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dennisboobs · 7 months

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i don't think i ever mentioned this on here but i managed to track down proper HQ 1080p rips of sunny seasons 9-16 that don't look like they've been sent through a meat grinder. i guess most people just want a smaller filesize so those are the torrents that tend to endure, but it makes it like. almost completely impossible to find anything that isn't crushed to hell. they aren't accessible through the most commonly used tracker sites like pirate bay, 1337x.to, TGx, etc (trust me. i have LOOKED. for months. i stumbled upon these), and i had to dig through. a lot of shit. for them. so i'm thinking maybe i could upload them to the internet archive (they haven't had a problem with my sunny archive yet, but who knows), because hosting 170 1-2GB episodes would be. impossible (and as we learned during s16 airing, apparently most commercial cloud servers have stupid limits lol).

also found AP bio in actual 1080p quality; honestly didn't even know it existed, and with the amount of time it took to download from the one other person who was seeding it i doubt many other people know either. might uh. photodump. because i have a lot of screenshots that are twenty times nicer than the shit i had before. and jack is pretty <3

shut up i know they're mostly tits

if you guys are interested i can see what i can do, but like, each sunny season is 11-20 gigs, so you know. i'll be your blackmarket sunny dealer if you want to see your fave ep in significantly higher quality than you normally see on Hulu (caps out at 720p) or most other torrenting sites.

cmon you know you want to see the glears (glenn tears)

#if you think 2GB per ep is bad you dont want to know how massive the uncompressed bluray rips are #anyway. this is why i went and made my own dvd rips #because people rip and then convert and/or compress the shit out of the episodes #most of the early seasons of sunny are like. available as .avi files.#or crushed down to like 35 fucking megabytes #which. i dont even want to download that shit to find out how bad it looks but i can imagine #also nobody leaves the commentary tracks intact for some fucking reason #eventually id like to rip my 6 & 8 blurays properly and maybe get 5 & 7 & sunny christmas blurays but #i cannot justify spending like 200 bucks for a bluray drive capable of doing that #i used my jailbroken ps3 for 6 but it can only do so much #8 doesn't work at all unfortunately #well. it works with the assets from the game on the bluray ???#but that's it #ada speaks

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good-realtor-bad-realtor-dynamic · 1 year

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A whole piece on our Glenn being underrated and overlooked!

The article gets into some of his school days, Juilliard and his perspective on acting, his work on Sunny, leaving Sunny after season 12 when he'd thought the show should end (can't wait for that podcast conversation in 3 years or maybe even in Season 6 if they ever address Glenn Howerton Burnout No. 1), and later coming back, continuing to push his boundaries in acting in season 15 with the Ireland arc, and working with director Matt Johnson on Blackberry.

(Gonna use colours now to better distinguish screenshots of the article from my stuff for anyone not using dark mode)

A lot of it is quotes from Charlie and Rob, who are properly frustrated that he's been so overlooked (them, the original Glenn girlies!), his wife Jill, Megan and other people he's worked with, like an old drama teacher from school and Mike O'Brien from AP Bio.

(ok seriously who airbrushed and smoothed the shit out of his beautiful old wrinkly face in this photo, they need to be flogged)

There's also quotes from people, like the Lost writer who's a known Sunny fan and also co-wrote The Hunt, who watched him do his thing in Blackberry and think it's finally going to get him the recognition he's deserved all along.

CALL. THEM. OUT.

Honestly, all of this is just giving me a lot of respect for Matt Johnson, who was looking for comedic actors to play dramatic roles, specifically wanted Glenn to play Jim in Blackberry and had to fight to get him the role because Canadian productions with Canadian funding don't like using outside actors. This guy saw the vision and he was cool with Glenn getting that stupid haircut too.

Apparently, when Glenn received the script, his first thought was why me, shouldn't some bigshot do this role... he's such an idiot.

Something we've always known and the article confirms again is about how he's clearly grateful for the opportunities they have with Sunny, the kind that few writers/actors ever get with that level of creative control (something they get reminded of by other people in the industry a lot) but he's also been the most stifled by it of anyone in the cast because of his goal of being an actor more than the others, and so it gives him these mixed feelings about the longevity of the show.

I don't know if they've ever confirmed that RCG talked about ending the show around season 12.

He's not wrong. We know that once he came back to season 13, he did his rewrites on all the scripts featuring Dennis even though he wasn't fully back to writing yet. I personally don't think they should continue the show if any of them leave. They're better off taking longer breaks between the seasons like Curb does.

Good on you Rob. You tell them.

Seriously, they'd better now give him something good and interesting, so that it's not just us Sunny stans screaming into the void like usual.

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disappointment-san · 1 year

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Thoughts on Obey Me! Nightbringer

These are the thoughts that I've compiled since it has come out. So some things may be out of date (lol). Part 1 of?

Spoilers for the MC part. Acute spoilers for game aspects

THE GAME ITSELF/MC

I like the mechs. Glitchy, but nice.

The design is modern and nice, though feels weird, (‘cause, you know, Diavolo knows how many years ago right after the Celestial War.)

I would really love it if they added an archive of sorts, for the previous seasons/lessons/events. (doubtful, tho).

I love rhythm games, apparently??? I’ve only really played Twisted Wonderland thus far, and IYKYK.

Sad that stats and item at least don’t transfer

150 FOR PITY PULLS?!?!?!?!?!? WHY?!!?!?!?!?

The same event/pop quizzes will be on both… I will only be playing them on NB.

THE 3D MODELS WILL HAUNT MY DREAMS OHYGAWDBWAHAHAHAH!!!!! (i’m sorry Levi, but you especially!!!!)

aRE THEY PLAYING WII SPORTS?????!?!??

WHERE ARE THE EQUITMENT?!??!?!?

WHY IN OUR OLD (lol) ROOM???????

The sprites are not showing up in chapters or devilgrams… (bigsad)

Why not share VIP for both games? Cashgrab, I know.

I am very glad we can skip the surprise guests now.

NOODLE BOY!!!!!!!!!

Their chibi’s are so cute!!!!!!!

Eyyyy HOL LAYOUT?!?!?!

It would be nice if event item collecting pages had a 'exclude AP' button, like Mail.

I could watch Levi chase Mammon all-day

MC is the absolute most little shit and I am IN LOVE! LOVE I TELL YOU!!!

MC HATES DOORS

MC OPENLY FLIRTING/TEASING LUCIFER OF ALL DEMONS?!?!? “Widdle wucifer” hehehe

MC already knowing Solomons food is a BIO weapon is so funny.

Do you mean to tell me on top of the brothers' BS we gotta deal with dodging Solomon's cooking like 2 or 3 times a day?!?!?!?

#OM!N #OM!#Obey Me! Nightbringer #Nightbringer #Noodle Boy!#MyTwoCents #part1of?#Lucifer #Solomon #Mammon #Diavolo #Obey Me! Shall We Date?#obey me shall we date #obey me nightbringer #Barbatos #Solmare Games #shall we date otome #Shall We Date?

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nailgunstigmata · 1 year

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In love with Jack in AP Bio so much, that’s what actually made me watch Sunny. The people on that show knew how to make Glenn the most attractive and pathetic he could be, god bless. My only warning is the writing in season 3 takes a steep turn downwards imo but you still get to look at his beautiful face and he does get embarrassed a lot so pros and cons. Anyway, I’m always just excited seeing people watch it!

YES YES YES its like….pure crack cocaine injected directly into the veins of a glirster. they saw people thirsting for dennis and said lets give these bitches all they could ever want. i feel like those videos where they take a dog to a pet store and let them pick out toys. im the dog and gratuitous boob shots are the toys and i dont know which one to gnaw on first. guy that says things like booboo and bum bum and ickiest and get beaten up by old men with religious trauma and mommy and daddy issues. words cannot describe how much i want him. even if the writing is bad as long as i get to look at the jiggle physics going crazy i dont mind <3 i will never fully recover from the apron scene or any bathing robe scene i think and thats good

#asks

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gaydennisreynolds · 1 year

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Hi, I'm the loser anon who said "explain glenn" and yes I meant in both ways. Legit confused if I want to be him or be inside him (how are you reading the inside of my mind???). Do not want him to fuck me but also just insane enough that I'm not totally against it. Very confused for my sexuality. And yes to AP Bio. You and literatigeek got me started me started on it a couple of weeks ago and I was working through s2 this weekend. I thought Glenn had peaked with sweaterpaws Dennis, but when I saw cardigan Jack, I felt it. Forever changed. Thank you bro. Feeling urge to post screenshots. Excited for the s3 glirstwatch to begin so we can be insane together!

Gonna go listen to the podcast now. Hoping for honey and vinegar!

you aren't a loser don't say that <3 bestie.....did u die after the podcast wasn't about HH/VV.....are u ok please let us know

WAIT U WATCHED SEASON 2 did u see the nun episode how did you feel about it come back here this instant

#asks #anonymous #glirstwatching #c.txt

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lizhi-studiies · 4 months

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hi everyone it's been WAY too long but i'm back!! here's how i ended my first semester of junior year! (now that i'm looking at it again it got really long, so for the sake of your sanity it's under the cut </3)

ap bio: final 74%, overall B - frankly, i know i could've done better, but i already had a B and knew it wasn't a hole i could dig myself out of, so instead i focused on other classes where i was close to an A but not quite. either way, my bio teacher is extremely tough and is known for it, so i'm fairly satisfied with this outcome

us history: final 92%, overall A- - this was one of the classes i was most worried about, since my test average was just 2% over what i needed to keep my A in the class. then i remembered that i never study for history so this time, i went over the major eras we learned (thankfully the final wasn't cumulative) and managed to pull off an A in the end!

french 5: final 96%, overall A - this class was really easy honestly, i'm not particularly good at french by any means but it's paced slowly enough that i perform pretty well. for this test all i did was review some grammar structures and vocab the day before

ap stats: final 98%, overall A- - another class i was worried about getting an A in, since i was barely at the threshold before the final. this was the most study-intensive test; i studied for 10 hours the week before it (i took it friday morning) and thankfully, my hard work paid off!

ap lang: final essay 100%, final project 95%, overall A- - honestly, like ap bio, i had given up on getting an A in this class, but i managed to pull off a 5/6 on my final essay (the sophistication point evaded me yet again) and i managed to pull my group together enough to get an A overall!

journalism: overall performance A+ - i was debating including this since there's no final project or exam but then i remembered it's technically a fully fledged class, so i might as well! journalism is easy though as long as you put the effort in, so an A+ was always a given here :)

this makes my junior first semester unweighted gpa 3.83 (4.18 weighted)! not an incredible achievement, but i was expectedting 3.68/4.12, so it's not unwelcome <3

i hope the exam season went well for everyone! let's do our best to face the new semester together :)

#lizhi posts #studyblr #finals #exams #high school

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thelengthyposts · 16 years

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Senior Year Madness

It all begins in the last month of your JUNIOR year in June...

they make you ALL excited because it was "going to be sooooo much easier than junior year" ..right?

WRONG.

but. u didn't know that then. so... u enter Senior year in Aug/Sept in that mindset.

then you're doing ok... that is until senioritis strikes BECAUSE of the "senior year is easy mentality"

....then your grades go down.

on top of that.. guess what. it's OCTOBER-NOVEMBER season.

....college applications abound!!!

..it all ends in November 30th...if all you apply to are public universities....

if private... that ends somewhere in january. if community college? u don't even have to worry about it till after graduation...i think.

anyhow. so i applied to public universities. and got done with all my applications on the last day of november.

cool right?

kinda. for me, anyhow.

some people.. who need higher SAT scores need to take the December SATs.... and sometimes the January ones too.

but I was lazy so.. I didn't. ..now I know I should have. but. oh well. that's life.

so... life continues. your 1st semester ends in DEATH. ..lol...well, close to it. at least mine did.

and u go on to 2nd semester.

then february comes and CSUs start giving their admission results.

..it seems EVERYONE got their SJSU admissions, but i still have no reply... guess that's how it is if you're financially disabled..yes. disabled. LOL.... [i finally got it in April..geesh, seriously? 2 months late? anyhow.]

so. end of february.... u get admission from one csu... but they request your 1st sem grade... of death.

..scared and confused.... u only send them your transcript without the 1st sem senior grade. and u complete your admission.

...but now u worry WHAT IF in July, when they see that grade of death they withdraw your "conditional admission" ?

...hmmm..oh well. that's life. so...you go and forget it for a while.

then March comes. and UC decisions are about. applied in 3? got in in 1... got in in the one that TOLD YOU they were gonna accept u EITHERWAY when u apply.

so. you're all happy and cool. right?

not really. because then your ENGLISH senior project kicks you in the chin and buries you alive for the next 30 days... until the 17th of April..when it's due.

yay. boo.

so. anyhow. back to the UC. you're happy and cool.

april ROLLS fast. with you digging your grave deeper and deeper EVERYDAY with all the tests [both high school and college].. and essays.. and projects.. and to top it all off... college pressure.

so. anyhow. you FINALLY manage to gather yourself and check your college things because the stress of senior project is done. right?

well. 'tis not done. college stress takes over.

so. u find out u need to update your grade in the UC website. the 1st sem grade. so u do... and u explain why you have the grade of death. and promise you'll do better.

so. FINALLY. cool, right? .....NOT.

coz then you have to decide on which college to say yes or no from...by May 1.

what's bad is you don't know what will happen if you say yes to the one that would reject you.

yet, u know u should start taking care of everything because u need to find the housing and stuff for the university.

TO TOP IT ALL OF.

April 21 -- English writing of some sort. Extra credit really. but you need it BECAUSE you want to cushion your grade JUST IN CASE your senior project will become the death of you in June at the day of the finals. oh. and math tutorial. yeah. takes time out of your sched too.

April 22 -- AP Bio test on ch. 43 AKA the test that would MAINTAIN your grade to a C....or doom it forever to a D... thus getting you rejected in the college. [cross your fingers now and PRAY i maintain the grade of get a higher grade or else....I WILL BREAK YOUR FINGER]

ahem.

anyhow.

April 23 -- Book report. Great.

April 24.. should just DIE. Why? hm..let's see. here are the following reasons: a) Trig/Precal test... aka the test that you should get an A or B on... or you get rejected in all colleges u apply to. end of story. great. how to get an A or B when you've never gotten a C? ...miracles happen i suppose? yes. they will. u will make sure of it. [again. cross your fingers... u know the drill]

b) AP Government Research Paper...that nobody wants to write ANYWAY. you and your classmates simply do not see the point. anyhow. it's supposed to be 6 pages long.. blah blah blah

c) AP Biology PRACTICE AP TEST ...not really a hassle. since it will only be for you and your benefit alone. but the fact remains IT WILL TAKE 5 hours of your time away from doing other work.

...April 25 then: 1) part 1 of your SUPER ASS LONG AP Gov test. it's ok..... won't kill u much.... won't make u bleed either.. but IT WILL TIRE YOUR BRAIN. and from all that activity the previous day? you're already dead anyway. 2) LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG trip to LA for a WEDDING. 6-7 hours. car trip. looooooooong. uncomfortable. looooooooong. 3) ...you'll probably sleep late because it's the 1st time in AGES u and your cousins spoke to each other

April 26... 1) u wake up early. as part of the wedding entourage.. u need to prepare. oh. and the wedding is at lunch time. great. the fact your hair is STRAIGHT and LONG.. and you need to CURL it. great. 2) after the wedding = party. most likely till night when u can no longer lift any part of your body due to your extreme fatigue. or when everyone around u starts puking coz they're drunk. yay. [well... maybe the latter was a BIT exagerated. anyhow]

April 27....sunday 1) u get back to your car in that looooooooooooong trip back to north cali. great. again. 2) u have a gov test the next day. oh great. yay.

..and it seems your suffering is over? ..yeah. to yourknowledge at the moment it seems.

well. until May 1st..anyway. or at least April 30th. wow. 3 days break only? you won't be able to revive yourself in time. and u know it.

so. April 30: you stress all day. thinking which college to say yes or no about. in the meantime, in school. ..panoramic pictures. yay. reminds u more of the impending college decision u have to do by midnight that same night.

May 1: u say yes. and say no. then u pray to god and all the saints to HEAR u. oh. and u get the cap and gown. yay. oh. and u need to sign up for that UC test.. if u said yes to the UC one.

so.

May 6th comes. = AP Gov test. the real one. cool. easy. but stressful nonetheless.

then May 10... 1) u WAKE UP EARLY. drag yourself to Los Altos and take the English writing test for the UC. just in case that it the one u said yes to. 2) the test will be over around 11:45. you'll be home by 12:3ish. 3) at some point. u call your friends. and u make plans. IF YOU DIDN'T ALREADY MAKE THEM. u better have though. so if your friends are reading this, they BETTER NOT PROCRASTINATE and help u more with your impending death. 4) prom. at 8. yay. another reason to make yourself a zombie. tired? very? well. who cares. it's a paaaaaaaaaaaaar-taaaaay. 5) oh. and u go home tired. and prolly late too.

...May 11. mother's day. u don't do anything coz you're a zombie in your deathbed remember?

May 12. AP BIO test. great. hopefully. u slept well last night. or your dead. your future depends on this test too. u better get a fucking five. oh. that rhymes.

then all is over....right? well. no. because u won't get your peace of mind because of the fact that it's international week. and the school will be loud all week. oh. and you're president of the french club. meaning u need to manage those crepes you guys will be selling. wow. good luck on that. just don't die..k? you're a bit young in my opinion.

ok. so. after that.. all stresses are gone. just anticipation really. and....lotsa sleep. u need it. u've been going at it for 3 weeks straight. surprise u haven't died yet.

hn.

so. last week of May. u go to your teachers. ask if you won't get the grade of death-- D-- in the end. if no.. then you're back in CSF. if not. well. fuck that shit. [coz that means you've ruined your future... at least till u think of a solution]

so.

if all went well. you're cool and happy and all. if not... well. u get snappy. then eventually u forget about it..right? well. we hope so. u can get pretty mean.....

anyhow.

1st week of June = finals. GAMBATTE!! <-- do your best

2nd week of June = rehearsals + beach day. ah. beach day. takes your mind off of things. yay. oh. and u graduate.

and pretty much. your stress returns. u fear for the college u said yes to. will they accept u? hopefully. they better. or you'll start packing and cross the ocean.

so. July 15 comes along. your grades are given top the college.

then if it's all good. u have more stress coz everything's changing and u need to arrange stuff. move out. all that.

if no. well. who knows. maybe a plane ticket. yeah.

and so....

if you're still alive by august. good job. you've survived senior year. you'll need the survival skills for college too.

if you've already died...well......... hopefully u come back to life at some point. but then naturally u do..u get over things rather easily after all.

so. the end?

meh.

transmission terminated.

i don't care if you're religious or not. pray to your God and help me.

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This is a backdated post.

The original post my 17-year-old self wrote is on deviantart.

#backdated post #blogging #high school #senior year #life #deviantart

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renafoo · 1 year

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Eras

In a matter of less than a week, Othello undergoes a drastic change in character, which can be condensed and summarized into a few “eras”. He went from being in his Hot Husband & Soldier Era to his Paranoia Era and finally his Deranged Murderer Era. Life can’t always be broken down into distinct time periods. However, as the year wraps up, I thought it would be fun to highlight some of my own - both little and big - “eras” (not as interesting as Othello’s, thankfully).

Model UN Era

I started the year off with the peak Model UN conference season. At HMUN Boston, I represented Panama in the Futuristic General Assembly - discussing mass surveillance in 2030. For MSUMUN, I was an Egyptian revolutionary leader during the discovery of King Tut’s tomb. Only in MUN are you rewarded for stealing priceless artifacts and overthrowing the government<3 There’s nothing like speed-walking to committee in heels, spending $4 on Dasani water at hotel gift shops, and nearly getting frostbite while touring Boston after a snowstorm. During this time, I remember being stressed but even more fulfilled.

Exams Era

AP season is the only era of 2022 that I wouldn’t willingly get into a time machine for. I really don’t miss watching every AP classroom video, spending hours at the library, or staying up until 4 AM the night before the AP Government exam memorizing my civil rights and liberties. As I practiced one bio FRQ after the other, I grew increasingly convinced that they weren’t in English and the writers were making up enzymes that didn’t actually exist.

Sunsets Era

Everything felt peaceful, colorful, and bright. Exams were done, school was ending, and the promise of summer was on the horizon. I traveled, went out with friends, and visited my hometown a lot. For those brief months, there was no pressure to accomplish anything. I had done everything I needed to do for junior year and I was rewarding myself by pursuing places that brought me nothing but simple enjoyment. An ELITE era.

Canvassing Era

I spent all of July working for a candidate during the Democratic primary (hint: he didn’t win) and canvassing in local suburbs in our district. Until then, I hadn’t realized how multidimensional the campaign trail could be. One moment you are having a lovely conversation about environmental policy and the next someone is slamming the door in your face. I loved seeing people’s adorable lawn decorations. I loved running from aggressive guard dogs. I loved driving down the sketchiest one-way gravel road ever with other interns and finding someone’s ritual site. We didn’t knock on that door. Despite the slightly traumatic moments, it was truly a career-defining and memorable experience for me!

Other Side of the Mason-Dixon Line Era

My summer vacation with my family was in North Carolina and D.C. The weather was deathly hot and humid but the scenery was gorgeous so that makes up for it. I visited gardens, explored the National Mall, and had delicious Italian and Korean food. It was a nice, relaxing trip and the American South has really grown on me:)

Panera Bread Era

This is my current era - senior year has been challenging but it’s going by surprisingly quickly. I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of money and time at Panera ever since school started and at this point, I consider it my second home. My motivation to get work done is declining exponentially, so while I’m not camping out at Panera for 6 hours, I experiment with strange workplace set-ups to keep things interesting. However, I’ve come to terms with the fact that no matter where I sit, I’ll never be caught up with world history readings.

This was most certainly an excuse to look through old photos and make little collages

Blog #5

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realtalk-tj · 2 years

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hiii any advice for sophomore year? im taking ap cs, ap bio, math 4/5, pe, latin 3, and hum ofc im planning on joining some sports and some new clubs like cv and ml primarily cs focused. do you think it's possible to do research during the year? i want to explore/study something but im not really sure yet so i think finding a mentor would be my best bet. but who? where? how? help <3

Response from Padma and Aragog:

About your classes: AP CS will be fine, just make sure you actually understand the labs. I don't know much about AP Bio but I heard it is very reading-heavy. Math 4/5, make sure you do the homework and take good notes and also try doing the review for the tests without your notes. PE will be a good chill class. IDK Latin. HUM difficulty is very dependent on who you get as your teacher, so I can't give much advice for that.

As far as mentorship goes, make sure you're not spreading yourself too thin, because sophomore year can be tough if you get stacked with some of the harder teachers, especially during midterms, finals, and AP season. I know people who have gotten mentorships by cold-emailing local professors from colleges like GMU and GWU and Georgetown. I don't know anyone who did research sophomore year, so you'll definitely be in the minority of people.

Good luck anon!

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sunnykeysmash · 4 years

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A look at: AP BIO S3EP6, “That That That”

So this post is going to be sort of an... in-depth analysis for this episode. I hope people enjoy reading this! It’s a long one, so I apologize in advance. I hope it doesn’t feel rambly.

So the episode opens up with the janitor talking with some rats.

We are treated to a shot from their point of view, as the man talks about the rats’ plead about how they’re “going to change”, and how they say they’re not “going anywhere”. Through this simple quick scene, the episode sets up the entire premise, both on a literal level, with the use of rat poison later on, and on a thematical level, introducing us to what’s going to become, by the end of the episode, Jack’s own point of view. Putting it like this, it’s like already the show is drawing a parallel, making us further empathize with Jack as he slowly starts feeling like a rat stuck in a maze himself.

As we’re introduced to Jack, he talks about preparing a recorded lecture for the University of Wisconsin on trascendentalism.

Jack feels sure that what he wants is to get away from the school he’s in, that he won’t miss anything. He thinks this job is what he wants.

Now, trascendentalism is a philosophical movement that values the importance of subjective intuition, not reached through logic but through imagination. It preaches that people deep down already know what’s right for them, that the individual’s potential is limitless, and that the ego is not your true self. All themes that are slowly woven into the episode as Jack works through his subconscious while high off rat poison to come to the conclusion that he already knew deep down was right, and that he started feeling right at the start when people started questioning him.

As this process begins, he goes to talk to Lynette, his girlfriend. He brings up said lecture that he’s recording, it almost feels like he’s seeking her reassurance.

After that, we see him in the teacher lounge, kind of minding his business.

The scene starts out with the three teachers talking. In the frame, catching my eye immediately, is that fourth empty chair. It underlines that someone’s missing, someone that could be a part of what’s happening.

Eventually we cut back to Jack being in frame, except not really, because he starts out of focus, in the backgroung, listening in to the three teachers, framed like an outsider. This is to show us how he feels in the environment.

Then, as he enters the conversation, he gets into focus.

And we then cut back to the three of them.

There is a purposeful distance felt between the two parties, and it’s one that Jack is establishing by keeping himself to the side. This calls back to the themes of the episode right before this, Mr. Pistachio. They’re inviting him in, there is a place for him, but he feels like he doesn’t belong, he stays distant.

As the girls start talking to each other again, Jack is once again kept out of focus, but still clearly in the middle of the shot, which tells us we should still be paying attention to him.

And pay attention to the visual hierarchy, as well. With Jack pushed to the background, he appears small in comparison to the other figures who are big and overpowering. The full body shot, as he resists getting closer to them, almost feels revealing. Emotionally, what this communicates to us, to me personally, is a deep sense of vulnerability that Jack is feeling.

As he subconsciously starts to doubt where he truly wants to be, he feels exposed and out of place.

After this scene, Jack goes to talk to Durbin, and this is where we’re introduced to yet another small subplot that serves to reinforce the themes of the main one at hand.

Durbin is presented with an issue. He wants to tell his brother that he loves him, he has struggled with it in the past, and this is the week he is gaining the courage to do it. This plot will ultimately end up reflecting Jack’s own epiphany, but we’ll get there.

So finally, it’s late evening, school’s empty, and Jack has prepared the set up to record the lecture.

Visually we’re introduced to this duality of Jack on the screen of the ipad versus the real Jack trying to give a lecture. The perfect competent appearance that actually masks his doubts and hesitation.

Screens being often used in media to show something perfect, fake and unachievable, and this is no exception.

Jack starts its lecture:

“To achieve its perfect form, a caterpillar must withdraw and complete itself alone, in its cocoon. Likewise, for us to achieve spiritual perfection, in the view of trascendentalists like Henry David Thoreau, it is necessary to retreat from the mindless and negative influences of society.”

This ends up being exactly what Jack does, as the rat poison induced trip lasts him an entire week, stuck alone in school, with nothing but his delusional and hallucinatory thoughts, he is forced to confront himself in complete solitude to come to the conclusion that was inside him.

He then commits a mistake, right at the end, calling Henry David Thoreau “Justin Thoreau”, the same way Mary, the teacher, did before. In a way, the school and the people in it are rubbing off on him, their presence in his mind manifests through this lapsus, effectively keeping him from completing the lecture correctly. Keeping him here.

He starts stumbling. He starts doubting himself.

“Is that right?”

He asks, the question resonating bigger than just about his current speech, feeling more like about his path in life and his actions.

A shot quickly zooms in on the camera lens, the frantic pace communicating anxiousness, but this shot in particular serves to fully immerse us in Jack’s shoes.

Feeling watched, feeling judged, scrutinized. Having to directly face his shortcomings, unable to blame anyone but himself, and having to ask himself why. The camera almost literally backing us - therefore, Jack - into a corner by coming this uncomfortably close to us.

He attempts to hype himself up and tries again. The whole thing accompanied by a background music that’s basically nothing if not ticking (like a clock) and percussion. It feels quiet and tense.

We then get another shot that’s a clean transition from the screen to the real Jack. In the screen, he appears confident, but as soon as the camera focuses on the real Jack, he loses tracks of what he was saying and once again struggles. Quietly, he turns to look at the background.

He slowly, tentatively reorganizes a single book, then positions himself back, only to turn again towards the bookshelf, still dissatisfied.

Without a single line of dialogue, this shows us precisely what he’s feeling and lets us understand his slow descent into madness. He feels that there’s something wrong, out of place, something that must not be right, but he’s not yet looking at himself to fix this problem, instead he’s looking at his surroundings, trying to gather back the control that he feels he’s rapidly losing by attempting to control what’s around him.

And so he deeply cleans the entire office, reorganizes and color codes the books behind him.

Being introduced to his struggle before the rat poison even starts to affect him lets the transition between reality and hallucination feel seamless, so much so that during a first viewing we start to doubt what’s real and what’s fake, and when.

The overall eerie tone of the episode makes it feel like a take on psychological horror, as the slow loss of control is accentuated by increasingly bizarre events that go completely unquestioned.

Attempt after attempt, we feel as though we are entering a loop with no chance of escaping. Which is exactly what Jack feels.

We then get this.

Jack is fixating on his issue, without much success in resolving it. He’s facing and confronting it over and over. Visually, it’s made bigger than himself by its oppressive presence in the frame.

The only soundtrack accompanying this is a kind of vibration, a deep and hard to hear sound that just looms in the background. This episode in general is very quiet, which helps the atmosphere feel lonely and tense.

He screams, but there’s no one who can hear him. It’s just himself.

He sees this mouse pad and once again the picture visually reinforces this sense of looping, of feeling stuck and trapped in a repeating endless cycle.

He tries to rip it in half. But he can’t.

Just as he can’t overcome what he’s struggling with, his own cycle that he’s stuck in. He wants to break free, but he’s not sure from what. Is his prison this school he says he hates so much, or is his prison his own ego, trapping him into feeling like an outcast, into isolation, into never opening up or being vulnerable.

This is actually a theme in the entire season, Jack slowly learning to open up and be vulnerable. But this episode in particular feels like a turning point for his character, a moment of realization, of personal intuition. Trascendence. Beyond his limits, beyond his own walls. Through a trascendent experience, the hallucinations.

He falls asleep on the floor, visually representing his rock bottom.

He’s then woken up, there’s faint wind chimes sounds, and he’s surrounded by darkness in a way that feels ethereal. As he exits the room to check the source of the smell that’s almost calling to him, we see nothing but him entering light.

He’s barely visible, surrounded by fog, he can’t see where he’s going very well.

He sees a figure, and asks this:

“Are you in a caterpillar costume?”

When the figure turns to face him, Jack is frightened and runs away.

This immediate association between the very subject he was talking about, and him fleeing in terror, serves to illustrate his true feelings towards what he’s doing by recording this lecture. He’s scared of it, and he’s running away from it.

He wakes up again in the same room as he was before, only this time the light is almost blinding.

Here, Helen appears. This dialogue follows:

Jack: “Jesus, Helen, what are you doing here?” Helen: “Oh, you know I can’t stay away from Whitlock long.”

We quickly find out that this is a dream sequence that Jack is having. Thanks to this knowledge, we know that all the dialogue Jack entertains with the rest of the school workers, all his friends, is nothing more than his internal dialogue manifesting to him through them.

He’s asking himself why he’s at this highschool. The other voice, Helen, replies that it’s because they can’t stay away. They like being here.

But this realization comes with horror and shock to Jack, and so it quickly turns into a graphic, horrid description.

He once again escapes it, going immediately to try recording his lecture again, but Helen bursts into the room kicking the door. All these terrifying thoughts are tormenting him.

He runs away, camera in his hands. Gets interrupted once again.

In this attempt, we are completely unable to see him through the screen because of how out of focus he is to us in there. His attempt at a perfect facade is proving completely infructuous, all we can see is the real Jack, deeply struggling.

He gets interrupted by the three teachers again, and this dialogue happens.

Michelle: “Jack, you’re here! We thought that that video would be done by now.” Jack: “Uh, yeah, unfortunately... it’s not.”

Once again doubt seeps in as he worries about what’s taking him so long, it’s also interesting to notice how the girls use “that that” with no problem whatsoever.

They invite him to join them in playing a game, and he finds himself going along with them at first, before stopping himself, panicked.

Jack: “I don’t have time for your dumb, fun games! I gotta do this video!”

This dialogue sets an intense contrast with the scene with them at the start, in reality.

In that scene, he calls their games “terrible”, then looks at them with fondness.

Here, instead, he’s stressing that he doesn’t have time for it. He wants to participate, as is shown, but he can’t because of his own self imposed obligation.

In other words, this is exposing to him, though still through an horror lense, his realization that he’s gonna miss all these chances to hang out with his friends if he goes through with it.

He keeps running away, and ends up in his class.

His reflection in the screen appears now deeply warped.

The writing on the whiteboard is upside down, something is deeply wrong.

He’s alone, then all of a sudden he’s not, as the camera twists to the side and gets closer.

We are treated to some dutch angles.

He tries again, but the words aren’t even his. He asks if he sounds like Marcus, and the students all nod while creaking sounds can be heard as they do.

Day 2. He’s still eating the same spaghetti as before, and he accidentally gets sauce on his shirt. A stain that just won’t go away. A visible imperfection. He snaps, he covers himself in them, then puts on some makeup powder, helplessly trying to cover it all up. Of course, that does nothing. He’s trying to bury a problem that has become impossible to conceal.

Getting in front of the camera again, he says this:

Jack: “I want this job. I’m so overqualified.”

It’s like he’s trying to convince himself, since he’s not really talking to anyone but a camera lens. Then there’s the part about being overqualified. The thing is, he’s right, and he know he’s right. On a qualification and competence standpoint, he should be able to ace this, no problem. So why is he struggling? Does he want this job?

In comes Durbin.

Durbin: “Jack! ...you’re still here. Working on your video.” Jack: “Yeah uh- but everybody keeps stopping me...” Durbin: “Let’s get you back on the right track. What’s the problem?” Jack: “I got sketty on my shirt...” Durbin: “I’ve got what you need right here. Everything you need is always right in front of you, Jack. Always check the lost and found.”

Lots to unpack here. Everytime Jack encounters someone again, they always comment on how he’s still at school, he hasn’t left. He keeps getting stopped, his subconscious keeps stopping him, since we know this is all a hallucination. He’s going down the wrong path, and Durbin in this situation represents what’s right for Jack, the truth in his subconscious. “Everything you need is in front of you”.

Additionally, the way he explains the problem, speaking like a sad child, makes you feel just how lost he is, just how small he feels. Him feeling small, lost, vulnerable and scared is a huge theme in the entire episode, as you can see.

So he tries again, and this is where we first experience the transition. As Jack is enthusiastic to put on the suit Durbin gives him, we then see that his appearance in the screen is quite different. He looks ridiculous. But in his reality, as his real self, he looks spotless, happy. This is him starting to accept the concept that what he needed was always in front of him. Because whereas the screen just shows us what he wants to present himself as, his facade, the real him shows us his true feelings, how he feels towards this highschool and all his friends and the life he lives here.

By accepting his life as it is, his job at Whitlock, he knows he might end up looking ridiculous and his image may suffer, but inside he feels better, he feels good, happy, realized.

The expression he makes as he sees this suit, is the expression of a man that has found what he was looking for. This is why it emerging from a “lost ad found” box is very significant symbolically.

It’s not just himself that changes inbetween “reality” and “screen”, however, it’s the entire location. His background, everything.

He finally finishes his speech, successfully this time. But Helen comes to take the camera and tripod away.

Jack accuses her of “sabotaging him”, but we as the audience will soon come to realize that he’s sabotaging himself.

He runs after her, and as he does, the lights around him start malfunctioning once again.

He opens a door and sees his mother with a young Durbin. He’s understandably unsettled. His mom having always been something close to his heart, we can even see her as a representation of his most intense emotions and of love. He’s struggling to fully come to terms with admitting that he loves being at this school.

He gets away, only to come closer once again once he hears more noises. He opens the door.

He gets in, softly asks for his ipad, and as he walks closer we get an overview of what’s happening. Jack, on his desk, being dissected by his students, completely torn open.

Once again, this visual serves to show Jack’s sense of uncomfortableness with being open and totally vulnerable.

He’s being scrutinized and studied and analyzed all the way to his deepest insides. It’s scary, it’s uncomfortable and it hurts. “I think I found the heart.” “Girl, that’s his bladder.”, he’s being judged mercilessly. That’s how he feels.

“How would we know? We never learned biology.

There’s a sense of guilt for never doing what he should’ve from the very beginning. He regrets not being there for his students, teaching, he’s scared that he’ll never get the chance now that he knows he wants to. This is manifesting though Sarika.

Jack: “I have to go... why are you keeping me from leaving?” Marcus: “We’re not keeping you from anything, Mr Griffin. You’re doing all of this. Your mind has created an entire world of distractions to keep you from doing that video.” Dan: “You know, it’s almost like you don’t want to leave.” Jack: “Yes I do? ...I think I do...”

In this moment, his most open one, he’s finally confronted with his desire to stay.

And this is when he wakes up.

Now back in reality, his appearance in fact resembles the way he looked like in the screen in his mind. So to reiterate, the real him in his mind was simply how he felt, while the screen was the way people see Jack in real life. At this point in the episode, subconsciously, he has come to fully accept it.

He does try to fix up the room, but it’s too much of a mess by now.

We cut to all of his friends discussing together. In comes Helen, with her nose bandage, and she says this.

Helen: “Oh, I’m so glad to see you guys!” Mary: “Helen, what happened?” Helen: “Well, I’m starting to think that the relationship I have with that animal is not what I thought it was.”

This dialogue is meant to reflect Jack’s situation, as do all the subplots in the episode.

The dialogue continues when Helen asks Durbin how it went with his brother.

Helen: “Did you tell your brother that you loved him?” Durbin: “Oh, well, I... kinda sorta chocked on saying that exact phrase, so...” Michelle: “That’s okay Ralph, it’s hard to be vulnerable.” Stef: “Yeah, and you have to respect the fact that he may not be there yet.” Durbin: “Yeah, I just feel kinda bad because a bunch of times he said “I love you” and I said “Yeah, good good good good good”...” Helen: “Well I’m sure he knows how you feel.” Durbin: “Well, at one point he said “Do you love me? Because I can’t tell.” and I said “I don’t know” and I got into a lift and went to the airport, just full choke.”

This all reflects Jack’s own feelings. He’s not quite at a point where he can openly admit to loving his friends and Whitlock, but at the same time this dialogue shows us that they are understanding of it, they know that being vulnerable and open can be very hard, and they’re patient. They do know that Jack loves them.

Enter Dave, in a wheelchair, injured from head to toe.

Dave: “You know who else choked? Maybe the hardest of all?” Everyone: “JACK!!!”

Enters Jack. Everyone cheers his arrival.

Of course, the dialogue just quoted is a joking way to point out how Jack failed in making that recorded lecture.

He shares a cute moment with his girlfriend, and softly says:

Jack: “You were thinking about me...”

It’s like it comes as a surprise to him, that he’s loved, that other people genuinely like him and want him to stay.

He continues.

Jack: “Um, hey, I should talk to you about something. Uh, in fact, I actually have to tell all of you about something important that I realized while you were gone. I realized that-”

He’s interrupted but the janitor which he had previously punched. The guy who was doing the rat disinfestation.

In other words, he chokes, as well.

Mary: “So Jack, what did you learn?” Jack: “Uh... well, I, uh... I invented a new game.”

Instead he chooses to bring that game he hallucinated into reality, making time for it. Being enthusiastic for it.

He enters his classroom.

Jack: “Alright, everybody, shut your precious beautiful mouths. You know after spending an entire week alone in this empty school... I realized that I can’t survive without community. And I came to appreciate... all of you.”

This reflects the trascendalistic philosophical approach of Thoreau, who retreated alone in nature to find true purpose in life.

He goes to write on the whiteboard.

All his previous writing wiped but still visible. He did do all of that, but it’s gone now, it’s no longer present. It’s solved.

Jack: “And I decided that I wanted each of you to finish this year knowing more biology than any student ever has...” Sarika: “Mr Griffin? I know we’ve had our differences in the past...” Jack: “Uh, yeah, hold that thought, Sarika, because the biggest thing that I learned is that prolonged exposure to rodent killing gas causes hallucinations and irrational ideation. And all these things that I thought I learned? Well... chemically induced illusions... caused by a dying brain”

He draws an X on top of the words “community”, “you” and “biology”.

Jack: But! Now... I got my thinker back in the pink. Everything’s back to normal...”

He takes out a bunch of spaghetti and a box of rat poison, sprinkles them heavily with it, and takes a bite like it’s the most normal thing.

So what does it mean, is he rejecting all that he learned? No. He’s keeping up his facade, as being vulnerable is hard, but inside he’s embracing what he learned. This is communicated to us through him ingesting the poisoned spaghetti, going back into his mind, accepting the embarassment and weirdness and going back to that scary feeling of vulnerability for more. He might say that it’s all back to normal, but we clearly see it’s not, and we clearly know that he’s glad to be back and stay back, we see it through his actions.

Ultimately this is a sort of turning point for Jack Griffin, while he might not yet be able to express his feelings, while still going back to a place of denial using the rat poison as the excuse for everything that happened in his brain, this is his first step towards accepting what his subconscious has known all along, his first step to “trascend from a caterpillar into a butterfly”.

This is... trascendentalism, as construed by AP Bio.

#ap bio #glenn howerton #jack griffin #analysis #that that that #ap bio season 3 #ap bio season 3 episode 6 #yall i cannot believe i just wrote 16 pages of analysis in a single sitting from 3am to 8am #i am literally insane i think #but i hope whoever reads this takes something out of it #glenn howerton if you are reading this i love you buddy youre very talented but please make macdennis canon or i will have to unstan #just kidding im not going anywhere but please bud #does this count as a review #or is this just the ramblings of a crazy person.............#I think I'm right personally #at least somewhat #jack griffin bisexual legend #ok im done i think #when u follow a sunny account for sunny content and then BOOM 16 pages of ap bio analysis #that relatable moment when..........#dont yell at me i know im a mad person but i HAD TO OK

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lucienvannserra · 3 years

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Listen I get the problems with s4 I do I wasn’t happy that Jack and Lynette broke up in the first episode over something that seemed really stupid however I have to love the season because I’m literally in love with Keith and all 30 seconds of screentime he had <3

#ap bio #my post #I also didn’t really like that gwen was introduced just to be victor’s gf when we’ve never even seen her before #I think? its been awhile since watching the first 3 seasons #but anyway despite the problems I’m deeply in love with michelle’s husband <3

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incorrect-escape-the-night · 6 years

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Eva @ Justine: You know, I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you might be the worst person I've ever met.

#source: ap bio #escape the night #escape the night season 1 #escape the night season 2 #escape the night season 3 #eva gutowski #mylifeaseva #justine ezarik #ijustine

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nailgunstigmata · 1 year

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Heyoooo! How far have you got with AP Bio?

Not sure if you know, but after season 2, NBC cancelled the show and a bunch of contracts ended. But then Peacock, the streaming service that NBC was just starting to launch, revived the show for at least two more shorter seasons so they could have some original content on their platform.

Season 3 is mostly very good, but part of why it looks and feels a bit different is the lower budget on Peacock, the mostly all-new and less-experienced writing staff hired to replace the previous writers' room and filming being interrupted by covid. They were supposed to do 10 episode seasons but the pandemic cut it down to 8.

You'll also see some recurring actors who were more prominent in s1-2 lose screentime in s3 and I'm not 100% sure, but it feels like post-cancellation scheduling and contract issues. Anyway, the tone is still mostly consistent because the showrunner and some of his top writers and EPs were the same.

And then season 4 (2021) suddenly got quite experimental. Some of it works, some of it doesn't, but it's very interesting, especially since season 4 seems to have the least amount of bts information available to the public, even though it was fairly recent! Hang on, are you done with s2? Maybe I'm getting way ahead of myself and should wait...

im at the ending of season 1 rn!! but i feel like in a few days im gonna be done anyways fhdkdh im bingeing like crazy….but im going to hunt down whoever made the decision to cancel it and then everyone on peacock who didnt let them make more seasons. i need nbc execs u better watch out im on my way

#asks

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