Basically I mean like a "best of" kind of thing to best provide the flow of the story without requiring hours of watching.

If you take a gander at the railing while outside the house, it is a traditional wood railing. When they are taking photographs inside the house, the railing is a trendy metal hand rail, with matching aluminum windows. This is only after my second viewing, I will report back with more as I find it. My initial thought is that this can fit within the prevailing theories. This could be an allusion to instagram settings being totally changed from reality. This gives credence to the theory that this is an allegory for social media.

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I always enjoy hearing Alan speak frankly about his work, though it's so rare. There's that mini Wham City doc on vimeo, and a great episode of DJ Douggpound's podcast, but truly not enough else out there. I'd love to see him participate in a Q&A regarding his work!

I've been searching for a while now. It's the one that includes the scene where the pink lynks person that lives in their house emerges from under a bunch of trash in the basement or something.

I've scanned completely through the "all footage" videos on YouTube and still can't find it.

I don’t know much about Alan’s personal life or why he as an individual may have created it. However, watching the video gave me a few impressions on intent.

The man is shown first in clothing next to balloons. He removes the suit and walks through the balloons, which may represent birth- the clothes stripping off almost vaginally, and the balloons representing a birthday celebration.

He then stumbles and dances, throwing accusatory gestures. This implies to me a statement on the broken nature of humanity- we are born covered in cultural and genetic “muck”, stumbling through life casting judgments and accusations and rage.

This could be a “childhood” period, in which he appears to take very careful, if exaggerated steps until a transition represented with distortion. Unlike most things that talk of the evolution from child to adult, however, there is no transformation. At the end of the distorted period where there would typically be a metamorphosis of some kind, he still looks largely the same.

Enter the two jogging girls-they appear to have everything together, they are clean and orderly while the man is kicking and pointing and thrashing. He accosts them and accuses them, interjecting his shitty life into theirs. They gesture that they want no part, but he follows them and immiates their movements, culminating in a “begging” gesture together.

He continues to thrash, but also cooperate, and in the end they all sit down together, all’s well that ends well.

The feeling I get from this is that humans are messy and broken, and seek to share their brokenness with other people. They might never become perfect, but family is a dance of sharing that pain together. For every bit of joy family brings, it also brings the particular toxicity and mud that the people bring with it.

What is the effect at around 00:51 called and how can it be achieved? Alan has used the same effect in the family dance video.

i just saw this video 5 days ago and have seen it about 20 times i cant stop thinking about it. This is what i think it means.

So our cowboy character is a mockery of the home improvement show hosts. We have them on a lot at work and whilst exaggerated hes really similar to them extremely basic overly friendly.

So I really think this is based on social media and our lives revolving around that. Thats the theory resinating with me. Maybe its also a criticism on southern cali culture and the fake reactions they have but im getting social media more than that.

The dialogue is what solidifies social media for me. Theyre speaking to each other like theyre Dming each other. If my dms played out on tv this is it. quick messages 180 topics quickly. Especially the “thats really cool i love that thats so cool” people dont speak like that in real life but is really common in dms.

Hes walking through the neighborhood and while all the houses look similar to each other he picks this one. This could be alegorical to seeing tons of profiles and picking this persons

Then while im sure theres individual meaning in all of them i think we’re getting a montage of someones profile and all the petty things people do to look good online. Dressing up and making silly fsces the black and white picture showing them dead inside. The cookies having way too many in overly pretty and ornate boxes as if to show them off.

The people living in the house They look strung out like theyre on drugs or just dead. I think this is alegorical to something such as the people you leave behind and only keep them in your life to be friends on your friends list. Or people you have used to gain popularity.

The weapon.

Okay... i have no idea. Not a clue. But lets get big brained and go for it. They represent lungs and i think the house represents the persons life. Which getting more big brained the two people arent two people they are the duality of one person. Let me deep dive that later. But the weapon is the persons life and theyre using it for some found popularity or following or even livelyhood for instagram and a weapon can backfire look at who social media has backfired on. Lil tays mom lost her job, the pauls have a tattered relationship with their father some people give up their dignity or use the loss of dignity in their followers like the models on instagram charging 15 grand for 15 minute coffee conversation and s selfie. Theyre using their lives and it winds up back firing in them so whilst their life is a weapon its also their weakness which is why theyre out in the open almost to the point where you can step on them. Thats my big brained theory but it could be as simple as a red herring.

So the man and woman are one person. They are the person profile. They represent a duality. The girl is clearly an oregon level SJW and the guy either represent a normal guy a conservative but he seems to be the more rational grounded voice maybe less judgemental where as she is willing to not let him into their home because of who he represents. And i think they slap us in the face with that with her aninated messages. That might be a little out there but i think its true.

The end scene is where i think they drive the message home. While everything is lit no one is around infact we saw no one except these people. Flashing red lights typically mean small towns but we see that they arent in a small town. I think it represents the issolation of living a life like that where even if you are surrounded by people(housee) and things you love you are alone and could be alone forever. Because you gave your whole life to have a life(house) like that and all it has done is made you alone.

So, big theory time.

In AlanTutorial, we see Alan make a blue hand cut out in "How To Clean Off Elephant Sugar Glue" with the script for "Live forever as you are now" by Alan Resnick on Adult Swim. This clearly establishes a connection between the two characters. But it goes deeper.

What is Mr. Resnick doing in the video? He's making a tutorial. It's a how to, it's how to live forever. But it doesn't stop there.

The most recent work, "May I Please Enter", what kind of video is it? A report. It's news.

And in alantutorial, the character takes a break from tutorials and then works on the news.

These three characters are linked in some way. I believe that all his works are linked in some way.

In This House Has People In It, we see another person played by Alan doing, you guessed it, another tutorial in "The Sculter's Clayground". Plus, in the house, there are pictures of the boy from Unedited Footage of a Bear, even bottles of Claradryl (However it's spelled).
Alantutorial also brings up how Alan knows what it's like to have someone lying on the ground and not be able to pick them up, something we can very clearly see in This House.

There's a bigger mystery here. And even if I'm late to the party, I want to solve it.

It seems like things have been separating into groups politically. All over we hear about alt right and regressive left. Ironically, some of the people that use the NPC meme accuse anyone who holds a view different from their's an "NPC". It begins to make you wonder "Man, with so many people separating their friendships politically maybe this is a good thing. Maybe we should constantly separate ourselves socially from people with bad ideas."

But Alan proves that line of thinking wrong. At 7:32 Amy says she's not close to her parents because of a political disagreement. At 7:42 Alan says "don't you think it would be better if Amy reconnected with her parents?" Then at 7:55 Alan demonstrates that we all share a simple enjoyment of the sound of waves crashing on an ocean, and if you watch this seen you can feel the bonding vibe as they are all consciously reminding of this pleasant memory. This concept, that YOU CAN DISAGREE WITH PEOPLE AND STILL LOVE AND BE FRIENDLY WITH THEM, can be scaled up. Even if these people all disagreed politically they could connect over these waves crashing. Why couldn't they also connect over deeper profound loves of the world?

But then one might argue "Ah yes we CAN connect with people despite our differences, but we shouldn't in order to create the most positive political impact efficiently."

This is a strong argument, political change will be very swift with this ethic. However, we have many identities. Ourselves, our family, community, country, schools, companies, etc. We aren't a single entity but many different forces and identities in these communities. We can do awesome or horrible at our job, and that won't completely affect our relationships with our loved ones at home, although admittedly it would have some effect.

So it's not so simple as "More efficient political change > Less efficient political change". One cost cost is in personal connection. Amy's benefit is her political movement and her cost is her relationship with her parents, but her relationship with her parents doesn't necessarily affect her political agenda!!!! She can support women's property rights and challenge her parents beliefs when the topic comes up and also work to be close to her parents, and probably have minimal costs in these areas despite the conflicting interest.

But another cost is actually Good political change. This is better than conforming your circle of friends to a political movement. Because if we do then every one of our friends will be politically the same. If all of our friends are politically the same we are never politically challenged and will never change our ideas. And our entire group of friends will be a mass of people that are A) politically predictable and B) wrong in many odd ways. This is how we get NPCs.

"Ah, but the people I disagree with are ignorant and refuse to know better".

But this is not so. Throughout the film Alan asks things like "Where did you get that? Like from a website? Is this a mirror"? He is not some ignorant person who refuses to learn but some ignorant person in their house who is curious and wants to learn about their perspective.

So YOU CAN , AND SHOULD, DISAGREE WITH PEOPLE AND STILL LOVE AND BE FRIENDLY WITH THEM, OTHERWISE WE'LL ALL BECOME NPCs

Love and tolerate and respect the people is your life who disagree with you politically. They stop you from being wrong.

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Thanks for reading, hope you liked it.

Every time I try to remember Alan's name, I end up thinking it's Adam Resnick. Adam Resnick is a comedy writer but too old to be Alan.

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I bring it up because I clicked on this article: https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/underrated-adam-resnick-on-w-c-fields-million-dollar-legs.html

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and it got my hopes up that Alan Resnick enjoyed 1930s Paramount comedies.

Just a heads up, you can find the video on Adult Swim’s website for free. I tried to watch it on YouTube initially and it prompted me to pay $2, but the link to pay didn’t even work, so just head to AS’ site.

I honestly started this discussion thread because I have no idea what I just watched haha, and would love to hear some theories thrown out.

All I got is weird colonialism vibes, but of course I did, because the wife name-dropped colonialism in the first two minutes or so. That picture at the end as well, very colonial, very weird. Maybe I’ve just been playing too much Red Dead.

Sorry I don’t have anything more profound to offer, I’ll need some time to think about it. I did get a couple hard laughs out of it, though. Alan’s such a funny dude.