SHOP: A Pop Opera | adult swim smalls

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[keglodude]

“I’m not deaf.”
“Huh?”
“I said I’m not deaf.”
“Nice to meet you, Jeff”
is a really good bit

[stepski]

i hope a kid out there fell asleep watching cartoon network and woke up to this

[Xeldum]

It takes a second to realize just how many people in this call him deaf. He takes so long to process and overthink things that people don’t think he heard them.

[LOL-cringe]

Jack Stauber, the only man who can write a sad song about expired milk

[nickherbeck]

Each person he meets before each song is emblematic of someone who suffers from the line of existential thinking that each song is about.
*Milk:* the old lady refuses to try new things because she can always try them later, but then ‘dies’ by disappearing at the end
*Bread:* the nut man smugly uses material possessions to justify his existence and make himself feel superior to others, despite shopping at the same store as everyone else.
*Paper Towels:* the worker was so hung up on the concept of irreversibly changing, that he never got around to actually handling messes in any meaningful way.
*Oatmeal:* the bowl man was obsessed with planning out every moment of life and failed to account for or accept the spontaneity of life.
*Coffee:* the mom was addicted to coffee and used it as an unhealthy coping mechanism to get herself through every aspect of life.
*Cheese:* the main character himself was suffering from this which was choice paralysis in the face of the possibilities of life. Unlike the others, he actually overcame his existential crisis by realizing that by simply making a choice, you automatically get some form of control and meaning out of your existence that the randomness of the universe cannot provide.

[laura-niym]

Milk: Fearing that you didn`t live your life how you wanted to
Bread: Caring too much about your image
Paper towels: Anxiety over not being able to fix everything
Oatmeal: Not being able to stop the uncertain flow of time
Coffee: Unhealthy dependency on a coping mechanism
Cheese: Holding on to only hope when you`re grieving

Strawberry yogurt: Choosing for yourself and being okay with the choices you made :)

[LOL-cringe]

I swear jack voicing all his characters is so impressive

[killer_moon]

I think all of the songs represent different anxieties:
- Milk: Anxiety surrounding living a fulfilling life and making life choices to make the most of your life
- Bread: Anxiety about getting too caught up in how others perceive you
- Towels: Anxiety about dealing with the consequences of choices (and about how life in general is pretty "messy")
- Oatmeal: Anxiety about having too monotonous a life, and being unprepared for change
- Coffee: Anxiety about not being in control of your life + not living in the moment
- Cheese: Anxiety about choosing things (definetly the most obvious one)

[wyd_marco]

"Oh this milk's expired"

*has an existential crisis*

[shaneskebab]

Jack Stauber fans: Yeah, that's him. Look at him go

Adult Swim fans: WHAT WAS THAT

[ckftomi]

The coffee lady with the “are you deaf?….I gotta skedadle but I’ll pray for your ears.” It gets me every time😂😂😂

[mezzomae_]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how fire these lyrics are?

"Dairy beloved...
your days are gone,
the grocery list goes on..."

Bravo, Jack!🔥👏

[mksterfire]

I really hope Adult Swim sees that we absolutely love when they work with Jack, and continue to make awesome stuff with him.

edit: Ive seen opal.

[toonslul]

Coffee: I’m a song about caffeine addiction
Cheese: There is a lot of cheese

[Guy]

"That shouldn’t be hard at all" *goes through the 5 stages of grief*

[Willow_I_Guess]

I love how the "vegan hot dog buns" guy bonked his head on a shelf that doesn't exist and the previous and following frames. absolutely love this video.

[HarperNell]

People are mentioning how every character looks like the food they represent, but the main character has the same swirl in his hair as the yogurt he ends up picking

[PieNumber]

"Was your dog artisanally bred?"
that's incredible

[Jotarokujo-cslv]

The constant “ are ya deaf “ is pretty funny

[matcha._.]

i like how a lot of the characters share the same traits as the things mentioned in the grocery list, like how the guy in the artisanal bread part looks like the loaf of artisanal bread, the guy’s head in the oatmeal part looks like a bowl of oatmeal, even the main character looks like the little yogurt sample