice when crap happens Not in America lol
I saw it on air and man, I was so not into it. This wasn't the kind of thing that had the appeal they thought it would. The show was basically child abuse,
The episode where the hosts said, FUCK IT! YOU CAN DEAL WITH THE RULES! and let the remaining kids do whatever they want was both chaotic fun and also horrifying
I loved this show as a kid and I looked to see if any of the kids had talked about it a few years ago and some of them had said the producers would just do messed up stuff in town to give them something to film. Like at one point they dumped a bunch of trash in the square and made the kids clean it up so it seems like the creators of the show didn’t know what they were getting into either just winging it😭
iirc the guy who created the show wanted it to be like, actually just "let's see if kids can make a functioning town" like a social experiment thing, and then the network/other producers added in all the reality show game elements and stuff like the fake garbage and he was super pissed about it
Honestly really interesting that they managed to set it up such that the green team got upset with yellow team for not doing enough work, rather than the red team who were sitting around doing nothing and getting payed 2x-10x what the others. Like you commonly see the exact same thing happen IRL, it's just really interesting to me that they incidentally emulated that detail.
Either edited out them being angry at red or the children didn't think it was unfair "because red won the game" (thus in their brain they deserve a rest?)
Well tbh, later on you do see Yellow legit, never ever did cook. Like when Yellow was the cooks, legit everyone had to drop what they did to send 2 to the kitchen, especially green..
i think because the yellow team not doing as much work directly led to more work on green team’s plate (pun not intended lol). like sure red COULD do the job even if they weren’t assigned it, but they’re not directly working alongside green and actively making decisions about what work falls within their assigned parameters that then makes more work for green
Well they didn't have some lady mixing up blanks with live rounds and Alec Baldwin pulling a trigger he claimed he never pulled so... These kids are more competent than that entire film crew lol
I wish there could be more of this! Also I love how it sounded like a dig when that girl said Jimmy wants to be tucked in by his mom and jimmy yelled “AND MY DAD!” 😂
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out. Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
DAMN so pissed you can't do the whole season of this that sucks. I watched this as it aired as a kid and have loved watching people react to it now. I highly recommend King of the Nerds (competition show for nerds with some wild personalities) if you need a show to add to the list. The season with Zach is wild lol.
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out. Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
@@lexiatelcheck the pinned comment. Looks like there was a copyright issue and it took a long time to get resolved for this video so he doesn't want to risk the same situation with the rest of the episodes.
The fact that they're just like "We're letting these kids build a society" and then went "Here's the American societal system, try not to kill each other"
I was sooo excited to see Gunnar is reacting to this. Then I immediately got a punch in the gut when I read that this is a one off. I would literally pay money to see Gunnar watch this show. His reactions to all these weird reality shows have been my comfort watch for a while now.
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out. Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
@@esmeecampbell7396 Oh yeah, I remember starting to watch that ages ago but somehow never finished it. It was definitely entertaining as well, so I'll watch it. Gunnar has just been very comforting to watch after a long day or on an off day.
The copyright holders didn't mind you showing this because they were afraid of lost revenue, but rather because they would be sent to the Hague for War Crimes after people saw what they did 🤣
Fun fact, I actually saw one of the places where they tried to get kids for this show. It was in an event that Animal Planet was hosting someplace in Houston, and it was advertised as a summer or spring vacation in a forest area. Not a "social experiment" to throw kids into a ghost town and essentially say, "Good luck!" I just wasn't interested in being on TV, so I didn't sign up, even if the set up there was pretty cool.
I know JonTron said something like this already, but assigning those who did worst at a task of manual labor to the laborer's class, while the strongest get to call all the shots, that can only lead to disaster
I’m surprised that the crew for this show didn’t label bleach or anything poisonous with ☠️XXX☠️. It’s timey enough to fit and it probably would have stopped a kid or two from chugging bleach.
I recently did an analysis of Lord of the flies for sociology class and this show reminds me a little bit too much of that. Who ever came up with this idea is an absolute menace lol
like the producers obviously wanted there to be more conflict when if left to their own devices the kids would have just figured out how to work together 😭 very much like lord of the flies, it’s some pessimistic adults’ idea of how kids would function on their own instead of the much more amicable but boring reality that doesn’t make good entertainment
ngl i think a tumbler that says "Tears of children" on it would probably make bank especially with how many aggressively child free people there are in the world...
Like, at the same time, or on different days?? Was it a lil everyone-drink-bleach circle or did they just not learn from the first kid who did it? I have many questions
@@cur1ouscatf1sh the wiki says that one thought that it was a seltzer that they had been using previously, so I wouldn't be surprised if the others were a similar story (I only saw one mentioned on the wiki).
this show would have been so much more interesting if they just didnt include the teams or organized them into teams until after they got more established. like lets immediately make the children participate in capitalism when most US western towns werent even founded immediately like that or even ever?? most pioneer towns were wayyy more communal where everyone pitches in and helps each other. the show wouldve been a great reflection of hey if we all help each other we're stronger than letting ourselves be divided by arbitrary classes
Agreed. It would’ve been interesting to have the kids start at all of their own little roles and own “houses”. Then have challenges to work together to win stuff for the town, like an improved well or better cooking range. Or individual winners to win stuff for your house or to make your role easier.
Genuinely it all seemed to be going *relatively* well before the Capitalism. Give them a few more days to settle into things and what not, and it probably would have been okay
Ya I read Michael's post on reddit after watching this and turns out she was even worse than she appeared camera. According to him she once said "fat people should belong in zoos. "Make-up can fix your face but not your weight."
@@donovanfaust3227I dunno if calling her vapid is fair. She had been groomed into being a performer, and so of course she's just trying to do what she thinks she has to. Plus really you have to remember anything that people say on reality shows could have been coached or edited too, so calling tailor rude things isn't helpful. She was just a kid
26:13 As a Father of (about to be, in 2 months) 3 kids, the fact that little homie said "and my Dad" made me tear up, for sure. I love the shit out od my Wife and Kids, and some kids don't have the same support from their Father as they do their Mother. This little man surely does, just like my kids do.
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out. Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
Omg yes! My whole family is obsessed with Kid Nation! My brother went as a contestant for Halloween one year. This show is batshit crazy they let kids drink bleach
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out. Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
@@gokittygo3168 she ends up being very like, bratty/lazy. like her team gets assigned cooking duty like twice and just, refuses to cook cuz they don't wanna
This shit is wild. I wish you could've done the whole season, I'm super invested now and want to see what happens next. Looking forward to tool academy 2 though.
Bruh im french canadian so we watched this in class at like 14 to learn english, i just remember thinking "man id be running that town if i would have been there this seems so fun" of course now im just like wtf how did this even get approved in the first place 😂 im gonna love this new react serie i already know it ✌️😁
The kids didn't sign up for this, their parents did, and production didn't give them the full picture. The stories from the kids and crew are terrifying.
Ahhhhh I'm so sad. I was coming here to thank you because I'm waiting for someone to finish this series but you start with a pinned comment. I won't be finishing this content lol
Thank you so much for making this video my mom who passed away in 2014 and I used to watch this show together when I would come over to her house for visits she would record it on VHS so that I could see it thank you so much for doing this video for making this video it brought back a lot of good memories with my mom
I WAS SAD WHEN I SAW THIS WHOLE SERIES WASNT ALREADY OUTTT😭 after i ended the video i immediately started looking for the next one…. this gonna be a great video playlist
I was just watching parts of the ‘Rust’ trial and this is where they filmed the movie/the accident happened. I know this show was filmed waaaay before that but something about that is just giving me the creeps.
Aw man I was really hoping for more, this was actually hilarious and pretty heartwarming at the same time. Idk why I like watching Tv through a UA-camr / Twitch streamer more, but it just kinda rules. Thanks for all the work you put in Gunnar + Editors! ♥
We watched this show in school when I was ten as part of like our government curriculum (which is a whole different issue lol) and I wanted to go on it SOO BAD I was so mad when there wasn’t a second season
if i ever had any show requests from Gunnar, this was it. i grew up wanting to be ON this show and now that i’m grown & revisiting… i’m upset that i ever wanted to do it!!! 😭🤣 the horror would have been too great
See, I feel like you could do something like this, but it almost needs a whole prep season before it. I was camping a lot (with a cult, but that's beside the point) as teen and we had kids of all ages there, too. From like 6-18, everything. And while we had adult people there to instruct, handle the entertainment, oversee shit, organize etc. most of the stuff was just done by the kids. We'd arrive, go to our perimeter and start building all the stuff we need. From kitchen tent to fire station to benches and sleeping tents. You'd have young kids tying the tables together, teens building fires, some would fetch water, bigger kids would lug in building materials. Hell, we were free to build whatever we wanted, as long as building materials were plenty enough (and we'd acquire those ourselves a few weeks prior by woodcutting). I still remember how incredible and unreal it was that I could go out for a week and just build a tower out of wood, completely from scratch, with a platform like 5 meters up and it was just allowed. Then you'd climb down and build a 1m tall fire that almost sets the wooden fixture it was held in ablaze. Shit was awesome. Give the kids like a three-day crash course on fire, knots, cooking and basic structure and this'd not only be more doable, it'd also be more fun, I feel like.
@idreamed_adream "royal rangers" It's not gonna be called a cult per se, since it just looks like a boy scouts knock-off (though we had girls, too). The practices, oddities, cutting people off from other peers, wacky rules etc. all were very cult/sect-like, though. (An example would be early morning meetings, discussing daily activities and then praying in tongues...) I still remember what eventually made me leave: When I had been appointed leader for a while and had an 8 year old ask me why "we don't just bomb the temple in Jerusalem to get it back to the rightful Christian owners". The beliefs thrown around in that group and how the kids grew up; just couldn't stand that.
Also remove the forced capitalism and let them define the way the society is ran. If they want a class system let me, but it seems like that’s not the direction kids were intending to take it at all and the producers just forced them into it
"LORD OF THE FLIES" is a 1954 novel by the Nobel laureate British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. As you can probably gather it is a story of fascism, totalitarianism and megalomania.
The author of the book was a drunk who hated his father and his kids. Don't take his fantastical fake story of fictional British kids stuck on a island as proof of what's gonna happen because this is just some misanthrope's drunk fantasy
@@dissidentant The author of the book was a drunk who hated his father and his kids. Don't take his fantastical fake story of fictional British kids stuck on a island as proof of what's gonna happen because this is just some misanthrope's drunk fantasy
So they had major lawsuits after the first season aired. One kid drank bleach, another one had grease burns from cooking on that stove. Producers had to look at each state laws regarding child actors. They looked at all the child labor/child actor laws in each state and New Mexico had the least restrictive laws. After this aired, New Mexico enacted more stringent laws.it was a financial success and viewership was high.. But because of the tighter laws enacted and the lawsuits, the show was put on permanent hiatus.
34:26 the older kid who's running and working extremely hard is the type of person who joins the army. Just saying, sucks to suck and feel the holes in your heart with physical performance
Michael seems to know the path and know what's right and can word it but won't be "harsh" enough or assertive enough to make sure its followed through on, opposed to Mike who will do his best to make sure things are done right. And knows what right is, but can't find words gentle and persuasive enough to convince ppl in a candy coated way.
I heard tell Gunnar is from Jersey, I'm not sure which exit, but ever been to Wild West City? It looked exactly like Bonanza city except with out of work actors with drinking problems pretending to be sheriffs, outlaws, blacksmiths, etc. A wild west theme park somewhere in north Jersey iirc. As a kid I absolutely loved it. Cheers.
Those kids were more mature than most adult reality shows. It was my girl’s and my favorite, and I think they need to bring it back. I don't know why they say there was no adult supervision when the host would come in here and there in the episodes. If that's the case, they need to bring it back and just have the parents on set. We preferred it over Survivor and the others. 🥰❤
🚨 ATTENTION 🚨This video was recorded 4 months ago. It's only JUST NOW been approved from the copyright holders. So yeah, this is a one-off and I'm not reacting to the rest of the season because of that BUUUT I will be uploading the first episode of TOOL ACADEMY SEASON 2 next week and do the entire season of that. Ok enjoy and also why is this dude so sweaty?? Disgusting
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@@wikitanreal
tool academy 2!! fuck yea!
Please watch Claim to Fame season 1 after after you're done Tool Academy season 2.
The difference between how the cast behaved from 1 season to the next is very whiplash like
YESSSS THANK U GUNNAR
They ABSOLUTELY advertised this show as a vaction opportunity for the parents.
sad
Free summercamp wirh extra trauma and potential financial gains
Parents deserve a vacation though. A lot of them probably had 10 years of non stop work and taking care of them. What's wrong with a 40 day vacation?
I really don't see a problem with this. The kids can leave and it teaches them really some invaluable social skills and how to manage it.
Not being able to call was a bit extreme. They should've been granted at least a 10 minute call per day but I guess that's their way of weeding out the ranks.
Overall, with a decent support staff it would be beneficial.
@@tigerwoods373 Firstly parents don't need a vacation, they need to take care of their kids. Secondly, this doesn't teach social skills at all.
@@tigerwoods373 yeah but that's why you take your kid to an actual summercamp or send them off somewhere cool where they aren't blasted on television for all to see as the kids are traumatized and not allowed to call their parents lol.
My city has free programs to help families who don't have money to get summercamp. Or if they participate in fundraisers they get to go for free in a much more stable setting with appropriate handling of the kids not making a lord of the fly's situation.
And it's very very clear the host was manipulative about it making the kids feel like they should be ashamed to leave like they're whimps lol.
I had to go to rehab when I was younger a few times.. If I left I'd be kicked out on the street. I was the only person there for that reason because I had nowhere else to go and it'd piss me tf off when I said I felt trapped and forced to be there they'd be like "but you can leave any time you want!"
Sure true... But with a bunch of barriers, fucking up my insurance, being kicked out on the literal street to be homeless... I know that's a more extreme situation but sometimes you are technically free to leave shit like this but not really
-Tells kids they’re governing themselves
-Immediately gives them pre-selected leaders and forces them into a rigid caste system
I thought that was dumb too lol
Yeah, and you can really see who was really fit to be a leader from the first 2 days.
They thought that putting a bunch of smartasses in charge was a good idea.
Took the British empire a while to figure out it doesn't work well, too.
@@TheBonzaiKittennot really how it worked in Britain
But this is how usa started. It didn’t start with systematic democracy. It took a long time of what you’re seeing here with these kids to even establish a system. Y’all think thousands of ppl just came over then went to the polls to select a leader lol?
There were adults, the host and camera crew, but they couldn't intervene in any way, except for major emergencies (making sure no kid dies, gets severe burns, etc.) The youngest kid Jimmy said in the JonTron interview that he was hungry and shivered at night each day he was there.
Poor Jimmy.
Oh god! That makes me sick to even think about putting one of my kids through that. You couldn’t pay my kids (or certainly not me, because let’s be real, it’s the parents getting the pay day) to go on this show or anything like it. My kids are 10 and 14. Just that 4 year age gap shows they are truly in TOTALLY different age groups with different emotional maturities, life skills, development, ability to cope in difficult situations, and dependence on adults. I can’t believe parents, let alone a tv network, let this show happen.
@@PandaMom9230If I remember correctly, production was very misleading when explaining the show to the parents. “We have to cook our own meals” doesn’t sound too crazy when you don’t know there’s like 1 stove and barely any food. They probably think the kids are getting meat and stuff to actually make simple but filling food
@@lizzyblitz07 that makes a lot more sense because I can’t see any decent parent putting their seemingly smart and well behaved children on this show!
@@PandaMom9230they were obsessed w making kids suffer back then. We had it too easy in their eyes
I feel like if child Gunnar was on this show he would for sure be the one crying and throwing up at the back of the bus.
No one commented on this because 231+ people agreed, knowing it to be a unanimous observation. Gunnar truly had personified the kid that won’t stop crying and vomiting.
That was me at summer camp. I threw up everyday and the counselors yelled at me to stop crying because it was making the other kids homesick. Fun times.
he'd also be the 15 year old
🤫 we are the nice chat…- also, don’t make him cry
Either That or i could totally see Gunnar to be acting all cool and stuff at first but then like stub his toe or trip and just it completely turn around and leave
Edit: As i continue to watch i have to say gunnar is definitely jimmy
Kinda fucked that the modt physically fit kids were all put in the upper and merchant classes and all the small and weak kids were put on the cooks and hard labor teams.
Luckily this isn't an allegory for how society actually works, and is just a happy fun little kid's game!!
The weak should fear the strong
@@esmeecampbell7396the weak should fear the strong my ass thats just an excuse for poor labor distribution
Tbh, yellow is pretty shit tier, especially when they get cooks. Like yes it is mostly 10, but they had a clique. Green? They are actually the imo, strongest overall. Won most gold, and late early game to end, they usually were on top. Like Green had a 3 episode debuff, but after that they were top tier.
exactly 😭 they didn't even give the kids a chance to create a better, small society, once they split them up into groups it was over
Putting 8 year olds in with 15 year olds is pretty ridiculous. When you're 8 a 15 year old is like a fully grown adult in your eyes. My older sister is 6 years older than me and when I was that age her and her friends were like adults to me. FFS I've seen 15 year olds get served in pubs and get into night clubs.
I am 5 and 7 years younger than my siblings. They were like gods to me. I mean obviously not actually gods but you get my point. Also unfortunately puberty hit me hard and it hit me early so I definitely had bar tenders at events try to serve me when I was twelve. To be fair I was 5’8 with a c cup and “child baring hips” by that point and highly educated so I don’t entirely blame them.
That's honestly better though, if it was JUST 8 year olds it would have been fucking carnage. The 14 and 15 year olds kind of took charge and made sure everything got done like washing up and cooking and stuff (eventually, they were a bit shit at it to start with)
Where the hell do you live so I never go to those clubs and bars like wtf
At the very least they should have put older kids in the leadership roles.
I can’t imagine taking orders from an 11 year old when I was 15.
At 15 I was drinking smoking and smoking weed I would have been so out of place with 8 year olds lol. I promise I'm not saying this to look cool it's very embarrassing looking back now I'm just stating that it would have been a very odd pairing..but also I wouldn't have applied or been chosen for something like this 😂
Fun Fact: This is the same town where Alec Baldwin accidentally killed his cinematographer.
NO WAYYYY
That town is cursed
Is it????? For real, is it??? Or are you just memeing???
Edit: it really is 😂😂😂😂
We're the kids still there?
"Accidentally" she just so happened to be testifying in a high profile case related to GM and JE and what they liked to do
They decimated the entire premise of the show by inserting a monetary system and a class system and took it a step further by forcing them to compete for jobs. I don't get how these kids are supposed to create a civilization if it's already been done for them. This is just Survivor with children and it doesn't take a third grader to figure out this is wrong, as is evident by the fact that the child participants of the show very quickly realized how wrong this was but were too young to understand the veracity of that epiphany, while the adults that produce the show either didn't understand or more likely, just didn't gaf.
Wish it was the whole season so you can watch it develop into a Lord of The Flies situation.
All I could keep thinking is lord of the flies
@@stevejobs132 Same, dude-especially with Gunnar talking about pooping in random places. Also, Greg lowkey reminds me of Merridew/Jack with how he acts.
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out.
Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
@@Alici_EvansYES! That’s exactly what I was thinking when Gunnar said that the oldest kids were the worst, the first thing I thought of was Jack and how he was the oldest and clearly the worst!
@@nbunnysnowboard Glad to see that someone agrees! Also, I feel like Mike is like Simon-the smart guy that people aren’t listening to-or Ralph in that he’s in a leadership position, but people like Greg refuse to cooperate. Jimmy is like the twins in the book. The fact there are quite a few parallels is crazy though, ngl.
I was way more into this before they just started arbitrarily adding all of the things to it. I'm wondering what solutions these kids are going to come up with on their own and the show just says naw. Here's some segregation and money and class warfare. This isn't kid nation at all. It's bullshit.
That's what I was thinking when they got all that shit lol like why are we creating a society for them instead of watching them struggle to make a society loosely based off of what they know TO BE society in the "real world"..
same, I was hoping they'd create a little commune where they figured out how to split the work fairly 😔
Big agree! I wanted to see the kids make a better society than our current one because they still believe in fairness. It’s so lame to divide them and introduce a class system
Right? I was interested to see what system and hierarchy the kids would come up with on their own, but then the producers started to arbitrarily shoehorn in concepts. It's not really Kid Nation, more like "town full of kids who are doing everything exactly by the rules that adults decided they should follow", so what's even the fucking point of isolating them at this point
Right off the bat when the host introduces the “town council”, 4 kids who are automatically in charge and above the competition, they threw the idea of a kid nation out the window. It would have been interesting to see which kids naturally established themselves as leaders.
The writer of lord of the flies was a drunk who hated his dad and his kids. In real life there were kids stuck on islands in the South Pacific and they worked out how to work together. They took care of hurt, divided up chores, and figured out how to resolve conflict. These boys were on their island for 9 months, if I’m remembering correctly. Lord of flies is one man’s dystopian view of humanity because he hated himself and everyone else.
Yeah, it shouldn't be viewed as a realistic take of child psychology or human nature. It's a fictional story. Even here you can tell the show runners are trying to create conflict because otherwise it wouldn't be "entertaining" enough for TV.
Considering how bleak Lord of the Flies was that makes so much sense he was a miserable person.
I seriously hate how lord of the flies is a cultural staple and most people agree that it’s an accurate depiction of humanity. I strongly believe humanity is inherently kind and caring. We’re pack animals who have only made it this far by working together. There’s evidence the cavemen took care of their sick and elderly. And I really believe that if left alone, these kids would’ve worked out something fair and good
@@Shoulderpads-mcgee humans would have never had an agricultural revolution if we didn’t need to know how to get along.
@@Shoulderpads-mcgeelol look at Katrina, COVID in America hell no . Ppl are crazy an care about themselves, then get crazy an violent burn crap. Now other countries I'm sure are nice when crap happens
Not in America lol
i guarantee if i had seen this show as a kid, i’d have BEGGED my parents to let me go on it
Oh I envied the kids on the show
That was me lol, I applied for the second season that never happened 😅
I was an old soul and I absolutely did. I think I would've done pretty well!
SAME
I saw it on air and man, I was so not into it. This wasn't the kind of thing that had the appeal they thought it would. The show was basically child abuse,
"NO ADULTS"
*camera pans and the entire crew, staff, camera man, boom guy, director, assistant director, and host are all children
The host is obviously just three kids stacked on each others' shoulders
The cameramen weren't allowed to do anything unless it was to prevent serious injury. The kids were allowed to starve and freeze though
@@spencercarlton4006finally, a production with some damn professionalism
The episode where the hosts said, FUCK IT! YOU CAN DEAL WITH THE RULES! and let the remaining kids do whatever they want was both chaotic fun and also horrifying
It’s at the end they all drink root bear n go crazy😊
@@beingzombievstheworld and the first thing they do is ransack the candy store
I loved this show as a kid and I looked to see if any of the kids had talked about it a few years ago and some of them had said the producers would just do messed up stuff in town to give them something to film. Like at one point they dumped a bunch of trash in the square and made the kids clean it up so it seems like the creators of the show didn’t know what they were getting into either just winging it😭
iirc the guy who created the show wanted it to be like, actually just "let's see if kids can make a functioning town" like a social experiment thing, and then the network/other producers added in all the reality show game elements and stuff like the fake garbage and he was super pissed about it
@@WonderlandWanderer404 Everyone involved in this should be arrested.
@@kiwi_arms I would not be surprised if they told the older kids to chalk the entire town.
The host bullying the kids by saying “hey you wanna go home, you was crying in the back, why would wanna go home”
“You’re so YOUNG, don’t you miss your MOMMY?” says an adult man who most definitely isn’t a sociopath
Honestly really interesting that they managed to set it up such that the green team got upset with yellow team for not doing enough work, rather than the red team who were sitting around doing nothing and getting payed 2x-10x what the others. Like you commonly see the exact same thing happen IRL, it's just really interesting to me that they incidentally emulated that detail.
Either edited out them being angry at red or the children didn't think it was unfair "because red won the game" (thus in their brain they deserve a rest?)
Well tbh, later on you do see Yellow legit, never ever did cook. Like when Yellow was the cooks, legit everyone had to drop what they did to send 2 to the kitchen, especially green..
i think because the yellow team not doing as much work directly led to more work on green team’s plate (pun not intended lol). like sure red COULD do the job even if they weren’t assigned it, but they’re not directly working alongside green and actively making decisions about what work falls within their assigned parameters that then makes more work for green
Bonanza city is the same filming location where they filmed the movie rust. It's honestly a miracle nothing went horribly wrong with kid Nation.
DK actually ended up drinking bleach because it was similar to the vanilla bottles . He threw up and had to go to the hospital.
Well they didn't have some lady mixing up blanks with live rounds and Alec Baldwin pulling a trigger he claimed he never pulled so... These kids are more competent than that entire film crew lol
Dude, he was 14, bleach SMELLS. Was his nose not working? Yikes.
@@sokolovksyfrom the JonTron interview Jimmy said that they didn’t know how to properly clean the dirty glasses, so they cleaned them with bleach?
They should've had Baldwin for host to pop a kid here and there until only the winner is back
And all the people asking about the weather and their clothing, IT GETS COLD IN THE WINTER WHEN YOU'RE IN THE HIGH DESERT.
The fact people don't know this is absurd to me.
@@jacoballen5538 I'm honestly baffled by it as well.
@idreamed_adream I know. Kinda like how the Antarctic Desert - in Antarctica - is the largest desert in the world.
Everyone: "E. coli"
Gunner: "Eagle Eye"
I wish there could be more of this!
Also I love how it sounded like a dig when that girl said Jimmy wants to be tucked in by his mom and jimmy yelled “AND MY DAD!” 😂
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out.
Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
DAMN so pissed you can't do the whole season of this that sucks. I watched this as it aired as a kid and have loved watching people react to it now. I highly recommend King of the Nerds (competition show for nerds with some wild personalities) if you need a show to add to the list. The season with Zach is wild lol.
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out.
Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
Omg I loved that show when it came out lol
Why can't he do more eps???
Took him 4 months to get this video through the copywrite strikes.@@lexiatel
@@lexiatelcheck the pinned comment. Looks like there was a copyright issue and it took a long time to get resolved for this video so he doesn't want to risk the same situation with the rest of the episodes.
The fact that they're just like "We're letting these kids build a society" and then went "Here's the American societal system, try not to kill each other"
20:45 "he pushed me to like melanin" is a craaaaazy subtitle.
😂😂
I was sooo excited to see Gunnar is reacting to this. Then I immediately got a punch in the gut when I read that this is a one off. I would literally pay money to see Gunnar watch this show. His reactions to all these weird reality shows have been my comfort watch for a while now.
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out.
Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
we watched three eps on stream, so he DOES have footage of more reactions and is holding them hostage, what a bastard u_u
@@esmeecampbell7396thanks 🎉
Same
@@esmeecampbell7396 Oh yeah, I remember starting to watch that ages ago but somehow never finished it. It was definitely entertaining as well, so I'll watch it. Gunnar has just been very comforting to watch after a long day or on an off day.
i've never heard somebody say E. coli like that
Right? I didn't want to say anything but I've *never* heard that 😂
EEKLE-eye
My EXACT though lol
@idreamed_adream e- coal- eye
@idreamed_adreamlike E. Coli
The copyright holders didn't mind you showing this because they were afraid of lost revenue, but rather because they would be sent to the Hague for War Crimes after people saw what they did 🤣
There's nothing better than looking at old TV shows with Gunnar
Fun fact, I actually saw one of the places where they tried to get kids for this show. It was in an event that Animal Planet was hosting someplace in Houston, and it was advertised as a summer or spring vacation in a forest area. Not a "social experiment" to throw kids into a ghost town and essentially say, "Good luck!" I just wasn't interested in being on TV, so I didn't sign up, even if the set up there was pretty cool.
the children yearn for the mines
It's true
Have you heard of the skinned men?
Jimmy is so CUTE LOL I love how he didn’t even hesitate to go home 😂😂
He's just smarter
I know JonTron said something like this already, but assigning those who did worst at a task of manual labor to the laborer's class, while the strongest get to call all the shots, that can only lead to disaster
One kid accidentally drank bleach. Thankfully, adults intervened and got them medical care.
I’m surprised that the crew for this show didn’t label bleach or anything poisonous with ☠️XXX☠️. It’s timey enough to fit and it probably would have stopped a kid or two from chugging bleach.
I AUDITIONED FOR THIS SHOW WHEN I WAS 7!!!! i almost got casted but they decided i was too young 😭😭 crazy too watch back now
You may have dodged a literal bullet
I recently did an analysis of Lord of the flies for sociology class and this show reminds me a little bit too much of that. Who ever came up with this idea is an absolute menace lol
My teacher in high school literally showed us this episode (or some clips or something) after we read LoTF 🤣🤣
Yes!!! This and Yellowjackets was my first thought 😫
Also Children of the Corn
like the producers obviously wanted there to be more conflict when if left to their own devices the kids would have just figured out how to work together 😭 very much like lord of the flies, it’s some pessimistic adults’ idea of how kids would function on their own instead of the much more amicable but boring reality that doesn’t make good entertainment
Saying “I like kids in pain and suffering” is exponentially worse than just I like kids lol. Terrible save attempt
I think you're just projecting
@stmsin I think the commenter was joking too, dude.
I understand your perspective for sure- even if it was a joke it was a joke worth saying in his head
@@heyheyitrachelgray😂 good stuff
ngl i think a tumbler that says "Tears of children" on it would probably make bank especially with how many aggressively child free people there are in the world...
I have a core memory of a kid in a trench coat with a sheriff badge running around. That's the only thing I remember from the show.
Sherrif Sophia
IMDB says that during this show, 4 kids drank bleach
Like, at the same time, or on different days?? Was it a lil everyone-drink-bleach circle or did they just not learn from the first kid who did it? I have many questions
@@cur1ouscatf1sh the wiki says that one thought that it was a seltzer that they had been using previously, so I wouldn't be surprised if the others were a similar story (I only saw one mentioned on the wiki).
@@Ollie_nel the bleach bottles looked the same as water bottles
this show would have been so much more interesting if they just didnt include the teams or organized them into teams until after they got more established. like lets immediately make the children participate in capitalism when most US western towns werent even founded immediately like that or even ever?? most pioneer towns were wayyy more communal where everyone pitches in and helps each other. the show wouldve been a great reflection of hey if we all help each other we're stronger than letting ourselves be divided by arbitrary classes
Agreed.
It would’ve been interesting to have the kids start at all of their own little roles and own “houses”.
Then have challenges to work together to win stuff for the town, like an improved well or better cooking range. Or individual winners to win stuff for your house or to make your role easier.
i know it's horribly unethical but i would be interested to see what would happen if they did this with ipad kids
It would have been chaos lol
Same
Genuinely it all seemed to be going *relatively* well before the Capitalism. Give them a few more days to settle into things and what not, and it probably would have been okay
I know. What a way to inject venom into society.
She wished for world peace because shes coached on how to answer questions bro
Isn't she racist 💀
Definitely a typical pageant answer, the most vapid crowd pleasing statement you can think of.
Ya I read Michael's post on reddit after watching this and turns out she was even worse than she appeared camera. According to him she once said "fat people should belong in zoos. "Make-up can fix your face but not your weight."
Some actual sense here
@@donovanfaust3227I dunno if calling her vapid is fair. She had been groomed into being a performer, and so of course she's just trying to do what she thinks she has to. Plus really you have to remember anything that people say on reality shows could have been coached or edited too, so calling tailor rude things isn't helpful. She was just a kid
26:13 As a Father of (about to be, in 2 months) 3 kids, the fact that little homie said "and my Dad" made me tear up, for sure. I love the shit out od my Wife and Kids, and some kids don't have the same support from their Father as they do their Mother. This little man surely does, just like my kids do.
Yeah, that was a very precios moment for his father. I know that I would have never had his reaction to add me dad to that sentence :(
I remember watching JonTron's video of this show. Kid Nation reminds me of a show I used to watch as a kid called Endurance.
Why aren’t you called Endurance anymore
@@JackH_123 He ran out of the stamina for it.
@@JackH_123 he might still be called Endurance, he's just not a kid anymore
mom: "omg i can't believe it"
camera man: *gives thumbs up to mom from behind the camera*
YOU BETTER COVER THIS WHOLE SERIES OR I WILL STOP FEEDING MY CAT SECOND BREAKFAST!!
RIP cat
It took him 4 months
Well there's always elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, supper, and dinner to still look forward to.
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out.
Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
nooo don’t overfeed kitty :(💔
“They are just kids” yeah in a few episodes he’ll want her to perish too lmao
The way I was SO completely obsessed with this show as a kid and wanted nothing else then to get on it.
andy’s always catching strays in these reality tv reacts 😭😭
Omg yes! My whole family is obsessed with Kid Nation! My brother went as a contestant for Halloween one year. This show is batshit crazy they let kids drink bleach
WHAT
WTF
Is Jared just younger Richard from Beauty and the Geek? It wouldn't surprise me at all.
im very upset we arent getting the full series but im happy we at least got this one
There is an edited watch along of every episode by ConorEatsPants on UA-cam that I can recommend, watched it just after JonTron's video came out.
Very similar to Gunnar, best you're gonna' get if Gunnar won't do it.
Gunnar saying "they're just kids" after smone called Taylor the worst is so funny. Like just watch because u did not think a child could be so evil 💀💀
He's not watching the rest, what did she do?
@sleepykoinu maybe you should watch it then?? Instead of just asking people
@@jacoballen5538 man, i aint watchin this show 😭 someone tell me why they all hated that little girl
@@gokittygo3168 she ends up being very like, bratty/lazy. like her team gets assigned cooking duty like twice and just, refuses to cook cuz they don't wanna
what does she do?
This shit is wild. I wish you could've done the whole season, I'm super invested now and want to see what happens next. Looking forward to tool academy 2 though.
I feel like Gunnar would instantly be outed as a "Goat Boy" if he was on this show
Bruh im french canadian so we watched this in class at like 14 to learn english, i just remember thinking "man id be running that town if i would have been there this seems so fun" of course now im just like wtf how did this even get approved in the first place 😂 im gonna love this new react serie i already know it ✌️😁
quebec is something of a kid nation itself, in many ways
The guy who thought of this idea read Lord of the Flies in high school and said "bet".
The kids didn't sign up for this, their parents did, and production didn't give them the full picture. The stories from the kids and crew are terrifying.
Duly noted
Ahhhhh I'm so sad. I was coming here to thank you because I'm waiting for someone to finish this series but you start with a pinned comment. I won't be finishing this content lol
The way Greg’s friends dapped him up before talking to Mike LMAO
Thank you so much for making this video my mom who passed away in 2014 and I used to watch this show together when I would come over to her house for visits she would record it on VHS so that I could see it thank you so much for doing this video for making this video it brought back a lot of good memories with my mom
Awww, feel peace then. Nice memory ❤
as someone who lives in new mexico im pretty sure this entire place is run by kids who got trapped in the desert
I remember watching this with my parents as a child. It was TRAUMATIZING
Dude come on please try and cover this fully ill wait another 6 months or whatever
I WAS SAD WHEN I SAW THIS WHOLE SERIES WASNT ALREADY OUTTT😭 after i ended the video i immediately started looking for the next one…. this gonna be a great video playlist
I was just watching parts of the ‘Rust’ trial and this is where they filmed the movie/the accident happened. I know this show was filmed waaaay before that but something about that is just giving me the creeps.
Yes, I’ve seen the movie Holes before
I hope gunnar becomes a TV show producer one day and makes this show again❤ I can tell he likes watching them struggle😂
Aw man I was really hoping for more, this was actually hilarious and pretty heartwarming at the same time.
Idk why I like watching Tv through a UA-camr / Twitch streamer more, but it just kinda rules. Thanks for all the work you put in Gunnar + Editors! ♥
I remember watching this whole show man. Do another episode in 6 months, its worth it
FINALLY! I’ve been begging for Kid nation forever! Thank you Gunnar!
Cartman ends up with 5 gold stars hidden up his ass that he stole from everyone
We watched this show in school when I was ten as part of like our government curriculum (which is a whole different issue lol) and I wanted to go on it SOO BAD I was so mad when there wasn’t a second season
"any kid imaginable" *camera pans to Asian and black kid* lol
Omg, didn’t catch that
if i ever had any show requests from Gunnar, this was it. i grew up wanting to be ON this show and now that i’m grown & revisiting… i’m upset that i ever wanted to do it!!! 😭🤣 the horror would have been too great
someone read Lord of the Flies in 9th grade and just ran with it
This is the first video I’ve seen of this channel. I really hope you do the series. Even if it does take 6 years. Totally worth it
It's a one-off? Noooooooo I was actually really excited to see the rest with you
Producer in pitch meeting: So it’s like the Stanford Prison Experiment… but with kids
See, I feel like you could do something like this, but it almost needs a whole prep season before it.
I was camping a lot (with a cult, but that's beside the point) as teen and we had kids of all ages there, too. From like 6-18, everything. And while we had adult people there to instruct, handle the entertainment, oversee shit, organize etc. most of the stuff was just done by the kids.
We'd arrive, go to our perimeter and start building all the stuff we need. From kitchen tent to fire station to benches and sleeping tents. You'd have young kids tying the tables together, teens building fires, some would fetch water, bigger kids would lug in building materials. Hell, we were free to build whatever we wanted, as long as building materials were plenty enough (and we'd acquire those ourselves a few weeks prior by woodcutting).
I still remember how incredible and unreal it was that I could go out for a week and just build a tower out of wood, completely from scratch, with a platform like 5 meters up and it was just allowed. Then you'd climb down and build a 1m tall fire that almost sets the wooden fixture it was held in ablaze. Shit was awesome.
Give the kids like a three-day crash course on fire, knots, cooking and basic structure and this'd not only be more doable, it'd also be more fun, I feel like.
@idreamed_adream "royal rangers"
It's not gonna be called a cult per se, since it just looks like a boy scouts knock-off (though we had girls, too).
The practices, oddities, cutting people off from other peers, wacky rules etc. all were very cult/sect-like, though. (An example would be early morning meetings, discussing daily activities and then praying in tongues...)
I still remember what eventually made me leave: When I had been appointed leader for a while and had an 8 year old ask me why "we don't just bomb the temple in Jerusalem to get it back to the rightful Christian owners".
The beliefs thrown around in that group and how the kids grew up; just couldn't stand that.
Also remove the forced capitalism and let them define the way the society is ran. If they want a class system let me, but it seems like that’s not the direction kids were intending to take it at all and the producers just forced them into it
This feels like a fucking Vault-Tec experiment
It’s hilarious to watch you rewatch stuff i watched as a kid 😂😂😂😂😂 whew 😂😂 the 90s early 2000s were a wild time!
❤❤❤😊
The nostalgia just hit me HARD
It would be funny if every kid decided to leave at the town meeting
Kid: i thought there would be adults
(Meanwhile there's cameramen filming your lives)
Scott Cramer also has a great video on this show!
I didnt know i needed this in my life til i saw the notification for it and insta clicked 😂
You make everything I watch better 😂
Chat: *Makes Dirty Joke*
Gunner: I know what we're all thinking but theres kids around
Chat: Self report
"LORD OF THE FLIES" is a 1954 novel by the Nobel laureate British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. As you can probably gather it is a story of fascism, totalitarianism and megalomania.
So glad I wasn't the only one who thought of that
The author of the book was a drunk who hated his father and his kids. Don't take his fantastical fake story of fictional British kids stuck on a island as proof of what's gonna happen because this is just some misanthrope's drunk fantasy
@@dissidentant The author of the book was a drunk who hated his father and his kids. Don't take his fantastical fake story of fictional British kids stuck on a island as proof of what's gonna happen because this is just some misanthrope's drunk fantasy
The best books are by Robert Cormier like “The Chocolate War”. Way less fantastical and so much more cruel
So they had major lawsuits after the first season aired. One kid drank bleach, another one had grease burns from cooking on that stove. Producers had to look at each state laws regarding child actors. They looked at all the child labor/child actor laws in each state and New Mexico had the least restrictive laws. After this aired, New Mexico enacted more stringent laws.it was a financial success and viewership was high.. But because of the tighter laws enacted and the lawsuits, the show was put on permanent hiatus.
Wow!!!
"Chickens are friends - not food "
Fuck yes, watched this with my mother back in the day! We knew there was no way it should have been made so loved every moment of it
34:26 the older kid who's running and working extremely hard is the type of person who joins the army. Just saying, sucks to suck and feel the holes in your heart with physical performance
About damn time we get another video from you!
Michael seems to know the path and know what's right and can word it but won't be "harsh" enough or assertive enough to make sure its followed through on, opposed to Mike who will do his best to make sure things are done right. And knows what right is, but can't find words gentle and persuasive enough to convince ppl in a candy coated way.
Good thing Michael does learn that later on.
Gunnar’s chat is one of the funniest chats of any streamer. Gunnar’s commentary and banter/agreement with chat makes it 1 million times better as well
So happy I stumbled upon him ❤😊
I heard tell Gunnar is from Jersey, I'm not sure which exit, but ever been to Wild West City? It looked exactly like Bonanza city except with out of work actors with drinking problems pretending to be sheriffs, outlaws, blacksmiths, etc. A wild west theme park somewhere in north Jersey iirc. As a kid I absolutely loved it. Cheers.
Those kids were more mature than most adult reality shows. It was my girl’s and my favorite, and I think they need to bring it back. I don't know why they say there was no adult supervision when the host would come in here and there in the episodes. If that's the case, they need to bring it back and just have the parents on set. We preferred it over Survivor and the others. 🥰❤