SURPRISED And DISTURBED | Super Eyepatch Wolf: What The Internet Did To Garfield Reaction Part B

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[@TheJeSTeR7530]

The difference between "Jon's reality" and ours is not that the jokes work or dont work, but that the "Jon Arbuckle is pathetic" jokes actually don't have any punch lines from Jon's own perspective, meaning that in his reality, there are no joke, and he is just alone in his own pathetic misery... which is a very depressing reality to experience for a continious 40+ years.

[@gokbay3057]

Yeah, whether the jokes work or not is not the point.

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

Yeah. I decided not to harp on that point though because we haven't actually gotten to the part of the video that does a deep dive into that concept yet.

[@hakonsgaming535]

The point with the ridicule of john is that he's NOT happy or content, if you actually go and look (which I did after first seeing this video) the difference between John and Garfield is that Garfield is content with who and what he is, and the jokes around John is that he's not content or happy and most of the time the comics making fun of him are pointing out that everything about him (his bad fashion, inability to deal with women, weird hobbies, etc.) are the source of his discontent, because they are the things that keep him from getting the things he wants. The analysis is hyper accurate, because the comic frames John's unhappiness as a direct consequence and result of who he is.

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

Just for the record the self deletion jokes only happened twice in his whole data set, so that can't be the mystery category since there are roughly 200 of the mystery category ones in his data set.

[@Airier]

That's a relief. I thought it was only two in his initial survey.

[@johnplays7600]

Seeing how terrified airier is by this and know how terrifying and trippy this video gets make me worry about how he'll feel when he reaches the end of the video

[@Airier]

🤔😨

[@neaosmt1562]

​@@Airier I've already seen this video a few months ago ha ha is crazy

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

Also, I just wanted to mention that things may feel a bit disjointed and crazy right now, and they will get a bit more so ahead. But he is building to a cohesive point about the deeper meaning the fanbase has found in garfield and how the (possibly unintentional) themes of the actual comic have given rise to a strangly deep and meaningful meta narrative in the fanbase. We just have a bit of a journey ahead to get there.

[@mollymcallister1671]

Keep in mind on the 'Jon is pathetic' front. This comic strip started in the 1970s. There was no concept of 'These weird hobbies give him pleasure and that's fine', in that era it was all 'these weird hobbies give him pleasure And We Should Laugh At Him For that! We Needs-Must Properly SHAME Him into acknowledging that this is Weird until he Stops Having Fun because Weird!' Is how those sorts of jokes were intended to play-out. Unabashedly enjoying 'weird' hobbies being representative of a laudable iconoclast is a relatively recent thing.

[@MD-gb2nf]

23:36 "This isn't my child. This child is [uninteligable] of darkness. I have give birth to humanity's curse"

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

Yeah the translation is later on in this video.

[@patchworkgolem]

John has redeeming qualities. The problem is that the comic portrays anything that could be redeeming about Jon as pathetic. Even if you can find redeeming or relatable qualities in John, the comic says that you are just as pathetic and should expect to be laughed at by the general person. Whether the comic is right in this assertion isn't the point; the point is that the comic raises Garfield up most often at the expense of putting John down, and that says a lot about the intent of the comic and the message it portrays. Also, he said at 43:27 that the jokes still work without John hearing Garfield's thoughts, thanks to body language. You are both making the same point. The problem is that if John can't hear the thoughts, he is just saying all these things to a mute cat where there is often no body language to interpret, which makes a lot of it very unsettling or depressing.

[@DyslecticAttack]

This Garfield documentary is genuinely one of my favorite videos on the site from the recent years. It's so unnecessary, so disturbing, strangely amusing, yet so insightful and complete. So stoked to see you check it out.

[@TheArcSet]

Thanks for this. Hopefully we'll see some more of his essays. If you think some of this was self torture, his latest video is on the Cruellest video game.

[@Kiaburra]

SEW/John's a master of suffering and descent into madness. His deep research into his obsession of the week-month-years really shines through. Recommending his videos on the indie RPG Fear & Hunger, the live-action Archie show Riverdale, What the Internet did to Undertale, and of course the horrors of buying a Dell PC for max suffering.

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

The fun part about going into this episode is wondering how far he is going to make it this time.

[@cutecentral1930]

yeah especially with the cursed lasagna cat stuff

[@CommissarMitch]

What I love about Arier is that his reactions are always insightful. Either as an Englisg Major (Bravo

[@mollymcallister1671]

Jon's reality is VERY different from Our reality... to Jon. That's the point he was building up to before you cut it off for this session, not Anything to do with how We the Audience do or do not appreciate the quality of the jokes.

[@alexwisz9527]

Something that's really well-crafted and lovecraftian that i think you'd enjoy is the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. Wendigoon did a great intro video to the topic, and I think you'd really like it, either on your own time or as a reaction.

[@lucyarisato6850]

Ah, and so the madness truly begins.

[@being_adibahnaf]

‘You need excessive amounts of Alcohol’ As a Eyepatch guy, I endorse this

[@lop90ful1]

Super Eyepatch Wolf makes amazing content, i personally recommend his "Buying a PC With Dell: My Journey Into Hell"

[@Quinini76]

18:58 Wolf went mad long ago, don't worry. Also, there are a lot of questions asked in this video that SHOULD NOT be answered

[@daysand123]

You havent seen the insanity of Jon Super Eyepatch Wolf until youve seen his systematic stalking and breaking of a man he forces to watch and review Hunter x Hunter in a series called Gon in 60 Seconds.

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

I knew that deep art analysis part would get to him.

[@stephenknizek2651]

“Be disturbed.” ~Nostalgia Critic

[@The_Random_Guy_200]

25:04 Actually made me laugh doesn't sound like much of an achievement but on a video like this I needed it

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

We are really getting to the good stuff now.

[@Wolf_Appledore]

I just checked. The "Telephone Sex Survey" is still up! It's 6 years old and it's still active!

[@black97_0]

Yeah I've seen this video before I made the mistake of watching it at 1 am. It's basically an uncanny valley, of an uncanny valley. It's like LSD^2

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

Part Two! Yeah-uh ☆☆☆

[@feathdev000]

Lasagna cat should make a merch store with a t shirt that says “I survived sex survey results” and give it to super eyepatch wolf for free for sitting through all five hours of that video.

[@cutecentral1930]

holy shoot, that's genius. and because of the fact the people behind lasagna cat are an actual production company called fatal farm, they could easily execute something like that. I'm honestly surprised that fatal farm hasn't done this before, for any of their absurd art projects.

[@Kaylakaze]

You should watch Night Mind's coverage of Lasagna Cat. And his coverage of Unedited Footage of a Bear and This House Has People In It.

[@MattTOB618]

I know this is several months late, but I still wanted to share this. 6:36 Fun fact about the comic on-screen: it was created by Tyson Hesse, who has now worked on several OFFICIAL Sonic projects - drawing art for the comics, storyboarding and directing some of the animations, and even being put in charge of fixing the look of movie Sonic! Edit: Wait, I forgot you have a reaction to the Sonic video, and I can't remember if he talked about this.

[@Airier]

I think it was brought up, but I'm not sure if it was in the video or later in the comments. 🤔

[@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502]

Can i just ask, did you rewatch the first part of this before continuing on here? 41:00, the problem with your view is that Jon is very much NOT happy at all. It would be one thing if he was just weird, but the comic shows he is actively unhappy. 44:13, weather the joke is still there is not the point. The point is that, to Jon, Garfield is just a cat and his depressive thoughts are not interrupted by the joke as they are for us.

[@josephcroeniangamer3727]

44:10 is not that the joke doesnt hold up, is that we now see a man at the verge of suicide.

[@gabriel_cooper]

love your commentary dude! can't wait to see the reminder of the undertale video :D

[@TrickyJebus]

Will you ever try a reaction video of Fear and Hunger from Super Eyepatch wolf as well?

[@Airier]

Probably? Not sure when, but I'll probably get there.

[@TrickyJebus]

@@Airier hell yeah! I noticed you upload the content on a weekly basis. So i dont mind. Fear and Hunger is such an underrated game. If you are interested in survival horror RPG maker games this ones a special one.

[@samsonmacri941]

at the end you seem to be thinking that S.E.W. is saying that... the comics are bad without Garfield's dialog, i think, that seems to be how you're talking it's just i have no idea how you got there as whether or not the comics are good with Garfield's dialog taken out or not isn't that point, it's that Garfield's dialog is normally used to bring up the mood with a punchline but John lives in a world where that doesn't happen, and the mood stays down. he's not mentioning the quality of the comics at all just the world they're presenting.

[@Bananabanana347]

Wait till you hear the theorizer on mort

[@fruitsalad5036]

Super Eyepatch wolf will turn into John Arbuckle

[@Nyperold018]

You can, indeed, still watch the Lasagna Cat videos. Yes, I imagine the laugh at 5:20 is a dead giveaway. Yeah, you kind of have to get to the end of the game to see the name Yuji Naka. I mean, Garfield & Friends had a rap episode, so sure. Fatal Farm wasn't an amateur to begin with. Freelance, yes. Actually, no. Night Mind's "Lasagna Cat: Ego Stripping for a Fractured Psyche" goes into it where SEW does not, but in short: Jon was originally a self-insert for Jim Davis, and Jim was married twice, thus the 2 for an answer. But Jon diverged from Jim, only having gotten as far as getting a long-term girlfriend in 2006, 28 years after the beginning of the strip, implying that he was in his late 50s (using the age he mentions in the strip, not "The Garfield Show") at the time. Near the end of 1980 (December 23, to be exact), Jon jokes that he's 29. Garfield correctly predicts that the punchline is "I would have been 30, but I was sick a year." If we take the fact that he's telling this joke as evidence that he's 30 or so... That is a lot of editing. I don't know how much time that much editing takes, but if you told me "years", I'd believe it. And he made a mathematical error -- note that he multiplied 40 by three hundred *fifty-six* instead of three hundred sixty-five -- causing him to underestimate by a few hundred. (I'd probably multiply by 365.25, or 365.2422 for better accuracy anyway, but no matter.) Hmmmm... I guess? Like, we can surmise that Garfield disagrees, but we lose the specifics. (And I can't remember ever seeing Jon's wax lips, anyway.) And now I'm imagining today's strip (as of this comment) without Garfield's thought: Liz: How long have you been on hold? Jon: (holding a phone to his ear with a smile on his face) An hour. Liz: An *hour*? Jon: I don't mind. (Liz's face falls as Garfield turns to us with a smile.) This version of the comic could be construed as the joke being "This guy's such a dullard that he doesn't mind being on hold for an hour-plus." With Garfield's punchline, we learn that the hold music is polka, and thus, the joke is: "Look at this dork, he likes polka so much that he finds it makes hour-long hold times bearable," and so the joke is also kind of at polka's expense.

[@Nevri.]

You cut him, before he finished making his point, so no wonder you disagree. You totally should check his video on chainsaw man. It's great. If you don't want spoilers though, read part 1 of manga first or skip part after he fakes ending video, though without it his analyze is incomplete.

[@Bezaliel13]

Eat your heart out, Gorefield.

[@scalesthebattlemage4634]

Stay on the internet too long and soon you'll forget what fear is

[@matiaspereyra9392]

19:00 well, there's someone that watched "the lord of the rings but every time they take a step Sam says it's the farthest he's been from home" and that's 11 hours it was on yt for years because the constant interruptions made the movie unwatchable and thus not really a good pirated way to watch the movie (I believe there was a similar lawsuit about something else that ruled it that way basically) until it gained notoriety and... warner pulled the plug, that or the bots scanning for copyrighted material got better

[@jorjijoster3834]

its like hes disagreeing with nothing half the time

[@temporaryalien5573]

I hope your enjoying this video suggestion as i did when i first watched XD.

[@Airier]

Enjoyment of a word. That is definitely the case. A d by the end I might be deep enough into Stockholm Syndrome to believe it. 😁

[@razorreacts9925]

24:51 nope,it’s still up.

[@borjor.]

i wonder if he react to the undertale one?

[@Suomismg]

Hello airier, just wanted to ask you you are planning on observing the content of dovahatty and his content. It might be something worth noting, starts rather small but as anything else, will bloom to something bigger.

[@trosittest1]

You should do the undertale video

[@karlwikman3874]

I think my comment vanished.

[@karlwikman3874]

But yea anyway. Fear and Hunger by Super Eye patch Wolf. Crazy stuff

[@karlwikman3874]

actually nevermind. he was forced to edit out the really brainblasting parts

[@fairiesandlillies3471]

You dont Even know What he is going to say And You dont know If You Are disagring with him😅

[@franklangston3004]

So, this is Elsa Gate? If you don't know, don't look it up!

[@cutecentral1930]

lasagnagate. technically it isn't, because most of the stuff (like lasagna cat) wasn't made for kids anyway