We All Live in Our Own Prisons

[@Stop.Arguing]

This comment section is a prison.

[@ImageLimestone]

I mean we're all trapped in these bodies

[@geoffruh]

This thread? A prison

[@brendenalexander6178]

@@geoffruh Yes! It is a prison.

[@seronymus]

@@geoffruh This comment? A prison.

[@drmeduimant5066]

Got loved by the uploaded even after 11-12 years

[@legomajor]

whoever writes coach mcguirk's lines should write a book

[@FatherTagifunk]

a majority of it is improv from the voice actor!

[@Walfuz]

mr where's my hug at You posted that 1 week ago.

[@justin-ch1bn]

It's a largely improv show idk how much is f it's written

[@sparsehumor7521]

@@Walfuz I posted this right now.

[@pAgOtA1]

@@sparsehumor7521 No you didn't, that was 3 days ago.

[@hazardous0887]

A lot of the dialogue from this show was so scarily real and natural.

[@hankthetank8039]

Largely because most of the dialogue is improvised and the voice actors go off their own creative/comedic instincts.

[@therandomdickhead5744]

@@hankthetank8039 they've done a great job

[@bobthornton4376]

what show is this

[@hankthetank8039]

@@bobthornton4376 The adult swim sitcom Home Movies.

[@X3R0D3D]

the creator of this show, Home Movies, is also the creator of an even better show Metalocalypse! Brendan Small is fuckin awesome

[@InVinoVeratas]

*_“This conversation is a prison”_* That’s pretty much how I feel about most conversations tbh

[@ijemand5672]

Aspie

[@tonyelectionfraud669]

@@ijemand5672 the comment was a year old - but you're not wrong

[@silvianbruno7512]

They're not, but neither is OP. Last couple years only strengthened those walls y'know?

[@christrontherobot4100]

@@ijemand5672 ?

[@greysnake2903]

Silvian And it will break some time...

[@blimeybeige9024]

This show is hysterical yet so subtle and cozy too

[@epicurus95]

what show is this?

[@Sh4ky]

@AZEIO瘋 did... Did you just answer your own question?

[@KoroftheSon]

@@epicurus95 In all seriousness, the show is Home Movies

[@jonathanbethards3689]

the music is amazing

[@timwilson3153]

The show is called Home Movies. Pretty damn funny!

[@ImSquiggs]

"Sometimes I think WERE in the prisoners and the prisoners ARE NOT" Hahaha, H Jon Benjamin totally nails the "I stumbled into something profound so I will declare it with half-confidence" thing that Coach McGuirk is known for.

[@inafridge8573]

Oh "with half-confidence" thats so apt

[@magusperde365]

H Jon Benjamin doesnt wven sound like he is boive acting. Its always just that his natural voice always sounds perfectly for the situation

[@Mentally_Will]

@@magusperde365 Well in this show and a few others HJB has been in, they didn't even bother fully scripting the thing, they just gave the actors a topic and they improvised the rest. He really was just talking.

[@troywright359]

@@rohankulkarni9213 i think that's what makes HM so great, the innuendos have to be far more clever and subtle

[@moosetasticbombastic1998]

It's not often I actually laugh out loud at comments sections, but this got me 😂

[@danielhaddock91]

As a kid this show always depressed me. It was like a warning: “Turn back. Adulthood will break your heart.”

[@spartansfan1026]

It definitely didn't lie.

[@danielhaddock91]

@@spartansfan1026 I think it kinda understated the misery.

[@bryanchandler3486]

@@danielhaddock91 I think it's that banality that in some ways makes it worse. To quote a funny tweet I read, I'm afraid that nfts are going to go down in flames not in a fantastic catastrophic way but in a boring depressing way I'm paraphrasing a bit

[@Electricshrock]

Yet as an adult it's kinda comforting. Being able to identify with this and laugh takes the edge off.

[@mcculloughfamily6984]

@@bryanchandler3486 That was probably inspired by poet T.S. Eliott. "This is the way the world will end. Not with a bang, but with a whimper"

[@gam1nggeek418]

Cartoon Network had the balls to air this outside of AS, what some mad lads

[@connorbeith3232]

This was before AS became it's own thing, back then it was just considered a block on CN.

[@dani-manson]

Cartoon Network, it’s a prison.

[@youwanagethi]

Prison? It’s a prison.

[@FuckYoutubeCensorship]

@@dani-manson Moltar, Zorak, and Space Ghost are the COs

[@dani-manson]

@@FuckKZbinCensorship YES

[@charlesconfino165]

Coach mcguirk is like the self aware alcoholic crazy uncle

[@ewamenamiesz]

guess im a self aware alcoholic crazy uncle

[@electrodynamicorb6548]

Just a realist.

[@UltimatelyProficient]

He’s just a prisoner… just like we all are.

[@realJimMarshall]

@@UltimatelyProficient is mayonnaise a prison?

[@Derek_Wyld]

@@ewamenamiesz same, just an uncle as of recently too lol

[@derrick.t4031]

This conversation as a kid: silly nonsense This conversation when you're an adult: eerily real.

[@petrichorjournal8866]

What Foucault lecture is this from

[@dontchewglass]

It's the introduction to the newest edition of Discipline and Punish actually

[@STOCKHOLM07]

It's dumb, but it's not dumb enough for Foucault.

[@jfmedits1577]

@@STOCKHOLM07 'u hating on my man foucault ?????

[@STOCKHOLM07]

@@jfmedits1577 You mean that pseudo-intellectual idiot? Why yes, yes I am.

[@fakepapertiger528]

@@STOCKHOLM07 cop

[@yuhyuh7603]

I used to catch this show when I woke up a little too early for school. This was the last show on adult swim before the regular cartoons started and Coach Mcguirk was always my favorite. I really just loved how every conversation sounded like it was just people actually talking.

[@andrewgardner58]

Same, me too

[@Strongbadia_The_Free]

Me too but I always thought this show was boring because of how the sounded when they talk but now as I'm an adult and I love watching these little clips

[@roydonkCGH]

I was also super young and didn’t really understand the concept of an adult cartoon. So In a weird way the show kind of freaked me out. But now I think this show is hilarious

[@dxytona]

Same. I usually caught it when I had to wake up early for field trips.

[@Marchautowerks]

I’ve never woke up a little too early for anything in my life.

[@MissChemicalRomance]

As a 33-year-old this really resonates with me now.

[@yevgeniikisarauskas5085]

Watching these old cartoons as a thirty something puts a new spin on them for sure. King of the Hill was the same.

[@GGAllinsCorpse]

Try watching Mission Hill now.

[@OmegaRedFan]

@@GGAllinsCorpse I went back and watched Mission Hill in 2018, I strongly recommend to anyone reading comments here, go watch Mission Hill. It's a deep metaphorical show. I also like 3 South and Oblongs and Drinky Crow Show and Stroker and Hoop hahaha. Stroker and Hoop was so goofy.

[@fenrirrising131]

@@yevgeniikisarauskas5085 morel orel was like that with me

[@OmegaRedFan]

@@fenrirrising131 I forgot about that show, Moral Oral is so insanely funny

[@AFriskyGamer]

this conversation.. it's a prison

[@kris1110]

i think i'll try using "this conversation is a prision" sometime in my life when i can't get out of a conversation

[@bryanchandler3486]

@smelly paws not to throw stones while living in a glass house as someone who writes tons of crappy My Little Pony fanfiction, but if the worst a weeb is doing is being socially awkward I consider that a win.

[@Tfrne]

Joker (2019)

[@johncharlesdvs]

It's like the walls are keeping us OUT!

[@kiv5555]

This notion of a prison just built a new prison in my head

[@CycleMantis]

Need to put all those mental prisons in a bigger prison tbh

[@joealexander9043]

This video, its a prison.

[@ryanlevin1912]

this comment? it’s a prison

[@EllipsisTriangletrap]

@@ryanlevin1912 this response? it's a prison

[@Anxiathy]

This thread? It's a prison.

[@roddyjarrar728]

This app? It's a prison

[@seronymus]

This scene aged very well. This scene's a prison.

[@dothesick]

“White collar prison is better than where I live. That’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard.”

[@VTown1989]

Binge watching Coach McGuirk videos... that's a prison. Can't get out of it.

[@CarpeNoctem135]

“Judge me not for being in this imprisonment, but judge yourself. For not having the courage to look at yourself and see how trapped you are” - Pobey’s zoo keeper

[@SethMacLeod95]

0:54 how fast he confirms that it’s a prison gets me 😂😂

[@dominicmoisant8393]

School is just prison/work/debt slave indoctrination disguised as baby sitting disguised as education and college is a scam lie for more debt slavery

[@a-a-rondavis9438]

It is. It's basically just a REALLY low security prison where you get to go home for the night and then come right back. So many problems arise because of the public schooling system.

[@lastburning]

Man, I love Home Movies! Such an awesome and underrated show!

[@BluartStack]

one of the most underrated shows ever

[@OmegaRedFan]

This era of Adult Swim was the best

[@MarMaxGaming]

@@OmegaRedFan it’s true, it was really special… they were trying to fill the line up and lower budgets were totally okay, which allowed some really funny and surprising shows to be seen. It’s amazing to get recommended clips like this, it’s been so long, and can appreciate it a lot more than when I was little.

[@OmegaRedFan]

@@MarMaxGaming I would watch these shows late at night with friends at crazy house parties during high school years, especially the summer after graduating. I don't even see these people anymore. But watching these clips will quickly bring me back to that time in my life.

[@yummyjackalmeat]

This was the first episode i ever watched on adult swim late one night with my brother. I remember this conversation stuck with me. I had never heard anything like it in TV, it totally changed my outlook on comedy and art in general.

[@Katastr0phic_Katicorn]

I love that this just randomly showed up, straight out of my childhood, into my 1am rabbit hole.

[@DawnchaserTheAdventurer]

So appropriate in the middle of The Great Lockdown

[@sigmareviews]

This quarantine is a prison

[@Jake-qr7bt]

china is a prison

[@FriezaSucks]

@@aegisreflector1239 agreed, I've only gotten stronger and eaten healthier. Sucks to suck, I suppose.

[@aegisreflector1239]

@@FriezaSucks I should say to still be careful for covid. It's a government sponsored bio lab flu they created and released. I have gotten it already. But I'm ok. It's an awful fever flu. Still I don't live life in fear. And the one world government is obviously using it for their angle and advantage of it. Cool cooler pic. He's one of my mains in DBFZ

[@ALotOfCancer]

Lmao this thread...

[@flamingcroatan3739]

This quarantine is a prison

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

The philosophical lesson of this video has so much meaning.

[@jeremiahthetreefrog8178]

I just can’t believe this long and forgotten show just popped up on KZbin for me. Such nostalgia..

[@Gwegory22]

youtube is very good at that.

[@ts7901]

I rewatch home movies about once a month, it's just too good.

[@damendred1]

"thats one of the saddest things I've ever heard.."

[@trapybara]

this was really in my recommended out of no where in 2022 that being said im glad it happened

[@sharkodile22]

Life is a prison, and Coach McGuick is the one cellmate I'd be glad to have.

[@dr.president6702]

Wholesome commend

[@falondonahue8457]

Man Phineas has really let himself go after summer vacation ended.

[@ErinHoneyBunny]

I was having a depressing night and you cheered me up. Thank you this made me laugh, as soon as I saw that character all I could think about was Phineas from that show.

[@emersonlake192]

Holy crap from waaaay back before they had adultswim up

[@MarMaxGaming]

They were really stepping up their animation game with that little ankle dangling 🤣

[@joshdennis8571]

Why yes algorithm, I did want to go on an hour long Home Movies clip binge right now. You've finally figured me out

[@5150ThisIsBaitPYSCH]

i work overnights as a janitor, by like 5am we are done with everything and just stand around and have low energy, stupid ass conversations like this till 6am and we can clock out. They are the best.

[@stevenscott1479]

I'm overnight too, you can only listen to so many podcasts before you lose it and start talking to your coworkers. Strange, tired thoughts between two people

[@kakashi76767]

I love Brendon's cold stare towards the end

[@shnast-tv2]

This was like the best show on TV at the time. Underrated gem.

[@petermartin7135]

That's deep man, like their cartoon characters and every time that someone watches this scene, they ARE trapped in the prison of that conversation. They can't say anything else. It's like us man, is time prerecorded and is being played out or is the present gone as soon as it turns into the past? What determines what is the present? Is it organisms? If there is nothing to determine what the present is then are does everything happen instantaneously because they would then have to be both past and future? The universe man. What the fuck are we?

[@SneakGoblin7]

We are one in a number I can't fathom or comprehend in a enlarged space that will only keep expanding until it either collapses back in or just infinity keeps expanding, and you should feel lucky that we are what we are at this time exact moment in the construct of theoretical time and in this specific space. You could've been a star for a couple bullion years, but your a human. The most unique sentience to exist in the space around you

[@NFPA-704]

You may like psychedelics

[@SpaceLordLono]

Sir, this is a wendys.

[@mrscruffles801]

Wendys is a prison.

[@RyanREAX]

Jesus Christ died for your sins.

[@kellychuba]

Ages ago I was in a meeting at Harrisburg State Hospital. It was a soul-crushing job with bad bosses. Outside the addiction recovery patients were playing kick ball. I wanted to ditch that office and join them forever. One of those evil bosses said this is our reward for making good life choices.

[@saintanator8992]

Idk why I saw this 10 years after but I like it.

[@MEGASTRIX]

This shit was ahead of its time. Like way too ahead of its time.

[@pandahsykes602]

Oh wow I remember seeing this show so long ago , I’ve since forgotten about it until this popped up on my feed. Almost feels like a fever dream remembering it now .

[@peterkujawski1370]

Hearing archer say this just sends me

[@BlackBarney]

are there blooper reels for the failed takes? I don't understand how they're not cracking up by the end of this. It's not like there's a script and they've seen the jokes or anything. i MISS THIS SHOW SO BAD

[@stuffedmannequin]

Foucault - Discipline and Punish (1975)

[@WeOnlyEatSoup]

Yes. Underated show if ever one, takes me back to Sunday nights in middle school

[@bigbakaboon]

Was literally just talking about how i pretty much just go to work and go home, and grocery shop twice a month. And i've been doing that for like 2 years straight.

[@Yeshua_is-Cool]

Tell me about it man literally a prison

[@thecomfyshirt]

So glad this came up on my recommend videos. Because it’s time to rewatch this show.

[@crumbummin9459]

This show was so ahead of its time

[@matthewrchamberlain]

8 years later, still in a prison

[@jonettheonly]

why don't they make shows like this today? the dialogue and voice acting was so nice, and improv in a cartoon is nearly unheard of.

[@nebraskamomma]

i remember being an angsty piece of teenage shit watchjng this show

[@TheNumberOneGuy]

I assume you're one of the extremely lucky people that didn't end up a wage slave.

[@RetroExhibitCollective]

Shit hits different now as an adult 😂 Social media is a prison. Yes? Lol

[@Lawlophile]

there was no way i was going to understand this show as a kid back then.

[@sheilakijawani2526]

Kids should remain happy brother.

[@AcesPlace22]

Such an extremely underrated show

[@luishandal]

That cut way deeper than I expected it too.

[@michaelrobinson3393]

This is some of the funniest writing I've ever seen. And have Jon Benjamin say it is the best possible choice

[@devhands5338]

I like how when he calls the conversation a prison the conversation reaches the peak of its awkwardness and ironically ends itself

[@TheCaliRhino]

This show was one of my all time favorites, so glad I have the dvd box set!

[@halo3boy1]

This show was ahead of its time.

[@Pyro-Moloch]

"But Brendan, what do I do anyway?" Realer words haven't been spoken

[@mangekoo3682]

This showed up on my recommendations 12 years later

[@feelinghealingfrequences7179]

watched every episode of this show highly recommended binge

[@senseofmindshow]

I miss this show so much

[@jonettheonly]

Home Movies one of the best cartoons of all time. It's been back on Cartoon Network recently as of March 27 2022 and it's actually funnier than I remember, especially the more subtle and adult jokes (like this video) that I didn't get as a kid lol.

[@BeatlesLuvSoftKitty]

They really live in a prison when I listen to this video on a loop.

[@horrorking1000]

Talks with coach so nostalgic

[@Chorweiler]

Yes sir

[@austinhall3937]

Home movies was a gem

[@Cubs1719]

Coach McGurk, Archer, and Bob...the best

[@vanguardcycle]

This is literally the best thing on all of KZbin

[@GrandTourVideos]

Home Movies will always have a place in my heart.

[@WakoDoodle]

technically we're all in a prison, its a planet called earth. Very few get to escape it and even then, they return to earth afterwards. It depends on how big your prison is before it feels like freedom. For some, freedom is the world, others an island and some... a tv show about talking, called Home Movies. Guess which one is mine? :D

[@mini1gerbel]

I've watched this so many times. This is hilarious. This conversation is a prison LOL

[@navieats3955]

Loved this show as kid

[@Synthsoldier]

Ohhh man crazy nostalgia. I miss this show!

[@jalobi808]

One of the greatest shows

[@RasKalevthesouljourner]

I loved this show growing up.

[@62percenthumidity]

Bruh I completely forgot about this show im in love with the art style it brings back so much nostalgia

[@bfkc111]

"It's a prison (S03E10)" Very informative.

[@richardwright1063]

As an older adult, I can appreciate this more

[@Bob-fj7lr]

This unlocked so many memories

[@marvelousmadmen832]

So this was the show Jevil watched before getting locked up.

[@jacobplayer2709]

This conversation… ‘S a prison.. C-can’t get out

[@melanie.notmel]

I love this show. This and Sheep in the Big City.

[@christophermckiernan4876]

A classic show.

[@Chris420x1]

I was today years old when I found out that Bob and Archer are both the coach from one of my favorite childhood shows 😂

[@blitheringrando1410]

Yeah, as soon as I heard the voice I was like "I recognize his voice.... is that bob?"

[@Chris420x1]

@@blitheringrando1410 it makes sense why I love Bob's burgers and Archer now 😂

[@wumpscut1]

"we all live in our own prisons" its epic

[@NoahSpurrier]

Genius writing.

[@flowrsworld8669]

Holy shit how did they get the Archer, Bobs Burger, and family guy voice actor for this!!! I LOVE it

[@grayd98]

It was cool that Michel Foucalt chose to write for a cartoon

[@sheilakijawani2526]

Foucalt worked/studied on prisons ryt?

[@grayd98]

@@sheilakijawani2526 He wrote a lot about the nature of authority and surveillance in the post ww2 era and was notorious for likening things like schools and factory designs to prisons.

[@Foobin_Lera]

I didn't watch this show, but I did watch Archer. I knew I recognized his voice in these clips

[@goodninji8]

"Yeah." - Brendan

[@peppy6052]

ill never forget that realization

[@jazzarazzatfc5047]

KZbin recommendations knew I needed to see this 12 yr old clip today, feeling imprisoned rn