Truman Show was a straight up Horror flick about the publicly staged gaslighting of a studio owned slave for his entire life...

Also in Harry Potter, it seems like you can count on one hand the number of wizards/witches who think that nonmagical people have even the most basic human rights. Dunno if it made it into the movies, but I remember the Quidditch World Cup had a normal, nonmagical guy collecting entry fees, and every time he expressed how odd it was whenever some wizard didn't realize that they're supposed to pay with mundane money instead of gold doubloons, a wizard would dash out of the nearby shrubs and wipe the poor sap's memory. Seriously, that shit is disturbing. Why did it need to be a normal person with no knowledge of magic? Why couldn't it just be some wizard teenager getting paid minimum wage? Hell, why couldn't it be the asshole on mind-wiping duty? Because it was very explicitly shown that the repeated mindwipes was having lingering effects on the poor guy. He literally didn't know what *month* it was. What's the backstory there? Does some poor family think that their brother/son/father/whatever relation is suffering from some kind of early-onset dementia?

Nice Stranger Things group costume

I know they're Stranger Things, but Dan looks like a Golden Girl

After hours continues to be the most entertaining show on youtube

"Hold on, I'm losing track on who's actually a racist." Don't ever change, Michael.

the Dobler-Dahmer theory anyone? Any one act or gesture can be interpreted as lovable or creepy depending on the feeling of the recipient of the act to the perpetrator.

Really, creepy behaviour being categorised as romantic or cute is fairly common in movies.

The real horror about Harry Potter is that they've had limitless drinkable water for centuries and still let people die of cholera and dysentery, and other such diseases well into the 21st century, just because some jumpy fanatics tried to burn witches in a couple of isolated incidents in the middle ages. The real horror is that thousands of magical incidents which very well could be deadly affect muggles every year and are swept under the rug, their memories of it erased. The real horror is that consent altering "love potions" are sold to minors. The real horror is that despite having alternative sources of energy, the wizards still let the muggles destroy the earth with fossil fuels. And still use slavery well into a technological age where it should have become obsolete. The real horror is that cancer treatment potions weren't disclosed to muggles. The real horror is that tens of millions of people died in concentration camps around the world, or on the battlefield, whereas a couple of imperio curses could have prevented it all, if the wizards had only cared to look outside of their own community. The real horror is that the wizards seldom realize that the muggle's technology has surpassed theirs, and that the muggles have weapons infinitely more powerful than some "elder wand". The real horror is that the world is divided in a curtain of secrecy and hate, instead of being united under one righteous leader who could guarantee the greater good of all humans, end all war, and let science and magic benefit each other. The real horror is that Grindelwald lost and that Dumbledore won.

Actually the comparison between Damien and Harry was one of the weirdest but most real statements I've ever heard

The quarantine makes me miss this more, it was my favorite thing on cracked. Now I live vicariously through the screen, sitting with my friends who talk pop culture

Another After Hours? uggh. I only watch Cracked for the text based videos with no voice over.

Queue a million comments about how you're only subscribed to Cracked for After Hours

"I'm losing track of who's an actual racist."Best way to sum up this year

Literally just noticing this, where did Soren get that waffle?!

I have rewatched the shows about 5 times now and it’s still pure gold. I wish the After hours came back

"my teen years being filled with animal mishaps and wand explosions" 4:35 i laughed at this way too much.

Muggle's can't see Hogwarts, it just looks like an unsafe ruin to them

curb-stomped by decor. that's gonna be the name of my Nu metal band. who's with me?

If you're going to bring up anything from Harry Potter in this context, at least mention Dumbledore in passing. His actions have a field of potential interpretations that you just missed out on completely. So much so that he's become one of the most bipolar characters within the fanon, just working off of the books alone. Look at the first scene of the first book. Albus leaves an infant on the doorstep of people who he has been warned of, and who he knows - as he admitted himself later, at the end of the fifth book - who he knows will most likely mistreat the child at best. Not only this, but he does this in the dead of night, within the first few days of November. In Britain. He did not apply any sort of protective magic on the child that night, leaving him to the cold. Or to wake and wander off. Or to be noticed by a passing stranger or a hungry dog. Or to be stepped on by Vernon as he left for work the next day. Think what you will of Albus Dumbledore, but he left a child to die, knowing that if the child survived, he would grow up in a household that would mistreat him. In this context, I don't know how you can reference Harry, who during the instances you mentioned was but a child, but then fail to look into perhaps one of the most well known Harry Potter characters outside of Voldemort and Harry himself. Also, muggle repelling charms are noted multiple times throughout the series, as is the obliviation spell and a departement of the Ministry of Magic that's literally known as the Obliviators, who act much like your Men in Black reference in cases of magic.

I love the co-op with Cyanide & Happiness.

Dan is the only man that is just as adorable in awful 80s glasses as he is without. He's a favorite.

I like that Cyanide and Happiness is doing the animations for After Hours now.

Let's be honest here. This is the only reason a lot of us are still subscribed. Not complaining. Just stating a fact. I love this show.

Can you guys do a video about South Park, like what you did for the Simpsons.

Still watching in 2023 🤘

Werther's. Because you're werth it

British people wear trousers

Actually, I was totally creeped out by just about every scene in Love Actually. Such a bizarre movie that I found hard to take seriously.

"Now imagine if that power wasn't given to Mel Gibson but some lunatic who has no respect for women" like... Mel Gibson?

Love actually has been on After Hours way more times than any movie should.

back in "11 Movie Alternate Dimensions With Horrifying Downsides" Katie had considered living in Pleasantville but now she rightfully calls it a nightmare.

Swaim as the kid from Stranger Things is perfect

Omg! I love how they were character from Stranger Things this year. Katie was the sherif, Daniel was Barb, Soren was Eleven and Micheal was.....the one kid who did not have his front teeth I forgot his name! But still, that was good cause for a second I was thinking (hoping) they would talk about the series

Here in 2022, Cracked never rose back to its golden era. I get companies doing dumb stuff becasue of some potential to make money, but they could've just left Cracked alone.

Just as an aside, whoever reads this: If you haven't seen the Japanese movie Katie mentioned - House (or Hausu) - SEE IT. It's easily one of the just balls-out weirdest movies you will ever experience. It's not even a horror movie so much as a dark, dark comedy from the POV of psychotic ghosts.

Muggles/No Majs can't see Hogwarts, it just looks like a pile of ruins to them. It's in the books.

I feel that in some another, parallel world, there is a charming and wacky rom-com that's a prequel to our world's Jessica Jones netflix series.

"Much like H.P., my adolescence was a series of conspicuous animal mishaps and wand explosions."

This may seem weird but Dan looks...good in that outfit. Huh. The more ya know.

Is that Jesus working the grill?

thank god I'm not the only one who thought love actually is actually fucked up

I think you've used Beauty and the Beast a good few too many Times now, cracked.

I love how Soren keeps having these episodes where he is having a mental breakdown. Its funny to me

Is Daniel supposed to be Barb? Hot

that "once you become enlightened" bit wow shit was funny af😂

It started out strong, but then got confusing and kinda meh

What Women Want is disturbing, imagine a What Men Want. I have a feeling that film would end with the heroine becoming a lesbian.

I have now binge watched at least 50% of your channel in the course of a week

love the Stranger Things costumes!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

I have loved what you all have been doing with this specific part of Cracked, After Hours, for years! I absolutely love it please don't ever stop! At least for a very long time 😁 you 4 are great and what you do, analyzing pop culture and the like is beyond entertaining! Thanks so much for your time and effort and please keep it up! Fantastic, just bloody brilliant stuff!

Awesome. Love the show. Best on KZfaq!! Thanks for the great work!

"Monsters who feed on fear"? .... Monsters Inc, anyone?

All dressed as characters from stranger things my favourite is Daniel as Barb lol

It's been five years, and I still come back to these videos often 😩😩🤦🏾

I'm sooooooo glad u guys brought back after hours 😭😭😭😭😭 nvr stop plz

Well nice to see the only good content on this channel

if there is any movie that doesn't know its a horror its Eyes Wide Shut.

this is my fav thing in you tube, need episodes more often

This is instant gold; one of those episodes that is equal parts funny, insightful and actual brilliant ideas.

It took a solid 4 minutes for me to notice the Stranger Things outfits.

I totally came up with the Theory that Rowan Atkinson was meant to be Christmas Spirit in Love Actually! I never looked to see if it had already been come up with, but now I learn it was supposed to be in the original script. Makes sense now how I came to that conclusion. * sigh * Just another ingenious idea I've had that someone more successful than me had already come up with first. :/

Love that I can still watch this in 2020 and After Hours is one of the best things on KZfaq.

5:49 "Stop, my brain can't not categorize these!" Felt that. Don't need to burn resources and storage space on those brilliant titles for a passing joke

Cyanide & Happiness ftw!!!

These stranger things costumes are the best!!!!

This and OPCD are the main reason I'm on this channel.

Please bring this show back...I'm going weeks without watching these just so I can forget the genius banter and enjoy it like it's new.

If Rick Grimes came to my house with love cards I wouldn't be creeped out

Still the only show on cracked worth watching.

I wish they had played Skinner's line in that X-Files clip. His comeback to CSM there was one of my favorite Skinner scenes.

My favorite time of the month!!

Okay, Katie is Hopper, Michael is Dustin, Soren is Eleven, and Dan is Weird Al? The science teacher? Mike and Nancy's dad? WHO IS HE!!!?

Was that ending a reference to the Black Mirror episode "White Bear" ?

I JUST FUCKING REALIZED THAT THEYRE ALL CHARACTERS FROM STRANGER THINGS. OH LORD I LOVE THIS CHANNEL. PLEASE DONT EVER STOP MAKING AFTER HOURS. IT IS GENIUS

The opening of this episode has my favorite "someone states something and gets proven wrong immediately" jokes ever

flies to FRANCE ........ france. france

Took me a while to realize Dan was dressed as Barb

hello cracked team i love your stuff i fond you guys and gals on pluto tv the other day when i downloaded it on my xboxs 360 i die lol every night i watch keep up the good work

I'm happy y'all are back

Ok, so, I have to point this out. "No-Maj" is just the American wizard's term for muggles. Muggle is still the right word, just for England.

There are spells on the castle preventing muggles from seeing hogwarts or any other magic school.

this made me so happy I missed these guys. haven't watched them in forever

love the costumes! love the ending!!

*Breathes deep and lets loose the inner nerd.* Aaaaaaaaaaaactually MUGGLES (Hogwarts is in the UK, not North America!) don't and can't stumble into Hogwarts because there are, and I quote *"Powerful muggle repelling charms on every inch of the grounds and castle"* which make it look like a mouldy, rotting old pile of debris and ruins that are fenced off and labeled as 'dangerous' and which cause approaching muggles to *"Spontaneously remember things they suddenly have to do"* causing them to always turn around and leave if they get close. :'D I tried so hard not to post, but suddenly I was here, writing. Do you even Potter, bros?!

Why is Rick Grimes using signs to flirt with some random chick?

Don't get me wrong Jordan is amazing, but I really miss those after-hours! Four years later still gets me :)

I love the Soren subplot they're working on.

I love the costumes!!!!!!!!

Hogwarts is loaded with enchantments to keep muggles out

Do you guys collab with the guys over at Explosm, or have I just missed/never seen all these short clips from C&H?

I find it hilarious that I first took the 'actually they prefer to be called 'No Maj' now' as a joke, and then I saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Felt that way about MIB for YEARS!

oh god its 03:31am and I can't sleep

0:39 The best pickup line in history! "You ever wonder what it would be like to... die in a plane crash?"

yay thought artist upgrade! keep this series going!

Is Daniel supposed to be Barbara going to heaven?

"Dustin" got the muggle/no mag thing wrong. They don't prefer to be called no mag now. It's a difference of cultural slang. U.K. Peeps say Muggle and stateside it's no mag. PS Hufflepuffs rule!

3:54 if you had read the pottermore articles (or you know, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), you would know Hogwarts have extensive muggle-repelling charms, including one that makes it appear to be ruins to a muggle. There's also a muggle-repelling charm making muggles suddenly "remember" something they had to do, but I’m not sure if those were placed on Hogwarts.

Ah man, Love Actually struck a cord with me since day 1. It is terrifying for sure.