Rich is some kind of incredible prank call savant. Normally, he stumbles through his sentences. Hand him a phone with little to no warning, and he'll create a fantastical yet grounded saga on the spot.
Obviously Rich Evans is playing the long con and all that we see of him on screen is a character. When handed a phone he panics and breaks character, revealing his true mastermind prankcall genius self. It's evident. The question before us is what is his final game. Clearly Julia Roberts and Ellen Degenerate are in on it too, having contributed with the "Rich Evans is actually a real person that exists" façade. If I had to guess, I'd say the ultimate goal is to join the elderly gang, decades from now, to record an exercise videotape that is subtly a personality study in disguise.
Okay I know it’s been a hot minute since anyone commented, but get this: I was in Japan recently for a convention, and through a mutual acquaintance met a young woman who was half Greek, half Japanese. She mentioned that her parents were “part of a weird Christian cult and that’s how they met.” I jokingly said “Oh haha did they make the SOS music video?” Her eyes went wide as she turned to me and said “...how the hell do you know about that?” Let’s just say the 1.2 million views on this video have made her question the fabric of reality.
I was in subway in NYc. A cult of Asians who dont speak English were handing out pamphlets about the evil of barcodes called "Do not accept the mark of the beast. The cover had a bald guy with a barcode on his forehead. There was no info on the organization in the pamphlet
27:06 the Japanese sentence on the cover says: Once it catches you, it never lets you go! SOS... It's the video from the future that utterly breaks through all conventional knowledge! Throughout the video, you'll witness action, suspense, romance and humor overflowing! SOS... It's the ultimate form of music drama! The shocking video that spotlights hot trendy topics! The door that opens when the SOS sound rings leads to the unknown world! Ultra-supernatural feeling that goes beyond of audio visual!... Would you like to experience this? AURORA Production
I actually have quite a bit of respect for A.A. Roberts. 3D animation isn't the easiest thing in the world to do now, let alone in the 90s. And he did it all on his own. Sure it didn't turn out great, but at least he tried.
So he's like your cousin or something? 3D animation wasn't that hard to achieve in the nineties. My cousin who was learning disabled, was agoraphobic and spent a lot of time in his room making bad 3D cartoons. But even those were slightly better than this guy's crap. There were basic programs available that could make that type of animation pretty easily. Things like V Ray and Cinema 4D, and you could even use After Effects and Photoshop to create those animations. And if my retarded cousin did it, ANYONE could.
Hey RLM, I have an explanation for the SOS video: It's actually one of many pieces of material produced by Aurora Productions AG who make similar material for the Children of God (or The Family International as they like to be called now) - a religious cult. This stuff was mostly aimed at kids and took the form of music videos and tv shows, along with some other media, which was distributed and localised internationally for obvious purposes. You somehow got the japanese version. I know this because I was brought up in The Family International and although I don't remember the other songs, I immediately recognised Cathy Don't Go (the one with the barcodes). It's good to see brainwashing smut like this being ridiculed and laughed at. Thanks RLM
It's cool to hear about all of that from someone who experienced the life and the music. Nice one, man :) ....(I kinda like a couple of the songs! :p )
During the part with the planes landing over and over, I kept expecting the local aviation police to come run up and tackle the camera man for filming flight patterns. What a different time that was.
Holy FUCK, This video.. The video is Japanese and I will provide translation, I see another dude did too, but I'll try to add in the actual japanese captions, bear with me. due to the low compression I cant really make out the song that well but it goes like this: 世界中コンピュータクレージー・・・その家に機械だけ。 賑芸と入れ替わる、なにもかもコンピュータクレージー Sekaijyuu computer crazy... sono uchi ni kikai dake, nigigei to irekawaru nanimo kamo computer crazy. --------------------------------------- *Translation:* All around the world, computer crazy, in every home, only machines... It's all transforming ... it's all computer crazy.. Text on the box says: 捕らえたら決して離さない！ SOS ・・・ それは従来の常識を完全に打ち破る未来のビデオ！ 全編にみなぎるアクション、サスペンス、ロマンス、そして ユーモア！ Toraetara keshite hanasanai! SOS... Sore ha shourai no jyoushiki wo zenbu ni uchiyaburu mirai no bideo! Zenpen ni minagiru akushon, sasupensu, romansu, soshite, yuumoa! *Translation:* Once I've obtained it, I'll never let it go! SOS ... is a never before seen video that will crush all common sense! An entire episode filled with action, suspense, romance AND humor! ---------------------------------------- Part 2 of the box says: *SOS・・・ それはミュージック・ドラマの究極！ 現代のホットな話題にスポットを当てた衝撃作! SOSサウンドが開く未知の世界への扉!* オーディオ・ビデオの次元を超越した超自然感覚！・・・君も体験しないか？* SOS... Sore ha myuujikku bideo no kyuukyoku! Gendai no hotto na wadai ni supotto wo ateta shougekisaku! SOS Saundo ga akumichi no sekai he no tobira! Audeio bideo no jigen wo chouetsushita choujigen kankaku! ... Kimi mo taiken shinai ka? *Translation:* SOS.. Is THE ultimate music video! It puts today's hot topics in the spotlight! SOS Sound is a doorway to the yet unknown! The ultimate piece of work that has surpassed the regular boundaries of audio video!! ... Wont you experience it too? The video after that it actually says some shit about religion with darwin 'n shit. Which Nolan translated correctly, here following his comment: (Nolan Luckett) Young Darwin: "When I was young, there was no knowledge that could form the foundation of my way of thinking. However, the common people have made that way of thinking into religion." Old Darwin: "Ah, don't let it be now... If I could only settle affairs... Charles Darwin Three weeks before his death. " It seems they're trying to make it seem like Darwin had a change of heart at the end of his life.
Flokker "It seems they're trying to make it seem like Darwin had a change of heart at the end of his life." Which he didn't; a lot of anti-evolution Christians love trotting this out to bolster their "side". That supposed quote comes from a nurse who claims to have spoken numerous times with Darwin in his last days, despite none of his friends or family ever seeing her, and despite none of them hearing Darwin say anything similar that he'd had a change of heart about his evolutionary theory.
Dudes, that homemade cgi movie stuff was actually a pretty solid production for a one man crew.... Programming, animating, and releasing on vhs? State of the art! That took serious effort 20 years ago! My hats off to a guy who did this way back in day... Even if it is kinds lame, its GOOD lame...
Robert Barton Effort doesn't mean anything if the final result looks like shit, even for the time. Stop living in a damn hugbox, if something's shit have the balls to say it.
Guru8bit Still even if it isnt really that good, I just cant help but admire how much effort was put into this I mean seriously all this guy probably only had a computer and his garage, and you know what I dont think I would have been able to do anything as good if I was given his resources. Besides like the people in Best of the Worst said the final does manage to be its own unique type of weird so I for one am will to cut A.A. Roberts a bit of slack for taking what he had and making it kind of unique.
Guru8bit Yes effort means a lot... Havent you ever felt a sense of achievement? ever? -Even though everyone knows you arent special and there are millions of people who could do better? All parents are proud, eventhough they all know that all children suck ass, they cant help it.... They love the ugly fuckin thing..... Bringing a production to completion and release is actually pretty awesome... I've never known ONE person to do anything like that... I've known pilots, teachers and various professionals, but people who have published AND released their own 3d crap on VHS..? Thats pretty unique in my book :-) You try releasing something... It takes A LOT of work... Especially if you're just some loner guy without connections... Even with the tools today, go animate a custom made 3d model.... GOOD luck! You can easily spend a whole day on a still-frame... No youtube for tutorials, no wiki sites, most friends didnt have computers... Fuck, watch Black Hawk Down.... Most people didnt even know how to type! -It was a real job skill! Think about that! dial-up modem maybe.... MAYBE low def pictures on the web, if the site was high-end! but mostly black and white pictures in thick physical manuals..... I remember doing techy-shit in the 90s.... That shit put hair on your balls... We didnt have dual-monitor shit, syncronized devices, and fancy tool-tips.... We had 15-17 inch monitors... One per desk... Some guys I knew had 14 inch screens... AT THEIR WORKSTATION! YIKES! You kids today couldnt stand to LOOK at those screens, much less work on them... Multitasking was a word most people had never used... Still a selling point for newer operating systems of the day.... ... I think even win 95 made a point about "multi-tasking"..... Probably win 98 too.... Even full-motion video was new on a pc, which is why win 95 included some pixelated music videos.... Yes, normal video was a tech-demo.... People would stand in awe.... I guess you had to be there... Just typing something, and seeing your lettes manifest themselves on the screen was something of a spectacle.... ...And printing something just made you feel like an author of sorts.... ....And tech. support hadnt been out-sourced yet... You would get native english speakers on the line...... Thats how RARE computer skills were back then... They had ACTUAL value!
Barcodes containing the Number of the Beast at 33:54 was actually explained in a later video. The RLM cinematic universe truly is like no other. It all rhymes, like poetry.
To be honest, when I was a 5 year old kid Road Construction Ahead was pretty bad ass. It was basically just steamrollers and bulldozers doing their stuff, but then they had scenes with dynamite where they just blew stuff up. And it had 80's synth-rock Sammy Hagar Van Halen-esque music in the background the whole time
so apparently AA Roberts was Shocked that RLM found Tales of Genesis space. but overall he's happy it interested some people at least. he apparently makes games although he has long since retired (maybe) from CGI Animation
I remember he posted a comment on here when the video came out. He didn't seem too happy at the time since his whole post was like his own version of the navy seal copypasta talking about how he doesn't smell and that he's a 12th degree black belt.
That look that Jesus gave in SOS honestly made life worth living. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard in my entire life. Amazing that that was made consciously by people. Wow.
Rich's "Have a nice day" at the end of his prank phone call is such a wonderfully lucid, agile, in-the-moment button; I imagine even the recipient being amused by it.
Oh my god... That gremlin rap video, I swear I first saw that on UA-cam, like, 8 years ago. My confusions have been fulfilled, thank you, Red Letter Media.
After 7 years and countless rewatches later, the journey of discovery that they go through with SOS is still as amazing and hilarious as the first day I watched it.
I only just noticed that during "Tales From Genesis Space" when the butterfleye scene ends, it says "To Be CONTINUTED." He spelled "Continued" wrong haha
"Loving Jesus" This is a term TFI members use to describe their intimate, sexual relationship with Jesus. TFI describes its "Loving Jesus" teaching as a radical form of bridal theology. Like some fringe Christians, they believe the church of followers is Christ's bride, called to love and serve him with wifely fervor. But they take bridal theology further, encouraging members to imagine Jesus is joining them during sexual intercourse and masturbation. Male members are cautioned to visualize themselves as women, in order to avoid a homosexual relationship with Jesus. This is what those SOS video people actually believe.
What in the fucking fuck??? It makes me wonder if they have orgies where men have to dress up like their version of Jesus...SHIT, I'm just giving them ideas at this point. -_-'
So, a VERY rough translation of the back of S.O.S., from one of my Japanese friends, is... "Once you find it, you'll never want to part! SOS...The video of the future that completely breaks conventional common sense! This story is full of action, suspense, romance and humor!" I'm sure someone can clear that up a bit more though.
and then the second screen/part you showed is... "SOS...The ultimate music and drama! The shocking product that spotlights a modern hot topic! SOS opens the doors to an unknown world. The supernatural sense that transcends the dimensions of audio and video...Will you experience it too?"
The shot of jesus literally looked like a 90s sitcom intro where it shows the actors names and they look in the camera. Full house I think was the one. somebody please add that jesus shot into a sitcom intro, would be so fuckin funny
Better still, do an 80s style sitcom intro called "Jesus and Pals" (or something uplifting like that) and use footage of actors that played in Jesus movies (mary, joseph, judas, the apostles, pilate, etc...) Doing the same opening credits style, but save Jesus for last, and use that smile right when the last music note plays in a high major key.
As someone who grew up watch SOS as a kid because I was born into COG... I'm low key proud SOS won, it's so weird (and funny) seeing outsiders who probably don't even know what COG is discover this and hear their thoughts on a VHS tape I had to repeatedly watch in the 90s-00s.
Rich really nails the review here. I remember a church member teaching us barcodes are satanic in Sunday school and at 8 years old thinking this guy has problems.
I must say, if that alien thing video was made by only 1 guy, I admire his creativity and the work he put into it. Making 3-D animation is not easy, especially not in 1997, this movie took a lot of effort.
Holy crap I saw a Spanish dubbed version of that SOS video when I was in the second grade!!!! Even in Japanese I still could recognize the song in my head!! The woman walking through a field of sunflowers or something like that and she’s unsure whether to keep the baby or not and her daughter in the womb is singing to her “Don’t you loooove meeee, I’m your daaaaaughteeeer!”. Then everything gets apocalyptic and there’s barcodes on people’s head, they would play that VHS to a bunch of little kids, I can’t believe it made it to Japan too. I’m from Puerto Rico so that makes it even crazier😂
+Sailori7 .eXe +Butt Franklin Those aren't very nice things to say. Imagine them reading those comments. You should just watch some Previously Recorded, Jack is cool.
The titular music video SOS is actually not as innocuous as "just" women shouldn't stay in the work place, but rather anti-technology, anti-robotics, anti-artificial intelligence, and hardcore pro-traditional "love" instead of "what machine can understand me", also the typical fear mongering of how they will replace men with machines. And it would seem that "SOS" doesn't stand for anything other than a signal for distress for God to save them.
+Bad Voodoo It was made by a Christian doomsday cult called Family International. The version of SOS in this video is in Japanese, as they had a pretty strong following in Japan until they got busted for sexually abusing children. The RLM guys have said they would've left this video off had they known its origins.
kotomixkyou Yeah these guys are far from traditional. They are a hardcore sex cult that wholeheartedly approve of incest and pedophilia. Although they still abhor male-male intercourse.
We can laugh all we want at Tales from Genesis Space, but honestly AA Roberts has a real passion for what hr does and we should be glad he gets so much enjoyment out of this hobby. We have to give him credit. Like Tommy Wiseau, he created something he loves (terrifying as it may be). And I am haply that he got the chance to make his storied come to life on screen (regardless of their apparent quality to us).
I really love how at the end after giving the dude so much shit for making a goofy video Mike makes a point to show reverence towards the video and the spirit of the man that made it. Even if the end result isn't very good it's cool to respect when people have passion and create something with it.
I am frankly sick of this glorification of Tommy Wiseau. That guy is an asshole and it was never cleared how he got the money to make "The room" in the first place, rumours about it are suspicious.
This is my favorite episode of BotW, and probably the best place for anyone to start watching RLM. It’s got everything; the weird videos, a hilarious prank call, really memorable clips...
This video is a testament of how amazingly fast technology has evolved now: 8 years ago they couldn't read or translate the SOS back. Now (and for some time, 2 years or so) I was able to translate it in 3 seconds by just using my phone's camera and google translate. The practicality of our devices now is astonishing! Having said that, I've watched these old RLM videos more than 20 times, they're timeless! The charm these gentlemen exude is unquestionable and will never age. Love you, guys!
You know you've watched too much best of the worst when you can link Tales From Genesis Space to Tammy and the T-Rex because they both have brains in jars.
I love when Jack goes to defend Tales From Genesis Space after Mike says the trash bags were supposed to be a black void, and Mike stops him and goes, "That's what it was. Don't even start."
Jesus seems to be doing a "the things I put up with" thing, straight out of an old sitcom intro. Imagine him as a bartender, some customers are bickering over the game they're watching on the tv, one of them gestures and knocks over a drink, then the camera zooms in on Jesus and he gives that look
You can tell Mike and Rich have been friends since they were teenagers because Mike has an instinctual reaction to hand off crank phone calls to Rich... Also @21:46 might be my favorite Mike quote/joke in the entirety of RLM...
S.O.S. was an entire voyage of discovery. The horror just slowly sets in and then everything clicks. Also Rich was right: barcodes and lasers are the mark of the beast. 🤣
One of my favorite BotW, there is everything: Rich Evan's prank call, 3d models rapping, SOS nonsence, "it is airplane pornography for children". So many things going on.
They highlighted the more far out aspects of the video (and made fun of it of course) but didn't act like a-holes about the religion and the concept of it itself.
Guy Incognito They didn't need to it did it to itself fact is though this type of propaganda still runs rampant and needs to be shown for what it is rhetoric! When people criticize religion it's because its incredibly destructive and detrimental to society not to be a-holes!
David Carbajal Dude seriously drop it, I didn't comment on this video to start some pointless religious debate. Anything can be a destructive force if the masses are fed enough propaganda not exclusively religion and almost anything can be a force for good if not exploited, for instance the entire structure of modern laws and ethics is based on religious laws. Anyway like I said I didn't come on here for a debate but I'll make sure to refrain from expressing my beliefs in future...
Guy Incognito Erm sure are providing an argument worth refuting but whatever if you don't wanna argue then I won't just know your concept is assinine..
Wondering if the 1800 number guy ever called back from "Cleared for takeoff". I can picture that guy sitting by the phone for 30 years rocking back and forth, just waiting for it to ring, finally giving up and hanging himself 1 min before Mike called, rocking back and forth from the I beam as the answering machine blares out through his disheveled apartment xD. Ok that was dark, these guys have that affect...
Some truly bizarre movies this time around. Major kudos to Rich for that prank call. That was a tough assignment dropped in his lap under immense pressure and he rose to the challenge like a man.
My Grandfather is religious, found out about the barcode thing a couple of years ago and tried to stop buying things with barcodes. Needless to say it did not go well.
Rich is 100% right when he says it's "Airplane Corn for Babies." I had "Road Construction Ahead." It was the same but for dump trucks and diggers. And I LOVED it. IDK what it is about little kids and big vehicles, but it is inexplicably transfixing for children.
Rich is some kind of incredible prank call savant. Normally, he stumbles through his sentences. Hand him a phone with little to no warning, and he'll create a fantastical yet grounded saga on the spot.
It's like Butthead's temporary intelligence.
Obviously Rich Evans is playing the long con and all that we see of him on screen is a character. When handed a phone he panics and breaks character, revealing his true mastermind prankcall genius self. It's evident.
The question before us is what is his final game. Clearly Julia Roberts and Ellen Degenerate are in on it too, having contributed with the "Rich Evans is actually a real person that exists" façade. If I had to guess, I'd say the ultimate goal is to join the elderly gang, decades from now, to record an exercise videotape that is subtly a personality study in disguise.
@@tukkek this is genius
He's like Ricky from tpb
@@tukkek Rich is legit very smart.
SOS is a cult classic. Literally.
That one took a little time but than I laughed pretty hard. Thank you.
Bravo!
Very good.
"Don't go, Kathy don't go."
Imagine how awkward the episode would have been if they had the English version of SOS.
Okay I know it’s been a hot minute since anyone commented, but get this:
I was in Japan recently for a convention, and through a mutual acquaintance met a young woman who was half Greek, half Japanese. She mentioned that her parents were “part of a weird Christian cult and that’s how they met.”
I jokingly said “Oh haha did they make the SOS music video?”
Her eyes went wide as she turned to me and said “...how the hell do you know about that?”
Let’s just say the 1.2 million views on this video have made her question the fabric of reality.
I hope this is true, that's amazing
I was in subway in NYc. A cult of Asians who dont speak English were handing out pamphlets about the evil of barcodes called "Do not accept the mark of the beast. The cover had a bald guy with a barcode on his forehead. There was no info on the organization in the pamphlet
Damn man
r/thathappened
Big if true.
27:06 the Japanese sentence on the cover says:
Once it catches you, it never lets you go!
SOS... It's the video from the future that utterly breaks through all conventional knowledge!
Throughout the video, you'll witness action, suspense, romance and humor overflowing!
SOS... It's the ultimate form of music drama! The shocking video that spotlights hot trendy topics!
The door that opens when the SOS sound rings leads to the unknown world!
Ultra-supernatural feeling that goes beyond of audio visual!... Would you like to experience this?
AURORA Production
Thank you.
I just translated this only to realize someone else already beat me to it a year ago lol.
That’s a long sentences
@@Sarkkoth Multiple people have translated it in the decade since this video was released, but the youtube comment shuffle buries them over time.
@@psykomancer4420 I swear they're always changing the algorithm for this sort of thing on these apps
"Dedede Daadaadaa DeDeDe" is "SOS" in morse code, MIND BLOWN!
+Cubik OOOOOHHHH FUUUAAAAAAACK.
+Cubik ...---..., who knew it would be so catchy
Rich Evan's voice: What the fuck!!!?
+IsItModern
Too bad these folks where a cult.
+Cubik Catchy. It's no YYZ tho.
I actually have quite a bit of respect for A.A. Roberts. 3D animation isn't the easiest thing in the world to do now, let alone in the 90s. And he did it all on his own. Sure it didn't turn out great, but at least he tried.
He gives me Terry A. Davis vibes. A computer savant with fringe political beliefs.
But do you think it will get continuted?
@@ozymandiasramesses1773 Where did you get the implication that the genesis space guy holds fringe political beliefs?
So he's like your cousin or something? 3D animation wasn't that hard to achieve in the nineties. My cousin who was learning disabled, was agoraphobic and spent a lot of time in his room making bad 3D cartoons. But even those were slightly better than this guy's crap. There were basic programs available that could make that type of animation pretty easily. Things like V Ray and Cinema 4D, and you could even use After Effects and Photoshop to create those animations. And if my retarded cousin did it, ANYONE could.
@@CrookedEyeSniper Minor point, but you really shouldn't use the term "retarded" to describe disabled people. It's incredibly disrespectful.
Hey RLM, I have an explanation for the SOS video: It's actually one of many pieces of material produced by Aurora Productions AG who make similar material for the Children of God (or The Family International as they like to be called now) - a religious cult. This stuff was mostly aimed at kids and took the form of music videos and tv shows, along with some other media, which was distributed and localised internationally for obvious purposes. You somehow got the japanese version.
I know this because I was brought up in The Family International and although I don't remember the other songs, I immediately recognised Cathy Don't Go (the one with the barcodes). It's good to see brainwashing smut like this being ridiculed and laughed at.
Thanks RLM
lifebeforetheaccident if it's for that purpose then it's actually the worst -of- the worst of the worst
It's cool to hear about all of that from someone who experienced the life and the music. Nice one, man :) ....(I kinda like a couple of the songs! :p )
I grew up around religious fundies and I distinctly remember the supermarket song as well. I think I may have seen/heard that one as well growing up.
@@MarkCodyDirtAndMingle That's how they get you!
Is that the River Phoenix cult?
"Cleared for Takeoff" is a nostalgic look back at flying before 9/11 and the TSA.
Shit, two thumbs up.
The legend of the dog faced woman More like 2 towers up! Am I right? hahaha.........*sigh*
i wonder if terrorists know about all the 9/11 jokes we make. would that intimidate them?
The terrorists would probably be more terrified about getting AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDSSSSSSS.
During the part with the planes landing over and over, I kept expecting the local aviation police to come run up and tackle the camera man for filming flight patterns. What a different time that was.
"The Gremlins have a rap number" might be the most terrifying sentence I've ever heard.
RLM accidently stumbling onto literal Cult propaganda is still prob my favorite internet moment going forward
Holy FUCK, This video..
The video is Japanese and I will provide translation, I see another dude did too, but I'll try to add in the actual japanese captions, bear with me.
due to the low compression I cant really make out the song that well but it goes like this:
世界中コンピュータクレージー・・・その家に機械だけ。 賑芸と入れ替わる、なにもかもコンピュータクレージー
Sekaijyuu computer crazy... sono uchi ni kikai dake, nigigei to irekawaru nanimo kamo computer crazy.
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*Translation:*
All around the world, computer crazy, in every home, only machines... It's all transforming ... it's all computer crazy..
Text on the box says:
捕らえたら決して離さない！
SOS ・・・ それは従来の常識を完全に打ち破る未来のビデオ！
全編にみなぎるアクション、サスペンス、ロマンス、そして
ユーモア！
Toraetara keshite hanasanai!
SOS... Sore ha shourai no jyoushiki wo zenbu ni uchiyaburu mirai no bideo!
Zenpen ni minagiru akushon, sasupensu, romansu, soshite, yuumoa!
*Translation:*
Once I've obtained it, I'll never let it go!
SOS ... is a never before seen video that will crush all common sense!
An entire episode filled with action, suspense, romance AND humor!
----------------------------------------
Part 2 of the box says:
*SOS・・・ それはミュージック・ドラマの究極！
現代のホットな話題にスポットを当てた衝撃作!
SOSサウンドが開く未知の世界への扉!*
オーディオ・ビデオの次元を超越した超自然感覚！・・・君も体験しないか？*
SOS... Sore ha myuujikku bideo no kyuukyoku!
Gendai no hotto na wadai ni supotto wo ateta shougekisaku!
SOS Saundo ga akumichi no sekai he no tobira!
Audeio bideo no jigen wo chouetsushita choujigen kankaku! ... Kimi mo taiken shinai ka?
*Translation:*
SOS.. Is THE ultimate music video!
It puts today's hot topics in the spotlight!
SOS Sound is a doorway to the yet unknown!
The ultimate piece of work that has surpassed the regular boundaries of audio video!! ... Wont you experience it too?
The video after that it actually says some shit about religion with darwin 'n shit. Which Nolan translated correctly, here following his comment: (Nolan Luckett)
Young Darwin:
"When I was young, there was no knowledge that could form the foundation of my way of thinking. However, the common people have made that way of thinking into religion."
Old Darwin:
"Ah, don't let it be now...
If I could only settle affairs...
Charles Darwin
Three weeks before his death.
"
It seems they're trying to make it seem like Darwin had a change of heart at the end of his life.
breddy gud
should be "機械" though ;p
***** You are correct, changed it; I pressed spacebar too fast I guess without checking my kanjuus D:
気にするな :P
I think this made the video better by 100 fold, thank you.
Flokker "It seems they're trying to make it seem like Darwin had a change of heart at the end of his life."
Which he didn't; a lot of anti-evolution Christians love trotting this out to bolster their "side". That supposed quote comes from a nurse who claims to have spoken numerous times with Darwin in his last days, despite none of his friends or family ever seeing her, and despite none of them hearing Darwin say anything similar that he'd had a change of heart about his evolutionary theory.
Dudes, that homemade cgi movie stuff was actually a pretty solid production for a one man crew.... Programming, animating, and releasing on vhs?
State of the art! That took serious effort 20 years ago!
My hats off to a guy who did this way back in day...
Even if it is kinds lame, its GOOD lame...
Go away A. A. Roberts.
Guru8bit Yeah A.A. Roberts how dare you put all this effort to bring your beloved stories to life
Robert Barton Effort doesn't mean anything if the final result looks like shit, even for the time. Stop living in a damn hugbox, if something's shit have the balls to say it.
Guru8bit Still even if it isnt really that good, I just cant help but admire how much effort was put into this I mean seriously all this guy probably only had a computer and his garage, and you know what I dont think I would have been able to do anything as good if I was given his resources.
Besides like the people in Best of the Worst said the final does manage to be its own unique type of weird so I for one am will to cut A.A. Roberts a bit of slack for taking what he had and making it kind of unique.
Guru8bit
Yes effort means a lot... Havent you ever felt a sense of achievement? ever?
-Even though everyone knows you arent special and there are millions of people who could do better?
All parents are proud, eventhough they all know that all children suck ass, they cant help it.... They love the ugly fuckin thing.....
Bringing a production to completion and release is actually pretty awesome...
I've never known ONE person to do anything like that... I've known pilots, teachers and various professionals, but people who have published AND released their own 3d crap on VHS..? Thats pretty unique in my book :-)
You try releasing something... It takes A LOT of work...
Especially if you're just some loner guy without connections...
Even with the tools today, go animate a custom made 3d model.... GOOD luck!
You can easily spend a whole day on a still-frame...
No youtube for tutorials, no wiki sites, most friends didnt have computers...
Fuck, watch Black Hawk Down....
Most people didnt even know how to type!
-It was a real job skill! Think about that!
dial-up modem maybe.... MAYBE low def pictures on the web, if the site was high-end!
but mostly black and white pictures in thick physical manuals.....
I remember doing techy-shit in the 90s....
That shit put hair on your balls...
We didnt have dual-monitor shit, syncronized devices, and fancy tool-tips....
We had 15-17 inch monitors... One per desk...
Some guys I knew had 14 inch screens... AT THEIR WORKSTATION! YIKES!
You kids today couldnt stand to LOOK at those screens, much less work on them...
Multitasking was a word most people had never used... Still a selling point for newer operating systems of the day....
... I think even win 95 made a point about "multi-tasking"..... Probably win 98 too....
Even full-motion video was new on a pc, which is why win 95 included some pixelated music videos.... Yes, normal video was a tech-demo....
People would stand in awe.... I guess you had to be there...
Just typing something, and seeing your lettes manifest themselves on the screen was something of a spectacle....
...And printing something just made you feel like an author of sorts....
....And tech. support hadnt been out-sourced yet... You would get native english speakers on the line......
Thats how RARE computer skills were back then... They had ACTUAL value!
"Tales from Genesis Space" syncs up perfectly with "Dark Side of the Moon".
Jay got SO fucking excited when the number connected to fred levine's voicemail, adorable
+babyBELUGAr
I love how Mike panics and hands the phone to Rich.
babyBELUGAr Jay is adorable.
It's like the face your little brother gets when your mom would turn into mcdonalds
@@DirtyFrigginHarry I think I would be horrified if my mother became mcdonalds
He gets legit red trying to contain his laughter during Rich's prank
Jesus turns to camera
"Mondays, am I right?"
Kinketsu this needs more likes lol
LMAO! BEST...COMMENT...EVER!
Kinketsu more accurately, “Thank God It’s Friday”
@@rupertbee Literally
"always look at the bright side of life"
The prank call was one of Best of the Worst's finest moments ever.
I'm super disappointed in Mike.
Not half as good as Dan/Don/John Wilson's.
the best one is from #7, don wilson or whatever
ah fuck sorry for doubling down, i keep doing that lol
Just you wait till you discover the "Don Wilson" call
Barcodes containing the Number of the Beast at 33:54 was actually explained in a later video. The RLM cinematic universe truly is like no other. It all rhymes, like poetry.
Wheel #11
wait how?
Just like my STOOOOL
It subverts your expectations.
@@Ryan98063crazy it was just 2 years after this video
I fucking love it when a joke Mike makes just doesn't land and he's just stuck looking at them with his wide-ass eyes hoping for a laugh
Exhibit A 12:05
That look on his face was funnier than any joke 😂
Imagine Mike, as a little kid on a plane, crying because his ears were popping. Like, just imagine it.
Going "OOOOOOOOOW FUUUUUUUCKKK!!!"
What’s wrong with my EEEEEEEEARS
Im just picturing him doing that as himself lol
@@mrredherring2900 I actually heard that
Imagine Mike, as a full grown man on a plane, sobbing because his wife’s boyfriend won’t play fortnite mobile with him
"Who's idea was it to put non-movies on the Wheel?"
Years later...
Mike: BotW: BLACK SPINE EDITION!
"This is Mike's 9/11."
-- Rich Evans
I love that most of these are Mikes ideas and he always looks the most miserable doing them
@@DamianBartolacci I think he has a shame kink
don't forget the Black Spine Junka
@@DamianBartolacci Much like Dr. Frankenstein and the Monster, Mike looks upon his creation(s) with utter anger. (And disappointment)
To be honest, when I was a 5 year old kid Road Construction Ahead was pretty bad ass. It was basically just steamrollers and bulldozers doing their stuff, but then they had scenes with dynamite where they just blew stuff up. And it had 80's synth-rock Sammy Hagar Van Halen-esque music in the background the whole time
I can see how that won an award.
Sounds like the "There goes a Bulldozer" video.
Or that one with the construction genie and the talking machines.
@@MrSourceMan God I had so many videos like that when I was little 😭
so apparently AA Roberts was Shocked that RLM found Tales of Genesis space. but overall he's happy it interested some people at least. he apparently makes games although he has long since retired (maybe) from CGI Animation
what games
@@milliondollarmistake I googled him and the third result was alcoholics anonymous meetings...in wisconsin.
We need to know what games get back here
I remember he posted a comment on here when the video came out. He didn't seem too happy at the time since his whole post was like his own version of the navy seal copypasta talking about how he doesn't smell and that he's a 12th degree black belt.
That look that Jesus gave in SOS honestly made life worth living. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard in my entire life. Amazing that that was made consciously by people. Wow.
It's a gif, just write "jesus" & scroll till you find it.
christ is a gift that keeps on giving
I think it was made by computers that think and talk
@@Xeena79 Or Google "Jesus SOS"
he thought so too
"Is-Is this real life? This is like a miserable nightmare, this existence i live..."
My favorite Mike quote
Rich's "Have a nice day" at the end of his prank phone call is such a wonderfully lucid, agile, in-the-moment button; I imagine even the recipient being amused by it.
Harrison Ford “boring conversation anyway” vibes
The combination of "Get out of here... YOU FUCKER!" and Rich Evans scampering away made me laugh uncontrollably.
Rich Evans is a fucking god.
What a place for Chad to turn up. I second the motion.
Joe Jr. It's a based on a Mick Foley quote.
God wishes he was as awesome as Rich Evans.
Hey Chad what are you doing outside of Polaris? Get outta here!
If he is, he is Loki and we are his stars.
Oh my god... That gremlin rap video, I swear I first saw that on UA-cam, like, 8 years ago. My confusions have been fulfilled, thank you, Red Letter Media.
SupraSeaPea That's a nice resolution. I feel relaxed.
After 7 years and countless rewatches later, the journey of discovery that they go through with SOS is still as amazing and hilarious as the first day I watched it.
Jesus' expression said to me "it's a living!"
"The Antichrist runs a supermarket." had me rolling.
Robert Paulson Thank You
That would totally be an anime
@@TheBonkleFox Absolute light novel concept and title
@@TheBonkleFox I mean there is one about Satan working at McDonald's
That last segment on GenSpace looks like a recording of some extremist group's manifesto right before they brandish guns at their hostages.
Oh you mean Israel!
of just Mr Wiggles
2001: A Fisher Price Odyssey
a bit late but you mean Odyssey
2001: An Amiga With 200kb of RAM Odyssey
Jack's energetic and giddy excitement honestly gets me through the day. Definitely worth draining all positive emotions from the others cast members
The expressions of childlike wonder on their faces and giddy reactions when they hear "Hi this is Ted Levine" is so amazing.
*Fred Levine. Ted Levine is the guy who played Buffalo Bill in Silence Of The Lambs
I only just noticed that during "Tales From Genesis Space" when the butterfleye scene ends, it says "To Be CONTINUTED." He spelled "Continued" wrong haha
Maybe the flying eyeball's name is Ted.
I’ve seen it both ways.
"Loving Jesus"
This is a term TFI members use to describe their intimate, sexual relationship with Jesus. TFI describes its "Loving Jesus" teaching as a radical form of bridal theology. Like some fringe Christians, they believe the church of followers is Christ's bride, called to love and serve him with wifely fervor. But they take bridal theology further, encouraging members to imagine Jesus is joining them during sexual intercourse and masturbation. Male members are cautioned to visualize themselves as women, in order to avoid a homosexual relationship with Jesus.
This is what those SOS video people actually believe.
hey, nice profile pic
That's why TFI stands for "The Fucking Insane".
What in the fucking fuck??? It makes me wonder if they have orgies where men have to dress up like their version of Jesus...SHIT, I'm just giving them ideas at this point. -_-'
that is horribly creepy
This is heresy
So, a VERY rough translation of the back of S.O.S., from one of my Japanese friends, is...
"Once you find it, you'll never want to part!
SOS...The video of the future that completely breaks conventional common sense!
This story is full of action, suspense, romance and humor!"
I'm sure someone can clear that up a bit more though.
and then the second screen/part you showed is...
"SOS...The ultimate music and drama!
The shocking product that spotlights a modern hot topic!
SOS opens the doors to an unknown world.
The supernatural sense that transcends the dimensions of audio and video...Will you experience it too?"
The shot of jesus literally looked like a 90s sitcom intro where it shows the actors names and they look in the camera. Full house I think was the one. somebody please add that jesus shot into a sitcom intro, would be so fuckin funny
Better still, do an 80s style sitcom intro called "Jesus and Pals" (or something uplifting like that) and use footage of actors that played in Jesus movies (mary, joseph, judas, the apostles, pilate, etc...) Doing the same opening credits style, but save Jesus for last, and use that smile right when the last music note plays in a high major key.
It looks just like that LOL
Straight out of Too Many Cooks
As someone who grew up watch SOS as a kid because I was born into COG... I'm low key proud SOS won, it's so weird (and funny) seeing outsiders who probably don't even know what COG is discover this and hear their thoughts on a VHS tape I had to repeatedly watch in the 90s-00s.
These guys are funnier than most people on TV.
Most people on tv!? Id say all I've ever seen of current.
"Most"? Considering humour has been cancelled, RLM is the funniest by far.
@@charlottecorday8494 lmao
not a high bar
I totally agree
"At the end of the video, the chinese censors have given up watching it..." god bless you, Rich Evans! God bless you!
+manulito2 if the government becomes a bunch of dicks now you know how to elude censorship thanks to rich evans.
i swear RLM has made my life better
Rich really nails the review here. I remember a church member teaching us barcodes are satanic in Sunday school and at 8 years old thinking this guy has problems.
I must say, if that alien thing video was made by only 1 guy, I admire his creativity and the work he put into it. Making 3-D animation is not easy, especially not in 1997, this movie took a lot of effort.
Cannot explain how much I unironically love S.O.S as a song. I literally played it at a house party.
I watch this every few months just for the songs. It’s such an ear worm
Oh yeah SOS in particular is catchy and actually not really nuts compared to the rest.
Holy crap I saw a Spanish dubbed version of that SOS video when I was in the second grade!!!! Even in Japanese I still could recognize the song in my head!! The woman walking through a field of sunflowers or something like that and she’s unsure whether to keep the baby or not and her daughter in the womb is singing to her “Don’t you loooove meeee, I’m your daaaaaughteeeer!”. Then everything gets apocalyptic and there’s barcodes on people’s head, they would play that VHS to a bunch of little kids, I can’t believe it made it to Japan too.
I’m from Puerto Rico so that makes it even crazier😂
"There was..naked bull man explodes"
"That was my favorite"
"This is the room of a serial killer" oh god
Somewhere Fred Levine thinks he was responsible for MH370
John Bacon with a small piece of a garden hose
@@johnbacon4997 this was from 10 months ago. So idk I guess 🤷
@@johnbacon4997 you too, take care.
To be honest, A A Roberts did his best for someone who taught himself how to make cgi animation. Specially for something coming from the 90s.
"Yeah, we get it! You're a brain!"
Mike is funniest when he's suffering.
Rich's Prank message was Genius right on the spot wit right there! that was incredible
When Rich and Mike are together, they smile so much
+The World I Know Whenever jay laugh, i laugh.
I just hate whenever Jack's around.
+Sailori7 .eXe He's rarely funny and his body language is of a mangina.
+Sailori7 .eXe He tells a lot of jokes that fall flat, and even the guys notice... I bet he's a great guy, just in a humor sense.
+Sailori7 .eXe +Butt Franklin
Those aren't very nice things to say. Imagine them reading those comments.
You should just watch some Previously Recorded, Jack is cool.
The titular music video SOS is actually not as innocuous as "just" women shouldn't stay in the work place, but rather anti-technology, anti-robotics, anti-artificial intelligence, and hardcore pro-traditional "love" instead of "what machine can understand me", also the typical fear mongering of how they will replace men with machines. And it would seem that "SOS" doesn't stand for anything other than a signal for distress for God to save them.
+Bad Voodoo It was made by a Christian doomsday cult called Family International. The version of SOS in this video is in Japanese, as they had a pretty strong following in Japan until they got busted for sexually abusing children. The RLM guys have said they would've left this video off had they known its origins.
kotomixkyou Yeah these guys are far from traditional. They are a hardcore sex cult that wholeheartedly approve of incest and pedophilia. Although they still abhor male-male intercourse.
You’re fucking weird, bud.
@@GanjaLibre ahahahaha
"Presented by No Budget and a Weekend Productions"
This guy knows what's up
I want to see more of guilty Rich Evans skittering through the halls while being booed/derided, because I like him.
We can laugh all we want at Tales from Genesis Space, but honestly AA Roberts has a real passion for what hr does and we should be glad he gets so much enjoyment out of this hobby.
We have to give him credit. Like Tommy Wiseau, he created something he loves (terrifying as it may be). And I am haply that he got the chance to make his storied come to life on screen (regardless of their apparent quality to us).
I really love how at the end after giving the dude so much shit for making a goofy video Mike makes a point to show reverence towards the video and the spirit of the man that made it. Even if the end result isn't very good it's cool to respect when people have passion and create something with it.
I have to say that if that was from 1997 those animations are pretty cool actually.
I am frankly sick of this glorification of Tommy Wiseau. That guy is an asshole and it was never cleared how he got the money to make "The room" in the first place, rumours about it are suspicious.
Jack running away yelling "I have no regrets!!" after pushing down the Wheel is one of my all-time favorite RLM moments
Rich was on fire in this episode.
They all were tbh
Be cool about fiiiiiiiire saaaaaaaaaaaafety!
like his nanu's kitchen
I'm watching this closer to the date in Tales From Genesis Space than when this episode was originally released.
This is my favorite episode of BotW, and probably the best place for anyone to start watching RLM. It’s got everything; the weird videos, a hilarious prank call, really memorable clips...
Rich Evans is fuckin hilarious, his laugh is a killer.
Rich Evans is love. Rich Evans is life.
The prank call from Rich Evans is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
11:39 Mike imitating Ted Levine as the Buffalo Bill Killer got to be one of the most underrated Mike moments of the show.
That Jesus scene will never not be amazing.
This video is a testament of how amazingly fast technology has evolved now: 8 years ago they couldn't read or translate the SOS back. Now (and for some time, 2 years or so) I was able to translate it in 3 seconds by just using my phone's camera and google translate. The practicality of our devices now is astonishing! Having said that, I've watched these old RLM videos more than 20 times, they're timeless! The charm these gentlemen exude is unquestionable and will never age. Love you, guys!
You know you've watched too much best of the worst when you can link Tales From Genesis Space to Tammy and the T-Rex because they both have brains in jars.
yup!!
Jack is a true hero for calling out Mike and trying to destroy the Wheel
Holy shit that prank call was a stroke of genius. Awesome show.
I love when Jack goes to defend Tales From Genesis Space after Mike says the trash bags were supposed to be a black void, and Mike stops him and goes, "That's what it was. Don't even start."
A.A. Roberts, with that outfit in front of the bag sheet background, really looks like a Command & Conquer FMV character.
15:53 The look of absolute pride on Mike's face seeing Rich blossom.
S.O.S. made this my favorite episode.
+Genetic Heresy He knew you'd say that...
+Joe Jr. I sign it while walking to work A LOT
Jesus seems to be doing a "the things I put up with" thing, straight out of an old sitcom intro. Imagine him as a bartender, some customers are bickering over the game they're watching on the tv, one of them gestures and knocks over a drink, then the camera zooms in on Jesus and he gives that look
*insert canned laughter*
"gem of weird" may be the best three word phrase Mike eve uttered. I t sounds like the name of a Dungeons & Dragons artifact.
You can tell Mike and Rich have been friends since they were teenagers because Mike has an instinctual reaction to hand off crank phone calls to Rich...
Also @21:46 might be my favorite Mike quote/joke in the entirety of RLM...
S.O.S. was an entire voyage of discovery. The horror just slowly sets in and then everything clicks. Also Rich was right: barcodes and lasers are the mark of the beast. 🤣
One of my favorite BotW, there is everything: Rich Evan's prank call, 3d models rapping, SOS nonsence, "it is airplane pornography for children". So many things going on.
it occurs to me that a lot of this 90s VHS schlock is stuff that middle aged dads would now put onto their UA-cam channel.
Holy shit! I almost pissed myself laughing when crucified Jesus turned and smiled at the camera after breaking through the glass elevator. Lmao!
7 years and I still come back to this
Wow, that was amazing and mad props to the guys for keeping it super respectful, not a quality you find a lot on 'the web'.
They called it what it was propaganda!
They highlighted the more far out aspects of the video (and made fun of it of course) but didn't act like a-holes about the religion and the concept of it itself.
Guy Incognito They didn't need to it did it to itself fact is though this type of propaganda still runs rampant and needs to be shown for what it is rhetoric! When people criticize religion it's because its incredibly destructive and detrimental to society not to be a-holes!
David Carbajal Dude seriously drop it, I didn't comment on this video to start some pointless religious debate. Anything can be a destructive force if the masses are fed enough propaganda not exclusively religion and almost anything can be a force for good if not exploited, for instance the entire structure of modern laws and ethics is based on religious laws.
Anyway like I said I didn't come on here for a debate but I'll make sure to refrain from expressing my beliefs in future...
Guy Incognito Erm sure are providing an argument worth refuting but whatever if you don't wanna argue then I won't just know your concept is assinine..
Jack's expressions during these movies are amazing!
Wondering if the 1800 number guy ever called back from "Cleared for takeoff". I can picture that guy sitting by the phone for 30 years rocking back and forth, just waiting for it to ring, finally giving up and hanging himself 1 min before Mike called, rocking back and forth from the I beam as the answering machine blares out through his disheveled apartment xD. Ok that was dark, these guys have that affect...
New Guest of the Worst?
Jesus in SOS looks like he’s trying to convey the Flintstones gimmick of “well, its a living.”
Continuing my 2021 journey through the playlist. 16-10-2021
Jeez, they didn't get this lucky with Shoji Tabuchi.
nananananananananananana -- Shoji Tabuchi.
I'm convinced that entire episode was a lie, with no other reason than to watch that specific video.
TenouHaruka0 of course I- of course
Or Tree Stand Safety
SOS and the supermarket songs are lowkey bangers
Some truly bizarre movies this time around. Major kudos to Rich for that prank call. That was a tough assignment dropped in his lap under immense pressure and he rose to the challenge like a man.
wtf! Did anyone notice: The male background singing in SOS is basically the SOS-signal in morse. Dididi daadaadaa dididi!
I was wondering if they did that on purpose!
We obviously need a follow-up video in October 2025 with R R Roberts as time catches up with his video. Holy crap, that's next year!
I think I'll show my kids Airplane! to prepare them for their first flight.
"The Antichrist Runs a Supermarket" sounds like a crazy Japanese light novel
Jack's enthusiasm brings me so much joy.
looks like Cleared for Takeoff is... grounded indefinitely
YYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
Are you Jesus?
Na bro
That prank call is the best prank call ever seen. I clapped with them.
My Grandfather is religious, found out about the barcode thing a couple of years ago and tried to stop buying things with barcodes. Needless to say it did not go well.
Oh my god.. I grew up in the very cult that made the SOS video. We used to sell those videos all the time and I know most of the people in it!
Brite Blinds Do tell
that's amazing, stories please
you don't want stories from that cult...
sorry I had logged on to my work gmail by m mistake I'm available at kantimts@gmail.com
Kira Veritas it still exists, they have a website.
I cant believe we're less than two years away from Genesis Space.
Rich is 100% right when he says it's "Airplane Corn for Babies." I had "Road Construction Ahead." It was the same but for dump trucks and diggers. And I LOVED it. IDK what it is about little kids and big vehicles, but it is inexplicably transfixing for children.
i'd be lying if i said that SOS song wasn't a banger. gonna need a janky 8 bit remix of that stat