Jim Davis tribute set to the entire original motion picture score of "Kundun" by Philip Glass featuring the philosophical musings of John Blyth Barrymore.
*it featured music from Kundun, director Martin Scorsese's Dalai Lama film that almost KILLED Disney's chances at making money in China. A Michael Eisner apology, Mulan, 2016 Shanghai Disney and a LOT of money later, and Disney Corporation's Mouse bends to China's censors.*
The fact that this guy managed to bullshit about a single comic strip for an entire hour and actually make it fairly coherent. Hats off. Total respect for this.
I'm currently crying so hard right now. This is seriously the most beautiful, well put together story ever. I can’t believe how magical it was at 1:12. That part truly made me shed a tear. And especially at 6:34 that part was just so truly heart touching words cannot describe the series of emotions I felt. I absolutely loved the climax it had insanely excellent detail. Oh and we can’t forget the conclusion. The conclusion was the greatest and saddest conclusion I have ever seen better than any of the books I have read. Thank you so much for creating this absolute masterpiece. This is essentially the most important masterpiece of film history. It is a tragedy that this, it can’t be called a film, but a transcendent emotional experience, will be inaccessible for most. It beautifully encapsulates the human struggle to its basics; suffering, pleasure, faith, despair. It connects with the characters within the viewers, individuals suppressed within our own subconscious. It stays vibrant, fresh, and revolutionizes the art of storytelling and filmmaking while making a damn statement on what it means to be human. Entertaining, gripping, and simply exhilarating. This might be the most impactful piece of art I’ve come across in my life, and I’m definitely coming back to it in the near future to study it more deeply. this is an absolute masterpiece , I was brought to tears listening to this and seeing the bacon go whirly swirly in a circle countless times. it absolutely moved my soul , and I don't think I can ever be the same. this bacon has changed my entire mental state , I am now at peace with who I am and what I will be doing later in my life. i have forgiven all my enemies and now I am a man of a pacifist life. I will move on , gotta move on , as the song says. the bacon is so inspirational , it shares its vast wisdom with all of us , and we are all so lucky that it would bestow its great words with us. we are all children on bacon. hail bacon. hail bacon. The spinning bacon, rotating in one direction with this music... This made me tear up. How could such a bacon do such a thing? I'm struck by awe by this masterpiece. Especially when the bacon spins, showing its lightly salt covered tan skin. I can hear the crunch just from here, and so is the beautiful sound of the bacon scraping the dark, smooth velvet floor. The flavor, music and everything can be heard, tasted, seen and felt from a screen. You can really hear the breaths between the music artist, empathizing her love for this rotating bacon. Truly what I call modern art. This was the most legendary performance by any piece of bacon I have ever watched. The acting was top tier and very life changing. This is one of the greatest works from a piece of bacon I have ever seen especially at 57:42.
yeah, super eyepatch wolf's video "what the internet did to garfield" where he covers lasagna cat, and many other things, is literally and hour and 20 minutes. i think the reason this is considered comedically long is because of how absurd the topic is, it's just the same comic strip the whole way through.
@@tru6984 did you not? This was just a brief, layman's look into the comic, maybe you should stick to a less deep and nuanced comic if this was too much for you.
@@plus9775 I agree. This is good, brief introduction into the pipe strip outlining some of the most important points. More research is obviously warranted.
Listening to this video during every sleep for the last few years has allowed me to tap into the transformative power of Garfield. My ascension shall be glorious!
It can be argued what is the 'greatest', but what you can't argue is that this is surely the 'most wise' video ever created. The life lessons, the philosophical knowledge that spawned a new religion, which has saved us all from spending an eternity under GAmfeld's thumb in Hellsagna will never be duplicated, or approached. If I were to create a time capsule to shoot into space, or throw down a well with a child, and bury it, this would be the only contents. Imagine the peaceful UNIVERSE it would achieve. Also, it would raise the child from the well after he was buried, and turn him into the magical pipe smoke of Arbunkle. The child would be free of the well, and one with the pipe.
I'm currently crying so hard right now. This is seriously the most beautiful, well put together story ever. I can’t believe how magical it was at 1:12. That part truly made me shed a tear. And especially at 6:34 that part was just so truly heart touching words cannot describe the series of emotions I felt. I absolutely loved the climax it had insanely excellent detail. Oh and we can’t forget the conclusion. The conclusion was the greatest and saddest conclusion I have ever seen better than any of the books I have read. Thank you so much for creating this absolute masterpiece. This is essentially the most important masterpiece of film history. It is a tragedy that this, it can’t be called a film, but a transcendent emotional experience, will be inaccessible for most. It beautifully encapsulates the human struggle to its basics; suffering, pleasure, faith, despair. It connects with the characters within the viewers, individuals suppressed within our own subconscious. It stays vibrant, fresh, and revolutionizes the art of storytelling and filmmaking while making a damn statement on what it means to be human. Entertaining, gripping, and simply exhilarating. This might be the most impactful piece of art I’ve come across in my life, and I’m definitely coming back to it in the near future to study it more deeply. this is an absolute masterpiece , I was brought to tears listening to this and seeing the bacon go whirly swirly in a circle countless times. it absolutely moved my soul , and I don't think I can ever be the same. this bacon has changed my entire mental state , I am now at peace with who I am and what I will be doing later in my life. i have forgiven all my enemies and now I am a man of a pacifist life. I will move on , gotta move on , as the song says. the bacon is so inspirational , it shares its vast wisdom with all of us , and we are all so lucky that it would bestow its great words with us. we are all children on bacon. hail bacon. hail bacon. The spinning bacon, rotating in one direction with this music... This made me tear up. How could such a bacon do such a thing? I'm struck by awe by this masterpiece. Especially when the bacon spins, showing its lightly salt covered tan skin. I can hear the crunch just from here, and so is the beautiful sound of the bacon scraping the dark, smooth velvet floor. The flavor, music and everything can be heard, tasted, seen and felt from a screen. You can really hear the breaths between the music artist, empathizing her love for this rotating bacon. Truly what I call modern art. This was the most legendary performance by any piece of bacon I have ever watched. The acting was top tier and very life changing. This is one of the greatest works from a piece of bacon I have ever seen especially at 57:42.
This video literally changed my life. I quit my job and had a kid. It’s themes of deriving such significant meaning from something that really doesn’t mean anything made me reevaluate all of my priorities
0:03 The comic strip 0:57 Start and introduction 3:10 Description of the comic strip 4:41 How he discovered it 5:31 Examination of the comic strip 6:35 Tracking Jim davis 7:31 reading repeatedly "The pipe strip" and compering it to other stuff and perfection 8:38 The Jim Davis theory 10:00 The pipe strip still having meaning even after extremely oversimplifying it 10:48 Compering the pipe strip to universal mathematical constants 11:56 Jim Davis its a genius 12:12 This strip is a masterpiece 12:24 Garfield's pose - 13:13 The third panel 14:03 Can a cat smoke? 15:30 The pipe strip is a metaphor - 16:11 The newspaper grip - 16:56 "Smoking cat" as a term - 17:34 "Timothy" - 18:25 "Ernie barguckle" 19:28 The pipe strip is more than just a strip, Its everything. - 20:20 The evidence 22:12 More details and metaphors 23:41 The thought burble 24:26 Garfield is chaos - 25:20 Why Jim Davis chose smoking 26:13 The pipe strip relation whit religion - 27:12 Jim Davis is god in here 28:10 Be like Jon! 28:54 Why is this comic strip important to him 31:18 Now where could my pipe be? - 32:20 "You are lying to yourself" - 33:21 "He knows the truth" 34:31 Garfield's Spirituality 36:41 The lemonade stand - 37:32 "Sahib" 38:56 "It was meant to me" - 39:27 July 27th,1983 39:54 The cat behavior interview - 40:19 Cat's red-green colorblindness and the choice of color in The pipe strip - 41:48 Some word play whit cat - 42:48 Garfield is in rage by colorblindness - 42:23 Garfield is bottling his anger? - 43:50 Its passive anger or aggressive anger? 44:54 Lets not miss the humor - 46:19 But its more than comedy 46:47 The pipe strip in a cycle 48:26 Everyone should see it 49:25 The plumer - 50:22 "Now where could my pipe wrench be?" 51:50 The importance to view the pipe strip in philosophical terms - 52:12 Jon's standpoint - 54:57 viewing the entire Garfield franchise philosophically - 56:08 He is not a pragmatist he is a rational thinker - 56:27 Jim Davis is exploring the mind/body duality 57:49 Jim Davis is immortal 1:01:10 Outro
I JUST NOTICED SOMETHING!! BEHIND JOHN AT THE FIRST PART OF THE STRIP THERE IS AN SHADOW BUT IN THE SECOND ONE THERE ISNT This implies that the light source has moved, maybe the sun. Which means that a few hours have passed, This changes the way we read this masterpiece
The shadow moving could be the moving of the stealthy beast Garfield, low to the ground like a jaguar, one of Garfield's ancestors. Or the shadow could be a metaphor for Jon's troubled past, life issues, or general foreshadowing of how things will go wrong later in the comic strip, and not all is as it seems. What would support the literal interpretation of Garfield physically moving is that the pipe was on the table, but Garfield somehow took it without Jon noticing. The cat is clearly a stealth deceitful monster. That despicable hungry orange cat. Furthermore the background of the third panel is entirely shaded in with a stippling technique, showing that the demon cat Garfield is a creature who lives in the shadows, hiding from Jon. This explains the moving shadow. Alternatively, yes you could be right about the shadow signifying the passing of time as surely Jon has a window in his living room to cast light and shadow. However it is uncommon for Jim Davis to use shadows in his masterpieces, he usually depicts bright pastel coloured scenes. Although Garfield also casts a shadow in the third panel, which links Garfield to darkness, showing us that he is a vile abomination of darkness. Also, this shadow is pitch black creating chiaroscuro lighting. This is why I think the shadows could represent Jon's life struggles as the shadow has a noir aesthetic. We know Jon has struggles with his love life, masculinity, and trying but failing to control that hungry famous cat. Thank you for your contribution to the discussion however I believe the shadows meaning goes far deeper than just a shadow physically cast by a window we can't see in any panel.
@@danimation1277Ma'am, we owe you a statue, for expanding upon the legacy left to us by scholar and philosopher John Blythe Barrymore, who is of course actually just excavating the depths left to us by Jim Davis, the writer. Indeed, great leaps have been made in our search for the pipe, but we're not at our destination just yet! Thank you for your work, and let us continue these endeavors until we get a hold of our pipe, stolen by Garfield, the cat ~ Keep asking questions! Now where could my pipe be..?
I am not ashamed to admit I watch this thing while trying to do work. I have seen this in it's entirety seriously over 10 times, and have been watching it since 2017. Help me.
@@Souplespoon you should check his arms wrinkles. Those wouldn't be exactly the same if he moved after s mistake, which I suppose they stopped recording, laughed for a little and went back to filming, but the arms would look weird..they don't, it's one take
@@DekuStickGamer It's a work of art how much of history is misquoted because the ones that record it eather have biases or are simply imagining it differently than what it actually is. Jim hardly thought about all this thing while he was drawing this comic yet if this video was the only remaining citation in existence for his work in 10 000 years anyone who sees it will believe it and misquote it. Memes are both a fascinating exploration of the connections between art and human minds and perversions of the original intend a creator might put into their work.
All the video editing. All the CGI typeface stuff. A single-take performance over an hour long. All in service to make the statement, "This 40-year old Garfield strip really wasn't particularly funny".
On this sacred day, I devote an hour of my life once again to the Pipe Strip. Thank you, Jim Davis, for the greatness you bestowed. May we meet again on this same day the following year.
This video is my personal 'pipe strip'. I keep returning to this video, over and over. Watching it through and through. Something about these men, John Blyth Barrymore and Philip Glass, resonates with me. This channel is great, but this video will never be topped. This video... it is perfection.
FishyFLCL The smoke breaks the barrier between reality, and fiction, Garfield, saying he's Satan, he's sucking all of the good out of the real world, creating the social problems that the genius Jim Davis is taking on.
Today, I met an older lady on the street who shared her political views with me. We had opposite views on most things, and she proceeded to tell me that I'm slow and have no clue about politics. But then, I remembered this video and I remembered that I know all I need to know about the nature of reality, of harmony and of war, so I was able to stay calm and zen in the face of this adversity. So, when I arrived home, I stole my husband's burger and am watching this for the 4th time to refresh my perspective on life through this rich microcosm that is this ode to a Garfield comic. It is my weekly practice, quasi-religious. Thank you lasagnacat.
Today we celebrate my frieds, for today is the anniversary of the pipe strip. For some its just a silly newspaper gag from 46 years ago, oh poor fools, forgive them jim for they do not know what they do, but to us, the ones blessed with knowing the truth about it and its creator its much more than that. Id explain the strips importance to anyone reading this from the former group, but i think john here does a far better job at it than i ever would, so ill just say this: Be like jon people, remember to be like jon. May jim bless you all in this special day
I have watch this 5 times and also use it as audio to fall asleep to. " I don't need to lisen to this again " I lie to myself. Almsot as naive as jonh in the second panel
This film is really a look into the psyche of a madman, a person who insanely obsesses on one small thing for whatever reason, and throughout his whole life, everything he ever learns about the world and everything he experiences he connects back to this one thing.
I'm pretty sure this is meant to represent indoctrination into a cult - all the people saying that this has 'expanded their mind' may be more prone to being indoctrinated into cults by people like this, who obsess about things other than comic strips...
@@classicdetective1086 I like to think of it as a satire of modernism, and its tendency to try to find meaning in noise and describe everything in terms of a single metanarrative.
@@Eudaletism but the fact it's truly so emotionally effecting and sincere really troubles it's status as a "satire". it's almost a celebration of modernism, it's capability for success in the most unlikely of places
Funny. Funny how your comment ends not in the word "make" but in the word "receive." Do you mean receive from God, as the artist being truly not the maker of the art, but the receiver through whose pen flows the very drippings of the heavens? (truth) Or do you point us to hearken to the inner call of the content creator, yes, this, this longing this, yes this, this, longing this, yes, this longing of the maker, one who only gives, gives, gives, to receive?
I’m impressed that he was able to cover so thoroughly the major ideas and facets of the Pipe Strip and study of it in only 1 hour. Any amateur could write hundreds and hundreds of pages about the angle of Panel 1’s newspaper alone, but it takes a true master to distill the critical aspects of the whole comic and deliver it succinctly to the world.
You need to take John Blyth Barrymore's acting into context. He managed to act flawlessly for an hour and a minute strait while saying many things so absurd its funny and still kept a straight face. What an amazing actor.
I'm currently crying so hard right now. This is seriously the most beautiful, well put together story ever. I can’t believe how magical, or, magickal it was 1:12. That part truly made me shed a tear. And especially at 6:34 that part was just so truly heart touching words can not describe the series of emotions I felt. I absolutely loved the climax it had insanely excellent detail. Oh and we can’t forget the conclusion. The conclusion was the greatest and most philosophical conclusion I have ever seen better than any of the Rosicrucian books I have read. Thank you so much for creating this absolute masterpiece. This is essentially the most important masterpiece of film history. It is a tragedy that this, it can’t be called a film or a movie, but a transcendent emotional experience, will be inaccessible for most. It beautifully encapsulates the human struggle to its basics; suffering, pleasure, faith, despair. It connects with the characters within the viewers, individuals suppressed within our own subconscious. It stays vibrant, fresh, and revolutionizes the art of storytelling and filmmaking while making a damn of statement on what it means to be human. Entertaining, gripping, and simply exhilarating. This might be the most impactful piece of art I’ve come across in my life, and I’m definitely coming back to it in the near future to study it more deeply. this is an absolute masterpiece , I was brought to tears listening to this and seeing the cat go whirly swirly in a circle countless times. it absolutely moved my soul and spirit, and I don't think I can ever be the same. this cat has changed my entire mental state , I am now at peace with who I am and what I will be doing later in my life. i have forgiven all my enemies and now I am a man of a pacifist life. I will move on , gotta move on , as the song says. the cat is so inspirational , it shares it vast wisdom with all of us , and we are all so lucky that it would bestow it's great words with us. we are all children on Garfield. hail Garfield. hail Garfield. The smoking cat, rotating in one direction with this music... This made me tear up. How could such a cat do such a thing? I'm struck by awe by this masterpiece. Especially when the cat smokes, showing its big will to solve any philosophy of even ancient Egyptian times. I can smell the smoke just from here, and so as the beautiful sound of the cat scraping the dark, smooth velvet floor. The flavor, music and everything can be heard, tasted, seen and felt from a screen. You can really hear the breaths between the music artist, empathizing his love for this comic and this smoking cat. Truly what I call modern art. This was the most legendary performance by any piece of cat I have ever watched. The acting was top tier and very life changing. This is one of the greatest work from a cat I have ever seen especially on 57:42. Thank you for sharing your immense wisdom on this comic. Thank you.
There is something about the "Sahib ask cat, Paper is holey Sahib ask fish paper is wet" The comparison of the nature of things being... Absolute, You ask for a fish for paper, It comes out wet. You ask a cat... The paper is holey Does this mean Garfield has no free will in his actions and therefore he is actually not the faulty in the "Pipe theft" But rather is the unstoppable and chaotic nature of Garfield himself? Maybe this is an example Of "An unstoppable force against an immovable object" The pure chaos of Garfield against the absolutely coordinated and planned personally of john, Two completely different forces, Being together. Jim davis surely was a genius when he made this one strip
Are you kidding me? The production value, the acting, the concept, the ideas, the philosophy, the comedy... This video is a MASTERPIECE! I don't know who you are or what this channel is, but now it's the time for you to come back! Gonna definitely explore this channel later on.
Seen this when it came out at my security job smoking weed in the bank in germany and watched it over 30 times. Still remember lines 6 yrs later and the other vids are great aswell. This a real saga
Each yes had a different expression, a different meaning, leading to a different point, after one has been established, to start anew, so that he can explain in thorough detail the meaning of where Jon's pipe might be, and as we already suspected, it was Garfield who had the pipe in his possession.
@@pyramidschema8668 Fun fact, in an interview they said the parts where it seems to synchronize were basically just accidents, they didn't put special effort into syncing it.
I have a rather low attention span. But this video. This FUCKING video... it hooked me in. I thought i would get bored and leave in 5 minutes. But no. I watched it all. The whole video, 100%. There is no other video i have found that can do this. bravo.
Pay attention to the second panel, where Jon asks "Now where could my pipe be?". Notice how, while he is asking this to himself, he is looking directly to the "camera", but it's not to the camera he's looking. He's looking directly to us. As if he is asking to us where his pipe could be. Or rather, it's us, asking ourselves, where our "pipe" could be. The second panel is not a drawing, it's a mirror. It's not Jon the one to have lost his pipe. It's us.
Hiago N. C. Perhaps, he's looking directly at Garfield, representing the dark side that dwells within each of us. As we know he is near, but not clear.
It is no coincidence that I graduated Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson on the 44th anniversary of The Pipe Strip. I found where my pipe was. Thank you, Jim Davis.
Additionally - Garfield is an orange cat with black stripes. This is known as a Torbie (Tabby-Tortoiseshell) fur pattern, and is nearly exclusive to female cats. In the rare case that a male cat is born with orange and black fur, it nearly always has Klinefelter syndrome, which means undersized testes -- and sterility. When Garfield stole the pipe, it was his way of coping with / lashing out about his lack of virility (the pipe, of course, being a phallic symbol.)
@@sonicfanboy3375 Yep. It only got removed about 2 years ago (whilst I was still working on one no less...) I get that people used it to troll but maaan it was a good feature.
I know the man speaking for an hour straight about Garfield gets a lot of praise but we also need to acknowledge the editor(s). There's still music and visuals the whole way through. Someone not only had to watch this once, but many times, while adding supplementary effects.
Corey Bingham Comedy you DARE call this peice of abousalute art COMEDY. THIS... THIS IS THE DEEPEST MOST THOUGHT PROVOKING ART PEICE OF THE LAST CENTERY
Honestly though. Not only did he keep a completely straight face for the entirety of this video, but he also did this entire thing in one take, AND he didn’t stutter once. I have to address the elephant in the room here though. What if he wasn’t acting?
I first watched this video today, Monday, the 16th of October in the year 2023. I am convinced there is more going on here than meets the eye. There is the obvious, the profound wisdom on display, but it's the message beneath these words that I'm still trying to piece together. Luckily, I have many years in which to do this ahead of me. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for sharing this.
My history professor posted the link to this video and said we had a quiz on it in our discussion section. 45 minutes into the video I thought, “damn it’s April 1st”
I love how if you focus on the words he's saying you can understand his train of thought but as soon as you zone out for even a second it all just falls to pieces
First scene, Jon reaches towards the table, scene two, jon wonders where could his pipe be, scene three, fat cat smokes pipe, scene four, Jon reaches towards the table...
I think I have a problem with this video, I keep coming back to it. There has to be some hidden, deep meaning. I’ll have to make some video essay about it someday
wsshambaugh I read this exactly as he began that portion of the video. I had the exact same reaction as the original commenter. That was about 6 minutes into the video. This must be a sign.
I'm surprised he doesn't even mention that the next day's strip is a direct follow-up to this one where Jon takes the pipe back...only to return it to Garfield shortly thereafter because it was in the cat's mouth. Imagine how much further this guy's analysis could've gone with the second half.
Can’t believe it’s already pipe day strip again. Honestly I’m a little disturbed by the fact it’s already been a year. It feels like yesterday I was just typing out my last “Happy pipe strip day everyone” comment. Life in our universe is truly horrifying. We are all being pulled faster and faster through time by the gravitational mass of the yawning grave. Happy pipe strip day everyone….
Fools, for Jon asks a rhetorical question. He knows the answer, he shouts it in full confidence or even knowledge of where the pipe is. NO I will go further, Jon's question beckons another question in return: "Where else but with Garfield?"
I find it weird that I see my birthday number everywhere (7/27), then go through memes and find this waiting for me in the recommended. I think it's a sign.
