@emilornbrynjuson1494
The first song is also a good commentary on childhood education when it comes to jobs, or atleast how they're portrayed to children. Very on the nose. "You can be anything you want to be, anything you want to do!" While talking about stuff like football players, ice cream men and astronauts. Before the trio's ultimately lured into and abandoned in the workplace the episode takes place in. It's a very striking portrayal of how people talk about jobs to children, about how there's always gonna be a right one for you that you'll love so much it won't even feel like work, but the monotonous factory breaks that illusion pretty quick.
@finpin2622
The therapy bit was definitely interesting to me. The "I'm not stressed, I'm unemployed" almost has a double meaning to me because I feel like a lot of times, people get diagnosed with various mental illnesses when the actual issue they're dealing with is poverty or the stress of low income living. People are given all these kind of "coping mechanisms" to deal with that struggle because the actual root of the problem CANNOT be addressed without changing the way society itself works. DHMIS manages to fit so much meaning and satire into such short segments, it's genuinely very impressive.
@Pining_for_the_fjords
Despite all the dark imagery and themes of this episode, I found it adorable that yellow guy's wife was a spanner and their daughter was a yellow spanner.
@mikewilson3346
Duck as the representative of the elderly is also a commentary on how the people of the older generation, who should be retired and living reasonably comfortably are often put back into a work place they no long have the capabilities to match, and instead forced to become outcasts and liabilities.
@soulslvr9562
I think the Carehound is supposed to be something akin to a workplace therapist or HR. Where their goal isnt to make you better but to make you in working shape again. Their goal isnt to help you its to put you back in line and spit you out after theyre done with you. *edit spelling error
@coneheadzigity
fun fact: in the workplace the bits and parts are going into the grinder just to be turned into blobs of clay again, its an eternal loop just like the show and the workers aren't realizing that the parts are just something they just made only back the way it was, somewhat like yellow and duck.
@katrinafraser4499
The very casual use of “ciggies” over “cigarettes” is absolutely taking me out, what a gem
@LaurenTheFriendlyGhost
The bit with the stress tactics actually hit me in a way, because as someone that struggles with stress and bad anxiety- being told to do those things makes me mad bc they just don’t work
@gustavogodoy9626
Love how yellow guy is implied to be a challenged young kid, yet they put him to work immediately to the assembly line with no more security measures than a panic button
@whichcache2517
What's funny to me is that when Duck Guy asks the workers where Mr. Briefcase is, they point at the First Aid Kit, which makes you think that they don't understand what they're talking about, only for that to be foreshadowing of where he's hiding.
@Aspen70000000000
Brendon's unpublished book is called The Ultimate Forgiveness. I searched and there is actually a book titled The Ultimate Forgiveness Formula: Understand The Different Aspects Towards Self Forgiveness. Just another bit of proof that the only way this world can truly end is if Lesley forgives herself and starts to move on with handling her trauma.
@CTHopper
I had a theory that the vending machine's food is what children think adults get at work all the time. From their point of view the lasagna is warm food or leftovers from last night they take with, an amazing meal they often don't get to take with to school. Kids also see smoking as an adult thing so it makes sense this vending machine supplies the workers with this during a break. Then finally the hot water seems a lot like how they would describe coffee: warm, pitch black and something that LOOKS nasty but their parents can't get enough of it.
@thewclar_11
The "You could be anything you want to do" is such an interesting line, because it basically sais that you are only determined by your work, going to the "It wont even feel like a job" thing.
@Arachnoid274
You forgot to mention when the vending machine asks yellow guy about his child, which foreshadowed him having a family.
@Yuti640
I love how Roy is still just casually hidden everywhere
@lunarwvrld2298
At the beginning of the "workplace" bit when everyone wants to get out, Duncan points to the first aid kit to tell them that that's where the briefcase is. When yellow gets hurt at the end duck opens the same first aid kit and reveals that it was, in fact, the briefcase. Maybe all of the workers are forced to be there in some way, kind of like the phone who was stuck to the table. I have a feeling that it was a warning.
@nyx4833
the song/ briefcase kinda remind me of how it feels to go from education where you are helped to find what you can do in the future but in the end once your education if done you don't have that, you can't really be anything any more and have no one to tell you what to do so you have to figure it out yourself
@lisaharrison8970
Tbh I always thought of duck as a grandpa who has two random roommates and just puts up with them while being brutally honest.
@Dude27th
An excellent bit of foreshadowing that most people miss, is the job that the briefcase mentions while leaving trough the door. Is what Duck would start the second episode with
@theonlynightmarionne3529