I love that I can see the thought process behind the giant snail. “Huh what do I do with all these extra brown mushroom blocks from collecting stems?”

Grian has become the very thing he swore to destroy. The government.

The permit office needs a break area where the clerk can AFK. It should have an inspirational poster that reads “People say nothing is impossible, but I’ve been doing nothing all day. “

The way Scar freezes in place snd stares at the juke box every time you play the hold music. Like a parrot with a blanket over it.

Hostile mobs and passive mobs should be 2 seperate permits just to make Scar fill out the form twice.

My absolute favorite thing about this episode is Scar just staring into the Jukebox like it's a phone.

Grian you should make the hermits join a queue at the permit office and "take a number" and just call out random numbers until you call theirs. Maybe even make a seating area thats just a couple chairs in the back corner and a rope queue line 😂 And it sure would be a shame if those snails found their way to the office! I cant even imagine how long it could get shut down due to reconstruction if the snails got their way with it 😰

Having watched Scar's pov first, knowing that Grian was out front watching Scar through the window while he was on hold is hilarious!

"Imagine if I got something REAL bad, like red sand for example!" Wels is a great guy.

Honestly the off camera vibe between Grian and Gem while they're secretly doing snail shenanigans must be great.

so glad to see this slow pace - not even getting an elytra and instead using free cam and horses everywhere is so lovely

Comments: It's been 6 days since he's uploaded, where is he? The episode title: Please Hold The accidental irony, he's an absolute genius.

Grian's government roleplay is turning Hermitcraft into a psychological horror game.

A few Scar quotes from this episode, "What's a blooben test?" "What's a boobin test?" "What's a bloomin test?" "What is the bloobenfall, bloomen te... bloomington test?"

"Please hold" -hold music starts and Scar stares at the jukebox for a long second- I died laughing. This episode was great and that music was on point. Well done all around!

I love how the music playing when scar’s put on hold is an elevator music style ‘work all day from the season 8 finale/build music *the nostalgia* 😭

Grain’s the type of guy to procrastinate procrastinating

The only thing missing from the hold music is "Your call is important to us, please hold" and the music not linking up right after the cut

I love the most likely accidental irony of it being a week since this dropped (we're on hold)

When Scar finally gets through the New Permit Process, tell him it's too late, someone else already got it. When he gets angry and wants to know who, tell him you now own it. Then give it to Wels as the Unknown Permit.

What if you build a "employee only" entrance to the permit office. And when anyone exept you uses it, an alarm goes of and the building goes on lockdown😂

"Imagine if I got something really terrible, like, I don't know, red sand or something." I love Wels.

I love how despite Gem being younger than most of the hermits (shes in her 20s i think) she still acts like an older sister 😭

You need to make the "other door". Hide it behind some bushes with a pathway that have so much space between the stones that it looks like a path for garden maintenance. Preferably the door leads to a ground floor/cellar. In the cellar you find a hallway that looks so unused that you walk out of the building before giving it another try. One of the questions in a form should include something like: "have you done this moderately frustrating task lately?" And if they do and say yes you'll go "why have you done that? Now you'll have to wait two full workdays before reposting the permit" If you want to take it further you'll remind them that the permit place is only open half a workday each week and that it means they'll have to wait four weeks before reapplying for a permit. Two of the questions(X and Y) should be like "if you've said yes on Y you must say no on X" and vice versa.

'Mumbo...' 'Is the snail big?'

Blooben Test: A test developed by scientists to test a patients quick thinking, perception skills, and attentiveness. This test has also strangely been known to involve blueberries.

That "put you on hold" bit... Hits soo close to home when i ask questions even the clerk doesn't know and literally asks me to stay on hold while she asks her supervisor how to handle a typo on my father's passport... Had me laughing to tears

*when the sun sets down over hermit town- you gotta work, work all day*

The motto for most Hermits this season appears to be either 'Working hard' or 'Hardly working.' And true to form, Grian never fails to deliver Tier S content. 😁

Now all green needs to do is hook up the jukebox with the music disc to a button so that way he can literally push a button to put you on hold

This is the best thing we have seen on Hermitcraft. For the past few days, my son keeps asking me "what is the base blooben test?" So I can out him on hold and pretend to be Scar!! 😂😂😂

I love that this season is a lot smaller builds, taking it easy and slowing down. Then enjoying the game and making fine details to make the limited space come alive!

Ten bucks says grian starts a rebellion against himself.

Grain went from starting resistances to resisting resistances to making a government corporation thats resists 😂

Bro has really left us on hold 😭

I thought of a few ideas with the permits' forms (which maybe other people thought of too, credits to them if that's the case) : - You should make a few questions that can invert or invalidate the other questions. For example, if the Hermits answer yes to "Does the item meet the criteria of the base blooben test ?", they would need to say no to "have you ran around Gem's base 10 times today". If they answered no to the first one, they would then need to say yes to the second one, or else it would be denied. You could make it change the needed answers of previous questions too - You could also set some questions that don't need to be answered if the Hermits said yes or no to the previous ones (or the next questions, so they don't know it in advance), like "Did you mine 3 diamonds in the past few weeks ?* (if yes proceed to page 15)", - Or questions referring to other pages which are not related at all ("How do you feel ? * see page 4" --> "what is your permit neeeded for ?"), just to make things more confusing - And you could also add some sort of survey system in which you ask the Hermits ' opinion in less than 4 words (depending on the answer, you may or may not accept their demand) - Oh and maybe add a verification system in which the Hermits need to prove their identity by filling another form, and make it super slow, like where they need a few minecraft day and night cycles to pass, before telling them if their identity has been confirmed, then that their form has been denied, and they need to wait a few minutes before filling another one (but you close the department for the day right before they finish it)

Tesco : every little helps Grian: I’ll do everything little thing to not help

"Imagine if I got something really terrible like I dunno Red Sand or something" MADE ME LAUGH SO MUCH I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT AT ALL XDDD

Honestly, the Plese Hold music is great to just fish to. Such a bop. But putting Scar on hold every time he asked about the Blooben Test, was fricken hilarious.

If you want a real challenge next hermitcraft season i got you. Everyone builds seperate bases which eventually makes an entire city every hermitcraft season so hear me out. I think next hermit craft series you guys should challenge yourselves to build only 1 massive mega build town nestled in an extremely large mountian range. You can split up the work based on each others strengths. No individual bases. Every hermit will be bunking together in a massive building like a manor or castle. And all resources are shared. Now the tough part. Everyone has 5 lives. And the world spawns a boss wither every week as well as a small army of mobs that try to destroy your build. Your jobs is to complete the build while defending it from the weekly raid against your city. And just for additional difficulty the wither army will spawn at a random time every week so you can't prepare everyone for it. I call this mode Mega Base Raids.

I think the only improvement he could make to the hold music is for it to stop occasionally and say “thank you for holding our staff are currently busy your inquiry is important to us and we will get back to you at our nearest convenience” meanwhile grian is just outside the window fishing in a pond

Grian the average office worker who has a passion for fishing, along with gem a lighthouse owner, being indoctrinated into a two person cult through the worship of the eldritch abominations known as 'The Snails' which fell from the stars to cause chaos.

9:37 i love how genuine this "noo" is

the honesty about the office hours and breaks is hilarious

Okay hear me out. Grian needs a ender stasis chamber with a button behind the counter that activates the hold music and teleports him away.

Grian and Gem just giggling after Scar baffles at the three snails is just... pure bliss ☺️ such strong sibling energy.

I like how when he puts scar on hold, he just looks at him and doesn’t even do anything.

Grian sneaking in work was the best part of my day

The Blooben Test is the most chobblesome piece of paperwork I've seen in a long time.

Grian putting Scar on hold is genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen since season 7. This is HILARIOUS.

grain's putting us on hold

18:08 I love how serious he’s taking it it’s hilarious 😂😂😂

Gem and Grian just being like "Those snails are such talented builders" over and over and scar just trying to talk to the snails lmao.

Idea: embrace the chest monster on the docks, and give them a sort of cargo crate theme, like how they have tons of barrels and crates on the little wooden platforms

4:30 If I had a nickel for every time Grian had said „Gem and I“ I would have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

7:05 I don't know why I laughed for no reason when I saw Scar's reaction 🤣

Wels absolutely already knowing about the red sand thing was hilarious! And the permit office is horrifying, as it should be. You can really feel the fear and discontempt rolling off of Scar in waves.

As a suggestion to make it even more governmental: To even have access to the MJYAAFK06 as shown in the video in the first place, the hermits need to fill out a Y2K86 Form and a MYJAAFK06 Form. Here is a basic idea for the forms: Y2K86: - Username - Date Of Birth - Place Of Birth - Location Of Residence (xyz coordinates of their front door) MYJAAFK06: - Username - Date Of Birth - Place Of Birth - Location Of Residence (xyz coordinates of their front door) - Item For Which The Permit Is Necessary - Pledge That All The Information In The Form Is Complete And True For any document that requires a location of a front door, if the Hermit in question doesn't have a front door (a.k.a. Mumbo), they must fill in form BBBBB12, which requires 4 coordinate points that create a perimeter around their base, proof of residence (which needs to be notarized by a legally approved Hermit), and proof that the residence does not include a front door (which needs to be notarized by a DIFFERENT legally approved Hermit). That form must be attached to ANY document that requires a location of a front door. On top of those two forms, they need to hand in a valid piece of identification, which must include, well, you probably guessed by now. Once they've done that, a file is open in their name with a unique 6 digit number, which they are given verbally at the same time as the MJYAAFK06 Form. They MUST remember that number and give it to you back once the form is filled in, otherwise they can't access their file and have to restart the process. And, of course, if they don't submit the completed MJYAAFK06 Form with their file number within a certain time limit of it being issued to them, you close their file and they have to restart the whole process. Basically, have them fill out multiple forms, with redundant information, to even be allowed to have access to the actual form, and include a lot of unnecessary paperwork that is easy to lose and with similar names that are easy to confuse. (Can you tell that this was inspired by actual events?)

I think the permit office will be one of my favorite jokes of the season

You capturing Scar's reaction to Larry is just fantastic.

Grian has ended up doing more work than actually just giving the Hermits their Permits

"Welcome back to the next episode of Permitcraft" I'm gonna miss Fishcraft.

The putting scar on hold bit gave me some really good giggles and I need that after a stressful few days with academics

Dude I wish these episodes would come out quicker I am running out of things to watch

I love how Wels watches everyone's videos, so he knows everything lol

Grian is already giving scar a pavlovian reaction to the words: "I'm gonna have to put you on hold" The entire bit is genius grian!

Grian, alongside the other hermits, are the most genuine, fun, funny, creative, and wholesome minecraft youtubers I’ve ever seen. Never mass producing videos, just documenting their work on the hermitcraft server. Never skitting it or turning it into a story, just building and having genuine fun.

The Permit Office, might be one of my favourite bits on the hermit server!

The base blooben test, when performed properly, properly displays the findle accuracy of the base's disynchronous glostules. It makes sense the the Permit Department would request such a task given that all shops divulge multicapillarity signals to the central server founded on yelkim quilt technology. Without a positive test result from the Base Blooben Test, the woldreskic templistuists could be misaligned leading to a staggering zundfine shutdown across all grystic access terminals. Hopefully this can be helpful for all inquiring. ❤

You need to set up a website where you sort of explain the questions but it gets more confusing. Then you can answer, "everything is on the website."

Popping down here again, to say THANK YOU again, for the wonderful, color-coded captions. I appreciate them so much :) thank you!

Idea: Car alarm made with bells of mob head note block sounds that goes off every 5 minutes

The amount of psychological trauma scar is going to get from that hold music is going to be INSANE. I’ve seen ptsd but now every music disk scar sees will probably trigger fight or flight

Honestly I like the "please hold" song, it is pretty catchy and I like seeing people stress over if Brian will come back or not

19:00 strong "in the beninging" vibes

It’s the return of Gary the snail

2:09 Scar calling out Larry the Snail from Season 7 is perfect and made my day (:

Add a "vent" (trapdoor) on one of the sides as the main entrance so they have to crawl through the ventialation to get in.

Griannnn we’ve been on hold for a whole week 😢😢

Grian... you are SADISTIC... I love it.

What if you set up more music discs that would randomly play advertisements for the DHP or your own shops when you put someone on hold. Might be a lot of work, but would surely annoy the hermits more during a hold period. You could also make a profit by allowing hermits to sell advertisements to their shops for a high price. Great work on the episode Grian!

scar, gem, and grians dynamic with the big snail is giving “older brother playing along with younger siblings” and i love it ( 3:09 )

We need an upload schedule…..😢

Grian I have written something add it to a book it will explain what base blooben test is for whoever asks The Base Blooben Test: A Comprehensive Exploration of Incongruity Abstract The Base Blooben Test (BBT) is an enigmatic and paradoxical assessment framework designed to evaluate the inherent absurdity of any given situation, concept, or existential quandary. By delving into the murky depths of illogical reasoning, the BBT aims to redefine the boundaries of rationality while simultaneously obfuscating them. This treatise endeavors to elucidate the intricacies of the BBT, although its very existence defies coherence. Chapter 1: Genesis of Blooben 1.1 The Primordial Blooben The origin of the term “blooben” remains shrouded in cosmic ambiguity. Some posit that it emerged from the collision of quarks during a cosmic tea party, while others attribute it to the clandestine musings of interdimensional hedgehogs. Regardless, the primordial blooben embodies both uncertainty and whimsy. 1.2 Quantum Blooben Mechanics In the subatomic realm, blooben particles exhibit peculiar behavior. They oscillate between existence and nonexistence, occasionally pausing to engage in interpretive dance. Schrödinger’s Blooben Cat, suspended in a superposition of confusion, epitomizes this phenomenon. Chapter 2: Bloobenology 2.1 Taxonomy of Blooben Creatures The Blooben Kingdom comprises an array of nonsensical life forms: Fluffernoodles: Furry entities that subsist on paradoxical soup. Gobbledygooks: Linguistically challenged beings fluent in gibberish. Squishyblorps: Gelatinous blobs with a penchant for existential crises. 2.2 Blooben Ecosystems Blooben habitats defy geographical logic. The Floating Forest of Incongruity hovers above the Abyss of Absurdity, where gravity wears mismatched socks. Chapter 3: Bloobenometry 3.1 Measuring Bloobenosity The Blooben Quotient (BQ) quantifies the degree of bloobenosity. It ranges from “Mildly Peculiar” to “Cosmically Bizarre.” Notable BQ benchmarks include: Planck Blooben: The smallest unit of absurdity. Galactic Blooben: Sufficiently mind-bending to warp spacetime. Chapter 4: Practical Applications 4.1 Blooben Engineering Quantum Blooben Computers: Process information by simultaneously solving and forgetting equations. Blooben Bridges: Connect disparate realities, often collapsing under the weight of paradoxes. 4.2 Blooben Ethics Is it ethical to feed fluffernoodles to gobbledygooks? The BBT remains silent, perhaps chuckling in its own cryptic way.

Grian should make a book shelf within the office with a variety of books "explaining" the various tests and terms on the forms, and tell the hermits that they need to go study them, but have a bunch of random similarly named things in the books, and have no (understandable ) organization system for the books, so the hermits have to flip through like a dozen books to find what they are looking for

You should make a line of armour stands in the permit office with a sign saying “please wait in line” lol

grian casually going “huh, I didn’t know they could build” at 2:45 is so funny, it’s so reminiscent of the john mulaney horse in a hospital elevator bit to me

Some random ideas for the form that have probably already been suggested: - Which other permits do you think the new permit will synergize with? - Have you obtained written permission from the holder(s) of these permits? [could be another form] - Have you already chosen a location in the shopping district to set up a shop related to the proposed permit? - Have other Hermits close to that location been informed about your plans? [note: not "asked for permission/consent/etc", and actually informing people could be counted as "bad" answer] - How much space will a shop related to the new permit require? - How many different block types is going to be used for the shop? (round to nearest multiple of 7.64) - What is the expected sales volume for the new permit? - Which Hermit (other than yourself) do you think would be best qualified for this permit? - [much later] Would you be willing to deliver the new permit to your nominated Hermit from question XY yourself? - Describe why you think your proposed permit was not included in the initial set of permits. [preferably at end of page with no/little space below] - Will sales related to the proposed new permit create any hazards for the other Hermits? - If no, would you be willing to artificially introduce some hazards? - Is the shop going to be spawn-proof? - Why? [as followup to spawn-proof, but would also work nicely as random question anywhere]

I appreciate Grians commitment to turn hermitcraft into a Kafkian nightmare.

I LOVE the "Work all day" hold music. It makes me so happy to see callbacks to past seasons and Grian music like that :))). Jono knocked it out of the park!!!

Make the office only open during the night - then you can only access it when someone doesn't sleep

1. How many blocks wide will the entrance to your shop be? 2. Will your shop offer a loyalty program for spiders and their riders? 3. How many different colors of wool will be visible from the front window? 4. Can customers expect free samples of cake upon entering? 5. Is there an in-shop navigation system for those who can't read maps? 6. Will your establishment be implementing a strict no-creeper policy? 7. How do you plan to handle disputes over the last piece of pie? 8. Do you have a designated parking area for pigs and other rideable animals? 9. Will there be a secret handshake for members of your loyalty program? 10. Is your shop prepared to host unexpected music disc release parties? 11. How many varieties of fish will be included in your indoor aquarium, if any? 12. Do you offer a "find the hidden chest" game for a discount? 13. Will there be a special discount for players wearing pumpkin heads? 14. How will you ensure that your shop remains floatable in case of sudden floods? 15. In the event of an impromptu dance-off, do you have a designated area cleared for such activities?

“Permit craft.” Just wonderful.

The fact that the jingle of the hold music is from the song “Work” and grain is using the music for exclusively the opposite, is hilarious to me in a way I cannot even begin to describe

The subtitles on these videos are so great. I’m not hearing impaired but it enhances the videos SOOO MUCH!!

Just had an idea, what if you used the interactive bookcases to make a hidden room you can escape to when you put someone on hold? The idea being you would add or remove a book from a specific case that would activate a piston/trap door that closed shortly after. You would put someone on hold, use the bookcase, then run away into a hidden room or through an escape tunnel.

"What's the Blooben test?" "I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to provide legal advice."

Form "Mumbo Jumbo you are AFK" with a reference to season 6? The music, the forms, the suit- This is a very nostalgic episode.

Idea's to make permit office a better customer experience. 1. Take a number and now helping number board. 2. When customer reaches desk. Ask for customer's ID and send them off to fetch it. Restart at #1. 3. Give form to be filled out. Restart at #1 4. Send customer to another office to get required secondary form. 5. Inform customer that they will have to apply for an environmental study.

I'd love a compilation of grian and gem doing snail shenanigans at the end of the season/snail storyline