Sex House - Reunion - Ep. 10

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Everyone's favorite Americans are back to talk Sex House and dish behind-the-scenes secrets on a very special reunion show. Derek has a huge announcement, Alex has a surprising boyfriend. Nothing is off limits.
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[@buttercat3329]

Derek coming out as heterosexual has given me the courage to finally deny all the medical professionals who said I had cancer.

[@jeromejoz5935]

🤣🤣

[@sarahmayjohn]

Dude, that's another video!

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@sarahmayjohn It's all coming together now!

[@entity107]

The OCU is coming soon

[@George_Ericksen]

I don't know why people say it's fake. This is definitely real just like all other reality shows.

[@andreacifelli8751]

no, it is in fact fake. It lists the actors/actresses' names in the credits

[@nickattard9703]

I don't know why you cannot do what most people can. That is what we call sarcasm, most people can tell when someone is being sarcastic.

[@fantasy7201]

George Ericksen NO it's fake. These are actors you moron

[@George_Ericksen]

Fantasy Read Nick's comment.

[@tajayweir4084]

George Ericksen reality show is fake

[@cheese4746]

This experience was surreal. I come out feeling empty and disturbed. A true psychological horror this series was.

[@zeelduh]

holy shit same

[@aufarz]

Oh god you right

[@srishtisinha5589]

@@zeelduh I misread that as holy shit came. This show's intros got the best of me, too much sex.

[@vivijawhar5234]

I know it’s been forever but I’m still so emotionally invested

[@opti6019]

After Porkin’ Across America, this was nothing lol

[@temp_name_change_later]

Hearing Erin call the therapist a “fake-ass skank” with zero hesitation was legitimately the scariest moment in the entire show

[@precoius]

Yeah, I don’t know why that shocked me so much, but it did.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

"legitimately"

[@jamasianman]

When you click on the link for Season 2, it just takes you back to the first episode. I think its a brilliant way of saying that you can get so easily addicted to reality tv and its just an endless cycle.

[@wesleycordova160]

And that it's all the same.

[@bacjam6139]

wesley cordova but your a few years late lol

[@Yeerica]

*you're

[@Eazycree]

Bac Jam so are you

[@bacjam6139]

Yeeric I've finally fell for it

[@Spalfos]

Lmao, the host is still blind from the Cloudy Drink

[@michael487]

*Cloudy Drink

[@hps362]

cloudy drink kills frogs

[@grawlixis]

cloudy drink kills FROGS

[@seelbins]

CLOUDY DRINK KILLS FROGS

[@hhbnj2968]

Cloudy drink kills frog

[@jaredweber9407]

This is the perfect ending. Even after everything traumatic that happened to them, they still turned out to be nothing more than vapid reality show contestants.

[@roguishpaladin]

Or, perhaps, were turned into them.

[@Tozzie50]

im pretty sure you cant blame them for going with the narrative after experiencing the trauma they did, they dont know how to function in society normally anymore

[@jackgrossman9542]

But they turned down freedom in episode 9, how did they get over the stockholmish syndrome?

[@wellesradio]

I suspect that wasn’t really them, or they were somehow recaptured and brain washed.

[@arx3516]

The show broke them pand remade them in its image.

[@PhantomfaceStudios]

The revelation that Tara is epileptic and was having multiple seizures, seemingly with no medical assistance, for God knows how long, really highlights how strong her will to live is

[@rymca4758]

9 months at least. erin had sex first time and only time on the first night and was impregnated. they were in that sex house long enough for the baby to be born.

[@matiassanchez1362]

I know you commented over a year ago but I just wanted to mention the fact that her brother commited suicide cause I think it makes Sara's devotion to life even deeper

[@gorgiascae5682]

Man what a trip. I've cried, laugh, raged and overall feeling sexy. This is truly the magnum opus of the Onion.

[@knecht6974]

Not only the onion, I'd say internet series as a whole.

[@thepainkiller4939]

Porkin' Across America

[@perotekku]

Seconded on Porkin' Across America, I think it's better. This is still awesome.

[@genieinthepot2455]

@@perotekku it literally turns into a horror movie

[@JD-wv1yi]

It doesn't hold a candle to porking across america

[@SarahSnow99]

The thinly veiled horror in alex's eyes... it shows that they all eventually caved to the network's demands in order to survive, and are acting like everything's fine just to live. i'm not sure if that's worse than the alternative ending with all of them shunning the outside world and creating their own tribe inside the sex house. damn, this series was incredible

[@hopeann8757]

Erin--Ya honestly don't know. I gave the baby up to a wealthy couple, caz I'm focusing on my blogging now. Wtf, it's your child..I lost my child caz of drug use. I lost her when she was 3 & my head was so screwed up. I started using more, I was in mental hospitals over it because I couldn't believe I let myself lose her caz I couldn't get clean. I hated myself, I would cut my arms up, anything just to numb the pain unhurt of losing her, all the way up until the day she found me when she was 18 and then I was happy again. 😀😀😀😀UNTIL I found out she told me she was a abused by her alcoholic father, it tore me apart & put me back into depression again. He told me if I sign her over to him, he would allow me to see her. He was clean at that time & I trusted him, & now I feel she was better off with cys, & I hate those people, only caz they took my child, but now that I'm older I realize, it was for the best. I wasn't being a good mother, even tho I thought I was & no child deserves a mother strung out on herion. I just wish my mother never lied.. My mom--- if anything would ever bad happen to my grandkids I would never let cys have them, they would always come to me. I'm her grandma Hope, come on. All FUCKING LIES!!!! Then when I need her the most, she's says she washes her hands of me & told the Judge she doesn't want custody of my daughter. I hated her for years n still do. She told my brothers n sisters the same & I got a nefew & a niece in cys care too. People makes mistakes, but my mother is the only one who is allowed to, no one else is. I love her but I have so much hate in me for the things that she let happen to us when we were younger. I can't believe Erin was selfish n put blogging before her child. For Erin--Ya you where a ho, but big deal. Your child would rather be with you then be given up caz of your blogging!! I'm sure they wouldn't care of you being a who're, but I would be mad if my mom gave me up caz she cared more about blogging. Although I wish I was adopted caz I caused my family pain lime they done to us. Well they cause 98% of my pain. I caused 3% can't caz pain when no one cares about you anyways.

[@krgrief]

@@hopeann8757 dude what are you talking about lmao

[@Radi0he4d1]

@@krgrief the sex house was too powerful

[@lukelyon1781]

To be fair, with Alex in particular, that seems like the kind of thing she'd actually like.

[@kevinwillems8720]

EXACTLY

[@nootnoot8543]

I'm heterosexual now.

[@unstoppableExodia]

noot noot yep and Derek is a heterosexual now as well and when he's behind closed doors with his boss Coolio they're just two heterosexuals hangin out doing the non sexual things that heterosexuals do when hanging out with each other.

[@johnsinclair6170]

Me too. And I have a blog about it.

[@TBaroon]

WOOOOOOO YEAH FUCK YEAH

[@milkchocolate1001]

wot is heterosexual ;-;

[@st.beatles7283]

Aren’t we all

[@noahcrane142]

Somehow the fact they’re all happy makes it even more morbid.

[@galliway]

These aren't the real people. The real people are still in the house.

[@Taha_A]

@@galliway oh

[@Ghoulicus]

@@galliway More like they were given a bunch of hush-money to act like they were happy with how things turned out

[@kevinwillems8720]

@@Ghoulicus exactly

[@Pr0fessorB1ble]

@@Ghoulicus Definitely not. In episode 9 they rejected freedom. There’s no way they still value money if they don’t even value freedom itself. It’s my belief that this is simply a shared hallucination one (or mb all of them) is having as they slowly die and the life fades from their eyes.

[@wanealy1]

This was a surprisingly profound critique of reality TV.

[@talkgb]

I would like this, but you’re already at 420.

[@biggargantuar5672]

Nigga it ain’t that deep

[@simplyhuman3982]

Lol. Agreed. Reality TV is actually horrible. This went from MTV the real world to fuckin surviver.

[@_G4.R4_]

Killua Zoldyck doesn’t have to be “deep” to me a good critique.

[@montexic5201]

Big Gargantuar yea it is

[@thehobowizard]

I love how if you look a little closer you can see the host's walking stick and his glasses are simply covering the fact he was blinded by the cloudy drink. What a brilliant series

[@DJFreudian]

Wow good eye

[@renno2679]

Was there any evidence about Frank's dong? How it was literally hammered? I couldnt see it

[@Dunamus]

I can't quite tell if this is a joke or not..

[@MC-hw2wj]

This is not real it obviously a satire show they are all actors it names the off in the credits.

[@robinparker5604]

Not Believe he knows that he was commenting on how consistent the show stayed

[@mychaleg]

"I'm heterosexual now" LOL

[@sebherolight8058]

They broke him

[@siimkivisild2251]

That's what parents want to hear from their children

[@jadegrace1312]

@Jhon Krasnovskiy Ok dickhead

[@jadegrace1312]

@@johan8969 Why is my last name relevant here?

[@jadegrace1312]

@@johan8969 I mean there's literally no joke. Even if you're being anti-semitic, which I assume you are, I don't even remember what the person I was responding to said.

[@dudeman0401]

5:54 I like how before the angle changes she's disturbed but afterwards she's perfectly happy

[@hopeann8757]

She is disturbed, who would want to be with a guy who "use mist to knock her out" then admitted he stole her address, then followed her for weeks until they "accidentally" met??? She's happy caz she met someone who is just as crazy n disturb as she is!!! I hate Tara's voice!!!! It annoys me so much, it was funny how they tried to escape, but all she was worried about was the frogs. How can they like the host. I still wanna kill em. The therapist pregnant w\twins just like his wife was, he acts like a good guy but the fake therapist says he never even see's his kids...And she has the nerve to call people slugs & fakes & what the fuck does she think she was.?? She was a Cunt n she knew it caz she didn't even have the balls to show up!!!

[@lukelyon1781]

@@hopeann8757 would you stfu and stop spamming comments?! This show is fake, nothing that takes place inside it is real, it's satire. These are all actors and nobody was actually harmed.

[@rymca4758]

glad someone else picked up on it. makes me think they’re still being controlled by the network.

[@loganwitte2518]

it really shows how they try to hide the underlying truama

[@the.youtube.of.sam.gotter]

Oh man that's really good. That's REALLY good

[@Duhya]

"i'm heterosexual now" That one was hilarious.

[@baldoggie]

@A curious Jaggi yes

[@kk-qu1zc]

@@baldoggie no

[@douglasbubbletrousers4763]

Cute pfp

[@goksir5845]

CLOUDY WATER KILLS FROG

[@propoppop9866]

It was most likely acid that's aqward becuse so time the tap water I drink looks like that

[@diggitydoo5836]

All dissolved substances make water look cloudy

[@oysteroyster2508]

Made Tara my favourite character ngl

[@sarahheath3946]

Soylent Green is people

[@kevinwillems8720]

To call this place evil implies a clarity of purpose that I do not want to attribute to anyone involved.

[@Cal6009]

No! This is a lie! They died in the house after slaughtering the camera crew and turning to cannibalism.

[@_blue_ruby_1208]

Wtf

[@okaymckay]

This actually sounds more real.

[@hannahsmith7784]

Cal6009 they dident kill the camra crew cause in episod 9 franks exsact words where we bulit a home her the camra crew minds there bisenes and dont talk to use and we mind ours

[@zandaroos553]

Exactly, this is the afterlife for them

[@marik196]

This episode was faked. The truth is out.

[@cartersheehan7440]

This whole series makes me want to become asexual

[@tucatnev123]

be careful for your eyesight tho

[@theredruin8750]

I am asexual but i still want to be

[@rb98769]

You should sign up for the next season, sounds like you’re perfect for the Sex House

[@joshuamar1740]

🤣😂

[@davidg4731]

I’m currently pansexual but I’m thinking asexual is the way

[@jepifany635]

Alex's face at 5:53 makes it pretty clear that she is somehow being coerced to act like this is okay. Notice how it cuts away and it comes back to her smiling like someone is holding a gun to her head and telling her to act happy?

[@888records]

I am pretty sure they are all being forced to act this way

[@adinakruijssen3056]

6:03

[@davidr9876]

I thought for sure they would resort to cannibalism of the masked guy. They missed a sexy plot twist.

[@mikemcguffey6458]

I think there look alikes and aren't the real thing

[@Punkini]

It would have been so sexy if they killed and ate the host to send a message 🥵

[@paraschaurasia2936]

It is sort of Cannabilism in some form. The Cannabilism of their maturity and character.

[@BiggyJimbo]

I feel like that would be too predictable

[@princetchalla2441]

He’s missing for a reason

[@halyomorpha]

This was genius. I loved every single moment of it.

[@debbiesmitty8205]

Of the season or this eposide If for the season you add sick

[@halyomorpha]

Debra Smitty Ms. Smitty, I loved it for the actors. I loved it for the scenarios. I loved the pitch perfect cinematography and general script that gave it the perfect "trashy MTV show" feel. I loved it for the message it implies about the oversexualization of the media and society. I love how it fools people into believing they are watching something as sick as a show about people banging, but then it turns into a mini horror series. I love that despite all that they have been through, they come out of the show learning almost nothing at all; like the experience did nothing but make them turn into more of the same kind of people. It's hilarious, and very surprisingly poignant. I'm not sick for enjoying a sick reflection of society.

[@debbiesmitty8205]

Oh sorry i didnt see IT in the way you do

[@halyomorpha]

And that's fine, but don't insult me just because your perception is different.

[@Kopie0830]

Me too! I love Erin!

[@seanmunderloh3438]

"We believed the house was some sort of purgatory and we had to expiate our sins in order to escape." "I totally forgot about that." My favorite part. Haha!

[@danielsalimonu1247]

They all write blogs... Suspicious

[@jonathanrice6338]

I didnt get that part

[@Yeerica]

🤔

[@MrTalkingCorn]

@@jonathanrice6338 It's because people in reality tv have there 2 weeks of fame and then go on trying to capatilize on that but they can't. No one remembers they were on a popular tv show after a few months. The blog bit is because they can't find any other jobs. It's pretty funny.

[@Swenthorian]

It's because this is from 2012.

[@teas9892]

@@MrTalkingCorn People struggling to get jobs is not funny.

[@marias.7717]

Best thing about this was how back then being a blogger is the equivalent of being an Instagram influencer today.

[@AManOnline.]

3 years later, an Instagram influencer is the past equivalent of being a tiktok influencer

[@crookedpxl]

Frank sounded like Donald Trump at 4:55 … so weird lol

[@JT4GM4K3R]

Albeit neither hesitate on commenting about their daughters sex appeal.

[@Danidoe001]

Brandon Crooks omg Ikr!..

[@hippietinkerbell]

Brandon Crooks I KNOW

[@dohickey7184]

"I will build a wall of mould around the camera crew, and the frogs are going to pay for it"

[@mulletboater]

Hey, Frank saved Alex from the truncheon man. I think he earned some respect there. He does not deserve that comparison.

[@rayres1074]

Fun fact: Derek's actor was a senior in acting college when he participated in Sex House. A testament on what a good actor he is!

[@bharatsachdeva6683]

All of them are such damn good actors

[@juannaym8488]

@@bharatsachdeva6683 I hope we will see their performances in some big project some day

[@DuringDark]

I hope he hasn't caught any shit for playing a gay man who repeatedly draws Muhammed and says allahu akbar on a show about sodomy

[@arroraseliant8482]

Rather interesting. One leaves episode 9 and 8 feeling sympathy for them and hoping it all goes well, one leaves the reunion hating them even more than one did in episode 1.

[@Myndir]

I think that the producers used the money from selling mold to do some experimental neurosurgery. Including the new neurological conversion therapy that's starting to become popular these days.

[@Darth_Insidious]

My theory is that these aren't the original cast. They are still stuck in the sex house. These are lookalike actors and that's why they aren't remotely damaged from this.

[@bunnie187]

Darth Insidious It might just be his glasses being gone but Frank here looks nothing like Frank to me?? And his voice seems different too.

[@Darth_Insidious]

@@bunnie187 They all look like completely different actors to me. Maybe its part of a cover-up or an attempt to salvage the tv show.

[@francomicale6308]

I think the point is that it was all faked and scripted, and that none of it actually happened imho

[@tarawalker131]

Did anybody else catch the terrified looks on Alex's face when the camera panned to her ?

[@jjmarr7130]

I love how when she realizes the guy she's dating is the voice from the loudspeaker, she's in so much fear so they cut away from her face to a side angle, but you can still see the emotion. Then she puts on the fakest smile ever. Brilliant acting.

[@reshirman]

"I'm the realest guy in the house, i mean, i'm real all the time, you can ask anybody that knows me how real i am" So the crew is still in the house and these are look-alikes?

[@deeznoots6241]

Don’t forget the therapist calling them fake. They are definitely actors.

[@davidkonevky7372]

@@deeznoots6241 OH GOD YOU HAVE A POINT

[@viktor5569]

Check the credits

[@monkeywkeys3916]

Frank ✊

[@douglasbubbletrousers4763]

@@viktor5569 I didn’t see anything in the credits?

[@JackHenryGreene]

I love how nobody's acknowledging that they blinded the host.

[@JackHenryGreene]

Also the fact that all of them except Alex have blogs now.

[@hydriumstudio]

@@JackHenryGreene also also the fact that although the mold saved some lives, it straight up killed a guy while they were still in the house.

[@AlexR2648]

Thumbs up for the White Mold!

[@mariolopez420]

i just watched all 10 episodes. absolutely brilliant. I had no idea thats how it was going to play out. dark, twisted, and hilarious. its a hell i felt i experienced with them. 10/10

[@mumbairay]

And I am offended

[@hopeann8757]

I can't find ep.1 or ep.3 for some reason???

[@TheOnlyAllain]

I wish I never commented on this video

[@SaxPanther]

i just finished watching all the episodes and its 5 am.

[@TheToolReview]

5am here too lmao....

[@uiomancannot7931]

It's you from the future, I did the same thing

[@kjerstidsnyderd5824]

EmotionlessMotion69 same

[@natalieswan9813]

same

[@eggverseoffficial7976]

This series was the most horrifying thing I have ever seen. I actually gagged at several points, and I am currently feeling an all consuming sense of dread the likes of which I have never felt before. 10/10 I feel like I'm going to explode

[@DarthDuck404]

This episode is the real horror show. Even after witnessing and experiencing the horror of reality TV and media trying to use people, objectify them, turn their joy and their suffering and all their thoughts and choices into a product to put in an elaborate story on TV, even after rebelling against being manipulated, they still go back to living the vapid, greedy, objectified life style of social media influencers or reality TV stars. The real horror is that even after the terrors of the world are brought to light, nothing changes.

[@dukewild5071]

Couldn't've said it better myself. The first half sucked me in and now I feel bad. Time is the whore that won't stop sucking.

[@bengolious]

I skipped this the first time thinking it would just be cheap jokes about reality TV. Onion, I should've known better, I'm sorry. I promise I will never doubt you again.

[@anidiot4558]

The one of the best parts of this series is that no matter how you interpret the ending, it is still really fucking dark.

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

Yeah who knew that a spoof series from The Onion would be so terrifying. Like not even exaggerating this is actually scarier than most horror I've seen.

[@JasonBunting]

After watching all of these episodes, I feel like I need some major therapy. No, really. That shit was traumatic.

[@sdry]

Jason Bunting They rally went proper lord of the flies stocholm syndrome that german jail experiment on this shit. Total brilliance.

[@shahidkhan-vg7gi]

When frank fucked the tharapist I thit he was going to leave sex house😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 but then I wanted that chick and that white guy to fuck they were ment to fuck eachother💑💏 sex house has alout o money💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵😠😠😠😠😠😠😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈🏠🏠🏫🏫💈💈🛀🛀🏉🏉🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘

[@maxmuzyka3127]

U know I thought that frank was being hit on on the face but I could see it it looked off but it made me cry I was like no no no no

[@wolverinebigtime361]

Me to man

[@weekend9057]

meathead22 Its 5:00 o clock in tge morning what the fuck did i just see!?

[@BaronVonMott]

The Onion's final point to make - no matter what actually happens, it all eventually just gets absorbed back into the soulless, empty, amorphous blob that is modern culture. What beautiful satire. 😂😂😂

[@sebastiana2035]

Hate to break it to you, but it's worse. If you look at the credits roll, these are actors playing the actual people. Those people are (presumably) still in the sex house after they shut themselves back in. The white mold is also bullshit as you see in the credits. That or those are the real actors names. I guess we'll have to see

[@lukelyon1781]

You mean capitalism.

[@residentenigma7141]

Too true, mate.

[@SapkaliAkif]

Sebastian, those are the actual actor's names.

[@sonicextremities9570]

Or that reality (or some would argue tv general) tv is destroying humanity. very network-esque

[@kxena2913]

There goes another procrastinated hour wasted

[@Arcaryon]

Not waisted. Well spent is much more fitting

[@charliek115]

Oh fuck it's 3am

[@bacjam6139]

@@charliek115 don't worry it's 4am for me

[@brandonpowley7688]

@@charliek115 dont worry its 6:30 in the morning for me

[@beingzombievstheworld]

Same

[@punkgrl325]

I always lose it at the dengue fever survivors lmao

[@louschwick7301]

Accent wasnt quite right tho

[@Maazin5]

That this is the Onion's most viewed series makes the message so much more poignant. You know it's because people clicked for the thumbnails and titles. Sex sells- even as satire.

[@aqualight1760]

People aren’t talking enough about this. Just watched the whole series, wow was it trippy.

[@mira-sturdivant]

it's funny because that's why i avoided watching it for so long. i watched through aaaaall of the onion's old stuff, but skipped past this going "why does sex house have the most views. whatever." until i got desperate enough for more onion content. and it ended up being the funniest shit

[@s.tar.lin.g]

@@mira-sturdivant SAME. I actually only even watched it because my sibling said it was good. and he would NOT have recommended it if it were anything actually sexual so that's what finally made me click on episode one. and I'm so glad I did, because this was INSANE

[@dharmallars]

Franks imitation of Tara’s seizure is something you might miss at first so I’m urging you to go back and watch. Hilarious. 3:16

[@roomba6071]

Thanks man I woulda missed it lol

[@plastiktuten3866]

so fucking dark, so well-executed

[@Matthew0640]

The real people are still in the house, why? Simple, the therapist said their fake, any injuries or any syntoms of malnourishment, drug use and lung dmg? Are all gone, and frank looked like he still had his package

[@the0therethan]

This is actually terrifying to think about lmao

[@cumbersauce2762]

I know this was 7 months ago, but look at the credits. The cast shows the crew as different people.

[@alexc.4909]

Frank also looks very off, even ignoring lack of mustache

[@douglasbubbletrousers4763]

@@cumbersauce2762 It shows them as different people because it’s just showing the actual actors for Onion

[@cumbersauce2762]

@@douglasbubbletrousers4763 That was my second guess, but I still felt like it was worth pointing out

[@mtotowamidiri]

I'm really surprised at the drop from 26 million views on the first episode to only 2 million here, the show is brilliant

[@harshpahade2703]

That's because 24 million people clicked on the first episode because they were horny, 2 clicked for the plot

[@HelderGriff]

2 million people is still a lot though

[@mattgroening8872]

Most of the clicks were horny teens who thought it was real

[@JLPicard1648]

It started as a critique of reality TV, then somehow became an argument against hyper consumerism and the modern paradigm of glamour culture, then got into the paradigm of the ancients and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and then finished just like every other reality show ends. Absolutely brilliant from start to finish

[@JaxontheOkay]

there's a lot to this but all i can focus on is the pure unadulterated half standing ovation to derek revealing he is NOW straight shortly followed by a light golf clap to a vaccine for dengue fever being invented

[@lootplx]

4:53 was probably the most Trump thing I've heard come out someone elses mouth.

[@undvlopdftus3828]

KlohsCalls lol

[@randomperson6988]

He even sounded kind of like Trump!

[@optimusprime8831]

KlohsCalls w

[@ricegum2022]

HE SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE HIM. HE EVEN USES THE SAME WORDS!! INSANE!!!

[@louschwick7301]

@@ricegum2022 AND hes on reality tv!

[@MyoticTesseract]

I feel so fucking traumatized. I hate everything about this series. Yet I love it. This final episode filled me with nothing but hate and fury. I hate you, Onion. Thank you for this entire series.

[@otherlego]

Does it make you feel better to know that the final cast is only lookalikes?

[@DarthDuck404]

This episode is the real horror show. Even after witnessing and experiencing the horror of reality TV and media trying to use people, objectify them, turn their joy and their suffering and all their thoughts and choices into a product to put in an elaborate story on TV, even after rebelling against being manipulated, they still go back to living the vapid, greedy, objectified life style of social media influencers or reality TV stars. The real horror is that even after the terrors of the world are brought to light, nothing changes. No amount of trauma or first hand experience of the horror of social media/reality TV culture can break the mental programming instilled in them by society in the long run.

[@katgen3561]

i can't believe i watch this for an hour 😂😂😂

[@lettucenoodle8795]

Same

[@FinalGuyKris]

I still remember filming that day. They told us extras to do our best not to laugh at the lines but man....some of the stuff they said was so famn funny....it was almost impossible for us not to chuckle a few times.

[@Sethpelepchuk]

4:55 close ur eyes and tell me who you hear.

[@nickharshman6004]

Chaotic Cinema holy shit... POTUS

[@lonelyghost1851]

holy shit i-

[@Tizzzyyy]

Chaotic Cinema OH SH-

[@PlanetXtreme]

Oh my

[@TheOtakuPrince]

Donald Trump

[@kingpinXXX100]

So when are we getting season 2? I really wanna see those frogs going at it.

[@diggitydoo5836]

Search for “Porking Across America.”

[@waynelangins11]

Sex House: San Diego was alright, but nothing compares to the original. San Diego Episode 4 with guest Host (and participant lol) Frank was the only episode that felt similar to the first season.

[@niklashansen5432]

Nah, episode 6 when Scott Baio´s brother visited the house was pretty good too.

[@RamadaArtist]

The shift from surreal nightmare to straight existential nihilism really contributed to a sense of reality unraveling at the end. I think this is the closest a work of fiction has made me feel to Kafka's The Trial, and it's all the more impressive for hitting on that same weirdness while inverting all of the major specific components.

[@GrapplingHookJones]

that was a surreal experience

[@manicxxpanic17]

I'm so happy they got out. Even though it wasn't real I was so concerned for them...

[@thegoodkidboy7726]

Just because they're not in that building doesn't mean they got out.

[@samsaraslight8377]

They will never escape sex house. It owns them now.

[@thec-m]

How do you know that’s actually them?

[@user-jl7cz2pe6d]

I don't think they ever got out. Well not willingly, at least. Either, the producers got a bunch of lookalikes, or they were captured then mind controlled.

[@mikemcguffey6458]

@@user-jl7cz2pe6d bingo! Those are definitely lookalikes

[@HippieWitch426]

Just watched all of the episodes in a row...Then proceeded to read the comments on this last one. I don't know which was funnier - the show or the comments.

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

Can't believe that any of the comment that believed in this shit was real - They HAD to be trolling. ... please let them be trolling ....

[@truedesireelements2040]

Lol

[@diggitydoo5836]

Now search for “Porking across America.”

[@funguy398]

5:52 That expression on Alex face when Paul reveal himself

[@COrraThereal0ne]

Lol

[@kevinwillems8720]

The expression on all their faces

[@homohillbillysrlol]

The Onion nailed it with this one. PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE make a second season, with different people, same setting, same downward spiral. I will seriously love you guys forever.

[@mangoesaredelicious4622]

the jig is up though. something like this is only fun the first time around because no one sees it coming

[@joelrichardson5139]

Naw. Different spiral, similar idea

[@jimmydean2157]

This show is brilliant. The first show ive watched since black mirror that really fucked my brains up in more ways than describable

[@okaymckay]

Jimmy Dean True that.

[@DZrache]

+Jimmy Dean It's awesome. I actually found this more terrifying than Black Mirror.

[@DZrache]

+Jimmy Dean It's awesome. I actually found this more terrifying than Black Mirror.

[@MidnightBlue766]

They became the very thing they hated, didn't they?

[@safaashkan8369]

no they didn't

[@okaymckay]

Midnight Blue Just like POrking Across America, oh The Onion you did it again.

[@baonkang5990]

i thought they were robots or clones and the real contestants were still in the house

[@gonufc]

No, they reverted back to the very thing they wanted to be. Despite being horrific it was utterly meaningless.

[@kevinwillems8720]

You're not paying attention. You're believing the lies the Network is telling.

[@slimeyvids7304]

5:45 THIS IS SO ACCURATE people who have roles on the reality tv shows always wind up grooming someone in the cast

[@Nocturnalux]

"How's the baby?" "I honestly have no idea" :D

[@ariesaffluence]

What the fuck did I just waste an hour of my life watching

[@andrewemerson5126]

A person getting killed by a white mould lol was that real?

[@mnmpwnss6454]

That wuz fake

[@ariesaffluence]

+Melissa DuVall you're a stupid troll that judges character off of 2 year old profile picture. My comment was a joke, get over your profane ideal of my morality, you illogical dreg.

[@themegablokian2967]

It's satire damn human. You are blinded and disgusted by human society.

[@alexad2176]

U right

[@Moms_Spaghetti]

My favorite is the girl in the audience with the blank stare when cheering 5:03 for example. This was a pretty damn well made series

[@tiamelancholyjeoncockity]

Theory: they’re not the real cast members, the real ones are still stuck inside the sex house and they’re just lookalikes they used to coverup what happened to the real ones. Did you guys not hear everything the fake therapist said? They’re all fake 😟 it’s really dark if you think about it, the casts

[@TheWazzoGames]

My theory is that these are the real actors, but they’ve just been broken down into doing whatever the network wants just to keep living. It’s really dark if you think about it.

[@722blitz]

Your theory is supported by alex’s heartbreaking look of terror after she learns who her partner is.

[@monbooboothefool1937]

I don’t know why “I’m heterosexual now” just absolutely sent me

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

I genuinely mean it when I say this is a seriously gripping and amazing critique not only of reality TV show, but also a brilliant critique of our culture's view of sex. Another masterpiece from The Onion.

[@spedrun]

Why is them all having a happy ending the most horrifying possible ending WHAT DID THIS SHOW DO TO ME

[@lowquality49]

No, this is not an happy ending. In the end they ended up becoming exactly what everyone expected them to be. The answers they are giving, the stories they are telling, this whole interview is something that could have happened in a normal reality show, while some of what they said was a reference to the horrible stuff that happened. This is a proof that they fully became and did what "america wanted them to be". Another sign is when they discovered the light, but they closed it again.

[@Mr.Slinky]

Nah the actors are hinted at being lookalikes as well. The real actors could still be in the sex house

[@kevinwillems8720]

For fucks sake, stop believing the bullshit the show is telling you.

[@sharrpshooter1]

​@@Mr.Slinkywhere's the hinting? If anything their actions show the exact opposite, Alex's look of fear when she finds out her bf was the voice from in the house is only something that would show up on the real contestants face, not some random lookalike

[@jimmyrussels6631]

frank the tank

[@LordThanatosOfHades]

Nothing will ever fill the hole in my life that SH has left me with. The best thing The Onion has ever made.

[@alaneththered3714]

So Erin isn’t depressed anymore, Frank started a cult, Tara does charity work, Derek turned straight, Alex fell in love with a stalker, and big chad stayed a big chad, and they all started blogs. Just the ending i hoped for.

[@nrsrymj]

First episode has over 30m views. Real ones stuck it out. This is a masterpiece of satire.

[@6god820]

When's sex house San Diego coming out

[@btdgames]

.............

[@AntiTMG]

never

[@HelderGriff]

lol

[@crimsonsomething6131]

Get an aquarium and some frogs, and make the next season yourself!

[@nGUNNARp]

this is 10 years old but if you just swapped out blog for podcast it'd be perfect

[@solitary2]

I'm not getting my 70+ minutes back

[@BoxcarBomber]

Damn I didn't even realize I wasted that much time until you pointed it out. Mneh...worth it.

[@solitary2]

FrameFlicker Nah, it wasn't.

[@SenorGnar]

You never were, so...guess it all worked out.

[@scr3ambo17]

Solitary it was so worth it

[@scr3ambo17]

FrameFlicker ....so worth it.......

[@twinklehoes]

nobody said anything about how erin said she gave the baby away but referred to the baby as a she... in the last ep she referred to it as a he... this is so surreal and odd

[@Escalad5]

Im pretty sure these aren't supposed to be the real cast there still inside the house now completely insane, The Executives said they were doing to try to make something of the footage so in universe probably made it look like a comedy as it is IRL.

[@elipticon7369]

It’s implied that the baby was stillborn, and that’s probably why she is confusing things.

[@sharrpshooter1]

​@@Escalad5nah the look of fear on Alex's face when she finds out her bf is the voice from im the house completely disproves that point

[@hydriumstudio]

@@sharrpshooter1 that could've also been staged along with the rest of this reunion. remember the show basically came down to "have sex or die" and well they didn't have sex except for a couple of unwarranted times from frank, so...

[@Bagofnowt]

My main theory is that they were referred to a therapist after the show who gaslighted them into believing everything was fine

[@nunyabiznes33]

Yeah, Erin said she don't remember much of it.

[@GoldBallTV]

“Breath normally, prepare for mist” they didn’t miss a thing here.. and that kiss? Grotesque... great job 👏🏼

[@Qrispy]

I may be one of less than 50 people in the universe that has seen this full series front to back in an actual movie theater.

[@brandcack4117]

How??? I wish I could experience that haha

[@Qrispy]

@@brandcack4117 They showed all episodes in a row at the Unnamed Footage Film Festival this year in SF.

[@occono3543]

​@@Qrispy Really? Were any of the writers or actors there? The writers left the Onion to form a troupe called Wild aggressive dog after this, they have done a few things here and there since this

[@zenergetic_8299]

“It definitely had its highs and lows” lol classic reality tv script

[@f3ynman1um8]

This was great and I love episode 9 where even though they had the option for true freedom they chose to stay with their lie of reality which reminds me of a thing Plato said about a civilization living in a cave and they can only see the real world through shadows or something and how they would chose their lie rather than truth

[@Tozzie50]

Huh? No that was platos theory about how human beings see the world. Like he assumed there was much more behind what anyone could see and that there were ways to come close to it like with art but you could never quite reach it. Its the foundation of his philosophy which was the foundation of the idea of heaven that was used in christianity. Its not about humans not wanting to look at the shadows, its that they cant.

[@faeth3641]

ifuckinghate cantaloupe no the first guy is right. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave was basically if you showed a civilization whom only knew the cave that the things in the cave are shadows and the things OUTSIDE of it are real, they’d be mad and kill you.

[@suncu91]

@@faeth3641 i know you wrote this a year ago but i just read your comment. Plato's allegory of the cave has nothing to do with this show. Ill try retelling the story. Plato's allegory of the cave explains why as we get the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to explain it to other people and other see it as jibberish. In the story, people are chained facing the wall and see shadows of people walking behind them. They can only see shadows but never the people. they start recognising different shadows. This shadow brings food, this one brings water. The people who are the best at inturprating the shadows (this shadow brings bananas and this one grape juice) are celebrated as smart and wise because their knowledge os useful. One day a man decides to turn his head and see whats behind him. He is blinded by the light but he continues to stare he sees the real objects and he decides to see where they are going. As he is getting closer to the exit he is blinded by the light and it is harder and harder for him to see with every step he makes. But as his eyes adjust slowly and he starts seeing the world as it is, not just the shadow of things. As he comes back and starts explaining it to everyone his eyes are not adjusted to the dark cave. And no one believes him. They think "what does this idiot knows about the world. He can't even see the difference between the shadow that brings food from the one that brings water. Yet he tells us that it's us who are blind" The first part of the story explains that learning is hard (you are blinded by the light and can't see clearly but get adjusted to it eventually) The second part is about the struggle to explain the same knowledge to others. Compare it to quantum mechanics. Its so complicated that only a few people actually truly understand it, and when they try to explain ot to us it sounds silly, full of paradoxes and impossibilities. Or even better look at medieval pictures of giraffes. People who drew them never actually seen one so pictures look fantastical and strange. Plato's point is not to ridicule the thinkers because they are only but explorers. They can't use their knowledge practically, but we should still listen to them and try to think of practical ways to use their knowledge.

[@odd3820]

This has been one of my favorite stories for years now and I find myself watching it again every few months. It’s absolutely terrifying and genius and the humor darkens with every episode. And at the end you have this “reunion” where they found replacements for the actors, implying they killed the originals. And season 2 is just the same show all over again. I just think it’s neat.

[@sharrpshooter1]

I don't they got replacement because of the look of horror on Alex's face when she finds out he boyfriend is actually the voice from in the house, its an exact trauma response no random replacement actor would have

[@EmilyDNelson]

Straight Derek is a sin :(

[@misanthropicisolation4013]

Heterophobic much?

[@yessum15]

@@misanthropicisolation4013 jeez, sensitive much?

[@Joshalots]

@@yessum15 Judgemental much?

[@yessum15]

@@Joshalots hypocritical much?

[@bobobsen]

@@yessum15 sarcastic much?

[@Fredfredbug4]

Anyone notice that the studio audience are basically all high schoolers? Its satire of how this shit is marketed to kids in real life.

[@TomMRF]

I think Frank is Donald Trump's idol.

[@Ather_sys]

I kind of both hate and like the idea that this ending is all a hallucination/delusion being created by their dying brains

[@Blazeinbluebecausewhynot]

Probably the only reality show i am addicted too. Pls i want season two so bad!!! The actors also deserve more recognition!!

[@priultimus]

DID WE WATCH THE SAME SHOW?

[@rapcentraltv831]

this is perfect. everyone becoming a blogger is like how everyone in reality tv becomes an influencer now

[@chrome_disco]

Perfect ending. This is so much more depressing than if they all just died.

[@postmasters6453]

This show was an absolute roller coaster. The amount of dread and disgust I felt throughout watching it was something else and I’m not sure I ever want to see something like this again.

[@cadenflynn1587]

My theory is that the original cast members are still inside the sex house. These are just look alike actors. Notice how the fake therapist put so much emphasis on how fake they were? Or the different character traits that some of the cast displayed? Derrick turned heterosexual, and Frank divorced his wife. But hey, that’s just a theory...

[@kolamoose8717]

You’re right but maybe, I’m more partial to the idea that in response to there trauma they’ve adopted the traits the show runners wanted because they feel like they could have made it out if they had just done what the show runners wanted moral or not.

[@sethwick8348]

@@kolamoose8717 Or that what we saw was never the reality of the situation, just like reality TV but to an even greater degree. The contestants at the end are now out of character, they were really just actors playing roles, the "reality" was always a pretense. Just like most reality TV.

[@bolillo5013]

This series is one of the most intelligent pieces of satire I’ve watched, it gave me some of the same feelings I experienced when reading 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 but it was veiled by a seemingly humorous, yet very dark, structure. It was amazing.

[@mimmar3891]

I am truly worried for humanity when I see comments on every Onion video from people who think they're geniuses because they "discovered" that it's fake, or worse yet, haven't even figured out that it's satire. What is wrong with people??? I know we can't all be Einstein but really?

[@SwobyJ]

Mostly pre-teens. Mostly.

[@rpm2004]

they're called trolls,welcome to the internet.

[@thomasmacdonough288]

At the end of Ep9, I felt like everyone had grown as a person, I was rooting for everyone, Erin, Jay, even Frank. But here they reverted to empty husks. More hollow than when they began the show. Are they even the real contestants?

[@nunyabiznes33]

Maybe they aren't? Didn't Frank got like, scars on his face from the beating he got?

[@possumprince]

...reminds me of how derek described the host as seeming empty inside

[@vermillionz]

Definitely lookalikes.

[@sharrpshooter1]

Its definitely them and not lookalikes, the look of fear on Alex's face when she finds out her bf is the voice from in the house gives that away, if they just got random replacement those people wouldn't care like the actual contestants would

[@hydriumstudio]

@@sharrpshooter1 again, that could be scripted just like anything else.

[@ChrishBlake]

Rip coolio

[@threeam22]

R.I.P. Coolio, he was very real