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Their neighbors must be so entertained.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:18 pm

TheOperator

This one really spoke to me.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:01 pm

Sha Noran · Entrenched Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 919

The sound effects and over exaggerated movements are so Ren and Stimpy to me. Wow. Surreal and awesome. Joseph's appearance was so creepy - he's good at what he does, I guess.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 31, 2013 1:24 am

kclbm4 · Veteran Joined: 05 Jan 2013 Posts: 94

Does anyone know what the music is?

I know it's definitely from the Nutcracker, but I don't remember which part.

EDIT: Never mind, I found it, it's "Dance of the Reed Pipes" from The Nutcracker, Op 71. Here's a link:

**Posted:** Tue Dec 31, 2013 6:52 pm

RiftTraveler · Veteran Joined: 01 Oct 2011 Posts: 122

Holy carp you guize!

Tim opens the door, and there's a picture of Joseph-Listens-To-Jazz-Joseph on the mantle!

-Tycho

**Posted:** Wed Jan 01, 2014 9:08 am

Sha Noran · Entrenched Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 919

I see the vid as symbolic; he didn't get things for other people and received nothing himself. Thus the spirit of giving laughed at him because in a way, thematically, he received nothing because he gave nothing. Eh?

**Posted:** Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:57 am

TheJoker

But how can we be sure he didn't get things for other people?

**Posted:** Wed Jan 01, 2014 1:26 pm

TheOperator

We only ever see Tim get presents for Tim. As Tim despairs over how he's left with nothing but coal in the end, he finds both life and his greedy past self laughing in his face.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 01, 2014 5:43 pm

Marble Hornets · Entrenched Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 946

smh

there's not meaning in everything. maybe they just wanted to do a comical video where a guy gets coal for christmas and then gets made fun of for it

**Posted:** Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:23 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:19 pm

DJay32

Or, more logically, we could observe that there is meaning in everything, and the concept of a narrative having crazy detailed meaning planned out by the most genius of minds is essentially a rarity, closer to myth than to reality.

Meaning is a lot more subconscious than you seem to think. There is an inherent logic to a video where a man gives himself a present and then receives something recognized as "punishment for being naughty." It's almost as if, say, he's being punished for giving himself the present. The creators didn't have to have sat down before the video and gone "Okay, so this is what the video is going to mean." They would just go "Okay, what would a good ending be for this?" "Oh, maybe Tim sees another Tim and Santa Claus laughing at him." Because it makes some sense to them deep down.

So before you shake your head, it might be a good idea to offer a bit more respect to people thinking they see a logic to a video.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 02, 2014 7:20 am

TheJoker

On the one hand, that meaning does make a lot of sense.

On the other hand, please keep in mind that this video came from the people who made "Joseph Touches A Grapefruit" and "Day is Done." And Nature Break.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 02, 2014 1:59 pm

Zarggg · Unfictologist Joined: 23 Dec 2010 Posts: 1660

**Posted:** Thu Jan 02, 2014 2:32 pm

Dacad · Veteran Joined: 25 Oct 2013 Posts: 121

Joker, I take it you weren't expecting me to try.

Joseph has a disgust of grapefruits, stemming from a childish dislike of that which he knows to be healthy. Touching the grapefruit represents the first step towards symbolically growing up and embracing adulthood. There are also many terrible secrets he must grasp along the way.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 02, 2014 2:33 pm