Linkara riffs on a wide-awake nightmare about kids trying to survive a world without rules! Or perhaps they're just being salve. Originally uploaded January 18th, 2013.
I would love to see a comedy series that takes place in the 1950s today about a Sid Davis-ish production company and the shenanigans that unfold filming these kind of shorts behind the scenes. How the actors interact and get casted, how they deal with camera follies, and even the storylines of how these shorts get written. That would be pretty fun to watch.
Fun fact: After Hiroshima, many of the survivors aided one another. Yes, people do terrible things to each other without rules, but they're also capable of being helpful just because it's the right thing to do, even if nobody is making them. Just sayin'. Rules vs. "this is in my best interest really obviously and that's why they made it a rule later" is what this entire video is based on.
I think Linkara would probably agree with this as it goes along with his ideas about Superheroes like how he disputes the common deconstruction that anybody with powers like Superman would be an evil @$$hole like Homelander, failing to recognize situations where real people can be kind and decent, so why wouldn't someone with super powers be capable of doing the same. Sure power tends to corrupt but there are examples in history such as George Washington refusing to become king of America (as it would be contrary to the goals of the revolution), something which even the King of England (who is often perceived as a villain, yet was able to recognize Washington's choice not to become king of America as an admirable act. Said English King also historically showed mercy to two mentally ill individuals who attempted to assassinate him, showing he wasn't as tyrannical as some tend to paint him as) was even surprised and impressed by.
Additionally, rules/laws themselves can be unfair, unjust, or just plain wrong. The Nazis infamously passed the Nuremberg Laws, then you got US Jim Crow laws, and lets not forget slavery was legal in various countries at various points in history. Then you have things like the Spanish Inquisition and Salem Witch Trials which were legal proceedings that lead to imprisonment, torture, and execution of innocent people. Then there are miscarriages of justice by seemingly well meaning people that end up crossing a line, like the Satanic Panic. Cases where innocent people are found guilty of crimes they didn't commit, cause of bad evidence, false confessions, or misconduct by various parties involved (judges, jury members, police, forensic people, witnesses or individuals testifying under oath, prosecutors, defense attorneys, etc.) So while rules and laws can be a good thing, they are still made by people, and thus can be imperfect, bigoted, stupid or sound utterly ridiculous, unnecessary, or create problems (like how Prohibition didn't stop people from drinking, forced the government to add poison industrial alcohol (which has a variety of uses unrelated to drinking) to discourage people from drinking it which unfortunately resulted in various people dying from consuming it, and created a valuable black market which benefited organized crime).
Not all laws/rules make sense or were made with the belief it would solve an issue or societal ills, which while sounding great on paper don't work so well in practice, or are were just poorly thought out to being with. For example, people wanting to ban something simply because they see it as bad or because they think it will be a solution to a problem (or perceived problem).
Girl: I'm going swimming. Boy: But there are sharks in the water, remember that? Me: Uh, people have gone swimming with sharks without any equipment and survived, it's not like humans are a part of any shark species's diet, in fact, in some parts of the world, it's the exact opposite.
Ya know, I think the problem wasn't a cardboard island with no rules,barely animated sharks, and was ruled by the Devil, but rather that those (to quote Markiplier here) "little bastard kiddies" were sexist, cootie fearing, jerks to make Calvin look like a saint by comparison, that's why they went om nom nom on the poisoned coconut while the broke arm boy dies of starvation in the background, and the fact that they can just beat each other up to death for petty reasons. But that's the 50's for ya, sexism, bad acting and terrible shorts made to not only bore kids to death, but to give people enough material to riff on it. Great riff btw!
I feel like sending this short to all the anarchists I know :) "You see, son, I'm the devil!" “Dudes, Calvinball!” “Freeeeedoooom!” “I’ll…make a man…out of you!” “Oh god, I hope they don’t go into Child Bride territory with this” “Obey the rules, kids, or else your childhood will end in misery and a Lord-of-the-Flies-esque scenario will ensue! Kill the pig and drink its blood, kids!”
Speaking of eminent domain. My grandma bought a double lot, in hopes of fixing it up to resell. After buying the double lot and fixing it up, the town decided to take part of the property, paying her the bare minimal for it, and took just enough to make it no longer a double lot, costing my 70 year old grandma 100k off the selling price since it was a single lot.. Thanks eminent domain!
You know, in some ways, this special is actually kind of effective. It shows us how many rules we really have and make in our lives, and how those rules keep us from basically killing each other. Not a great special, but it actually does teach. Which is more than can be said of some PSA's...
Wake Up, The House is on Fire, and the cat's Gone in the dryer. Philosophy's a liar When your Home is your Headstone. 20 Bonus Points To You if you got that.
This short has a decent premise, but my god is it ANNOYING!!!!!!! Like, these kids just WHINE and WHINE and WHINE WHINE and WHINE and WHINE and WHINE and WHINE and WHINE!
I LOVE THIS ONE! Also I'm hoping my DVD is coming soon since like the cases you got on Twitter it's arriving late. My dad thinks it's because of the snow. And before you ask, I actually do have the number of my package
5:10 seems right out of the movie The Turning Point, which has a big cat-fight scene. The red-haired girl even looks just a little like Shirley MacLaine.
I feel like a big problem with these episodes on the importance of rules is that they only talk about the importance of rules regarding safety or playing fair. They don't talk about the importance of rules like going to bed at a certain time or no talking back.
Since Rule is a synonym of Law should the kid of technically not fallen as there should be no laws of gravity or physics. Just cause the rules are made by the universe and not people doesn't mean they should be exempt from the no rules err rule? Also is "there are no rules" technically a rule. I'm overthinking this... on the good side a world without rules should mean no Rule 34.
Cool to see you promoting the show more with all the post on YT. May I recommend a link to TGWTG in the description? Or are you specifically avoiding doing that?
kids on an island with no rules arguing over shells while being mocked by a disembodied voice? are you sure this isn't a crappy adaptation of Lord of the Flies?
...Scrap that last comment I made. I got it a few hours later XD and I'm almost done watching it. As I'm writing, I'm on the Pollo section of the Character Origins. I love every minute and I hope to meet you someday and have you sign it :)
ya know I get what their doing with like the rules and all but to make it more fun what about the rules/laws of physics and gravity. also I heard about a really disturbing fact about iny miny miney moe apparently the original version was. iny miny miney moe catch a n@#^er by his toe kinda ruins it huh
TheAnonymousGuy That's kind of the point. Without the rules your authority figures give you, you have to deal with the laws of physics, nature, and the human condition. If it was truly without rules, nothing would exist. Also... yes. If Wikipedia is to be believed, that is an older version. Many many versions have been made before the one we use today.
9:36 That really doesn't work here. At the beginning they were mad at ARBITRARY rules they DIDN'T understand. Now, at the end they could make up their own rules democratically, but that would be anarchism and they're definitely not going to be promoting that to kids in the 60s or whenever this came out.
Lord of the Flies, as performed by the class of St. James Pre-School.
"Well you see son, I'm the devil!"
lol. Your delivery on this one is awesome.
Wow, I didn't expect to see you here, Strider! How are you?
The TRUE Royal Kaiju personally i would have said: well you seen son, my name is mephisto
These videos are Hilarious strider. 😉
"Dudes, Calvinball!"
Heck YES, Linkara! I love Calvin and Hobbes!
No, Calvinball has one permanent rule: you can't play it the same way twice.
Ah yes, Nationstates.nets favorite game.
Kid: "There's no rule says he can't kill himself if he wants to"
WTF?!
uhhhhh guidance councilor. I say guidance councilor
guidance councilor: what I'm busy!
That was the weirdest part of anything I've ever seen Linkara riff!
"Ya know, for kids!"
We're a right to die island!
I would love to see a comedy series that takes place in the 1950s today about a Sid Davis-ish production company and the shenanigans that unfold filming these kind of shorts behind the scenes. How the actors interact and get casted, how they deal with camera follies, and even the storylines of how these shorts get written. That would be pretty fun to watch.
I bet Bob Corby knows the answer if this really is a holiday from rules.
Ah, there's the voiceover of my favorite titlecard! WELCOME MY FRIENDS, TO PSA HELL!!!
"Dudes, your forgetting CALVINBALL!"
Now I want to see Linkara reviewing Calvin and Hobbes.
someone patreon that now! PLEASE!
Without rules every game would be the first season of yugioh.
itski minami screw the rules I have money
KNEEL BEFORE THE CHESS MASTER!!
Fun fact: After Hiroshima, many of the survivors aided one another. Yes, people do terrible things to each other without rules, but they're also capable of being helpful just because it's the right thing to do, even if nobody is making them. Just sayin'. Rules vs. "this is in my best interest really obviously and that's why they made it a rule later" is what this entire video is based on.
I think Linkara would probably agree with this as it goes along with his ideas about Superheroes like how he disputes the common deconstruction that anybody with powers like Superman would be an evil @$$hole like Homelander, failing to recognize situations where real people can be kind and decent, so why wouldn't someone with super powers be capable of doing the same. Sure power tends to corrupt but there are examples in history such as George Washington refusing to become king of America (as it would be contrary to the goals of the revolution), something which even the King of England (who is often perceived as a villain, yet was able to recognize Washington's choice not to become king of America as an admirable act. Said English King also historically showed mercy to two mentally ill individuals who attempted to assassinate him, showing he wasn't as tyrannical as some tend to paint him as) was even surprised and impressed by.
Additionally, rules/laws themselves can be unfair, unjust, or just plain wrong. The Nazis infamously passed the Nuremberg Laws, then you got US Jim Crow laws, and lets not forget slavery was legal in various countries at various points in history. Then you have things like the Spanish Inquisition and Salem Witch Trials which were legal proceedings that lead to imprisonment, torture, and execution of innocent people. Then there are miscarriages of justice by seemingly well meaning people that end up crossing a line, like the Satanic Panic. Cases where innocent people are found guilty of crimes they didn't commit, cause of bad evidence, false confessions, or misconduct by various parties involved (judges, jury members, police, forensic people, witnesses or individuals testifying under oath, prosecutors, defense attorneys, etc.)
So while rules and laws can be a good thing, they are still made by people, and thus can be imperfect, bigoted, stupid or sound utterly ridiculous, unnecessary, or create problems (like how Prohibition didn't stop people from drinking, forced the government to add poison industrial alcohol (which has a variety of uses unrelated to drinking) to discourage people from drinking it which unfortunately resulted in various people dying from consuming it, and created a valuable black market which benefited organized crime).
Not all laws/rules make sense or were made with the belief it would solve an issue or societal ills, which while sounding great on paper don't work so well in practice, or are were just poorly thought out to being with.
For example, people wanting to ban something simply because they see it as bad or because they think it will be a solution to a problem (or perceived problem).
Even in this video, the kids were worried about each other's safety. That's how they concluded that most rules are based on common sense.
Girl: I'm going swimming.
Boy: But there are sharks in the water, remember that?
Me: Uh, people have gone swimming with sharks without any equipment and survived, it's not like humans are a part of any shark species's diet, in fact, in some parts of the world, it's the exact opposite.
Do you really this PSA is smart enough to know that?
Bismuth83 but these are MAN EATING sharks.
"We need lots of rules!" Yes, because totalitarianism has never hurt ANYONE...
All2Meme totalitarianism Propaganda
Ya know, I think the problem wasn't a cardboard island with no rules,barely animated sharks, and was ruled by the Devil, but rather that those (to quote Markiplier here) "little bastard kiddies" were sexist, cootie fearing, jerks to make Calvin look like a saint by comparison, that's why they went om nom nom on the poisoned coconut while the broke arm boy dies of starvation in the background, and the fact that they can just beat each other up to death for petty reasons. But that's the 50's for ya, sexism, bad acting and terrible shorts made to not only bore kids to death, but to give people enough material to riff on it. Great riff btw!
First thing I thought when this video started. "Welcome to PSA Hell!"
I feel like sending this short to all the anarchists I know :)
"You see, son, I'm the devil!"
“Dudes, Calvinball!”
“Freeeeedoooom!”
“I’ll…make a man…out of you!”
“Oh god, I hope they don’t go into Child Bride territory with this”
“Obey the rules, kids, or else your childhood will end in misery and a Lord-of-the-Flies-esque scenario will ensue! Kill the pig and drink its blood, kids!”
Yet another ancap that doesn't understand that rules mean someone has to enforce them.
this is a weird adaptation of lord of the flies
Some of the dialogue from this short is in Linkara's PSA Hell intro.
With their shells all broken, they won’t be able to afford any upgrades when they get to the port and fight Jaws.
Really weird version of Lord of the Flies.
Speaking of eminent domain. My grandma bought a double lot, in hopes of fixing it up to resell. After buying the double lot and fixing it up, the town decided to take part of the property, paying her the bare minimal for it, and took just enough to make it no longer a double lot, costing my 70 year old grandma 100k off the selling price since it was a single lot.. Thanks eminent domain!
This should've been marketed as an ad for contraceptives.
You know, in some ways, this special is actually kind of effective. It shows us how many rules we really have and make in our lives, and how those rules keep us from basically killing each other. Not a great special, but it actually does teach. Which is more than can be said of some PSA's...
These kids are so full of rage...it's frightening
This island has no rule against bad acting!
the 50’s was the most Orwellian decade in American history.
*laughs in 2020 UA-cam*
@@Drums_of_Liberation and now in 2023!
and yet this makes more sense than lost
accept sadly no one died here lol
Robert Skrzypiec It's purgatory, we don't have to explain it!
6:11-I was not expecting that. Oh jezz...
This turned out to be way more disturbing than I thought it would be
Calvinball? Yay! I found a fellow reader of Calvin and Hobbes!!
....what? It was a big part of my childhood and I still like reading it. Sue me.
No judgement from me dude. I don't know a single person who doesn't love Calvin and Hobbes. It was a big part of all of our childhood.
Lewis: Come with me to Hell, children.
Well technically, most afterlife system has some kind of authority figure & authorities make rules.
What's the first thing you want to do kids?
Maybe you could go for a swim.
Mwahahahahaha!
Holiday from Rules, or as I like to call it, The Purge.
More like "Purge Kids" or "Li'l Purge"!
This is the weirdest adaptation of Lord of the Flies I've ever seen.
Wake Up, The House is on Fire, and the cat's Gone in the dryer. Philosophy's a liar When your Home is your Headstone.
20 Bonus Points To You if you got that.
Scanty and Kneesocks probably wrote this PSA.
*RRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUULESSSSSS!!!!*
Most likely
ROFL at Rule #1 the Doctor lies! I love you for that Linkara!
1:45 did that shark just growl? Somebody tell Nostalgia Critic about this!
I'll make a man out of you!
There should be a revival of MST3K with you, Doug, Brad and Noah.
The Cynical Brony's Official UA-cam Page Um...I did say Doug. Replacing Noah with Doug would be redundant.
tolchok89 I would pay money for it.
Hey, look at that, Cynical, I found a super old comment you made! It's Light
Well... This aged poorly.
@@Kamenriderdecade105 Like milk, dude, like milk.
Well that was...strangely violent...
Here sound from PSA HELL intro
Of course Antarctica is no fun: there’s shapeshifting, assimilating aliens there! Just ask outpost 31.
This short has a decent premise, but my god is it ANNOYING!!!!!!! Like, these kids just WHINE and WHINE and WHINE WHINE and WHINE and WHINE and WHINE and WHINE and WHINE!
oh my god...the blonde kid looks and sounds *familiar* xD
QUICK! keep him away from the spray-on tan!
I LOVE THIS ONE! Also I'm hoping my DVD is coming soon since like the cases you got on Twitter it's arriving late. My dad thinks it's because of the snow. And before you ask, I actually do have the number of my package
I love this. So no one wants these tasks or positions? No one wants to be the leader out of what 6 kids? I think some people enjoy what others don't.
“Now let’s all pretend REAL hard.”
YES! I too totally thought those were the noises from the monsters from Horror at Party Beach wtf lol.
(shark judge dread) I AM THE LAW
5:10 seems right out of the movie The Turning Point, which has a big cat-fight scene. The red-haired girl even looks just a little like Shirley MacLaine.
Thank you!
This is so Hobbesian
Oh, HERE'S where psa hell's intro comes from.
So that's where the audio from PSA Hell comes from.
I feel like a big problem with these episodes on the importance of rules is that they only talk about the importance of rules regarding safety or playing fair. They don't talk about the importance of rules like going to bed at a certain time or no talking back.
Since Rule is a synonym of Law should the kid of technically not fallen as there should be no laws of gravity or physics. Just cause the rules are made by the universe and not people doesn't mean they should be exempt from the no rules err rule? Also is "there are no rules" technically a rule. I'm overthinking this... on the good side a world without rules should mean no Rule 34.
cyberanimealien NO! IT ISN'T! Everyone with a brain knows that!
That also means we could kill all the sick fucks who do it.
GoddessofAwesome7 Along with the fucks who say we should kill people for their personal tastes.
Cool to see you promoting the show more with all the post on YT. May I recommend a link to TGWTG in the description? Or are you specifically avoiding doing that?
6:23 JEEEEEEEEEEEEEESUS!
Okay kids here's knives & guns who ever survived the all out drag out fight to the death. 😉😄
kids on an island with no rules arguing over shells while being mocked by a disembodied voice? are you sure this isn't a crappy adaptation of Lord of the Flies?
Paul Leow Kill the pig and drink its blood, kids!
That poor hamster :(
Hmm, they dont have face masks, so they cant play Calvin ball
so um since when not swimming with sharks a rule? Also did you really need to make a rule about feeding AN INJURIED FRIEND!
So yeah just stopped this video to watch an hour of funny cat videos... I think it is time for me to sleep... after I finish this.
...Scrap that last comment I made. I got it a few hours later XD and I'm almost done watching it. As I'm writing, I'm on the Pollo section of the Character Origins.
I love every minute and I hope to meet you someday and have you sign it :)
Glad you're enjoying the DVD! ^_^
Thank you. Also I'm now on Moarte....I got especially excited for that since he's on my list of favorite characters.
ya know I get what their doing with like the rules and all but to make it more fun what about the rules/laws of physics and gravity.
also I heard about a really disturbing fact about iny miny miney moe apparently the original version was.
iny miny miney moe catch a n@#^er by his toe
kinda ruins it huh
TheAnonymousGuy That's kind of the point. Without the rules your authority figures give you, you have to deal with the laws of physics, nature, and the human condition. If it was truly without rules, nothing would exist.
Also... yes. If Wikipedia is to be believed, that is an older version. Many many versions have been made before the one we use today.
Okay, did Thomas Hobbes write this?
Rewatching this because the kid is doing LotF in 8th grade class.
apparently none of these kids read lord of the flies
This is exactly like Lord of The Flies. Minus the girls.
It's do what you want island
Yamada Leon didn't care about the helmet laws or about digging two graves.
9:14 -- under that reason, the mad and the really stupid are exempt from societal norms
This version of Lord of the Flies is weird.
Bill Maher's worst nightmare.
9:36 That really doesn't work here. At the beginning they were mad at ARBITRARY rules they DIDN'T understand. Now, at the end they could make up their own rules democratically, but that would be anarchism and they're definitely not going to be promoting that to kids in the 60s or whenever this came out.
i know a place with no rules russia because in mother russia rule follow you
sharks are not maneaters
Movie version was still better than the book.
This film would be more entertaining if Mephisto was in it.
Somalia?
How about the other kids eat Jim. 😉😋
God, what’s with these 50s films and conformity?
Totalitarian Propaganda
nickelodeons version of survivor kinda sucked
It's a elementary school production of Lord of.The flys