The Giving Tree Is Pissed Off - Alex Otis

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[@patrickbonner1545]

It’s a classic he said tree said story

[@logancastro9246]

Patrick Bonner underrated comment

[@udbhavshrivastava]

I love you for that comment

[@oldpro8783]

god damnit, got me.. got me good.

[@ray8649]

This hurt my soul. Good pun my fried.

[@lukeraymond1679]

This took me so long to figure out

[@healinggrounds19]

I always hated this damn book growing up. The tree needed set boundaries. This story is even BETTER. Thank you.

[@RandomPerson-gt1jt]

idk, I actually liked it growing up. Looking back the book just tells a story without really sending a particular message, but I always assumed that the point was to not be like the boy or the tree, and that you were supposed to feel bad at the end when the tree has lost everything.

[@naomistarlight6178]

Yeah I used to think it was depressing as a kid... The boy gets so much from the tree and she doesn't get anything in return.

[@Saturn_Rising]

Noemi Starlight she gets happiness at some points

[@juanpablorobayo3437]

The book is a good cautionary tale but I also fucking hate it

[@bread1958]

The tree is the parent. The unconditional gifts of the tree the same as the gift of life itself. The relationship between parent and child is not a two way street or a trade. It costs more to be a parent for 18 years then it costs to fire rockets into space. The boy was given life and, when he asked, help, and the tree was merely happy for the happiness it created. That's my interpretation.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Given his career outside of children's literature included cartoons in Playboy. I think Shel Silverstein would have enjoys this.

[@Kira-rd7id]

Not only that, but some of his poems were DARK

[@ferrisbueller9991]

@Justin Grynkewich He was into Playboy over Hustler, means he was a man of class.

[@lulzalfest]

@@ferrisbueller9991 especially since the cartoonist for hustler would illustrate jokes about child rape for the magazine... And it turns out he was a pedophile.

[@jeromeblue3854]

@@ferrisbueller9991Lol! Yeah, right.

[@trevisonclark7135]

That hat kills me.

[@drdudeguy6595]

Fwanga

[@gayapplejuice8185]

Fwanga

[@altos5069]

_Then he pulled a gun on me_

[@cipher6207]

Lol good one

[@Boba069]

*a. Gun.*

[@angelicaschuyler1011]

You could say it was _a stick up_

[@juanpablorobayo3437]

Shel Silvertine: “kids are kind of selfish. I’m gonna traumatize them to make sure they know what’s up.” This actress: “the boy was actually a monster” Shel Silverstine: “good enough”

[@kayleegirard9231]

If that was his goal, he succeeded. I hated that book. What makes it worse is, the counselor I had for most of my elementary school career absolutely loved it and read it to us AT LEAST once a school year.

[@juanpablorobayo3437]

Kaylee Girard your counselor found the perfect way to tell kids “don’t be a selfish brat” and not get angry phone calls

[@kayleegirard9231]

@@juanpablorobayo3437 Lol true

[@justanotheranimationchanne5725]

yes, nothing makes a kid grow into a stable adult like lifelong trauma

[@justanotheranimationchanne5725]

my takeaway was: DONT BE FRIENDS WITH ANYONE EVER OR THEYLL CHOP YOU IN FUCKING HALF, LOVE IS A LIE AND THE ONLY REASON A PERSON WOULD SPEND TIME WITH YOU IS TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF YOU, LIKE YOUR ORGANS, DO YOU WANT YOUR ORGANS HARVESTED KID??? DONT MAKE FRIENDS THEN but maybe that’s just me

[@shannahbanana]

My kids librarian interpreted this book as like "Even when you have nothing you can give something" or something like that, and I was like "That is not what I ever took from that book even as a kid."

[@moth734]

even that conclusion is kinda messed up in a way

[@CrackShotCleric]

People do realise this was the message of the original book, right? That's also why he has his "I'm a cannibal" picture on the back.

[@meat_doughnuts3457]

???

[@CrackShotCleric]

@@meat_doughnuts3457 Look at the author photo on the back cover. He intentionally made it scairy for children, to reinforce the message.

[@wapaloosie9512]

@@CrackShotCleric so I wasn't the only one who was terrified by that photo?

[@rubyy.7374]

I think you took too much of the crack mentioned in your username, buddy. I have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about.

[@creativedesignation7880]

@@rubyy.7374 So because you can't google the picture on the back cover of a book, that means another person must have taken crack? A very interesting line of thought...

[@razvanstan4689]

That one dislike is surely that brat.

[@aldendomino3523]

Who was the other one?

[@razvanstan4689]

@@aldendomino3523 omg, they multiplied. Now they are 2

[@AnnaMorimoto]

@@razvanstan4689 I have no doubt. It must have been the taking man who belly flopped and shouted "VROOM VROOM PROPELLER!"

[@ted-thatsme]

@@aldendomino3523 Shel Silverstein and The Taking Men

[@yskuild7257]

45 disliked

[@infinitestars9673]

"You smell like FWUNGA" I've been laughing for 5 minutes straight and I'm sobbing I cannot with this skit

[@ShaneLouisArmstrong]

FWUNGA: For when U need good apples.

[@CharactersWelcome]

Holy shit

[@justrandomboi4187]

Imagine robbing a tree

[@alyssaolson7964]

When I was younger, my parents would read this book to me before bed, and it was one of my favorites. This is a hilarious take on it, though. I love it so much lol

[@jamesrogers6779]

I remember when my parents read this to me I would feel like crying. I always felt so bad for the tree

[@Trees...]

@@jamesrogers6779 Same! I hated that book because I felt absolutely terrible for the tree.

[@brookreed9621]

That one dude just absolutely going apeshit over this

[@achocofilah]

But what does FWUNGA mean???

[@kayleegirard9231]

@Mikayla Camarda That's really sick in context.

[@vivianamuntean146]

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FWUNGA

[@theredspyman6979]

Your mom likes to FWUNGA

[@quinnzykir]

Minding her Own DAMN BUSINESS

[@toonangel1723]

“Vroom Vroom Propeller” speaks to me on a whole new level...

[@justrandomboi4187]

I am really sick right now and when I cough it hurts and when I laugh to much I start coughing so this is comedy and torture

[@dl2839]

🙁 Have you had Corona?

[@Psychotic_Ambition]

Same

[@Per.Asper01]

Sounds like that Rona virus

[@AviatorBean]

Comedy and tragedy

[@LucianCorrvinus]

Decades later I reread The GivingvTree, and I realized, it was pretty messed up yo...and now we know the truth. Shel Silverstein was a sick, SICK man....

[@BelleFlower15]

Look up "sassy gay friend Giving Tree." Too funny.

[@saferoundhouse5910]

What did he do?

[@spookyman5ever]

uh- no he wasnt?

[@LucianCorrvinus]

@@spookyman5ever listen to the testimony if the tree in question, he violated he, made up a nice story about it for children. Got an award got rich got a reputation of being a deeply thoughtful and compassionate.by selling his lies to children! That's sick, man.....its also a joke,....and the joke . ....and about the greehaving a cometelu diffrnt and traumatic experience withth big who by the end turns out the author.in question Shell Silverstein....... Bah-dooooom chaaaannnnggg...that was a rimshot to underline the joke I was being made. Hopefully you got that and you don't have to look up what a rimshot is. There now you know what I was trying to do and apparently at least 463 people got it and that fact that you didn't well hopefully you grow out of that cuz I have to assume that it's you're young so you didn't get that it was ironic and satirical but whatever later

[@LucianCorrvinus]

@@saferoundhouse5910 according to the tree herself, he took everything from her and ended up sitting on her face.

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

This is an excellent lesson in both comedic timing and what not to do to trees

[@RabidWombatKat]

So Shel Silverstein was very close friends with my grandparents so I can confirm that the giving tree was actually about one sided relationships and he would have loved this shit.

[@Boba069]

True?

[@reeef]

True?

[@eeveestrainer4677]

If this is true I am happy to hear it

[@streampunksheep]

THOSE PAUSES!

[@laika9513]

this is an absolute gem. im glad to see this channel is getting so many more subs, they definitely deserve it

[@mysticflower7795]

Omg. She looks like umbridge cosplaying a tree. 🤭

[@mysticflower7795]

Benjamin Noble can’t tell if ur being sarcastic so thanks and fuck you, will cover both

[@nolivesgetaway8444]

Mystic Flower77 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@capuchinosofia4771]

oh gosh she DOES!

[@NivellenMcJazzy]

It's amazing how creative all of these people are!

[@ddeonuseomma948]

As a child I always felt that the boy was hella ungrateful. So like, I was always confused to why the teachers kept reading it to us when it the boy was mean lol

[@wickedamoeba8719]

Honestly, the book always rubbed me the wrong way.

[@ericbillingsley9251]

Hilarious! Alex Otis' delivery is perfection. Bravo!

[@JessSoapbox]

Wow these are very entertaining

[@jessical4866]

“Then he pulled a gun on me” did the tree get mugged 🍎

[@soblu1914]

OMG, this is too funny. "You're sure as shit not staying here"

[@AliciaNyblade]

I loved "The Giving Tree" as a kid. At the time, the lesson I took away from it was, "Being truly giving and kind means thinking of others before yourself." But now as an adult, it's a very disturbing book on multiple levels. It promotes toxic gender roles and relationships, with the boy assuming dominance over a tree characterized as female. It teaches that "giving" means letting yourself be whittled down until there's nothing left, and you should be happy to do so. And it promotes the message that Mother Earth and her plants and animals exist simply for humans to use as resources rather than teaching people to see them as living fellow earthlings.

[@maneater3829]

Alicia Nyblade I think what you forget is the fact that every time he came back to the tree, he still wants more to be happy. So at the end he goes back and sits on the stump while being unhappy. I think he learned that he took to much and never gave anything back. It was a mother son relationship and the book was a reflection on how the author treated his mother actually I’m pretty sure. And so finally once the tree is gone he feels regret for something she was never given, his company.

[@graaaaaaaaaaaaaaace]

What? I always read the tree as male, but either way, it's a tree. It doesn't have a gender. The story's message is both "don't be greedy in taking from compassionate people," AND "don't be so overly generous you end up hurting yourself." It's... really not some kind of eco-fascist message like you're saying? lmao.

[@AliciaNyblade]

@@maneater3829 Fair points. It's honestly been years since I read the book, so I was just going off of what I remembered. But if the added layer of the author conveying appreciation for mothers/family/friends is part of the story, that does make it better than what I'd thought. It at the very least makes the boy seem less ungratefully greedy if he eventually realizes he was being so.

[@AliciaNyblade]

@@graaaaaaaaaaaaaaace Eco-fascist, LMAO!!!!!!!! Humanity letting go of the arrogant, antiquated notion that we're the center of Earth's creations and are meant to "have dominion over them" isn't eco-fascism. It's coming to grips with reality and treating the environment as such.

[@maneater3829]

Gracie Grace literally if you go read the interviews he had after writing a book he said it was a reflection on parenthood and how he treated his mom. If your interpreting “eco-fascism” then I think you’re not only bending the definition of that philosophy but just looking to be a smartass lacking the smarts

[@internationalqueen3691]

Not me in 10th grade having a Socratic seminar about how the giving tree represents a toxic relationship

[@rosykindbunny1313]

That's the kind of socratic seminar I want in school

[@maxxh5331]

I enjoyed the book as a kid, but then I started to understand it and now I like this story much better.

[@oceanetcetera8328]

I love the little branch arm pointing at the lines😂

[@TTTM-uf7ic]

I’m going to do a play on the “Taking boy”

[@hoppytrailsrabbitry3504]

This was one of my favorite books as a child and this was HILARIOUS!

[@obscurereference6745]

This is amazingggg!!!! Oh my god I'm in stitches. The actor did so well too!

[@dandelionheadd]

*fwungaaa-*

[@samsational1512]

This was my favorite book growing up, and this just makes me crack up! Great skit! :D

[@BE-ew2pt]

FWUNGA

[@rat592]

This is amazing. Not enough likes.

[@innerguardianXIII]

Alex Otis is amazing for not breaking into laughter during this whole thing.

[@420furby9]

minding her own *damn* business

[@allhailthemightyicecreamco5448]

This actually is funny since when we were a kid reading this book, we know that boy is crazy

[@i.s.s.m4724]

Ive watched this video so many times and yet i never get old of it and to this day still makes me laugh, this person is a genius in my opinion. :)

[@lauraparks6476]

Maybe they do auditions to see who can laugh the best, or they want to make sure their laughs can be heard when recording the show

[@greynose19]

I bit my waffle right as she said “SHARTED”

[@alyssaolson7964]

This boy was almost certainly Jason Mendoza

[@notfamedtvpersonalitydrphil]

OH MY GOD YES

[@garybritt1483]

He sat on my face and SHARTED

[@MarinaAndTheDevil]

This was genius

[@foreveravocado4792]

This is the best thing I have ever seen !!!!

[@hmmmooops]

That one "awwww" at the beginning

[@PotooBurd]

Solid gold comedy! 😂🏅👍 Rooting for your success!

[@madisonlewe1057]

I lost it at ‘Vroom, Vroom propeller’😂

[@CHAOSANDCONFUSIONN]

Vroom vroom propeller is literally me during a test doe

[@yormpbirdhouse4407]

I want *money.*

[@xofreality681]

I don't have money, i'm a tree.

[@xofreality681]

I don't have money, i'm a tree.

[@endergamer7483]

X of Reality You’re lying *proceeds to pull gun on tree*

[@nt_partlycloudy21]

You’re lying.

[@deannaliebman3743]

BEST COMEDY SHOW EVERRRR!!!

[@cyc2671]

The tree: I don’t get paid enough for this god damn job

[@Nicomancer001]

It was a bad time to drink at "FWUNGA". I almost drowned wtf

[@hannahscott1178]

the VROOM VROOM PROPELLOR part absolutely killed me

[@XanBlackburn]

Thank you for this, Alex Otis! I used to love that book, when I was little. Then I grew up, and realized how painfully misogynist it was! OmG!

[@yowshiii3]

Xan Blackburn um wat

[@Jellyfishbrainz]

Moon Moon I think their point is it’s a male taking advantage of a female so it’s misogynistic, that being said I disagree because the genders didn’t play a part in the story, they could’ve been swapped and it would’ve been the same story, it would be misogynistic if the reason the tree gave everything was specifically stated to be some bs like “men give orders and women follow them, so I did what he said-The tree” but as the book currently stands it’s not misogynistic because gender plays no role in the story.

[@kaddotta4926]

the book isn’t about a man and wife or men and women or a romantic relationship at all it’s a metaphor about a mother and child, that’s why the kid starts as a kid. The kid could have been a girl or a boy the point of the book is how kids are selfish and parenting is a thankless job

[@XanBlackburn]

@@kaddotta4926 , that's another take on it. It still seems to romanticize, or glorify the idea that the mom/female should give until she has literally nothing left to give, and that's okay; that it's okay for the child/son/man to take and take, even when the female has been reduced to no better than a stool to sit on.

[@yowshiii3]

i thought the tree was a male if any gender

[@rae7373]

This is my favorite so far!

[@sapphicfrenchfry]

reminds me of Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty) and her stories

[@LadyTombstoneG]

where did this come from and how the hell is it on my recommendations- im a little scared but im not gonna complain its pretty funny

[@jerigalaxy1253]

Thats my favorite book when i was little

[@waffles5860]

the tree’s leaves as arms give me LIFE

[@incognitoburrito7458]

"Im Shel fucking Silverstein" that's the best punch line ever

[@SarahGreen523]

Omg that was GREAT!!

[@xx_yungbeener_xx]

i love this version. give and take but with boundaries. dont make everything so damn emotional man, if someone makes you feel bad (like the giving tree felt bad) just tell em to f off. idc if its your own children. ik im mean to my mom and selfish but i also love when she puts me in my place instead of just bottling it all up for the sake of "love"

[@meredithblack2195]

Hey that story made me cry

[@betty_wayne_78]

Me: watching this video after bawling my eyes out to the original animated version of the book

[@BadMedicineDC]

Amazing.

[@beaterbreakz1810]

I've always wondered what happened to the tree!!!

[@dandelionheadd]

Yes

[@meat_doughnuts3457]

I love this.

[@XavierMarxTreasureHunts]

This is hilarious. Brava!

[@syzygythenightwing2]

Missed opportunity to say, "What, you think money grows on trees?"

[@BethRitterGuth]

I just peed a little. That was GREAT!!!

[@luvtortyz2177]

“You smell like FWUNGA” I’m pissing myself

[@howtheygotthere]

we need this in print

[@Mageneated]

how has ucb somehow gotten 5000 more people in the audience than usual

[@darkmatterburger]

3:45 FWUNGA I’m actually sobbing

[@vincentp8603]

Dang, didn't know the tree felt this bad

[@Bigcatthief]

Am i the only one who loved this book like i never hated it when i was little

[@Michael_______]

I love the giving tree This is a pretty outrageous take on it though. Nice job kiddo

[@TeeEight888]

Apparently this is a metaphor for the parent and child relationship.

[@SamulationCosplay]

I googled fwunga, and the urban dictionary says "we don't know" 😂😂😂 look for your self

[@aareon9910]

43 dislikes? That boy made 43 accounts just for this

[@wesr9258]

that was like fr happy

[@simply_nebulous]

Honestly hated the giving tree; She needed to set boundaries.

[@blackmore9570]

omfg I love this

[@bellarose6222]

That's some silence of the trees shit right there

[@happygolucky7241]

GOLD!!!😄😃😀😆😅🤣😂🤠

[@selmatheviking488]

this is so dark. JUST LEAVE THE TREE ALONE!! it is super funny though.

[@cecille5833]

This is how gen z is gonna continue this story. Sorry not sorry I’m definitely gonna read this to my child/ adopted lizards at bed time

[@SforSamPlays]

She looked so pissed! XD

[@wikwokbingbong1280]

We will never know what FWUNGA means

[@craigmegley]

Took ya long enough to say your side.