Stephen King’s IT (Book) - Thug Notes Summary & Analysis

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It (1986)
by Stephen King
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[@savannah8243]

No GaNg bAnG rEqUiReD tHiS tiMe

[@Cuban20]

😆

[@Mr3DLC]

Did the turtle tell em to do that?

[@thescapegoatmechanism8704]

A train, not a gang bang 😂

[@Akantore]

This dude mastered the art of the raspy voice.

[@sanyatesGRIA]

Not Jesus facts, dude sound like a hood Gilbert Godfrey

[@zahrazarqaa5210]

Made me reach for a lozenge just by listening to it for eleven minutes.

[@KnowOne1701]

I guess he learned from the master. Voit from Chicago P.D.!

[@GiorgioGiovana]

it felt so good to turn this comment from 999likes to 1k

[@CK......]

@@GiorgioGiovana very satisfying.

[@ocsartobi6844]

I see why the show was gone for so long. That book is longer than the bible. Great to see Thug Notes back.

[@johnwerner69]

ocsar tobi what

[@slashbash1347]

Technically, not. IT takes around 50 hours to read in audio format. The Bible takes 72.

[@markbennett4946]

ocsar tobi m

[@gunsandammo92]

Regular King James Bible is like 780,000 words, IT is about 440,000...I know I was THAT curious.

[@johnathonhaney8291]

ocsar tobi Word count on my copy of It was 1000+, maybe close to 1100. Bible's longer than that.

[@kyuubicat5]

No wonder the movie was changed so much lol damn

[@lukadidililovicdidililovic5537]

Skelecat ikr this is fucked up

[@pyronixe]

Derry is IT. IT is Derry. The adults let IT feed.

[@jontraz5993]

pyronixe It started to feed once man showed up. Before that It slept.

[@000xyz]

Feed IT derry. IT is lactose intolerant? Then feed IT dairy. XD

[@1805movie]

You should review _The Shining_ .

[@kezkezooie8595]

The Shining is definitely one of his better books.

[@johnzoidberg2376]

“...it’s fascinating to me that there has been so much comment about that single sex scene and so little about the multiple child murders. That must mean something, but I’m not sure what.” - Stephen King

[@slashbash1347]

Well, one of them is FAR more unusual.

[@HeartFeathers]

It means we don't talk about something clearly outlined in the book as a disturbing thing (child murders) but we do talk about something disturbing that's clearly outlined as a good thing (child orgies). But I promise you if the book tried to show child murder as a good thing, it would be controversial too.

[@bplusstudios9031]

Brokenwingedheart context!

[@angrytheclown801]

It doesn't help that the book is about child murders, we expect it. Villains doing evil things, not a shock. Scary yes, but the very idea is expected. What we don't expect is children fucking, and it keeps going.

[@NBKZErO100]

Yes Stephen because the clown is killing the kids but he didnt fuck em

[@lucaveneziano8447]

Hook up with the loser's club has a two meanings in this book

[@solongandthanksforallthefi8365]

M-O-O-N, that spells The Stand! Please do The Stand next!

[@NotCthulhu]

THE HELL IS A CLOWN DOIN DOWN THERE

[@frolicious3761]

Could you do The Aeneid? That would be awesome.

[@Jaydoggy531]

Though it would be awesome the issue with epics is that they're a series of episodes, each of them worth a world of interpretation on their own.

[@frolicious3761]

Jaydoggy531 he did do the Odyssey tho

[@nx9919]

Fro licious Try Overly Sarcastic Productions on KZbin They, sarcastically explain the whole story of various pieces literature, including The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Aeneid, Shakespeare's works, The Divine Comedy, and etc

[@geoffreyhughes1]

I've read most of King's work and this book always fucks with me because of the time jumps.

[@M12GProductions]

When are you going to do The Call of Cthulhu?

[@gebatron604]

M12GProductions not much depth to it is there?

[@DriscolDevil]

Variklis Woods not really? I don't really see a deep message in that short story.

[@frogprince7029]

M12GProductions phantoms by kuntz

[@LaceyAnn]

I like your style haha, very fun. Gonna subscribe and binge some more of your work. Thanks for the laughs, peace!

[@williamglass2223]

Can you do One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?

[@entropyad]

Great choice ^

[@tolsti1]

Yass!

[@williamglass2223]

Very inspiring tale.

[@whiteamericanmale7392]

William Glass no fuck you

[@ElwoodPDowd1970]

Either that or Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler. Usually I'd not be optimistic about something critical of socialism seeing the light of day on a KZbin channel like this, but he did review The Fountainhead a while ago. (A book I am personally not much of a fan of, truth be told, but I will take what I can get in 2017.)

[@khimjamal232]

Do NOT stop what you're doing!!!! This is one of the best things KZbin has to offer

[@jennyvlogs7160]

Wow! I love your interpretation of this book. I thought it was an allegory about dealing with childhood trauma from abuse.

[@RooneySparks]

Can we please have this for Silence of the Lambs? XD

[@Mimarber57]

Rooney I second that request. Great idea!

[@tc2241]

New Thug Notes = Like

[@violetsky5406]

Can you do stephen king the Stand And do Flowers in the attic by V.C. Andrews Mr. Thug.

[@michaelchirgwin5516]

I'd love to see you do A Scanner Darkly.

[@nightmuffin937]

If you read one of The Dark Tower series The Turtle scene makes total sense.

[@nealsustaita4962]

Paradise Lost by John Milton? Anyone?

[@000xyz]

Neal Sustaita stupid sexy satan

[@nepenthejq8065]

Yes!

[@VEROTIKAA]

yes

[@dicedice3720]

Yes!

[@NelsonStJames]

It's weird that when the book came, out in '86, or the mini series came out in '90 I don't remember nearly as many people going on about "that" scene as you do now, even though common sense would tell anybody that scene couldn't even make it in an R rated film. Wonder what half these people would say if they actually read The Godfather and saw the stuff in that book that didn't make it in the film.

[@yeahthatreallyhappened]

Nelson Smith society has become sensitive about everything...

[@anonb4632]

I've read the Godfather... are you referring to ?Woltz the film producer?

[@gunsandammo92]

I think cause after reading over 1000 pages of weird. 6 pages isn't going to phase you much. With social media anyone can stop reading after that scene and be like "holy shot child orgy!" And send it out. So word got out more.

[@johnathonhaney8291]

Nelson Smith You had to go deep in the book to get to that scene, damn near 1000 pages. Nobody was going to film it, I promise you. Also, do remember that this was pre-Internet, where you had to dig to find weirdness like this.

[@ElwoodPDowd1970]

You'd want to see a subplot about Sonny Corleone's giant wang on film? IIRC it did get kind of a wink, wink, nod, nod acknowledgment in the Godfather movie, though, with his wife holding up her arms in a "I just caught a fish THIS BIG," gesture somewhere in the wedding scene.

[@alexjohnston4456]

Love this show. Think you could do Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman?

[@tomchristiam8406]

Great book!!! Gets my vote!

[@s.g.7572]

Neil Gaiman needs some love. American Gods, Anansi Boys and The Ocean At The End of the Lane are also contenders.

[@Cannibal713]

Hell yea, good choice.

[@pilosopino23]

Thug notes got a huge fang!

[@crystaleldredge6010]

Can you guys do Fifth Business? I don't really enjoy the book but I'd love to see your take on it. Thanks and I love this show!

[@vahporn]

Is It considered cosmic horror?

[@nogoodchuck]

Veronica Surratt someone watched the wisecrack video on Rick and Morty lol

[@kalyndor]

Ye

[@ugopiazza5706]

partially

[@csabagalambos1461]

Well, it has some quick, spiritual hikes in the so called macroverse, and some Lovecraftian shit like seeing otherworldly stuff that the human mind can't comprehend, so I guess you could say so.

[@johnathonhaney8291]

Veronica Surratt I wouldn't. While it does have some Lovecraft elements--cosmic demon from the stars, small town with ugly, destructive secrets--it has more in common with King's inspiration Richard Matheson. I'd recommend you seek out Stir Of Echoes (the book, not the movie) to see what I'm talking about.

[@brendalballentine9422]

"They got some weird crackheads in Derry..."

[@vintagegirl7937]

Good courageous message in this story...

[@IsaacRainford21]

This was amazing! Can you review Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice next please?!

[@KindredKeepsake]

IT being a representation and *part* of Derry was brilliant. I never thought of it that way before.

[@halowaffle25]

I haven't seen this vid now, but I'm calling it; There's gonna be an underage orgy joke. It's okay, because that canonically happened in the book.

[@johnwerner69]

Sans's Dunkateer nah

[@jasperstout8700]

This is both informative and inretaning

[@mrflyingcow5423]

Back in high school thug notes helped me pass english.

[@LaurenTheorist]

Yes...more Thug Notes!!!

[@annevalkyrieflores3460]

This needs a comeback. Quick!

[@lizetteavila4415]

Damn. I never noticed how deep this movie was.

[@GRasputin91]

Don't forget to make honorable mention of Tim Curry and his "WA-HA! WA-HA! WA-HA!"

[@lizbotnick]

THANK YOU FOR NOT DEFENDING OR FORGETTING THAT THEY WERE JUST ELEVEN people keep defending that sex scene as part of the "horror" or even as "sweet friendship bonding" like WHAT bless u for your sanity here

[@aleenas9305]

I watch these for fun 😂😂😂😂👏🏽

[@Mary.420]

I LOVE THESE! If you guys are still making thess you guys should make a video for 'The Man In The High Castle'

[@Mauxbius]

Can you do the body electric: electromagnetism and the foundation of life?

[@alfonsopayan09]

Why y’all hating on Thugs man:(? Need this shit back

[@freyaheart]

Please do A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyal and the other Sherlock books.

[@bigdoodsRoCk1242]

Hey Wisecrack, you really should do Island, by Aldous Huxley. Cause fans of his say that along with Brave New World, that Island was his best work. Not just cause it was a good book, but because it was such a stark counterpoint to Brave New World. Incredible, considering it is actually the last book he had put out. Thank you and keep doing what you do!

[@mhellerart]

Love these videos

[@heckinminions669]

Finally someone that makes literature interesting

[@thickheart28]

Just heard you on a totinos commercial! Congrats!

[@BambooAcrobatVerte]

This is my favorite book. Thanks.

[@DrunkenCoward1]

"WAIT, WHAT?" - Thug Notes about Local Sex Pervert Stephen King

[@FauxFoxPaw]

And fucking subbed. This has gotta be one of the best channels I've found in a while lol.

[@woodie3]

I would love it if you would do The Turn of The Screw by Henry James

[@beesechurger2927]

Please do Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

[@superphatgirl1709]

I am now the biggest fan!

[@outlandish.history]

Do this for Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 🤙

[@charlimartin8709]

Mentions the sexism and racism...but not the homophobia. I get that this is an over 1,000 page book, but I feel like the murder of the gay couple that ACTUALLY starts the book deserves at least a mention.

[@summerrose791]

Charli Martin thank you

[@nkirukaj2384]

I was thinking that too

[@shaiwriter]

Mike's roll will be that of a drug addict. I don't like that aspect change but...

[@Briggie]

I’m surprised he mentioned the gangbang scene.

[@taralucent1219]

@@summerrose791 Eddie's not gay. You have been reading too much EddiexRichie fan fiction.

[@SilverKnight16]

"And it sounds pretty freaky. ...But I like it." LOL

[@larrybarnhill572]

This SLAYS!

[@kennyhagan5781]

That was what I was needing right there.

[@Bipolarvideos]

Also the kids ride bicycles, maybe that's symbolic for cycles

[@thatguy4852]

Can ya do blood brothers. Would really help for my exammm

[@rekharamteke3502]

Please do the Ulysses by James Joyce and the lord of the ring trilogy

[@LongWangHung69]

Thank you for doing this this is super funny and very informative

[@HollowMist11]

Can you do Leroux's Phantom of the Opera?

[@robinhoodwasasocialist.1401]

Id love to hear him analyze crime and punishment

[@mjohnson5030]

HEY! What happened? It's been a year. WHERE is my thug notes! Bring back Prof Sweets!

[@nahomwondimu4067]

Please do Agamemnon

[@samdimond8465]

Can you please do The Dark Tower series?

[@Jesusfm_choom]

the diamond lens plz

[@atharvas3244]

PLEASE DO SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

[@hto560]

Gone with the wind please

[@DRFUZY1]

Please do Greg Maguire's the Wicked Years series

[@mantisqueen964]

Does anyone else get amused whenever he says "He dead"?

[@alyshahair2033]

I would love to see you do Far From The Madding Crowd! A best selling classic by Thomas Hardy

[@crofregernish4695]

If only Dr. Sweets could do this for molecular biology. Like a thug style Crash Course.

[@chandlerredhead27]

PLEASEEEE do Phantom of the Opera

[@evodius1]

Do Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh!

[@Blub_blubby]

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

[@alchemist6306]

The Book Thief plz!

[@NekoChanSenpai]

While we're on Stephen King, can you do the Library Policeman?

[@fewchsoho3053]

"They got some weird crackheads in Derry" LMAO!

[@junbertmahal3146]

i like that name wisecrack lmaooo

[@Cinedragon]

It's been a while since I read the book. But wasn't Derry also influenced by It? It crashlanded on earth before humans even existed. And Pennywise brought out the worst of the citizens of Derry. Not the other way around. And the reason he preyed on humans was because their fear could take on so many forms compared to the rather basic fear of animals.

[@kojobempong8042]

Ma teacher be using these videos to teach us in school i really taught he was one of those fools but when i listened to him i knew he was smarter than my teacher

[@Y3110WDOG]

Flowers for Algernon please

[@honeyisthebestdog]

Thanks for being the only person to acknowledge the child gang bang as fuuuucked up. No one else ever even NOTICES it in the book. Wtf world? I heart thug notes!

[@12oshinko]

Yay Sparky!!!

[@cablecar10]

"After an assembly line of the freak nasty." Poetry.

[@billysgeo]

WOOOORD!!!

[@Pluveus]

04:11

[@connerscruggsvlogz2113]

Did that actually happen

[@billysgeo]

@@connerscruggsvlogz2113 in the book, yeah...

[@chrismel9142]

Ew, think I'll give this one a pass.

[@RealSancez]

You had the best reaction to the orgy scene ever! "Stephen, man.."

[@MadameTamma]

Stephen King has amazing talent, but some of his books were written hastily while he was coked out of his mind and it shows.

[@jonathanw1019]

IT is far and away King's best book, and it should be considered one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century.

[@trappx2]

@@jonathanw1019 never read the stand have you

[@jonathanw1019]

@@trappx2 I tried at one point. Was not a fan. That might have come from watching the TV movie before attempting it, so I knew the rough plot. IT always had far more familiarity to me in terms of themes, and I think it has far more familiarity in terms of American Culture and history as well. I get that people like the Stand though and I should probably give it another go.

[@purplegorilla9592]

I've read a rumor that IT was written in a 15 hour coke and whiskey bender. No rest, no sleep, just coked out of his mind pounding away at his typewriter for 15 straight hours. King has never stated this was true but never denied it either. I think his answer was something like, "it's possible".

[@jonathanw1019]

@@purplegorilla9592 I'd like to believe the coke whiskey bender thing, which could certainly be true, but 1100 pages in 15 hours? That's over a page a minute. If it's whiskey and coke, 15 hours isn't even that long. Let's double or triple that. I could see two days straight. That might actually explain the last 200 pages.

[@talkinghead1819]

I can explain why king wrote that sex scene in one word: cocaine.

[@ObadiahtheSlim]

Well that or he's a serious pervert.

[@angrytheclown801]

There is no good, no kindness, no mercy. There is only Steven King.

[@marlom7882]

ObadiahtheSlim him writing that scene in general for whatever reason makes me 100% sure he has fucking problems

[@diddlywiddly215]

Deity Saturn, yeah he was on the cocaine

[@marlom7882]

Diddly Widdly like I said whatever it may be, fucking problems

[@TheICEgirl6100]

it's fumny how king said: " why are people so obsessed with ONE sex scene" yeah, why are people so focused on the scene you wrote were 7 eleven year olds run a TRAIN on beverly to find enlightenment. guess we will never know

[@Raulbikcube]

TheICEgirl6100 someone went back and looked at the reviews of the book at the time it was published and they found that that scene was rarely referenced. So weird. I think when the book gained a teenage/YA readership, “the scene” gained the notoriety it has today. (I sure as hell was messed up by it when I read it at 12.) It’s funny. It kinda goes along with the book’s theme of adults not noticing things that kids/teens DEFINITELY pick up on.

[@mrmustache1125]

Kids Stephen. You were writing about kids.

[@MondezDurden]

Ruby, this novel wasn't written by the character. It was written by King and he is the one who created the very internal logic and premise of the act in the novel you cite as a reason for people not to find it dubious. No. it does not work like that. King is a grown man writing a scene like this in a book and so the complaint is that and not if the character he wrote to want the act is the one who should determine the merit of the act. it's like saying it's okay that a writer creates a scene of abuse because in the novel the character wanted it............oh....wait.

[@doubtfulguest5450]

In King's defence, Bev was strangely sexualised throughout the whole book. Bev's description of the perfect donger was the first description I ever read. Her husband is abusive and I vaguely remember a scene with Bev and her dad that made me _wait wut_ as well as the sewer incident.. and maybe also gossip that she might be a bit of a ho? Then again, I also remember that Henry covers his belly button because Henry is a big boy and there are probably other unnecessarily sexual scenes or undertones at times. Perhaps King is confused about we fixate on just that ONE scene, when there's plenty of others to choose from too. Other than a disturbing layer of character development, the sexual stuff doesn't really add anything of substance to the story so I can see why they would leave it out of retellings. That and the whole 'really creepy' thing. I'd like to think that King was trying to play on invoking visceral disgust in back of the reader's mind, to enhance the fear in the story with some subconscious negative emotions. I'd really like to think that..

[@joshuajones4956]

@@doubtfulguest5450 "In defense of King's gross child sex scene, he over-sexualized children throughout the whole book" - You

[@oblivious108]

Dear, Thug Notes... WHEN THA HELL YOU COMIN' BACC!?!?!?1

[@CassDaMan1138]

Come back Thug

[@hobi8385]

What happened to him? Do you Know? I miss him:c

[@rogueprince1341]

@@hobi8385 i think I saw that thug notes is on Amazon Prime or something like that

[@stanleyjohanson6720]

I think it's a podcast on Spotify now...I still miss the KZbin ones, the podcast just doesn't live up to the standard

[@simplydenacious]

Yess!!! Come back

[@saifsayed5019]

"These kids only eleven. Steven, man! " that part though. 😂😂😂

[@bellamovie2]

"So after an assembly line of that FREAK NASTY...."😅

[@billiemcintyre275]

"After wrecking It with an Inhaler and some choice words," I'm so dead AHAHAAHAH

[@NathanS__]

“This sounds pretty freaky …… but I like it “ Too dang funny

[@sanyatesGRIA]

Nathan s lmao I was out 🤣🤣🤣

[@BS-se4yg]

Can you do "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice? I think it would be incredible.

[@brett6816]

Ooooh. Yeeees.

[@johnnynoche1387]

Hell yeah

[@Nezzen-]

Ok this book crazy af lmao wasn't expecting any of that. Kiddy orgy's, omnipotent turtle god, the way to kill "it" by chewing on his tongue, and just what "it" is, I'm so lost haha.

[@SonTomNetwork]

Nezzen Our universe was made when that turtle vomitted it out after a stomach ache. Also, that turtle had died by choking on a galaxy by the time the kids grew up. Just saying that it gets weirder.

[@gunsandammo92]

To be fair it's like a metaphysical tongue chewing. But yeah, fucking wierd

[@johnathonhaney8291]

Nezzen To quote another King book "The Wasteland", "See the turtle, ain't he keen? All things serve the fucking beam."

[@ronnickels5193]

Nezzen It is an eldritch horror, like something out of Lovecraft. As for the rest of the crazy, it was about this time King discovered cocaine.

[@theanimenerd7279]

Nezzen king was real high back then, im talking all types of drugs cocaine eccspecially

[@gagejoseph91]

"Drop your drawers and fuck me! Wait....What?!" Ah, yes, this part. This legendary part. And then Stephen got an idea. An awful idea. Stephen got a wonderful, awful idea.

[@dlobelow760]

gagejoseph91 man, this remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas is weird.

[@taeaubrey4309]

I heard he was on drugs when he wrote this

[@Haven6419]

Tae Aubrey Really Bad off on booze and cocaine.

[@victorperez2939]

Is this really part of the book?

[@madebytwan841]

yes