What about the Kingdom from Tangled? The king and queen seem pretty decent, I mean, the royal guard is a bit useless seeing as the Horse seems to be the most effective part of it, but then all the bad guys are actually pretty friendly so long as you have a sing-along.

So far Dan is at 28, Kate is at 27, Soren is at 26, and Michael is at 24 wins.

Tears in my eyes watching all the after hours in 2019

"It's delightful Katie" "F*cking delightful as sh*t" Best part of the video! I love these After Hours videos, this one was one of the funniest ones I've seen

I dunno if they were quite fair to Emperor's New Groove. Sure, at the START of the movie, it's a tyrannical hellhole. But the entire plot of the story is about the Emperor learning to not be a dick and appreciate the underclass. By the end of the film, he's happily mingling with the commoners and hanging out with his BFF the... um... lower-class laborer of some sort. (Did they ever specify that?) Either way, by the end of the movie ancient Inca is a pretty groovy place to live.

I'd put in for a transfer to Atlantis: The Lost Empire. 1) No singing Princess. In fact, not only is Kida supermodel hot, she also serves in the Altantian military so she's like the Bar Rafeli of Atlantis. 2) Hoverfish: Roads where we're gong we don't need roads. In 1910, you can zip around in your own flying hammerhead. Spanish flu might get me in the end, but only if it can fly. 3) Longevity: the Atlanteans aren't immortal but living thousands of years is good enough. 4) Many opportunities. You want to live as a simple fisherman, grab a net and start casting. You want to study ancient civilization, grab a journal and get cracking. You want to build mechanical marvels there are plenty advance tech waiting to be repurposed or reversed engineer. Atlantis has it all.

About Beauty and the Beast: Most people assume that Beast was the prince of Belle's area, but some princedoms are very tiny. He might not be *their* ruler. Also, nowhere does it say *every* piece of furniture is a corresponding servant. For instance, her wardrobe talks to her but I don't remember the bed doing so. So broken furniture does not immediately imply murderer.

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What about Moana? I know that she's not technically royalty, bu neither is Pocahontas. Moana is a strong, competent leader, she has years of experience in ruling, she saved the world from darkness, taught her people how to sail and fish, has an extended knowledge of agriculture which she uses to ensure lush field and groves of fresh crops. And you get to live on ocean front property. Sounds like a sweet gig.

I would have chosen Rapunzel's Kingdom.

In fairness the Beast only had people as furniture because of the same enchantress that turned him into a beast.

"It's fucking delightful as shit."

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"Your invitations were eaten by peregrine falcons!"😂😂😂😂😂

You forgot about Atlantis from Atlantis: The Lost Empire (everyone does). They're all immortals living a perfect life and even the normal people get a good deal in the end

Wreck-It Ralph. There are plenty of kingdoms in the video game multiverse; take your pick.

SOREN IS AN ACTUAL DISNEY PRINCE CONFIRMED!

Finally, moar disney! and as a norwegian, the kindgom in frozen wouldnt be too bad.. the terrible weather they had, we call it spring and fall... you dont wanna see winter.

Just commenting because this video deserves to still be getting comments. Miss these four, and this show.

Sleeping Beauty! Your surrounded by Eyvind Earle paintings, and the worst thing that happens is that everybody has to take a nap.

Clearly, you're all forgetting the rescuers, where you can live, as normal you, and children in abusive relationships are rescued by super intelligent mice. I can't even begin to tell you how much better my life would be if I had little mice take care of my drunk father back before I was irreparably damaged... and I'm counting it, because I think it's in the same universe as Great Mouse Detectivesame, which has a kingdom... not entirely sure.

All I can imagine now is majestic, sword wielding, rocket skate wearing bears in the Pridelands. Thanks Michael. Thanks a lot.

Still love watching these in 2020. Screw Cracked for firing the BEST group ever.

i always belived the destroyed furniture in Beast castle was the furntiture he had before the servants and he were cursed

"There are no bears in the savanna, Michael." 😂

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The shoe thing from Cinderella was NOT the prince's idea.

I don't buy the argument that the Beast destroying his bedroom furniture means he murdered people. There had to be just plain old beds and dressers all over the place, not every piece of furniture in the castle used to be a person. That would mean that the prince, who ruled a kingdom and was incredibly wealthy, lived in an entirely empty, unfurnished castle; that he and all the servants slept on the floor and ate with their bare hands for years before they ever got cursed.

what about the kingdom of tangled that shit looked beautiful

I'd live in Atlantis from the Atlantis movie. Just entering a cultural renaissance, joined the surface in the early 20th century plus the Leviathan which would kick ass as a defensive force for the country and a shield so they can't be nuked by jealous foreign governments, plus you get to be fucking immortal (or close to it) I mean Kida's 8000 years old and looks like she's in her twenties and the crystal thing prevents disease so that's some effective universal health care.

Being a baker in Belle's time would net you a very short lifespan. Bakers until very recently in history lived an average lifespan of 30 to 45 years tops. They had a documentary on Victorian bakers, and all the ills it entailed.

"It's f*cking delightful as sh*t, Katie" makes me laugh EVERY TIME.

>calls Elsa a teenager >I'm 21 Darn it Daniel...

Dat blond dude w/ da cape @ d end doe, WHAT A BEAST!!!

7:21 That's funny, 'cause the Duke of Weselton is actually a bit of a misogynist in the Broadway musical.

"You hit the falcon that ate your bird?" Last two minutes killed me.

The Tangled kingdom would be dope. people in town are nice. There are robbers and ruffians but they have dreams and aren't that bad. p.s. the guards were right pretty much the whole time. bad prison system tho... but what are u gunna do

it is delightful *delightful katy* delightful *fucking delightful as shit*

In defence of Cinderella it was established at least 2 years ago the shoe magically changes itself so that it fits Cindy specifically. Also the actual best kingdom to live in is Corona from Tangled, the princess is the most social able royalty ever and there's a good chance that members of the criminal underworld all have a soft side, you just have to deal with an annoying lady in waiting.

8:09 "My internal monologue is happening out loud!" - Soren That whole end card was priceless. Just amazing.

The best Disney kingdom to live in is actually modern-day Hawaii as seen in Lilo & Stitch, which is technically still a kingdom.

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I would still say emperors new grove, the old man wasn't executed, just thrown out, and pre-adventure you'd only have to worry about having to deal with the emporor building something he wanted on your land. post adventure it would be awesome cause all the corruption is out of the gov't and the emporor is pretty cool to his people apologizing in person for his past transgressions. There doesn't seem to be much of a criminal element outside of the corruption too.

This was a damn well written episode, bravo!

Elsa was 21. Anna is the teen. She's 18.

The Sword in the Stone! I don't know much about the actual King Arthur-Legends, but the kingdom in that movie looked like a pretty chill place

Katie is the best! She has a pretty solid class analysis in every video.

Not an episode for over 2 years. They really had faith in the continuation of this series.

I would go with Atlantis an Ancient Kingdom with ridiculous amount technology like personal healing/anti-aging crystal, awesome transportation, lasers, and a city force field to defend the island from pesky invaders (while the Levitation beats the crap of them). More than likely if I was citizen of this empire I could probably be a fisherman fishing for those crazy looking lobsters.

Oh come on. Aryndelle would be great to live in. Post-Frozen, Elsa proves herself to be confident, tough yet fair, and smart (when her anxiety isn't taking over). But to balance her out is Anna, who can totally handle being her vizier or something. For a small coastal kingdom, things look pretty good. Happy townspeople that have managed to get on without a huge amount of government oversight, nobody bothered to claim the throne in the absence of the king and queen, Elsa was largely respected on her coronation day. Solid import/export economy, everyone's got nice homes, they're living in a Scandinavian Fjord, which has harsh winters but nobody seems to fussed about it. Even when Elsa freezes the castle town everyone is more worried about Elsa than they are the magic ice. I think it'll be ok.

Two things on Cinderella: 1. The word for squirrel fur (vair) sounds like the word for glass (verre), so the original probably featured a fur slipper that was later changed as wordplay. 2. "Fur slipper" was probably a euphemism. The Prince spent the night trying out all the young ladies and recognized Cinderella in the morning because she had a tight fit

I know a lot about Pocahontas since I'm from one of the Powhatan tribes (the Pamunkey, which was the tribe to which Pocahontas and her father belonged (that movie was terrible, by the way (I mean it was wrong in every way it could possibly be wrong (geographically, historically, linguistically)))). But anyway, Jamestown kind of got wrecked by famine after John Smith left and they turned to cannibalism, Pocahontas left to England and everything was okay until Chief Opchanacanough (Pocahontas's uncle) marched into Jamestown and slaughtered a whole bunch of people, then the settlers killed the Chief and more or less condemned the remaining natives (who'd died through illness and the war) to a life on crappy reservations in the swamplands of eastern Virginia. All that happened in about 40 years. So what I'm saying... Pocahontas's Kingdom ain't a swell place to live.

7:50 - I just love the shot of him throwing plastic can things into the water.

That "You ate the falcon that ate your bird?" In the end was priceless 😂

God I miss this series. Still awesome to rewatch. Hope the gang is doing well.

The character growth of these guys is amazing

You didn't touch the political mirage to foster peace and prosperity between nations in "sleeping beauty". That seems aright aside from the evil sorceries that one time putting everyone to sleep, which being honest weddings are super long, who wouldn't like a nap in the middle? Also, in Cinderella, a young women gets made up, by magic, to look super great and turn some heads, and when she does in fact turn said heads your go to is sexism...? How about "hey top self work there fair god mother. The outfit you conjured up to be an attention grabber worked like a charm". You might want to evaluate your preconceived notions on the difference between admiration and objectification.

It's fucking delightful as shit, Katy!

Actually in Cinderella 3 they made the shoe fit Anastasia and they brought her to the prince. The he was like "actually get out you look nothing like that hot blonde girl."

"F***ing delightful as sh*t" is going on a T-Shirt. That's too funny to throw away.

RIP Cracked.

"so do all kingdoms and queendoms suck?" Yes.

When it comes to the Beast being a murderer. When I was a kid I just figured that destroyed stuff was the original furniture from the castle. You don't really see much of it as it's been replaced by the people turned into furniture.

This is definitely improving with age. I appreciate the new edits and graphics quite a bit - keeps you laughing. Great job Cracked.

:) still my favourite KZfaq show. What about the kingdom in tangled? Seems pretty sweet, floating lanterns parties? Awesome horses!

Did I miss them mentioning 'the Black Cauldron'? or "The Sword in the Stone"? or "Princess Orgasma's Palace of Delights"? That last one might not be Disney, come to think of it...

I love it in Cinderella that the Prince's criteria is SOLELY(get it?) the shoe fitting. Like he spent an entire evening with Cinderella, yet he doesn't remember what she looked like? Why see if the shoe fits on some random woman who might not even be the same weight, ethnicity, or whatever feature as the girl he was so smitten with that he desired to marry her.

Definitely my favorite Cracked series. Love these guys.

- Beauty and the Beast: Before Belle was taken prisoner, none of the villagers even knew about the Beast. They all thought Belle's father was crazy when he said his daughter was taken by a monster. Clearly Beast wasn't fucking with them and living there before the movie would have been great, if you can live without internet (which you would have to anyway, it's the one drawback all these kingdoms share). Gaston wasn't the village leader he was just a popular guy. Him being illiterate would have been fairly common in rural France in the 1700s because it was a hunting/agricultural society. It's kind of like when people point out that Hogwarts doesn't teach architecture or whatever, it's just not a skill that's necessary in his daily life. As for sexism, he clearly could have gotten with any other girl (and at least one guy) in the village but wanted Belle because she was more than a pretty face with nothing behind it. Yeah, pretty sexist. He thought a girl reading was weird but again, 18th century rural France, not a useful skill in that time and place, etc. Plus, it's a place where homosexuality was viewed in an EXTREMELY progressive way for the time. Nobody batted an eye in the new one when LaFou started massaging Gaston's ears and fell into his arms. - Cinderella: The prince went to every woman in the kingdom and had them try on the glass slipper before finally finding Cinderella. So either nobody in the entire kingdom had the same shoe size as her (fairly unlikely) or he found some matches, asked them if they had been at his ball, and they said no so he moved on. Judging by the step-sisters' actions, I'm guessing the whole deal with having them try on the glass slipper was to weed out all the girls who wanted to marry the prince and would be willing to lie about being the one he danced with. - Little Mermaid: I kind of feel like Prince Eric's kingdom wouldn't be that fantastic after a while. I mean, the new princess will eventually tell people about her life before coming to the kingdom and everyone would find out that their entire economy is based on killing sentient beings. Even if they have the land and infrastructure to start being an agricultural society (they almost certainly don't), do you eat pork and beef? I mean the fish were sentient without your knowledge, who's to say the cows and pigs aren't too? These people have a pretty big decision to make in the near future and I don't envy them at all. - Pinocchio: Wasn't mentioned in the video. Why? It would be awesome. You would just live your life, with the bonus that all the assholes get turned into donkeys when they're kids. Sure it's unpleasant to think about but seriously, all the worst people get taken out of society before they get to grow up and do anything that could cause any serious damage. In the OPCD video on the movie, one of the points is that the child to donkey carnival place is never shut down, but what if that was on purpose? What if Jackass Island is a thing everyone knows about but doesn't talk about? You may say dystopia, but I say world where Donald Trump is pulling a cart somewhere.

What about Corona from Tangled? That looks like a pretty nice place to live. There's some nice people, they got a bar full of thugs who are big softies and the king and queen seem like genuinely nice people. And they know how to throw a party! You have a whole day of dancing and chalk drawing and cupcakes and lantern lighting like a big 4th of July. They even threw one for a whole week that was so crazy, Eugene was too drunk to remember it. I guess the downside is that the guards are so inept at their jobs they have to rely on a horse. Granted it's the Javert of horses but they treat a horse like authority. So... maybe take some interest in home security and you'll be set.

I love the new stuff you guys are doing. The little effects/animations. Keep it up.

I love you all ( and your fellow writers). Seriously, you should consider writing a movie around this show!

To be fair, the guy Kuzco threw out that window survived...and it apparently WASN'T the first time that happened.

I demand more cracked after hours

YESSSS! I've been waiting for the new episode!! ❤️

I cannot get enough of these. More, please!!

Emperor's New Groove is the greatest animated film ever made..!

I lost it at "majestic bear"

The kingdom from Tangled seemed pretty well put together. I mean its guard weren't the brightest, and everybody gets together to celebrate a (probably dead) baby princess every year, but other than that we don't really see any problems.

After hours is the closest I'll get to sitting with friends in a restaurant during this pandemic

Atlantis seems an awesome place I mean the magic crystal are the best health care ever, their life spam is ridiculous Kidda is over 8000 years and still a hot young adult in their twenties, fishers seems pretty happy, they just united to the XX century surface, the shield around the now island make it imposible to be bombarded or nuked, instead of cars that waste the enviroment you have flying fishes that run of your health care ID, architecture, enviroment and pets are awesome and their Queen actually take leading the place as serious bussines and due to her being in the army she obviously know how to rule but also is very diplomatic and caring of her people is the perfect place to live

Greece hasn't had a king for decades though

"It's fucking delightful as shit." Soren Bowie, January 2017

New episode! So excited!

I miss these videos 😩😭😭

the end was the best, you ate the falcon that ate your bird?!?

Beast didn't curse his staff, the witch just decided that "if you work for him you must be just as bad and deserve to be cursed too."

hands down the best written show on youtube

Intelligent nitpicking on something i dont care about, ahhh everything is right with the world

"They eat their poor."

Lol.. I've already begun to rewatch all of the after hour episodes. Such a great show. Great cast and writing

"Baha! Are we talkin' about *frogs*?" Is my new favorite Soren quote. His excitement is so weird and pure

Am I dreaming?? New after hours and it isn't even my birthday

There are (by my count) four Disney movies that have very good rulers and societies. Brother Bear, Atlantis, Tangled and Tarzan. Feel free to agree or disagree.

Never stop making these!

The kingdoms from either Tangled or Moana would be great--Rapunzel's domain if you want a generally chill European setting, and Moana's island(s) if you want a lower-tech but even more harmonious existence. For that matter, Queen Elsa's kingdom would likely be amazing to live in--your Ice-Goddess ruler is all set to dominate the known world with her endless legions of Ice soldiers, while all her subjects just kick back and reap the rewards of being citizens of a medieval superpower (AND the CryoEmpress is single, and lonely, and you might have a shot at landing that sweet Consort gig).

Atlantis: The Lost Empire had a pretty decent thing going on before the film started and, presumably, after it ended. Like the village from Pocahontas but without the unpleasantness that came in the future. Brave is a mixed bag. On one hand, it's pretty standard medieval fare and the worst thing you have to worry about is the odd bear. But the problem comes when you realize that every single solitary man in that film is a dumbass. That might be lovely for women for a little while, but having to deal with, and then be courted by, and then marry, and then procreate with, someone who is that stupid is probably not going to go over all that well.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Corona from Tangled! A huge library, parties, dancing with the princess in the town square. Lantern party every year!

After Hours and the Rescue Missions - the best installments of cracked! Thanks, guys (and gals and *)!