hi, it’s been a year since you commented that, BUT the fact that he walked through her refrigerator makes the “a home with a refrigerator” line a lot funnier.
Lauren’s little brain forest metaphor kinda reminds me of how she played the son from The Trail to Oregon, particularly the part where she explained what she does when she comes across a new object
Love how it's explaining the exact opposite idea with the same vibe lmao. Craphole's the dumbest kid, and Esther's the smartest human in the multiverse
i know this is a comedy but that metaphor that esther gives about seeds of information and a giant forest kinda hit home for me--i get something similar (not literally) when my anxiety flares up. with me, i misinterpret body language and what people are saying, but yeah, one little thing someone says just makes my brain spiral out of control.
Yup it’s almost exactly how I described anxiety to my therapists and psychologists. My creativity and logic skills work the exact same too, though I don’t have the observation skills tho cause I get lost in the brain trees. I just stare off into space until someone snaps me out of it.
Tell me about it. I realize how behind I am on taking my anxiety meds and just had the worst dream about everyone rejecting me off of one person not answering my text (in real life) right away. Just put me in a terrible mood as soon as I woke up.
@@micahwilliams1332 oh my god i do that too. Same thing with sensory overload, when i get overstimulated, the way it just suddenly builds up and caves in on you is super accurate.
I like how Esther is able to observe that his jacket was made in a small textile factory in the district of Dhaka in Bangladesh and the fact that Scrags resents the fact that the cost of the jacket was taken out of his paycheck even though that's standard issue for the entire department, and this resentment is evident in how infrequently he wears it which is clear from the lack of wear on the zippers as well as no pilling in the armpits. His resentment is also clear in the fact that the jacket is too big for him, which means he doesn't care enough to ask for a replacement and it means transitively that he's recently lost a lot of weight probably due to some psychological insecurity we don't have time to get into right now. ..... yet....... she couldn't observe that he was FBI when he entered the room.
Esther is every person with any neuropsyciatric disorder ever who got called "gifted" when they were 11 and is now trying to function like a normal person but instead turned to heavy drug abuse as a form of selfmedicating. I'm not Esther yet but I could become her and it scares me.
Same. For a while i had to stop taking my ADHD medication because it was causing me to have the metaphorical Redwood Forrest Everytime i thought about something. My ADHD medication (now with a proper dosage) acts as a boost. I'm extremely smart, but without my medication you can't really tell. With it, it's almost scary. I was called gifted as a kid, and it was quite damaging.
This actually works with Lauren's stated reason why she did that. She said he was always trying to strike cool poses but would loose his balance and then try to be like "Yeah, I meant to do that". But he didn't loose his balance because he's uncoordinated, it's cause he was on wizard drugs!
the live action scooby doo where they broke up and got back together was pretty much just a set up for turning scrappy into a villain so this is plausible
Esther mentioning she has a girlfriend is great. Also Joey's face throughout this whole part is excellent. And Lauren has a tendency to play characters that roll around the floor
Yeah, well, you know what wasn’t rad? My Neurons! They are firing faster than they ever should for a middle-schooler and, you know, over the years my powers of observation and deduction and problem solving have only grown - exponentially! It's like - it's like this little seed of information plants itself in my head, right? And um, you know, I'm thinking and I'm going down a path and suddenly you know, that little seed grows into, like, a small tree, right? And um, you know, a branch grows from that tree. And then there's, you know, three branches from that; and then five from that; and then, you know, suddenly there's all these little bushes popping up next to the tree. What?! I didn't plant those!! Where the fuck did those come from?!! And suddenly, this little garden - it just shoots up to the size of Redwoods! And this happens every time - it just gets bigger and more complex, whenever I look at anything, like that jacket you have on. I can tell just by looking at it that it was made in a small textile factory in the district of Dhaka in Bangladesh. I can tell that you resent the fact they took cost of it out of your paycheck, even though that's standard issue for the entire department. That's evident in how infrequently you wear it - there's no wear on the zippers; there's no pilling in the armpits. It's also too big for you. Which means you don't care enough to ask for a replacement and you've also recently lost a lot of weight - probably due to some psychological insecurity that we don't have time to get into now. AND ALL THAT and more is going through my head! And I know all of that just by looking at it! And suddenly, there's a whole national forest in my head, trying to burst through my skull, and do you know how INSANE THAT FEELS?!?!
I'm just wondering... How many of these sound effects were in the actual performance and how many were added on for the video? If they were all used in performance, then as a fellow techie I take my hat off to the impeccable timing.
i love how when scraggs first went to keith he didn’t have any fbi paraphernalia on but just kept adding stuff every visit because people weren’t realising he was in the FBI
Esther kinda looks like Spinelli from Recess. I think Esther is my favorite progression of a character. Everyone else kind of stays the same. I like the big leap.
(4:01) Esther- it’s like it’s like this little seed of information plants it self into my head right? and um you know i’m thinking i’m going down a path and suddenly yuh know that little seed grows into like a small tree right? and um yuh know a branch grows from that tree and then there’s yuh know three branches from that and then five from that and then yuh know suddenly there’s all these little bushes popping up next to this tree. what? i don’t plant those where the fuck did those come from?? and suddenly this little garden, it just shoots up to the size of redwoods. and this just happens everytime it just gets bigger and more complex whenever i look at anything liek that jacket you have on. i can tell just by looking at it that it was made in a small textile factory in the district of dhaka in bangladesh. I can tell that you resent the fact they took the cost of it out of your paycheck even thought that’s standard is sure for the entire department. that’s evident in how infrequently you wear it. there’s no wear in the zippers, there no pulling in the armpits. it’s also too big for you which means you dint care enough to ask for a replacement and you’ve recently also lost a lot of weight, probably due to some psychological insecurity that we don’t have time to get into now. And all that and more is going through my head! And i know all that just by looking at it! and suddenly there’s a whole national forest in my head trying to burst through my skull and do you know how insane that feels? ***phat bong rip***
I have a sneaking suspicion that at least one writer was a gifted student with ADHD who ended up with anxiety from the fast moving branching thoughts, self medicated, them started using theatre as a coping mechanism. Totally not speaking from experience btw. Just a thought 😇
Tbh, I kinda relate to Esther, not as extreme and destructive, but I have experienced how gradually harder it gets to manage a very analytical brain as you grow up (from child to adult, I mean). As a kid, you have fun with your imagination. As a tween, you start to overthink about life and your childhood traumas. As a late teenager, you start to turn every mildly complex issue into an entire crisis that makes you cry and bang your head against your bathroom door. The real issue, self-loathing, was already there, but with time it gets harder to distract yourself from it, it comes to haunt you in such complex ways you don't even recognise it.
Yes!!! I saw Lauren retweet a group of people doing this monologue and thought that it was about ADHD so I wanted to watch the whole show. I've seen all of StarKid's shows but had never seen any of TCB besides Spies are Forever and Im super happy I've been watching more. But !!! I'm glad I saw this comment because when I first heard the monologue it made me so happy because the tree analogy is so dead on. Like, I want to show it to people and be like: see this is how my brain works minus the drugs and detective skills!
I've been looking for monologues for auditions for theatre school and I'd love to do this one by Esther when you talks about her thoughts being like a seed. The only thing I'm worried about is if this play would count as a published play to use for my contemporary monologue. If anyone who understands what I mean I would love some advice, I'll be auditioning to start university next year in England.
Ok Lauren is absolutely phenomenal in the portrayal of this character, but aside from the comedy gold in all seriousness, when I first watched this all I could think about was how depressing this is. I mean to have so much information running through your head all the time, to the point where all you can do is take buttloads of drugs to numb it all and stay relatively sane and content? Maybe not this exact scenario, but medically I'm sure this is a legitimate problem people suffer through and it must completely ruin lives. Lauren does a great job handling the character though.
By far my favourite part. I love Lauren - she is AMAZING!!! I regularly watch the entire thing just to see this part. Her monologue is brilliant, as is her miming! ❤❤❤
Uuuh Lauren looking good. This is the best thing I've ever seen. You are an amazing, awsome, brilliant and wonderful actress!!! And you can talk fucking fast!😂❤️
That tree monologue hit too close to home... except my rambling thoughts are just nonsense and if anyone could ever read a summary of what goes on in my head they’d think i was insane lmao
only joey richter and lauren lopez could pull off the turnaround of "you were the one who invited us into the squad in the first place. you know what i think?" "probably"
Yeah. Most adult interpretations of the scooby gang make Velma a super smart detective or a genius scientist and Shaggy a drug addict. It's funny that they reversed that idea here with Scrags and Esther
I can relate to that forest so much man. I have very intense obsessive compulsive disorder and though im definitely not as smart as her, im far too observant and obsessive for my own sanity. Lauren is a gift😂
Just from this episode, the musical has deconstructed "The smart one with amazing problem solving" pretty well, while it is a pretty good problem to have, it must be exhausting to immediately take in so much information just by looking at something. With Ester's brain processing so much information at once all the time, she probably gets headaches every 5 minutes or so, and that might just be the best case scenario. So she turned to substances and drugs to turn her brain power down, even turning to freaking HORSE TRANQUILIZERS!
3:40 Esther: Yeah, well, you know what wasn't rad? My neurons. They were firing faster than they ever should for a middle-schooler and, I mean, over the years, my powers of observation and deduction and problem-solving have only grown! Exponentially! It's like - It's like this little seed of information plants itself in my head, right? And, um, you know I'm thinking and I'm going down a path and, suddenly, you know that little seed grows into, like, a small tree. Right? And, um, you know a branch grows from that tree and then there's, you know, three branches from that and then five from that and then you kn-Suddenly, there's all these little bushes popping up next to the tree. What!? I didn't plant those! Where the fuck did those come from!? And, suddenly, this little garden, it just shoots up to the size of redwoods and this happens every time. It just gets bigger and more complex whenever | look at anything! Like, that jacket you have on. I can tell just by looking at it that it was made in a small textile factory in the district of Dhaka in Bangladesh. I can tell you resent the fact they took the cost of it out of your paycheck even though that's standard issue for the entire department. That's evident in how infrequently you wear it. There's no wear on the zipper, there's no pilling in the armpits. It's also too big for you, which means you don't care enough to ask for a replacement. You've also recently lost a lot of weight, probably due to some psychological insecurity that we don't have time to get into now and all of that and more is going through my head. And I know all of that just by looking at it and suddenly, there's a whole national forest in my head trying to burst through my skull! And do you know how insane that feels!?
We never saw Esther mine taking the belt off her arm so I'd like to think she just spent the rest of the adventure with no feeling in her left arm
Yes.
They totally did lmao
It's so funny how Lauren sets up this beautiful space work and then Joey walks through her fridge
And then you remember the moment when Ron opened the door in AVPS
@@Maisymous and hermione just ran in
hi, it’s been a year since you commented that, BUT the fact that he walked through her refrigerator makes the “a home with a refrigerator” line a lot funnier.
I always thought her fudge was angled a little more to the right if that makes sense
Well she also walks through her fridge as well soooo
I love how Keith, Gwen and Esther all have different ideas of what agency Scrags is with
I love how slowly Scrags wears more and more FBI clothing in the hopes they figure it out for themselves.
DarkRose omg I just went back and watched everything and you're so right that's hilarious!
omg youre right cause esther thought that he was dea, gwen thought he was from a talent agency, and keith thought he was a police officer
I love that Scraggs is so proud of his job that he hasn't learned no to subtlely imply that.
DarkRose And when he visits Esther he even gestures to the logo on both his hat and jacket lol
I love the little detail that she’s the only one that recognizes him as Scraggs right away
and STILL doesn't realize Scraggs is FBI lol
I love how she does three different drugs within five minutes of waking up
Lauren’s little brain forest metaphor kinda reminds me of how she played the son from The Trail to Oregon, particularly the part where she explained what she does when she comes across a new object
Yep
crrrrraAAAAAAAAPPPhooooole yeah thats mmeeeeeee IM 7 AND IM MAAAAALLLLLLLLE
Love how it's explaining the exact opposite idea with the same vibe lmao. Craphole's the dumbest kid, and Esther's the smartest human in the multiverse
It goes straight in her mouth and if it doesn’t try to jump out it went right down the hatch. 😅
" it's fine. It's fine..... I'm addicted to drugs " the best
"I'm better now, I'm drunk" :-D
@@hanakoakamoto8919 ?
I love how she can read him for filth based on tiny clues, but also missed the huge "FBI" on his jacket until he pointed it out to her
Well, to be fair, she just did a LOT of drugs and is probably extremely paranoid about being found out.
@@ratboi7898I also think it's because she is near sighted, because she could see the small little details but not the big FBI patch on his jacket
"you know what I think?" "probably,"
My favorite line
My favorite is “Yeah, that was implied”
Someone better gif the really long line of cocaine
I NEED to make a transcript of Lauren's/Esther's spiel about the forest & the jacket. Perfect monologue for auditions...
QueenDiscombra she has another HUGE monologue at the very end!!!
The end one is incredible
I used that monologue for an audition and I got called back-- 10/10 recommend
Lauren Stadt what line did you start with?
@@laurenstadt9318 where did you find the transcript for it? I tried looking and I can't find it anywhere!
Esther is the purest bean, I love her so much.
I also love how she is literally doing heroin, but has to say sugar instead of shit.
Amazing.
Contrast this with Lauren's role as Cynthia in SAF
@@icannotchoose lol tbh
I just want her
To get hELP?
And be hApPY?
Cuz like drugs are seriously dangerous and I don't want her to get hurt??
Ayah13 *omg who are u and y are u every where* but Yh ;-;
@@weirdhuman1703 who are you and why are you everywhere
i'm convinced lauren lopez can do anything
Facts
Steal my heart
@@m1amagnolia that's probably because she can
She's a Red Vine, what the hell can't she do?
She is the firebringerrrrr
i know this is a comedy but that metaphor that esther gives about seeds of information and a giant forest kinda hit home for me--i get something similar (not literally) when my anxiety flares up. with me, i misinterpret body language and what people are saying, but yeah, one little thing someone says just makes my brain spiral out of control.
Oh my god I just noticed that it’s so accurate to anxiety
Yup it’s almost exactly how I described anxiety to my therapists and psychologists. My creativity and logic skills work the exact same too, though I don’t have the observation skills tho cause I get lost in the brain trees. I just stare off into space until someone snaps me out of it.
Tell me about it. I realize how behind I am on taking my anxiety meds and just had the worst dream about everyone rejecting me off of one person not answering my text (in real life) right away. Just put me in a terrible mood as soon as I woke up.
@@micahwilliams1332 oh my god i do that too. Same thing with sensory overload, when i get overstimulated, the way it just suddenly builds up and caves in on you is super accurate.
Bridget Nagle It sometimes happens so slowly you don’t notice at first
I love how scrags has to wear more FBI clothes gradually to let the members know what agency he’s in but they still don’t get it lol
Esther is reminding me of Sherlock lol
+Grace Bell 🕵️♀️
@@tincanbros i can't tell really, but it looks like a trash bin with some bags around it
Exactly what I thought, right down to the drugs addict thing
I would watch Lauren play Sherlock any day :)
I like how Esther is able to observe that his jacket was made in a small textile factory in the district of Dhaka in Bangladesh and the fact that Scrags resents the fact that the cost of the jacket was taken out of his paycheck even though that's standard issue for the entire department, and this resentment is evident in how infrequently he wears it which is clear from the lack of wear on the zippers as well as no pilling in the armpits. His resentment is also clear in the fact that the jacket is too big for him, which means he doesn't care enough to ask for a replacement and it means transitively that he's recently lost a lot of weight probably due to some psychological insecurity we don't have time to get into right now.
..... yet....... she couldn't observe that he was FBI when he entered the room.
So basically Esther is Sherlock during a relapse
Esther is every person with any neuropsyciatric disorder ever who got called "gifted" when they were 11 and is now trying to function like a normal person but instead turned to heavy drug abuse as a form of selfmedicating. I'm not Esther yet but I could become her and it scares me.
Same
Same also I'm severely nearsighted so I guess I need to see if I get high in junior year hopefully not
same!! like i dont smoke pot yet the who know the night is still young
Same. For a while i had to stop taking my ADHD medication because it was causing me to have the metaphorical Redwood Forrest Everytime i thought about something. My ADHD medication (now with a proper dosage) acts as a boost. I'm extremely smart, but without my medication you can't really tell. With it, it's almost scary. I was called gifted as a kid, and it was quite damaging.
@@kiki8792this is why the “gifted” program should be phased out. No kid deserves to be compared to others.
Whoa, Robert Manion was the set designer for SiSR!! That’s crazy!!
the pure talent!!
:(
...now I can't get the idea that the reason Draco rolled around so much is because he was high...
EllerSolsikke lol. Thanks, didn't notice that!
Oh shit...probably
This actually works with Lauren's stated reason why she did that. She said he was always trying to strike cool poses but would loose his balance and then try to be like "Yeah, I meant to do that". But he didn't loose his balance because he's uncoordinated, it's cause he was on wizard drugs!
Malfoy you Little shit, love your name
the diaper! lsd makes you shit!
I love how impressed Joey looks at Lauren’s “home with a refrigerator”
This has the:
"F you" of emma
Explanation of craphole
Smugness of zazzalil
And the high of... well i cant think of any other drug related characters
The one girl in the smoke club in TGWDLM
And the rolling on the floor of Draco
And Cynthia's wig
High of draco
That little shit definitely does meth
Joey and Lauren scenes together are always my favorites💕
Mine too!!
Can you believe they’re married now
Captions: *Audience thinks this is Hilarious (it is)*
Time stamp?
6:00 a girlfriend *with* a boyfriend
Me talking about my unrequited love for Lauren
dogs forever me in general
A girlfriend *with* a fiancé
This is pretty much all of us
@@dracothelittlepuff1526A girlfriend **with** a husband
@@dracothelittlepuff1526a girlfriend with a husband now :)
theory time: scrappy doo is the demonic apostle
not, like, this universe's version of scrappy doo. the actual scrappy doo.
(no explanation, i just really hate scrappy doo.)
the live action scooby doo where they broke up and got back together was pretty much just a set up for turning scrappy into a villain so this is plausible
@@brigidflanagan9585
I loved that movie as a kid.
Esther mentioning she has a girlfriend is great. Also Joey's face throughout this whole part is excellent. And Lauren has a tendency to play characters that roll around the floor
Each time Scrags adds more FBI logos to his outfit, and each time they confuse him with a different agency.
ah yes, Esther backpackblueglasses
Esther Backpackblueglasses TM
This play has opened up my mind to how many different careers 'agent' can mean.
I thought Esther was "severely nearsighted"... Does her super brain overcome her horrible eyesight or does she sleep with contacts in?
they're contacts
Emily Smith yup it's contacts. You'll see that in later parts
When you're as high as her, you don't care about sleeping with contacts on :')
Lauren always plays the best characters!!
molly smith and nails them
Yeah, well, you know what wasn’t rad? My Neurons! They are firing faster than they ever should for a middle-schooler and, you know, over the years my powers of observation and deduction and problem solving have only grown - exponentially! It's like - it's like this little seed of information plants itself in my head, right? And um, you know, I'm thinking and I'm going down a path and suddenly you know, that little seed grows into, like, a small tree, right? And um, you know, a branch grows from that tree. And then there's, you know, three branches from that; and then five from that; and then, you know, suddenly there's all these little bushes popping up next to the tree. What?! I didn't plant those!! Where the fuck did those come from?!! And suddenly, this little garden - it just shoots up to the size of Redwoods! And this happens every time - it just gets bigger and more complex, whenever I look at anything, like that jacket you have on.
I can tell just by looking at it that it was made in a small textile factory in the district of Dhaka in Bangladesh. I can tell that you resent the fact they took cost of it out of your paycheck, even though that's standard issue for the entire department. That's evident in how infrequently you wear it - there's no wear on the zippers; there's no pilling in the armpits. It's also too big for you. Which means you don't care enough to ask for a replacement and you've also recently lost a lot of weight - probably due to some psychological insecurity that we don't have time to get into now. AND ALL THAT and more is going through my head! And I know all of that just by looking at it! And suddenly, there's a whole national forest in my head, trying to burst through my skull, and do you know how INSANE THAT FEELS?!?!
What the Queen Lauren Lopez of pigfarts on mars
Glad I'm not the only one who recognised this is a great monologue on its own.
OH MY GOD THANK YOU
I'm just wondering... How many of these sound effects were in the actual performance and how many were added on for the video? If they were all used in performance, then as a fellow techie I take my hat off to the impeccable timing.
Lizzie Lee they were all done live by our killer SM Jeanne!
Tin Can Brothers I take my hat off. Incredible.
Hats off to your SM. From a fellow SM
When I saw the show in New York, the sounds were all live and they were so amazing and well timed
Esther explains my overthinking and anxiety perfectly
i love how when scraggs first went to keith he didn’t have any fbi paraphernalia on but just kept adding stuff every visit because people weren’t realising he was in the FBI
The song choice at the beginning is effing hilarious because it suggests that this is her average morning routine and she does this every day.
I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't waiting the most eagerly for this part. LOL!!
Same
I can’t get over how spot on both of their accents, voice changes and mannerisms are for these two characters. Seriously, hats off🙌
"It's fine I'm addicted to drugs"
😂😂😂
In Black Friday, people are killed for dolls
Esther kinda looks like Spinelli from Recess. I think Esther is my favorite progression of a character. Everyone else kind of stays the same. I like the big leap.
My fave too. At first I was like “Ooh this is little Velma?” But then I realized - of course. How else would Velma end up?
Sean McMurphy addicted to drugs
I just can't get enough of this scene with the brain forest. Her comedic timing is flawless, it's just a joy to watch.
IM ONLY 35 SECONDS IN AND ITS ALREADY THE BEST THING IVE EVER SEEN. THANK YOU
OKAY I FINISHED IT AND MY STATEMENT STILL STANDS!
SAME I bought the digital download so I've already seen the whole thing like 20 times but I keep rewatching this scene because it's TOTALLY AWESOME!!!
IS IT LIKE SUPER GOOD? y'know what, dumb question. it probably is.
Mary is this you? Lieutenanttaz?😅
Esther is a great description of an over gifted kid.
I'm not quite sure why, but I keep watching this scene over and over again and it still hasn't gotten old. 😋
hey i know it's not really alluded to in the show, but thank you so much for making esther not straight guys, it means a lot!!!
She has a girlfriend with a boyfriend and she is happy
Fay Kitnightly but she could have said "I have a boyfriend with a girlfriend" and that's the same joke. So like....
They have so many
Alice
Everyone in firebringer
@@purplecatloverrandompizza *Everyone in Firebringer*
@@purplecatloverrandompizza Those are both starkid productions, diff company, a lot of the same actors though
If these episodes keep cracking me up this bad I'll have killer abs by the time the series is finished
+ella kairel 💪
(4:01) Esther- it’s like it’s like this little seed of information plants it self into my head right? and um you know i’m thinking i’m going down a path and suddenly yuh know that little seed grows into like a small tree right? and um yuh know a branch grows from that tree and then there’s yuh know three branches from that and then five from that and then yuh know suddenly there’s all these little bushes popping up next to this tree. what? i don’t plant those where the fuck did those come from?? and suddenly this little garden, it just shoots up to the size of redwoods. and this just happens everytime it just gets bigger and more complex whenever i look at anything liek that jacket you have on. i can tell just by looking at it that it was made in a small textile factory in the district of dhaka in bangladesh. I can tell that you resent the fact they took the cost of it out of your paycheck even thought that’s standard is sure for the entire department. that’s evident in how infrequently you wear it. there’s no wear in the zippers, there no pulling in the armpits. it’s also too big for you which means you dint care enough to ask for a replacement and you’ve recently also lost a lot of weight, probably due to some psychological insecurity that we don’t have time to get into now. And all that and more is going through my head! And i know all that just by looking at it! and suddenly there’s a whole national forest in my head trying to burst through my skull and do you know how insane that feels? ***phat bong rip***
dedication
“Audience finds this hilarious. It is.”
God who’s writing the captions
Definitely Joey, Brian and Corey themselves
The real question is: who is Esther’s girlfriend with a boyfriend
I hope its Gwen lol
G w e n
we stan a poly queen
But hear me out: H e r m i o n e
I have a sneaking suspicion that at least one writer was a gifted student with ADHD who ended up with anxiety from the fast moving branching thoughts, self medicated, them started using theatre as a coping mechanism.
Totally not speaking from experience btw. Just a thought 😇
I'm in tears! This is freaking hilarious, love Lauren so much!
I love that in the time it took me to watch this it got 200 more views and 16 more comments
I love Scrags' face during Esther's tree/forest monologue
Shes brilliant! both character and actress , I can watch Ms Lauren Lopez for days
Tbh, I kinda relate to Esther, not as extreme and destructive, but I have experienced how gradually harder it gets to manage a very analytical brain as you grow up (from child to adult, I mean). As a kid, you have fun with your imagination. As a tween, you start to overthink about life and your childhood traumas. As a late teenager, you start to turn every mildly complex issue into an entire crisis that makes you cry and bang your head against your bathroom door. The real issue, self-loathing, was already there, but with time it gets harder to distract yourself from it, it comes to haunt you in such complex ways you don't even recognise it.
i don't know why but at 2:00 when esther's hat does that little flop it cracks me up
im 100% sure she has AD(H)D man bc the way she describes her mind working is spot on!! this is such an amazing series u guys r awesome!
Yes!!! I saw Lauren retweet a group of people doing this monologue and thought that it was about ADHD so I wanted to watch the whole show. I've seen all of StarKid's shows but had never seen any of TCB besides Spies are Forever and Im super happy I've been watching more. But !!! I'm glad I saw this comment because when I first heard the monologue it made me so happy because the tree analogy is so dead on. Like, I want to show it to people and be like: see this is how my brain works minus the drugs and detective skills!
Pretty much exactly what ADHD feels like except none of us are that smart.
Lauren’s acting is simply brilliant she is phenomenal and I love her
Only Lauren can turn taking an insane amount of drugs into a groovy dance number.
Just wait for Esther’s drug fueled song & dance routine in How the Grunch Cribbed Christmas🤪
Surprisingly faithful look at Neurodivergent Gifted Kid Burnout
I've been looking for monologues for auditions for theatre school and I'd love to do this one by Esther when you talks about her thoughts being like a seed. The only thing I'm worried about is if this play would count as a published play to use for my contemporary monologue. If anyone who understands what I mean I would love some advice, I'll be auditioning to start university next year in England.
Lauren Lopez you are amazing. Acting, fast talking, pantomiming and singing even though that‘s not in the show a lot!!!❤️
i never knew that i needed lauren lopez miming doing drugs to the song “ants marching” but here we are
i just noticed that after each visit, scrags puts on another thing that says FBI cause they keep getting the agency wrong
It’s cool how much thought they put in
this is my favourite scene from the entire show ngl
Ok Lauren is absolutely phenomenal in the portrayal of this character, but aside from the comedy gold in all seriousness, when I first watched this all I could think about was how depressing this is. I mean to have so much information running through your head all the time, to the point where all you can do is take buttloads of drugs to numb it all and stay relatively sane and content? Maybe not this exact scenario, but medically I'm sure this is a legitimate problem people suffer through and it must completely ruin lives. Lauren does a great job handling the character though.
It's why a lot of "gifted" people like child geniuses go off the rails later in life, the stress and pressure is too much to deal with
By far my favourite part. I love Lauren - she is AMAZING!!! I regularly watch the entire thing just to see this part. Her monologue is brilliant, as is her miming! ❤❤❤
Between Sherlock and Esther, I think 50% of drugs are used by intensely smart detectives
Uuuh Lauren looking good. This is the best thing I've ever seen. You are an amazing, awsome, brilliant and wonderful actress!!! And you can talk fucking fast!😂❤️
Now I know why Sherlock is a drug addict...
Eternal love for the people doing the sound effects etc. in this show. Utter. Perfection.
Lauren youre such an awesome actress!!!
This song plays at work sometimes and this is all I can think about
This is fantastic. Such amazing comedic timing.
That tree monologue hit too close to home... except my rambling thoughts are just nonsense and if anyone could ever read a summary of what goes on in my head they’d think i was insane lmao
Oh dear Lord. Esther' a female version of Sherlock. XD
Now I want to see Sherlock as a sample person at Costco.
Best scene in the show!! Which is saying something considering how great every scene is :)
this series is so good, from the tech timing to the writing and acting honestly brillient.
only joey richter and lauren lopez could pull off the turnaround of "you were the one who invited us into the squad in the first place. you know what i think?" "probably"
I love how they reversed the normal idea of what Shaggy and Velma would grow up into...
Yeah. Most adult interpretations of the scooby gang make Velma a super smart detective or a genius scientist and Shaggy a drug addict. It's funny that they reversed that idea here with Scrags and Esther
At first I was like, why do I ship it?
Then I realized...oh yea...its joey and lauren
The fact that Scrags was the high one in his youth and now he’s the only one well off😂
“Traded one high for another high.
*D R UGS* “
What a line to end off with
this is richpez on a new level
Lauren is SO GOOD at physical comedy
I can relate to that forest so much man. I have very intense obsessive compulsive disorder and though im definitely not as smart as her, im far too observant and obsessive for my own sanity. Lauren is a gift😂
Ok, I'm stealing the forest metaphor to explain my ADD. That's honest to god how it feels.
ADHD person here, and i can vouch!
This is one of the few things getting me through quarantine right now
Oh my god they're getting married
Just from this episode, the musical has deconstructed "The smart one with amazing problem solving" pretty well, while it is a pretty good problem to have, it must be exhausting to immediately take in so much information just by looking at something. With Ester's brain processing so much information at once all the time, she probably gets headaches every 5 minutes or so, and that might just be the best case scenario. So she turned to substances and drugs to turn her brain power down, even turning to freaking HORSE TRANQUILIZERS!
7:18 me: oh cool I wonder how they’re gonna switch it out
7:25 me: oh
Oh my god that pantomiming is absolutely breathtaking. A plus
Lauren is an incredible actress
I CANT STOP WATCHING IT
emily lafrance It's become my night AND morning routine 😂😂
jj_fantabulous same
emily lafrance I feel like I'm half of the views 😂😂
Geez she really just went and did a Rubik's cube in 4 seconds okay
-I thought my record of 1 minute and 18- -seconds was good-
Of course Lauren steals the show! xD and _> I ship it.
Ah mood.
esther: a girlfriend WITH a boyfriend
me, crying: *fucking superb you funky little lesbian*
3:40 Esther: Yeah, well, you know what wasn't rad?
My neurons. They were firing faster than they ever should for a middle-schooler and, I mean,
over the years, my powers of observation and deduction and problem-solving have only grown!
Exponentially!
It's like - It's like this little seed of
information plants itself in my head, right? And,
um, you know I'm thinking and I'm going down
a path and, suddenly, you know that little seed
grows into, like, a small tree. Right? And, um, you
know a branch grows from that tree and then
there's, you know, three branches from that and
then five from that and then you kn-Suddenly,
there's all these little bushes popping up next
to the tree. What!? I didn't plant those! Where
the fuck did those come from!?
And, suddenly, this little garden, it just shoots up to the size of redwoods and this happens every time. It just gets bigger and more complex whenever | look at anything! Like, that jacket you have on.
I can tell just by looking at it that it was made
in a small textile factory in the district of Dhaka
in Bangladesh. I can tell you resent the fact
they took the cost of it out of your paycheck
even though that's standard issue for the entire
department. That's evident in how infrequently
you wear it. There's no wear on the zipper, there's
no pilling in the armpits. It's also too big for you,
which means you don't care enough to ask for
a replacement. You've also recently lost a lot
of weight, probably due to some psychological
insecurity that we don't have time to get into now
and all of that and more is going through my
head.
And I know all of that just by looking at it
and suddenly, there's a whole national forest in
my head trying to burst through my skull! And do
you know how insane that feels!?