My computer screen was so bright that I couldn't even see the weird after-images on my avatar towards the end of the video, so uh, pretend those aren't there
@BigFlusteredMess7 ай бұрын
Crazy
@Dope-Bomb7 ай бұрын
Never
@BohrmaschineMedo7 ай бұрын
Crazy
@edward667037 ай бұрын
Fair enough sometimes shit happens
@jessetorres87387 ай бұрын
Suggestion for a video: Ranking Every Season Of Power Rangers.
@joenappi84597 ай бұрын
I distinctly remember learning weaponized incompetence from Rodrick in one of these books when he tells Greg that if you screw something up enough you never have to do it again
@eldlusen7 ай бұрын
omg i remember that
@Naehiro7 ай бұрын
"Not settin' up the chairs next time! Not settin' up the chairs next time!"
@Lunar.677 ай бұрын
LITERALLY I've spent a lot of time unlearning that 😢
@theswissmiss697 ай бұрын
Oh damn!😳
@CaptainRegular7 ай бұрын
@@Lunar.67Why would you ever unlearn that? It's a fantastic tool for getting out of boring tasks at work.
@discoshark77677 ай бұрын
Maturing is realizing Diary of a Wimpy Kid is just 200 pages of Family Guy cutaways with a plot
@cortomaltese52067 ай бұрын
And thats not a bad thing
@schedark7 ай бұрын
Plot is optional tbh
@EricGudmundson-n3j7 ай бұрын
This is even worse than the time Greg Heffley..................Oh wait, there's no need for a cutaway..............Greg's donw way too many bad things to count...
@anth6367 ай бұрын
I remember thinking “Man, this is 200 pages? Why is it so looooooong?!” Lol
@hokage19977 ай бұрын
so thats why my adhd drew to the books because family guy ruined my attention span worse than vine lol
@liamdude57227 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: Diary of a Wimpy Kid was originally a really long book on Funbrain. Then, when it was adapted into a paper book, Jeff Kinney had to cut quite a bit out. The material that was cut out then turned into multiple plot points in Rodrick Rules, which is why that one essentially feels like an expansion of the first one.
@Ninja_45617 ай бұрын
The Funbrain version was over 1000 pages long, and most of the material was used across the first 6 books
@Jayjar1007 ай бұрын
There's actually material from that huge book going all the way up until Hard Luck, if I recall correctly. The segment in Hard Luck about young greg putting his hand on the iron after being told not to was originally in that huge book
@ProbPeriPlum7 ай бұрын
Ellie the plush "bowling pin" elephant from Hard Luck I think was the last thing from the online book to be adapted.
@Milopin17 ай бұрын
The Funbrain version is what I read originally as a kid. ...Funbrain DOAWK was the original Homestuck.
@mosshivenetwork1177 ай бұрын
Never heard of Fun brain.
@vamperilous7497 ай бұрын
36:23 Dude no, these books are still CRAZY popular, you have no idea. I'm a librarian, and these things get checked out. ALL. THE. TIME. I probably have all the titles memorized from the amount of times I've reshelved them, it's wild.
@SNoodleJuJu7 ай бұрын
Which ones get checked out the most?
@RealAshkii7 ай бұрын
This makes me happy
@dianadooby6 ай бұрын
Oh ya they DEFINITELY are. My little brother has my old ones and gets the new ones as a gift for his birthday or Christmas.
@lazermoose12276 ай бұрын
I second that as a Barnes and Noble workers. Every new one sells out SO fast
@eagletgriff6 ай бұрын
Hell yeah
@Pixelat57 ай бұрын
My theory is that Greg stopped when middle school ended and found his diary’s when he got older and cashed in and sold them as legit published books and made more later
@Mjauritz7 ай бұрын
that's my new headcanon now that's a very Greg Heffley thing to do
@JSChronicle4897 ай бұрын
So everything after Hard Luck is made up
@Dutchy45646 ай бұрын
My headcanon is that he drank himself to death
@officialmonarchmusic6 ай бұрын
@@JSChronicle489 Yep, that's the best part! We get to write the weird books out of the canon
@henryapplebottom72316 ай бұрын
*Cannon*
@pajamapantsjack58747 ай бұрын
Imagine meeting someone who has like 30 diaries cataloging almost their entire life. If this were real it would be an incredible piece of outsider art crossed with an autobiography. Greg is truly an insane person and I love him for that.
@ZekeorSomething7 ай бұрын
He writes pretty much every detail in his life he's definitely insane
@Scribblemations7 ай бұрын
So... Chris Chan?
@paperluigi61327 ай бұрын
Sounds like Adol Christin from Ys. Except significantly less charismatic and stable.
@tayloranderson75477 ай бұрын
You do that for real life
@BirdDuck7 ай бұрын
I mean the whole reason why he did this is so people won't bug about his life story.
@real_abender7 ай бұрын
"The Last Straw" refers to Dad getting fed up with Greg's act and planning to ship him off to military academy. "This is the last straw, Greg!"
@MichaelBlaneWalker7 ай бұрын
Yea… Out of jealousy of his boss.
@rinn52387 ай бұрын
I think it also refers to how many times Greg got screwed over in that book. The last straw for him was Holly calling him Fregley.
@matthewplayssomegames7 ай бұрын
I thought it was referring to how it was originally supposed to be the last vook
@Jem.Studios7 ай бұрын
Adding onto things mark didnt know the cover in hard luck DID happen in the book iirc
@nyxcat36217 ай бұрын
And third wheel referred to Greg feeling like the third wheel on his thing with rowley and that girl
@SprInGam3s7 ай бұрын
Fun little fact about Hard Luck, in most of the drawings, you can find hidden eggs just in the background, just behind stuff, and ive never seen anybody talk about it online
@mitchfletcher23867 ай бұрын
I remember that vividly.
@neelimavaishnavi65207 ай бұрын
I think that was for some random egg hunt where the first person to find all the eggs gets some prize or something
@appleworldinc.89377 ай бұрын
@@neelimavaishnavi6520I think one of the eggs had their late aunts super expensive wedding ring that they all wanted to pawn off
@henrynelson93017 ай бұрын
@@neelimavaishnavi6520Greg’s Great Grandmother Meemaw would hide Easter eggs every year for the kids. They were mostly filled with candy, with some containing a five dollar bill. She hid way more than was necessary, that’s why there are still some unfound eggs lying around years later. As Meemaw got older, the eggs started having stranger prizes in them, like a paper clip, a bottle cap, and a used tissue. The last Easter egg hunt happened the year Meemaw passed away. At the funeral, they notice she wasn’t wearing her diamond wedding ring that’s worth a lot of money. Greg’s whole extended family frantically looks for it and accuses each other of stealing it, arguing over who would get it in the will. Eventually, Greg finds an egg in her backyard, with the ring inside. He doesn’t tell anyone, afraid of splitting up the family, and just hides it in the closet in case he ever needs the money.
@carso15007 ай бұрын
@@henrynelson9301holy shit, that is quite the story
@someguy77777 ай бұрын
i like how jeff kinely didn't want the deep end to have heavy covid 19 refrences so it won't be irrelevant in a few years but later adds a werewolf vampire as an obvious homage to twilight like it wasn't a dead franchise for 8 years at that point
@TheBonkleFox7 ай бұрын
Twilight never dies, no matter how hard we try to kill it.
@MightyMewtron7 ай бұрын
Werewolves and vampires being attractive to young women is something that didn't start and end with Twilight exclusively though, plus it's a lot less depressing than putting COVID in a book.
@fuckinghelenlikewhatthehel26296 ай бұрын
twilight actually had a pretty big resurgence during covid 19, i would recommend watching sarah z’s video on it
@Double-R-Nothing6 ай бұрын
@@TheBonkleFox It just reincarnates as a BDSM series for older women that portrays abuse and stalking as romantic. It can ALWAYS get worse.
@just_your_localguard96125 ай бұрын
Speaking of Twilight just randomly in target parking lot I saw the movie disk on concrete.
@GhostlyWhiteGuy7 ай бұрын
Steve Zahn was casted PERFECTLY for the movies tho, he is so good at being that dad who’s had it up to here all the time and has those crazy eyes when he’s mad.
@BeyondBaito7 ай бұрын
I love that Rodrick's actor was also in SAW and fucking melts a guy with acid for letting his dad die.
@belgianfootball45297 ай бұрын
He also has a small role as a scientist in oppenheimer. blew my mind
@thej22417 ай бұрын
his role in saw 6 was actually before DOAWK, if you can believe it
@BeyondBaito7 ай бұрын
@@thej2241 Yeah that's where I recognized him
@mimigigihere7 ай бұрын
he also plays a violent bully in a few episodes of degrassi : the next generation
@insertchannelnamehere96377 ай бұрын
@@mimigigihereno way he was in degrassi? thats nuts
@argkitsune7 ай бұрын
Calling Greg a sociopath is a bit of an understatement. Kid's a legitimate danger to society.
@yololthepikminenjoyer7 ай бұрын
wouldn't be surprised if he started the iraq war or something
@ricniks46197 ай бұрын
Idk man I feel like David from the No David! franchise has him beat here I was absolutely disgusted by his war crimes & how he was able to evade all consequences due to his insane manipulation skills.
@2-Way_Intersection7 ай бұрын
@@ricniks4619i mean, david is a kid. he has a chance to grow out of at least some of it. greg should know better
@joaquinm91487 ай бұрын
Not as bad as David from No David
@alejandro98297 ай бұрын
Most kids are I have little siblings
@jimtru80487 ай бұрын
The Shel Silverstein jumpscare sent shivers down me timbers. Also as a band kid, $600 for a French horn sounds generous. The drums I march are usually up in the THOUSANDS.
@birdword1117 ай бұрын
I was laughing so hard at that joke when it was in the books and I was hoping that it was going to be in this video. Certainly was not expecting that!
@koda_dawgg7 ай бұрын
same. i used to have the giving tree as a kid and i was also terrified of the picture of him.
@omarmansuri70997 ай бұрын
@@koda_dawggI didn't even know who the fuck he was. I read the joke in the wimpy kid book, found out he was real from my family, looked up his photo and then got terrified of him.
@stupidbandkid7417 ай бұрын
Yeah, was a brass player I know how much those things can go for lmao!
@guitubagrips97193 ай бұрын
Cries in the price of a new sousaphone
@platinum36905 ай бұрын
The worst thing Susan ever did was when Greg told her Rodrick said a curse word, and she asked what It was, so he spelled It out, only for her to punish him with a bar of soap In his mouth for knowing how to spell a curse word, while Rodrick got off scot free.
@explodingbutters95953 ай бұрын
Hehe you said scot and your pfp is from Scott Pilgrim
@chaotic52457 ай бұрын
I feel like the first Rowley’s book should’ve had been like a retelling of the first book in Rowley’s pov for like a fun gimmick
@masonasaro21182 ай бұрын
oh, like that one twilight spinoff!
@Bxnny20002 ай бұрын
Hey ever after high pfp
@horridJ7 ай бұрын
Just remember. It’s a Journal, not a diary 🗣️
@LeoGaming557 ай бұрын
It’s an ocean, not a lake
@piranhalettuce7 ай бұрын
It's the sky, not a cloud.
@tayloranderson75477 ай бұрын
Yes it is for real life
@LeoGaming557 ай бұрын
@@TheChad53 YES!!
@Zizpy7 ай бұрын
@@LeoGaming55 SAM LAKE YOU HACK!
@Samuel-us5tz7 ай бұрын
The Long Haul book was made specifically so it could be adapted into a movie. It said that in the movie diary about it. That's why it focused on the Heffley family and had them get into more outlandish situations than any of the other books up to that point.
@Samuel-us5tz7 ай бұрын
That's where the series jumped the shark in my opinion. Even when I read that one as a kid I noticed how jarring the shift was to these unrealistic situations after the series had remained relatively grounded until that point.
@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad7 ай бұрын
And then the movie didnt even end up following the book
@SNoodleJuJu7 ай бұрын
Too bad the movie had the shitty re-casts And when I say that I mean they were not cooking with the cast this time
@AliFrankTheTank6 ай бұрын
feel like No Brainer & diaper overload wanna be movies as well.
@Daggz7 ай бұрын
One of my biggest childhood repressed memories was in 4th grade when one of my classmates vandalized my copy of DOAWK dog days so i took a page out of greg heffley's book and put a thumbtack on his seat like the spiked ball from Roderick rules I still have not been caught to this day. Im sorry Franklin.
@ZekeorSomething7 ай бұрын
You got great revenge
@Leifyon7 ай бұрын
Honestly? fair
@tayloranderson75477 ай бұрын
For real life
@BananaArm7 ай бұрын
ill get you
@cringycam25467 ай бұрын
How dare you do that to Greg Heffley dad 😂
@GiovanniKody1003 ай бұрын
The most tragic part in that one Wimpy Kid book is when Rowley says “I’m not gay, Greg.” Then closes the door, causing Greg to sob. That book is a cinematic masterpiece, and that scene helps.
@guzmaamzugsi47 ай бұрын
Im not gay greg
@Liam_backpack04 ай бұрын
*door slam*
@billcipher044 ай бұрын
I like your pfp looks good 😊
@Raincally4 ай бұрын
_sits and sobs_
@JoaquinOrtiz-bz1zc4 ай бұрын
You know this is from fanfic, also this isn’t homophobic it’s a reference.
@frickerrific28134 ай бұрын
I’m not playing Fortnite with you Greg
@youngboyril7 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: Jeff Kinney came to my school back in primary school and in my classroom, a student asked how many books was he going to make (most recent book was hard luck) and Jeff said 10. Clearly we are past that
@stormdoesgaming89197 ай бұрын
Now he's saying 20 will be the last one. We'll just see.
@Masterchief05216 ай бұрын
@@stormdoesgaming8919 Diary of a Wimpy Kid 20: Greg goes to hell
@KMD-o8x5 ай бұрын
I would read that @@Masterchief0521
@namemcnamerton42497 ай бұрын
Originally Ugly Truth was supposed to be the last book, like season 3 Spongebob and the first movie, but the series just kept getting picked up.
@ianbyrne4657 ай бұрын
That makes sense. Ugly Truth really has that, "finale" feel to it. I'd like to imagine that's where the story really ends.
@JeskidoYT7 ай бұрын
I remember that Jeff announced that he wanted to step away but focus on his family. But once his son was born, he wanted to write for him
@AliFrankTheTank6 ай бұрын
@@ianbyrne465ugly truth is 🔥🔥 shoulda got a movie
@officialmonarchmusic6 ай бұрын
Honestly, I think Hard Luck would have made a better finale
@noaht20056 ай бұрын
@@officialmonarchmusicthat was last grounded book before it started to go off the rails. The series should have ended there
@JustinCage567 ай бұрын
What makes Gregory's character so great is that he's an a-hole and the books play it completely straight. He's not some deep character analysis about the duality of man like many YT videos have you believe.
@jskywalker587 ай бұрын
27:50 i like to believe that greg is so used to his families dysfunction that seeing a genuinely healthy family relationship is too jarring for him to handle and that's why he calls for help.
@guywhoismoderatelywarm6 ай бұрын
when you said "girlfriend-free boy" i was attacked by incredibly uncomfortable flashbacks to chris chan's mortifying time on the internet
@matthewgillis26172 ай бұрын
Tell me why I'm stuck as a virgin with rage!
@smartistepicness7 ай бұрын
This series has been going on for almost 17 years and Greg is still in middle school.
@BlueBlazeKing7 ай бұрын
I legit went through kindergarten to completing my bachelors degree with this kid in middle school
@spoopyghost33337 ай бұрын
One could say, that could be the worst type of Hell anyone can ask for 😅
@nostalgiamostalgia03197 ай бұрын
I think starting with Ugly Truth the ninth grade was morphed into the middle school, hence the start of the seeming eternity for Greg.
@marioh14767 ай бұрын
He's the Ash Ketchum of kid book series
@Deino60007 ай бұрын
because the time in the books is not the same as time in real life,the time in every book is connected almost immediately
@Prollan067 ай бұрын
Worst to best with timestamps, you get the drill: 18. Old School (1:03:24) 17. Wrecking Ball (1:23:48) 16. The Deep End (1:33:28) 15. Big Shot (1:42:52) 14. Double Down (1:08:23) 13. The Long Haul (56:49) 12. The Getaway (1:13:24) 11. Diper Överlöde (1:50:57) 10. The Last Straw (17:35) 9. Cabin Fever (38:02) 8. The Meltdown (1:18:35) 7. No Brainer (1:55:13) 6. Rodrick Rules (10:14) 5. The Ugly Truth (32:52) 4. The Third Wheel (44:45) 3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (3:04) 2. Dog Days (25:27) 1. Hard Luck (50:32) EXTRA: The Wimpy Kid Do-it-yourself Book (23:23) The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary (30:30) Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid (1:28:35) Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure (1:37:55) Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories (1:47:25)
@tayloranderson75476 ай бұрын
For real life.
@The_DoubleTime7 ай бұрын
Glad I'm not the only psycho who owns almost every Diary of a Wimpy Kid book
@yololthepikminenjoyer7 ай бұрын
i JUST marathoned reading them last year, so this feels kinda rewarding in a weird way
@dabestike71597 ай бұрын
i own all except the original do it yourself and the 2nd movie diary
@mechajay33587 ай бұрын
I did too, until I gave them away
@weathermansam27 ай бұрын
I own the whole main series plus the Rowley spinoffs. I know I'm far too old for them now but dang it, I've still gotta buy the new one every year lol
@Markeplier237 ай бұрын
Same
@ChillaxingJay7 ай бұрын
That little skit where Mark talked about the "Die" comic he made as a kid was hilarious and my favorite part of the video
@slashbash13477 ай бұрын
My theory is that Rowley has died several times through the book, but has the ability to reset time to prevent his own death. Every time he does it, it resets the clock, which is why they're still in middle school. Rowley fell off the big wheel and broke his neck, got poisoned by the cheese, got his burn infected, etc.
@newblue32562 ай бұрын
It doesn't make sense because Rowley eating the cheese is referenced in Rodrick Rules if not that some later book
@PelinalDidNothingWrongАй бұрын
Rowley did a Palpatine. He has multiple cloned bodies on standby and his parents transfer his soul into a new body,thus ensuring his immortality
@thundergaming155Ай бұрын
@@newblue3256 i picked a timeline where he survives those scenarios.
@winnerthecoolguy20097 ай бұрын
NGL the cheese touche was the absolute BAIN of my existence in elementary school
@Vleaso7 ай бұрын
cheese touché...
@ablondehoe7 ай бұрын
It got banned in my elementary school because one kid gave another the cheese touch so the second kid pushed the first kid off the monkey bars
@winnerthecoolguy20097 ай бұрын
@@ablondehoe damn that's crazy 🤣
@opheliasgh0st7 ай бұрын
My elementary school in 2009 had to have an entire fucking assembly to tell us to knock it off with the cheese touch because it was considered bullying 💀
@robertyeah22597 ай бұрын
@@opheliasgh0stme and some girl from elementary school replaced the “Cheese Touch” with the name of a student we didn’t like. Called it the [Name] Touch, and I won’t repeat the name because that kid got bullied for it and I am ashamed every day lmao
@excisable79937 ай бұрын
They should’ve made Diary Of A Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth movie because it was about growing up and puberty in 8th grade, and since the actors were growing up it could’ve been nice
@BlueBlazeKing7 ай бұрын
It’s harder to do as a majority of the plot revolves around the falling out between Greg and Rowley, since the two were cool with each other at the end of the 3rd film it would be harder to hit those plot points
@excisable79937 ай бұрын
@@BlueBlazeKing right. Well, maybe instead of Hard Truth they could’ve done Cabin Fever, but I just can’t picture Movie Manny turning all the energy off from the house and taking everything with him
@jeffreyquinde67077 ай бұрын
I also felt that they could’ve made just one more film
@GabryRedSonicFan20102 ай бұрын
They should have made a prequel to the original trilogy adapting old school
@toganium41757 ай бұрын
I remember finding it really jarring when the Mingos, who first appeared in Hard Luck, reappeared in The Meltdown since side characters seem to essentially disappear after a while.
@yggdrasil27 ай бұрын
They hibernated.
@joncon55547 ай бұрын
I personally think that, with the exception of fairly odd parents, books and shows going on for so long always feel the need to bring in long forgotten side characters for new stories since the writer usually has long exhausted every other possible character in the main cast
@TheAlexSchmidt7 ай бұрын
Yeah one of the problems I kinda had with the DoAWK books going on is they always made up new kids instead of just reusing some random kid from an earlier book, unless a lot of people move in and out of his town I doubt there are that many kids he has to run into all the time
@yggdrasil27 ай бұрын
@@TheAlexSchmidt It's a fine line authors are walking between making the world feel inconsistent and large, and stagnant and small, with organic familiarity in the middle.
@farfetchdthegamer38107 ай бұрын
@@TheAlexSchmidtEhh, in the 16th one (the sports one) there are a lot of reused characters, they’re just kinda obscure
@victoriasavoia99197 ай бұрын
When i was a kid, Hard Luck was always my favorite book. every single one of my friends disagreed with me, and the internet also wasn't the biggest fan of the entry either. I cannot express how much i feel validated by watching this video. great watch btw
@Cherrystem24337 ай бұрын
It was my favorite book as a kid and we where good
@wachinimagaming48984 ай бұрын
Even as someone who read Hard Luck day one, I knew it was at least tied with Cabin Fever as my favorite, most people I knew seemed to like it a lot too
@TheSaltiestOne7 ай бұрын
If Jeff ever makes a book focused on Manny he has to call it “One Two Manny” or the world will burn
@darrylcole36717 ай бұрын
I work with kids from Elementary and Middle school, and I promise you that Diary of a Wimpy kid is still very popular. Almost as much as it was when I was their age
@Rybread527 ай бұрын
One of my friends lives down the street from the author’s bookstore. One night as I was driving her home she pointed out the light was on in the top floor of the bookstore and said, “Oh, Jeff must be writing!” Apparently her family has known him since before he started the series lol
@crazyduplicate7 ай бұрын
Your friend lucked out lol.
@dejus_e6 ай бұрын
What year was it?
@Rybread525 ай бұрын
@@dejus_e either late 2022 or early 2023
@dejus_e5 ай бұрын
@@Rybread52 it’s probably no brainer he was writing
@hollowayraulie14227 ай бұрын
The shock on my face when you said TWENTY THREE books, I genuinely thought Old School was like the third or fourth to last and most people stopped reading them right around when I did, I can’t believe I barely made it halfway
@spagootest21857 ай бұрын
for some reason it seems like Old School was most people's last (including mine), I wonder why that is?
@LovelyGothGurlll7 ай бұрын
@@spagootest2185I imagine it was the cutoff for most people because they grew out of the series by that point or because they felt the decline would continue and so they stopped buying before the books got really bad (if they were to continue the downward slide). I stopped getting Wimpy Kid books after Hard Luck (maybe Long Haul, can’t remember exactly) because I didn’t have interest in the series anymore given I was 11-12 and in middle school.
@RadishShifu7 ай бұрын
Theres 18 books in the main series but thats still a shit-ton of material
@tayloranderson75476 ай бұрын
For real life.
@bleptical7 ай бұрын
Should’ve read the Movie Diary on The Long Haul. It’s actually really interesting to read knowing how much of a failure the movie was.
@eeeeaaaooo187 ай бұрын
If big Nate doesn’t make a cameo in the end credits in the next diary of a wimpy kid book ima riot.
@aidanandreasen26117 ай бұрын
It's strange how similar Diary of a Wimpy Kid's evolution is to The Simpsons. In both, you have a golden age of eight brilliant entries, a sudden decline, and then endless stagnation that feels like an entirely different series than the classic era you fell in love with.
@phabiorules7 ай бұрын
Although the most recent season of the Simpson is at least better than the last several season as they acknowledge the show became stagnant, and have tried to differentiate it.
@tachobrenner7 ай бұрын
Eight? I like less than that
@squeedles_19437 ай бұрын
@@tachobrennerjust like the Simpsons homies can’t agree on the true golden age
@grantwilliams25717 ай бұрын
@@squeedles_1943And they also can't agree on a decline.
@officialmonarchmusic6 ай бұрын
Yeah, 8 was really the magic number, you get occasional great entries like 10 and 13 but mostly just less good. The REAL rot set in with book 16 onwards though
@Thenameless17 ай бұрын
I swear alot of Mark's miscellaneous tirades and shit about being Irish are some of the best parts of these videos.
@headmelter7 ай бұрын
as a fellow N.I person, im agree
@mulqueen20237 ай бұрын
@@headmelter just say Irish dude. Or British. Saying NI is a copout
@DustySmith17 ай бұрын
@@mulqueen2023Its literally just where he's from
@robertyeah22597 ай бұрын
@@mulqueen2023im no expert but maybe Northern Irish people and Irish people from the other regions want to make themselves distinct.
@LorshZontek7 ай бұрын
You mentioning Captain Underpands at 1:00:13 makes me want you to read and rank all of them now for no reason at all
@user-ti2ph6qb1y7 ай бұрын
^^^!! Plus the movie adaptation that came out a few years ago was unexpectedly phenomenally good
@marioh14767 ай бұрын
@@user-ti2ph6qb1ydon't forgot the somewhat decent animated series on Netflix
@seva75007 ай бұрын
isnt it crazy that Harold is GAY!!!!
@TheLowlyApprentice7 ай бұрын
@@seva7500say what now-
@mattgroening88727 ай бұрын
Can’t wait to get to time travel and animal death
@no1reallycaresabout27 ай бұрын
4:17 The fact that Kinney made something entertaining despite not having much a plot just makes the first DOWK that much more impressive
@Laxhoop7 ай бұрын
I love how after the third book, the series just gave up on having each sequel progress through Greg’s middle school years, and from that point forward the story just exists in a perpetual present where no one grows older and nothing changes, solely because they knew they were going to make more sequels at that point, and didn’t want to leave middle school.
@Jooseephishere7 ай бұрын
I like to think every book has the same amount of pages because Greg is just buying the same blank diary over and over
@TheoTungsten6 ай бұрын
His mom bought them. Why else would he pick “diary over and over again”
@Anon_855 ай бұрын
I heard a theory once that the reason basically boils down to the fact that his mom is buying the same brand of diary over and over which is why it always has the same number of pages + looks/feels almost identical each time
@already-taken7 ай бұрын
I dont think you want more Greg in Diper Overload. Every page including Greg in a book with Diaper in the title risks a reference to "Greg Hefley, Diaper Hand!"
@tayloranderson75476 ай бұрын
I don't think you more Greg in diaper overload. Every page including Greg in a book with diaper in the title risk a reference to Greg Hefley, diaper hand!
@tayloranderson75476 ай бұрын
For real life.
@dejus_eАй бұрын
I don’t think you want more Greg in Diper Overload. Every page including Greg in the book with Diaper in the title risks a reference to “Greg Heffley, Diaper Hand!”
@darkvioletcloud7 ай бұрын
I remember my dad took my brother and I to see one of the movies, and for years he quoted the "Who put General GRANT on the THERMOSTAT?!" quote that the dad said. It got him into painting miniatures for a little while, though he preferred Roman soldiers.
@Ihavepinkeye3 ай бұрын
I'm so glad I'm not the only person whose parent will quote a line from a movie until the end of time
@Danbo229877 ай бұрын
Again, the biggest reason for the films success is that they knew the movies only had a limited amount of time with these characters so they could actually have them grow and change. Meanwhile in the books the characters never age and any book has to work as someone's first book in the series so aside from very minor things, the characters can never grow or change in any significant way.
@Thesoulofpros5 ай бұрын
About Jeff not wanting Greg to go to high school, I think that could be pretty nice idea for a book. I can imagine everyone going to high school besides Greg, because he's apparently failing his classes, where the book just follows him doing anything in his power to graduate. Getting a tutor which I can imagine him being more interested in than studying, going to a hypnotist to help him study just to realize it's a scam, and sucking up to his teachers in hopes that his grades will improve. Would make a pretty good book if you ask me.
@pokitlintstudios9507 ай бұрын
I think the best ending to the books would be that all of these stories are just slightly modernized versions of things Jeff actually did so Greg grows up to be the author of his own book.
@mrboerger16207 ай бұрын
I always thought DOWK would end with Greg becoming the author and just bring embarrassed about his hijinxs. Thus deciding to turn them into these books.
@rigboy12347 ай бұрын
Cool plot twist
@BinglesP7 ай бұрын
Plot twist: the page at 1:06:57 wasn't a printing or editing error. That was Greg's true demon form unleashing itself from his façade of adolescent mortality.
@pokestyn7 ай бұрын
Wanted to just say Hard luck was always one of the books that I remember most, so seeing Mark agree that it was good was validating that I was remembering it for a good reason. I genuinely love the ending of him going to find the 8 ball and finding the egg with the ring, especially cause in an earlier drawing in the book you see that egg in the background in the spot it’s eventually found. Masterful attention to detail
@lobsteros7 ай бұрын
Worth noting is that the early books in the Wimpy Kid series, especially the first three, are compilations of entries from the original 2004 web novel on FunBrain. So part of the reason why they feel like a bunch of random excerpts without a major overarching plot is because they literally are.
@Ese_Moreno047 ай бұрын
One of the bits from the books reminded me of when my 1st grade teacher had us make our own spin on The Three Little Pigs story. In the middle of illustrating the story, I somehow misunderstood one of my teacher's directions as "They all have to die at the end." For some reason, I didn't question why that was apparently supposed to happen and just went with it. In the end, we all stood up to present our stories and I remember panicking when the other kids' stories ended happily. So you can imagine how anxious I was when everyone started questioning why I had the three animals die at the end. The teacher had to step in and tell everyone I could end the story any way I wanted, but either way, I was extremely stressed out in front of everyone that day.
@FinchZeKey7 ай бұрын
Can’t wait to watch you rank the Dork Diary books!!
@Simplifried7 ай бұрын
I remember in like 6th grade all the boys in my class DESPISED the Dork Diary books. I mean they never were my thing either, I much prefer the DOAWK books (duh) but like this was a whole other level 😭 they tried to get those books out of the school library entirely
@AlexDayz7 ай бұрын
Nikki’s life is absolutely wild!
@DrawciaGleam027 ай бұрын
I kinda liked those a bit more than the Wimpy Kid books looking back....
@Nic0Dr4ws7 ай бұрын
Honestly I liked those way more because of the artstyle and because the main character wasn’t a complete psychopath 💀
@DrawciaGleam027 ай бұрын
@@Nic0Dr4ws Yeah, I liked the artstyle too!
@finnsword82867 ай бұрын
Diary of a Wimpy Kid has been out for so long that I wonder if people remember that it originally started off on Funbrain (owned by the people who made Poptropica!). That was some fun indoor recesses and computer lab time spent in school reading through all the pages.
@Pikmin4427 ай бұрын
I remember that website. Used to play there a lot and then got curious about the book they kept showing.
@worthybutter20046 ай бұрын
@@Pikmin442 Yes, well, actually, Jeff Kinney himself founded Poptropica.
@Real_Necro7 ай бұрын
In hard luck, there are literal Easter eggs hidden on almost every page. Super weird touch but interesting
@noisnecsa9957 ай бұрын
How is that weird lol
@Eurydium2 ай бұрын
@@noisnecsa995cos it’s a completely unique choice by jeff, doesn’t mean it’s bad at all though
@farlong49487 ай бұрын
1:31:43: Perhaps this should be the subject of its own video essay -- discussing comic relief-centered spin-offs and why you believe they don’t work, because I’ve always wondered why some comic relief characters (like Sheen, Kronk, and Rowley) don’t work as stand-alone protagonists, and why others (like the Madagascar Penguins, LEGO Batman, and Puss in Boots) seem to work just fine as the stars of their own shows and/or movies. Plus, there are certain side characters _I_ personally wish had their own shows, but fear that there may be a ton of arguments for why that would be a _terrible_ idea.
@mythcat12737 ай бұрын
38:32 I've read cabin fever so many times that this panel is literally seared into my brain like grill marks on a well cooked brain
@patricklauer44527 ай бұрын
Same
@GoldenKirby7 ай бұрын
I forgot Rowley's like, sad D: face is so funny to me just the absolute despair in his face
@PigPigGamer7 ай бұрын
The Wimpy kid books are truly the most peak forms of written literature ever
@spongeboi20217 ай бұрын
wait ur not the wimpy kid guy ur the creepypasta guy!!!!!!!!
@Kaika4337 ай бұрын
Fire in the hole
@Gabri_Lovecraft7 ай бұрын
Oh my God I thought I only read like 3 or 4 of these but as you went through the books I went insane because I remembered at least one major moment from every single one. I read ALL of these up until like, The Long Haul, I think? I genuinely, constantly think about the scary movie they watch, Greg in the womb, him finding the key in The Long Haul, Manny unplugging the power, etc etc etc. Thinking back, as an autistic child, I 100% didn't get the point and related to Greg a ton and absolutely took after him. To this day, I will get intrusive thoughts that sound like a Greg scheme to get rich and/or famous. I finally have a place to blame my sociopathic tendencies! Thanks LS Mark!
@chickennuggetpaw7 ай бұрын
The fact that this book series was so popular that many of us can remember playing the cheese touch game in elementary school is honestly impressive. These books were so funny when I was younger
@noaht20056 ай бұрын
I literally found out about the series through people playing cheese touch
@chickennuggetpaw6 ай бұрын
@@noaht2005 that’s hilarious 💀
@noaht20056 ай бұрын
@@chickennuggetpaw My mum's a teacher, and when I tolder her about it she recognised it from the books her students had been reading
@handgun5597 ай бұрын
This was that series I read all of in middle school, then I blinked to the end of high school and suddenly there were 30 books, two spin offs, three movies, and an audio drama staring Pete Wentz
@magnetoonproductions95417 ай бұрын
The problem with the newer books is that they’re always padding out the runtime with convoluted shenanigans and filler. The really good stuff doesn’t happen until the towards the end and then everything immediately goes back to normal at the last minute. I think serialization could be the right step to take the series in. It could keep people wanting more of the characters and it’s a great way to age with the people who read the books from day one. Plus, a lot of great book series are serialized these days such as the Last Kids on Earth or Dog Man.
@JeskidoYT7 ай бұрын
Also sucks that Jeff is contractually binded to have all books the same page number and has a limit range of how the timeline of events should be in each book
@Weatherman4Eva7 ай бұрын
I swear to God you can get me to watch a multi hour video essay on literally any media franchise at this point. Im a 30 year old dude that was WAY too old to care about these when they came out back in the day, and yet here i am strapped in for the video
@zachflag65067 ай бұрын
There’s so many entries in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, it feels more like a manifesto at this point. Especially with the picture it paints of Greg as a beaten-down, bitter, angsty pushover that’s just a hair away from snapping at any moment
@redwolf63347 ай бұрын
37:46 THAT unlocked so many memories I didn’t realize how much these books influenced me 😭
@osmanyousif78497 ай бұрын
I heard someone say Greg will either be two things in life: "A mobster or like one of the main characters on Seinfeld. But either way, people are going to hate him." Which yeah… come to think of it, I think that’s a shockingly accurate way to describe Greg Heffley, even like a mobster. A good example that comes to mind is Tony Soprano. Now I know people are gonna think that's ridiculous to compare Greg to Tony, but when you look at both characters, there's a lot similar about them both. Both have extremely toxic families, have such a warp perception of what being well-respected amongst their peers means, even coming to some types of epiphanies. Yet, when they do attempt to seek for any advice on something that they feel they’ve done wrong, they both end up falling victim to their numerous bad habits and behaviors, either due to external forces or their own misinterpretations of the lessons people try to teach both of them, therefore end up failing on taking any steps to change their ways. Now I also compared Greg to someone in Seinfeld, to which I still stand by as when you do look at both the show and the book series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid is basically the anti-young adult novel. To put into perspective before 2007, a lot of the average young-adult or children's literature usually tackled the typical teenage tropes you usually see. This is even something you'll notice on teen sitcoms too. But usually no matter what these teen characters got up to, they often found their way through it, with the help of their friends/family. With their stories ending on a general lesson for us (the audience) could walk away with. But then there's Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Including Greg himself, a lot of the characters are inconsiderate, ignorant, self-centered, narcissistic, or even sociopathic, like on Seinfeld. Almost nobody ever changes, including Greg. The fiascos that either he or his family get themselves in are usually brought about by their own egos and selfishness. And in almost each of the books, they usually don't end with a general life lesson. Yet, I'd argue that was meant to be the point, both the creators of Seinfeld and Wimpy Kid were trying to make. As because each had characters you shouldn't like, it doesn't matter if you don't like them. In fact, it'd be more funny if you didn't. You could say that Diary of Wimpy Kid, is meant to be a satirical look at traditional teen literature of the past. THE ANTI-YOUNG ADULT SERIES.
@AniToonimationKawaii7 ай бұрын
I can't wait for LS Mark reviewing every single Dork Diaries book in the future.
@limeraldguy97847 ай бұрын
Hearing Mark's stories makes me want a Diary of an Irish Lad book
@kebabsam84417 ай бұрын
Welp, there's a "Diary o a Wimpy Wean". It's as close-ish as it gets.
@TheZombo7 ай бұрын
1:53:48 I can’t believe Greg was killed by purple guy
@Boxfacekid7 ай бұрын
I rly liked this video mark, but now you have to read all of Big Nate😭😭
@misterzygarde64317 ай бұрын
As part of the population who read the books as a kid, I wanna bring up r/LodedDiper which has this type of fan work known as Looks Like Book or LLBs for short which take pages from each book and have them edited to form another story or with new pages drawn most. Most famous example being 25 Years Later which has the line “I’m Not Gay Greg” Imagine if Greg and Rowley read these LLBs Also, I yearn for the day that we get an actual cartoon series instead of the mediocre movies they put out on Disney+
@ZekeorSomething7 ай бұрын
Greg and the Ballistic Missile is pretty famous too
@ianbyrne4657 ай бұрын
I like the weird horror ones. Like the one where Greg gets tangled up in dark web red rooms
@TheIrreverentUncleAl7 ай бұрын
Ohhh... just wait 'til you see "Greg's No Nut November"!
@Rey_Palpatine7 ай бұрын
The Vietnam one was wild
@FigureFarter7 ай бұрын
Dark Simpsons did it
@Creus_7 ай бұрын
everyone gangster until greg disrespects joshie 😭😔
@yggdrasil27 ай бұрын
Small corrections: In Dog Days, giving away the dog wasn't a punishment, but just because it was so dysfunctional. And he only wants Rowley's dad to lose his memories of the debt.
@maverickdarkrath47807 ай бұрын
Honestly i agree that no brainer would have worked with ending with greg in slacksville....but then again i unironically laughed my ass off when greg remembering the incorrect latin from his sham latin teacher essentially caused the status quo reset .
@AliFrankTheTank6 ай бұрын
no brainer was wild asf
@YeahIDontKn0wEither7 ай бұрын
Never gonna forget how *absolutely viral* DOAWK went with my Year 2 class back in 2015. I must've started it from bringing The Ugly Truth to school and showing my classmates funny bits from it, and then they went on to binge the series and we all went mad seeing The Long Haul reach our library's shelves. And it got that viral that our teacher banned us from saying anything from the book, as some of us were saying or doing things like starting from the book that would get us in trouble, like Cheese Touch and Water Touch, or saying dumb things from the book.
@alexluciano22437 ай бұрын
The last straw is called that because that’s the last straw that his dad is putting up with until he sends him to military school
@Charlie-hv3dh7 ай бұрын
Yooo this is hype!! I love this series!! Books were great and omg the original movies were so so SOOO good!! (I LOVED THE AUDIOBOOKS, I USE TO LISTEN TO THEM AS I WENT TO SLEEP!!) People say he's a psychopath, and I mean I see that- But the way I see it is: Greg is meant to be a twerp/self absorbed dork who thinks he's the maincharacter, and you sort of have to cheer for him when he does something good and grows up. He's egotistical, and the lovable part about him is you can see and laugh at how of a dumb kid he is. Sometimes seeing him do something bad and you realize "oh I did that before uh oh" makes him relatable, granted thats rare when he's constantly doing dumb crap lol!
@PissWarlock7 ай бұрын
Dude, seeing DOAWK acknowledge Captain Underpants was my End Game as a kid.
@patricklauer44527 ай бұрын
Yoo they were my favourites too
@PissWarlock7 ай бұрын
@@patricklauer4452 George and Harold would absolutely obliterate Greg in a battle of wits.
@SuperStaticPro7 ай бұрын
I wonder if Mark knows that’s the kid who plays Greg in the live action Wimpy Kid Trilogy voices a character in Kingdom Hearts 3.
@gloodgy27747 ай бұрын
I actually really like how structureless the early books are. Not just because it makes sense for a kids diary, but it refreshing to not have everything have such a rigid structure
@Nerdtendo63667 ай бұрын
Here’s a fun fact about The Getaway: before it came out I went to a book store and they had a little pamphlet preview that took place right around the Airport segment, and the flight attendant is drawn differently. Not important at all and I sadly don’t have it anymore but still, kinda neat
@DrApollyonPhi7 ай бұрын
lmfao 21:31 I was playing DOOM when I heard that sound! I was all like "wait, there's no enemies around here."
@Dope-Bomb7 ай бұрын
A ranking on the diary of a wimpy kid? Never though I’d see one with my own eyes
@TheGloriousLobsterEmperorАй бұрын
Honestly I haven't read a lot of the books after like...Dog Days. But after seeing Wrecking Ball, I really do think the next book should have just been "Greg's family gets a huge insurance payout for the absolute negligence of the builders and leaves that cursed town forever".
@Judgec_7 ай бұрын
If I had a nickel for every time a diary of a wimpy kid book was about a vacation, I would have 3 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened thrice.
@Msliolioka7 ай бұрын
I think a reboot story of Greg as like a construction worker or whatever would work greatly. You could focus more on slightly more adult issues while keeping lighthearted. Great video, and I want to see all three movies after watching it, so you did your job…also, tell Wench I said hi.
@odhranfee2367 ай бұрын
It genuinely feels like The long haul only came out like 3-4 years ago. Hard to believe theres like double the ammont of books now
@Thenameless17 ай бұрын
28:23 I know Mark isn't religious but this whole sentiment was like, the most Irish I've ever heard him get.
@nostalgialodeon93057 ай бұрын
How do you know he isn’t religious?
@Thenameless17 ай бұрын
@@nostalgialodeon9305 I might potentially be misremembering this but I know he talked about on his podcast Meeting Halfway when they were talking about Death and Bababooey.
@RyansFine2 ай бұрын
God, you just gave me a flashback. I remember a kid punching me in the face and only I got a detention 😂 The kid was in "special" classes, so yeah. Had to be my fault, clearly
@snickerdoodlez92107 ай бұрын
This is amazing! 😭 I love these books- honestly, I only started not liking em after The Meltdown™, aside from the last one I genuinely liked the Awesome Friendly series (and Old School is actually one of my favorites 😭) You’ve mentioned “adult Greg Heffley” a lot, honestly I genuinely recommend “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: 25 Years Later”. The art is PHENOMENAL, and as goofy as the thought of a depressing DoaWK spinoff is, it’s actually really good 😭 The creator said they took inspiration from Bojack Horseman, and it definitely shines through!
@thekitkatlizard86617 ай бұрын
I'm not gay, greg
@coadpop8867 ай бұрын
The thing I always found funny about the movie diary is that to me, it always felt like DLC for the DVD. The DVD (or at least my copies) never had a behind the scenes video so this was the best I got to see what went on.
@GoldenKirby7 ай бұрын
Something about your plushie sliding onto the scene with a stone movement sound is way funnier than it should be also cool another video to fall asleep too, thanks Mark :D
@thenarrator68467 ай бұрын
I remember my mom buying a boxed set of the first five books at the book fair years ago. I remember having Third Wheel seperately though and getting uncomfortable with all the womb shit. Good content, Mark. Love what you do!
@masonasaro21182 ай бұрын
greg and rowley’s “friendship” can be perfectly described as how when 2 autistic people on different parts of the spectrum meet the more masked one (greg) just immediately gets pissed at the more unfiltered guy (rowley)… and then fregley is the kid that only got put in your so-called high-functioning special ed class because he could read on his own… y’know, the kind of kid who watches those g-major baby show intros and smells like goldfish crackers that he was chewing with his mouth open, and the fact he’s in said class at all feels like an insult.
@higuys97897 ай бұрын
38:44 In the US they used to be super popular. I am surprised that it had a comeback through tik tok