A Comedy Musician Reacts | CAN'T TEACH THIS and BRITISH SUMMER JAM by The Stupendium [REACTION]

[@Insaneian]

I must admit, I was so jazzed to have this "assignment" that a few things slipped by me: - the fact that the instrumental is the same as Stupes' Two Point Hospital song "Doctor Doctor" - the Open Mike gag double meaning with Mike being a person's name, hense why it takes place in the autopsy lab - the various OTHER degree jokes around the obtuse one. Whoops. Thankfully, I made up for those missed marks by including an extra credit reaction at the end. Thanks Professor!

[@Darthnova-rd9nk]

By the way Stupendium rhymed whitherspoons full name with what happend to them Llewellin Mayhew Matt O’Grady Baudelaire He fell in a huge of vat of gravy but they’re fishing Phipping Tim Matthau Him Back out with a spoon Witherspoon?

[@YuetheCreep]

@@Darthnova-rd9nk the fourth And a forke

[@chinacarter8319]

SO GLAD I tweeted you, glad to see it paid off lol 😆 😄

[@Akumasama]

Two I haven't seen anyone notice so far: "[...]and Robinson's robotified" with the background character waving arms made of dryer vent duct is a reference to The Robot from the 1960s TV series Lost in Space. And also: Llewellin Mayhew Mat O'Grady Beaudelaire Phipping [Tim Mattheu] Witherspoon the fourth (He fell in) (a huge) (vat) (of gravy) (but they are) (fishing) (him out) (with a spoon) and (fork) The ENTIRE NAME. All of it.

[@Insaneian]

@@Akumasama the Robinson one someone in the comments here pointed out, and I mentioned the entire name rhyme in reply to a separate comment here too (but yes, I didn't verbalize it in the video) 😅

[@RealTHM]

I had a HEART ATTACK when I heard "That means YOU, Ian." Great reaction but I'm still recovering from that one.

[@ChestersonJack]

I think my favorite bit about the “Drake? Baked” joke is not just bc Drake is a chef, but their demeanor both in this bit and the big part where they’re all singing together (Drake bonks themselves on the head with their own rolling pin) seems to indicate they’re quite high. You know, “baked.”

[@Anaerin]

I love the detail of Stupe's "1rd" diploma in CERTIFICATE FORGERY

[@grimallq]

Another call back to a previous song. There's a Doctor with the exact same forged diploma in Two Point Hospital song.

[@Endtherinbetween]

@@grimallq that doctor appears in a small part of this one

[@raptormaster666]

Connors: Fossilized. Dr Curt Connors aka the guy who turned himself into a lizard/dinosaurian creature and became one of Spiderman's villains. Ustinov: Goofing off. Peter Ustinov was a British Actor and filmmaker, whom I first saw on The Muppet Show pretending to be an international robot diplomat amongst other hijinks. Robinson: Robotified. Lost in Space reference, the old rubbery arms and claws is the design of the original Robot. There's probably more, but those are the three I picked up on.

[@jameskent8gmail]

Connor's fossilised could also relate to the song stupendium did with Dan, Rustage, and Connor Quest where Connor played a zombie and this was that Zombie Connor's fate

[@jameskent8gmail]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnTIc4yQl5qCf5Y We Told You So

[@epikitee2186]

the "gregory? rapping" is meant to pair with "emily? napping." i hadn't realized that until you paused on each of the two lines, because of how fast it all went by. that's great.

[@Insaneian]

Yeah, and the long name at the end? Each WORD is rhymed in the reply. I don't think I verbalized that.

[@gagekelley5047]

Isn't Gregory also stupendiums real name? Um fairly positive that was the actual joke.

[@epikitee2186]

@@gagekelley5047 yeah that too

[@rachelthornberry1240]

What I love most about Ian's reactions to both this and two point hospital is the losing his mind at all the puns and double meanings, pausing after every one with a hint of pain in his eyes, taking a moment to collect himself before commenting, and sometimes when no words come out it just becomes "PUNS" and I honestly think that's beautiful

[@louiserickson8109]

Didn't see this mentioned yet: We in America usually just call it a "hose" instead of a "hosepipe" and would usually call a "hosepipe ban" a "watering ban". The joke being that no rain for three days is enough to cause drought and that people need to water their lawns in that time.

[@thatoneguy9582]

21:46 one of my favourite jokes(?) in this song (mainly because it’s one of the ones i caught and i feel very smart about it)- “Our methods are methodic and we’ve taught the tautological” “Tautological” iirc meaning redundant or describing itself- i.e. methods being methodic

[@Calimbandil87]

The Pavlovs dog part was freaking brilliant. I'm not sure why english chose obtuse and acute as angle names though. We just say blunt or pointy.

[@Wolie318]

A collection of some details I noticed that I haven't seen anyone else point out yet, because Stupendium has no chill and goes hard with the details. - as good as the "big on inclusivity" line is, the line before about "scheming for the Ministry" is probably a reference to their previous song No One's Home. - the background gag of a certificate for Certificate Forgery with a 1rd Award, which was also in Doctor! Doctor! - Same for Dr. David D. Davidson, who was in Doctor! Doctor! - "We've taught the tautoligical". Tautolology means to say something twice but with different words, such as saying different things with the same meaning.

[@kwilci]

Shame you didn't catch on to the incredible homophone in the final, egregiously long name in the attendance section! Every single part of the name rhymed, not just the surname. Llewellin - He fell in Mayhew - A huge Matt O'Grady - Vat o' gravy Baudelaire - But they're Phipping Tim Matthau - Fishing him back out And of course Witherspoon - With a spoon

[@Insaneian]

I actually DID catch it, just didn't verbalize it, tho I stated it in a reply to another comment here earlier.

[@MoonBakedTomato]

The Fourth - and fork

[@sebashernandez2058]

I JUST REALISED!!! the camouflage professor is called " Cam O' Fladge" HAHAHA

[@Osma777]

Watching this again months later, and that moment when the "invisibility assignment" joke hit, your reaction made me laugh harder then the actual joke! It was INSTANT "wtf, omg" moment.

[@Buniko42069]

Gothic Stupendium has and always will be my favorite.

[@shadowstrider42]

You're good at pausing! Its not something i considered a skill until i saw some reactors pausing mid sentence, mid word, starting it again and then randomly going back 10 seconds... It's incredibly discombobulating, and makes me feel like i'm having a brain aneurysm. You pause on the punctuation, and that makes it easy to follow. So i wanted to compliment you on that skill which often goes unnoticed until you see someone who doesn't have it.

[@Insaneian]

Thank you, I appreciate that!

[@Calimbandil87]

To be fair, you've basically already done so much reacting and evaluation of stupes work that you should have enough credits by now. Great to hear about your support of the Trevor project. I'm even happier that I bought Illinoice now.

[@bigpinkbow197]

Hehehe Your both so amazing and wholesome!! Giggling throughput the whole thing!! And as a true Brit and lover of British summertime jam, it has never been so relevant and funny!!

[@Insaneian]

Thank you!

[@AngelicDirt]

~35:05 - HOKEY SMOKES, Stupes did a swear! Good reason to swear, but STILL... Mind, blown. :O

[@hyperstormx3194]

You're the first reactor I've seen to point out the "teacher's pet" line, which is my personal favorite Very well done

[@LessaCaira]

I love the sing-songy "Thank you". They do it a bit in different videos.

[@parkerc5410]

25:01 that part of the outro had me laughing way more than it should have.

[@Anastas1786]

"And a little dairy derring-do and you could win the gold!" Every great school (in America at least) loves its sports teams, but there's always at least one team in its Athletics Department that it's _particularly_ proud of, and the shiniest gem in Two Point U's athletic crown would appear to be its Cheeseball team, seen in action at 17:56 and 21:28. I think that's all that is.

[@skyfon8497]

It’s interesting how you called stupendium they and there during your reaction just something I immediately caught. I also absolutely love your reaction you always point out things I miss and are very intelligent when it comes to stoops words play.

[@Spectralyzed]

Ah, yeah, Stupes came out as non-binary recently. Not sure on details, as I only learned about it last night, but they go by they/them now from what I've gathered.

[@jmurray1110]

I think they are going more agender You’re describing bigender

[@skyfon8497]

@@Spectralyzed sorry for the late reply I still love stups work no matter what I just wasn’t sure at the time he was going by them or they but thanks I appreciate the information 👍

[@hollowwoods7130]

@Nightmarionne No, they're neither

[@MissyV1990]

I can't believe it took me this long to realize you were the "Ian" 😂 love it

[@sheller153]

10:19 sometimes the low-hanging fruit is the sweetest

[@wyren925]

31:46 Iceland in England is a supermarket

[@Endtherinbetween]

i’m in a sainsurys carpark rn and there’s an iceland next to the sainsurys

[@cyberneticblood7291]

Was looking forward to seeing your reaction on this especially after stupe mentioned you on the outro!

[@loganonyfyp]

Oh lord he’s back at it again! You know it’ll be good even if you comment as soon as you start watching, like me. KEEP IT UP IANNN!

[@av_8596]

It’s so awesome that Stupendium made it into a video game. He’s come a long way. Hope there’ll be more good things to come!

[@Insaneian]

They voice characters in several too!

[@av_8596]

@@Insaneian really? Like what? I remember him voicing Clank in his Ratchet & Clank rap, and he sounded *exactly* how Clank sounds; it really fooled me. I honestly thought Clank’s official VA was in the beginning.

[@Insaneian]

@@av_8596 they (not he) voice a character in Death and Taxes, and also in a newly released game called Lord Winklebottom Investigates (both available on Steam and Switch). There may be another, I'm not sure (I think they did a voice for OnlyCans as well as the theme song).

[@av_8596]

@@Insaneian oh cool! I never played Death and Taxes. I’ll check out those games when I can; I’m sure they’re interesting games. Thanks!

[@chr_fish]

I was waiting a lot for the “Can’t teach this” reaction! And I loved it! (Over all because I just understand the Pavlov’s dog joke :P ) thanks for explaining everything!! And this was a surprise that I didn’t expect that you react to “British Sumer jam” love it! Thank you!!! :D

[@weltato]

Yes. Yes, yes, yes! I've been waiting for this since the song came out, I'm so happy you've reacted to it!!

[@lukekebell3146]

Hose Pipe Ban is when too many people in our country are using water (specifically hosese) to fill pools, run fun sprinklers & other water based activities to beat the heat. This creates a water shortage so they ban'em for a bit

[@ozediting]

You know, I've listened to this song a frankly concerning number of times up until now, and yet until he paused on the "Greggory? Rapping." I didn't actually put the two together, and that is absolutely hilarious now that I know.

[@AutumnRaison]

British Summer Jam is chock full of unashamedly British phrases and culture. E.g. Iceland (the supermarket chain), our reactions to what other places would call cold temperatures, etc.

[@gigglepantsiii9350]

The Stupendium often slips in the more obvious jokes and puns, but they go through them so quickly I didn't notice many of them for the first several times listening through (and of course they slip them in between multi-line and internal rhyme schemes)

[@crypticanexe]

Only just got around to watching this, but I never actually listened to the end of the Two Point Campus one the day it dropped - I didn't catch the "That means you Ian" at the end until this. Lol! Their occassional references to you in their videos has become a fun thing to keep an eye out for. Onto the second song, I seriously feel the pale to lobster ratio issue though. I live in Florida, the sun is AWFUL here for so much of the summer. The second I walk outside I turn into a lobster myself, along with the rage of one. (No, really, you see those claws? Thats me when it's hot - it's miserable). Your reaction at the 'Fucked up' line was about the same as mine - Stupes? Cursing in their own song?? Who are they?? Favorite line though? "Fuck. Has anyone checked on Gran? She's alive but it melted her marzipan!" There's something too funny about hearing a person who rarely curses throwing out the f-bomb TWICE in a song. Anyway, great video as always! :)

[@Kyuyu]

I am barely 10 minutes into watching this and had to subscribe to you right away when you said that you were explaining things cause it's fun in that half-deadpan/half serious tone, and saying that about a song written about a videogame is just, well, how could I NOT subscribe?

[@Insaneian]

Ha, thanks! I appreciate it!

[@joeboywho]

Iceland is a shop that sells frozen goods! A blessing on a hot day out, honestly..

[@Starbean89]

Your dissertation on the song was well done . I am sure you will graduate with flying colors…mostly it will be Toybox colors…

[@Horltum]

Also, to add to the Pavlov's Dog line, the hippocampus is the part of the brain that handles learning connections. In other words, the hippocampus is the exact part of the brain that Pavlov was studying with his dog. And as an Australian, I disagree that everyone universally hates the sun. Because I'm an outlier down here.

[@AlexanderAzarov]

He mentioned that exactly.

[@Horltum]

@@AlexanderAzarov Unless I misremembered it, he didn't mention the hippocampus, only the Pavlov's Dog experiment. So I added to it.

[@AlexanderAzarov]

@@Horltum no, he actually did mention it at the end of that aside.

[@Horltum]

@@AlexanderAzarov Ok, I missed that, sorry.

[@galaxytoaster9679]

Hey Ian. First off, wanna say I'm a big fan of your reactions. You seem so genuine and tickled by alot of the comedy music you listen to, especially with stupendium! You're definitely the KZbin channel I look out for when it comes to videos. Keep up the good work! I definitely have a few songs I would love to see your reaction to, if you'd ever be interested in taking a look. Looking forward to more videos!

[@Insaneian]

Thank you so much for the kind words! If you have suggestions for comedy songs for me to check out, feel free to post them here in the comments. I can't guarantee I'll get to them, but I'll at least add them to my list and try to! Thanks again!

[@galaxytoaster9679]

@@Insaneian Hey bro, here's links to the songs I wanted you to hopefully react to haha kzbin.info/www/bejne/f53SpnR3bdKFkNE kzbin.info/www/bejne/npvYfWOsi8xlr5Y kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHe3i6l7atZ1edE

[@Dragonbait1217]

Who noticed the "glory to the ministry" reference( it's near the inconvenient pizza delivery and before the wizard stuff).

[@jameskent8gmail]

If Stupendium released a game The Ministry would be the name of the evil organisation that the player has to defeat.

[@DJSchreffler]

Pomp & Circumstance is a set of 5 marches by Edward Elgar. The first march is the most famous, and often is played at high school or university graduation. Music from marches 1-4 appear in Fantasia 2000--the Noah's Ark cartoon. ...ok. The callout to you by name was amazing. Just checked the map. Chicago is about the same latitude as Barcelona, so you're a few hundred miles south of England. (I'm at the same latitude as Cairo, Egypt.) Random thought: Whatever happened to 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun'?

[@whatanonsense856]

Ah, once again I get so many explanations of gags I wouldn't understand when listening to Stpendium's video! Thanks!

[@DisAnimated]

13:47 I think the Iceland line is a reference to the supermarket chain called Iceland.

[@oliviatilleman8055]

34:43 my dad does that too. except it's less about him being in the sun and more about him doing physical labor (altho sunlight/sunburn definitely doesn't help). he simply channels a lobster

[@darkumineru1681]

9:50 and it references the other "deworming" we (sometimes) do to dogs and cats if its with a lot of other dogs or cats all year round...

[@FluffyPrincess888]

I love how you aggressively say "PUNS!!"

[@stevenmacknight9960]

Ian: "If you know, you know." Me: But what if I don't know?

[@Yal_Rathol]

stupendium's name is greg. "gregory? rapping" is a rhyme on "emily? napping" while also being a literal statement of what's happening, greg is rapping.

[@stevenmacknight9960]

@@Yal_Rathol And now I know.

[@hughjanis6318]

Yes! I was waiting for this! 😂

[@bethpalmer4547]

Iceland is a shop in England

[@Zeninari]

Glad To Finally See This xD I Always Enjoy These Reactions Keep Doing What You Do Best!

[@Place_Your_Order_Here]

I'm glad I've got Ian to explain some of this to me, so I understand the cleverness behind the song more.

[@silentwatchman9908]

Also Camouflage class is taught by "Prof. Cam O'Flage"

[@kizukun001]

Another peg in your stupendium vid lore, you were a student at his college. Maybe the espionage class? which is why someone sent 47 after you when you went insane.

[@angelinasurzhyk6655]

29:56 What are you talking about??? The outfit SLAPS

[@PhirePhlame]

"Pomp and Circumstance" is the name of the orchestral music piece often associated with graduation, specifically. I once heard it was originally intended for more somber occasions.

[@Mister_Stoned]

I love how the beat on the stupendium song was the same as whit his 2 point hospital song just whitout the heart beat

[@TrinaryAdept]

i'm in southern california. we have everyone else's summer most of the year and then hell's summer for the actual summer. it averaged over 100 F for a whole week this year.

[@fayah8865]

"ahaha! pizza invonvenient for delivery"! yeah! thats a big ass pizza!! *...i.. live in chicago so thats a normal sized pizza.*

[@emewsher]

Love the reaction. I've been lurking for awhile but thought I'd let you know I've been enjoying your content. Also, let me introduce you to the southern end of MO where almost all summer it's been over 100°F or 38°C. Best thing about my job is the air conditioning. I don't have any at home.

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!

[@penprp]

Thank you for reading the cheeseball practice one, I wasn't able to make out what the red lettering said.

[@knowlesy3915]

Im so glad someone reacted to British summer time. It's spot on.

[@FluffyPrincess888]

"Open Mike night" in the Autopsy lab? That's a dude named Mike

[@mitchelldingodilehomie4230]

It was worth the wait for this video

[@toast_in_a_bucket7803]

I live in Italy where it's 35°C perceived at 9:30 AM (That's 95°F) and I am still drinking boiling hot tea

[@demonwolf5671]

To help with the thyroid problem eating some seaweed will help. So getting some Nori snacks and having a few pieces of those every day should help out to some extent. I have a similar problem as well so I looked it up and found that Seaweed does help.

[@CommanderViviax]

Iceland is a shop in the UK. Sells frozen goods mostly. Big freezers.

[@Midrealm_DM]

26 Celsius is 79 Farenheit, to me that's a nice cool summer day. Where I live is getting a break from last weeks heat wave (37+/100+) So this week its only predicted to be 35/95 all week.

[@randorookie8587]

16:24 he also said “acutely” like an “acute” angle

[@Insaneian]

Please see the pinned post you had to scroll past to post this.

[@randorookie8587]

@@Insaneian didn’t scroll past it didn’t read it either though soooo you know (I just assume it’s about something to do with advertisement when it’s the KZbinr’s own comment so I didn’t read it)

[@AngelicDirt]

... 'Owens and Cleese? Cheese' took me about three listens to get, too. XD

[@ghostwriter5685]

I was the teacher’s pet for most of my classes because I knew most of the shit in class being taught. So I was often called on when no one wanted to answer a question. High School fucking sucked for me because it was so boring and completely killed my drive to learn.

[@brentbottoms2876]

18:20 another part is when it gets cold you could have a stiff upper lip and do when it gets warm it breaks

[@Dogfee79]

This song had me hyped for collage

[@thedangerstrangeruk]

31:50 Iceland is the name of a British supermarket

[@Vertrium]

Hey Ian, great assignment! I think Prof. Stupes will give you an A+ on that one. Hopefully XD

[@the_craftedwarrior2439]

the beat of 'Can't Teach This' shares the beat of 'DOCTOR! DOCTOR!'

[@Insaneian]

That's what I said in the pinned comment!

[@the_craftedwarrior2439]

ah, sorry

[@Insaneian]

@@the_craftedwarrior2439 no worries!

[@dana-ger_to_society1011]

Also, the obtuse joke goes with "straight A's through the roof" because a straight line is 180 degrees, which is obtuse.

[@noahhamilton5974]

PLUS the line before says they're ACUTEly aware

[@matthewfitzpatrick2225]

16:02 the cool thing about that whole long name section is the whole thing(or most of it) rhymes.

[@Insaneian]

Yup, I forgot to verbalize that, but I said it earlier in a reply to a separate comment here. Good catch!

[@4ty2]

I really like the award at 12:47 Gotta congratulate them on their 1rd prize for forgery!

[@mitchelldingodilehomie4230]

22:24 your reactions to his puns are hilarious

[@MoonlightVTOffical]

Watching these reaction I notice things that I haven't, Because I never noticed the reference he put in there about his name until you pointed it out. The part of the song did go by so fast

[@El_Rey_247]

Re: jokes being obvious, or knowing what the punchline is, I think something really important was glossed over: delivery! I find that the best comedians aren't the ones with original jokes and subversions of expectations, but the ones that can tell you a joke you've heard a thousand times and yet _still_ make you laugh. As for "knowing where it's going", I think my favorite example of this is Kevin Smith's story about the never-to-be movie "Superman Lives", where he takes 20 minutes talking about all the mismanagement behind "Superman Lives," and expertly builds to a punchline about "The Wild Wild West". Anyway, back to the video, needless to say that Stupes' delivery is always top notch.

[@AlexanderAzarov]

... Was that a Shelter From The Storm reference? Wait, can't be, that came out in 2018, the year after British Summer Jam. So this is the source, instead.

[@njohn043]

I THOUGHT HE JUST PICKED A RANDOM NAME FOR “THAT MEANS YOU” THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER

[@capt_iron2797]

I never cought that stupes did the Gregory rapping line before

[@NerdRaps_]

Also Gideon is in the same outfit as Stupes was in Bellhops bite

[@Endtherinbetween]

as soon as i saw the word stupendium and british summer i clicked on this so fast knowing how good the song is

[@YuetheCreep]

Ah that with the bell was once used in warehouse 13

[@jarzz3601]

i hadn't twigged the degrees are quite obtuse til the moment you paused then it clicked :D

[@exhaustion3688]

Hearing you say you can relate to British summer because Chicago only has 3 months of summer made me laugh. The most common joke about summer I hear in England is that we get 1 week of summer before the rain comes back, like the 36 hours in the song. 3 months is a proper long summer to me 😂😂

[@Insaneian]

3 months...non-consecutively!

[@jmurray1110]

1 week exclusively

[@AngelusNielson]

A profiterole is a cream puff by the way. Looked it up.

[@babydragon5647]

I recon youd have a good laugh at Hello and Goodbye by JT Music. They did a live action video and its just great!

[@nat3007]

There was a program here in the UK called the worst witch which was also a magical school made well before Hogwarts. Clowns are less scary once they ask you for university course advice that was a weird day.

[@emewsher]

I remember a movie I watched as a kid named The Worst Witch.

[@kenshinrx]

I thought the scheming for the ministry line was a reference to no one's home

[@paulkleihege1509]

Note to self: the next time an assignment is late, tell the professor it's available to my patrons.

[@Insaneian]

I literally sent it directly to Stupes, tho. And I did so the day BEFORE it was on my Patreon so...yeah, wasn't late. 😅

[@FluffyPrincess888]

"SYNERGY!!"

[@gren8te319]

8:39 now you only need 6 more nights and you can have a whole month