janes a car as a concept to me is more terrifying than hey melissa. like. hey melissas scary, sure, but more like criminal minds type scary. janes a car horrifies me. especially with the ending being that becky gets trapped in the car and then the car gets dismantled??? what happens to her soul???? is her soul split into various parts among the car??? it freaks me out so fucking bad

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Something I think is underrated about Jane's a car is how close Dylan's face is to the camera the whole time.

Just look at him. Nobody else is getting nearly that close to the camera, at least not constantly like Dylan is. Idk if it was on purpose, but it gives the vibe that you're face-timing with your depressed uncle who doesn't know wtf is going on, which really matches Tom's energy throughout the entire episode, so I'm choosing to believe it was a character choice.

Paul being Tim's uncle means everything in the world for Emma's relationship with her family can we talk about that

offscreen, at least in the timeline of Jane's A Car, Emma's successfully become an integrated enough part of her family for them to consider her boyfriend family too. Paul's an influence that Tim refers back to. Emma has established an active role in Tim's life by implication and I am once again BEGGING the langs to let us SEE IT-

an appropriately unhinged recap of the hatchetfield series

A little late for the five year anniversary BUT... IT'S FINALLY HERE!! My full length deep-dive video into EVERYTHING you need to know about Hatchetfield before watching Nerdy Prudes Must Die!!!

haven't rewatched Jane's a Car in a while. this is how it goes right.

I watched Jane's a Car from Nightmare time and I was surprised to not found any Utena crossover with it so I had to do it myself

*or almost happened

I have so many conflicting feelings about Jane Perkins-Houston. She is a great mother. She is a manipulative bitch. She loves her sister. She thinks greenpeace girl is hot. Her best friend is Linda Monroe. She is a psychiatrist. She treats her husband like a patient instead of a lover. She took care of a literature professor that told her about the black book. Her family are probably hatchetmen. She likes bars. She is the perfect older sister. She is a car.

rewatching tgwdlm and black friday after watching jane's a car is crazy cause the scenes where they talk about jane feel so different. like yes, the lines and the tone are the same, but now we have the added content that jane was fucking insane

Tim: Fuck!

Tom: Who taught my kid that?!

Emma: Not me!

Becky: Not me!

Everybody: *looks at Lex*

Lex: Oh yeah? Blame the fucking dropout, right? It's always the fuck- oh

funniest line in the whole damn series

Clivesdale is truly awful

I've seen a lot of people's headcanons that Clivesdale has a generally positive opinion of Hatchetfield, and Hatchetfield's grudge against them is entirely one-sided. While this is a fun idea, I think we should remember what happened with both Jane Perkins and Grace Chasity.

Although most people were surprised Jane turned out to be so manipulative, that character trait was very clearly foreshadowed. In TGWDLM, Emma talks about how Jane planned out her entire life and stuck with it, showing that she's someone who craves control. Plus, in "If I Fail You", Tom says "she'd poke at each of my wounds to see what I'd say". Jane's toxic personality was clearly outlined for us, and yet her manipulative nature still came as a surprise.

Even less subtly, Grace Chasity is referred to as a "nerdy prude" from the moment she was introduced, and yet nearly everyone (myself included) assumed Alice was being too harsh on her and she would actually turn out to be a genuinely nice person. Then, Nightmare Time 2 happened, and we all found out that Grace really was a nerdy prude, and was incredibly annoying about it.

These past examples have shown us that when Hatchetfield characters are described by other people before their official introduction, those descriptions tend to be accurate. Why wouldn't this apply to the entire town of Clivesdale? The Langs aren't being remotely subtle about it, and I'm inclined to believe what everyone says about Clivesdale. I don't know yet what they did to make the entire population of Hatchetfield hate them, but I'm sure it was something truly awful.

Ah yes, those beloved fan-favorite Nightmare Time episodes, "Hey Melissa" and "Jane's a Car".

Remember they're OFFICIAL CANON, guys.

Oh look it's Jane Perkins

I honestly love the idea that Jane is/was the only therapist in Hatchetfield purely because it explains why everyone is just Like That after she died.

Is it unrealistic? Yes. Is there probably some evidence disproving this? Also probably yes. Do I care? Fuck no, it's funny.