this is truly the greatest thing i have ever watched on youtube

talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it

Margot Robbie saw this video and thought I gotta make a movie about all this

My theory is that Olive was actively trying to get Nervous to die by neglect so Grim would come back, and that’s why he got taken away 😶😶

jesse uploading a feature length DOCUMENTARY about her special interest? i’m sat.

Olive didn't give Nervous up for adoption, he was taken away by social services because of neglect! Olive has a memory of it in the sims 2

you know it's the best youtuber when they have a 4 hour video, and don't have AUTOMATED SUBTITLES.

shirt idea: raise your hand if you've ever been personally victimized by Agnes Crumplebottom

jesse saying she doesn’t like Shakespeare because she doesn’t think she understands it, then beautifully summarizing the tragedy and idiocracy of the generational feud between the montagues and the capulets killed me

When I die, I want people to love and remember me like Simmers love Bella Goth.

Ive just realized- I have ADHD and struggle A LOT with executive dysfunction. A great analogy would be that I feel like a sim with low autonomy that my simmer has forgotten about. I sit around waving at the camera saying my environment is too dirty, but theres no one there to initiate the task.

JESSE. IM THAT PERSON THAT KEEPS ASKING FOR THE HOT TUB DRAMA SHIRT. I WANT ALL OF IT. YOUR DESIGNS ARE 1000 TIMES BETTER THAN THE OFFICIAL SIMS MERCH. PLEASE.

am in tears. having a mental breakdown. life is awful. i open youtube. this is the first thing i say. my evening has been rescued. the world is good

caliente > alien got an actual gasp from me.

Also i want to add that the idea of time travelling to the past on sims 3 IS NOT out of the ordinary since LITERALLY THE EXPANSION PACK TO THE FUTURE EXISTS

Sewing my wedding dress and my wife's dress with this playing in the background and having an absolutely DELIGHTFUL time

About the living in a simulation part, if you send your Sims to university in the Sims 2 and have them study philosophy, in their senior semester they will take a class called "Who Controls the Pie Menu and Why?"!

One of my favourite details about Olive Spectre's house is a) the amount of service outfits (maid, pizza delivery guy etc) in the closet and b) when you play on the lot & order a delivery, they won't come inside! They just leave your groceries on the footpath

I thought the Jane Doe story could be like a Stepford Wives situation, so rather than Jane being a murderer, John has had Jane replaced with a robot-like clone wife (or altered her brain to be more subservient). Maybe she turned out a bit “off” so Joe has to help out a lot… Thank you for this video Jesse - I’m LIVING!! ❤

The social bunny and Frank from Donnie Darko are actually both references the same thing: Harvey - a 1944 play based around a man named Elwood whose best friend is a 6'3" anthropomorphic rabbit that only he can see and hear. The story essentially revolves around his family and psychiatrist's discussions as to whether or not to commit Elwood to a sanatorium (and a comedy of errors scenario ensues).

4 hours of my comfort KZfaqr talking about my special interest that’s also their special interest?? SIGN ME UP

wait imagine the Tragic Clow's death marked as drowning because he drowned in his own tears crying🥺😭

"Donnothan, which I believe is his full name." 😂 That is golden. 👏😂

1:32:41 Fbejebfjfbf- OKAY SO: cult survivor here! A common tactic for cults is to break your self esteem down and make you feel like you depend on the cult to be happy (even if the cult is actively making it worse) It’s a complicated subject, but I would say no- people in cults are generally not happy, even if they convince themselves that what they are going through is normal. The relationship between person and cult is unhealthy, co-dependent, and damaging. (I mean obviously. It’s a cult, lol.) I think it’s fascinating to explore cult mentality, because there’s a lot more to it than you think. It’s never as simple as ‘just leave if it makes you unhappy.’ Never listen to anyone or any group that says you NEED them to be happy, because it isn’t true. Stay safe out there!!

As a fellow autistic person who shares a special interest in the sims this brings me immense joy

And today I learned that at 27 years old the Burglar sound still causes me insane levels of anxiety even tho I'm not actively playing the game... (Edit: Glad to know I'm not the only one with deep rooted trauma regarding this lmao)

This starts as ✨fun lore✨ and ends four hours later with Jesse having an existential crisis while delivering an introduction to epistemology via the sims

Four hours ago I’d not have guessed we’d be finishing the video with an in-depth explanation of Plato’s allegory of the cave.

Bella Goth is such an icon that I always forget she married into the Goth family. IMO she is the OG

I love these ultra long essay type videos, it's like chilling at a friend's house and happily letting them cut loose and run wild with rants and info dumping about a special interest we both share. the only thing missing is the ability to fuel the fire by asking genuine questions or offer theories in real time lol

don't cry because iceberg soon soon. smile because it sul sul

My theory for the the "Doe family" is that they could be cannibals. They changed name and moved into a place known for supernatural and odd people. The mom tries to give interviewer tea with a possible sedative in it, judging by how she was so insistent on him drinking it, (possibly to eat them) Mother doesn't know how to cook, but son is great at it (maybe the mother sedates the victims for the son to cook and eat) There was a basement, but it is no longer there anymore, maybe implying that is where they would "prepare" the bodies for whatever they were doing, but they had to get rid of the evidence by destroying the basement due to suspicious caused by them being too "perfect" of a family to the public in a place known for people being odd and different. Joseph angrily walking out could signify he is getting angry at the interviewer denying the drink constantly because he wants to eat them and that could also explain why the mom is getting nervous. I say this as a fan of horror movies and for some reason this family and that scenario reminds me of one, but I can't place the name.

Petition for plumbella to create a sims 4 save where she makes all the lore and stories included in the world

OK so on the magic ban: the basic argument is that at the point of the Sims 3, magic is everywhere with no legal restrictions: you can magic anyplace anytime with no restrictions. When we get to the Sims 1, suddenly there's laws against magicking in public that were not in place at that time, but those laws are lifted by the time Sims 2 rolls around. Similarly, there are themes of bigotry against paranormal Sims in TS2 (particularly on the part of the Grunts vs. the Smiths and against the Calientes who are IMMEDIATELY suspected once something happens to Bella), which may indicate that the anti-supernatural attitude that produced the anti-magic laws is still prevalent.

olive spectre, "I love spectre" lol it only clocked now😂

I hope Margot Robbie watches this

The magic outlawing thing is very interesting. So basically, in the Sims 1 all magic is contained into a single neighbourhood, you do not get magic anywhere else. In the Sims 2, there are no open magic places, all supernatural life forms exist as eastereggs, or secrets that are not advertised and you have to run into them as you play. In the Sims 3 however, magical creatures, witches etc live among society and are plentiful everywhere. This is where the Magic Ban theory came from. Basically, the theory is that at some point between the Sims 3 and the Sims 1, magic creatures all started getting pushed into ghettos, then being fully outlawed and sent into hiding in the time between the Sims 1 and the Sims 2. Then the few witches and vampires that still exist are almost like rebels. There is not much else to this theory, as there's no strict lore text around this, but it is a way of explaining why occults are so plentiful in the Sims 3, but basically disappear by the time of the Sims 2.

For reference: The Abduction of Bella Goth (1:26 - 12:07) Olive Specter is a Serial Killer (12:07 - 16:55) Don's Affairs (16:55 - 20:49) Drowning of Skip Broke (20:50 - 25:21) Strangetown Bella (27:10 - 32:18) Dina and Nina (32:18 - 33:40) Nervous Subject (33:40 - 36:09) Sims Timeline (36:10 - 43:31) Lolita Goth (43:32 - 48:56) StrangerVille (48:57 - 53:05) Feuding Families (54:16 - 57:17) Von Haunt Estate (57:18 - 1:03:26) Death's Son (1:03:26 - 1:07:42) Eye Contact (1:07:42 - 1:09:29) Bella Goth on Lunar Lakes (1:09:29 - 1:14:50) The Remmingtons (1:14:50 - 1:19:38) Donnie Darko (1:20:13 - 1:26:14) Olive Loves the Grim Reaper (1:26:14 - 1:31:32) Clown Catchers (1:31:32 - 1:35:07) Twinbrook (1:35:07 - 1:44:56) Cordelia and Caliban Capp (1:44:56 - 1:51:19) Magic Ban (1:51:19 - 1:58:17) Murder in Pleasantview (1:58:45 - 2:03:43) Sunny the Tragic Clown (2:03:43 - 2:07:00) The Tricou Family (2:07:01 - 2:14:07) Opal Suarley (2:14:07 - 2:17:40) Running with Scissors (2:17:41 - 2:20:20) Lyla Vandermorgan (2:20:20 - 2:29:11) You Have Been Chosen (2:29:12 - 2:31:12) Accidental Incest (2:31:51 - 2:36:52) No Happy Ending (2:36:52 - 2:43:00) The Doe Family (2:43:00 - 2:52:42) Self-Aware (2:52:42 - 2:56:23) Haunted Doll Virus (2:56:23 - 3:00:36) Circe's Affair (3:00:50 - 3:05:03) Kidnapped (3:05:03 - 3:08:56) Sims 2 for DS (3:08:56 - 3:17:45) Knut Futa (3:17:45 - 3:24:33) Ghost Children (3:24:33 - 3:28:50) We are all Sims (3:29:09 - 3:37:58) OMGBBQ (3:37:58 - 3:43:19) Your Sims are Alive (3:43:19 - 3:49:47) Sims 4 is a Social Experiment (3:49:47 - 3:58:33) The Kine Society (3:58:33 - 4:03:31) Mortimer Killed Bella (4:03:31 - 4:08:32) omg I'm done this literally took me over 2 hours because I accidentally deleted everything more than halfway through :(

This video has allowed me to clean my house spotless every evening. 10/10 body double material. Thank you. Masterpiece.

Ok this was my first Plumbella video and as someone with a very short attention span, I watched the ENTIRE 4 hour video obsessedly. Absolute perfection. New subscriber and fan here (and a fellow Brit)

oh and all the pictures are MAGNETIC?? this level of preparation is off the charts

OKAY BUT do we remember BIGFOOT being in the Sims 2 DS game?? He was locked up in the basement of the hotel. Truly such a wild game lol

I dont know why, but my next door neighbour deciding to practise his bagpipes during the "accidentally in love" portion just seemed like perfect comedic timing

i don’t play the sims, this video got randomly recommended to me, but i’m seven minutes in and this radiates someone just rambling about their special interest with what i assume is definite accuracy and i’m having such a good time

FOUR HOURS omg martin scorsese quaking

Isn't there a theory that Lolita was Alexander Goth's wife? There are hints that he went back in time to prevent Bella's disappearance and there is a book that can be bought named something like "A Murder in Pleasantview." which shows as written by Alexander. This could also explain why the Sims 4 is a completely separate timeline. Him saving Bella caused a ripple effect that changed the lives of other sims.

Bella died of old age :3 she got transported back in time. The most obvious evidence of this is reading the books she writes books addressed for her kids. You can find her grave i think too

Even if Sims 4 being an alternate timeline was a cop out, I hope they get back on track with Sims 5 and make it explain Sims 4 in the context of the other timelines. Maybe Sims 5 can be a prequel of Sims 4 where Alexander and Don are made responsible for the alternate universe.

After hearing you talk about it, I am BEGGING you to do a playthough of sims 2 DS pleaseee that game is so unhinged and I would die happy if you covered it

My autism sometimes won’t let me focus on a 30 mins episode of a tv show but 4 hours of plumbella talking about both our special interests? 🙏🏻 unhook the phone, class is in session and I’m not moving for the next four hours 🤓🤓.

The sims 1 burglar sound is legit my ring doorbell tone 😅😂

wow.

3:21:31 OMG!!! I am the author of "More To Life. An Olive Specter Story"! I had the hardest time deciding whether I should share my writing with the world, so seeing my work mentioned in your video means so, so much to me! The Knut Futa chapter hasn't been posted yet, but I will be updating the story soon. 😊

KZfaqrs are always so exhausted and tried by their own topic in similar videos, it's so nice hearing how excited you are over each category and dreading coming to end. I love how passionate you are over this, and I would take another 4 hours video about the sims any day from you

im sure someone else in the comments has mentioned this but id just like to include something about the “the sims are all alive” and simulation hypothesis aspect that is that autonomous sims will tend to go on the nearest computer in their house and actually play different sims games on them. i think this is probably the most meta thing about the game and has left me thinking multiple times. (ive noticed this primarily in the sims 4 i dont remember if its in the other games as well)

What’s great about this video is I’ve rewatched it so many times already and since I have KZfaq as background noise, there’s times I find out something new while listening to this every rewatch

I'm genuinely so obsessed with the embroidered shirts in this video. Jesse SLAYED with all of them and I actually need them

4 hours of "BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE-" and I'm living for it.

We need an addendum because you didn’t talk about the llamas!!! Additionally I NEED that clown shirt 😭 I love the video!

Just a theory about Olive that came to me whilst watching. MAYBE, Death was in love with Olive and couldn’t bear to see her happy so kept killing all the men she was with. And although Olive had once had feelings and, even got pregnant, she no longer loved him and, out of fear of Death’s jealousy leading to him killing their son, she gave him up for adoption… stopping at nothing to get what she wants: a happy life for her son.

not plumbella making me finally understand plato's cave in a four hour sims video, after studying for an arts degree for 7 years and never getting it

Plumbella describing that red dress chicken had me in tears 😂😂

Fun fact (maybe) : the social bunny missing a button/ eye is likely another reference to Frank because he is missing one underneath his mask (although the right one, not the left)

i want these shirts! but i would recommend changing "i survived the cursed doll" to something like "i survived girl doll dressed"

the FEAR that sims 2 for DS struck in my heart.... oh my god. I was so guilty of time travelling in the game bc i was impatient and sometimes the game would be able to tell and be like what did you do!!! you messed with the timeline!!! and aliens would be EVERYWHERE and the MUSIC. and they would GET YOU. it was my first experience of existential dread, i was like 9 crying about causing a fake alien invasion my god. i had to mute it and cover my screen to get through it. but wow i want to play it again now. the alien autopsies, finding gold omg so many memories

Pretty sure since Mortimer is a knowledge sim, they all see an abduction as a happy memory because they like aliens and whatnot. I assume the sims team forgot to recode it to be negative.

you deserve a phD with all the hard work and research that went into this video. i am informed. i am healed. this is everything ive ever wanted. watched it in chunks and every day i curled up with some snacks and enjoyed every second. bravo. you have my full respect and i love you

I took some cold meds and decided to lie in my bed and watch all 4 hours of this while drifting in and out of consciousness. A++ very fun and comforting. Will watch again when I'm more lucid.

jesse as a fellow autistic with a sims special interest I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BABES YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!! i’ve been so hyped for this video and i’m so excited to watch!!

Timestamps for my favorite girlies💕 SECTION ONE - 01:23 Abduction of Bella Goth - 01:27 Olive Specter is a serial killer - 12:08 Don’s affairs - 16:55 The drowning of Skip Broke - 20:50 SECTION 2 - 27:02 Bella appears in Strangetown- 27:11 Who is Nervous Subject? - 33:40 Sims timeline - 36:10 Who was Lolita Goth? - 43:33 StrangerVille - 48:57 SECTION 3 - 53:05 Feuding Monty and Capp families - 54:23 The ghosts of Von Haunt Estate - 57:18 Nervous Subject is Death’s son - 01:03:26 Sims eye contact with player - 01:07:42 Bella Goths burial on Lunar Lakes - 01:09:29 The Remmington family dies prematurely at their estate - 01:14:50 SECTION 4 - 01:19:40 Donnie Darko and the social bunny - 01:20:13 Olive kills to see her love Grimm - 01:26:14 Government hunt for the Tragic Clown - 01:31:33 Strangely placed graves found in Twinbrook - 01:35:07 The deaths of Cordelia and Caliban Capp - 01:44:56 Magic is criminalized in the Sims 2 timeline - 01:51:20 SECTION 5 - 01:58:18 Alexander Goth writes “Murder in Pleasantview” about Bella’s disappearance 50 years before his own birth - 01:58:47 Sunny the Tragic Clown - 02:03:43 The Tricou family haunts the house of fallen trees - 02:07:01 Opal Suarley - 02:14:07 Downloadable murder method - 02:17:41 Lyla Grunt’s death goes unnoticed by her own family - 02:20:20 Eerie prank calls in Sims 1 - 02:29:12 SECTION 6 - 02:31:42 Accidental incest - 02:31:53 No happy ending - 02:36:53 The dark past of the Doe family and the unidentified corpses - 02:43:00 Doctor Dominic is aware of the plumbob- 02:52:42 The Haunted Doll Virus - 02:56:25 SECTION 7 - 03:00:37 Circe’s affair and hypnotism - 03:00:50 Kidnapped - 03:05:03 Unusually creepy atmosphere and themes for Sims 2 DS - 03:08:57 Knut Futa sets a record in corruption - 03:17:45 Glitchy ghost children - 03:24:33 SECTION 8 - 03:28:51 We are all Sims - 03:29:09 OMGWTFBBQ! - 03:37:58 Sims are alive and sentient - 03:43:19 The Sims 4 bad on purpose because it’s a social experiment - 03:49:46 Doctor Dominic starts his own cult, the Kine society, to try and summon a demon cow god - 03:58:33 Mortimer killed Bella - 04:03:31

PLEASE sell those shirts, we need them asap. The absolute passion and dedication this video was made with is amazing, just like the sims 2 was made, with so much love to every detail. 💖 thank you for this amazing video.

I found out about this video from tiktok comments and while I now have to study I will come back and be sat for 4 hours while eating ice cream.Girl I admire your dedication

4 HOURS? Forget the snacks, I'll need a three course meal and I am here for it.

Jesse I'm so sorry but you mention a few times Olive "giving up" Nervous but she didn't, she's got a memory of having a child taken away. she neglected him until the social services got involved

So, this is my first time watching any of Plumbella's videos and uh... oh my god I love this. Listening to people go on massive rants about subjects I know nothing about/a little about with a level of passion that borders on unhinged is just, my favorite thing. I love her energy here so much.

I think that John and jane Doe are a reference to Stepford Wives. John replaced his wife with a perfect housewife construct

Re shirts: I would totally buy the tragic clown shirt. Also an “I’m Bonehilda, you’re Eliza Pancakes. We are not the same.” Would be iconic

If you don’t release the shirts from this video I will, in fact, cry.

I'm laughing my ass off. This video does NOT feel like it's four hours long. Can't believe I haven't come across this channel earlier, it's exactly my brand of humor.

I genuinely believe that writers, programmers etc. who worked on the sims 1 to 3 quit before programming the sims 4. Otherwise i just can't understand why you would abandon this deep law after working on 3 sims games.. And the new employees maybe weren't too deep in it?

don and cassandra can actually marry, if you listen to the pop-up that plays when you enter the goth household for the first time it encourages you to get them to act romantic with each other before marrying, otherwise don will leave her at the altar.

FINALLY, an iceberg that ACTUALLY EXPLAINS STUFF 🥹💚💚 I hate when icebergs just name random shit, provide little to no context, and move on. ✨️ THIS NEEDS TO BECOME THE STANDARD ✨️ Loved every second!

I have literally watched this in its entirety, at least 6 times since it's been released😂 Update: this is now my white noise. I need this playing to sleep. 10/10 highly recommended👌

i love u acknowledging who inspired u and giving credit at the start and then putting your own spin on it and not doing the same format everyone does

I love how this started as funny sims lore and then ended as a philosophical disscusion about whether we exist in a simulation or not

Maybe I CAN monetize my neurodivergencies.

On the topic of Nervous Subject, he and Pascal are so in love argue with the wall

I got so excited over this I threw my ipad into my dinner by accident

Reacting to in*est by singing Sweet Home Alabama: ❌ Reacting by singing Accidentally In Love: ✅

I NEED the tragic clown shirt

I've watched this on and off for the past week and I'm FASCINATED!! There's so much more lore new to me than I anticipated. I'm absolutely enamored with your presentation style, subscribed now.

I love Iceberg videos, and one common theme i've noticed is that people stop really editing or lose interest as the video goes on because of how tedious icebergs are but this was definitely not the case with you. I loved every minute of this and it really shows just how much care and effort you put into it.

I already commented a few days ago, but I feel like this deserves its own comment. You should make merch that says something along the lines of “I watched Plumbella’s Sims iceberg video and all I got was this tshirt” and on the back it could say “and a bunch of sim lore” in small print on the back or something maybe

This is essentially a compilation of Jesse getting increasingly comfortable flipping the white board haha

This is the longest video I have watched where I didn't need to do something else while watching it. I loved watching it, I had so much fun and it was nice to poke at these childhood memories of these families that I enjoyed playing with.

Do you guys ever think that the sims 4 is like mortemers day dream. Like he has Bella back, his family is happy and togeather and they are still young. What if it isn’t just an alternate timeline- Or maybe it is an alternate universe like everything everywhere all at once. Kind of like the “what if” if Bella was never abducted…

A fellow Autistic posts a 4 hour video about their special interest which is also my special interest? Best day ever.

I have watched this 8 times over now. I can’t stop watching it. It’s so informative, so funny, so full of Sims information that I love SO MUCH

I had to stop the video over 2 hours in and come back later and stupid KZfaq forgot my place and sent me back to the beginning of the video! So have to say THANK YOU for your wardrobe change each layer which helped me as I was scrubbing through the video to figure out where I left off. I just had to look for the pink tragic clown shirt and knew I was in the right area.

4 HOURS OF PLUMBELLA CONTENT?! She disappeared for 2 months and returns with 2 months of content! Love it!