ADR - Episode 552: SCP-Cember - SCP-2030 (LAUGH IS FUN)

[00:00:18] Ho ho ho, and welcome to Al Dente Rigamortis. I'm Review Claws.

[00:00:24] I'm Mikey, the E.S.T.E. stands for Elf.

[00:00:27] I'm the Grinch in Yellow.

[00:00:28] And we're here to discuss those internet stories, most creepy, most pasta, and most seasonal, kind of.

[00:00:34] In our own traditional Al Dente Rigamortis way.

[00:00:38] For SCP-Cember, we are covering SCP-2030. Laugh is Fun.

[00:00:45] Which is questionably festive. It's really not.

[00:00:48] I mean, you say that? I mean, it's like, it's jovial.

[00:00:53] This time of year is supposed to be a time of jovialness to try and combat the darkness of the Evercold.

[00:01:00] Okay, alright.

[00:01:02] It's a stretch, but I'll let it go. I'll allow it.

[00:01:08] But yeah, so we're covering SCP-2030, otherwise known as Laugh is Fun.

[00:01:13] It's by Pepper's Ghost on the SCP Foundation website, otherwise known as SCP-wiki.wiki.com.

[00:01:25] I laugh every time.

[00:01:27] I love it. It's so good.

[00:01:30] It's got an unnecessary amount of dots in it.

[00:01:32] Yeah.

[00:01:33] Well, like one of those dots is like spelled out dot.

[00:01:36] Like it's wiki, it's like w-i-k-i-d-o-t.

[00:01:39] And then there's a period and then c-o-m.

[00:01:43] Mm-hmm.

[00:01:44] So, just so good.

[00:01:47] But yeah, so before we dive too far into this SCP entry, let's give our initial recommendations.

[00:01:56] I'm gonna partially recommend this one.

[00:01:59] It's more of, although it kind of borders like a conditional recommendation really, but.

[00:02:05] I am not going to recommend this one.

[00:02:11] Uh, I'll recommend it, I guess.

[00:02:14] Were you gonna give it like, were you gonna give it like a recommendation?

[00:02:16] Like, maybe I'll just put it down to a partial.

[00:02:19] To be honest, I forgot to like, put my final thoughts together on this.

[00:02:24] Wow.

[00:02:24] But I didn't mind it, it was fine.

[00:02:25] Yeah.

[00:02:27] Well, let's, uh, let's dive in and find out why we gave those recommendations.

[00:02:33] And see if it changes or, or fluctuates, uh, as we, we go into our conversation.

[00:02:38] Uh, but let's start with the rundown.

[00:02:41] So, SCP 2030 is a prank show that's been running for at least 38 seasons.

[00:02:48] Though the various, uh, through, through the various physical formats of video.

[00:02:53] The show is called Laugh is Fun.

[00:02:56] And the various pranks performed are generally horrific and absurdist body horror.

[00:03:02] With the victims being traumatized and or harmed in the process of filming the show.

[00:03:08] However, a show host known as SCP 2030-1 or Laffy McLaugherson will appear on set.

[00:03:17] His face never in view of the camera.

[00:03:21] And immediately render the victims calm and even jovial with his presence.

[00:03:27] After which...

[00:03:28] That's not gifts, right?

[00:03:31] What?

[00:03:32] With this, with his presence.

[00:03:33] They're not gifts, right?

[00:03:34] No, like with his, with his...

[00:03:36] This is a festive episode after all.

[00:03:38] That, that, that, you're, you're not wrong.

[00:03:39] But no, I meant with his appearance.

[00:03:42] Yes.

[00:03:42] You grammar Nazi.

[00:03:46] Um, but yeah.

[00:03:48] After which the episode will come to a close.

[00:03:51] Uh, the show's victims are individuals who either died or went missing the year of the episode's airing.

[00:03:58] Though deaths aren't, or though the deaths aren't from the actions on the show according to records.

[00:04:05] They're usually like just something else entirely.

[00:04:08] Um, the foundation is ever vigilant in retrieving physical copies of the show while tracking and removing the show from online posting and streaming platforms.

[00:04:19] Uh, they're also still trying to hunt down the supposed studio location and source from which these episodes originate.

[00:04:28] Uh, the document, or the, the SCP entry, uh, has various episode descriptions and a story of a first person perspective of one of these prankings at a funeral involving rupturing spleens.

[00:04:43] And, uh, been so yeah, that's, uh, that's SCP 2030 in a nutshell.

[00:04:50] So, uh, I suppose we should, uh, move on to.

[00:04:54] Everyone tolerance of grammar inquisitions at this point.

[00:04:58] Um, guys, do you guys got some.

[00:05:02] Mikey.

[00:05:05] I have for the main one, a, um, conjunction junction.

[00:05:10] Okay.

[00:05:11] And next stop conjunction junction.

[00:05:13] Doot doot.

[00:05:13] And that's what we're about here.

[00:05:17] Comedy.

[00:05:18] And remember, laugh is fun.

[00:05:23] And laugh.

[00:05:24] And laugh.

[00:05:26] Finn.

[00:05:29] Love it.

[00:05:30] Love to see it.

[00:05:32] It's not really much to pull from this one, right?

[00:05:35] Also, yeah, it's the way Laffy McLaugherson talks.

[00:05:38] Yeah.

[00:05:39] All of that.

[00:05:40] So normally when you grab sentences throughout the story, they start with words that they probably shouldn't like its ends or buts because there's always better words to use.

[00:05:48] That's acceptable.

[00:05:49] But this is like all dialogue from a dude that's not a questionable creature.

[00:05:55] Yeah, exactly.

[00:05:55] He's probably not even like a mortal being.

[00:05:58] No, no, no.

[00:06:00] He's trying to be human.

[00:06:01] I am.

[00:06:02] Mm hmm.

[00:06:05] But, uh, all right.

[00:06:06] Um, gamer, do we have a grammar in yellow?

[00:06:08] Sorry, Grinch.

[00:06:09] Do we have a grammar in yellow?

[00:06:11] Yeah, uh, I guess.

[00:06:13] Um, this is in one of the, um, what are they called?

[00:06:20] The addendums?

[00:06:21] Or the, uh.

[00:06:21] Yes, one of them.

[00:06:22] One of them-dems.

[00:06:24] Um, it extends his tongue into the woman's mouth and Thatcher faces of various sizes begin appearing across Carter's skin.

[00:06:33] So, when I read that, the first few times I read it, I stumbled over the, the second half of that repeatedly.

[00:06:40] Yeah.

[00:06:41] Because like, I read it like assuming that Thatcher, the creature, was in the act of turning to face something else.

[00:06:51] I see, yeah.

[00:06:53] Like, into the open mouth and Thatcher faces, like, I imagine that as a, an action, not of,

[00:07:01] of faces appearing.

[00:07:04] Um, but, but the way I rewrote it is, uh, extends the tongue into the woman's open mouth.

[00:07:11] Across Carter's skin, various sizes of Thatcher's face begin growing out of it.

[00:07:16] Yeah, that, that would work for like a, a, uh, um, to, to, to proper clarify that.

[00:07:23] Yeah.

[00:07:24] Cause I, I, I also remember, I don't know if I, if I hiccuped over that specifically, but like, I remember like hiccuping over that sentence for some reason.

[00:07:31] When I was reading it and then like, I caught myself.

[00:07:34] So.

[00:07:34] Yeah.

[00:07:34] Especially cause in the previous sentence, it refers to the creature as Thatcher.

[00:07:38] Yeah.

[00:07:40] So it's like, that you did this and then that your faces of various sizes.

[00:07:43] Uh, what?

[00:07:44] Yeah.

[00:07:45] Uh, and I should also like, it would just point out like, this is for the season 21, 1997, um, with the episode theme, Margaret Thatcher, just for anybody who's like perusing the SCP and wants to look for that.

[00:07:57] Is that it?

[00:07:58] Yes.

[00:07:58] Yeah.

[00:08:01] But that's the only grammar thing I found.

[00:08:04] Okay.

[00:08:05] Uh, well then I suppose we move on to actual thoughts.

[00:08:07] Uh, I'm going to start with the images that are presented in the entry.

[00:08:11] So the first one is, uh, it looks like an old school, like Netflix, like description or some kind of like streaming, like screaming platform description, like thing for like a show episode or like a TV show or a movie kind of thing.

[00:08:24] I guess that is a picture.

[00:08:26] Yeah.

[00:08:26] When you said pictures, I'm like, there's only one.

[00:08:28] That one is just text up there.

[00:08:30] It is a, it is a comped document technically.

[00:08:34] Yeah.

[00:08:34] Um, and I, I do really like it cause it's like, yeah, laugh is love 1976 to 2014.

[00:08:39] And then like, gives you like a PG rating, which is a little, it is very deceptive.

[00:08:45] Hmm.

[00:08:46] And again, it gives you like all the information, like 38 seasons.

[00:08:49] Um, I, I guess it's 2014 because like, that's when this was taken down or like, this was, oh, this was retrieved by the SCP.

[00:08:56] Cause like.

[00:08:56] Or at least just when that snapshot was taken.

[00:08:59] Yeah.

[00:09:01] Um, so yeah.

[00:09:02] And again, I, it, it's a very nice, like nicely done comp of like that kind of, um, uh, like show, like television description or like show description or movie description thing that you'd see on like a Netflix or, uh, a streaming platform.

[00:09:17] Five star rated.

[00:09:18] Yeah.

[00:09:19] Well, yeah.

[00:09:21] Well, because everybody seems to enjoy the show after they watched it.

[00:09:25] That's the problem.

[00:09:26] Um, single person.

[00:09:28] Yeah.

[00:09:28] Well, most, almost every single person.

[00:09:31] We'll get to that in the story.

[00:09:33] Um, and then we get a still frame, uh, from one of the episodes, uh, where we get, uh, SCP 2031 revealed.

[00:09:40] And I actually, I get it.

[00:09:41] Like it gives us a, it gives us a proper like look at, uh, Laffy McLaugherson, uh, complete with his head never being shown on camera.

[00:09:50] Um, just his, like his, his suit and his, um, his, uh, shoes, which are described.

[00:09:55] So really these images are like, are, are, I think I really enjoy these images because they, they help kind of accentuate what's being, what's already written.

[00:10:03] Yeah.

[00:10:04] They don't need to be there, but they are.

[00:10:06] It's nice to have them there for.

[00:10:08] It helps a ton.

[00:10:09] Like the second one is a picture of a real ass man.

[00:10:14] So that also the immersion factor as well.

[00:10:17] Yeah.

[00:10:17] And it's clearly that he's coming out of like his hiding spot in the episode.

[00:10:21] So like, again, it shows like his actions as well in the show.

[00:10:25] Um, yeah, no, I'm just like, I really enjoy the, the way the images were comped and stuff in this.

[00:10:31] Um, and then we move on to my next thing here.

[00:10:34] Um, unless you guys have anything more about the image or the images.

[00:10:40] I have nothing to say about the images.

[00:10:44] Okay.

[00:10:44] Shower curtains fun.

[00:10:46] Okay.

[00:10:46] I was just, I wanted to say there's nothing else before I like moved ahead, like, like non image thing.

[00:10:51] So, you know, okay.

[00:10:54] Um, I'll move on to the next thing then.

[00:10:57] Uh, the medium through which SCP 2030 manifests changes depending on the popular, on the most popular format currently in use.

[00:11:06] As of 2014, SCP 2030 most commonly inserts itself into automated DVD rental kiosks filled or file sharing websites and paid on demand video streaming services.

[00:11:20] Prior to 2012, SCP 2030 commonly manifested as a DVD set in video rental stores and as VHS tapes prior 2003.

[00:11:31] So yeah, uh, apparently 2024's SCP Sember is just going to be rife for me with game fodder that may or one day end up on our sister podcast.

[00:11:43] One less die, uh, specifically on a certain six world, uh, campaign we're currently running, uh, of the, of, of shadow run.

[00:11:51] Sorry, Mikey.

[00:11:53] Um, cause seriously, like, I don't know if this would be like a free spirit or some sprite like ghost in the matrix.

[00:12:02] I'm thinking I'm kind of going more into the, it has a, it has a physical form.

[00:12:06] Yeah.

[00:12:07] I'm going more into like the blood into the, into like a blood spirit, like a free spirit kind of creature that manifests and just uses like, um, media.

[00:12:16] Um, it could just be a fricking evil mage.

[00:12:19] It's a physical dude that comes out of things, you know?

[00:12:23] Well, yeah, well that, that's also true, but it could also be like a spirit because spirits can like manifest and materialize into a physical and have like almost a physical form.

[00:12:31] Um, in the, in, in shadow run.

[00:12:34] Um, and of course, like we could have it like, again, like this is like something that's popping up in the, on the matrix, um, or popping up on people's tridio streams.

[00:12:42] Cause that's the new like medium in, in shadow run is, is by the 20 seventies.

[00:12:47] Um, people experience things through like SIM.

[00:12:50] Oh God, it could be BTLs like better than life.

[00:12:52] Uh, um, better than life.

[00:12:54] Sim sense like simulations.

[00:12:56] Oh fuck.

[00:12:58] Which might kind of explain why like they quote unquote survive it because it's like all in their head, I guess.

[00:13:05] Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Again, that's where like, I go into like the sprite, like ghost in the machine.

[00:13:09] Like it's a, it's a free sprite, like some kind of a, or a rogue AI in the matrix.

[00:13:13] That's generating this, uh, this, these beetle, these BTLs, uh, which for anybody who's not in the know, Mikey, uh, BTLs or better than life.

[00:13:23] Sim sense. Uh, they're basically like a cyber drug in a way.

[00:13:26] Like they are simulations that people like Jack into and like kind of like a VR that people like kind of like plug themselves into and experience.

[00:13:33] And like, they're supposed to, they're, they're simulations that have like their limiters taken off. So they are, uh, so you experience like, uh, your, your senses experience things that are better than life.

[00:13:44] And like, it gives you a high or like gives you like a euphoric feeling by experiencing these things.

[00:13:49] And they become quite addictive to the point where you become a chip head, um, where like you are basically like, you don't want to, you don't want to, you keep retreating into BTLs or into like the matrix to experience these virtual realities and try and stay away from, uh, from real life because real life is dull compared to these simulations.

[00:14:11] So yeah, I could see that definitely being used for that in this, um, and outside of, uh, outside of the, the six world of shadow run.

[00:14:21] Um, I can actually see this being used in other game systems and scenarios as well.

[00:14:25] Like, um, like you're trying to hunt down a phantom show, uh, in like a monster of the week game or like, uh, uh, esoteric or something like that.

[00:14:34] Heck, this, this could just be the next flavor of the King in Yellow's play for a Delta Green or Call of Cthulhu shotgun scenario or campaign.

[00:14:43] Um, like this could be like a one shot or even like a campaign where you're trying to track down these, this, this new updated version of the, the, the, the King in Yellow play, which has just turned itself into a fucking prank show.

[00:14:58] Um, it's, it's, it's basically just like, um, uh, what's, what's that show?

[00:15:04] It's, it's, it's, cause this show is basically like punked from hell.

[00:15:10] So, um, and yeah, and then, uh, we have, uh,

[00:15:15] it's kind of like, it's not clarify whether or not the people that are being punked, like actually have any, um, like long-term effects from the show or if everything just gets reversed, but they die from other means.

[00:15:28] Oh God.

[00:15:30] Okay.

[00:15:30] So yeah, if you just put, you just reminded me something.

[00:15:32] So yeah, they, so, uh, the victims either go missing, like are either people that have gone missing or die the year of the episode playing.

[00:15:40] So what if they're actually not even like, like their deaths or they're going missing has nothing to do with the show itself, but their spirits are getting, are getting pulled into this, this viral show.

[00:15:51] That's like being orchestrated by a free spirit or something like the free spirits actually more of like, kind of like a, uh, like a, a rogue reaper.

[00:15:59] Um, and they're, they're actually creating the show and using the souls of the, of the, of the recently dead as their, as their hosts.

[00:16:08] Yeah.

[00:16:09] And if you want to make it like, so that it's like actually kind of like malicious, maybe like people who watch the show get marked like by a curse that ends up killing them that, that year.

[00:16:19] And then they get pulled into the next season.

[00:16:23] Cause there is that kind of thing at the, uh, near the end of the, like during, like through the entry, we can find out that like, um, that's kind of a vector for this is that people are, uh, the people who in, uh, the, the people who are on the show seem to have a familiarity with the show.

[00:16:37] Like they've watched the show.

[00:16:38] So perhaps, um, that's how they get marked.

[00:16:41] Like they, they watch the show on like a streaming thing or like on e-bombs world or YouTube.

[00:16:45] Remember e-bombs world guys?

[00:16:47] Yeah.

[00:16:49] Uh, but yeah, like watch videos and stuff like that online and see like clips of the show and that's how you get marked.

[00:16:54] So.

[00:16:55] And then they could just show up at any time and just punk your real life.

[00:16:59] Yeah, exactly.

[00:17:01] Um.

[00:17:03] Then you may or may not survive from that, but then you potentially die later on through like the, um, the type of magic that's like it's, or it's like basically it seems like real because it just sort of happens.

[00:17:18] It's like, uh, idiosyncratic magic.

[00:17:20] Yeah.

[00:17:21] From, uh, from the trail of Cthulhu RPG.

[00:17:23] And like, it's like unknown armies.

[00:17:25] Actually unknown armies would probably work in this as well.

[00:17:27] Like as a, uh, as like for this to be a scenario and unknown armies, because like, that's again, a very modern, like postmodern magic or like supernatural, like bullshit.

[00:17:37] Yeah.

[00:17:39] Yeah.

[00:17:41] Um.

[00:17:41] Um, and yeah, even like the last line in the containment procedures, uh, would be enough for a jumping off point for a seed idea for a game.

[00:17:50] Like finding an isolating SCP 2030s point of origin is considered a Delta level priority efforts or priority.

[00:17:58] Um, sorry, a Delta, uh, a, a, a Delta level priority efforts to locate the studio where SCP 2030 is filmed are ongoing.

[00:18:09] I like that.

[00:18:11] Um, first off.

[00:18:13] Wait, it's not filmed in a studio.

[00:18:14] Well, no, some parts are like, like, well, it has to be, it has to come from somewhere.

[00:18:18] Like, so like the, the SCP foundation is speculating that it's, that there is a, there's some kind of a studio where like the film is actually like edited and stuff like that.

[00:18:26] Okay.

[00:18:27] Yeah.

[00:18:27] It's not filmed there specifically, but yeah.

[00:18:30] Yeah.

[00:18:31] Um, although unless it is like, like we've, you guys, so that could be like the, in the, in the, the game I would, I would like construct around this premise.

[00:18:38] Like you guys are hunting down the studio.

[00:18:40] You guys got a tip that you found the studio, you end up there and you get into a carcosa situation where like each set in the studio is like, uh, it looks like it is almost identical to real life.

[00:18:50] So it's like almost like a copy of a real location in the world, but it's not, but it's like trapped inside this like little like pocket bubble, um, or this pocket dimension inside the studio.

[00:19:04] And that's how like they film each episode.

[00:19:06] Like they're actually not filming out in the world.

[00:19:07] They're filming, they're making it, they're creating a simulacrum of somewhere in the world and trapping these poor souls to do this prank episode.

[00:19:16] I have a lot of ideas now.

[00:19:17] Thanks.

[00:19:21] One of these days I'll learn to keep my mouth shut.

[00:19:23] Never.

[00:19:26] Um, and don't, don't, don't, uh, act like you hate this.

[00:19:31] I can act as much as I want.

[00:19:35] Um, but, uh, yeah, I guess I'll move on to the next thing I have here.

[00:19:40] The series title typically appears as laugh is fun.

[00:19:43] Although variations on the name such as laugh is life and laugh is laugh are not uncommon.

[00:19:51] And I have another one.

[00:19:52] Laugh is love just to complete the cycle.

[00:19:57] Cause like, as soon as I heard like laugh is life and like laugh is like, and then said like laugh is laugh.

[00:20:01] And I was like, I literally thought it was going to read laugh is love.

[00:20:05] Cause like, it's like that Shrek is life.

[00:20:07] Shrek is love.

[00:20:09] It was, um, that's just laugh.

[00:20:13] That's just life.

[00:20:14] That's just laugh.

[00:20:15] Yeah.

[00:20:15] Yeah.

[00:20:15] Now we know who the host is.

[00:20:17] Oh no.

[00:20:18] That's where he doesn't show his face.

[00:20:20] You know what?

[00:20:21] It wouldn't surprise me.

[00:20:23] I mean, we, we, again, based off Mikey's, uh, uh, conjunction junction with his, uh, the way he says things.

[00:20:32] Yes.

[00:20:33] Um, but I'll move on to the next thing I have here.

[00:20:38] Um, the series has no corresponding box art.

[00:20:41] It mimics art from other TV shows, often causing viewers to select it, mistaking it for another program.

[00:20:50] So at first I took this, like, as I believed it's intended where it's like, it mimics the art, uh, like cover the art, the art of the covers exactly.

[00:20:59] But then I thought like with my, like kind of my graphic designer brain and like stuff like that is like, you could have a lot of fun doing like mock-ups for this SCP of like box art.

[00:21:12] Like, like, like from other shows, but mimicking the art style of the covers rather than like completely like make just like using like, uh, uh, uh, using a preexisting thing exactly as it is.

[00:21:24] But like have stuff on it that is like kind of off.

[00:21:28] And then like the title art always being like the same style as the title art for like these other TV shows, but it's always like laugh is love, but in that art style.

[00:21:36] So like honked, but laugh is like, or it's like, uh, like laugh.

[00:21:42] And then in smaller, uh, like things right under is life, but like for like punked, um, or like, again, the various things like you could find like, uh, like one tree Hill, like the one tree Hill title art.

[00:21:54] But it's a laugh is love, laugh is life or laugh is fun.

[00:22:00] I don't know.

[00:22:01] I like that.

[00:22:02] The, the idea of that, like, just like reading that bit about like the box art mimicry.

[00:22:06] Um, it really tickled my, my graphic designer brain of like, of wanting to do up these kind of like mocks, uh, these, these, uh, mock box art of this show, but in different, in different TV show styles.

[00:22:18] That'd be a lot of fun.

[00:22:19] Um, yeah, it's good that there's some art there, but that would like push it even further.

[00:22:25] I think.

[00:22:25] Yeah.

[00:22:26] Just imagine like, uh, we have, here's a photo of, uh, of our, uh, of our collection.

[00:22:30] Uh, like that's currently in like site redacted and it just shows like a, like a, like a, uh, a, uh, a DVD rack of like movie of shows that all say laugh is fun or like laugh is life or laugh is laugh.

[00:22:44] But like, they're all in different like TV show DVD box set like styles.

[00:22:51] Um, but yeah.

[00:22:53] Uh, and then the next thing here, um, due to the way in which scenes are filmed, SCP 2030 dash one is only seen from the neck down making identification difficult.

[00:23:06] It refers to itself as laughing McLaugherson.

[00:23:10] Um, I just, I kind of like that.

[00:23:12] We never get to see laugh his face.

[00:23:14] Um, but we still have a good description of him and his mannerism in the entry.

[00:23:22] Like we, we know we get to know, we, we get to like, we get a good description of his character without having to even like have identification of his face.

[00:23:29] And it makes sense that we wouldn't get to see his face.

[00:23:30] Cause he's basically like a slender, like a, Oh God, he's splendor man.

[00:23:35] A little bit.

[00:23:36] We cracked it.

[00:23:37] We know what, we know what creepy pasta he's actually laughing McLaugherson is.

[00:23:40] He's either, he's either, um, uh, splendor man or he's splendor man's cousin.

[00:23:48] It was like, it was a dude in a suit that you never saw his face.

[00:23:51] Like I was like immediately getting slender man vibes.

[00:23:53] Yeah.

[00:23:55] But he's probably just a dude.

[00:23:56] I don't know.

[00:23:57] I, I've, I have seen some, some fan art.

[00:24:00] Like when I was like looking up this entry and it seems like a lot of people, uh, just

[00:24:03] have the, the general consensus that he's just this like creepy, like no face, like head

[00:24:07] with like maybe like a creepy, like smiling mouth.

[00:24:10] Like that's about it.

[00:24:12] I guess he has to laugh.

[00:24:14] Yeah.

[00:24:17] Um, and then my next thing here.

[00:24:21] Uh, additionally, most recorded individuals seem to express some degree of familiarity

[00:24:26] with SCP 2030 dash one with some claiming to be fans of the show rather into or research

[00:24:34] into whether SCP 2030 uses its viewership.

[00:24:38] Okay.

[00:24:38] I kind of covered this honestly.

[00:24:40] Um, like it basically like research is going into like whether or not SCP like targets victims

[00:24:47] who have watched the show, uh, as like its pool of victims.

[00:24:51] And, uh, like, I do find that very interesting.

[00:24:53] Like it's either like mental influence, uh, kind of situation like, like Vince apps, uh,

[00:24:59] like, like Vince Aspenson from, uh, from, uh, from, uh, from our previous SCP Sember episode,

[00:25:05] um, where like it's, he's manifest, he's controlling the person, like when he shows up on the show

[00:25:11] or like, it's sort of again, like a vector, like he's targeting, like, uh, people who watch

[00:25:16] the show are targeted, um, specifically.

[00:25:22] Um, also the fact that victims and audience members on the show are later revealed to

[00:25:26] be people who died and went missing the year they appeared on the program is also just a

[00:25:31] really cool, creepy, uh, detail.

[00:25:33] And we kind of covered it earlier, but like, I still just like that idea of like, yeah, like

[00:25:38] even the studio audience that, that, that they, they will sometimes like, oh, that that's

[00:25:43] why there's a studio because like occasionally the show will, the show will like the, the

[00:25:47] camera will actually like pan behind it to show a studio audience revealing that that location

[00:25:53] was actually on a, on a stage.

[00:25:56] So that's straight up like King and Yellow bullshit or like some kind of like meta, meta

[00:26:00] texture or meta, uh, meta, meta concept of like, like, I just realized that, right?

[00:26:06] Because like, it's all just people going about their daily lives and then, oh, I'm punked,

[00:26:10] but there's a live studio audience there.

[00:26:13] Yeah.

[00:26:13] So it's just like, oops, you're in another reality or oops, your reality is no longer,

[00:26:16] uh, what you thought it was.

[00:26:19] So yeah.

[00:26:20] Yeah.

[00:26:20] I like that.

[00:26:21] It's extra weird now.

[00:26:22] And that actually adds onto the idea of like discovering the studio in a game or something

[00:26:25] like that and finding these different stages that are like suddenly become real life.

[00:26:29] Like they suddenly become your neighborhood.

[00:26:31] Um, and then you get punked because you're on the show.

[00:26:37] Um, then we have this next thing here, uh, created in partnership.

[00:26:43] With Y W T G T H F T are superimposed over the footage in white text.

[00:26:52] I actually didn't check to see what that was, or if I could, if I find a, a, what, what Y

[00:26:57] W T G T H F T stands for.

[00:27:01] I probably should have, but it is a in the, in the entry for, uh, for 2030 here, it is a

[00:27:07] link to SCP 1459, which I will add to our list of SCPs to cover at some point down the road.

[00:27:15] Um, that's the one I shared you the image of.

[00:27:18] Yeah.

[00:27:18] Yeah.

[00:27:19] I, I didn't actually, I didn't check it out fully because like, that's a whole new, that's

[00:27:23] a whole other episode, but yeah, there is a dog, uh, like a little puppy, uh, episode

[00:27:27] like in the, in the episode.

[00:27:28] So it's like, I'm a little disturbed by that.

[00:27:30] It's like, this is an instance of SCP.

[00:27:32] It's like, it's just a puppy though.

[00:27:36] Oh no.

[00:27:37] What happens to the puppy?

[00:27:39] Yeah.

[00:27:39] You don't want to know.

[00:27:41] Oh, we're going to find out.

[00:27:42] Unfortunately, but I guess, I guess you looked a little bit deeper on that rabbit hole.

[00:27:48] Yeah, I did.

[00:27:49] Yeah.

[00:27:50] Oh, great.

[00:27:51] Great.

[00:27:52] Um, well, actually while I am here, uh, and this part, um, I do want to bring up something

[00:27:58] that's on the page here for SCP 2030, uh, looking it up both SC, looking at both SCPs.

[00:28:08] Um, they are by Pepper's ghost.

[00:28:10] Um, and at the top, there is a little content warning info, like letter I, uh, at the top of

[00:28:18] each, uh, each entry.

[00:28:19] And if you click on that specifically for SCP 2030, uh, you can click it and expand to

[00:28:24] give you like, um, like all the horrible like triggers and like trigger warning stuff that's

[00:28:29] brought up, which again, cool little safety tool.

[00:28:31] Yeah.

[00:28:32] Very, very nice safety tool.

[00:28:33] But furthermore for, for 2030, um, it also links to Pepper ghost's other SCP contributions

[00:28:39] to like this really nice little index of all of her, of all of their entries, which is,

[00:28:47] is quite graphically pleasing.

[00:28:49] I must, I must say like, it's like a really nice, like design, like, like setup of like

[00:28:52] all like layout of all their, um, uh, their entries with like preview, like images and some

[00:28:57] of that.

[00:28:59] Um, yeah, I just wanted to spotlight it cause it's like, it's, it's honestly like really

[00:29:05] fun.

[00:29:05] Like I really enjoyed like, like seeing that.

[00:29:09] That's nice.

[00:29:10] Look at that.

[00:29:10] Yeah.

[00:29:11] It's like, it's like, it's got like, uh, like they're all like high, like highest rated,

[00:29:14] like newest, like works by Pepper ghosts.

[00:29:16] And like, it's all the different entries with like image, like with specific images to show

[00:29:20] like what it is.

[00:29:20] And like also like the, the titles and then some, even some, um, all the images, most

[00:29:26] of the images and the art is credited to the, to, to the, to an artist.

[00:29:29] Oh, nice.

[00:29:30] That's so fucking good.

[00:29:32] Yeah.

[00:29:32] So like, yeah, I just, I really wanted to spotlight this cause like, this is a really cool way

[00:29:35] of like previewing your stuff, your, your contributions on the SCP website.

[00:29:42] I'm also, I also do kind of like the, uh, uh, the little, um, uh, the header at the top

[00:29:47] is like, shh, they're sleeping.

[00:29:51] I don't know if that's, if that's actually supposed to be there or if that's like just

[00:29:55] something that like popped up, but yeah, no, it's a nice little, again, like the, I'm,

[00:30:02] I'm always sort of like caught off guard in a pleasant way by like how, how well the graphically

[00:30:09] like pleasing SCP foundation, like websites and layouts can be like, it's, it's one part

[00:30:15] writing community and like another part graphic designer, um, like community, but I digress.

[00:30:24] I'll move on to my next thing here.

[00:30:26] Uh, this comes from the addendums.

[00:30:28] Uh, the following are examples of pranks featured on the programs.

[00:30:33] So a few things from the addendums, I don't have anything specific to like any of them,

[00:30:37] like any one of them, they're all like pretty interesting and fun to read in their own horrific

[00:30:42] way.

[00:30:44] Um, but I do want to just highlight a few things generalized about them.

[00:30:48] Uh, I love how they mix absurdist humor with horrific body horror.

[00:30:55] Uh, I guess this is just what, I guess it would just be called absurdist horror because like some

[00:31:00] of them are just like really just absurd, like almost dream logic, kind of like horrific, like,

[00:31:05] oh, like it's like something that would like happen in a dream and then that dream would

[00:31:08] turn into a nightmare.

[00:31:10] Yeah.

[00:31:10] But then you wake up and laugh it off.

[00:31:12] Exactly.

[00:31:13] What happens in this?

[00:31:14] Yeah, exactly.

[00:31:15] So they all, it's all, it all kind of feels like a dream, but it's like actually happening

[00:31:18] to these people on, on, on video that people can actually watch.

[00:31:21] So it's almost like we're getting a glimpse into people's nightmares, uh, right before

[00:31:25] they die, I guess.

[00:31:26] That's another idea actually that could be is like, we're actually, uh, these, these, um,

[00:31:30] videos are marking people for death and the episodes are actually just capturing their last

[00:31:36] like dream slash nightmare before they pass on.

[00:31:39] And they, they pass on in like, uh, in a mundane way, but they are marked for death.

[00:31:45] And like, then the show basically captures their last like dream slash nightmare as this

[00:31:50] like TV show.

[00:31:55] Um, just, uh, by the episode descriptions.

[00:31:59] Yeah.

[00:31:59] This is like punked from hell.

[00:32:01] Like it's very much like one of those prank shows from like the early mid two thousands,

[00:32:07] um, that were like popping up.

[00:32:08] But I think they still do them.

[00:32:09] Like they still have like shows like this where they like prank people with like a hidden

[00:32:13] camera.

[00:32:15] Um, I could definitely see this.

[00:32:16] Do that a little bit in jackass as well.

[00:32:19] Yeah.

[00:32:19] A little bit like a jackass as well.

[00:32:21] Yeah.

[00:32:21] I think jackass was probably one of the, the like pioneers of that.

[00:32:24] Um, they just hurt themselves though.

[00:32:27] Yeah.

[00:32:28] Well, I mean, there's a, what, like a couple of like skits were like, uh, like one guy's

[00:32:32] like chasing a, like, um, little man and then like around a corner and then like, uh, he's

[00:32:37] then suddenly caught running down the street again, but, and like to the, the views of,

[00:32:41] of the random people walking by being chased down by like a mob of little people.

[00:32:48] So, um, but yeah, I, I could see this, uh, yeah, very much like a King in yellow kind

[00:32:53] of thing.

[00:32:54] Um, maybe utilizing other mythos entities, like just from the descriptions, uh, of, of some

[00:32:59] of the stuff that happens in these episodes.

[00:33:00] Some of them are very much like reminded me of like Shoggoths or like Shoggoth Lords, like

[00:33:06] these shape-shifting biomasses that like, uh, that, that change into things and like even

[00:33:11] like mutate, um, the, the, the person that's like the victim of the show, um, in some horrific

[00:33:17] way.

[00:33:18] Like that's the kind of thing that like a Shoggoth could probably do, or like some kind

[00:33:21] of proto matter creature could do in, in the Cthulhu mythos.

[00:33:26] Um, so again, it gives you a lot of fodder for like, uh, Cthulhu games or like horrible,

[00:33:31] like, like what their abilities are and kind of gives you a, a rough like direction of where

[00:33:35] to go with like what the mythos entity is in it.

[00:33:39] Um, now my one complaint about the addendum, I don't like how the addendum episodes aren't

[00:33:46] in a true order, like newest to oldest episodes or something like that, because like they start

[00:33:52] off like, like they start off in a, in a, in an order and then they get mixed in a little

[00:33:57] bit.

[00:33:57] So like they're, they're not properly.

[00:33:59] No, go ahead.

[00:34:01] Oh, it's just like, yeah.

[00:34:02] Like they're not like chrono, they're not fully chronologically ordered.

[00:34:04] Like it's like 2000, 1997, 1989, 1989.

[00:34:10] That's fine.

[00:34:11] 2013.

[00:34:12] It's like, uh, I just kind of wish that 2013 had been like up at the top.

[00:34:17] That might be just a little bit OCD kicking in.

[00:34:20] Maybe.

[00:34:20] What, what might be happening here is like, this is the order that they found these episodes

[00:34:25] in.

[00:34:28] So season 24 swelling is, uh, is 2030 dash, uh, dash a, and then, uh, season 21, Margaret

[00:34:38] Thatcher is, uh, 2030 dash B. Cause like, that's the instance that they got it.

[00:34:44] Yeah.

[00:34:44] Then I, I kind of want that to be mentioned.

[00:34:46] Yes.

[00:34:46] It's also the episode names.

[00:34:49] Like I'm glad that I'm glad that there's a theme and I like that there's a season and

[00:34:54] a year, but there's no episode number.

[00:34:56] Well, it bugs the hell out of me.

[00:34:58] I do think I'm not sure, but I, it doesn't, it does.

[00:35:01] I caught it as well, but like, it doesn't bug me as much because like a lot of these shows

[00:35:05] tended to just have like an episode like theme and that was their, they didn't have an episode

[00:35:09] number.

[00:35:10] Yeah.

[00:35:12] So I had a release order, but they wouldn't necessarily know the release order because

[00:35:18] all they're knowing is like, they're not watching this stuff on TV.

[00:35:22] Yeah.

[00:35:23] They don't have a TV guide that says the whole list actually with the streaming services,

[00:35:27] it might actually be laid out in, uh, like a seasonal list with episode episodes and everything.

[00:35:33] Mm-hmm.

[00:35:35] And it, it boils down to whether or not there's like, uh, information on the recording.

[00:35:42] Like, uh, for instance, I know that Futurama, a cartoon at the, in the end credits, it tells

[00:35:50] you what the production, uh, thing is, whether like season.

[00:35:56] Yeah.

[00:35:56] The production for episode 10 or whatever, like it is the production, but that's not

[00:36:02] necessarily when they aired.

[00:36:03] It's when they produced it.

[00:36:05] Yeah.

[00:36:06] Which was interesting.

[00:36:07] So like something like that could tell you when the season is, if there was credits.

[00:36:14] Yeah.

[00:36:14] And the show sometimes has credits and sometimes it just like cuts to black as we've discovered.

[00:36:20] So yeah.

[00:36:21] Either way, a little bit of organization would be nice.

[00:36:23] Not necessarily your base.

[00:36:25] Cause personally, I think the cooler way is the order that they found them.

[00:36:29] And just have them listed ABCD.

[00:36:31] Yeah.

[00:36:31] And if they, if they have that mentioned, like, um, like these are the, it's an order

[00:36:35] of when it was, these were discovered.

[00:36:37] I would have no problem.

[00:36:38] Exactly.

[00:36:39] Yep.

[00:36:41] All right.

[00:36:42] Now we're going to move on to the story that's in this, uh, that that's the, that's

[00:36:46] linked to this entry.

[00:36:48] Um, why is the link to this story in the end of the description of an episode themed with

[00:36:54] printers, which doesn't have anything to do with funerals.

[00:37:01] Yeah.

[00:37:02] I just feel like, I mean, I, I'm not, I have no problem with that, that episode, like that

[00:37:05] entry being at the bottom of this, this, this, or that episode description being at the bottom

[00:37:09] of this entry.

[00:37:10] I just kind of wish there was another one underneath it that, or like another addendum

[00:37:14] that was underneath it or something that like referenced, like, oh, we we've actually

[00:37:18] discovered.

[00:37:19] Uh, it just feels like there should have been another addendum that like referenced, like

[00:37:23] the events of the story.

[00:37:26] Like maybe like we found a survivor or something like that.

[00:37:28] And like, this is what, this is what they, uh, they, we were able to get from them about

[00:37:33] one of these prankings.

[00:37:34] Yeah.

[00:37:35] Or have it, um, like the short form of what the episode is, is about, um, like with the

[00:37:41] standard addendums, but then have a link saying like on the scene description, just saying

[00:37:47] we have a, a full, um, actually, why would they specifically only have a full one of this?

[00:37:54] Cause they have all these episodes.

[00:37:55] So that's what I'm thinking.

[00:37:56] Like the addendum would actually be an update at the bottom, whereas like, we've actually

[00:37:59] been able to retrieve a survivor.

[00:38:01] Um, though they passed away shortly after due to complications from the episode and this

[00:38:07] was their, well, their experience.

[00:38:08] And then we get that.

[00:38:10] Yeah.

[00:38:11] Yeah.

[00:38:12] Um, so yeah, like that, that's just like my, my jumping into this funeral is fun.

[00:38:16] Uh, yeah.

[00:38:16] So the story is called funerals are fun.

[00:38:19] Um, that's the, the story title.

[00:38:21] And so this is what, uh, the, the rest of my notes are going to be about like quotes

[00:38:25] from the, from the story itself that we get.

[00:38:28] So, uh, my brother Ross died a week ago in a freak accident involving a slow loris.

[00:38:34] Turns out they're related to monkeys and poisonous.

[00:38:38] I actually had to look up what a slow loris was.

[00:38:40] Me too.

[00:38:41] Especially since like the first three sentences, every single sentence mentioned slow loris.

[00:38:46] So they kept saying, it's like, I have to know what this is.

[00:38:48] Cause they keep talking about it.

[00:38:49] I also, I like, also there's a part that's right after it was like, I didn't even know

[00:38:52] slow lorises were native to Boston.

[00:38:54] And I was like, I, I, that was like, my cue was like, oh, this is going to, this, we're

[00:38:59] starting to get into some like silly, some like horrifically silliness.

[00:39:03] Cause it's like, it's going to be silly, but it's also going to be horrific.

[00:39:08] Um, speaking of, uh, this quote here, uh, in the middle of uncle Earl's turn to bleed

[00:39:15] that growth ruptured, spraying Earl and me and father O'Reilly and Johnny in a real

[00:39:23] pale concoction that was like half blood, half puss.

[00:39:28] Did you know that the spleen is the home of up to half of all the lymphocytes in the body?

[00:39:36] I didn't still don't not sure why I'm saying why I said that anyway, Ross's spleen ruptured

[00:39:42] and sprayed us all.

[00:39:43] And I was like, ah, that's, this is why the, uh, the story has, uh, the tag at the bottom

[00:39:49] black comedy.

[00:39:50] Cause we're just, this is just going to be silly and horrific at the same time, just absurdist

[00:39:55] horror and absurdist humor together.

[00:39:59] Um, because honestly, as like, as soon as I got to this part, where it's like, did you

[00:40:04] know, it's like, I didn't, I still don't.

[00:40:06] I don't know why I said that anyway.

[00:40:08] Um, I, I honestly, it reminded me of like a lost episode or like a twisted version of

[00:40:14] the naked gun with Leslie Nielsen and his like deadpan performance of like how he says like

[00:40:20] comedic shit.

[00:40:21] And so the rest of this story was in my head was being read by Leslie Nielsen's deadpan

[00:40:26] like version from like, like as if he was like his character from the naked gun.

[00:40:33] Um, and then my last thing here actually for the story, um, well, cousin Johnny wasn't laughing.

[00:40:39] He was just perplexed.

[00:40:41] He always did have a weird sense of humor.

[00:40:44] Johnny.

[00:40:45] He just admitted a loud chittering and left the stage slash church.

[00:40:51] So first off, I think it should be like, he always did have a weird sense of humor that

[00:40:55] Johnny, because like, I think that's how it was like how he was going for that or in that

[00:40:59] story.

[00:40:59] And I think that's just a little grammar acquisition that I just caught now, uh, like rereading

[00:41:03] it.

[00:41:04] Yeah.

[00:41:04] Because of all dialogue.

[00:41:06] Yeah.

[00:41:06] I know.

[00:41:06] It makes sense.

[00:41:07] Yeah.

[00:41:07] It's the way the character writes or, or, or, or yeah.

[00:41:12] Um, but yeah, as soon as I read this where like, um, like, well, Johnny wasn't laughing.

[00:41:18] He was just perplexed.

[00:41:19] He always did have a weird sense of humor.

[00:41:20] Um, I was like, Oh, like, Oh no, Johnny isn't, isn't affected.

[00:41:25] He's totally fucked by, uh, like, he's like something bad's about to happen to Johnny because

[00:41:28] he's not laughing like everybody else.

[00:41:31] And, and yet it didn't happen.

[00:41:32] And he was actually able to escape.

[00:41:34] So this actually like the way, like he just leaves the church.

[00:41:38] Presumably escapes the situation.

[00:41:40] I kind of think this would be a good jumping off point for a sequel story involving the

[00:41:45] guy that got away.

[00:41:47] Johnny is also potentially some weird fricking, uh, like insectoid creature.

[00:41:53] Um, I don't know.

[00:41:54] I did actually, I did notice that John cousin Johnny is also a tag on this SCP.

[00:42:00] And when I click that tag, it takes me to a bunch of other stories and tales that other

[00:42:05] people have written of cousin Johnny.

[00:42:08] So it is likely that he is another, like a recurring character in the SCP lore.

[00:42:15] Um, I don't know if necessary, like it's, like it's related to like, like he, like if he's,

[00:42:19] it seems like he's being, uh, used by other authors as well.

[00:42:23] So, and it might be the same character, but, uh, yeah.

[00:42:26] So, but it is interesting to have like a character that isn't affected by the laughter and the

[00:42:30] calmness of, of, uh, laughing Clafferson.

[00:42:33] He's like another SCP.

[00:42:36] Yeah.

[00:42:36] Yeah.

[00:42:37] He's the Joey.

[00:42:37] He's another Joey fuck nuts.

[00:42:38] Nope.

[00:42:40] Um, which again, if, if he is anything like Joey fuck nuts, I'm on board to read more

[00:42:44] stories about a cousin, my cousin Johnny.

[00:42:46] And now I want to make a mockup of like my cousin Vinny, like the, like the cover of

[00:42:50] the boxer for my cousin Vinny, but like my cousin Johnny and just like dealing with

[00:42:55] like her, like him just walking around, like walking or something like that.

[00:42:58] And there's like horrible, like things behind him, like eldritch horrors, like encircling

[00:43:03] him.

[00:43:05] Anyway, moving on to the next thing in this, uh, in my, in my comments here.

[00:43:10] Um, but yeah, I don't, yeah.

[00:43:13] I also like the idea that like, even if like my cousin Johnny, like he's an outlier because

[00:43:17] he's another SCP or something like that.

[00:43:19] Um, I do like the idea that like, that's sort of like the, the crux or like the weakness

[00:43:24] or the, um, I don't know.

[00:43:28] What's the word for like, I get for something like, what's the word for something that makes

[00:43:32] you immune to a supernatural thing.

[00:43:36] Um, yeah, I guess, I guess just your, the immunity to this, to this, the influence that

[00:43:41] this, this, uh, this SCP has over people when they're getting pranked is that you have to

[00:43:45] have a weird sense of humor, like you, or like you have a, have to have an outlying aberrant

[00:43:49] personality that makes you immune to the influence.

[00:43:52] Like the general populace will be affected because they all assume because they're all

[00:43:57] sheeple or they all have like the same kind of like general, like pop cultures, like

[00:44:02] geist sense of humor.

[00:44:05] And so like, that's what the, what the SCP targets when it, uh, when it comes, when it

[00:44:10] shows up and like, Hey, we're part of the, you've been punked, but here's the hidden

[00:44:13] camera.

[00:44:13] And so like, that's why like everybody stops being horrific or horrified and starts

[00:44:17] laughing.

[00:44:18] But it'd be really interesting to have like that outlier person is like actually not

[00:44:21] be affected by that and still, and see through the veil, like see through the glamour

[00:44:26] of this, this horrible creature.

[00:44:28] And it's like, no, because they have a bad sense of humor.

[00:44:30] Yeah.

[00:44:30] Either a bad sense of humor or again, like they just have like, they're like hell

[00:44:35] neurodivergent like that just because of that, like that affects like that actually

[00:44:38] like gives them a, uh, a one up against the supernatural baddie here.

[00:44:43] That's like affecting like a mass affecting.

[00:44:46] Wow.

[00:44:46] Not, not wrong.

[00:44:48] As soon as I said that, I guess as soon as I said that immediately, yeah, the, the,

[00:44:52] like affecting the masses, um, with this like jovial appearance rather than like, you know,

[00:44:58] no, you don't be horrified.

[00:44:59] Like this is all prank show.

[00:45:00] It's like, no, this isn't a prank show.

[00:45:01] This is supernatural.

[00:45:02] It's like, what did you say?

[00:45:03] And then you have, and then that's the scenario.

[00:45:05] Actually, that could actually be the, the, the jumping off point for a scenario throw you

[00:45:09] in media res.

[00:45:10] You are the one you're the player characters are the ones that aren't affected by the,

[00:45:14] by the field of influence.

[00:45:16] And yeah.

[00:45:17] Cause all those weird shits going on around them.

[00:45:19] Yeah.

[00:45:19] And now they're being hunted by it because like it, no, it's you stared into the abyss and

[00:45:24] the abyss has now stared at you and it wants you, it, it, it finds you irritate, irritating

[00:45:29] and wants you off the show.

[00:45:31] Like it's so.

[00:45:33] It's like, yeah, it's like you every time I make a pun, you're irritated and want me

[00:45:38] off the show.

[00:45:43] Yeah.

[00:45:46] But yeah, that's, uh, that's what I've got for, um, my actual thoughts for the SCP entry

[00:45:51] and the story.

[00:45:52] So Mikey, these stands for evil.

[00:45:56] All right.

[00:45:57] Well, I have a grammar inquisition for the story and a conjunction junction for the story.

[00:46:03] Oh, you all get cold this year.

[00:46:11] The coal is conjunction.

[00:46:14] Wow.

[00:46:16] All right.

[00:46:17] So there's grammar inquisition.

[00:46:18] Uh, like I remember when he and we, and they, and he all went to the shivering place and

[00:46:27] there was just too much marshmallow.

[00:46:32] Uh, I know it's dialogue, but that's way too many ends.

[00:46:37] Okay.

[00:46:38] And that's already speaking strange though.

[00:46:41] Like that's just the way I hate that I keep saying it, but it's literally the way the

[00:46:47] creature also.

[00:46:48] Yeah.

[00:46:48] It's being, it's being said by something that it may not even be human.

[00:46:52] So it's like, kind of says it's going to say things wrong or it's going to say things

[00:46:56] in a very strange way.

[00:46:57] So you got to give that a pass.

[00:46:59] Hmm.

[00:47:00] Yeah.

[00:47:01] I suppose.

[00:47:03] Anyway, uh, here's the conjunction junction.

[00:47:06] Okay.

[00:47:08] It was that guy from all the shows.

[00:47:11] And remember, laugh is fun.

[00:47:15] Yeah.

[00:47:16] Yeah.

[00:47:18] Cool.

[00:47:20] Well, it wasn't the guy for all that, those shows.

[00:47:22] Yeah.

[00:47:24] Yeah.

[00:47:24] No.

[00:47:24] Okay.

[00:47:24] Fair enough.

[00:47:27] We didn't have to work hard for those, for your conjunctions this, this week.

[00:47:32] We, we often, he often doesn't for SEPs.

[00:47:35] Yeah.

[00:47:36] That's true.

[00:47:40] Yeah.

[00:47:41] Um, okay.

[00:47:43] Uh, and then my, my actual thoughts.

[00:47:46] So, uh, we've already mentioned punked.

[00:47:49] Yeah.

[00:47:50] Um, but I, when I was reading this, it seems like it's a, if an alien watched like Monty

[00:47:58] Python punked and then the movie alien and thought alien was a comedy.

[00:48:06] Yeah.

[00:48:07] Um, I liked, I liked that analogy.

[00:48:10] It's like, it's, it's like if punked Monty Python and alien had a baby.

[00:48:15] Yeah.

[00:48:17] Cause, uh, I'm thinking of the one Monty Python sketch where the guy's in the fat suit and

[00:48:24] he, uh, is, eats a lot of food and he's like, Oh, I can't eat anymore.

[00:48:28] He's like, well, what about this wafer thin mint?

[00:48:32] And he's like, Oh no, I can't bust.

[00:48:34] But then he eats it and then explodes.

[00:48:37] Yeah.

[00:48:40] Yeah.

[00:48:41] Of course.

[00:48:41] And then everyone equals this.

[00:48:44] Yeah.

[00:48:44] Yeah.

[00:48:45] And then of course the movie alien with chest bursters, like, and then, or, and then like

[00:48:50] mix that with like, combine the alien scene with the scene from space balls, but like

[00:48:55] make it more horrific.

[00:48:56] It's like, like, hello, my baby.

[00:48:58] Hello, my honey.

[00:48:58] And then like, just runs away and it's like, and then like the, uh, then, uh, laughing

[00:49:02] McLaugherson comes out the kitchen door and it's like, Hey, well that was like, you all

[00:49:05] been punked.

[00:49:06] That's our, here's our hidden episode.

[00:49:07] Here's our hidden cameras.

[00:49:10] Kind of thing.

[00:49:10] Yeah.

[00:49:11] Like, yeah.

[00:49:12] It's very much like what if an anomaly or an alien entity saw like reality TV and decided

[00:49:18] I could do that.

[00:49:21] Not getting you.

[00:49:28] That's the horror.

[00:49:30] Like they don't really, they don't quite get it, but they, they, they want to like interact

[00:49:34] with us in some way.

[00:49:36] At least.

[00:49:40] Yeah.

[00:49:41] Yeah.

[00:49:42] Also when there was one thing I do, sorry, you did kind of bring this up and reminded me

[00:49:46] there is the episode where there's a squirrel theme and I was like, Oh man, I'm here for

[00:49:50] it.

[00:49:51] When does the squirrel come out of full force?

[00:49:53] Yes.

[00:49:53] And they kind of do.

[00:49:56] They burst out of that man's skin in full force.

[00:49:59] Damn right.

[00:50:00] A whole horde of them.

[00:50:02] Yeah.

[00:50:03] Wait, what is a, a group of squirrels called?

[00:50:05] Hang on.

[00:50:06] We must do this.

[00:50:09] You didn't know what a gaggle of squirrels is called.

[00:50:12] Uh, a scurry or a dray.

[00:50:15] Uh, a scurry is, is a group of unrelated squirrels.

[00:50:18] A dray is a family of squirrels, including the mother and her young.

[00:50:23] Uh, the term dray also comes from the alternate say spelling of the word dray.

[00:50:28] So like dray as in like D R A Y or D R E Y, which is the name of a squirrel's nest.

[00:50:37] Interesting.

[00:50:38] But yeah, a scurry.

[00:50:41] It could be related though.

[00:50:42] It could be a dray.

[00:50:43] Yeah.

[00:50:43] Yeah.

[00:50:44] We could also refer to it as a nested squirrel.

[00:50:47] Dr.

[00:50:48] Dr.

[00:50:48] Dre as just like a body, just a skin suit, like populated by squirrels, by a dray of squirrels.

[00:50:54] I love that.

[00:50:55] I need to draw that horrific image.

[00:50:59] I absolutely adore that.

[00:51:03] Dr.

[00:51:04] Dre is just a skin suit populated by a dray of squirrels.

[00:51:09] That is so amazing and horrible.

[00:51:16] He's actually a doctor.

[00:51:17] He has a PhD.

[00:51:18] Yeah.

[00:51:18] Yeah.

[00:51:19] The squirrels have a PhD.

[00:51:20] The mother, the mother squirrel has a PhD.

[00:51:23] Yeah, of course.

[00:51:23] In your ass.

[00:51:28] Oh my God.

[00:51:29] Sorry.

[00:51:29] That, that threw me off.

[00:51:30] Like, oh man.

[00:51:31] Like that's not even a tangent.

[00:51:33] That's just like, that's just gold.

[00:51:36] I'm so proud of you.

[00:51:38] Thanks dad.

[00:51:40] You learn to play with your words and having fun with them.

[00:51:46] All right.

[00:51:46] Sorry, Mikey.

[00:51:47] I've, uh, you're back on the rails.

[00:51:51] Yeah.

[00:51:51] It's the end of my actual test.

[00:51:53] Every time.

[00:51:54] I swear to God.

[00:51:54] Like, I don't mean to do it.

[00:51:56] Like, I just feel like every time I interrupt you and then we get back on course, you're

[00:52:06] I don't want to talk anymore.

[00:52:08] No, I always say this because he was interesting shit that we have a discussion about.

[00:52:14] Oh, I know.

[00:52:14] I just, it just feels like every time I, like I, I interject, it's like right at the end

[00:52:18] of his, of his like points.

[00:52:22] All right.

[00:52:23] Uh, gamer, I guess you're up next then.

[00:52:26] I suppose.

[00:52:28] Let's see.

[00:52:30] I already talked about the format.

[00:52:33] Um, in regards to the squirrel episode, actually.

[00:52:36] All right.

[00:52:36] Good segue.

[00:52:37] Yep.

[00:52:38] I feel like it shows its hand a little too early.

[00:52:41] Like with the way it's worded, I absolutely knew that that was not her husband in the bed.

[00:52:48] Yeah.

[00:52:49] Like Mrs.

[00:52:49] England lies in bed next to a male figure.

[00:52:52] Presumably Mr.

[00:52:54] England's like, uh-huh.

[00:52:55] Yeah.

[00:52:56] I kind of wish it just said lays in bed next to her husband and then blah, blah, blah,

[00:53:01] blah, blah.

[00:53:01] Then all of a sudden scores person to the husband.

[00:53:03] It is technically her husband or at least his skin.

[00:53:06] Uh, so yeah, it could have been like next to her husband.

[00:53:10] Like not.

[00:53:11] Yeah.

[00:53:11] So yeah.

[00:53:12] It's such a funny ending too, where the husband comes in completely skinned and basically gives

[00:53:16] a thumbs up.

[00:53:18] But doesn't have any like discomfort at all.

[00:53:20] Because again, like it's horrifically absurd.

[00:53:23] It's, it's absurd.

[00:53:24] A horror.

[00:53:25] Yeah.

[00:53:25] It's, it's something out of like a Freddy movie, like a Nightmare on Elm Street, kind

[00:53:29] of like dream sequence, like thing where like, or like, and there's a, I'm sure there's

[00:53:35] other like kind of absurdist horror thing that are like this.

[00:53:37] We're just like, or it's like a Beetlejuice gag.

[00:53:41] Like it's something that Beetlejuice would do.

[00:53:43] We're just like have a skinless character.

[00:53:46] So yeah.

[00:53:50] And my last note is basically just, I found it kind of weird that with most of the prank

[00:53:55] show descriptions, the victims hang out for a long time during the horror.

[00:54:01] Like the squirrel one was good.

[00:54:02] It was quick.

[00:54:03] Cause it's like, ah, squirrels.

[00:54:04] And then I got you.

[00:54:05] But like some of the other ones are like, they just, they hang out.

[00:54:10] The one that's most inexcusable is the cephalopods one.

[00:54:13] We're like the operating staff is just hanging out in the operating room while four

[00:54:17] octopus creatures crawled out and then proceeded to like get all in line and then sing together

[00:54:23] while they're all just hanging out.

[00:54:26] Yeah.

[00:54:27] It's such a, that one's I think that the most like absurd now I do wonder, cause again,

[00:54:31] this is like SCPs are generally a writing community like that you can contribute and

[00:54:35] stuff to.

[00:54:36] So I wonder if some of these episodes are contributed by other authors, not just, um, uh, the main

[00:54:42] author of the series, uh, Pepper's ghost.

[00:54:44] Possibly.

[00:54:45] So like, I wonder if this one in particular is like somebody else's compared to the other

[00:54:48] ones.

[00:54:49] The other, cause it is sort of an outlier in that how long it is.

[00:54:53] I don't care about how long the duration is.

[00:54:55] I just hate how like the quote unquote victims of it.

[00:54:59] They're, they just stay there.

[00:55:01] They don't try running away.

[00:55:02] It doesn't even describe them at all.

[00:55:04] Like they're not like frozen with fear or anything like that.

[00:55:08] Like they don't like try to grab an implement to fight them.

[00:55:12] They don't try to leave, but the doors are barred.

[00:55:15] Nothing.

[00:55:15] It's just the surgeons are there.

[00:55:17] The weird shit starts.

[00:55:19] And then the surgeon NPCs freeze while the creepy stuff happens basically.

[00:55:25] Yeah.

[00:55:25] They are sort of ignored until like the end of this.

[00:55:27] Like they're like, they're there during the operation.

[00:55:29] Then the thing happened.

[00:55:30] The thing happens for like a while.

[00:55:31] And then, oh yeah, the surgeons are still there.

[00:55:34] They're like an afterthought.

[00:55:36] Meanwhile, they are target.

[00:55:38] They should have like as much focus as the creepy shit.

[00:55:41] Because the whole point of the show is to punk these people and see their reactions.

[00:55:47] But we don't see their reactions at all.

[00:55:50] Yeah.

[00:55:51] So that one also has like the most, like Margaret Thatcher, the Margaret Thatcher one had like a theme of like, like, like the person.

[00:55:58] This one is like cephalopods.

[00:55:59] Okay.

[00:56:00] Okay.

[00:56:00] And then it's just like the bodies of octopuses and the heads of like these celebrities, like Ryan Seacrest, Johnny Cash, Jack McIntyre.

[00:56:07] Nickleson and Martin Freeman, who I definitely misread as Morgan Freeman.

[00:56:12] A couple of times.

[00:56:13] Me too.

[00:56:14] It's so like easy to because like.

[00:56:19] But yeah, it's just like they just all come out of this, burst out of this woman's uterus during a C-section.

[00:56:24] No, it was a C-section.

[00:56:26] That's.

[00:56:27] Yeah.

[00:56:28] So out of the uterus.

[00:56:29] Oh, sorry.

[00:56:30] Yeah.

[00:56:30] I was.

[00:56:32] I was thinking of the other word.

[00:56:34] Got you.

[00:56:35] But yeah.

[00:56:36] And then like, also, I feel, I feel really bad for Rebecca Nash because like, she's like, again, like forced to like laugh at all this stuff.

[00:56:43] And then she just passes out and dies probably from blood loss.

[00:56:47] That's right up.

[00:56:48] It is.

[00:56:48] Yeah.

[00:56:48] From blood loss.

[00:56:49] Yeah.

[00:56:50] And, and I actually, hers is the most, honestly, like, again, this one, I mean, like this one feels like kind of like almost like an outlier compared to the other ones.

[00:56:57] Cause like Rebecca Nash, uh, surgeons, uh, surgeons unidentified.

[00:57:01] Okay.

[00:57:01] So the, that's, I was also wondering why I said surgeons unidentified.

[00:57:04] Now I realize that's because the, the surgeons that were in the operating table or on the operating in the, in the operating room.

[00:57:10] Um, but it says her, like, uh, her death was, uh, died by complications at child delivery.

[00:57:16] Um, hospital records show no evidence of anomalous activity or during the birth.

[00:57:21] However, her death is still actually technically connected to the show.

[00:57:27] It directly happened on the show.

[00:57:29] Yeah.

[00:57:29] Unless it happened after it, like after they cut the, uh, the feed, like she eventually died just through the shit that happened.

[00:57:37] But yeah.

[00:57:38] Yeah.

[00:57:38] And then they just downplayed the, the anomaliness when they did the rep or when they did the report.

[00:57:43] Yeah.

[00:57:44] Um, but yeah, for me, like that one, it does feel like kind of an outlier also again, because it's, it's also like a late, like it's a, it's a newer one.

[00:57:50] It's 2013 versus like the last one was 1989.

[00:57:54] Um, and yeah.

[00:57:56] Yeah.

[00:57:56] So I, I do have to wonder if that one's like a newer, um, uh, addition to the, the, the entry, but now that I just can't, they got that stuck in my head now.

[00:58:07] That speculation, but, um, sorry, gamer, you were, it was your turn.

[00:58:13] Sorry.

[00:58:15] I'm done.

[00:58:16] Really?

[00:58:18] No.

[00:58:19] You got nothing for the funerals of fun?

[00:58:22] I'm sorry.

[00:58:23] I'm sorry.

[00:58:25] No, it's literally the last one.

[00:58:27] No, it was actually the last one.

[00:58:29] It's just kind of funny that it happened the same as I did with Mikey, but it's fine.

[00:58:34] Okay.

[00:58:35] Do you have anything else to say about funerals are fun?

[00:58:38] I mean, it was disgusting.

[00:58:39] And I hated that after I finished reading that, I got up and grabbed my dinner.

[00:58:44] Yeah.

[00:58:44] Yeah.

[00:58:44] That, that would have sucked.

[00:58:45] Yeah.

[00:58:46] Yeah.

[00:58:48] Yeah.

[00:58:48] This is definitely a gross episode or gross session or gross SCP.

[00:58:54] Um, but yeah.

[00:58:57] Okay.

[00:58:57] Uh, if that's all that is to be said, um, some of them actually, um, just cause like we

[00:59:03] didn't really talk about every specific one.

[00:59:06] Yeah.

[00:59:06] The one that had like the tracheotomy one, as soon as I read tracheotomy, I'm like, oh

[00:59:11] my God, this is going to be disgusting.

[00:59:12] And then it was like the silliest out of all of them.

[00:59:14] It really was.

[00:59:16] Cause it's just, it's like a fricking.

[00:59:18] It starts off.

[00:59:19] A cartoon.

[00:59:20] Yeah.

[00:59:20] Cause it starts off like, yeah, he's, he's choking, grasping for air.

[00:59:22] And then like his, his neck just like splits open, but then out from that split comes like

[00:59:28] another head of him or another, another one of his heads.

[00:59:31] And then like a, a copy of his head and then like 18 more heads, uh, 17 more heads pop

[00:59:37] out after that.

[00:59:38] That's another one that I wish we knew what happened to the family.

[00:59:42] Like, were they all just sitting there witnessing this or were they all trying to run away during

[00:59:46] this weird shit that was happening?

[00:59:48] I have a feeling it was more just like, they were just stunned into like, into, uh,

[00:59:53] like they, they went, uh, they went, uh, freeze, uh, in the fight, flight or freeze, uh, mode.

[00:59:59] I guess.

[01:00:00] Cause like that also like seeing that, like, I mean, that, that is definitely a, a, uh, a

[01:00:07] valid response.

[01:00:07] It's just cause like what the, like your whole reality is, is just like shifting and changing

[01:00:13] so drastically at that point.

[01:00:14] It's like, how would you react if not to flee or freeze?

[01:00:19] It's also more than just one person sitting there.

[01:00:22] Right.

[01:00:23] But like, they all everyone freezes.

[01:00:26] It it's just as possible of, of the, if they all ran, like it's, it's, yeah.

[01:00:31] Yeah.

[01:00:35] Or like, yeah.

[01:00:36] Or like, even if like the mother, like had gotten, like tried to like help and then like

[01:00:40] saw that, like, I, I, again, you go to help because like, oh no, they're choking.

[01:00:43] And then like their neck splits open and like heads start popping up that are clones of

[01:00:47] their, of the person's head.

[01:00:48] And you're just like, what?

[01:00:54] Yeah.

[01:00:55] Um, I, I do get like, like, why are like, didn't want them run like that.

[01:00:59] That was an option that they could have written in, but they decided to go with like, just

[01:01:01] they all froze probably in place.

[01:01:05] Yeah.

[01:01:05] But that again, bring, goes back to my previous note where like the, all these, um, addendums

[01:01:13] that are describing the shows.

[01:01:15] It's so focused on the horror that it's not showing the reaction to the horror, which

[01:01:20] is the whole point of the show is look at the reaction to the horror.

[01:01:26] And then what we get is look at the horror.

[01:01:28] Well, here's the other thing.

[01:01:29] Like these, um, these addendum, like these, these descriptions aren't actually like.

[01:01:34] Yeah.

[01:01:35] Show description by the show.

[01:01:37] It's a show description by the SCP foundation.

[01:01:39] So they're focusing on the horror of the situation.

[01:01:43] Yeah, you're right.

[01:01:44] You're absolutely right.

[01:01:45] Yeah.

[01:01:46] Again, don't, don't get me wrong.

[01:01:47] I do think it would be an, it would be interesting to have a little bit more additional added

[01:01:51] to like the reactions of the, of the victims there.

[01:01:54] But I think they're the foundation is probably just focusing more on the horror angle of like

[01:01:57] of, of the inciting incident rather than reactions.

[01:02:01] Wouldn't they also want to catalog basically the, like if all of the victims react to the

[01:02:07] same way?

[01:02:10] Cause like if, if in all of these, the victims.

[01:02:14] Like scream, but don't move.

[01:02:16] Then that is something that this creature does to its victims.

[01:02:20] Like that's a, a pattern.

[01:02:22] Yeah.

[01:02:23] No, that, that is also valid.

[01:02:24] Like I, I'm not, I'm not disagreeing with you.

[01:02:27] That's like, like it definitely be something that could be like added later.

[01:02:30] Maybe like to kind of add to, um, to help, uh, to help elevate the, some of these descriptions

[01:02:38] a little bit more.

[01:02:40] Like with most SEPs, I always prefer when there's more research being done instead of just shit's

[01:02:48] bad.

[01:02:49] Yeah.

[01:02:49] And that's it.

[01:02:50] And we're not really, we're containing it, but not trying to stop it.

[01:02:55] Yeah.

[01:02:58] No, that's all I have for notes.

[01:03:00] Okay.

[01:03:01] Uh, then I suppose we'll move on to final thoughts.

[01:03:05] So, uh, wow.

[01:03:06] Yeah.

[01:03:06] This one was a bit of a rollercoaster.

[01:03:08] Um, it certainly earns its, uh, absurdist tag, uh, at the bottom.

[01:03:14] Um, cause yeah, that was, this is, I definitely classify this as absurdist horror, like absurdist,

[01:03:22] silly, absurdist humor, weird horror together.

[01:03:27] Yes.

[01:03:28] Or body horror together.

[01:03:32] Um, yeah, I, I will say this is a partial recommendation for me still.

[01:03:37] Um, I enjoyed it for its morbid silliness and it's, it's seemingly mythos undertones.

[01:03:45] Like I, I can't not get King and yellow shenanigans out of my head with this.

[01:03:50] Um, at least just like personally, I can't, uh, I'm sure like maybe that, maybe that wasn't

[01:03:55] what was intended, but like, cause it's, it's an SCP anomaly.

[01:03:58] So like not everything's Cthulhu based or King and yellow inspired or something like that.

[01:04:02] But just for me personally, I, that's, I could see those kind of undertones, uh, or at least

[01:04:07] that's how I would draw inspiration for if I was to pull this into a gameable material.

[01:04:11] Um, or I tossing it into like a Cthulhu scenario.

[01:04:16] Um, but yeah, uh, aside from like enjoying it, like I, again, I, I did enjoy all the readings

[01:04:21] of that.

[01:04:22] Um, I do acknowledge that there is room for improvement, um, like both with the format and

[01:04:30] also like we were kind of just bringing up, like there's, there's room to like add some

[01:04:33] extra things in the descriptions and such just to accentuate what's already there.

[01:04:41] Um, but, uh, otherwise again, like the format, like a few, aside from a few hiccups, like

[01:04:45] the, the, the format itself is, is fine.

[01:04:47] And the, the story that's came with it is, is great.

[01:04:50] Um, if just darkly humorous and like the fuck, yeah, exactly.

[01:04:57] That's what the, that's the thing with the format, like just like maybe move that link somewhere

[01:05:01] where it doesn't belong, like somewhere where it belongs.

[01:05:05] But, um, otherwise, uh, yeah, uh, partial recommendation.

[01:05:09] Um, maybe condition, my conditional would have been like, if somebody is not great with

[01:05:14] body horror, don't show them this.

[01:05:16] Don't, don't recommend this.

[01:05:18] But like if they're, if you're not squeegee, if you're not like, um, if you don't get squigged

[01:05:22] out too bad by like this kind of stuff, like descriptions of these kind of things.

[01:05:26] Yeah, I'd recommend it.

[01:05:28] So, Mikey, these stands for evil.

[01:05:32] Um, well, then, uh, so part of the issue is that the, um, even though we get, um, different

[01:05:49] themes for the episodes, a lot of them devolve into, oh, something bursting out of someone.

[01:05:59] Yeah.

[01:06:01] Like the, you think there's variety of, it's like, oh no, we have squirrels today and pigeons

[01:06:08] tomorrow.

[01:06:09] And, uh, weird tentacles in the story, uh, and with the spleens exploding.

[01:06:17] It's like, uh, it, to me, it was more gross than anything.

[01:06:27] And.

[01:06:29] Like the, the fact that these people are quote unquote dead or, uh, gone missing before or

[01:06:42] around the time that this quote unquote aired.

[01:06:45] Yeah.

[01:06:46] Um, is kind of interesting, but then it's basically like, well, why are you kicking them?

[01:06:54] They're already dead.

[01:06:56] Well, I, I do.

[01:06:57] I get that.

[01:06:58] I, I do think like, it's also possibly, uh, it's, it's the, the entry is possibly like

[01:07:04] hinting that like they've gone missing or they've died because of this SCP and then like that

[01:07:08] stuff.

[01:07:09] And they're, they're, they're recorded death, like, uh, like, um, means of death.

[01:07:14] Yeah.

[01:07:14] Like, yeah.

[01:07:15] They're recorded.

[01:07:16] Um, what'd you just say?

[01:07:18] Sorry, gamer.

[01:07:18] Right.

[01:07:20] What?

[01:07:20] The coverup death.

[01:07:22] Yeah.

[01:07:22] Yeah.

[01:07:22] The coverup death is that they're, they died of like a mundane reason, but like, I do

[01:07:26] like, it could go either way.

[01:07:27] Like they're either, they were dead already.

[01:07:29] And like, why are you beating a dead horse or why are you beating a dead person?

[01:07:32] Uh, but then that's again, it's just the entity, like stealing that, the soul of that

[01:07:36] person and like rendering them into this show.

[01:07:39] Um, or they are victims of the show and then their deaths are just being covered

[01:07:44] up, um, or their disappearance is being covered up.

[01:07:47] Like they just go missing because the show has cat has caught them kind of

[01:07:50] thing.

[01:07:51] So.

[01:07:53] Yeah.

[01:07:54] But yeah, I, I do.

[01:07:55] I don't also, I also don't disagree with like your kind of your, your, um, your

[01:08:00] recommendation here because like, yeah, like it is, it definitely plays on like

[01:08:04] visceral horror as well.

[01:08:05] And that's always going to be kind of a mixed bag for, for certain people.

[01:08:08] Like not everybody likes like goopy, gory, like gross stuff.

[01:08:12] So.

[01:08:16] Yeah.

[01:08:16] Uh, and wasn't there a point where they exhumed a body or the coffin or whatever,

[01:08:24] but it was empty.

[01:08:26] Yeah.

[01:08:27] Yeah.

[01:08:27] Um, I think it was, give me a second.

[01:08:35] I'll just going to peruse through here.

[01:08:38] Where was that?

[01:08:41] Was that, that was in the entry, right?

[01:08:43] Not the story.

[01:08:44] Hmm.

[01:08:47] I think that's what it was.

[01:08:49] I do.

[01:08:50] I, I know, I remember what you were saying there.

[01:08:53] Uh, or I recall, I recall that.

[01:08:55] Do they use the word exhume?

[01:08:58] A few hours later.

[01:09:00] Oh, here, yeah, here it is.

[01:09:02] Um, this is at the end of the, um, the description, the last thing I'd say, uh, throughout investigations,

[01:09:08] uh, into the deaths of SCP-2030 participants have revealed a number of, of inconsistencies

[01:09:14] and contradictions in matters concerning the circumstances of the deaths.

[01:09:19] Additionally, exhumation of the individual's remains have revealed that all recorded participants'

[01:09:25] bodies are currently missing.

[01:09:27] The general consensus among researchers assigned to SCP-2030 is that victims are likely abducted

[01:09:34] after their use in the show with their disappearances covered up when possible.

[01:09:41] However, no concrete evidence connecting the individual's death with SCP-2030 besides the

[01:09:47] show's footage has yet to be found.

[01:09:49] So, yeah.

[01:09:51] Yeah.

[01:09:53] So they are basically, like, they're, they're, there's just a long line of, uh, even the death,

[01:09:58] with the deaths, there's a long line of, of, of, um, empty coffins in the ground.

[01:10:04] Mm-hmm.

[01:10:08] So.

[01:10:09] Yeah.

[01:10:12] Sorry, are you still on this?

[01:10:14] Hmm?

[01:10:15] Yeah.

[01:10:16] Yeah.

[01:10:17] So the, basically, I found this more gross than creepy.

[01:10:23] Uh, and.

[01:10:25] It can be creepy.

[01:10:28] It can be, but it just.

[01:10:32] When you have so much grossness.

[01:10:37] It sort of overshadows the creepiness.

[01:10:41] Yeah.

[01:10:41] Yeah.

[01:10:42] I, I will say like, again, like the absurdism is again, like the tags adequate because there's

[01:10:45] an absurd amount of grossness in this.

[01:10:49] Mixed in with.

[01:10:50] Done for a show.

[01:10:51] Yeah.

[01:10:52] Which means like they're trying to play it up for the TV audience as much as possible.

[01:10:57] Yeah.

[01:10:57] It's definitely a, a shock value kind of thing going on here because of the, the show.

[01:11:02] Like it wants to, it wants to get attention.

[01:11:04] So it's, it's being very flashy or gory to do that.

[01:11:10] Back in, uh, in regards to, um, you mentioning how like the entity basically only does one

[01:11:16] thing and it's stale and repetitive.

[01:11:18] Uh, do you get angry at human torch cause he only burns things?

[01:11:24] Cause it's the same thing.

[01:11:25] It's like the entity has one power.

[01:11:27] It can put weird shit in other people.

[01:11:29] Like that's what it does.

[01:11:32] He is, he is the, he is the stuffer.

[01:11:39] Oh God.

[01:11:40] One stuffing for the holidays.

[01:11:43] Oh God.

[01:11:44] It is festive related.

[01:11:45] Hell yeah.

[01:11:46] It's also kind of related cause like the American Thanksgiving and stuff that happened.

[01:11:49] And like, there's a whole, there's that whole controversy with, uh, uh, the turkeys by the

[01:11:55] butterball turkeys that were like, people were apparently stuffing them at the factory

[01:12:02] with their bodies.

[01:12:06] I'm not fucking joking.

[01:12:10] That was a thing.

[01:12:17] Hang on.

[01:12:18] Anyway.

[01:12:19] Yeah.

[01:12:20] Yeah.

[01:12:20] Butterball accused of Turkey abuse, disturbing footage, uh, leaked by PETA, um, of, uh, of,

[01:12:28] uh, Arkansas facilities, sexually abused, kicked and stomped on butterball turkeys.

[01:12:35] Okay.

[01:12:36] Yeah.

[01:12:39] I don't know.

[01:12:40] I don't, I don't know how true some of this is, but it did, but it, like it, it came up

[01:12:46] right before the holidays by PETA.

[01:12:48] So like, maybe it's just PETA trying to stop that kind of stuff, but like, who knows?

[01:12:53] Oh yeah.

[01:12:53] It might just be fake news.

[01:12:55] Yeah.

[01:12:55] It might just be something that they're constructing because it's PETA.

[01:12:58] Cause they want additional pylons.

[01:13:00] Yeah.

[01:13:03] Sorry.

[01:13:04] Continue.

[01:13:05] Yeah.

[01:13:05] Yeah.

[01:13:06] So I am not going to recommend this.

[01:13:12] Okay.

[01:13:15] And gamer.

[01:13:17] Uh, for me, the read was relatively clean.

[01:13:20] Um, like I said, and like all of us said, okay, clean as in it read smoothly.

[01:13:26] It was very wet and gross.

[01:13:28] Yeah.

[01:13:28] I was going to say, ford was a word, but also accurate.

[01:13:31] Yeah.

[01:13:32] Yeah.

[01:13:33] For sure.

[01:13:34] Um, well yeah, aside from like some of the formatting errors that we talked about, there

[01:13:42] wasn't really too much that bothered me along the way, but the more we talked about, the

[01:13:46] more of them, like, you know what?

[01:13:47] That is kind of annoying.

[01:13:48] Maybe that should be changed one way or another.

[01:13:50] Um, so I might downgrade it to a partial just because of formatting reasons.

[01:13:57] And like, it's leaving me wanting to know a lot more that isn't being told.

[01:14:02] Yeah.

[01:14:03] Um, and like, I feel like the foundation should be doing more to document the effects of this

[01:14:11] SCP on its victims.

[01:14:13] Because the SCP is basically, or the foundation is basically saying the SCP causes this effect

[01:14:19] in the person that died.

[01:14:21] And then we move on to the next one, but it's not talking about any other anomalous things

[01:14:26] that it's doing, which is several.

[01:14:29] Like it's, it's downplaying the live studio audience so much that I didn't realize that

[01:14:35] there's a live studio audience in real life that no one is noticing, but it's so downplayed.

[01:14:41] Yeah.

[01:14:42] But the thing is like the last few years are still people who have gone missing or died

[01:14:45] in that, like, like they, that they had like the foundation.

[01:14:48] That's the problem.

[01:14:49] Can't like get information from people that are affected by this because they're missing

[01:14:54] or they're missing dead and their bodies have even gone missing.

[01:14:58] So like all they can do is, is like try and search out where this is coming from and lock

[01:15:05] it down when they, when it pops up online or in, in like in rental locations and such.

[01:15:11] I get that.

[01:15:12] I get that.

[01:15:12] But what I was saying is it doesn't anywhere say that, that part of the effects of this

[01:15:21] SCP is it brings a live studio audience with it everywhere it goes that no one can know

[01:15:28] that no one sees, but it's there on the recording.

[01:15:31] Like there's a weird, like pocket dimension shit going on that no one talks about.

[01:15:36] Yeah.

[01:15:38] I think it's just because the SCP foundation just doesn't have the answers or they, they,

[01:15:42] they don't have access to it.

[01:15:43] They don't even document it.

[01:15:44] They don't document that it happens.

[01:15:46] That's my whole thing.

[01:15:48] Also actually just realized that in the story found the funerals are fun when, um, Johnny

[01:15:56] left the stage slash church, which means he left the studio stage.

[01:16:02] That was also the church, which means that that the story acknowledges that it's the church

[01:16:10] was in reality, but then the reality shifted to be a studio stage.

[01:16:14] Maybe.

[01:16:16] Yeah.

[01:16:16] I think that might also connect sort of with him saying like, did you know this fact?

[01:16:21] I didn't.

[01:16:22] Um, I still don't like, yeah, there's some weird shit going on.

[01:16:26] Oh yeah.

[01:16:26] Like this is definitely reality altering and like, what is reality in, in when dealing

[01:16:31] with this entity or this, this anomaly.

[01:16:34] So it's so downplayed.

[01:16:35] We had to talk about it for me to realize it.

[01:16:37] That's fine.

[01:16:38] Yeah, exactly.

[01:16:39] And yeah, so there is, there is room to, to grow or to develop more into this entry

[01:16:43] or to add more to this entry.

[01:16:45] Yeah.

[01:16:46] That's what I'm saying.

[01:16:47] I was conflicted to like, give it a full recommendation.

[01:16:49] Cause there was stuff that was like, I, I would like some more.

[01:16:53] I enjoyed what I, what I want when I read, but I would like more.

[01:16:56] Yeah, for sure.

[01:16:58] So overall partial, just because it could use more.

[01:17:02] Um, and yeah, the foundation putting more information that they legitimately should have on the, the,

[01:17:11] the page makes more sense.

[01:17:13] Cause I'm not asking for them to have information they shouldn't have just, I want to see the

[01:17:18] information they do have.

[01:17:19] Yeah.

[01:17:20] Okay.

[01:17:21] So then I guess, uh, two partial recommendations and one non-recommendation for SCP 2030.

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