I always listen to this video in the background or to sleep so I’ve never actually watched some parts - I always thought that last clip was actually Damon LOL
Okay I hate the show seriously No offense or disrespect to the good lady here , but I must say she’s work pretty neat And **THIS** comment is the best!
Polycule is more than three people. It's a full tree of people who are connected through someone dating someone else. To be part of the polycule , you only have to date a single person.@@JinStreams
the clip compilation of Bonnie and Damon aggressively calling each other best friends was hilarious. it’s like the characters are trying to act like they aren’t together and are failing miserably at convincing anyone
Yeah it totally just sounds like they're trying to convince themselves sometimes lmao. Expecting them to slam together and make out after saying hey bestie
This show has some of the most “kids on the playground” energy ive ever heard of. “My vampire is stealing your vampires’s girlfriend.” “Oh yeah? Well my vampire just turned into a werewolf so he can kill your vampire” “No, my vampire was wearing the no-murder necklace made by the witch from high school.” “Well that witch just decided to give my werewolf vampire a switch that lets them be evil, so they can get rid of your vampire’s necklace.” “Nuh uh, the evil mermaids just kidnapped your witch.” **THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN TO THE FRONT LINES-** “No, the local pta poisoned the water supply so now your mermaids are dying, thus freeing the witch.” “Well, what if the mermaids were just a ruse so that my SUPER vampires could sneak into town while your PTA wasnt looking.” “Well now your vampire was betrayed by the super vampires.” So on and so forth.
I would love to see just once a vampire romance where the teenage main girl asks the vampire how long he's been 17 and he replies "30 years" and it gets awkward as she realizes she's just dating a young looking middle aged man.
The thing is, the human wouldn't mind because she would get a mature guy in a young body. Perfect! But the vampire would get bored very quickly with an immature human. That's why the relationship wouldn't last.
I was so young when I watched this show and I remember my sister was more into if so watched much longer than me and she was telling me the whole Bonnie's gay dad plot and I just responded "she's still alive?". I feel like that is one thing I will give vampire diaries credit for (even if they may have not meant to) they set Bonnie up as a character that is typically killed off quickly die and subverted that
i always thought of her as the kinda shadow main character. I liked Elena fine but Caroline was easily my favourite. Elena was a blank slate for the fans to project on but Caroline was the person who seemed to have the most actual story, development and progression.
Bro never watched the show, but I find this video comforting as hell so I probably go back to it every few months. And I literally get emo every time over it 😂 🐦⬛
"Chill myself?" "What is that stoner talk?" This show deserves an Emmy. Whatever they're paying the 80 year old man who wrote that line, it isn't enough.
@@PanAndScanBuddy If I was an 800 year old vampire writing for a tv show about vampires I too would be bad at my job, on purpose. For my own amusement.
She leaves out the part where Bonnie is trapped alone in a prison world and eventually driven to suicide. The writers basically used her as a human punching bag.
But they always went running to her when things hit the fan. It was so crazy how when Elena lost her brother she was allowed to grieve and push it aside in such a horrible way doing bad things to people but when Bonnie lost her grams she had to help them out straight away and that happened anytime she was going through something.
@@allegraanegra455 Bonnie suffers and swallows so much. She is the true tragic hero. How she put up with the lot calling themselves her friends is beyond me. Me in her place? I would have turned them into toads at some point. Elena, my oh my..... No matter who or how or what Rebekka is/was, Elenas murder of her was pure evil.
I'm not implying anything,, but I feel like the storyline of the one main BIPOC character in these 2000s-early 2010s shows always has a relatively simple story.
Honestly the whole "people will notice they're not aging" thing only works if you stay in the same place for like, 15+ years? Plenty of time to raise a child. You can just say you have a good skincare routine. It's so weird when vampire media has them moving like, every other year because "people noticed I wasn't aging" like dude it's been A YEAR and age is a GRADUAL CHANGE that is VERY HARD TO NOTICE AS IT HAPPENS
Like even if they're suspicious what are they gonna do about it lol if you live anywhere but this one racist town in virginia that believes in vampires no one would even think of calling you one
Everyone keeps talking about how Tom Cruise or whoever hasn't aged, they don't start taking about burning him at the stake. Maybe they just got bored of making up bullshit skincare routines.
If we're generous and assume that they actually look 17 in-universe and are pretending to be 17 then sure, but why would you? Say you're graduated and just look young. Going to school for the rest of your life is a hell of a disturbing lifestyle choice, come to think of it.
As someone with ADHD, whenever a series includes mind control, I always wonder if I could, for example, just pay a vampire to compel me to study for exams or get started on projects. If yes, they can just take my blood in exchange for never needing medication again, I'll probably forget anyway. If not, it's very funny to imagine a vampire getting frustrated because they keep trying to compel me to do their dirty work and I keep insisting I'll get around to it but they didn't explain it very well and I got nervous about screwing up and started procrastinating.
OMFG I THINK THIS ALL THE TIME LMAO and also I'm a recovering addict and I used to imagine what if they just compelled me to not be an addict anymore pls :'(
Small towns might have them more. I went to high school in a small town that had them so often that we didn’t usually bother dressing up for most of them, only we have to call them “parties” since calling them “dances” was too sexual. Yeah. One of those towns.
like the top reply, it's definitely a lot more with the south in the US. dances are a big deal, ask any Texan about their school prom. I'm from Chicago and they're really not a big deal up here, it's just a red state thing ig
"Your existential dread was right Elena, the things that matter to you emotionally and brought you joy, ARE trivial in the face of giant, world ending problems that plague you constantly." My therapist after my card declines:
Caroline singing “Let us goooooooo” is nearly indistinguishable from the frozen song and it was incredibly jarring for it to reveal itself as NOT a frozen rendition
The whole "a vampire can't go into a house without being invited' thing, would have done Bella some good, with Edward coming into her room and watching her sleep
True Blood also used this piece of lore and I enjoyed that. Especially when people would have to say the line "I rescind my invitation" as angrily and dramatically as possible, and then the vampire would involuntarily run out of the house at Flash speed. Also, it's funny that they deliberately threw out other very common pieces of vampire lore - garlic doesn't affect them, crosses don't affect them, I think you can still see them in mirrors IIRC, etc. - yet kept THAT, of all things.
@@doubletrouble5448 true, but Friendly Space Ninja points out a tiny gem: vampires no longer age, physically _or_ mentally, after they've been turned. Imagine being 17 and thinking like you're 17 for the rest of forever. I remember being 17. I hope no-one else remembers me being 17. 😬🥴😅
I wish pizza vampire wasn't invited in and he just kept going on to be the pizza guy full time until a couple seasons later when pizza is ordered at that house again
I'm so glad she dug into that. I remember thinking how unrealistic that scene was as I watched it, but I never really thought through all the planning and stalking and pizza-guy killing and then delivery of the actual pizza that this villain went through to even get to the point where Jeremy would unrealistically invite him in. Hilarious. Also, of course it was Jeremy who would do that.
@@rhonab6698 I think that was just something we did in the early 2000s. I'm suddenly remembering it from Charmed and Bones and all kinds of shows. I didn't question it at the time of fan-made music video tributes.
Purely liking for the transition from Bonnie saying "this year is gonna be kickass" to Elena having multiple mental breakdowns and witnessing the deaths of EVERYONE she loves....magical
@@HIDAN228 I thought that thats what they were going for. Like the constant talk of 'I can't change who i am' and The torture that literally mirrors conversion therapy
I wished you had talked about how every vampire murder is just written off as a cougar/bear attack. My friend and I joked about a 'lost episode' where the National Wildlife Federation comes to Mystic Falls to investigate why they have a 50,000% higher wildlife-related death rate compared to every county in the entire world. Damon would fake alliance with them, and Bonnie would make up a new ability to save the day, of course.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer does a similar thing where supernatural deaths are written off as either "feral dogs" or "gangs on PCP". Why the feds haven't rolled into town to stop the PCP gang murdering at least four people a week is anyone's guess.
The wonderful thing about Jenny's multi-hour video era is how rewatchable it is. There are gems that I've missed on previous viewings, like what stood out to me this time: "So it won't work if you're hit by a bus, but it WILL work if a vampire's driving the bus."
"He goes from indiscriminately killing supporting characters to making soulful pencil-drawings of his favourite horse" is the kind of character development all villains should have.
Klaus's character arc: 1) Indiscriminately killing supporting characters 2) Draws a horse for Caroline 3) Indiscriminately killing supporting characters 4) Opts to not kill Caroline's boyfriend 5) +1 Daughter 6) Opts to not help Damon torture a dying woman 7) Indiscriminately killing supporting characters but this time it's on The Originals 8) Therapist girlfriend dies 9) Fun father-daughter bonding over finger paints and murder 10) Dies
@@Frannie2199 I don't think I can handle the moral responsibility of making this suggestion its own comment, thereby pressuring Jenny to actually sit through China Beach. I couldn't do that to a person.
The long-awaited Vampire Diaries/China Beach crossover: "I'm gay, and your brother" "In Iowa you're my brother; here you could be just another spent shell"
Both Ian Somerhalder and Kat Graham have said in interviews that they repeatedly asked writers and producers to allow Damon and Bonnie to have an endgame romantic relationship. Of course they were always denied.
I disagree. they had an amazing friendship and such good friend chemistry. it would also be annoying if everyone dated everyone like guys and girls can't just be friends
After discovering Jenny's review of the Star Wars hotel, I've started bingeing her other stuff. It's fecking genius. I'm stunned no one is hiring her as a contractor to sort out their story issues.
This was my reaction after seeing her hypothetical frozen sequel and reboot of my little pony, and that critique of the star wars dolls. Someone needs to be listening to her, they could make their shit so much better
I actually love that. It feels like the sort of specific wording that a genie could get behind. The magic works if you're killed by a supernatural being, it's that simple
@@thrownstair omg thank you for that! I've been arguing the same thing for a long time but never knew how to phrase it properly, that video did it very well and I'll be referring to it going forward!
I do believe that that there are certain occasions when an author can be excused for writing "a dumb thing" because they genuinly wrote themselves into a corner and thus had to contribe their way out it. So its less "they want it to be that way" and more "it had to be that way bcause they didnt plan in right"... or simply they didnt thought of a better way. Which, in escence yields the same result so its a bit of a wash
My favorite "Being Bonnie is a thankless job" moment is in season one, when Elena and Bonnie are kidnapped, and while the baddies let Elena lounge on the bed in the motel room, Bonnie is stuffed in the bathtub.
Or that time on season two when she "died" and had to hang on the truck of Daemon's car for who knows how long pretending to be dead, like... yikes lmao
@@Courtney_BlakeIt was episode 18 “the last dance” I don’t actually remember this episode lol, but the wiki says “Bonnie fakes her death in order to protect Elena. Damon was the only one aware of Bonnie's plan to fake her death, both because the others would have objected if they found out the truth, and because they needed everyone to believe it in order to properly convince Klaus that she was really dead.”
@@moni-in-mini7471 Thank you! You're right lmao it was when Klaus came to town in an "Alaric suit" & Bonnie fought him off at the decade dance. She had to pretend to be dead lol!
Have I ever seen The Vampire Diaries? No Am I going to watch this entire video? Yes, absolutely, unquestionably EDIT: the reason I commented this four days ago and the video is only a few hours old is that it has been up for Patreons since then :)
I know nothing about this topic, was actively put off by vampires for years during the craze, and am invested a massive sized helping of 0% into this story, and it's characters but I will nod along in agreement the entire time
my main issue with tyler that's caused me to forever side eye him was when he brought that black girl he met at a party to the SLAVE HOLDINGS UNDER HIS FAMILY HOME, told her they were slave holdings, attempted to get frisky with her in that place and then proceeded to get confused and frustrated when she ran away.... he was lucky she didn't sock him in the face.
Bonnie was the best character wdym?? The fact that she was so powerful and sacrificed her happiness and literal LIFE every time was so heartbreaking. Kat played her so well and her emotions were so raw.
They did almost every poc dirty, tyler technically isn't poc for some reason, but Michael Trevino was done dirty, same with Marcel in the originals and so on
@@harshasewlani5312 yeah, definitely my biggest qualm with the show is the lack of representation and when POC and LGBTQ+ characters were introduced they always got the short end of the stick :/
“Take naps. Get a boyfriend. Your boyfriend is the devil. Better the devil than single am I right ladies?” Jenny this video is a masterpiece you deserve an Oscar
Okay but are we pretending that this wouldn't happen in real life? If smooching a dude was all a guy had to do to get better? There's a good portion of guys who would literally rather die
@@donaldhysa4836 she hates on every trans person who isn't as pretty as her. Did you see how she lied about the trans athelete to make her seen terrible and also mocked her looks
This was the best way to say it. I started watching this show recently and I was trying to understand what was happening/going to happen, and I went to the wiki to try to understand... it somehow made it worse!
@@MostlyMom I'm deeply shocked that people are starting to watch this show now -- and yet I am very tempted to continue watching where I left off in the 11th grade
also let’s talk about how bonnie was the personified version of the “strong black woman” stereotype. all the characters constantly relied on her for EVERYTHING and she was so tired but everyone insisted she be constantly strong even tho they’d all be dead without her.
@@Kelekona although i do agree with this, also, a lot of witchcraft was created by black people and so i feel like they tried to be as historically correct as possible by making bonnie and her ancestors black. but i do agree.
@@scarlettrg911 sure though looking at how they dealt with other cultural topics i think your giving them a lot. I never watched the show in full (my sis did so ive seen the odd episode out of context) but i think people are a bit turned off that she had to be relied on for everything AND she didnt get a satisfying ending/story line. From what it sounds like if they had used her character better i dont think people would have mind that she had to help everyone else alot .. you know if they had given her something equally worthwhile to do.
Seems like it would cover a lot of writing pitfalls that come with making vampires superpowered beings with no weaknesses "Why don't the vampires just takeover entire towns/cities/states? There's an international police agency keeping them in line "How come no one knows that vampires are real? There's an international police agency that covers up every incident
nonsensical, painfully melodramatic, questionable and inconsistent writing, trope-filled, refuses to end, and every single character's actor is conventionally good-looking but only 5/10 are actually good at acting bc they aren't just models the producers falsely promised a career to? we love to see it
@@washedblue Same happens with the music world, the reality is that you only need a catching asset and that's enough for an audience, entertainment sadly or not isn't something to get philosophical lectures and deep intel from.
Back in the 1930s-1950s, every Hollywood studio had what was known as its own "house style", because each studio cranked out over 40 movies per year, mostly with the same slate of actors, directors and writers under contract. By the 1960s, the studios mostly distributed independently produced films, so no longer had a distinct house style anymore (except for Disney which was still producing every film in-house in those days). I've seen the modern Hallmark Channel compared to old Hollywood, in that they likewise produce about 40 films per year, all using the same production company, and a slate of recurring actors, and most of the movies have the same style.
Welp. As soon as this masterpiece of a video left my memory loop, I saw, checked out from the library, sitting in my mom’s desk, a copy of…. China beach. And now I’m back.
I often think about Jenny saying that verbena smells like celery that’s mad at you. The first time I heard that, I laughed so hard that I couldn’t breathe.
@@javierlopez9789 I’m a bisexual man, so I almost get ownership of that phrase, but not quite. God could’ve added a little more spice to my sexuality but noooooo now I’ll never get to say it.
Wait... an epilogue of a CW show where a brother dies... and the other grows old with a wife... and then they're reunited in heaven... did Stefan's car go to heaven too?
Its such a shame they didnt explore Bonnie and Damien further, especially since we could have watched Damien grapple with the fact that hes in love with someone completely unrelated to Katherine for for the first time
And it would actually be interesting to see him grapple with how bastardized the politics of the civil war became after the north and south both ran propaganda campaigns.
I just realized that the bit where they played Imagine Dragon's Radioactive at a weirdly loud volume actually synced the deep inhale in the song with the guy siting up and gasping. That's just pure gold.
I've come back to this video countless times, and the best thing is STILL the line: "I'm gay and your BROTHER." the inflection has been burned into my mind permanently.
@@mollygrace3068 it was clearly just a way to mention he's gay and show that, yes they do have gay characters. i don't know if it would've been better to mention he's her brother first too lool prob even weirder to say he's gay then.
i'm rewatching it right now and scrolling through comments and randomly scrolled back up right there and i didn't even notice it wasn't from the show until i saw
@@kitenlovar699 Eh, I mean. I don't think that's always entirely fair, writing dark subject material doesn't necessarily mean you have a fetish. I mean I think GoT does it tastelessly and is overall a bit shit, but the tropes can be done well- and no subject matter should be completely off limits to write about.
@@BE-fw1lr in the case of cassandra clare's Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments though, it did indeed start out as a ron x ginny incest harry potter fic before she edited it into a novel so in her case i think it probably is a fetish of hers
5:48 He played a character named Boone in Lost. In late 2009 my friends and I were extras on an episode of Vampire Diaries. When you're an extra you have to mouth a conversation but not actually say anything, so the entire time we just mouthed "Boone" over and over. "Boone boone. Boone boone boone? Boone, boone boone."
LMAO the flashbacks to Jenna's death scene and Elena yelling "NOOO JENNAAA" every few minutes had me cackling even though I cried watching it the first time 💀
@@tehelaibatehe how close to her was it? I mean like I think she might've been able to move her arms or something from the clip but she was standing like 🚺?
@@averagechannelname9969 it was all around her in a circle cast by a witch. so since she’s a human she would get burned but even if she was a vampire or a supernatural creature she wouldn’t be able to get out of it ( I think I might be wrong )
A bit late but as someone with ADHD. I wouldn't want to be a vampire. I can see myself putting off a meaningless task and being like "Oh yeah I've been trying to do that since the 1500s"
@Agent Bubble i think it’s very perspective heavy. my friend with autism + adhd always tells me (adhd + depression) that my adhd makes me who i am and he likes me the way i am, but i would definitely get rid of it if i could. like okay yes, sometimes if i’m really interested in something, i can do amazing things with my super-concentrative power but it sucks 99% of the time💀i would throw away this smoothbrain shit immediately if i could lmao
@Agent Bubble Part of it comes with learning how to discipline and be yourself w an adhd mind, in mind. It's easy for me to turn some boring tasks into a game or an opportunity to just hangout in my own head. I've also found that people find me kinda interesting, since I naturally have a different way of verbalizing thoughts. Obviously the other sides of those coins is that I can forget to self care when I'm toiling away, and people can also find me very intense. It's all about perspective. It's hard to view it positively all of the time tho 😕
The first time I watched this video was also the day I made beef bourguignon for the first time. It's a meal that takes about three hours to make. I loved the experience so much that now, every January whenever it snows or gets really cold, I make beef bourguignon and watch this same Jenny Nicholson video. This is the fourth year that I've done this, so it's pretty much a tradition at this point. Thanks Jenny!
ok i never watched the vampire diarrhea, but let me tell you that line got me iNtErEsTeD to the point where I would force a friend to watch and make me an unhinged summary #plus1vampirefan
This is the content I crave: people binge watching a series and recounting it for me so I never have to watch it for myself but act like I have and know EVERYTHING
I feel exactly the same about everything like I’ll legit go into moods where all I want to watch is overly long analysis’s of media I’ll never watch/read
Um i literally just meant that I like overly long analysis’s of things not that I then use that information to act like a fan also there are many people jsut under racists like homophobes or transphobes so I don’t really get what ur mad about
@@Web497 And you're a tool, which as a poc, i sometimes i think are almost as bad as racists. Leave us to our overly long show analyses for shows/books we'll never watch
It's a testament to Jenny's storytelling ability that I have never seen this show and have literally no investment in it, but almost jumped out of my chair in excitement when the crow came back.
This video is only 3 years old? I've watched it for 6 years at least by now... Such a good video. Thank you, Jenny, for sharing your hilarious infodumps with us. I've been so productive with this video in the background all pandemic. Entire empires have risen and fallen while I passively become a VPD expert.
I need to put this video essay on a dvd, so that even if sharks chew through the cables that hold the internet, I will always have a way to watch this.
Your comment was a completely wild ride. Also, I would opt for a thumb drive over a DVD. I only have one device that even accepts DVDs and it only plays DVDs when it feels like it.
the "I'm gay AND your brother" line makes me laugh so fucking hard bc it's so obviously written by someone who a) doesn't have siblings and thus has no idea what sibling dynamic's like, and b) has never met an lgbt+ person in their entire life; it's so ridiculously hilarious
@@Prederick Yes! The entire Bonnie section, I followed up every issue with a whispered "it's the racism" to my roommates. That post it reveal at the end was so perfect!
I’d love to see a vampire romance where the vampire tells his lover that she looks exactly like his wife from a century ago and then he shows her a picture of his dead wife and she just looks fucking nothing like her
Lmao, like kind of a Taika Waititi comedy about immortal vampires with shit memory. They act like they're world-weary, wise and have seen everything first-hand but in fact every single smug recounting of historical & personal events are like wildly inaccurate. Show flashes back to the vamps in the 1700s or whatever then cuts to present day where they make the exact same mistakes over again bc none of em can retain a single life lesson over the centuries.
@@amartyakejora5451 honest to god it would even make SENSE! It would play into the "unchangeability" of a vampire as new memories would mean the brain changes
@@Killroy007 I mean that's kind of a theme in Dracula, played straight--the fact that he's learning and changing freaks out the guy who knows about vampires because vampires aren't supposed to be able to do all that, so Drac is a much bigger threat
I love the editing and scripting in this video. I often LISTEN to UA-cam while doing chores so when I hear that girl scream "No, Jenna" or China Beach's theme song comes on makes me laugh which helps in making chores tolerable.
no matter how many times I watch this, the comparison of Damon and Lightning Mqueen's line delivery cracks me the hell up
Can't unhear it 😂
Stop DEFENDING me
I always listen to this video in the background or to sleep so I’ve never actually watched some parts - I always thought that last clip was actually Damon LOL
every time
this was my favourite too 😂😂😂
The girls confessing their love for each other then exploding in a fiery blaze 2 seconds later has me HOWLING
presumably they both go to turbo hell afterwards
@@rampagingFurniture we can only hope, those filthy sinners!!
This show might take the crown from SPN for homophobic gays
NOT Turbo Hell!
thats the kind of representation we want 😤😤😤
THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN TO THE FRONT LINES
AND SHOWED THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR
@@kateb6699 I N T H E M I R R O R O F M Y M I N D
And screaming tweens right behind them
It's like they never heard of M*A*S*H...
Okay I hate the show seriously
No offense or disrespect to the good lady here , but I must say she’s work pretty neat
And **THIS** comment is the best!
You wanted The Devil to be redeemed by dating Bonnie, I wanted Katherine to be redeemed by dating Bonnie, we are at an impasse.
There is a solution. Polycule
Polycule is more than three people. It's a full tree of people who are connected through someone dating someone else. To be part of the polycule , you only have to date a single person.@@JinStreams
Imagine your best friend calling the unexpected death of both of your parents a “blah phase”
"ugh she's still talking about it omg it's been two weeks let it go already"
"ah,you're being such a bitch, I miss when your parents were alive!"
@@secretname3897 Lilly Moscovitz says hi
Imagine your best friend calling the unexpected arrival of vampires in your life a "blah (wait for it) blah phase".
This is so funny to me
the clip compilation of Bonnie and Damon aggressively calling each other best friends was hilarious. it’s like the characters are trying to act like they aren’t together and are failing miserably at convincing anyone
Lol I think th same
I can’t believe we finally got a comprehensive ‘no hetero’ dynamic
Jenna and julien vibes
Literally gal-palling STRAIGHT PEOPLE smh
Yeah it totally just sounds like they're trying to convince themselves sometimes lmao. Expecting them to slam together and make out after saying hey bestie
i love that they're like "i've been 17 for hundreds of years" while looking like they're 33
"I became a vampire when I was 16. Wich is why I always look 16. In those days, of course, life was though for a 16-year-old."
@@tereselindblom6494 Loved that line. WWDITS is a treasure.
If I saw those guys claiming to be 17, I might also ask them "how long have you been 17" but for more catty reasons.
@@pentelegomenon1175 lmfao 😭
@@pentelegomenon1175 lmaoo fr fr
This show has some of the most “kids on the playground” energy ive ever heard of.
“My vampire is stealing your vampires’s girlfriend.”
“Oh yeah? Well my vampire just turned into a werewolf so he can kill your vampire”
“No, my vampire was wearing the no-murder necklace made by the witch from high school.”
“Well that witch just decided to give my werewolf vampire a switch that lets them be evil, so they can get rid of your vampire’s necklace.”
“Nuh uh, the evil mermaids just kidnapped your witch.”
**THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN TO THE FRONT LINES-**
“No, the local pta poisoned the water supply so now your mermaids are dying, thus freeing the witch.”
“Well, what if the mermaids were just a ruse so that my SUPER vampires could sneak into town while your PTA wasnt looking.”
“Well now your vampire was betrayed by the super vampires.”
So on and so forth.
you're so right
When you put it like that that's so charming and endearing though
This is scary accurate
well I brought my DINOSAUR! WHO EATS FORCEFIELD DOGS!!!
@@giordanodsouza9563 it is!!!
scariest thing about this vampire diaries video is never knowing when china beach is going to appear
“Through the mirror of my mind…”
If you've watched it enough times, it becomes less stressful and much more fun to anticipate :P
“THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN TO THE FRONTLINE!!!”
“And dared to show the OTHER side of war”
Not really. It's whenever the clip she's showing is clearly the scene before a commercial break.
I would love to see just once a vampire romance where the teenage main girl asks the vampire how long he's been 17 and he replies "30 years" and it gets awkward as she realizes she's just dating a young looking middle aged man.
The perfect mix of weirdly way more **and** way less problematic
That relationship would end so fast after that conversation
The thing is, the human wouldn't mind because she would get a mature guy in a young body. Perfect! But the vampire would get bored very quickly with an immature human. That's why the relationship wouldn't last.
Bonus point if he was in high school with her parents, maybe he liked her mom and there was a rivalry btw him and her dad
😭
The phrase "I Bing'd it" has such a vile energy to it
Read this as 'I binged it' at first lol
You realize...google is a disgusting beast and monopoly that made you feel that way
@@leilaniz5909 and it works better than bing on every conceivable front
"I Bing'd it on my T-Mobile HotSpot which works here in a dank cave where cell service can't possibly reach."
I "bing'd" it means you sarcastically mocked something.
30:56 "I Binged it." Look, I know I'm watching a vampire show but my suspension of disbelief can only stretch so far.
My thoughts exactly 💀
PLS LMAAAOO
The funniest thing about Caroline is that everyone thought she would die, but she stayed longer than the protagonist lol
I was so young when I watched this show and I remember my sister was more into if so watched much longer than me and she was telling me the whole Bonnie's gay dad plot and I just responded "she's still alive?". I feel like that is one thing I will give vampire diaries credit for (even if they may have not meant to) they set Bonnie up as a character that is typically killed off quickly die and subverted that
i always thought of her as the kinda shadow main character. I liked Elena fine but Caroline was easily my favourite. Elena was a blank slate for the fans to project on but Caroline was the person who seemed to have the most actual story, development and progression.
Caroline is surprisingly pretty cool/interesting, I love her as a bubbly positive vampire it's fun
Let's not talk about Matt
The best line in the series:
Stefan: caroline, you and I will never happen.
7 seasons later.
Stefan: well damn 😅
"Noooo, Jenna" used as punctuation just gets better and better
HAHSJSIS SAMEE
“noooo, jenna” cycles through my head daily
That and "THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN TO THE FRONTLINE!" fade.
I legit read it as it played
@@chloe9179 NOO, CHLOE
The NO JENNA ! Kills me every time
I hated them for killing Jenna.
I find myself yelling it when thing go wrong
I'm rewatching it and I just finnished that episode.
NO! JENNA!................. ~~through the mirror of my mind...~~
@@ruthie8785 lmao
Crying uncontrollably when the crow comes back in the finale is so real
Bro never watched the show, but I find this video comforting as hell so I probably go back to it every few months. And I literally get emo every time over it 😂 🐦⬛
@@Godzilla-Barbie NOBODY KNOWS YOU THE WAY THAT I **CAW**
"Chill myself?" "What is that stoner talk?" This show deserves an Emmy. Whatever they're paying the 80 year old man who wrote that line, it isn't enough.
can you blame her, he was smoking the devil's lettuce.
800 year old man. They got
A real vampire and he's terrible at his job
This comment makes me laugh every time I rewatch this video, which is too often
@@PanAndScanBuddy If I was an 800 year old vampire writing for a tv show about vampires I too would be bad at my job, on purpose. For my own amusement.
So true@@PanAndScanBuddy
She leaves out the part where Bonnie is trapped alone in a prison world and eventually driven to suicide. The writers basically used her as a human punching bag.
Seriously she deserved so much better
Bonnie is the best and has it worst.....some screws up...Bonnie rescues them, suffers, gets nothing...(repeat as necessary)
But they always went running to her when things hit the fan. It was so crazy how when Elena lost her brother she was allowed to grieve and push it aside in such a horrible way doing bad things to people but when Bonnie lost her grams she had to help them out straight away and that happened anytime she was going through something.
@@allegraanegra455 Bonnie suffers and swallows so much. She is the true tragic hero. How she put up with the lot calling themselves her friends is beyond me. Me in her place? I would have turned them into toads at some point.
Elena, my oh my.....
No matter who or how or what Rebekka is/was, Elenas murder of her was pure evil.
I'm not implying anything,, but I feel like the storyline of the one main BIPOC character in these 2000s-early 2010s shows always has a relatively simple story.
Honestly the whole "people will notice they're not aging" thing only works if you stay in the same place for like, 15+ years? Plenty of time to raise a child. You can just say you have a good skincare routine. It's so weird when vampire media has them moving like, every other year because "people noticed I wasn't aging" like dude it's been A YEAR and age is a GRADUAL CHANGE that is VERY HARD TO NOTICE AS IT HAPPENS
Like even if they're suspicious what are they gonna do about it lol if you live anywhere but this one racist town in virginia that believes in vampires no one would even think of calling you one
Everyone keeps talking about how Tom Cruise or whoever hasn't aged, they don't start taking about burning him at the stake.
Maybe they just got bored of making up bullshit skincare routines.
Like, just say you're addicted to botox and you just don't like talking about it.
Put small streaks of grey in your hair what are they gonna do tell everyone you have a youthful face
If we're generous and assume that they actually look 17 in-universe and are pretending to be 17 then sure, but why would you? Say you're graduated and just look young. Going to school for the rest of your life is a hell of a disturbing lifestyle choice, come to think of it.
As someone with ADHD, whenever a series includes mind control, I always wonder if I could, for example, just pay a vampire to compel me to study for exams or get started on projects. If yes, they can just take my blood in exchange for never needing medication again, I'll probably forget anyway. If not, it's very funny to imagine a vampire getting frustrated because they keep trying to compel me to do their dirty work and I keep insisting I'll get around to it but they didn't explain it very well and I got nervous about screwing up and started procrastinating.
This is absolutely genius. I would 100% pay a vampire in my blood if I meant I could actually accomplish things for once.
OMFG I THINK THIS ALL THE TIME LMAO and also I'm a recovering addict and I used to imagine what if they just compelled me to not be an addict anymore pls :'(
oh god this is too real
I just realized Obi-Wan is a vampire
new ship dynamic dropped
jenny: VPD means VamPire Diaries
my simple brain: Vampire Police Department
this is like when i see jfc and i think john f cennedy
Vampire Police Department? I'd watch that show.
Write that show.
I would watch every episode of Vampire Police Department with near-religious devotion and loyalty.
I am already a fan of this imaginary show. Someone please make Vampire Police Department happen.
As a non American, Vampire Diaries made me think American schools had dances every few days
Small towns might have them more. I went to high school in a small town that had them so often that we didn’t usually bother dressing up for most of them, only we have to call them “parties” since calling them “dances” was too sexual.
Yeah. One of those towns.
like the top reply, it's definitely a lot more with the south in the US. dances are a big deal, ask any Texan about their school prom. I'm from Chicago and they're really not a big deal up here, it's just a red state thing ig
XD I wish, jkjk parties are just socially awkward.
@@slightlyoffensivedadjokes Yeah def, I live in the North, and we have one like once a year if that.
We had a homecoming, what's called a "sockhop", a Sadie Hawkins dance, and a prom. This was every year.
“readily available womb” is the worst line ive ever heard
Lizzie had to get her unerring ability to swallow her own foot from somewhere.
Nod nod
I don’t recommend reading the handmaids tale in that case
Sounds like it's from an a/b/o fanfic
It makes my skin crawl.
"Your existential dread was right Elena, the things that matter to you emotionally and brought you joy, ARE trivial in the face of giant, world ending problems that plague you constantly."
My therapist after my card declines:
Lmaooo
Caroline singing “Let us goooooooo” is nearly indistinguishable from the frozen song and it was incredibly jarring for it to reveal itself as NOT a frozen rendition
I at first thought it was going to be a crappy royalty free knockoff
Jenny 100-percent put it in there for the uncanniness of if it, Im sure
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING!!!
Her rendition of "Still Hurting" from The Last Five Years was enough for me.
@@W41K.3R i was SO jarred by that sudden clip of the last five years
The whole "a vampire can't go into a house without being invited' thing, would have done Bella some good, with Edward coming into her room and watching her sleep
Seriously! Why do we just ignore how creepy that is?!
True Blood also used this piece of lore and I enjoyed that. Especially when people would have to say the line "I rescind my invitation" as angrily and dramatically as possible, and then the vampire would involuntarily run out of the house at Flash speed. Also, it's funny that they deliberately threw out other very common pieces of vampire lore - garlic doesn't affect them, crosses don't affect them, I think you can still see them in mirrors IIRC, etc. - yet kept THAT, of all things.
Plus in the first book Edward was 104 years old and Bella was 17
That’s an 87 year age gap.
That’s getting a yikes from me
@@doubletrouble5448 I mean, Klaroline has a waaaay bigger age gap…
@@doubletrouble5448 true, but Friendly Space Ninja points out a tiny gem: vampires no longer age, physically _or_ mentally, after they've been turned.
Imagine being 17 and thinking like you're 17 for the rest of forever.
I remember being 17. I hope no-one else remembers me being 17. 😬🥴😅
The sudden cut from Damon’s insane line deliveries to Lightning McQueen kills me EVERY. TIME. #kachow
I know same #kachow
Over dramatic vampire car!
"#kachow" has me fucking crying holy shitfkfbdnmlfbjdkd
I showed my mom n she laughed
Kachiga kachiga
I wish pizza vampire wasn't invited in and he just kept going on to be the pizza guy full time until a couple seasons later when pizza is ordered at that house again
By then he's already adapted to his job, so he settles down to live an honest life as a pizza delivery man.
@@siomhagormley #need
@@siomhagormley eventually he is the CEO of a pizza megafranchise and is asked how he got started, then he remembers what happened
I would read/watch this story so hard
I'm so glad she dug into that. I remember thinking how unrealistic that scene was as I watched it, but I never really thought through all the planning and stalking and pizza-guy killing and then delivery of the actual pizza that this villain went through to even get to the point where Jeremy would unrealistically invite him in. Hilarious.
Also, of course it was Jeremy who would do that.
enzo: *is locked in a cage*
the song: *LoCkEd iN a cAgE*
@@joshroehl6098 Go fuck yourself
Despite all his rage?
Did anyone else get visceral flashbacks to Beastly and the super literal pop music over scenes in that too 😂
@@rhonab6698 yes! FAALLING IN LOOVE...
@@rhonab6698 I think that was just something we did in the early 2000s. I'm suddenly remembering it from Charmed and Bones and all kinds of shows. I didn't question it at the time of fan-made music video tributes.
Purely liking for the transition from Bonnie saying "this year is gonna be kickass" to Elena having multiple mental breakdowns and witnessing the deaths of EVERYONE she loves....magical
Start of 2020 Vs actual 2020 energy
"Nice Work Bonnie" is the new "Thanks Obama"
Jeremys death scene she showed was by far the funniest
I'm purely liking for the China Beach ad break (especially during eternal flame and the charred corpse at 40:20)
@@oldaccount7370 😂😫 so true we all cried like Elena this year
damen looks like how i imagine onision imagines himself
I CHOKED NO THIS IS SO TRUE
NOOO I HATE HOW TRUE THIS IS
this is SENDING ME
OMG TRUE
Underrated comment
this is still my comfort video and jenny's acapella rendition of the china beach commercial is my new favorite moment
✨in the mirror of my mind✨
"Swooooshhh!"
🌊🌊 ocean soundsss 🌊🌊
I clipped "Hello, my shadow self." It's such a 13 year old fanfic writer kinda line that I unironically love it
A Persona 4 certified moment.
@@Dracobyte No, you're not me!
@@ashikjaman1940 “Hey guys maybe we should tell them that saying “you’re not me” activates their shado-“
“SHUT UP PROTAGONIST”
I unironically have so many fanfics from when I was 13 that could perfectly be summarized by that line alone
@@Dracobytealso a kingdom hearts moment
"so if we are tracking the metaphor, caroline is figuratively gay and caroline's gay dad is figuratively homophobic" IM LOSING IT
I really do not think that they were having that in mind when making it
@@HIDAN228 I thought that thats what they were going for. Like the constant talk of 'I can't change who i am' and The torture that literally mirrors conversion therapy
@@HIDAN228 it was very clearly intentional.
Dude yeah that “conversion therapy” part triggered me so much. It was so horrible
I honestly didn't know how to feel when that episode came out, it was so clear what they were going for
I wished you had talked about how every vampire murder is just written off as a cougar/bear attack. My friend and I joked about a 'lost episode' where the National Wildlife Federation comes to Mystic Falls to investigate why they have a 50,000% higher wildlife-related death rate compared to every county in the entire world. Damon would fake alliance with them, and Bonnie would make up a new ability to save the day, of course.
Lol, underrated comment.
Every murder in a teenage vampire series is a cougar attack, in some sense, no?
@@MegaJotie Well done, sir or madam!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer does a similar thing where supernatural deaths are written off as either "feral dogs" or "gangs on PCP". Why the feds haven't rolled into town to stop the PCP gang murdering at least four people a week is anyone's guess.
@@masterplusmargarita At least in Buffy, they make it obvious that the authorities know about vamps and are keeping them under wraps.
The wonderful thing about Jenny's multi-hour video era is how rewatchable it is. There are gems that I've missed on previous viewings, like what stood out to me this time:
"So it won't work if you're hit by a bus, but it WILL work if a vampire's driving the bus."
ive come back to this video every year since it came out 😂
"He goes from indiscriminately killing supporting characters to making soulful pencil-drawings of his favourite horse" is the kind of character development all villains should have.
For an origin story it could go in reverse.
I call it the "Arthur Morgan Special."
Klaus's character arc:
1) Indiscriminately killing supporting characters
2) Draws a horse for Caroline
3) Indiscriminately killing supporting characters
4) Opts to not kill Caroline's boyfriend
5) +1 Daughter
6) Opts to not help Damon torture a dying woman
7) Indiscriminately killing supporting characters but this time it's on The Originals
8) Therapist girlfriend dies
9) Fun father-daughter bonding over finger paints and murder
10) Dies
@Najawin who among us hasn't convinced our children to torture their exes to alleviate magical bloodlust?
I almost did a spit take when I saw that drawing.
The running "China beach commercial after dramatic moment" gag kept getting funnier every single time.
I screamed-laughed louder with every passing 😂💀
Having the "Racism" post-it hidden beneath the "Bonnie" post-it was A+
Genius
It was genuinely incredible
And...was that planned all along? With Jenny I could believe either way.
Better set up and pay off than the actual show
@@smurfette_blues7922p]]]]]]]]]ⁿ]]]]]]]]]]⁰]]]]]]]]]p]]]]]]]]]]]]]]p
It doesn't matter how much I watch this video, 'Locked in a cage for a really long time' is always gonna make me crease
This video is the most relevant China Beach has been in 30 years.
I hope Jenny's next video is about China Beach so bad.
Or ever
@@swordsmithing how dare you hide this in a reply
@@Frannie2199 I don't think I can handle the moral responsibility of making this suggestion its own comment, thereby pressuring Jenny to actually sit through China Beach. I couldn't do that to a person.
how dare you, it's the show that put women on the front lines and showed the other side of war
The long-awaited Vampire Diaries/China Beach crossover:
"I'm gay, and your brother"
"In Iowa you're my brother; here you could be just another spent shell"
It's great to have a crossover with the series that brought women to the front lines
I-
I would watch Vampire Beach!
I'm fucking dying help
Do vampires have a reflection in the mirror of my mind
Both Ian Somerhalder and Kat Graham have said in interviews that they repeatedly asked writers and producers to allow Damon and Bonnie to have an endgame romantic relationship. Of course they were always denied.
It makes me weirdly happy to know the guy I only know from Lost had his co-worker’s back like this on another show I’ve never seen.
I wish they ended up together. They had so much chemistry.
@@Kizamo As much as I love Delena, Bamon would have been power duo.
I disagree. they had an amazing friendship and such good friend chemistry. it would also be annoying if everyone dated everyone like guys and girls can't just be friends
@@Kizamo But Enzo 🥺
After discovering Jenny's review of the Star Wars hotel, I've started bingeing her other stuff. It's fecking genius. I'm stunned no one is hiring her as a contractor to sort out their story issues.
Bro me too! I had no idea of her other stuff, it's so good!
I feel like if she did that to something I made I'd just feel inadequate and that the entire thing needs to be started over from scratch
Same. They're incredible to put on in the background and then occasionally stop dead, like... Hold on. What did she just say??
Nah shes better on her own as a rogue honest journalist. Everyone else will neuter her authenticity.
This was my reaction after seeing her hypothetical frozen sequel and reboot of my little pony, and that critique of the star wars dolls. Someone needs to be listening to her, they could make their shit so much better
“What is that, STONER talk?” Jesus this is peak comedy
How to tell someone you’ve never smoked pot without saying you’ve never smoked pot
NO jEnNa!
i read this just as the part played 😂
Literally read this comment right before the line came up in the video lol
"So it won't work if you get hit by a bus, but it WILL work if a vampire is driving the bus" sent me to the Other Side.
Dw I got a mummy hand!
I actually love that. It feels like the sort of specific wording that a genie could get behind. The magic works if you're killed by a supernatural being, it's that simple
This is like Yu-Gi-Oh's "send to the graveyard" instead of "destroy" lmao
@@tesserarius5899 it does feel exactly like genie logic, but dont say it too loud or the producers will come back for another spinoff.
Would it work if a vampire compelled a bus driver to get into an accident?
"BUT THIS IS FICTION! THE WRITERS COULD HAVE WRITTEN LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE" Is the best response I've ever heard.
It’s been 5+ years since the Thermian Argument video and not until now has there been such a good defuse for that.
@@thrownstair omg thank you for that! I've been arguing the same thing for a long time but never knew how to phrase it properly, that video did it very well and I'll be referring to it going forward!
I do believe that that there are certain occasions when an author can be excused for writing "a dumb thing" because they genuinly wrote themselves into a corner and thus had to contribe their way out it. So its less "they want it to be that way" and more "it had to be that way bcause they didnt plan in right"... or simply they didnt thought of a better way. Which, in escence yields the same result so its a bit of a wash
This is literally how I respond to anything Julie Plec has had a hand in
the Very 2000s long sleeves with lace camis underneath are back in style again, just as jenny predicted.
Thy Wheel of Fate turns ever to the dark.
honestly laughing here
they’ve been in style for the past 3 years
My favorite "Being Bonnie is a thankless job" moment is in season one, when Elena and Bonnie are kidnapped, and while the baddies let Elena lounge on the bed in the motel room, Bonnie is stuffed in the bathtub.
Or that time on season two when she "died" and had to hang on the truck of Daemon's car for who knows how long pretending to be dead, like... yikes lmao
@@annabeatrizzimmermann7708 OK hold up what are you talking about? Season 2 what episode?
@@Courtney_BlakeIt was episode 18 “the last dance” I don’t actually remember this episode lol, but the wiki says “Bonnie fakes her death in order to protect Elena. Damon was the only one aware of Bonnie's plan to fake her death, both because the others would have objected if they found out the truth, and because they needed everyone to believe it in order to properly convince Klaus that she was really dead.”
@@moni-in-mini7471 Thank you! You're right lmao it was when Klaus came to town in an "Alaric suit" & Bonnie fought him off at the decade dance. She had to pretend to be dead lol!
Have I ever seen The Vampire Diaries? No
Am I going to watch this entire video? Yes, absolutely, unquestionably
EDIT: the reason I commented this four days ago and the video is only a few hours old is that it has been up for Patreons since then :)
Same! Haha
I know nothing about this topic, was actively put off by vampires for years during the craze, and am invested a massive sized helping of 0% into this story, and it's characters but I will nod along in agreement the entire time
I havent seen almost any of the things she Ever talks about
I still watch the hell out of it
same LMAO
Same here!
You forgot the hilarious fact that Stefan and Damon's actors now sell bourbon together
I love knowing this now. X3 Not sure why it seems so hilarious to me, but it does. Thank you.
That's so specific I love it
and it’s called brothers bourbon which i find kinda cute
I now want to imagine them sipping the deep red liquid from fancy glasses and playing up the blood angle to the max. XD
A better love story than Vampire Diaries.
my main issue with tyler that's caused me to forever side eye him was when he brought that black girl he met at a party to the SLAVE HOLDINGS UNDER HIS FAMILY HOME, told her they were slave holdings, attempted to get frisky with her in that place and then proceeded to get confused and frustrated when she ran away.... he was lucky she didn't sock him in the face.
They did Bonnie dirty. She could have been the best character - but they just made her a problem solver who’s always getting her heart broken.
Bonnie was the best character wdym?? The fact that she was so powerful and sacrificed her happiness and literal LIFE every time was so heartbreaking. Kat played her so well and her emotions were so raw.
And she still is the best character
They did almost every poc dirty, tyler technically isn't poc for some reason, but Michael Trevino was done dirty, same with Marcel in the originals and so on
@@harshasewlani5312 yeah, definitely my biggest qualm with the show is the lack of representation and when POC and LGBTQ+ characters were introduced they always got the short end of the stick :/
I thought Bonnie WAS the best character. She was selfless and not doing dumb things to constantly ruin the plan. She was my favorite
“Take naps. Get a boyfriend. Your boyfriend is the devil. Better the devil than single am I right ladies?”
Jenny this video is a masterpiece you deserve an Oscar
Absolutely. That, the blood beverage, the outfit changes, the spider moving and staring into our souls. China Beach!
Jenny, please put "Better the devil than single am I right ladies?" on your next merch line 😂😂🙌
@@jackrussel999 *_The spider moving"_*
OMG I KNEW IT! Finally someone acknowledges that I'm not just a paranoid arachnophobe! 😭
i feel like i just graduated with a masters degree in vampire diaries after watching this
accurate!
You must be from California
@@hanssprungfeld8487 uh no? the fuck
At the very least, a BA
Fr
"Nooo! Jenna!"
"The series that brought women to the front line."
Caroline's dad said "gay rights but only for me"
Conservative white gays
Woah. Ellen Degeneres.
@@BARALover96 LMAOO
Is it gay or homophobic?
Yeah, I don't know where they were going with that metaphor and I'm not sure they did either.
“I CAN’T. I’M TOO STRAIGHT. And then he dies!” Kills me every time
Because you're too straight?
Argonnosi I absolutely am not but very clever
@@librasuperstar3779 I'm just surprised I got there first.
Eason Kamander every time I rewatch the video cuz I kept forgetting about it until it happened
Okay but are we pretending that this wouldn't happen in real life? If smooching a dude was all a guy had to do to get better? There's a good portion of guys who would literally rather die
Caroline's dad: Yes, I'm gay. Yes, I'm homophobic. We exist.
Well to be fair internalised homophobia does exist
Blair white the transphobic trans person
@@frogg4711 lol are you serious?
@@donaldhysa4836 yes
@@donaldhysa4836 she hates on every trans person who isn't as pretty as her. Did you see how she lied about the trans athelete to make her seen terrible and also mocked her looks
it's so hard having Vampire Personality Disorder
💀
istg that's what i heard every time
it sure is jfkdsl
"The writing style on the fan wiki is too beautiful to understand" is one of the kindest backhanded compliments I've ever heard.
This was the best way to say it. I started watching this show recently and I was trying to understand what was happening/going to happen, and I went to the wiki to try to understand... it somehow made it worse!
@@MostlyMom I'm deeply shocked that people are starting to watch this show now -- and yet I am very tempted to continue watching where I left off in the 11th grade
@@user-vl8ws4wd7o I think some people have started watching it so they can understand Legacies - except Legacies is somehow more convoluted
@@flawedsanity interesting! Thanks, I hasn't considered that
also let’s talk about how bonnie was the personified version of the “strong black woman” stereotype. all the characters constantly relied on her for EVERYTHING and she was so tired but everyone insisted she be constantly strong even tho they’d all be dead without her.
Yes!!!
fuckin truuuuu they did bonnie so fucking dirty mannnnn,
Also Magical Black Person trope
@@Kelekona although i do agree with this, also, a lot of witchcraft was created by black people and so i feel like they tried to be as historically correct as possible by making bonnie and her ancestors black. but i do agree.
@@scarlettrg911 sure though looking at how they dealt with other cultural topics i think your giving them a lot. I never watched the show in full (my sis did so ive seen the odd episode out of context) but i think people are a bit turned off that she had to be relied on for everything AND she didnt get a satisfying ending/story line. From what it sounds like if they had used her character better i dont think people would have mind that she had to help everyone else alot .. you know if they had given her something equally worthwhile to do.
"Take naps. Kill the devil. Get a boyfriend." should definitely have been the show's tag line
maybe for the inevitable remake
I'm a RIPPER! A ripper doesn't STOP
It’s funnier if I don’t explain the basketball countdown
I really want to know what the basketball scoreboard countdown was about.
@@lexx1745
I wish I could help you, but this video is my only contact with VPD
A ripper doesn't stop, unless in several years when the writers completely forget about this plot, in which case, yes, a ripper will stop.
I like that she calls it VPD because now all I can think is 'Vampire Police Department' and honestly that sounds like a fun show I'd actually watch
Seems like it would cover a lot of writing pitfalls that come with making vampires superpowered beings with no weaknesses
"Why don't the vampires just takeover entire towns/cities/states?
There's an international police agency keeping them in line
"How come no one knows that vampires are real?
There's an international police agency that covers up every incident
DEFANG THE VPD!!
@@addammadd 😂
Please look up Lost Girl.
This is is amazing. Lmao
At this point I feel like “The CW” is a genre unto itself
Sorta like how Disney is its own genre. Weird but you're totally right.
nonsensical, painfully melodramatic, questionable and inconsistent writing, trope-filled, refuses to end, and every single character's actor is conventionally good-looking but only 5/10 are actually good at acting bc they aren't just models the producers falsely promised a career to? we love to see it
@@washedblue Same happens with the music world, the reality is that you only need a catching asset and that's enough for an audience, entertainment sadly or not isn't something to get philosophical lectures and deep intel from.
@@washedblue yeah that’s basically it.
Back in the 1930s-1950s, every Hollywood studio had what was known as its own "house style", because each studio cranked out over 40 movies per year, mostly with the same slate of actors, directors and writers under contract. By the 1960s, the studios mostly distributed independently produced films, so no longer had a distinct house style anymore (except for Disney which was still producing every film in-house in those days).
I've seen the modern Hallmark Channel compared to old Hollywood, in that they likewise produce about 40 films per year, all using the same production company, and a slate of recurring actors, and most of the movies have the same style.
Elena's "NOOOOO" progressively gets funnier everytime it's shown when it shouldn't be
Yes I was looking for a compilation of that but there wasn’t 😭
every single time it makes me w h e e z e
Is it just me or does she sound like old-school Ariana Grande when she does that? Something about her tone sounds exactly like Cat.
ikr x)
Welp. As soon as this masterpiece of a video left my memory loop, I saw, checked out from the library, sitting in my mom’s desk, a copy of…. China beach. And now I’m back.
The show brings women to the front line and back to this video.
Through the mirrors of our minds
@GrimzyShake In Iowa she's your mother. Here, she's just another binge watch.
Omg, they made Bonnie and Damon Best Friends.
They literally did the "they were best friends" thing for a straight couple and it's hilarious
It's like, queerbaiting, but with race
@@medealkemy THIS COMMENT 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
@@medealkemy HAHAHAH race baiting
at last, straight erasure
@@arthropodqueen the thing is is rooted in racism 💀, but oh well what a shocker another thing in America rooted in racism
The line "Relax, I'm gay AND your brother" enters my mind completely unprompted often
I often think about Jenny saying that verbena smells like celery that’s mad at you. The first time I heard that, I laughed so hard that I couldn’t breathe.
As a queer dude, I'm tempted to start using that line on my sisters, unprompted and out of nowhere, just for fun.
@@aliendeathrockerI think you should do it everytime they ask you any question. “Did you do the laundry?” “I’m gay AND your BROTHER”
@@kakonthebedi wish i was gay just to say that every time someone asks me something
@@javierlopez9789 I’m a bisexual man, so I almost get ownership of that phrase, but not quite. God could’ve added a little more spice to my sexuality but noooooo now I’ll never get to say it.
Wait... an epilogue of a CW show where a brother dies... and the other grows old with a wife... and then they're reunited in heaven... did Stefan's car go to heaven too?
Depends, is it gay in Spanish?
It sure did, we see his bestie with it in the finale, which is funny but also sad since we also saw how it "died" earlier in the series
Homophobic gay dad was sent to superhell
I can only imagine what it’s like to read this comment and the replies with zero context.
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle it's a wild ride, I can tell you
Its such a shame they didnt explore Bonnie and Damien further, especially since we could have watched Damien grapple with the fact that hes in love with someone completely unrelated to Katherine for for the first time
And it would actually be interesting to see him grapple with how bastardized the politics of the civil war became after the north and south both ran propaganda campaigns.
Something about the matter of fact acknowledgment that his attraction is based on “being related to Katherine” gets me
LOL
I just realized that the bit where they played Imagine Dragon's Radioactive at a weirdly loud volume actually synced the deep inhale in the song with the guy siting up and gasping. That's just pure gold.
Oh God, I've rewatched this vid so many times and wondered at the logic of that song in that scene. THATS why they picked it! !!! 😂
Timestamp 31:52
@@bookshelfhoney Idk if ur joking but it is actually in the show lol
Wait, that’s amazing. The editors are comedy geniuses and also clearly were bitter.
He's breathing in the chemicals
I've come back to this video countless times, and the best thing is STILL the line: "I'm gay and your BROTHER." the inflection has been burned into my mind permanently.
Right. You’d think him being her brother would be the only reason needed.
@@mollygrace3068 Alabama?
second is “chill myself? What is that?Stoner talk?”
haha i read it only with the inflection and sometime i hear a funny slide whistle and cartoon fart sound right after he said it as well
@@mollygrace3068 it was clearly just a way to mention he's gay and show that, yes they do have gay characters. i don't know if it would've been better to mention he's her brother first too lool prob even weirder to say he's gay then.
the lightning mcqueen comparison has me in TEARS
i'm rewatching it right now and scrolling through comments and randomly scrolled back up right there and i didn't even notice it wasn't from the show until i saw
this video spawned a whole new youtube subgenre i feel like i witnessed a historical event by seeing it when it first dropped
2:08:46 "but this is fiction; the writers could've simply written anything else" i felt this on a spiritual level lmao
I feel this sentiment enough I’m tempted to have it written on my grave.
The writers. Could’ve. Simply. Written. ANYTHING ELSE-
exactly what i thought when i watched shadowhunters and had to witness clary and jace.
and it could be said for other shows like GoT i just don't see why they need these weird tropes. honestly they must be into it or something...
@@kitenlovar699 Eh, I mean. I don't think that's always entirely fair, writing dark subject material doesn't necessarily mean you have a fetish. I mean I think GoT does it tastelessly and is overall a bit shit, but the tropes can be done well- and no subject matter should be completely off limits to write about.
@@BE-fw1lr in the case of cassandra clare's Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments though, it did indeed start out as a ron x ginny incest harry potter fic before she edited it into a novel so in her case i think it probably is a fetish of hers
The China Beach joke gets funnier every time.
I was really hoping for one more China Beach at the end there.
🎶 in the mirror of my mind 🎶
I didn’t see it coming with Elijah. And that made me laugh even more.
In Iowa he’s your brother
@@missbuda "out here hes just another line of shitty dialogue"
I cannot get over the delivery of "Nooo!! Jenna!"
It's the funniest thing in the world to me right now.
Jenna was one of my favourite characters and I hated her death so much, and that line is still hilarious 😂
8:50
It made me laugh so hard
She sounds like Kat from Victorious
@@mspaint93 why did you have to do this to me I'll never be able to unhear it
Terrible acting
5:48 He played a character named Boone in Lost. In late 2009 my friends and I were extras on an episode of Vampire Diaries. When you're an extra you have to mouth a conversation but not actually say anything, so the entire time we just mouthed "Boone" over and over. "Boone boone. Boone boone boone? Boone, boone boone."
the reoccurring “NOOO... JENNA!!” has me weak everytime
"NOOO...JENNA!!" "Through the mirror of my miiiind-"
And the China Beach ad starting up kills me every time it pops up.
when were you when jenna dies?
i was sat at home drinking vervain water when bonnie ring
'jenna is kill'
'no'
I literally read this comment as it was playing for the sixth time lmfao
I always thought that was a sad death but now I'm desensitized!
She really said “if I had to suffer through the China Beach commercial over and over again, so do you.”
The foreshadowing of the racism post it is a more consistent storyline than any in the vampire diaries
Oooh that was rough 😂
Exactly
Master-tier story-telling *_*
"Take naps, kill the devil, get a boyfriend" needs to be on a coffee mug or something
Or take naps, get a boyfriend, the devil.. is your boyfriend.
"Oh a compliment, I think I'll fall over" followed by the mom flying down the stairs had me absolutely cackling
10:03 if anyone's looking for it
Too funny😂
@@nathandavis2377 Local hero detected!
This makes me screech every single time.
NOOOOOOOO, JENNA
LMAO the flashbacks to Jenna's death scene and Elena yelling "NOOO JENNAAA" every few minutes had me cackling even though I cried watching it the first time 💀
Same! It’s different when you’re not immersed lol it’s just so dramatic
I've never seen the show but she just like stood so still saying that line that it was funny as hell
@@averagechannelname9969 yeah she couldn’t move because there was fire around her
@@tehelaibatehe how close to her was it? I mean like I think she might've been able to move her arms or something from the clip but she was standing like 🚺?
@@averagechannelname9969 it was all around her in a circle cast by a witch. so since she’s a human she would get burned but even if she was a vampire or a supernatural creature she wouldn’t be able to get out of it ( I think I might be wrong )
A bit late but as someone with ADHD. I wouldn't want to be a vampire. I can see myself putting off a meaningless task and being like "Oh yeah I've been trying to do that since the 1500s"
Dude same 🤣 ADHD makes life so much harder but it's not all bad. I look at it as a super power with drawbacks
I've never related to anything more than this comment
This needs to be a book series or a tv show
@Agent Bubble i think it’s very perspective heavy. my friend with autism + adhd always tells me (adhd + depression) that my adhd makes me who i am and he likes me the way i am, but i would definitely get rid of it if i could. like okay yes, sometimes if i’m really interested in something, i can do amazing things with my super-concentrative power but it sucks 99% of the time💀i would throw away this smoothbrain shit immediately if i could lmao
@Agent Bubble Part of it comes with learning how to discipline and be yourself w an adhd mind, in mind. It's easy for me to turn some boring tasks into a game or an opportunity to just hangout in my own head. I've also found that people find me kinda interesting, since I naturally have a different way of verbalizing thoughts. Obviously the other sides of those coins is that I can forget to self care when I'm toiling away, and people can also find me very intense. It's all about perspective. It's hard to view it positively all of the time tho 😕
The first time I watched this video was also the day I made beef bourguignon for the first time. It's a meal that takes about three hours to make. I loved the experience so much that now, every January whenever it snows or gets really cold, I make beef bourguignon and watch this same Jenny Nicholson video. This is the fourth year that I've done this, so it's pretty much a tradition at this point. Thanks Jenny!
Caroline's Dad dying by refusing to be figuratively gay one time is hilarious
"I can't, I'm just too STRAIGHT" gets me every time
ok i never watched the vampire diarrhea, but let me tell you that line got me iNtErEsTeD to the point where I would force a friend to watch and make me an unhinged summary #plus1vampirefan
@@arinasabirzanova1517 the vampire diarrhea
@@ExoticMerle the blackest of poops
Based and morality pilled.
This is the content I crave: people binge watching a series and recounting it for me so I never have to watch it for myself but act like I have and know EVERYTHING
I feel exactly the same about everything like I’ll legit go into moods where all I want to watch is overly long analysis’s of media I’ll never watch/read
ew, ur the worst type of person right under racists.
@@innitheotaku3883 poser
Um i literally just meant that I like overly long analysis’s of things not that I then use that information to act like a fan also there are many people jsut under racists like homophobes or transphobes so I don’t really get what ur mad about
@@Web497 And you're a tool, which as a poc, i sometimes i think are almost as bad as racists. Leave us to our overly long show analyses for shows/books we'll never watch
It's a testament to Jenny's storytelling ability that I have never seen this show and have literally no investment in it, but almost jumped out of my chair in excitement when the crow came back.
I literally almost cried, i love that crow
Same!
i deadass gasped
Maaakiii
I can't believe they worked the crow into the budget! I hear the crow took a paycut just to be there.
This video is only 3 years old? I've watched it for 6 years at least by now... Such a good video. Thank you, Jenny, for sharing your hilarious infodumps with us. I've been so productive with this video in the background all pandemic. Entire empires have risen and fallen while I passively become a VPD expert.
I need to put this video essay on a dvd, so that even if sharks chew through the cables that hold the internet, I will always have a way to watch this.
Your comment was a completely wild ride. Also, I would opt for a thumb drive over a DVD. I only have one device that even accepts DVDs and it only plays DVDs when it feels like it.
Use any format you can think of, backups of backups
Honestly? Same.
Please if you ever turn it into a DVD make sure you put the China beach ad every 30 minutes
Every time Jenny calls The Vampire Diaries "VPD" I can't help but think of it as Vampire Personality Disorder
Underrated comment 💀
im thinking vampire police department lmaooo
I mean, if she just called it "The VD" that would be worse 😬
Vampire police department
@@lauraj4001 If strangely appropriate for some reason
the "I'm gay AND your brother" line makes me laugh so fucking hard bc it's so obviously written by someone who a) doesn't have siblings and thus has no idea what sibling dynamic's like, and b) has never met an lgbt+ person in their entire life; it's so ridiculously hilarious
"lgbt+ person" who says that lmao
@@Gerald0613 people referencing those who are lgbt+
@@Gerald0613 did you have a stroke?
@@Gerald0613 yeah wtf are you talking about LMAOOOO
@@Gerald0613 tf are you talking about?
Lmaooooo I'm so weak, at about and hour and a half "she's trying to look intimidating but she just looks like she forgot pants" 💀😭
“Oh my god I found my racism post-it!”
Lol best payoff for a joke.
It was such a slow burn, but it was so worth it.
And pinned under "The Bonnie Problem" nonetheless.
@@Prederick Yes! The entire Bonnie section, I followed up every issue with a whispered "it's the racism" to my roommates. That post it reveal at the end was so perfect!
I knew we gonna get a payoff soon when I saw the star hat
Mastery, I tell you.
THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN T-
cute fraud
This was the funniest part. I cracked up everytime they cut to China Beach.
ITS THE MAN-
Jan Misali?!?
Oh my gosh it’s Jan Misali
I’d love to see a vampire romance where the vampire tells his lover that she looks exactly like his wife from a century ago and then he shows her a picture of his dead wife and she just looks fucking nothing like her
10/10 comment
Lmao, like kind of a Taika Waititi comedy about immortal vampires with shit memory. They act like they're world-weary, wise and have seen everything first-hand but in fact every single smug recounting of historical & personal events are like wildly inaccurate. Show flashes back to the vamps in the 1700s or whatever then cuts to present day where they make the exact same mistakes over again bc none of em can retain a single life lesson over the centuries.
@@amartyakejora5451 honest to god it would even make SENSE! It would play into the "unchangeability" of a vampire as new memories would mean the brain changes
That is more or less the witch subplot from what we do in the shadows
@@Killroy007 I mean that's kind of a theme in Dracula, played straight--the fact that he's learning and changing freaks out the guy who knows about vampires because vampires aren't supposed to be able to do all that, so Drac is a much bigger threat
I love the editing and scripting in this video. I often LISTEN to UA-cam while doing chores so when I hear that girl scream "No, Jenna" or China Beach's theme song comes on makes me laugh which helps in making chores tolerable.
There’s something about her tone when she yells “no! Jenna!” that always makes me laugh. It doesn’t quite fit the scene that it’s being placed in.