when I first watched the episode I thought they were saying "family gay time"

A family is just a group of people that live together and share a lawyer.

This episode feels a lot like going over a friend's house as a kid, and finding out why he comes over your house all the time because his family is incredibly dysfunctional and abusive

I think that everyone really overlooks this line from Todney: “I love my family, and they like me!” He’s so defensive of his family, yet even in the heat of the moment, he can’t say that his family loves him back, but rather they just “like” him.

I JUST realized that the trio represents an outlook on life, Red is a pessimist, yellow is an optimist and duck is a realist, and this affects each episode

Something interesting I’ve noticed is that it seems like Duck is the only one really *living* in the house. I mean, the other ones live in the house too obviously, but they mostly just sit around waiting for things to happen. In the meantime, Duck reads the newspaper, rummages around the cabinets like in this episode, does his list thing from the transport episode and does a crossword puzzle. Idk what exactly this means but it definitely seems like Duck is the only one really doing things out of his own will instead of just waiting for another teacher to appear

Something I wanna mention about that scene where Red is with his "family." It's interesting to note that, while he's excited for him to be there... the other members don't seem to be. What with the lines of "He's ruining it. We'll just have to leave him out of the shot." Only for Red to basically PLEAD for him to stay. "I'm just happy." It reminds me a bit of web series. Where he doesn't quite fit in with others like him. He wants to fit in with others... he wants to belong... but he doesn't.

Something I found interesting is how the twins cause this sort of fake positivity. You have to like them, you have to forgive them and you can't call them out for being wrong or corrupt or you'll be made to leave. I feel like this is a dig at toxic family relationships, a lot of people are made to put up with family members that treat them like garbage solely because "they're family."

Todney saying "i *love* my family and they *like* me" is honestly so heartbreaking because it's just another of many references to how dysfunctional the twins' home life is

This episode scared me in the first watch but Toddney playing the fuck out of that tambourine in the music segment takes me out every time

This was the first time Roy felt, like, straight up intimidating. He walks in with a calm demeanor, he does his job to make Yellow leave, then he goes apeshit. He knows how to control himself, much like he knows how to control a whole-ass show. He's clearly a bit goofy on the outside, but there's so many intricate parts to Roy's character that make you feel uneasy around him. He's exactly how an abusive dad should be viewed. Even if he isn't physically abusive, his behavior and actions just make him seem unstable and like you're never safe around him. Like he could explode at any second, and that adds an extra layer onto the episode's commentary.

Red and Duck are interesting because... it's not like they're each the Only Sane Man, it's more that they have a better grasp of some things that the other doesn't. Duck is aware of the absurdity of some of the lessons, but but willing to go with the absurdity of their world.... while Red Guy is more likely to go along with the lessons, but he has less patience for the absurdity of their world.

It's weird to me that, while the trio was trying to come up with a title to describe their relationship, they never suggested "roommates". It's like they would consider the term with a level of consent, like roommates are meant to have the option to live together, but they likely didn't.

I think that Lilly and Todney are the only "real" ones in the family. They're probably connected to the Family Tree in a much more intimate manner than shown. Something I noticed, especially, was that all of the crossed-out family member pictures looked like an existing family member in some way. There were Big look-alikes, there were Small look-alikes, I think I saw some Mother and some Grandmother look-alikes in there too. I think a picture being X'ed out means that the person kidnapped to play that role in the Family Tree+Twins's little stage play died and needed to be replaced. Their pictures are still there and crossed out because as one of the rules of being a family states, A Family Should Keep Records.

I think maybe them peeing themselves hints that they're in a bad home situation cuz wetting yourself common among traumatized kids

Another reason I think the twins chose yellow to be part of their "family" was that he looks the most similar to them out of the trio. He is the same size as mother in the family picture, and he is a more rounded and cartoonish looking human puppet similar to the twins and the father. He even has a letter "D" on his overalls, like Lilly and Todney's "L" and "T".

Something I’d like to mention is when Yellow goes to make the call he actually makes two, begging for help before dialing again and ordering the chicken

You know, thinking about how the dad appears more child like, it makes me think about how this also shows that romanticism of because it's a traditional household, the mother takes care of everything while the father gets to just sit around, basically do nothing, and is just another child that just works. Because, how I see it, when certain men talk about how they want a traditional household where the wife is at his beck and call and she's basically doing all the work around the house, I sometimes see that as "so you want another mother but you can marry this one? Someone to care for you and spoil you? And make you feel like something? Something a mother does more often..." idk if that's just me, but that's how I see it when it's brought up more often than not. Also since the brother looks older, almost looking like he's in 60s and more in work clothes, that could sign that the brother had to step up and be the man of the house when his father decided to be in his own world. The brother had to grow up too fast but he still has no idea what's happening or how to fix it.

I like how you said "here's their voice" because it IS the same damn voice for both 😂

The twins also seem to regard family as something... Material. A family MUST have landlines, MUST eat Grolton's chicken and when they talk about their uncle, they mentioned he died but it doesn't matter because they got his filing cabinet. Just how media often shows that families must have things to be called a proper family

I'm beginning to wonder if the Duck and Red who return to the kitchen are new ones put there by Leslie. I feel like Yellow is the only one she can't do that with.

I think the twin aren’t not supposed to be there . The fact they kill the Apple teacher. Also the fact Roy come in and killing the family . You can tell that roy care about putting things in order and also this is the time Roy intervened choose to kill them probably knowing full while the family not supposed to be there.

Put the spelling of the letter in a descrambler and the words with the most letters used was “abduct and hateful”. The most note worthy.

I also like during the call scene that Yellow Guy hammers in the absurdity of the small one being the dad by saying "Father?? THAT one's the dad???" in the most real tone I've heard him speak in the episode.

Something interesting about the part Red meets his family that I didn’t see mentioned is that his family is pretty outwardly hostile to him for not fitting in with the other members of the family. There’s probably something to read into there.

This captured the experience of seeing my relatives more than anything ever. The creepy children, the furniture that looks icky to touch, the minefield of unpredictable taboos, all wrapped together under a sinisterly vague respect of the idea of family.

There's one thing we can all agree,a family is only a family... If they share a laywer

I personally believe roy was there to "rescue" yellow. Mainly because the twins intercepted the course the episode was SUPPOSED to take. Roy went in to take care of the situation. Or was sent in by a higher power.

Do you think the creators purposely made the seen when lily hits ducks head as a little reference to duck duck goose. It can also correlate with the whole child act thing considering it’s mostly played by children

Everyone keeps overlooking what Todney says "I love my family and they like me" Love is given and not really expected. As long your provided with resources and tolerated is enough to love your family members. And reasoning that Roy attacks/eats the family because it's not his brand but a different brand Grolton.

Fun fact: it was stated that the scariest creature that humans fear is a monster that resembles humans but isn’t

I sadly don't remember who it was but I remember hearing or reading someone saying that the twins looked so uncanny was because they "looked like they resulted from twins" and this one joke has tremendously affected how serious I take the episode and it's great since I'm a bit of a scaredy cat and so I don't get as frightened

This really reminds me of a dysfunctional family. The reason Todney and Lilly’s life all end up back to the fact of family. The board game, never mention friends, the dark lighting. All they know is family. They can’t talk to anyone because they’re trapped with family. It’s just a never ending cycle. All they have is each other and dysfunctional family. It’s really sad. Edit: Also Lily seems like it a habit to say thank you. Manners were hammered into them. So she HAS to say thank you. Also the little “brother” is shown to have a tablet. Like representing how parents just shove a tablet in their kids face and let the internet raise them. Though this is just a thought. Edit: thank you to everyone telling me that the little brother is actually the dad. Please dont think I’m being rude, but that’s why I put it in parentheses. Sorry again if this comes off as rude.

I think part of why the twins are so creepy is also because theyre... the only actual human shaped puppets in the show. comparing these two humanlike but not human puppets to the brightly colored trio is so uncanny and uncomfortable. immediately you can tell something is wrong there

What's sad to me for some reason is that you can low-key see the hurt in Duck's face when Red says "I knew I wasn't supposed to be living with these *things"*

Family is a group people who have the lawyer and die on the exact same day in the exact same style of accidents.

Lily and Todney are supposed to have 'adult mimicking child voices' bc indeed it is really creepy haha. Probably because lots of children's shows (i know the British ones anyway) did the same thing unironically back in the 2000's. One example is The Tweenies- I think Todney here is even the same voice actor who voiced Milo from the Tweenies

The way that the family house is so much darker than the regular house makes me wonder if it’s sort of outside of what Lesley is doing. So the moment that Duck and Red guy get disconnected from the family illusion, she takes the opportunity to bring them back like from the dump. But the twins successfully lure Yellow guy into their web, and she can’t bring him back as easily. Thus Roy has to physically bring him back. The family is so predatory, this episode is a masterpiece of terror.

Most episodes, one person sees something not right (example: transport, red breaks down during it and wants to leave) During family and jobs: duck sees stuff wrong and is confused. And during electricity, its yellow guy, he might be less confused and stuff but still finds things different. Its a cool detail i found that i see as interesting

-The twins are based on 'Rosie and Jim' and 'tots tv'. -Lily hitting Duck on the head is a reference to the game 'Duck Duck Goose'.

I was thinking about how we assume that the larger more grown looking one in the family to be the father is interesting due to how he’s actually revealed to be an older brother, and how the father is portrayed as an incompetent child compared to him. It could mean the child like father is extremely neglectful and carelessly leaving the brother to be the only one old enough to care for the family, which is why he’s portrayed as an adult despite being significantly younger than the actual dad

i have a weird theory, but where the hell did the twins come from and where the hell is their house? The episode about transport has them leave the house for the first time and in multiple occasions we see Lesley accessing the puppet form of the house. Given that there is a floor plan with a few more rooms on the ground floor there is missing space on the second floor. I think that lilly and todney live in the part of the second floor that we don't see. When you look at the intro you can see different curtains when the house is spinning at the very beginning and the curtains from twins' house is on the second floor and you can see their wallpaper when yellow guy accidentally breaks the duck figurine in the 6th episode. Additionally, duck drops through the floor in this episode to end up in the original house, and roy shows up out of nowhere. Makes sense for Roy to know whats happening in this episode as he spies through the walls.

I've noticed that Duck seems to have taken Reds place as the sensible one in the group. In the original DHMIC, it was always Red who would point out the ridiculousness of the situation and seemed reluctant to go along with it. Now he seems much more willing, and it's duck that's weary of everything.

something that someone pointed out that i found really interesting is how the fact that the twins set Yellow as the "mother" can imply that he's interpreted as and _is_ an adult, even though he seems to act and behave like a little kid. so his "other self" in the final episode makes a lot more sense, given he's a fully-developed adult capable of that level of thought, if that makes sense. regardless i enjoyed watching this video while eating lasagna and i can't wait for more.

I remember seeing a comment that said this episode captures that vibe of visiting a friends house as a kid and I can whole heartedly relate

Hearing this observation, I kind of feel bad for the twins, they lost their mom and were stuck being raised by a childish traditional father, a distant brother and a dying grandmother, in the end, they end up getting murdered, hopefully they reunite with their "caring and kind" mother soon in heaven. If they end up there.

I really like the detail that when they were measuring yellow they were REALLY measuring him. While Yellow was on the wall, Todney was on the floor getting his shoe size. Seeming to get his right measurement so Yellow could fill the role of their mother more perfectly

I want to praise the show for the voice direction of the twins. The way they sound is exactly like characters from old British childrens' TV shows, which would often be stop motion, and featured very few, or even only one voice actor (usually an older man.) There'd be an attempt at different voices, but they'd always sound... Well, like the twins. You'd get used to it and it'd sound normal to you because when everyone sounds the same, you focus more on the small differences instead of "hang on, why does this little girl sound like a 40 year old bloke?" But when there are other voice actors, stuff like that sticks out a lot more and adds to the creep factor, which I'm sure is what the show is going for! Bonus points for the twins looking similar in style to some of the puppets used.

Everyone has different outlooks on this show, especially the trio, and I'll share mine. This has probably been explained by someone else, but the trio feels like the three stages of life, yellow is childhood, he's the most impressionable and he lacks any sort of knowledge that the other two have. Red is adulthood, he sees the world through a plain bland sort of lense, he strives for something but doesn't really know what that something is. And finally Duck is supposed to be the elderly, who usually like to keep to themselves and don't really give an effort to care for other people's interests, he's also the only one that dies in that one episode, while red wants to die and yellow doesn't really understand death so he just digs him back up from the grave, but that's only one example.

6:15 Anyone else notice how all 3 flinch when Todney enters? Even Red Guy is scared.

I wonder if, potentially, other members of Lilly and Todney’s family have also been replaced the way the tried to replace their mother, and that’s why their father is so small. Edit: this would also explain why the rest of their family looks nothing like them

Been waiting for episode 3 for decades, and I shall again wait more decades for episode 4. All jokes aside, I've been enjoying the series so far!

I feel like it should be pointed out that another aspect carried over from the web series is that Red is *still* shown as being an outlier even among his own species. Yes, he's the group pessimist, but when compared to an outside perspective he's still more full of life and creativity than is expected of him by the "real world".

Fun fact: the mouths of the twins are actually animated (the ones that don't have teeth), so the real puppets have no mouths, which is disturbing 😀

As a child who lives in a dysfunctional family, I can't watch this episode. It hits me hard. It shows the truama and abuse a family can put a young member through, maybe without even knowing it. It shows how another family member could be trying to retreat from the dysfunctional family to find a better, while not biological, and more loving family. I definitely have friends who have, while jokingly, started to become a family. I'm a member of the LGBTQ+ and my family isn't really supporting of that. I have friends in similar situations so we've kinda just made our own family. Much like how Red Guy tries to find his family, only to be the odd one out. Near the end, he returns back to Duck and Yellow Guy because, even if they're not biological family, they still seem connected to each other.

Thinking about it,the twins probably kidnapped/gaslit several other people just for food,this could explain the obvious signs of neglect as there isn’t really anyone who looks after the twins.This could also be explained by the fact that almost all the photos in the family tree are crossed out..they are probably just hungry,abused children.This could also be seen as when Todney speaks during the family movie,big tells them to be quiet and they seem absolutely terrified…

I recall reading something where Red was originally going to be the mother instead of Yellow. I'm curious to see how differently that would have played out

Having the Father being just slightly bigger than Red Guy really made me nervous. Because now the gang isn't just outnumbered but also perhaps out strength.

The scene with the family chanting for food is also a callback to the scene with the trio chanting for the Chuddle Dollops to be opened.

What was really creepy was the Twins unfocused gazes.

24:04, Aside from that...both are related to characters who can handle blood. The coffin's introduction came from a pool of blood while the tree uses a DNA sample from Red Guy's blood.

It's Weird to think that just after 3 The scariest episode Comes 4 the least scary episode the only horror coming about at the end with just a quick bit sort of like the Web series Can't wait to see His breakdown of that Edit: Actually 5 is the Least scary Having no Horror at all Basically

So to recap, the Weird Family had: -twins who could either teleport or run insanely fast -the ability to forcefully teleport other people away by agreeing they should leave -hidden true mouths of sharp teeth hidden behind their fake mouths -concealed traits of adult humans hidden by fake bodies -a giant older brother even the twins were afraid of -probably weren't teachers, meaning they couldn't be messed with using the simulation controls And they STILL couldn't last 2 seconds against roy.

Todney’s musical skills really made the episode. Just look at him go

I think making the young boyish looking puppet be the father makes sense. The mother clearly did everything and the father is a man child who plays on his tablet neglecting the children who in turn have either clung to this idea of a famjly or like the younger brother have grown up beyond their actual age because they have to due to survival.

was hoping you'd talk a bit more about the end, when they describe what a family is. One of them is extremly specific about how a family are people that die on the same day in similar circumnstances. What if thats a hint as to how they ended up in the house

the true form of fear this episode brings out of me is the feeling of going over to your friend's house for the first time as a kid and meeting their parents and their family and the way they live EVERY DAY in ways you don't -- and there's a bunch of customs you aren't familiar with, and offending them -- and being REALLY uncomfortable with the fear they present around their dad... it's a very relatable sort of fear. especially in that once it's over you go back to your life, and they go back to theirs. these kids have to keep living like this while the gang sticks to theirs.

Also the older brother having to take care of his siblings and grandma because the dad is neglectful

Just something I noticed, a lot of the things revolving around 'family values' are based in capitalistic roots. Like sharing a lawyer or a landline, or for 'family' being mandatory to purchase and consume certain products.

"I love my family and they like me!" Relatable Todney.

I remember I was watching a KZfaq version of the TV show and just cut to black after Lily puts the human hand over his shoulder and it genuinely took me a second torealise it was because the video was claimed

I just realized, it’s kind of interesting that their names start with T and L. Yknow, like Truth and Lies? Could be coincidental, but with this series, I’m not 100% sure what’s coincidence…

“And argue over, which ones the daddy”

12:54 "I love my family and they like me!" his family doesn't _love_ him?

Man, thank you so much for the details regarding camera work, montage and all that! I learn the theory in college, and your videos really help to understand what shots do what and how all that is used in the media i like

They are also suggested to be missing in the YT series Ep3- Love, where there is a missing poster for them on a tree

I think this episode also covers cults. Cults also tend to see each other as families. Also, I can't help but notice that the dress they made Yellow wear reminds me of the dresses in Midsommar, a horror movie about a pagan death cult.

The twins are almost like baby lions or hippos or something. They're learning to be like their scary adult parents. They may not hurt you now, but once they get older...

I think Yellow called Roy on the phone because I think I remember him dialing twice, once shouting for help before dialing the second time 🤔

I'm not usually affected by the uncanny valley, but those twins absolutely freaked me out 😂

I feel like the twins take control of the episode itself and the trio (at the beginning) because they seem like they have little or no control in their own home, the control and the "a family MUST" are ways of coping unintentionally because this was hammered into them, it's all they know, this is the only thing they can control. They have no power, and they know the trio doesn't either, so as a way of power, they take control of the trio and show them what *they* know to be a family, *not* what a family is.

If all the friendlier looking puppets turn out to have ulterior motives, imagine one who's very clearly meant to look intimidating being laid back and almost brutally honest.

I just realized that the two antagonists so far (the twins and warren) are living creatures meanwhile all the teachers are objects thought that would be interesting to point out

27:46 This song brings a tear to my eye, so beautiful

Lilly and Todney: looks like they need our help Me, watching this episode clearly not expecting the creepiness to be instant: *you keep your help far the fuck away from me*

Another lovely episode review by you my dude. Also, a little unrelated,but I came up with a name for the Briefcase and I just had to tell someone. I call him "Brandon".

I love how you describe why exactly something feels a specific way in this video! for example why it makes us uncomfortable when the twins were out of focus, super interesting and it makes this video feel much more "relatable" in a sense !!! and definitely much more interesting to watch since it´s unique (to me at least oops) :D

14:26 is where lily is cutting Todny`s hair lol it’s actually cute ☺️

I love the twins. They’re so cute and creepy. I love their wandering eyes and derpy, thoughtless expressions. They remind me of those backwoods families that are… too close, if you know what I mean. Their family tree doesn’t have many branches lol. They’re usually close knit and quite unhealthy, only keeping within their family circle… Maybe their mother was eaten by them or sacrificed by the family? Or maybe she escaped?

there is a theory that the twins suffer from sexual abuse from their own family, like how they make a big deal of mingling with the cousins in a small porta potty... or how they said uncles are cheeky, weak, far away, and you like them, but arent too sad when they leave. It couldalso be that they dont have money because of people confusing the dad and the brother, and how niether can get jobs, as the brother is too young, and people think the dad is a child. Also the dad may be using this to call the police to make it seem like he is a victim, or that people can't claim he has done stuff as people think he is just the baby EDIT: I also forgot to mention that Todney pees his pants twice, and a child doing acts that usually a much younger child would do, like sucking their thumb, or PEEING THEIR PANTS is an aspect of a kid being abused, weather it's physical or sexual

The only episode I had to skip when I was rewatching with my siblings lmao

14:31 If u "analize" that word it looks like they were saying "Fault" but triying to hide it with some random letters. (Faul-bchd-t)

Amazing analysis! Would you ever go back and try your hand at the original? You have such attention to detail and focus! My god, man, have a sub and know I’m recommending your channel to everyone I know who loves these deceitful puppets!🎉🎉🎉🎉

the first ones were more on the line of a dark comedy as in less about being scary than placing absurd but relatable situations but this one was truly terrifying

I feel like you could definitely tell that something was IMMEDIATELY wrong with the twins by the way their eyes were

You know what? Considering that you mentioned how Red never wants to do anything because he is somewhat aware of being in a strange sort of limbo prison situation, it weirdly reminded me of Sans. I was studying different Sanses, mostly for fun and to find out new things I didn't previously know, and something that stuck out to me was how he's described. "fatalism + apathy = laziness". The reason Sans has fatalism is because of his knowledge of the timelines, saves, resets, etc., which sounds very similar to Red Guy in this situation. Red Guy seems very apathetic most of the time, and appears lazy because he doesnt like to do anything, which could very much be the product of him possibly having fatalism thanks to knowing he's stuck in some sort of prison. And I think that's quite interesting.

I saw the "Mother's stressed again" as a hint that they've done this to someone before yellow guy before

"I love my family and they like me! *uncontrollable wiggle*

re: grolton and hovris and how grolton abuses hovris. doesn’t he look a lot like roy? the suspenders/overalls, funny teeth, and blue balding hair?

A family is a group people that die on the same day in the same kind of accident but on different locations.