The Dark Side Of Jobs (DHMIS)

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Timestamps
0:00 When Nostalgia & Horror Meet
2:00 intro Analysis
3:20 Episode 1 Analysis
29:20 Replicating Puppet Shows

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[theonlynightmarionne]

So am I the only one that noticed on the board with those jobs one of them was slug

[emilornbrynjuson]

The first song is also a good commentary on childhood education when it comes to jobs, or atleast how they're portrayed to children. Very on the nose. "You can be anything you want to be, anything you want to do!" While talking about stuff like football players, ice cream men and astronauts. Before the trio's ultimately lured into and abandoned in the workplace the episode takes place in. It's a very striking portrayal of how people talk about jobs to children, about how there's always gonna be a right one for you that you'll love so much it won't even feel like work, but the monotonous factory breaks that illusion pretty quick.

[finpin]

The therapy bit was definitely interesting to me. The "I'm not stressed, I'm unemployed" almost has a double meaning to me because I feel like a lot of times, people get diagnosed with various mental illnesses when the actual issue they're dealing with is poverty or the stress of low income living.
People are given all these kind of "coping mechanisms" to deal with that struggle because the actual root of the problem CANNOT be addressed without changing the way society itself works.
DHMIS manages to fit so much meaning and satire into such short segments, it's genuinely very impressive.

[Pining_for_the_fjords]

Despite all the dark imagery and themes of this episode, I found it adorable that yellow guy's wife was a spanner and their daughter was a yellow spanner.

[katrinafraser]

The very casual use of “ciggies” over “cigarettes” is absolutely taking me out, what a gem

[mikewilson]

Duck as the representative of the elderly is also a commentary on how the people of the older generation, who should be retired and living reasonably comfortably are often put back into a work place they no long have the capabilities to match, and instead forced to become outcasts and liabilities.

[soulslvr]

I think the Carehound is supposed to be something akin to a workplace therapist or HR. Where their goal isnt to make you better but to make you in working shape again. Their goal isnt to help you its to put you back in line and spit you out after theyre done with you.

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[LaurenTheFriendlyGhost]

The bit with the stress tactics actually hit me in a way, because as someone that struggles with stress and bad anxiety- being told to do those things makes me mad bc they just *don’t* work

[coneheadzigity]

fun fact: in the workplace the bits and parts are going into the grinder just to be turned into blobs of clay again, its an eternal loop just like the show and the workers aren't realizing that the parts are just something they just made only back the way it was, somewhat like yellow and duck.

[Yuti]

I love how Roy is still just casually hidden everywhere

[gustavogodoy]

Love how yellow guy is implied to be a challenged young kid, yet they put him to work immediately to the assembly line with no more security measures than a panic button

[whichcache]

What's funny to me is that when Duck Guy asks the workers where Mr. Briefcase is, they point at the First Aid Kit, which makes you think that they don't understand what they're talking about, only for that to be foreshadowing of where he's hiding.

[thewclar_]

The "You could be anything you want to do" is such an interesting line, because it basically sais that you are only determined by your work, going to the "It wont even feel like a job" thing.

[Aspen]

Brendon's unpublished book is called The Ultimate Forgiveness. I searched and there is actually a book titled The Ultimate Forgiveness Formula: Understand The Different Aspects Towards Self Forgiveness. Just another bit of proof that the only way this world can truly end is if Lesley forgives herself and starts to move on with handling her trauma.

[scorchercast]

I think the reason friendly scary is so effective is because is directly broadcasts I’ll intent without showing any clear threat. There being nice and friendly but it’s clearly a front and you know it. There trying to get you to lower your guard and cox you. They could be reading up to jab you with a syringe, lurer you into a trap, or distract you as the second guy sneak up to with a bat.

With something clearly threatening you can access, track, and plan for the danger. With someone being fake nice you know that the danger exist but you can’t know what it is so your hyper alert taking not of every small detail looking for the crack in there performance that’ll reveal what there trying to do. It enforces paranoia as untill you find the threat everything becomes the threat, from the implications of the words they use to the sounds of off to your left.

[CTHopper]

I had a theory that the vending machine's food is what children think adults get at work all the time. From their point of view the lasagna is warm food or leftovers from last night they take with, an amazing meal they often don't get to take with to school. Kids also see smoking as an adult thing so it makes sense this vending machine supplies the workers with this during a break. Then finally the hot water seems a lot like how they would describe coffee: warm, pitch black and something that LOOKS nasty but their parents can't get enough of it.

[Arachnoid]

You forgot to mention when the vending machine asks yellow guy about his child, which foreshadowed him having a family.

[Fenriskoll]

This episode really hits home. Especially the vending machine. And the bosses. And the accidents/injuries.

[lunarwvrld]

At the beginning of the "workplace" bit when everyone wants to get out, Duncan points to the first aid kit to tell them that that's where the briefcase is. When yellow gets hurt at the end duck opens the same first aid kit and reveals that it was, in fact, the briefcase. Maybe all of the workers are forced to be there in some way, kind of like the phone who was stuck to the table. I have a feeling that it was a warning.

[nyx]

the song/ briefcase kinda remind me of how it feels to go from education where you are helped to find what you can do in the future but in the end once your education if done you don't have that, you can't really be anything any more and have no one to tell you what to do so you have to figure it out yourself