The Dark Side Of Jobs (DHMIS)

[@theonlynightmarionne3529]

So am I the only one that noticed on the board with those jobs one of them was slug

[@waterwaveybaby]

Slug is my dream job

[@colonelautumn5788]

It's one of the 3 careers, other than pope and soldier

[@Dock284]

@@colonelautumn5788 war hero 💀

[@ThatGuyRNA]

@@colonelautumn5788 cgp grey has taught me well I WILL BECOME POPE

[@cawsomeaolin]

sex

[@emilornbrynjuson1494]

The first song is also a good commentary on childhood education when it comes to jobs, or atleast how they're portrayed to children. Very on the nose. "You can be anything you want to be, anything you want to do!" While talking about stuff like football players, ice cream men and astronauts. Before the trio's ultimately lured into and abandoned in the workplace the episode takes place in. It's a very striking portrayal of how people talk about jobs to children, about how there's always gonna be a right one for you that you'll love so much it won't even feel like work, but the monotonous factory breaks that illusion pretty quick.

[@M._.aggie..]

And theirs also like a sorta thing where the three represent ages Like yellow guy is a child excited to work and oblivious Red guy has already worked like most adults and is reluctant but then he starts working and becomes a workaholic like most adults And duck is like elderly has a different view on jobs cause elderly people usually haven’t work in a long time or retired but he isnt oblivous like yellow guy This is shown through out the whole series even in the chairs and starts of the episodes

[@philippeamon7271]

"Nono, no, that's not how it's done!... You must save your love for your special one!"

[@pietrayday9915]

@@philippeamon7271 - that's right on the nose for what's going on, isn't it? That catches some of the subtleties that are missed in the video's overview. We're presented overall with a very childish interpretation of jobs here, with a song that misses the point of working a job altogether, and the factory itself almost like a workplace designed by someone (something?) who doesn't really understand how factories work or what goes on in a factory... the things that happen there are pretty arbitrary, the work itself doesn't make sense, Red Guy's promotion to upper management is made simply by him stumbling into an office to answer a phone, where a talking fax machine promotes him and has him eating diamond-studded salmon and bossing around a pathetic wastebasket flunky within minutes of arriving - Red Guy didn't even want to work (and, to be fair, that's exactly the job he wanted to do - sitting around doing nothing!) The promotion basically means Red Guy at the end of decades of working hard (or hardly working) actually become Mr. Peterson, as if it's a job title.... The bits-and-parts assembly line doesn't make any more sense... the randomly-manufactured bits and parts that pass inspection are turned back into... clay? protoplasm? scratch? and fed back onto the line... the rejected bits are fed into a shredder, and turn into dust. Duncan, who was apparently brain-damaged in an industrial accident of falling boxes (if we take the signs seriously) works on the factory's website for 40 years or more before it finally goes online - this seems to be the job that the factory's incompetents get: everyone has a role to play, even Duncan! When Duck proves to be ill-suited for the nonsensical factory work, he's sent to work with Duncan on the website - the job that the factory screw-ups have to do! - and proves to be incapable of being the office screw-up according to whatever arbitrary, child-like, dream-like logic the factory operates under. Which brings us back to the silly song, and to the remark calling back the love episode and telling Yellow Guy that he's doing love wrong if he's trying to love just anything he wants... or, to call back to the very first DHMIS short: "Green is not a creative colour!" These songs are filled with blatant lies, especially concerning how much freedom of choice these characters - described by their creators as "puppets", I believe, even though Red Guy obviously isn't a "puppet" in any traditional sense - would actually be permitted! The three main characters are told by the Talking Briefcase that they can be whatever they want to be, do whatever they want to do... once our characters are given an opportunity to speak for themselves, Yellow Guy suggests something practical and outdoorsy - growing trees to cut down to make sheds - while Duck suggests an idealistic and creative job of making a digital currency based on respect. And Red Guy? He just wants to do nothing at all. Naturally, these are not "creative colours" - they can't take just any job they actually want, they have to save themselves for their Special One, which, it seems, is working in a surreal, nonsense factory, where Yellow Guy makes something nonsensical and impractical, Green Guy gets shuffled around a workplace where nobody respects him. And Red Guy? Well, he actually DOES get to do "nothing at all" all day, but it doesn't really seem to be a particularly fulfilling kind of "nothing at all" on his terms: he has to put on a "smart boy" suit and shout at people until he's old and grey and fat - it's a kind of "nothing at all" that comes with a lot of stress, responsibility, and not a lot of freedom of choice, where Red Guy seems like he'd really have been happier just hanging around the house with his friends just talking all night, or just randomly going on a road trip or moving to a new city on a whim, or whatever - something much freer than being transformed into a Mr. Peterson. It's almost like, at least in some of these scenarios, the songs set up little traps for the characters: dangling little sugary promises of free choice or fulfillment in front of the characters, only to snatch that away from them and push a nightmarish substitute at them instead, whether it's family, love, friendship, jobs, creativity, transportation, or whatever. And that reminds me of some of the peripheral media related to DHMIS, such as interviews with the creators or cast where the Roy character (Yellow Guy's "dad") says something ominous about punishing his boy, or the "Amazing World of Gumball" episode that the DHMIS creators helped make, where we find the cartoon's main characters getting trapped in a DHMIS-style nightmare world that was actually created by the characters' abandoned childhood hand-puppets, who now resent their creators and try to play with them like puppets in terrible games.... That seems to follow a similar pattern to the role the LE5L3Y character from DHMIS plays, as some sort of mad god running an insane puppet show featuring Yellow Guy (her favorite), Red Guy, and Duck.... That, I think, sounds a LOT like the best description I can think of for what is happening in this show: our heroes are barely aware that they are characters in a nightmare puppet show performed by lunatic gods! Which puts a weird remark from the Talking Briefcase in an entirely new light: that line where the Briefcase describes doing the Right Job as making you feel like an "angel".... And it also recalls a weird remark made by the Table Lamp in the Death episode of DHMIS, when Yellow Guy asks... thin air? the audience? the universe? what happens when we die. The Table Lamp wakes up, and describes some sort of weird theory about how we descend to some sort of cavern near the center of the earth, where we are forced to perform a little show - reliving our lives - for a shadowy race of super-beings called The Council, who will pay us with "a pound" every time we get it right. The lamp then abruptly tells Yellow Guy "good night" and shuts itself off, instead of presenting an inane (but catchy) little song like these sorts of characters normally would.... It was a very strange and unsettling little scene, at least to me, sort of a weird mirror-image to the the bizarre "Big Boy Rooms" upstairs universes in the Electricity finale.... And, it also mirrors more directly the jobs episode, where Duck is rewarded with a coin in his eye after starring in his little performance of his life, punctuated by wondering what was accomplished by it, what it was all for.... "You earned this!" Reliving their lives over and over, episode after episode, until they get it "right" according to the standards of some deranged cosmic "Council", seems to actually be the characters' real job here, one that (barely) makes more sense than whatever they were doing in the factory: LE5L3Y alludes to in a voice-over at the end of the Transportation episode, and Red Guy himself alludes to it regarding the little show-within-a-show with the old man and his dog, who always makes his appointments and ends up back where he started at the end of each episode, no matter what happens before then: these characters are stuck in some sort of formula they must adhere to, or things go very wrong, and they get their "pound" and start over whenever they get things "right". (No wonder Red Guy would really rather do nothing at all, and seems to dread it when the little "angels" show up to tell them what to think - what to perform - about banking or vegetables or whatever!) It's kind of a cosmic horror story, really. Red Guy, losing his normal composure in the intro song for the Friendship episode: "We live in an actual NIGHTMARE!" Anyway, the show from the very beginning seems to return to a fairly consistent theme of the characters being told they can be creative or go anywhere or do anything, only to get shut down when they test the limits of that claim, and are instead run through a more sad, nightmarish, and disappointing substitute that delivers anything but creativity, or love or freedom or whatever.

[@animeguy1633]

@@M._.aggie.. "attention freaks!"

[@society1876]

@@pietrayday9915 you should post this to reddit

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

Despite all the dark imagery and themes of this episode, I found it adorable that yellow guy's wife was a spanner and their daughter was a yellow spanner.

[@Haunted_Plush]

@purpleemerald5299 I think it's funny to imagine she just kinda spawned one day. "Honey, we've got a daughter!" "...What?" "Look, this is our daughter!" "Oh, okay. Hello!" :)

[@bergrritothebeggoon]

@@Haunted_Plush saw a comic about this, duck is horrified by the existence of the child and it's basically explained as the make a friend kit from death ep or like the robots movie, which I think is adorable and on brand.

[@Haunted_Plush]

@@bergrritothebeggoon oh that sounds dope, do you have a link If not could you just tell me what site it was on

[@Floweramon]

@@Haunted_Plush That would absolutely be on brand for the show

[@Liliedoesntpost]

​@@Haunted_Plush THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE HONESTLY

[@katrinafraser4499]

The very casual use of “ciggies” over “cigarettes” is absolutely taking me out, what a gem

[@waterwaveybaby]

What is this so called "ciggarette" ?

[@ItIsLuna]

it’s better than what the british actually call cigarettes

[@lewisshere331]

CALL EM WHAT THEY ARE! FA-

[@chairchairyes2524]

wait i thought that was the actual word

[@kriz1541]

Wanna have a cheeky lil ciggy lasagna?

[@finpin2622]

The therapy bit was definitely interesting to me. The "I'm not stressed, I'm unemployed" almost has a double meaning to me because I feel like a lot of times, people get diagnosed with various mental illnesses when the actual issue they're dealing with is poverty or the stress of low income living. People are given all these kind of "coping mechanisms" to deal with that struggle because the actual root of the problem CANNOT be addressed without changing the way society itself works. DHMIS manages to fit so much meaning and satire into such short segments, it's genuinely very impressive.

[@waterwaveybaby]

That’s such a great way of putting it

[@lazyarcanist7095]

I was actually talking to a co-worker about this not long ago. About how stuff like anxiety and depression isn't really an "illness". Its more a reaction to society. A society that needs to change drastically, but at the same time can't be, because there's no perfect solution. And we don't live long enough to try different things or get a feel for what works. Personally I think governments are better on smaller scale. And let's be honest. Humans are overpopulated lol, but it's also heavily immoral according to major societal standards, and even human moral compass to kill. One doesn't simply commit mass murder without being a bit 'f'ed in the head.

[@markr2616]

I know a lot of GPs and they say a lot of their patients with conditions such as depression/anxiety often suffer from 'Sh1t life syndrome', I.e. their anxiety and/or depression is very much justified by their circumstances. I'm afraid you can't just medicate or meditate your way out of horrible situations or a terrible past, but these are the only tools made available to these patients because a pill or a doctors appointment is a lot cheaper for the state than really helping these people or providing proper therapy.

[@justinwatson1510]

Join a communist or socialist party so we can help those people.

[@neofromthewarnerbrothersic145]

@LazyArcanist Yes and no... anxiety and depression absolutely _are_ illnesses, but they can also be induced or exacerbated by circumstances. True anxiety and depression don't need "reasons" to make you feel horrible and worthless - even people with lives that seem perfectly fine often suffer from them - but they will certainly seize on any reasons they can find to make you feel even worse. Also I don't necessarily agree that humanity is overpopulated. It mostly seems that way because of how society and capitalism are structured. Wealth and resources are overly concentrated in the hands of a few, while everybody else is left fighting over scraps. Which means we are also physically concentrated around hubs of industry because that's where all the jobs are. Our economy has the ideology of a cancer cell, just growth for the sake of growth. The few people who actually benefit from that growth have to keep the rest of us hungry so the wheels will keep turning for them.

[@mikewilson3346]

Duck as the representative of the elderly is also a commentary on how the people of the older generation, who should be retired and living reasonably comfortably are often put back into a work place they no long have the capabilities to match, and instead forced to become outcasts and liabilities.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Agreed.

[@soulslvr9562]

I think the Carehound is supposed to be something akin to a workplace therapist or HR. Where their goal isnt to make you better but to make you in working shape again. Their goal isnt to help you its to put you back in line and spit you out after theyre done with you. *edit spelling error

[@waterwaveybaby]

Yeah you’re defo spot on I think, it comes right after the stress song and they talk about it as though it’s a hr rep or therapist, but one who’s interest is to the company not the individual

[@soulslvr9562]

@@waterwaveybaby definitely! Its just something i experienced alot during my school days. Whenever i need a therapist they were either out for the day or they were unable to take more for one reason or another. And when they do see me they do nothing. Its just so awful

[@AdumbDriver]

There's also the idea of reporting problems in your workplace just so it can backfire and you end up having to learn how to work around those problems.

[@magicman3163]

Everyone who works at HR should be arrested

[@soulslvr9562]

@@AdumbDriver although that shouldnt happen

[@coneheadzigity]

fun fact: in the workplace the bits and parts are going into the grinder just to be turned into blobs of clay again, its an eternal loop just like the show and the workers aren't realizing that the parts are just something they just made only back the way it was, somewhat like yellow and duck.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Agreed.

[@Yuti640]

I love how Roy is still just casually hidden everywhere

[@waterwaveybaby]

This is Roy’s world

[@Yuti640]

@@waterwaveybaby it could be, there is the staircase in Lesley’s room, maybe this series has connections to the original But I also feel like it would be a bit disappointing to be Roy *again* considering we’ve already seen him quite prominently in Dhmis I’d prefer if the one on the top layer is a new character

[@lazyarcanist7095]

@@Yuti640 I highly doubt that it'd be Roy again. If anyone I think it'd be the show creators lol

[@alyssapolito182]

@@lazyarcanist7095 I theorize it's the guy from help/help#2

[@geojjsoak4]

@@alyssapolito182 Maybe he's part of the council. (The council are the theorized to be the ones sitting above lesley)

[@LaurenTheFriendlyGhost]

The bit with the stress tactics actually hit me in a way, because as someone that struggles with stress and bad anxiety- being told to do those things makes me mad bc they just *don’t* work

[@s0nnasauras630]

YES ! For me sometimes they only work for certain situations. If it's a new problem iv never encountered it's likely none of those are going to work.

[@gotgunpowder]

because you'd rather wallow in your own misery, we know.

[@LaurenTheFriendlyGhost]

@@gotgunpowder Do you want to explain why you’re angry or was that just a really feeble attempt at invalidating other people for your own entertainment? No need to reply if you’re going to be a twat about it.

[@K.Marie119]

Because they're meant for relief of day to day stress and maintaining remission of mood disorders. (Let me preface by saying I'm not accusing you of thinking the following. It's just an explanation of why healthcare providers make certain decisions. ) I know that to many, it may seem stupid for a patient's primary care provider to ask about what they've tried to deal with stress. But if I had a dime for every time a patient has come in complaining of anxiety and insomnia, only to discover they're drinking three cans of Monster and playing something like Fortnite for 5 hours every night, I could pay off all my student loans. If it's their first time being seen for such things, being told about sleep hygiene, moderate exercise, and no caffeine after 3pm is what a caring, responsible physician would do. Many people have this notion that refusing to write a Rx for diazepam or zolpidem right out of the gate means a doctor doesn't care. The same is true for refusing to prescribe them for longer than 10-30 days. Especially if the patient doesn't genuinely need them. (Note: emphasis on *genuinely.*) To be clear, I'm not talking about patients who are establishing continuing care with a new provider and already carry a diagnosis. But you should still engage in recreational and self care activities as part of your treatment plan. The best results are obtained from combining therapy, meds, and self care. It also helps keep you on the lowest effective dose of any medications. Psych meds have become so common place that a lot of people view them as innocuous and benign. But they're not. To give them to a person who doesn't need them is a violation of one's responsibilities as a prescriber.

[@whatisthis1958]

​@@K.Marie119A lot of what you say here is so true. Self care is an extremely important key to improving your overall wellbeing and is vital to have as well when you're being treated with therapy/meds. Speaking from experience. Though I'm currently being a hypocrite as its close to 2 am or so and I'm still on youtube lol

[@CTHopper]

I had a theory that the vending machine's food is what children think adults get at work all the time. From their point of view the lasagna is warm food or leftovers from last night they take with, an amazing meal they often don't get to take with to school. Kids also see smoking as an adult thing so it makes sense this vending machine supplies the workers with this during a break. Then finally the hot water seems a lot like how they would describe coffee: warm, pitch black and something that LOOKS nasty but their parents can't get enough of it.

[@Psilomuscimol]

At least limiting them to one cig on their break isn't as bad as giving them packs.

[@carolinemcgovern4488]

Honestly, this makes sense to me this theory.

[@leroyjenkins1249]

OMG that explains the "black water"! No joke! I had such a long line with that reference. May I add that the trays also look like lunch trays? Like, in school cafeterias? One main meal, one side dish and a drink? "Side dish" being the ciggie

[@gustavogodoy9626]

Love how yellow guy is implied to be a challenged young kid, yet they put him to work immediately to the assembly line with no more security measures than a panic button

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Agreed.

[@whichcache2517]

What's funny to me is that when Duck Guy asks the workers where Mr. Briefcase is, they point at the First Aid Kit, which makes you think that they don't understand what they're talking about, only for that to be foreshadowing of where he's hiding.

[@Aspen70000000000]

Brendon's unpublished book is called The Ultimate Forgiveness. I searched and there is actually a book titled The Ultimate Forgiveness Formula: Understand The Different Aspects Towards Self Forgiveness. Just another bit of proof that the only way this world can truly end is if Lesley forgives herself and starts to move on with handling her trauma.

[@gotgunpowder]

lmao what trauma? she's just an insane lunatic tormenting this fake universe of puppets.

[@thewclar_11]

The "You could be anything you want to do" is such an interesting line, because it basically sais that you are only determined by your work, going to the "It wont even feel like a job" thing.

[@eipheres]

yeah, as someone who actually genuinely enjoys my job most of the time, it's still work, and i'm happy to go home at the end of the day. the idea of "do what you love and it won't even feel like work!" is just wrong and used to guilt people into working longer hours for less pay. i like my job, but pretending it's no different from relaxing is bs.

[@All_thegoodnamesaretaken]

100% I just commented something like this and I think you’re the only other person iv seen talk about it. I think the is also a sort of commentary on the character only identities becoming their jobs. Red guy becomes Mr Peterson, Yellow guy says that he feels like the bits and parts are making him and marries his coworker. They’re never seen going home in between work (until the end of the episode) as if they never leave. The job is them and they are the job

[@gotgunpowder]

because that is entirely true and correct. humans have no intrinsic value. your output is what matters. cry about it being unfair and evil all you want, it's reality.

[@nunyabusiness3652]

I remember from another YT video, someone state how usually teachers or whoever older will tell you this sort of stuff, but the moment you're an adult, you're working in a factory job.

[@Arachnoid274]

You forgot to mention when the vending machine asks yellow guy about his child, which foreshadowed him having a family.

[@waterwaveybaby]

Oh damn good catch I missed that

[@Arachnoid274]

@@waterwaveybaby yeah, your gonna have to pay very close attention to every detail in each episode because they foreshadow upcoming epusodes.

[@xaviidk]

He has a dad he has a family

[@robloxplays4322]

@@xaviidk that’s not a family, that’s just a dad

[@xaviidk]

@@robloxplays4322 I meant had because how can the birth of the same species happened without the mom?

[@lunarwvrld2298]

At the beginning of the "workplace" bit when everyone wants to get out, Duncan points to the first aid kit to tell them that that's where the briefcase is. When yellow gets hurt at the end duck opens the same first aid kit and reveals that it was, in fact, the briefcase. Maybe all of the workers are forced to be there in some way, kind of like the phone who was stuck to the table. I have a feeling that it was a warning.

[@s0nnasauras630]

Wow yes I never thought of that interesting

[@nyx4833]

the song/ briefcase kinda remind me of how it feels to go from education where you are helped to find what you can do in the future but in the end once your education if done you don't have that, you can't really be anything any more and have no one to tell you what to do so you have to figure it out yourself

[@nyx4833]

I always saw the black liquid as coffee or caffeine as it is what a lot of people use to get through the (work) day

[@pendafen7405]

Yes, only people who weren't guided enough or who haven't found their path can truly tap into the horror of that absence of help.

[@lisaharrison8970]

Tbh I always thought of duck as a grandpa who has two random roommates and just puts up with them while being brutally honest.

[@Fenriskoll]

This episode really hits home. Especially the vending machine. And the bosses. And the accidents/injuries.

[@Dude27th]

An excellent bit of foreshadowing that most people miss, is the job that the briefcase mentions while leaving trough the door. Is what Duck would start the second episode with

[@waterwaveybaby]

No way, i'm gonna have to go check this out now haha

[@admcreations]

You could be the one who digs a hole for the funeral

[@kylestubbs8867]

@@waterwaveybaby I’m surprised you even needed to. Even without the screen transition, he never broke cadence while singing “You could be the ones who dig a hole for a funeral.”

[@F1areon]

@@kylestubbs8867 It's probably bc he's leaving through the door as he's singing that, and it fades out.

[@X-SPONGED]

I love how during duck's astronaut section. Red Guy and Yellow Guy just casually wanders onto the set. Subtly referencing the staged moon landing conspiracy [10:07]

[@YoursTruly1]

Is it me or is it that the sudden realization of the name “don’t hug me I’m scared” is much how the show itself is at first comforting but the same thing you once found comfort in scares you, thus making you saying “don’t hug me, I’m scared” like how one would say that to another person or thing, you are scared of what once comforted you, maybe I am just slow idk bra it’s 1:29 am and I’m so sleepy and I just wanted to comment to look later before I forget

[@YoursTruly1]

This guys a genius ^^^

[@TheKillerMoth]

I think that the “ hot black water “ in this episode is the same thing that the Train man was drinking in episode 5.

[@ranibowspr1imkle]

oil?

[@roelvanbree3151]

I thought it was an analogy for coffee...

[@jmurray1110]

Yeah that’s what I thought as well

[@theimmortaleye7511]

I think its more coffee , as an analogy how many cant function without coffee and its freely offered basicly at any workplace , despite caffeine not being safe in all cases

[@thewclar_11]

I think it's an analogy for coffee and in ep 5 is an analogy for alcohol (lesley was an alcoholic probably)

[@LiamsEntertainmentFranchise]

This is a really really great video. So many “video essays” are nothing more than thoughtless recaps that only hit the surface level, but you’ve offered truly thoughtful insights on the themes and ideas of the show, many of which I hadn’t thought of in quite that way. Well done, you’ve earned my sub

[@gotgunpowder]

dude, he's just overanalyzing everything to sound deep or insightful. this is the same crap tactic used by english teachers.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

​@@gotgunpowder I disagree with you

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

I agree

[@linuskonig7963]

What I love about this video is that it is finally a decent interpretation, considering the shows stylistic choices and their effects on the viewer, getting to a conclusion about the meaning and the message of the show, instead of speculating about hidden time loops or who is responsible for the events of the show or whatever.

[@bluebird1914]

Honestly, as someone who is like Duck in the workplace, I relate. I've definitely worked in places that encourage people like Duck, but for the most part. Yeah that's how you're treated. I just don't understand how you can walk around and not question things. Hell, I've even worked in places where the managers don't question things about the products they're selling. Stuff like what type of lettuce is used, or why when a limited time product came back did they change the sauce. Fine if you don't want to question everything, but those are things that you should be questioning, so why aren't you?

[@CARTO0NISHREAL]

I love how you can tell that Brendon is very much younger than Briefcase, and he's just doing what Briefcase is telling him to since he can't do much else

[@Charliehopes132]

I'm pretty sure that Brendon is older than briefcase, at least that's what I read.

[@CARTO0NISHREAL]

To be fair, *he very much sounds and acts like a child while Briefcase is a clear adult-*

[@MYLAR.]

Didn’t brendon outright say he was older than briefcase?

[@CARTO0NISHREAL]

Like I said, Briefcase most likely told Brendon to *say* that

[@galaxymonke557]

Why would Briefcase want to be younger than brendon

[@lisaharrison8970]

The wrench is called Claire, and she and yellows relationship is so sweet.

[@dcscruz2970]

As someone who worked in a factory, this is truly relatable

[@PotatoKinn]

I really like your interpretation of this episode! One of the small bits you went on at 14:15 with bird taking the hat off of the tin dude I feel represents how employees feel on the inside. On the outside you're supposed to show full on pure niceness with customer service but mentally you're exhausted. I've been there when it came to horrible customers and managers, the fear of losing my job kept me straight with a facade that nothing negative bothered me. Which of course was not the case. Theres that quote "customer is always right" and I can't really remember what the exact quote my old boss told me but it was similar to "happy wife, happy life" but replace the wife with boss. There's only so much an employee can take before it really becomes mentally/physically damaging to them. And the fact companies similar to what the care hound offers not so much in help to the employees but more of a safety net to the company itself. I hope you finish all the episodes for dhmis, this a series I really enjoy from you when I first found out about your channel! Really good work!!

[@thesewinggeekmiri9029]

that's exactly what I was thinking too!

[@happ3ist_chaos]

wonderfully put together. your editing is fluid, and so is your organization. and only 8k views? let’s change that!

[@waterwaveybaby]

Thank you so much! wanted to put more time into these as the show deserves it

[@squirrel_slapper]

I like how the carehound is presented. The art style of the "you can talk to the care hound" poster is so simple looking that you don't even think about the fact that you can see two eyes despite the image being of the side of its head. That doesn't cross your mind because of how simple the art style is. But then it turns out this abomination actually has four eyes and you are in fact seeing its two right eyes in that poster.

[@help9737]

Kinda like that one picture of people pig

[@help9737]

PEPPA pig oops

[@ssai90]

She’s a pig of the people!

[@Labyethan]

People Pig! *Unholy shrieking* Im People Pig, this is my brother Person *short shriek* this is Mummy Person *woman sheieking* and this is Daddy Person! *sound of one thousand souls crying out as Hells Gate closes for the first and final time*

[@TravellerZasha]

I'm so glad to see an analysis on DHMIS jobs. I love the series as a whole, each with different reasons. This analysis feels like I discovered DHMIS for the first time which as someone who grew up on the original series is a strange but welcomed feeling. I just wish someone talks about the theme of jobs. Oh wait, i'm someone!

[@ryanwebb309]

My favorite part about this episode was when Yellow Guy said, "he's one of those ones with one of himself." I died there

[@genarftheunfuni5227]

This show is like someone tried to make a kids show, but they aren't aware of what even is a kid.

[@babiesonspikes]

Ha! You're right though.

[@guymanperson1]

I've read this comment on another video

[@Psilomuscimol]

​@@guymanperson1. I'm pretty sure that comment was on the original video on here.

[@mebroflovskis]

this video is so great. i love that you pointed out every small detail. as someone who has been a fan of the show since 2013, i appreciate the effort ! nice vid man

[@waterwaveybaby]

Thanks so much ! It’s crazy how long ago the original came out feels like yesterday

[@waterwaveybaby]

The video on episode 2 will be out next week, subscrob and hit the bell to be notified for the other parts and together we can get creative 💚 also gonna try working on getting the balance right between commentary and over explaining with the next one (edit: just wanna say I know there are several connections to the web series throughout the show but I want this video to be accessible to people who haven’t watched it and the 2 kind of seem like their own things so probs won’t be covering them unless it’s a separate video, plus I ramble on enough teehee)

[@jacquelinecraig6594]

Green is not a creative colour

[@waterwaveybaby]

@@jacquelinecraig6594 I’ve failed the first commandment 😞🟢

[@babiesonspikes]

@@waterwaveybaby Also, you're talking about the first "season."

[@benjypineapple2570]

Basically the stress song is telling you to treat the symthoms instead of the problem

[@Barakon]

Well you wouldn’t want to if the problem is you.

[@Soche_cafe]

You forgot to mention Duncan pointing at the medical bag showing that they could have left if they ever opened the bag earlier

[@Diegotheparrot]

Isn't the 'black water' just supposed to be terrible workplace coffee that keeps you going trough the day?

[@ghostparty2062]

That's what I thought

[@panbeanweirdo1157]

Just a thought about the care hound it could be a metifore/representation of the work places care for mental health, and how they don't care about the actual improvement of their workers but just enough that it doesn't hinder the work flow

[@YEs69th420]

I took the 40 year time jump to be something along the lines of settling for a mundane job and wasting your life before you realise it. Duck previously commenting that they'd only been there for 9 minutes is more or less correct if you look at the timebar, and so things move so fast that you can miss years in the blink of an eye.

[@emanueleg.4651]

The assembly line of recycled phrases and unfair treatment: REALLY WELL PUT!

[@crimsontanooki7212]

17:42 damn why did you have to hurt me like that. I got into Leadership positions, and that just perfectly summarized it

[@catmanmenace]

This is a good analysis. One thing I always found interesting about the original KZbin series was how their core traits were their downfall as everything started falling apart - the red one is too apathetic to be caught up in how fun the internet is in DHMIS 4 which makes him investigate and discover the true nature of their world, the bird one keeps questioning the nonsense in DHMIS 5 leading to the teachers killing him and forcing his friend to eat him, and in DHMIS 6 we see that Yellow is being put through what would be eternal torment if not for Red saving him all because his childlike innocence makes him unable to oppose the teacher. I like how they kept a similar thing in the KZbin series, but fleshed everything out more.

[@pinkremus961]

I don't think the water is water I think it's hot coffee hot coffee will keep you productive and that's what a workplace wants you to be

[@mattu-u8159]

Honestly thought it was oil first

[@babiesonspikes]

You're right.

[@seenitpurple]

10:15 😂 the briefcase 💼 really went through that door and stuck a finger “🖕🏽” at them and dipped 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@hawtyboi]

İ really gotta say i love it when they keep talking about diffrent job possibilities but ultimately they are forced to work at a monotone factory job it shows how tricky it is on the real world

[@SomeoneAteMyPelvis]

After the song about being anything you want to be being forced to work in a place which you didn’t want to makes sense. You get hyped about your goals and then are forced into something else against your own will. A perfect lesson.

[@camsmith1732]

This was the first video that came up on my recommended, and I watched it assuming it had millions of views, you deserve wayyyyy more subscribers then you have!! Great video, very well edited and great thoughts to add about the show!

[@waterwaveybaby]

Thank you so much, that means a lot, episode 2 coming very soon

[@bnashee]

MAN i had not noticed that roy was literally watching through a hole in the wall like that. thats so creepy

[@ErinAmai]

how do you have so little subscribers??? this is awesome, I loved the way you described everything! so underrated

[@waterwaveybaby]

Thank you so much! really appreciate it

[@writingghost7795]

Oh. I'm having a super hard time at work right now. I'm homeless, and fleeing an unsafe living situation. My store manager knows this, and keeps threatening to fire me because I was staying with a coworker who offered a place to stay since I was already hospitalized from a suicide attempt due to my living situation. It isn't against company policy for me to stay with her, but my manager keeps lying and saying it is. I can't go to HR, because I can't reach them and was never told all the information I would need. I had a full breakdown at work when I saw I wasn't on the schedule for the next week at all because of the fear of being fired when it is the only thing I have supporting me and my dog. This kind of helped motivate me to keep fighting her.

[@marto1581]

missed the foreshadowing of when they get on the workplace and ask for the briefcase guy they point at the med kit wich is reveled to be the briefcase guy at the end

[@waterwaveybaby]

Forgot to mention that, crazy how it’s Duncan who mentions it as well when they all treat him like he’s an idiot

[@Decepticonlego]

Here's my theory on this show: I think that the show isn't trying to give us education about certain things but instead it's showing us the horrors that you feel when that certain thing is shown. It's suppose to make you feel unsettled and discerned about what is real and what isn't

[@pendafen7405]

9:50 this moment hit so hard. Underemployed or unemployed people are treated as subhuman or invisible by others, even when they contribute in other ways or long to but for circumstances.

[@Galarticuno]

The black water feels more just like a mockery of coffee, which itself is hot brown water.

[@muszakupa]

I think the episodes do actually teach their lesson and this ep teaches how some people treat jobs some people enjoy it and some people don't fit in and some people don't like work

[@Mostly_Roblox]

I actually made some hot black water and drank it (I put a charcoal pill in some hot water) ...and it just tasted like hot water

[@waterwaveybaby]

Can I have leftovers ?

[@babiesonspikes]

Give that to the train, haha!

[@bou.09]

great video, but mentioned in the second episode about death, red states that duck is acutally the smallest and not yellow

[@waterwaveybaby]

Yeah that’s a good point, making the second video and I just noticed that haha, they’re both so smoll

[@BlindGirlUK]

I'm training to be "the one who spends all day with the sad ones". Also did anyone else notice at the end of the first segment of the song (when Mr briefcase goes into the cupboard) it says "you can be the one who digs a hole for a funeral", foreshadowing the next episode?

[@xdr22]

I don't know why nobody said it but to me the black and hot water could very well represent coffee and how it's related to work culture

[@babiesonspikes]

Alright man/woman.

[@InkAnimates]

I'd imagine the coin landing in ducks eye is a metaphor for money blinding you

[@_ThatW3ird0_]

“Their being watched” Roy/Yellow guys dad: *Sh!t I’ve been found out*

[@MrMitchbow]

It’s funny how when they ask if they’ve seen a weird briefcase man around here, the one dude perfectly points him out without missing a beat. They could’ve just heard the song through instead of pausing for 40 years if they had listened

[@Vvviktor116]

While watching the intro for the first time I noticed that the last group of portrait shown, the oval ones on the table, looked like the ones you see at funerals or that like grandmas have of their loved ones that passed away. I just thought it was a cool detail, maybe to imply they really did everything together, like the darker things that happen in the show.

[@ernestkirlig8590]

What I like in this episode is the whole... Anticapitalist mood of it. From the fact that the roles of society are much less mobile than society says they are, to the fact that work, especially one you didn't choose in the first place, is alienating... Everything in this episode us a criticism of a capitalistic view of work. The lack of cost of human life, the poor workers that need to feed on unhealthy food, when the rich can afford to be healthier... Really resonated with me. I love this episode, I think it's one of my favourites from the show. ^^

[@mentalman4808]

Honestly, probably the best DHMIS analysis type of video I've seen, at least for the TV show. Really great stuff. Very exciting to see these types of analysis videos for the rest of the TV show and maybe the YT series as well??? Eh, no pressure. Make what you wanna make man. Anyways, as I'm writing this the video is at 666 likes.

[@waterwaveybaby]

Thank you so much I had so much fun writing these it never felt like a chore having to rewatch the episodes over and over and episode 2 is nearly finished, definitely gonna cover the KZbin series at some point as well as do some rankings and stuff, theory videos because the show is too good not to

[@jimdoom2276]

That unsettling feeling that arises from the tension between two conflicting states of being (friendly and creepy, for instance), is called COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. DHMIS has an absolute FUCK-TON of it...

[@TornadoWeather7496]

I love how these videos are casually 10-30 minutes longer than the actual episode yet I prefer watching these to the actual episodes

[@cocopots]

Pretty good video mate, didn't even realise how little views you have. You def deserve more.

[@waterwaveybaby]

Thank you so much really appreciate it

[@pippaedwards9998]

2:51 the way you’re describing the house makes it sound like a “this video will make you fall asleep” genre 😂😂

[@waterwaveybaby]

Always gotta sneak in a little asmr here and there

[@babiesonspikes]

Wow

[@Zigster22]

Your analysis on this episode was great! I can’t wait for the rest!

[@grappyday5438]

I love how this breakdown is longer than the episode lmao /pos

[@waterwaveybaby]

Just wait till I talk about episode 6, oh boi is it a whole lotta rambling

[@shadow_shine3578]

Comment for algorithm. But this is best analysis I've seen in so long! I love how you actually try to think about it. Not that others don't. But I like how much farther you go

[@ironwave99]

thank god im not the only one who hears Alex from I Hate Everything when Red Guy speaks. great video!

[@waterwaveybaby]

Honestly I can’t get over it I’m convinced it’s him under all that string

[@jamesworley9888]

Red guy is dispassionate about that house and fed up with it, he would rather do nothing then listen to those annoying teachers but once he gets that Job he falls in love with it because it's the closest thing he has to a life outside the house.

[@K.Marie119]

I wonder... is the "they look feral" remarke a play on "ferrous" and that they're made of iron?

[@vinnaire]

Why has nobody mentioned how you called red guy the straight man of the group? Also I’m only 3:52 in and I can tell that you are way too underrated.

[@confusedfey9192]

20:30 My school calls their student wellness check system "Jerry Cares" and Jerry is our school's bulldog. So when they said carehound, my friends and I lost it and were like "The Jerry carehound"

[@dogindagrass]

I liked the breakdown of this episode. This is my favorite episode of the new series and noticed some things I hadn't before though this video!

[@xrentabrainx]

Sounds strange but to me red always seemed a bit more like a squid type like he was sort of plucked out of the ocean and put into this house

[@inellly]

Great anayasis video! Very detailed and well-edited! Subscribed!

[@waterwaveybaby]

thank you so much! part 2 coming very soon

[@NG-tl4qr]

Yellow dude looks creepy as hell when the light is at an angle that makes his eyes cast a shadow. he looks so good now with the increased budget

[@37_newts_in_a_costume]

20:18 Big boss!?!? You can't even say... my name, has the memory gone are you feeling numb, not a word... you say

[@eldritch_whispers1654]

wow I'd not have expected a channel with less than a thousand subscribers to be so high quality, definetly a follow for me

[@waterwaveybaby]

Thank you so much!

[@Bendilin]

@6:22 "White, blue, and grey are warm colours." - Water Wave Even the pinks are dulled to the point where they seem chilled. The only warm colours in the entire scene are Red and Yellow.

[@Bendilin]

@11:02 "The room is grey and dull" The room's the exact same colours as their kitchen was when you called their kitchen warm, lmfao If anything, the scene at 11 minutes into your video has more warm colours overall than the scene at @6:22 due to the yellow warning stripes. What the actual hell is this, warm and cold colour pallets are taught in kindergarten!

[@Bendilin]

@21:15 "The deep blues and blacks is (are) a such a contrast to the bright and colourful opening in the kitchen." >The scenes are almost identical in colour values I'm actually laughing now Like, my god, in the very two scenes you yourself picked, the colour values couldn't be more identical. Even Duck's jacket is basically the exact same brown as the wooden elevator walls. At this point I feel like I took twenty minutes to realize you're just making a joke and having a laugh about how deep you think this all is, because every single statement you so boldly made about the colours in the episode, on multiple occasions, are so hilariously off that one can only assume you're trying to be funny.

[@lunabeinglu7275]

24:49 I decided to watch a video of my comfort show. And then it appears a scene of my other comfort show. Wow, how amazing.

[@twotamatos]

Right that is such a good point that once he’s in power he just wants to sit around and do nothing

[@smil3moreitlooksgoodonyou]

Another amazing video from u.💖I'm so happy you covered this show

[@waterwaveybaby]

Thank you so much 💙 best show of the year imo

[@smil3moreitlooksgoodonyou]

@@waterwaveybaby ayy congrats on 1k+ 💖

[@drewo.127]

Pausing it real quick to say that “creepy creep” just made me giggle!!! The word itself just made me kinda laugh.

[@hawtyboi]

Even tough you never see his mouth Flashbacks to the brushing scene

[@-desertpackrat]

11:00 oooh I love this concept! The idea of reality being altered during a musical number, and the interruption of that number cutting you off from ending the experience and going back to normalcy. That is so creepy 😂

[@pennycat6317]

bruh that pool with the frog slide and octopus tile at the beginning brought back a wave of nostalgia I didn't even remember

[@elliequinnn]

I love the JAR media podcast and I feel SO heard that you thought red guy was Alex, finally someone else thought that

[@Lumberjack_king]

0:04 I mean look at indie horror games they often center around things meant to entertain children

[@gooberr_man]

0:24 oh my god it's the pvz house

[@submariNervous]

19:55 - NGL as someone who had a beagle (a breed of hound) as a kid that was perfectly friendly to our cats and even the rabbit that decided to have her babies in our fenced-in back yard, I'd completely forgotten that "hounds" were bred as hunting dogs, and didn't bat an eye at the word being used for the Carehound's name. XD (Granted, I _knew_ it was going to turn out dark/scary/unfriendly, but only because my brain saw that sign and went "ah, real-life hounds = floppy-eared, friendly dogs, and therefore will be EXTRA horrible upon passing through the DHMIS filter!")

[@axophyrus]

HOW??? DO?? YOU HAVE??? SO VERY LITTLE SUBS??? I THOUGHT YOU WERE FAMOUS?? This is such a good analysis, so good quality. I love this so much. You deserve many more recognition.

[@waterwaveybaby]

Thank you so much, that’s real like if you, excited to put out part 2!

[@babiesonspikes]

@@waterwaveybaby Well, you deserve to be famous.