I just watched a whole show with about 70 episodes that featured two actors in most of them who simply can't act well. With the problem being a lack of facial expression (one actor) and a lack of non-fake facial expressions (the other actor). I think that overexaggerated facial expressions when playing an overexcited character really isn't the worst.
I love how Ryan politely refrains to mention that the Swiss army rope would be pretty gosh-dang useful in that situation, and not useless at all like Neil implied. A true friend.
@@thomasw4422It's like a reverse Chekhov's gun, they introduce the rope in the first act, take it away immediately after, and then it would've been extremely useful in the third act
This seems like a weird thing that you'd dream of as a kid which would traumatize you and when you look back at it as an adult you see the incredible comedic potential it has.
@@efa666 the rope was “extra-long” and they were only 50ft away from civilization (a little over 15 meters). Ryan was easily holding that much, and it looks thick enough to support either of them (possibly even both at the same time, depending on the material)
@@BartkovSmirnovsky Maybe I'm really uneducated about ropes (I mean, in the literal and absolute sense I definitely am), but I would be really surprised if it didn't easily hold both of them - as long as it doesn't touch something that could damage the material/the surface from the side. The weight alone it should be able to withstand easily. But again: I know nothing about ropes.
It reminds me of the They Might Be Giants lyric, "tour the world in a heavy metal band, but they run out of gas - the plane may never land!" I wonder if Neil was inspired by exactly that, because when they ran out in the air, the first thing I thought was "please tell me they're stuck still in the air." And he delivered.
The fact they said "Sky Bats" implies there are multiple types of bats in this world, including Ground Bats, Water Bats, & worst of all, *Baseball Bats.*
When Ryan leaves the rope behind: "That's a bad idea in a flying car." When they get stuck in the air: "I knew it." "We're 50 feet from civilization": "They know it."
If only there were some kind of pocket communication device that one could carry with themselves in order to communicate with people who aren't in their exact vicinity.
The real reason they didn't survive wasn't because they forgot the rope, but because this was uploaded on Lesbian Day of Visibility, the day on which only lesbians are visible. Since these guys aren't lesbians, nobody saw them up there and came to help them. Alas 😔
the lesdian bay of visibility turn me invisible and i never recover. every day i walk, into bathroom to make of use of such facility and i go "hey!!! why mirror not work!!! where i am????? stupid fuck mirror!!!! i refund mirror at the mirror store for upgrade mirror!!!!! oh...i invisible". please help me for i am trap
i can’t believe it’s already been 3 months since this came out i remember waking up to this notification and going BABE WAKE UP NEW NEIL CICIEREGA VIDEO JUST DROPPED
_But, unfortunately for them, they just happened to be stranded in the air the very same night that the earth was changed forever when everyone was turned into plastic skeletons._
My absolute favorite detail is that the seat belt warning light is on in every dash closeup. The attention to detail here is absolutely amazing, phenomenal work to the entire VFX team here.
i feel like this skit was made because you thought the phrase "shitty shitty bang bang" was hilarious word-play but didn't know what to do with it. so you made an entire skit for the name
With people like me who’s been listening for months, people who have been here for the... decade? he’s been making content, Ranboo bringing in new people... we were all thinking of Neil.
I like how the Chekhov's gun of rope was (much like the virus in Computer Fighters) completely forgone in the end I also like that Ryan was able to buy another skeleton
Приколы
this was wonderfully horrifying
hi bird
Hewwo berd, didn't know you were a fellow neil cicierega enjoyer
indeed, this is another breed of comedy
I didn’t know berd watched Neil Cicierega
yes
Neil's acting is the perfect ratio of believable to massively overacting
So true lmao
I just watched a whole show with about 70 episodes that featured two actors in most of them who simply can't act well. With the problem being a lack of facial expression (one actor) and a lack of non-fake facial expressions (the other actor). I think that overexaggerated facial expressions when playing an overexcited character really isn't the worst.
I have the same thought about the special effects.
They've both realistic and cheesy.
It's a great mix he's rocking.
Well put!
Exactly lol
I like how the skeletons being in the same position the next morning implies that they died right after the moment they shook hands
Or that they just held hands for hours and hours until they died. Like, they just high fived and stayed there.
@@theabyss310 friends if they just stayed jumping
them:
💀🙏🏼💀
@@theabyss310
and they just keep talking while they’re hands are stuck
@@idkbrah473
haha
I love how Ryan politely refrains to mention that the Swiss army rope would be pretty gosh-dang useful in that situation, and not useless at all like Neil implied. A true friend.
I like to think that he completely forgot about it and never once even considered it in all that time.
The whole reason they included the rope in this sketch is to frustrate, and boy does it work
@@thomasw4422It's like a reverse Chekhov's gun, they introduce the rope in the first act, take it away immediately after, and then it would've been extremely useful in the third act
This seems like a weird thing that you'd dream of as a kid which would traumatize you and when you look back at it as an adult you see the incredible comedic potential it has.
i had a dream where the pillsbury dough boy tried to kill me
@@furiousmagician5912 you should make it into a video
Yup
I think that's the majority of Neil's content
Comedy = tragedy + time
lesson learned: don't forget the super long swiss army rope
they couldve pulled the seatbelts out and used those
OH MY GOD SO IT DID HAVE A PURPOSE
@@yiff Chekhov's Army Rope
Could’ve used it to climb down
@@weasel4915 the joke was probably that it was set up as a mcguffin but never used
I like how they both simultaneously decide to put their seatbelts on once they’re already like 20 feet in the air.
"No one wishes to take credit for this script."
Holy shit, y'all got Odysseus to write a sketch for you? That's the dream, dude!
no, odysseus is a FRAUD. he just took CREDIT from the RIGHTFUL OWNERS of the SCRPIT
Maybe they could've called the nearest fire department?
It's no use, they're a whole fifty feet from civilization, much too far to get cell service.
fire department broke
Forget the fire department; why not just turn the car off? The magic levitation is clearly connected to the battery.
@@vaclav4435 And Fall? you're a madman. Clearly they should have put the car in neutral.
What would the fire department do there’s no FIRE
Dang a Swiss army rope sure would’ve come in handy
Didn't even realise that!
Yeah, they could have strangled themselves instead of starving to death.
@@efa666 the rope was “extra-long” and they were only 50ft away from civilization (a little over 15 meters). Ryan was easily holding that much, and it looks thick enough to support either of them (possibly even both at the same time, depending on the material)
I'm kinda glad there was no actual payoff to that gag, you just have to remember it to feel the irony
@@BartkovSmirnovsky Maybe I'm really uneducated about ropes (I mean, in the literal and absolute sense I definitely am), but I would be really surprised if it didn't easily hold both of them - as long as it doesn't touch something that could damage the material/the surface from the side. The weight alone it should be able to withstand easily. But again: I know nothing about ropes.
i thought the car would just fucking fall, but the implication that it DEFIES gravity instead of keeping itself afloat is a much more horrifying idea
It reminds me of the They Might Be Giants lyric, "tour the world in a heavy metal band, but they run out of gas - the plane may never land!" I wonder if Neil was inspired by exactly that, because when they ran out in the air, the first thing I thought was "please tell me they're stuck still in the air." And he delivered.
@@TopShelfTheology iirc neil is very inspired by tmbg
“SKY BATS!!!”
Ah, yes water fish.
“Hello!”
“Wow! That’s one amazingly aerodynamic, unleaded, quadracylindrical...”
And they couldn't get his attention again 😂
Wow I was not expecting you here I'm a fan of ur RUclips channel
The fact they said "Sky Bats" implies there are multiple types of bats in this world, including Ground Bats, Water Bats, & worst of all, *Baseball Bats.*
Ah yes, my favourite avatar nations, Sky, Ground, Water, and baseball
Sky Bats
Earth Bats
Ocean Bats
Sun Bats
Moon Bats
Star Bats
*Dark Bats*
@@sharkgrinn8343 Everything changed when the baseball nation attacked.
but are the baseball bats wood or metal?
personally, i vote the latter. it’s far more terrifying.
Don't forget shitbats
why does neil’s skin look so monochromatic and smooth
Ikr
He's either a robot or an alien,
or both
Filters
White
@@sadgecipher ayo bill!?
Meanwhile, in the forest...
"Hey, someone left this rope behind."
I like how Ryan's name has quotations marks, implying that it's not his actual name but just a nickname.
Also that he spent somewhere between $600 and $1400 on rope
Of course not, it's Bryan
@@nathanmcgill7249 Who is this imposter?
@@pikachadd
Priced mountain climbing ropes lately? It's not too far off, unfortunately.
Eddie Murphy could pop in at any time, best to be safe.
When Ryan leaves the rope behind: "That's a bad idea in a flying car."
When they get stuck in the air: "I knew it."
"We're 50 feet from civilization": "They know it."
tbh it is my headcanon that they never remembered about the rope
@@stevie8271 that’s not a headcannon, that’s the joke
@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 i forgot i even made that comment, ye i dunno why i said it like that lol
Neil's ability to barely post anything for years and still stay relevant is impressive.
I've actually never seen a joke about a flying car running out of gas before. Good shit
so sad that ryan left his extra-long swiss army rope on the ground
That part bugs me because I can't figure out why he did that and it happened off camera.
Neil "I finally got a camera drone and it gave me an idea" Cicierega
Pretty damn close
it's ryan's drone but yeah
Ryan "I finally got a camera drone and it gave me an idea" Murphy
@@blarg2429 More like Kevin "I finally got a friend named Ryan who got a camera drone and it gave me an idea" James.
@@fissionphoenix4995 Kevin "I specifically requested a friend named Ryan who has a camera drone so I could get an idea" James.
I refuse to believe neil is 34, he still looks 15.
HES 34 WHAT
he is two years older than my mom 😭
I mean after he turned 12 he stopped ageing and just got taller
If only there were some kind of pocket communication device that one could carry with themselves in order to communicate with people who aren't in their exact vicinity.
Imagine
I love how the closeups of the hands are clearly someone else’s every single time.
@awesome soda opinions one of their various, countless dads
As of right now they have one billion dads
I think Neil found a way to never age.
Same goes for Ryan, in my opinion.
Just like Weird Al. Except Weird Al is starting to actually age.
Idk he's an alien or sum xd
@@akainenkoira he's a demon
a lem- ...you know what, I'll spare you and I won't finish that terrible joke
@@cathacker13 lemon de-
People really stanning over some dude who wears a smile for hours at a time when we have Neil
It’s officially been a year since Neil’s last post here, I just hope he’s doin ok.
I just like to imagine that something new is in the works, even if it is still in its early stages.
he’s working on stuff always !!
He posted a photo on Instagram 1 month ago
@@JigParm i can’t believe that was already a month ago 😞😞😞
@@JigParm he has an instagram??
4:00 i love how the bats formed a neat line to just harass them. they all woke up and simultaneously chose violence
Not just bats, *sky* bats!
@@Sirenhound Also known as fleathermice.
💀
"Well, I guess dressing up fake skeletons in glasses didn't work"
i was really expecting this, and them to climb out from the back
THE MAN IN STRIPES AND GLASSES
Deciding to call Ryan Brian in this was triggering an anger deep inside me
They act like two non-human-beings pretending to be humans and honestly I'm living for it
Babe wake up, new Neil Cicierega post
My name: AxxL
My job: Superstar
I like: Handsome girls
I have: 2 handsome girlfriends
My dream: Have more subs than my 2 girlfriends
Your name: ash
@@AxxLAfriku you’re still alive??
@@squidsiIIy he's never gonna die, neither are his 2 handsome girlfriends and his very jealous haters
@@L0rdOfThePies ?????
@@squidsiIIy I'm quoting him lmao
The real reason they didn't survive wasn't because they forgot the rope, but because this was uploaded on Lesbian Day of Visibility, the day on which only lesbians are visible. Since these guys aren't lesbians, nobody saw them up there and came to help them. Alas 😔
oh my god that makes so mcuh sense... so many lives lost on the lesbian day of visibility...
the lesdian bay of visibility turn me invisible and i never recover. every day i walk, into bathroom to make of use of such facility and i go "hey!!! why mirror not work!!! where i am????? stupid fuck mirror!!!! i refund mirror at the mirror store for upgrade mirror!!!!! oh...i invisible". please help me for i am trap
@@stevie8271 i never thought neil's comment section would consist of poets but here we are
@@stevie8271 i lvoe yiu
@@stevie8271 mayrrie me plz
Love the "Cool... it works!", as if that was gunna be the whole twist that changes everything
I like how the closeup on the hands when Neil starts the car are clearly not Neil's hands.
Some say Icarus, after he fell back to the earth that fateful day, would’ve survived if he only had some Swiss Army Rope.
The "no one wishes to take credit for this script" in the end killed me
after seeing how much effort went into the effects i appreciate this a lot more now
i can’t believe it’s already been 3 months since this came out i remember waking up to this notification and going BABE WAKE UP NEW NEIL CICIEREGA VIDEO JUST DROPPED
I love how they explain and forget the rope only to never mention it when it's most relevant lol
reverse chekhov's gun
@@stevie8271 shitcoff's gun
Honestly very polite of Ry- uh Brian not to bring it up
You're back
︎︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎
Guess who's back
Back again
neil only came back bc they started treating him.
@@jeraldjoyce2995 what??
@@jeraldjoyce2995 treating him for what??
2:46 Gravity's calling, I've got some falling to do-
_But, unfortunately for them, they just happened to be stranded in the air the very same night that the earth was changed forever when everyone was turned into plastic skeletons._
"No one wishes to take credit for this script."
I mean- I'd gladly take responsibility for this masterpiece if I were behind it 😂
My favorite parts are the arms turning the key clearly not being Neil’s and “Nobody wants to take credit for this script”
“No one wishes to take credit for this script” my beloved. Whoever they are unnamed as they may be, I hope they’re thriving.
I’m really sitting here thinking “Why didn’t they let it coast in neutral?”
My absolute favorite detail is that the seat belt warning light is on in every dash closeup. The attention to detail here is absolutely amazing, phenomenal work to the entire VFX team here.
i feel like this skit was made because you thought the phrase "shitty shitty bang bang" was hilarious word-play but didn't know what to do with it. so you made an entire skit for the name
What's the wordplay? I can't seem to use my very limited vocabulary to find out
@@StarryxNight5 i can't tell if ur joking or not
@@StarryxNight5 There's a movie about a flying car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
@@ezekielmartin4323 why is it called that
i love that the close-ups of the ignition and the gas pedal are clearly not neil's hands or legs
I just realized how fucking thin Neil is like if he sneeezed it would make a bone clatter noise
can confirm i’m built like neil and everytime i sneeze i make a minecraft skeleton noise
i remember when i saw him in person this is actually true
I forgot how powerful Neils neck is
ikr
but not the rest of his body it seems, hope hes healthy
thats a weird thing to say-
interesting comment
@@meli_lemon_real why are you everywhere on neil cicierega's channel
Neil must've known we were all thinking of him.
Literally, I was listening to scrapped lemon demon music before doing this
@@cooliofoods4132 spirit phone demos and scrapped songs are really good, i recommend! d(^_^)b
Yeah
@@cooliofoods4132 same
With people like me who’s been listening for months, people who have been here for the... decade? he’s been making content, Ranboo bringing in new people... we were all thinking of Neil.
I love how they do not, obviously, mention the extra long swiss army rope just to bug us out.
Of all the videos I have seen, this is certainly one of them.
don't you hate that awkward moment when your car runs out of gas and you're in the middle of the sky?
yeah it happens all the time it sucks
Ikr, I hate when that happens
#relateable
@@meli_lemon_real #releatable
Not really I'm used to it at this point
I was fully expecting "Where we're going, we don't need rope!"
NO FUCKING WAY HOW WAS THIS RELEASED A WHOLE YEAR AGO
i fucking know right
THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE A STUNT DOUBLE FOR WHEN NEIL STEPS ON THE GAS. Thank you Neil, very cool!
this feels like a highschool project
That’s Neil for ya
He never ended his highschool project
@@dreygonmeares7139 he was homeschooled if I remember correctly
"What happened?"
"I dunno.. did you touch something?"
*Quickly pulls hand off the car*
This is amazing, great work guys!
this is genuinely the funniest thing ive ever seen
4:19 the noise oh my god
I like this retro-futuristic world where you can buy flying cars but there are no cellphones
I was honestly expected the punchline to be something about disobeying seatbelt laws.
Same.
This feels like how _Osomatsu-san_ would write an “ending”
The level of production on this video astounds me.
thank kevin j james he is a good
This man sang about a half man, half arcade machine. The range is incredible.
Also two trucks fucking.
@@sadgecipher And a dream about a really cool wig
@@farkbett699 and multiple pop culture characters fighting in Tokyo city
@@sonicfanboy3375 and finding elvis presley... stuff.. in his grandma's trunk in the attic!
@@talkingharvs and a man who shows you his trains and gets progressively more insane
„Ryan’s“ knowledge of cars is the most relatable thing I’ve seen all day
This has been a public service announcement by The Rope Council.
man if only they'd brought an extra long swiss rope or something like that
"Ma! That Cicierega boy uploaded again!"
Good thing Neil finally finished his aeronautical engineering degree.
That had an unexpected quality I wasn't _buckled_ in for.
I LOVE THE INCONSISTENCY IN THE CLOSE-UP HAND SHOTS
I stopped listening to Spirit Phone to watch this when I got the notification
same
Same
Same
Glad to see more Neil Cicierega content
Neil cicierega
NEILLLL CICIEREGA
@@claire3138 Girlie Ice Cane
the ironic whimsy is unironically enjoyable
The skeleton used to replace Neil actually took up more space than Neil
I feel like my father has come back home.
And he brought milk :D
@@soapyguy6483 and cigarettes
@@ladyheavdev and made cigarette milk that taste wonderfully weird
@@zuluecho5886 Oml what kind of family is this?
@@ladyheavdev a wonky one
Ngl, this was a great thing to wake up to
Same
"At 10, two bay state teens spent the night lost in the woods! The ending may surprise you"
- news after beyond believability
holy shit i dont even think that was intentional, i hope someone who worked on this vid sees this lol
Hey guys this comment is on 2021 neil birthday
Happy birthday dude
I hope you enjoy it
I can’t believe Neil and Ryan (Brian?) are dead. This is so sad.
I will cry for life
I want to have a time machine so that I can show this video to the people in the 1800, and film their reactions.
Yes
2:23 our man over here be sounding like Kermit the frog
I will memorise this entire script
Oh, I would love to see that
I like how the Chekhov's gun of rope was (much like the virus in Computer Fighters) completely forgone in the end
I also like that Ryan was able to buy another skeleton
Stimulus Skeletons. Stimletons, if you will.
Apparently they already had two
I wasn’t expecting the foreshadowing of the extra long utility rope but that was one good checkoffs gun
Over 15 years of quality content yet hundreds of thousands of subs away from a million subs
if you just lower the quality of the video, then it feels exactly like a video from 2008 or 2010
Literally as soon as they high fived, I was like "Are they gonna be skeletons?".
I was not disappointed.
IF ONLY HE HAD BROUGHT HIS 50 FT SWISS ARMY ROPE!!!
_D’AGHHH!_
that’s the weirdest shit I’ve seen in a while. I enjoyed every second of it
cinematic masterpiece, hands down
Whereas the normal man is 5 rituals away from being a skeleton, I feel as though neil is only 3.
Edit: fuck
and the "predicting the future" award goes to
PLEASE THIS IS THE FUNNIEST COMMENT
wait what happened?
I don’t know the context for this but great meulin pfp.
bro noooo thats rude 😭😭
When Neil is "revving" the car, it's actually Ryan. You can see his watch!
Also any close up of hands/arms are swapped out with other actors.
Neil, waking up from having a fucked up car nightmare: Oh I gotta post this shit
Somehow i imagine Neil is going to outlive me and simeultaneously look the exact same age he has for the past 20 years.