Beyond Believability: FACT or False

[@thruthenever]

The confusion and incredulity of his delivery of "ASS?!" followed by, "But Ass died five years ago" is just perfect.

[@eldritch.abridged]

I love that it looks like he's been ADR'd too, like the "Ass" barely even matches his lips

[@MegaMan-bs3oy]

That is spot on how they did it in the real show lol

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

"ASS?!"

[@flyindevil]

@@PanAndScanBuddy "Not this time. It never happened."

[@bmo14lax]

I almost spit out my food at how accurate it was to like 50% of the beyond belief stories 😂😂

[@CorndogNinja]

I love how the "barking" pun doesn't even have anything to do with that story

[@JonathanSicoli]

There's nothing "slippery" about good storytelling

[@emptyMorg]

Dogs like bones, dogs bark ez

[@philbattiste9649]

It either has nothing to do with the story, or it's the most obscure reference to H.P. Lovecraft's the Hound ever.

[@TheSilly6403]

That part had me laughing so hard

[@marcopivetta7796]

But ASS died 5 years ago... perfect delivery.

[@mads_in_zero]

Personally I wish it was "But ASS died 3 years ago...", just to hammer home the Silent Hill 2 homage of the delivery of "ASS?" (EDIT: It's a plot point in Silent Hill 2 that the main character's wife, Mary, died three years before the story, including a line of "But Mary died three years ago...". Also, in the director's commentary for this video, it's confirmed that the way they say ASS? is a reference to that SH2 scene linked below).

[@excelatrate]

@@mads_in_zero pls post sauce cant find it

[@mads_in_zero]

@@excelatrate kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIS0ZGmup7eKbtU

[@eruption257]

"ASSCAR" adapted from Harlan Ellison's "A Not-So Clean Plate"

[@somedude9665]

ass never dies

[@lordtachanka903]

“Similar events happened in Florida just last week” you could say that for literally anything

[@Jsssddfgffghshdhdhusjsjd]

how about a gay priest resetting the universe for his vampire boyfriend

[@modernmajorgeneral3662]

@@Jsssddfgffghshdhdhusjsjd similar events happened in Florida just last week

[@ketaminepoptarts]

@@Jsssddfgffghshdhdhusjsjd similar events happened in florida just 30 minutes ago

[@revilno]

@@Jsssddfgffghshdhdhusjsjd I mean that’s probably one of the less crazy things in florida

[@S8EdgyVA]

You know that song he made where there's an hilariously crazy story with a lot of fictional characters? How much do you wanna bet it'll happen in Florida by 2040?

[@adrianpink8144]

"but ass died 5 years ago" lmaooo this is too accurate. the evidence in that show is always vague af.

[@johnmartinez7440]

"It's true...I saw it"

[@aviation_nut]

My favorite one was where they had this couple miss their trip on the Lusitania because of some freak thing where their rings get caught on their hands or something? I forget, it was so long ago. And then it turns out they were telling this story while on the Hindenburg. Frakes says, "Was this based on real events? Yes. It's true." Well, yes. It's true in that the Lusitania sank and the Hindenburg blew up... that show really insulted viewers' intelligence.

[@5MadMovieMakers]

I don't need the mainstream media when I have this show to tell me what's true and false

[@floppademon1506]

*_OH MY GOD 5MADMOVIEMAKERS 😍😍😍😍😍_*

[@StephenBlane]

That scream when he sees the skeleton was amazing. It's like he has had this happen to him before a few times but not often enough that it doesn't still startle him.

[@Sammie1053]

*_B O N E S_*

[@weirdorangeyankabetch]

@@Sammie1053 HUH!!!

[@camerabox1]

That’s so oddly specific that I’m going to have to ask you if you relate to this situation on a personal level

[@Xenunnaki]

It's like when you see a bug or spider really close to you before you realize what it is

[@praxibetelix1664]

Ryan's delivery on "The boys in the writers' room fluffed this story up" contains so much raw power.

[@joeykickassery]

Grins exactly like Jonathan Frakes

[@BellaExclamationMark]

I really love that the "pornography" is just a picture of a young woman, fully clothed. That man is innocent indeed.

[@Lost-Lilim]

It looked like a pic of Sarah Michelle Gellar from the a Buffy promo.

[@evilcoleslaw]

@@Lost-Lilim it was.

[@YadonTheCat]

Missed opportunity to have it be weird fetish stuff

[@crnkmnky]

@@Lost-Lilim promography

[@izzzy1977]

Monetization

[@BoundaryBreak]

uh wow. perfect capture of the tone and style of beyond belief

[@maddiequestionmark]

oh heck look who it is in my good boy’s comments

[@neurosin]

oh shit, whaddup?! I work for a game company as an environment artist and am watching this video at work because a coworker posted it. Then I find you in here. DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN? It's true.

[@BoundaryBreak]

Hey Josh! Right on man! Thanks for all the hard work you do. Did some sleuthing. You worked on Batman for TellTale games yes?

[@neurosin]

@@BoundaryBreak yeah dude. Worked at Telltale for 5 years on Batman 1 and 2, Walking Dead 2 and michonne, tales from the borderlands, and guardians. Also, Roblox, Sims 4, XCOM The Bureau Declassified, and most recently, Wolves in the Walls (a VR film by Neil Gaiman). Currently work at Manticore Games. Whew...that list is getting too long, next time I will just link to my website. Ha! I really appreciate your channel. It is one of the few that focus a lot on what I do and it is really great to get the perspective of outsiders when they see environments in this light.

[@BoundaryBreak]

It seriously means a lot that when someone like yourself who knows what they're talking about when it comes to games would appreciate my show. Really makes me feel like I'm on the right track with Boundary Break. Seriously, thank you so much man

[@ezekielmartin4323]

My favorite part of the video has to be "BARKING up the wrong tree" at 4:17. In normal circumstances, it'd just be a stupid pun, but the fact that not _one single part_ of the story before it had _anything_ to do with dogs, trees, or barking makes it... _mwah!_ Pure poetry.

[@itsrachelfish]

HEY! Dogs have bones too y'know

[@weirdorangeyankabetch]

And the globe the host is holding at the beginning of that one also has nothing to do w it! 😂😂😂

[@Vinkie]

He probably meant to say PARKING up the wrong tree

[@ezekielmartin4323]

@@Vinkie Nah, I think he was just being surreal

[@Bluey]

there were a lot of trees

[@mickat5350]

Neil: uploads a video KZbin Subscriptions feed: false. it never happened.

[@bwomsambi]

@@UnknownUser-jz1he who asked?

[@KryptoDigital]

Thank god his hand is fine. I couldn't imagine a worse fate than getting your hand stuck in a sandwich, let alone a pb&j

[@kellygallagher7148]

Yes, it's lucky that he realized what was happening before he ate the sandwich. This could have been a real tragedy.

[@nerolemon]

grilled cheese would be worse

[@trash_girlfriend]

The guy is also quite the snack himself

[@devadedo]

In potato bread no less.

[@vz2428]

@@trash_girlfriend ikr

[@daltysmilth]

What's most impressive to me is how perfectly they captured the look of 90's era videography. It's like they actually filmed this on Betacam and 16mm film.

[@KJYKJY1985]

The thought of a clock reading 12:34 is terrifying. I swear I've seen it happen twice in one day.

[@ITPaladin90]

Apple bite sound for an orange. Details like this kill me!

[@mygills3050]

and he's just biting into it! he doesn't even cut it up or in any way eat it normally!

[@mygills3050]

Some orange skin is poisonous, for God’s sake!

[@sentientblender]

2:32 that scream is irreversibly lodged into my memory from watching stick figure comedy videos when I was 12, never expected to hear it again out in the wild

[@wetlor2315]

Holy shit what a nostalgia trip

[@sentientblender]

You sure you’re not thinking of the Wilhelm? Thought that was the one that turns up everywhere, not this. Maybe this one is the same deal, but I’ve never heard it talked about.

[@wetlor2315]

@@sentientblender nahhh wilhelm was mad different, guy falling off a horse style scream

[@DeathnoteBB]

TheBlenderman Sorry if this sounds snippy (idk how else to say it but matter of factly) but common stock sounds have more than one scream. Wilhelm is the most well-known but not the only one.

[@sentientblender]

Hmm, my bad then! I’ll try to dig up some more info, apologies for assuming the worst.

[@misturfixit45]

Not only a perfect imitation, but also nailed the frustration of their mundane stories being fictional and their ridiculous stories being "based on" reality

[@foglake757]

crying laughing at “but ass died five years ago”. this is perfect

[@Monique.Marceline]

The credits are gold (“Dr. Tex Axelfart” “Spenser Keyboardson”) but my personal favorite is “D*ck Clark” being censored

[@bmo14lax]

"You cant say dick wolf on television!"

[@ZaGorudan]

Using footage of Carnosaur in the Jurassic Park segment. Genius.

[@2Eliishere]

I thought that was carnosaur.

[@connor48880]

What was the still they used in the Toad-Man part. I don’t know who that guy is.

[@raydonahue1978]

It was Jurassic Park. The dinosaur shots were from Carnosaur. Some people say the Jurassic Park novel is kind of similar to the Carnosaur novel. I think both the movies came out in 1993.

[@raydonahue1978]

@@connor48880The Ukrainian Toad-Man is Toad, played by Ray Park, from X-Men.

[@LeviathanLP]

@@raydonahue1978 The FOX X-men movie from waaay back. The one where Storm says "do you know what happens when a toad is struck by lightning? the same thing that happens to everything else" and then hits him with lightning and he flies away and presumably dies

[@oceanflowerrs]

im absolutely losing my mind?? the actress at 0:24 is my old art teacher from when i was in grade school, ms feeney! it took me several watches to figure it out, but now i'm 100% certain it's her! what!!!!!

[@amazydaisy]

underrated comment

[@RandomTomatoSoup]

waow

[@cipherclone]

@@amazydaisy she looks like an art teacher

[@scarletpachyderm]

@@Jachra ART TEACHERS WERE MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT

[@milkbox103]

@@Jachra art teachers were made up to sell more art supplies

[@ChelseaColeslaw]

TV Y7 S rating is a great joke. It's subtle and only is funny to people who happen to know what those ratings mean.

[@KevinJamesVideo]

Thanks!

[@ChelseaColeslaw]

@@KevinJamesVideo 👍Please keep making this quality content and I will watch it!

[@GBart]

This thing is chock full of subtle jokes

[@skittybug6937]

I looked this up and my god what a fantastic joke.

[@NitroRad]

could be real

[@Professor-Badger]

Ikr?

[@patrickr.1433]

does anyone know if real?

[@BigDogBandit]

wow both of the startropics boys are here.

[@Under_Sky_Third_Gaia]

Too funny!

[@TheCreeperCyborg]

Damn what are you doing here

[@mossmeow]

0:58 "Boobs, boobs, boobs....." Truly a dark story. I hope the family's son has learned his lesson.

[@janicechristinedenton0451]

Oh, Neil. You come to me when I need you the most.

[@Sandydandyman]

Watch in 240p for maximum authenticity

[@hiltonlive32grnrngr]

I just wish the duration of this fan-made episode was as long as it's behind-the-scenes special; that would've really enhanced it's authenticity

[@johnmartinez7440]

Thanks for this suggestion. The presenter was a little too high res for my liking

[@pleasekillyoursef]

genius!!!

[@twistedwizard9100]

360p works too

[@ZipplyZane]

You really need 480i, but that isn't available.

[@SeventhLemon]

This was hilarious, had me crying. The random Jurassic Park clip (fact), the split second still of Toad from X-Men after the Ukrainian Toad Man story (with no clip), the fruit he bit into that I’m pretty sure was an unpeeled orange... too good. My past obsession with Beyond Belief makes me really appreciate this, the cheesiness is so accurate. “But ass died five years ago...”

[@FroggyCrimes]

The Jurassic Park segment also had footage from the extremely awful movie Carnisaur cut into it.

[@FourthDerivative]

Also how the clock segment is just titled "The Witch Doctor's Curse" for no reason

[@MegatronYES]

“but ASS died five years ago” had me screaming and crying so hard my wife woke up

[@WJINTL]

I wish they would do a sequel to this. It's shamefully underrated.

[@cats-a-lot3609]

Fr

[@professorbean5791]

This guy has Johnathan Frake's weird mannerisms down so well it's scary.

[@una_10bananas]

Ryan is a consummate actor

[@Zeiru]

I'm blown away by your set for the 'Johnathan Frakes' portions of the video. It looks amazing.

[@rinoz47]

eh needs more antiques

[@jauxro]

This is so weird I only just found out about that Johnathan Frakes show and now I find this for the first time

[@riflemanm16a2]

@@jauxro I watched it as a kid and just watched an episode of it a about a year ago for the first time in 20+ years, and now I'm also seeing spoofs and poops of it. Maybe it's just becoming a meme now.

[@Fuchsia_tude]

The set just looks like a warehouse with a cage screen and some candles. The real quality is from the blue lights and fog.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

@@Fuchsia_tude it is a warehouse. They talk about it in the behind the scenes for this video

[@beerasaurus]

"could jars really hold profanities inside of them?" I died.

[@teomodo8266]

neil watching a hockey clip from the 70s when they're parodying a show from the 90s immediately followed by the fake digital display on the clock, plus the analogue clock in the background reading a completely different time... it's beautiful...

[@boccs9925]

I've been rewatching Beyond Belief over the past month and it is AMAZING how accurate this is.

[@Grannit666]

It's crazy that your whole crew has posted nothing but fire for the last 15 years

[@GuaranteedVideo]

We try!

[@Dragondraikk]

As someone living in a country that still airs that show on infinite repeat since its creation, this is uncannily close to the real thing.

[@milomiller3472]

went in for my monthly rewatch of this cause it always makes me laugh and just realized the librarys called "j.varney library" i love that little jim varney reference, ernest forever

[@MegaPikachu5]

*Pulls up in bike* "Have you ever gone mountain biking"

[@pokemontrainerelio3648]

No way!

[@wurmsrus2]

twitter.com/zbgolia/status/1138489910757920769

[@bmo14lax]

Real ones know

[@sophiegamer6679]

5:08 "Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parent's cellar, downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar." Nice.

[@handsomebrick]

It's not even a sexy picture, it's just a normal headshot.

[@Porkey_Minch]

Glad I'm not the only one who got the reference.

[@danielthemaniel7461]

@@Porkey_Minch Please enlighten me. I don't remember which song this is

[@Porkey_Minch]

"It's All About the Pentiums" by Weird Al

[@CaptHayfever]

@@handsomebrick: Counterpoint: *_ALL_* pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar are sexy.

[@eleanorelmore]

It wasn’t until the narrator started referencing the stories that I realized this was filmed for this and not re edited from some old show. Really nailed the production design and tone of those shows

[@petershillito]

Somehow this video from 4 years ago remains in my head because there has been at least one occasion recently where I've seen the word "ass" in like graffiti or otherwise written down somewhere and I find myself going "ass????" exactly like in this video. Still one of my favourite Guaranteed* Video videos.

[@Random3716]

My favorite subtle joke is that in the 3rd one there's a second clock in the background that shows a completely different time

[@kappaross6124]

Could this video have really happened? False. FiCTioN

[@FelixBoltwood]

"I'm innocent"

[@GBart]

It's bullshit

[@DiabeticNecromancer]

It's false

[@shaleww4864]

We made it up

[@jblue1622]

Not true

[@Dieci-9]

For some reason the heartbroken gravedigger's second shout had me wheezing.

[@KevinJamesVideo]

Corey Tilton is a genius.

[@reidheidler5138]

I love how the stories too silly to be real are fact while the stories too boring to have been made up are the fictional ones

[@Arcade_Cat_]

I love that the clock in the background doesn’t even show the same time 2:15

[@mobius273]

Ryan murphy telling you you're right for 30 seconds

[@MemoriesAndRegrets]

So Spirit Phone's the soundtrack for this show huh?

[@MrPatters]

This show is the visualtrack for the album.

[@zmbklr101]

That episode where that guy died was amazing.

[@kllcmd8980]

zmbklr101 I mean, I preferred the one where the scientist keeps pestering a radio host about aliens

[@groundzero1077]

@@kllcmd8980 What about the one where the guy resurrects Micheal Jackson? I thought that one was pretty good

[@austinmitchell2652]

@@groundzero1077 I prefer the one where he turns Alec Guiness into an animatronic

[@pokemontrainerelio3648]

This was beautiful... God, this amazing parody was more like the actual show than any of the imitations. One thing the imitations failed to do was full on dramatizations like Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction did, it was always fully narrated, had interviews with the people who experienced the strange event and had people testing the events to see if they happened.

[@lk8114]

"Similar events happen in Florida " well he's not wrong...

[@Pellbort]

You could really say that for anything.

[@FourthDerivative]

I love the implication that they just showed the entire movie Jurassic Park as a segment on the show then asserted it was real

[@Porkey_Minch]

5:06 Is that a Weird Al reference? :O "Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar Downloading pictures of Sara Michelle Gellar"

[@Begeru]

But he's in the library...

[@notapplicable3258]

At 2:09 the clock on the wall seemed to show 2:40, not 1234. Perhaps some sort of digital manipulation was used, like that utilized in the making of Neil puppeteers in his sleep.

[@Caboose4u]

I really, really enjoy the care you put into making this look like the show. Nice professionalism and funny. Great job.

[@KevinJamesVideo]

Daw. Comments like this make my day. This one took some real time.

[@Endsorrow]

@@KevinJamesVideo We love you, Kevin James James James James!

[@WCOBDisorder]

I like that the clocks don't match up

[@Jogwheel]

This is absolutely great. Love your attention to detail like the WFXT local FOX bug... with everything sandwiched between a pair of old commercials. Made me feel like you ripped this right off a TV in 1999. Awesome job 🙂

[@z_skandana]

That was definitely an apple eating sound when he took a bite of that orange. What the heck is this? I love it.

[@gamerman7276]

Fake. It never happened.

[@scottbrown2252]

@@gamerman7276 I'm innocent.

[@BryanSteacy]

"J. Varney Library" As in Jim Varney? As in Earnest P. Worrell?

[@misterdanny5421]

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, VERNE?

[@jonothanthrace1530]

@@maiabones Not podcasting and voice acting superstar Little Janet Varney, this one is named after the seldom-seen Big Janet Varney.

[@averagebritishguy7082]

As in Slinky Dog in the first two Toy Story movies?

[@una_10bananas]

Yes.

[@deborah_chrysoprase]

"Sir, we've talked about this"

[@aila6814]

the part i laughed at hardest was him biting into the orange. everything in this was sublime but that shit sent me over the top.

[@Grstearns]

Just here to pay my respects to Ass. We miss you, brother

[@themanwithoutaplan]

🙌

[@xXTomokoKurokiXx]

"I'm innocent" Maybe not on my life, but perhaps on yours.

[@Norsilca]

For some reason I laughed so much when the number on the "digital clock" slowly rotated into place.

[@neilcic]

That's a real clock I found at a yard sale. Apparently from the brief period of time when LED displays were expensive and fashionable enough to imitate.

[@Firebert]

He CAN keep getting away with it! - Me about Neil Cicierega

[@MyssBlewm]

A friend of mine told me that he has a cousin from England who had a friend whose house was attacked by their own mail. The mail was flying out of the mail slot and purging out of the chimney. I think it happened in the 90s.

[@dark.faedream]

I love how you guys are still friends after all of these years. I've been following the videos on your channel and Ryan's channel for seven years, they are a source of creative inspiration for me and I love watching them, cheers guys :)

[@bobdeinterlace]

I love the little joke at the end of Harlan Ellison being credited for one of the stories because he sued people all the time for "adapting" his stories.

[@kaitbelll]

Love how the Jurassic Park segment is actually Carnosaur 2.

[@RaccoonGaming2112]

The Millennium commercial at the beginning made it so much better

[@suppertea6056]

nOT fact. I am INNOCENT.

[@aurumarma5711]

I've never clicked faster, besides those times that I did.

[@xybur]

Totally false.

[@Will-ql6di]

Yep! a total un-truth!

[@MisterAppleEsq]

A complete fabrication.

[@vz2428]

No way. Its fiction.

[@JessiNaka]

You're innocent.

[@michaelshumate3134]

I used to love this Show, I didnt know anyone else watched it. I thought it was just a really long fever dream from my childhood.

[@junkequation]

so funny; my wife and I were watching this show, and one was about a kid who said there was a monster in his closet. He went into the closet for some reason and was never seen again. The host, of course, proclaimed it true. Closet monsters is a real phenomenon.

[@xybur]

I didn't even WATCH the video, I just saw the THUMBNAIL pop up in my yt feed and I died laughing.

[@WaterMusic34]

Lol that's awesome

[@dharrius_archive]

I don’t know why I like this so much, but I really like the person telling the tv-show host off in the library is Neil acting bit voiced by Kevin haha!!

[@temmiedestructo7309]

Of course the second one didn’t happen... Neil Cicierega isn’t REAL.

[@swarler]

think about it. have you ever seen him in real life?

[@THATGuy5654]

The fact that you wedged a clip from Carnasaur(?) into a clip from Jurassic Park is that extra layer of delightful.

[@radiomantis]

yet another epic win for neil circuitboard and his friends

[@Sandydandyman]

I think the funniest part of this is the fact that it’s rated TV-Y7 and contains sexual content

[@TheGhostQuarter]

The only part that made me go "ugh" was not waiting till the end to be like "it never happened" "this one was a product of our writers imagination" "its false" "im innocent".

[@OfficialDiRT]

1,000,000 bonus points for the MillenniuM bumper.

[@danieloconnor4638]

I love how 4:16 he just randomly acts like he's making a pun

[@tricdaddy316]

It’s a joke to how Jonathan Frakes would make similar puns from the real show

[@CaptainBarnabas]

oh neil we're really in it now

[@ezyto]

I’ve been watching a lot of beyond belief recently so this popping up is just hilarious

[@jamiedoesthings]

Neil uploads and suddenly my day isn't so bad

[@jamiedoesthings]

By the time the asscar rolled round I felt the need to amend my statement. My day is now officially good.

[@kenkarsonn]

I’ve seen this several times and only now realized that the clock story has the title of “The Witch Doctor’s Curse” and we’re given zero context for it

[@bmo14lax]

Lmao yep

[@bmo14lax]

And the walk clock is totally different, so good.

[@putriscool]

i love how at 6:00 they censored "dick" despite it being someones mame

[@Cotygeek]

You guys always nail the 90s aesthetic perfectly.

[@annveal]

Bringing a Dad, jokes, AND Dad Jokes all in one video. Praise the Neil.

[@kenirainseeker539]

The funny thing about the mailman one is that there actually was an episode where a dude was being attacked by paper

[@asdfghjkl9260]

5:14 i'd recognize that boney wrangly-ass torso anywhere... Thats a Neil. FACT.

[@inactivepleasegoaway]

"sir, we've talked about this" he really did it AND got caught multiple times

[@ray_0209]

I lost the will to live at the jurassic park clip, but when he bit an unpeeled orange, that really got the rest of me. I would pay a lot of money to see more of this.

[@guytorie]

The peanut butter and jelly sandwich was defective and haunted because the jelly jar was originally used to hold the word "fuck."

[@MrBaritonefreak]

I love you Neil And everyone who works on these. One of the most underrated channels out there. Hope all is well for you bud

[@flashpone7910]

Yo, I loved this guy’s solo channel, Viscious516. Glad to see he’s still making stuff.

[@percussi0ngun]

i’m watching this with the actual show in the background and it truly heightens the experience

[@tackytown345]

the cut to jurassic park made me straight up cackle i love this channel so fucking much

[@urboybangs4473]

The whole time I'm watching this I'm praying it never ends.

[@SpoonyBard88]

The "help!" kills me every time. The fear in his voice is palpable.

[@ZyxthePest]

The look of terror in Neil's eyes sells it.