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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
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"Oh this milk's expired"
*has an existential crisis*
🎶🎵🎶🎵/Ohheresanewone.
It's not just that the milk expired
The milk woman died
Oh, I thought she was a pecan cookie?
@@YahYakBandan "maybe ill try it next time"
frrr 😭😭
“I’m not deaf.”
“Huh?”
“I said I’m not deaf.”
“Nice to meet you, Jeff”
is a really good bit
True
yeah
Pray for your ears
My dad has bad hearing this felt like me growing up all the time😂
is he artisanaly bred
It takes a second to realize just how many people in this call him deaf. He takes so long to process and overthink things that people don’t think he heard them.
And it’s also quite ironic too because the people who said that didn’t really listen to him, yet he is the one actually deeply listening to them.
Kel pfp
@@Sammydrawsy
Yes
kel omori
@@MrMelonszyet he doesn’t respond.
Jack Stauber, the only man who can write a sad song about expired milk
Okay, but Milk is unironically one of my favorite songs EVER, and it's a minute long. And about milk. Kinda. How does Jack get away with with this?
@@Ax0_1t01Same.
Bot
@@ItsRavenTheBirdthat’s actually clever. 😓😓
@@Ax0_1t01Yeah he could write a song about air and make it sad and depressing but so FIRE
Coffee: I’m a song about caffeine addiction
Cheese: There is a lot of cheese
That's how Jack goes.
Milk: is it all worth it in the end?
Bread: I'm all fancy and poo poo
The accident: I don't know what to put here
The last song: I'm everything
:') I luv cheze
I’m allergic to cheese
Why does I’m auto correct to ok!
Probably about grief, considering the five stages being shown in the aisle signs behind him.
“You’re bleeding”
“Don’t worry it’s just mine”
@@saraelnaggar739 I think it's about blood but I'm not sure, I don't get it either
I heard “it’s just fine” but I can’t hear that well to begin with 😂
It’s the worker being like stereotypically emo??? Like it doesn’t matter that I’m hurt because I don’t matter at least that’s how I read it
@@ironwingartist5578 oh HEGRUEJHRR
@@zacharee2428 What are you? Deaf?
I think all of the songs represent different anxieties:
- Milk: Anxiety surrounding living a fulfilling life and making life choices to make the most of your life
- Bread: Anxiety about getting too caught up in how others perceive you
- Towels: Anxiety about dealing with the consequences of choices (and about how life in general is pretty "messy")
- Oatmeal: Anxiety about having too monotonous a life, and being unprepared for change
- Coffee: Anxiety about not being in control of your life + not living in the moment
- Cheese: Anxiety about choosing things (definetly the most obvious one)
Signs up the whole video!
The cheese one is also about grieving.
thats dumb. at least explain the last song bro
@jarnold last one's about escaping from anxiety/having an epiphany about why all the anxiety is irrational and how you just need to go with the flow.
@@killer_moon1983 its really not. Its about choice, and I genuinely don't see how you could come to that conclusion lmao
Here, I'll give you a "translation" that you can read as you follow along with the song
You have a choice. You're gonna die one day, so don't do the same thing constantly, change it up and have fun. Everything in moderation, life is messy (this one's a given), and the things you own don't determine your worth.
The conflict of the short is the main character not knowing which sample to try, but after cheese and realizing he HAS a choice to live how he wants, he is ready to choose a sample
The coffee lady with the “are you deaf?….I gotta skedadle but I’ll pray for your ears.” It gets me every time😂😂😂
i hope a kid out there fell asleep watching cartoon network and woke up to this
It would be way better than being scarred for life seeing robo chicken
@@cubic8335 that one video where they ate the girl on the moon haunts me
@@cubic8335 lmaooo i hate when i would wake up and hear "its alive!!" like nope nope going back to sleep
@@somnodaur8064 what one is that? The Oxygen video?
XDD just take the upvote
Everyone is saying how they loved the milk song, I see absolutely no one talking about what a bop the artisanal song was
yes!!!
Hell yes
And the mess song
true
Why. Nobody talkin bout the coffee song?
This entire pop opera is about **choosing** to make better choices in your life, and building trust in your choices to cater to your own life.
In the beginning, the main character struggles with choosing a sample of yogurt, and chooses to come back to it later.
Each character he meets triggers a fear or obstacle that he has in his life. When triggered, he fixates on a specific word each character says, and goes through an episode of fear and questioning. After the episode, he instead **chooses** a different item from the shelf that's healthier than each character he meets. (EX. the coffee is decaf to avoid caffeine addiction, the oatmeal is a mystery to improve variety)
During the "Cheese" stage of the pop opera, the main character goes through the 7 stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. He then looks away and allows the universe choose a cheese, or another healthier item for him.
When he allowed the universe to choose a healthier item for him, he was left with not what he wanted, but then realizes that he's been choosing his own healthier item this entire time. The main character learns that he has the power to choose better things for himself.
In the end, he practices the trust he has in his own choice, and chooses an amazing yogurt sample.
I think the message in this story is to make your own good choices based on your lifestyle.
bro underatted comment
I KNEW IT I WAS RIGHT
@jackieclouse9039 shut up hes.teaching a lesson
*5 stages of grief but really good comment
A little error. You said "7" but theres five stages 😅
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how fire these lyrics are?
"Dairy beloved...
your days are gone,
the grocery list goes on..."
Bravo, Jack!🔥👏
A song about expired milk has no business being that good
People are mentioning how every character looks like the food they represent, but the main character has the same swirl in his hair as the yogurt he ends up picking
Oh yeah you're right
OMG YES
Oh shit thats DEEP
He’s also very pink I just really like that
Incidentally he also looks like (a) Morty Sanchez...
Each person he meets before each song is emblematic of someone who suffers from the line of existential thinking that each song is about.
*Milk:* the old lady refuses to try new things because she can always try them later, but then ‘dies’ by disappearing at the end
*Bread:* the nut man smugly uses material possessions to justify his existence and make himself feel superior to others, despite shopping at the same store as everyone else.
*Paper Towels:* the worker was so hung up on the concept of irreversibly changing, that he never got around to actually handling messes in any meaningful way.
*Oatmeal:* the bowl man was obsessed with planning out every moment of life and failed to account for or accept the spontaneity of life.
*Coffee:* the mom was addicted to coffee and used it as an unhealthy coping mechanism to get herself through every aspect of life.
*Cheese:* the main character himself was suffering from this which was choice paralysis in the face of the possibilities of life. Unlike the others, he actually overcame his existential crisis by realizing that by simply making a choice, you automatically get some form of control and meaning out of your existence that the randomness of the universe cannot provide.
Underrated comment
And finally, sometimes the universe will smack you upside the head if you look for or say something stupid. Case and point, vegan hotdogs
Thank you
@@sobree9743 Don't forget- they were vegan hotdog *buns*
i was wondering why he was acting like that in the beginning of the episode
I swear jack voicing all his characters is so impressive
He sounds like Steven Yeun
Stolen comment.
why are you here
Especially the coffee lady
I mean listen to the music his vocal range is wider than the pacific
i like how a lot of the characters share the same traits as the things mentioned in the grocery list, like how the guy in the artisanal bread part looks like the loaf of artisanal bread, the guy’s head in the oatmeal part looks like a bowl of oatmeal, even the main character looks like the little yogurt sample
They all do. The old woman looks like a carton of milk (the hair shaped like a carton and the IV) the paper towels guy is shaped like a roll of paper towels, you can even see the line where one tissue ends at the side of his face. The coffee woman looks like a mug of coffee, her head is the mug, her ear is the handle and she has lines in her hair like heat lines.
My man had an existential Crisis every time he picked up something
Is me
Don't you?
Wait- you’re telling me you don’t?
Fuck this guy.... Now i have a little existential crisis too...
I love it :D
If you don’t consider which loaf of bread u pick because you don’t want to hurt the other breads feelings ... idk man
"Was your dog artisanally bred?"
that's incredible
I laughed. :)
It is indeed
That joke made me laugh a little
Laughed there as well!
IT TOOK ME 2 MONTHS 💀
"That shouldn’t be hard at all" *goes through the 5 stages of grief*
You mean the five aisles of grief
I love how the "vegan hot dog buns" guy bonked his head on a shelf that doesn't exist and the previous and following frames. absolutely love this video.
I really hope Adult Swim sees that we absolutely love when they work with Jack, and continue to make awesome stuff with him.
edit: Ive seen opal.
Tru bro
Have you seen the short opal? It was the most recent adult swim did with jack stauber
@@bruhimvibing2401 that’s what he was talking about
Agree
Which jack.......jack black, jackied Chan, or Wesley’s snipes lmao
I love how Jack is so good at his voice acting. I know he’s voicing all the different people but the voices he does for them really shows their personality and helps my mind process that their all very different people. I don’t know if that makes sense but yeah.
In a world with much shallow art, Jack is a True Artist.
The strangeness captivates you while the deep meaning sneaks up from behind and startles you with its clever implementation. All bundled in fun, catchy music.
Jack Stauber fans: cool. he made it on Adult Swim that's our man.
Adult Swim fans: not the weirdest thing I've seen.
As a Adult Swim AND Jack Stauber fan. I’m on both sides lmao
@@roccohorror7022 same
@@roccohorror7022 could you recommend me something from adult swim? I have only watched athf
@@LaurenGalicia
Robot Chicken
@@roccohorror7022 same
Why does every Jack stauber animation feel like a horror skit without the horror?
Until he put out Opal, which is a horror skit without the skit
Neither for me
Jack's style is a bit of a chilling sensation. Horror is just another story.
its the vibes
Truer words ha e never been truer
I love how all the customers and other shoppers design is like the food/drink that pops up.
An existential supermarket journey. I'm here for it! Also the ending is so hopeful, I needed that today. NEVER delete this from UA-cam
I like how whenever he grabs something on his list it’s just like “*ITEM ACQUIRED*”
Ayy it’s Doppio
Doppio
Yes?
@@goblaneofficial9972 tell the boss I said hi
@@baxter3473 Will do!
me everytime i rewatch this: "ahh... that was good"
same
I mean who doesn’t
@@DeathBlossom24 weird people
@@dinglequandale8574 lol
literally me rn
out of everything jack has ever made, being able to make cheese look that disgusting is the most impressive
Real
Spoken like someone who's never heard of Casu Martzu before
@@calibricalypso isnt that the maggot filled cheese that could literally kill you
@biggestbeelstan Yep! I also decided at some point that the next time I get a weirdo in my DMs I'm going to tell them about it in as much detail as possible and see who gets blocked first
@@calibricalypso thats actually amazing LMAO
I think something to mention here is the journey the protagonist went on, learning all of these lesons form the shoppers around him he then culminates that knowledge to overcome his own issues of choice paralisis show in the begining... very cool that all the life lessons are culminated into the final message that personal growth and change is always a choice we can take and its not to late to go back and make the right decisions
“What kind of milk were you?” Should win a Grammy tbh
Coffe should win an Oscar
The whole bits concept is genius.
the old lady was shaped like an milk cartoon
she didn't disappear
she E X P I R E D
I like mess more
You’re wrong, all of these songs should.
"was your dog artisanal bread?" best dad joke ever.
Isn't it "Artisinally bred"?
@BlooMonkee Toons you know when the breed dogs?
don’t forget “Dairy Beloved”
@@gray9914 or the cheese puns
Are you deaf?
2:38
Milk unlocked
Jack has to be the most talented animators we have, combing claymation and 2d and other elements (character Design, VA, etc) +song writing this man is legendary
I can’t wait until when I die and I the last thing I see is “created by Jack Stauber”
Honestly, if I don’t see that if I die, then I’m not dying
@@PuertoRicanSauce w h a t
@@wheatleythe_bigmoron_1179 you heard the guy, they’re not dying til’ they see “Created by Jack Stauber”
@@wheatleythe_bigmoron_1179 You do know that you can choose when to die, right?
@@Sleepy-yp4wx I too come back to life when I shoot myself with a gun
pov: you're having an existential crisis in the grocery store
Like I don’t already
that has happened before
@@mindekinde you don’t want to know what happened at my Local target
@@crakhead5917 😳 uh oh
@@mindekinde I have a lifetime ban
did any one else notice how the heads and the people he met are like the things he is buying like oatmeal guys head looks like a bowl of oatmeal and emo worker fr looks like a papertawaol
This is the most normal thing Jack has made.
Milk: Fearing that you didn`t live your life how you wanted to
Bread: Caring too much about your image
Paper towels: Anxiety over not being able to fix everything
Oatmeal: Not being able to stop the uncertain flow of time
Coffee: Unhealthy dependency on a coping mechanism
Cheese: Holding on to only hope when you`re grieving
Strawberry yogurt: Choosing for yourself and being okay with the choices you made :)
Cheese: There's a lot of fucking cheese out there.
Butter: Slips your life to bits
Heavy Cream and Sweetened Condensed Milk: It never comes out, it just plops on your hair.
Cinnamon: You sneeze when crying.
Cereal: Not part of your breakfast.
Ham and Chicken: The dinosaurs don’t like love.
Brown Sugar, Sugar, and Sugar Cubes: You stay awake crying for your brown one.
I can relate to this whole pop opera
cheese is a nagito kinnie
It’s also says how you don’t need everything, if you listen closely, you her a sound effect each time it says “need” and “must” etc. when they say could it makes a different emotion, just wanted to point that out
i just realized that every character looks like the item that comes after they talk. even the main character looks like the strawberry yogurt at the end
oh shit your so right
I CANT UNSEE
The paper towel guy looks a lot like paper towels
@@beantatobeepbeep9683 YOUR SO RIGHT
They’re also a representation of every song the item is attributed to.
Coffee is still my favorite after all these years☕️
The constant “ are ya deaf “ is pretty funny
Can we all appreciate that he voiced every character?
Jack Stauber is a legend.
Dang even that coffee lady?
@@vickylarrs8536 Yeah, it's very impressive.
@@nurpo. I swear, more people need to know the legend that is Jack Stauber.
@@vickylarrs8536 True.
Imagine a collab with Zach Hadel
No one:
Buzzfeed: what kind of milk were you
Underrated
Omg lmfaoo
lmao
Lmfaoooo
What kind of life did you live through
just leaving these here for myself.
Milk (Dairy Beloved): 1:40
Bread (Artisanal Me): 3:33
Paper Towels (Irreversible): 5:22
Oatmeal (Oatmeal Routine): 7:19
Coffee (Better to Check): 9:35
Cheese (Five Aisles of Grief): 10:55
Finale (My Choice): 11:37
sup
thanks for the timestamps
Smash next
Checked this like a dozen times, thanks for the time stamps
This is a stolen comment.
8:09 You Get:Oatmeal With A Mystery Flavor
Dude puts out an entire album that could win a Grammy for an Adult Swim short.
Fr tho
look jack up on spotify he has his own music
not enough people know jack
Nope, this is all released.
I’m your 666 like
1:01 “Are you deaf?”
“No im not deaf.”
“Oh nice to meet you jeff!”
Comedy gold
I want to turn this into a musical people can actually act in.
I think we underappreciate how jack nails the voice acting in these. The fact he can go from the coffee addict to the blind man from OPAL is astounding
Wait you're telling me he doesn't have other voice actors and that there all him?!??!!??!
@@RubyRider_62442 He had to of right??
WHY DOES IT SOUND SO EASY TO SLEEP, WITH CAFFEINE?
To be fair he does to some post processing with the blind man from Opal, not to diminish the amazing voice acting of him. He is definitely one of the best artists of our time, but even he doesn’t have magic vocal cords.
@@thecerealprovider3831 BAHAHA
Who remembers when Cartoon Network said “good night everyone” and u just scramble to find the remote as a kid
I didn't even wanted to find the remote, I just wanted to watched robot chicken and venture bros.
How do you know that?
i most definitely did this
As soon as robot chicken came on I knew it was my time to leave 💀
Yeah and im prettt sure my parents didnt even care about whatever came next on adult swim. Because it was always king of the hill and that show reeks.
3:01 BRO WAS MaTeRiAl gWoRL 💅✨️
I love how the protagonist is not mean while still being realistic. He deals with sarcastic remarks and being called deaf but still makes conversation with these people, even helped coffee lady get another sip. We love a model citizen
Jack Stauber fans: Yeah, that's him. Look at him go
Adult Swim fans: WHAT WAS THAT
Honestly isn't the weirdest thing they've put here.
@@j82200 yeah, in fact, it's quite normal compared to the other stuff on it
Its more like
Adult Swim fans: oh ok sweet and cool
I feel like it's so mundane compared to the stuff on Adult Swim that it becomes its own type of weird.
@@isabellab.1875 kinda like how Joe Pera's stuff was the weirdest on Adult Swim because it wasn't weird at all
*Sees 100 packets of oatmeal* “You could make a religion out of this.”
No don't
P f f -
QUAKER OATS FOR LIFE BROTHERS
oh dear here comes the oatmeal cultists
All hail Quaker's oats
The meaning of each produce song to me:
Milk: Living a depressing life, then die, but life continues around you
Bread: Being the same as everyone else
Paper Towels: When you make a mistake and it ruins you as a person
Oatmeal: OCD
Coffee: Addiction
Cheese: 5 stages of grief
Milk: People around you dying, but it doesn't effect the way life goes on
Bread: feeling the need to be organized and better than everyone
Paper towel: One second can ruin everything
Oatmeal: planning everything out
Coffee: also addiction
Cheese: also the same
Milk: Live life to the fullest
Bread: Dont mold yourself based on your possessions and what society wants you to be
Paper towel: You wont be able to fix everything
Oatmeal: dont get yourself caught in a cycle
Coffee: addiction, duh
Cheese: Choice paralysis
what i think the items represent:
milk: death/passing or being forgotten and distancing from everyone
bread: relying on material objects to become your personality, what happens when you lose it and you're left alone.
paper towels: the constant need to control everything and feeling helpless when your life spirals out of control
oatmeal: needing to control everything and mindlessly follow a plan out of crippling anxiety, fear of change
coffee: addiction and how it can both minorly and majorly affect you and others around you because of it and how it changes your everyday life, inability to break out of a harmful habit and loss of control.
cheese: coming face to face with all your challenges and making a desicion regardless of how you feel about it because you dont really have a choice, stages of grief.
beautiful.
Death milk is my new, new favorite toon
1:12
What about ciggarets from opal tho
D: but what about why is it so easy to breath on tv?
My favorite from shop is Coffee
HOW TO MILK
Teenager: unleashes angst,
This guy: sings catchiest song in the entire opera
His name is Jack stauber
Please go check him out on youtube.
He made all of this.
@@imakedadjokesbecauseican1556 Yes
@@imakedadjokesbecauseican1556 he made this for adult swim
@@imakedadjokesbecauseican1556 I know who Jack is, I listen to his music regularly, but that character is not named Jack Stauber
Pop Opera
here are my interpretations of each grocery item, the character associated with them, and the products our protagonist buys at the end:
MILK: death and our perception of our own life's value. milk is easily replaceable, so [Protagonist] just picks up a new one. the replaceability of people when they die is a frightening topic. i wonder how the old woman from earlier relates to this...
BREAD: if we let our fancy materialism speak for us, what will we say when we have nothing left? the eccentric from earlier obsesses about his possessions, as though they represent his whole life instead of speaking for himself. after mulling it over, [Protagonist] chooses cheap not-wonder bread because he understands that it's better for him to speak for himself than letting his high-value products do it for him.
PAPER TOWELS: the anxiety of making messes and the fear that our mistakes are permanent. the emo employee seems to be so used to messes that he's indifferent to them, even when his finger bleeds. like he's so callous towards mistakes that he doesn't feel like he needs to learn from them or avoid them. after pondering the value that failure has in his life, [Protagonist] picks up an indestructible wash rag so he can always clean up the messes he makes without stressing about them. also, the gag about mass-producing them made me laugh.
OATMEAL: having a fully-thought-out, formulaic life vs. living a life of wonder and discovery, at the cost of having to deal with accidents and the aforementioned messes. the rushing man has his whole life in order, but if something as much as a greeting or a slip gets in the way, he sacrifices valuable parts of his life to make up for it, in the effort of keeping his life as tidy and neat as possible. after fantasizing about an oatmeal-filled world, [Protagonist] chooses mystery-flavor oatmeal, to add some variety to his life.
COFFEE: the fear of becoming obsessed with something you're trying for the first time. the woman only makes [Protagonist] more anxious about his choice of drinking coffee, because if he does end up getting hooked on it, will he end up like her? he chooses decaf to test the waters and strike a compromise.
CHEESE: the fear of choice. this ties all the way back to the beginning, where [Protagonist] just can't decide which food sample to try. in the aisles of grief, he sings a very cheesy song to himself, eventually coming to the conclusion that he should let the universe decide for him... which leads to something he really doesn't want. so, taking charge of his own life, he instead keeps searching for what he truly wants. this inspires him to return to the sample stand and finally decide which one he wants to eat... and he loves it. he realizes that his choices are important to who he is, even if they aren't who he is. also, the final song is a very quick summary of every single lesson he's learned.
jack stauber is one of the greatest absurdist artists i've seen. his methods of introducing thoughtful meaning through the strange and mundane are truly inspiring. in a truly wonderful piece of art, every detail counts... and stauber has exhibited his fine eye for detail many times here and in his other works, like opal. can't wait to see what he ends up doing next!!
Did anyone else notice that when he’s walking through the isles of grief, it actually says the five stages of anger in the aisle numbers?
Before almost every song, Someone called this dude deaf
M Meghana Sorry- I meant deaf
@@gacha_kit_kat1059 it's okay :)
What does it mean?
It means if you can't hear.
This is a running theme in a lot of Jack Stauber shorts
This guy really walked through the cheese aisle and went through the 5 stages of grief
Is that not what you’re supposed to do?
@@Sandwich_People no it's not. Everyone knows you go through the 5 stages of grief when you walk down the pasta aisle
@@I_Love_Llamas mamma Mia
@@akumakuroi BRUH LMAO
and you don’t?
Anyone else noticed that all the people that the guy walks into look exactly like the food item that comes after, for example
Pecan woman looks like a milk carton (the hair)
The cut guy looks like paper towels (his head)
Stress-head guy looks like a bowl of oatmeal (head shape and hair)
Coffe addict person looks like a coffee mug (the ear is the handle)
The guy with exquisite taste looks like a grain
No the fancy guy looks like a loaf of bread.
"Vegan Hot Dog Buns" bro i'm dying even more than that milk was 🥛💀
okay but the “was your dog artisanally bred” joke made me giggle
Same, lol
I didn't understand 😔, would you mind explaining please?
@@Different0001 dogs can be “bred” to make different breeds, it’s a play on words. :)
giggle!!!!!
Homestuck spotted
"Alright, I'll be doing some homework in my room now."
_5 minutes later_
*What kind of milk were you*
Well 5 minutes later turn into 5 months later
@@YourLocal_PitayaDragonLover them 5 days
My favorite buzzfeed quiz
Oof. I literally got my homework open in front of me, and I’m distracted with this
Galileel? Was machst du hier?
Brooo the fact that he actually shows the 5 stages of grief in his lyrics is amazing 🔥🔥
no one mentions the fact that every character is designed to look like the main object of each segment, it’s SO much attention to detail in this short film and i LOVE IT SO MUCH
My favorite part is that he always picks up an item that solves the problem he’s presented with each time.
-Milk that isn’t expired.
-Bread that *he* wants, not something needlessly complicated.
-An indestructible rag so he doesn’t have to make so much mess.
-A mystery flavor of oatmeal so he has more than the same thing over and over again
-Decaf coffee, so he doesn’t feel dependent on it.
(Edited to change the bread one)
Techinicaly the bread was needlessly organic/natural. Although I suppose the quality of the bread was arrifically boosted with buzzwords.
I love this creation purely because this entire set is an anxiety attack.
Every person that approaches is themed off of the item he's getting [it's honestly funny how the old woman was milk carton shaped, I didnt catch it at first] and seems to vanish after he tames his mind. The only 'normal' in the world that doesnt call him deaf for not falling into the anxiety of the situation is the worker at the beginning.
@@professionalaccount8012 Fair enough.
Also that worker was shaped like a roll of paper towels, even having those little divits that make it easier to tear off a square.
The guy buying bread is shaped vaugely like the artisanal mutligrain 12 seed vitamin bread, the guy who plans his dinners ahead shaped like a bowl of oatmeal, the coffee woman vaugely shaped like a mug, ect.
Samee
Artisanal is the opposite of artificial I think
I think this video is very interesting because somehow Jack Stauber manages to capture the important things he values in life using... a shopping list. Of random stuff. The main character gets each item, spontaneously contemplating about his life each time he chooses.
The milk song was about a 'life' lived, and how after you die the world just moves on('your days are gone, the grocery list goes on').
The artisan bread part was about how people try to act like they are 'artisanal', like they live a luxurious life. But at some point they start getting obsessed with it(" what is an artisanal me, where do my clothes end? Which ones are my artisanal friends?"), to the point where you only try to be the version of yourself that looks artisanal, and only befriend people who are artisanal. Your clothes(a metaphor for who you look like on the outside) are what determines YOU.
The paper towels is more about a 'mess' than the item itself. The mess is a metaphor for how life keeps going on and doesn't heed your needs when you want to stop things from happening, or have time to think. And at some point inevitably you must die.
The oatmeal entails a silly conversation with a person who lives a preposterous life, planning everything on a rigid schedule("I just sacrificed getting peas for standing here, bagels for explaining a body's like a clock to you and..."). Then the main character wonders to himself if everything can be planned, like accidents? What about death(symbolized by the car crash scene)?
The coffee part is about starting drinking coffee because YOU decided you want to use it to control yourself, bit then getting controlled by COFFEE. It can be anything other than coffee, I just think the caffeine is a metaphorical example.
In "Cheese", the main character is antagonized by the fact that he is supposed to choose one product out of so many different ones, wondering if someone else can choose it for him instead. But choosing the cheese(and making important choices in his life) is completely up to him; nobody can live his life instead, can they?
And then he suddenly realizes something. "I trust I would pick something better... It's a decision I make to be a good go-getter. Milk will expire so toss your oatmeal and eat something new. Coffee moderation, life is messy and your bread isn't you." Basically: "Your living days are limited, so don't be obsessed with schedules and rules and seize unexpected opportunities, embrace the new. You depend on other things to try and moderate your life, but life doesn't wait for you. Also don't get obsessed by what others think, because what you are to them aren't necessarily your identity."
After this declaration he rushes... to the sample corner and decides he wants the strawberry flavor. I was particularly tickled by this ending. Like so many of us, even when he finds some deep meaning in life and decides to live his best version, the things he's capable of changing and choosing are so petty and little. Like which flavor to sample?
I might be the only person to read and see this
one of my school buddies loved you. made a presentation about you. ended up committing suicide a couple months ago. one of the best people i met. this was his favorite video btw.
Rip to your friend
this is talking about the passage of time, perfectionism, adiction, entropy and the fear of choosing
This is beautiful, kudos for jack
What about inflexibility and adjusting to new situations, unable to change?
Funny dog
Yeah idk its a bit of a stretch
@@freitchetsleimwor2406 No, I mean like having an inflexible schedule, like the guy who freaks out at the main character because he doesn't have enough time to grab peas just because a couple seconds went by.
yall ever just go through the 5 stages of grief because of cheese
Everyday
yeah.
man i hate when that happens
Yeah when i see it in my foot long sandwich i have a mental breakdown
all the time
just now realized that all the characters he meets is also the things on his shopping list.
I’m pretty sure the whole milk section is my sense of humor
I like the detail that he gets something that goes against each song, get fresher milk to counter the expired, plain bread instead of artisanal, a single wash rag instead of paper towels, small box of mystery oatmeal instead of the big plain box, and decaf coffee instead of the more addictive regular coffe
I like the detail that each person he encounters looks like the item on his list. Old lady looks looks a milk carton, artisanal bread guy looks like a package of bread, paper towels roll, bowl of oatmeal, coffee mug. No one is cheese but he is the yogurt.
@@LadyBern omg that is so cool i never noticed that till now I only noticed the artisanal guy looking like bread
These songs remind me of talking heads
Ohhh I noticed the weird haircut but I didn’t think of it being a milk carton
Thats the point he is working his way to being better and learning his way through every obstacle like life and death addiction choice and 5 stages of grief in the beginning he cant make a simple decision because he is worried about not picking the correct choice but at the end he loves his choice and even though he never gets to try the second option he can live with it
*I like how people keep asking if he's deaf.*
Plot twist: there the one that is deaf
They’re using it as an insult
Except for the guy in the hurry (Oatmeal guy)
Your names Jeff?
@@Spacem3ows what are you, deaf?
Love revisiting this. I was excited for it when it was coming out in 2019, some of Jack’s best work. The song at the end when he realizes to take life one day at a time in stride and enjoy it always makes me smile. I also love Opal and Future.
I really love this weirdcore, nostalgia, comedy style of Jack Stauber’s. It’s really interesting and admirable. Funny yet unsettling. Keep up the great work
"hey man just dont over think it"
jack: **does hardcore intense math in head**
@BRYCE MOORE uh... *i've died multiple times until probably the despair girls game i die*
Wait- Junko. What are u doing Here?
@@munch11munch *I'm just here, Nagito*
@@Lovedtothecore interesting. this encounter is rather pleasant but awkward
@@khachmaxo *watching you get salt thrown at you was more interesting tho*
My clown ass just realized all of the people the main character encounters look like the groceries he's shopping for.
pft- sameeee
Bruh it took me like four times watching to realize because I found this comment
@@aggressivelysobbing init
WTF i didn't even realize
Holy fuck istg I've watched this video for eternal times already but just realized it after reading your comment
man jackstauber really knows how to make things feel really alone
but the music is so good
and this whole thing is so artistic and creative
i love it
I love how Jack manages to use 2D, 3D, and claymation animation.
Forgot live action, technically not animation but still.
Forgot ms paint animation
And with his left hand
and stop motion in opal
@@torturedpoet1989 isn't that what claymation is (I'm dumb so correct me if I'm wrong)
I love how everyone just asks him “ what are ya deaf” 😂
They're not used to people just... Listening.
Its sorta like opal where everyone was blind ig
@@JustBerryGacha lol
@@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450 good observation
Only the Paper Towel and Oatmeal dudes didn't call him deaf lol
y'all I just realized something
each character that the guy sees in each aisles looks like the items on his list (well there heads do)
the old woman looks like a carton of milk
the rich dude looks like a loaf of (artisanal) bread
the emo looking shop worker looks like a roll of paper towels\
the one not being able to get to his food on time or whatever looks like a bowl of oatmeal
the crazy lady looks like a coffee mug
"That shouldn't be hard at all" top ten sentences before disaster.
Shop a pop opera : fun times grocery shopping while singing
OPAL : and there's the nightmares
Opal was a terrifying masterpiece
@@solarwalkman yes its scary but i cant stop watching
Opal: If your family is like this your kid has trauma
Anyone notice how polite the artisanal guy was?
"Thank you!"
What are you *d e a f*
Naw, he was a jerk
hes one of those people who act really fancy and expect to get publicity for it
and he didnt laugh at the dog pun
@@jordy9606 all of the people he talks to are both polite and jerks. It’s kinda realistic when you think about it. Like, the old lady for example said she would try the cookies he suggested later, which is an attempt to spare his feelings. The bread man said thank you, the coffee girl was trying to make small talk with him, and the toilet paper guy...told him where the toilet paper was? The only real jerk was that oatmeal guy. He just talked super fast and was really weird
the quiet “thank you” as he walked away had me rolling
he was a dried out lemon
Jack's music is so... his. You can tell from just the first 3-15 seconds of any song that, yes, this is a song by jack stauber. No doubt about it. Some of my favorite musicians work like that, and jack is no exception.
It took me this long to realize that *_each person's head is designed like the product they're in the aisle for._*
The main character has the curled piece of hair like the sample
The old lady's hair was styled like the milk carton's top
The artisanal man's head is shaped like the 12 nut vitamin bread, with the piece on top being the tied-off opening
The employee is shaped like a roll of paper towels
The meal planner's head looks like a bowl of oatmeal
The coffee lady's head is like a coffee cup, with her ear as a handle and the 3 hair strands like steam
All of the items represent his fear of change
Milk- dying
Bread- changing yourself for others, needing to be seen as superior
Paper towels- needing to control the future, guilt,
Oatmeal- needing to control the future, change
Coffee- addiction, losing control
Cheese- making a choice, independence
He eventually learns that it doesn’t matter, and he chooses something new
another thought is, the milk isn't DEAD, it's EXPIRED. while this can be another term for dying- i view of it as not being useful anymore and being thrown out. the old lady is hooked up to a breathing machine and in a wheelchair. often when old people begin to require more effort and help to take care of, family members will abandon them (like throwing away expired milk)
@@alanmcgee592 true, being abandoned and forgotten is totally a part of Milk!
I feel like for the milk it’s also the fear of not living a meaningful life because of the “what kind of milk were you” and all the questions about how they lived their life and not that they just die and the “was your life rich with calcium” which could mean like meaning or something or im overthinking a song about expired milk
@@alanmcgee592 also true since it seems that the person before the actual song goes with the song
dang that goes deep love this comment
I just realized: every person our protagonist meets during the pop opera has their head shaped like the product in question, save for Cheese:
The old woman looks like a milk carton.
The artisanal gentleman is shaped like the Multigrain 12 Nut Vitamin bread.
The worker who cuts his finger on the broken glass is shaped like a roll of paper towels, there are small lines on him that are similar to the tearable parts on each roll.
The time-obssessed man is shaped like a bowl of oatmeal, his hair being the oatmeal in the bowl.
The coffee addict looks like a coffee mug, her ear being the handle to the mug, her three hairs being the steam coming out of cup
And our protagonist's hair has a little bit of his hair curl up, just like the curl on the yogurt sample he chooses
Jack intentionally designed them this way to say something, the only problem is I don't know *what* he could be saying
They represent the problems addressed in the songs. Also the main character looks like a sample because of his main problem which is addressed in "Cheese", the last song and the opening segment. The main character's problem is that he's too indecisive, so he samples their lives through each segment
Thanks for the explanation, after rewatching it again, I've noticed a few more things that might be interesting
-The old woman asks for a box of pecan cookies, cookies are a natural partner to milk (you dunk the cookies into the milk)
-After we finish Bread, we notice the couple, they're the only one to not be met by our protagonist in any way, the only thing we know about them is that they're in a relationship and eat vegan hot dog buns (another form of bread)
I don't think Jack meant to say anything with the woman's need for cookies (I could be wrong, Jack Stauber is one of those artists to hide details), but I do think that he did mean something with the vegan couple: As we see in the Bread section and the final song, you aren't the bread you choose, and, with the bonk on his head, letting yourself be only known by your food choices (what society knows you for) hurts you in long run
Also I’m pretty sure (it might seem obvious idk) its related to the stages of grief
Edit: each character is in their own world and aren’t willing to try new things, so the main character realizes that he should try new things instead of being self absorbed because he saw how reserved the others were and he didnt want to live like them. The people became the food basically because they made it their personality, for example the mug-shaped woman who lived on coffee.
You are what you eat?
@@johnnyyosemite5014 I just assumed it was thematic consistency, like not adding forest green to a pastel colour set, or sticking to familiar mediums like clay and live-action segments in his animations.
I love listening to the coffee lady talk
These songs might be the perfect form of pop. Catchy, good lyrics, hidden meanings, quick and short, and the best replayability of any song ever. Really a work of art, Jack just understands music better. It is like a math to him, another language he speaks fluently in
Timestamps for all the songs!
Milk - 01:37
Bread - 03:30
Mess - 05:22
Oatmeal - 07:18
Coffee - 09:32
Cheese - 10:47
End Medley - 11:36
This deserves more likes thank you so much
Im laughing at the coffee song cuz i drink tea to wake up lol
You are now my favorite person
You God damn beautiful human
Oatmeal is my fav
"your bread isn't you" is such a powerful quote, i must say
I just realized 'bread' could also mean money as in material possessions, lol
It’s my favourite line!
@@salanaya8718 yes it does mean that cuz bread represents the song artisanal and that song is about people's opinions on you based on money and material things
personally ill always be in love with "i could've picked something better than that"
he left his cheese selection up to fate and fate itself couldn't do better than if he just chose for himself
The entire cheese song has 10/10 lyrics, like they're ridiculously good. The whole "5 isles of grief" bit is funny and unironically really clever lmao
7:49 is a reference to when jack was in a car crash a few years back. he injured his right hand, so in a few videos the description says “made with left hand” (eg: dinner is not over)
I just noticed that each of the characters looks like the item correspondent to their section. Every time I rewatch this I see another fun detail.