At The Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft) - Thug Notes Summary and Analysis 

Every now and then, I stumble into a video so unexpectedly entertaining that it makes my day and I end up subbing and binge watching an entire channel's worth of content. Today is that day.

"Lovecraft. Know what I mean?" xD xD xD Best line in this video.

All I want is an actual adaptation of a lovecraft story with gangstas, and when they see the horror, say "Oh, shit dawg! Break yourself!"

"Check yourself, before you wreck yourself" It's strange how many Lovecraft stories can be summarized by that quote.

Can we get more Lovecraft.

I think my favorite part of the story is when the Shoggoth is chasing the characters. It's stated that they're running at top speed and don't have time to turn around, as that would slow them down. Despite this, the main character feels the need to turn around and see what's chasing him. The reader is never given a description of the creature. All you get is pretty much "OH, SHIT," and then the main character runs even faster than he thought he could. Sometimes things are better left to the imagination. :-D

That's what I love about Lovecraft and why I think his stuff is so scary. It's not just the language he uses, it's that existential philosophy that's in everything he writes. Like humans are so...pathetic in the end compared to what's out there that we don't know about. And it's because we don't understand it that we're so pathetic. And we never WILL understand it. It's just inevitable that we remain lowly, ignorant life forms for all eternity. We were never meant to understand some things and we never will.

Please do: The Call of Cthulhu

Probably one of the best if not the best episode of thug notes to date. I mean "Lovecraft...Knamean?" That's just gold in its pure form :)

“ every player knows u gotta warm the oven , before u slide in the meat . love craft ! Naw mean? “ 😂😂😂

GOD DAMMIT LET GUILLERMO DEL TORO DIRECT THIS MOVIE!

A previous poster is bemoaning Lovecraft's pessimism and bigotry, while having obviously not read much of his work. Lovecraft had some really backwards ideas, however his horror, and technique is worthy of praise. I am of Portuguese descent, and Lovecraft was no fan of Portuguese people, Swedish, Polish, Jewish, or any other non-Anglo whites. He suffered psychological abuse from his grandfather who instilled many of his xenophobic ideas in to him at a very young age. There is no forgiving the slurs that Lovecraft uses, or his ignorant mentality. However it should also be noted that he did not approve of violence, and became more progressive after marrying. Also he spent most of his life in poor neighborhoods in which he was perhaps the only Englishman so it is likely that he encountered hostility himself and vented untrue sentiments through his writing. H.P Lovecraft was human like the rest of us, and I don't accept that he was just a "product of his time", but I do like to think if he were alive today that he would be more open minded. After all he was a man of science and modern science shows that all humans are Homo-Sapien-Sapien. As far as pessimism goes, aren't most smart people a little cynical? I think it was very big of Wisecrack not to be cruel to the man's legacy and judge Lovecraft's work on its own merits. I have also watched a few Thug Notes after this video and found them all quite amusing. If anyone is interested in reading cosmic horror similar to Lovecraft's I would recommend: "The King in Yellow" by Robert Chambers, "Monstrocity" and "Unholy Dimensions" by Jeffrey Thomas, and "The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All" by Laird Barron. We are truly living in a historic period of horror stories if one knows where to look. Thanks for your time y'all.

Dr. Sweets, I really wish you were still doing these! They are amazing!

My GOD that was an incredible summary. I love how he hits every key point and makes it cool to get into good literature. I'm years late to loving this but it's keeping me very well entertained and enlightened during quarantine. This is wonderful.

You should definitely do more Lovecraft! Glad to see him on this channel.

Thugs notes is so very very awesome. I cannot contain a full measure of just how amusing, these things are, and yet still carrying a degree of lucid educational value.

I read a lot of Lovecraft on a Western Pacific (WESPAC) deployment aboard a fast attack submarine and some of the nightmares derived from the stories were horrifying, to say the least. I haven't read this one yet, though, and this analysis of it has DEFINITELY got me interested

This is was my first experience of f H.P. Lovecraft. I read a comic book adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness at my local library. And I'm glad that I read this story as my introduction.

In my opinion, the Outsider is Lovecraft's most underrated story

"That's double digit adjectives in one damn sentence, maan." Lovecraft was about that thug life.

Aw, no mention of the giant, blind penguins? Pretty sure that's the best part!

So Prometheus was just a shite ripoff of this? Good job, Damon Lindelof :P

I guess in the Lovecraft world the only way for humanity to evolve is to learn to live with madness ... we learned to adapt to everything else in our known world ... but to live with the unknown we must master our minds to live with the madness that will take hold when we see the unexplainable. Control what is out of our control to live with what we can never explain.

A well spoken succinctation. I literally finished this yesterday, and I found it--outside of Tolkien--to be one of the most slogging-reads I've ever experienced. Well done in encapsulating it so well.

Love Lovecraft. Even with his flaws, his writing as always inspired me in so many ways. And this review you have done for one of my favorite stories is just awesome.

I'm new to Lovecraft and, I admit, it took me a while to look him up because one of the first things I learned about him was his extreme xenophobia which, needless to say, was a complete turn-off for me. But after learning more about him, I understood more about why he thought the way he did. Not that that excuses his views or what he said because of them, of course. But while researching him, I didn't find the heartless monster I'd expected such views to come from. If anything, Lovecraft was a fascinating, complex character: He wrote about outsiders and considered himself one, but he was a xenophobe; he was anti-Semitic and yet he married a Jewish woman. He was human, like the rest of us. We're all creatures of both light and dark and only time will tell which the world will see us in. Anyway, this was a great review. I'll definitely add this to my "to read" list. Keep up the good work, Sparky! P.S. "Every player know you gotta warm the oven before you slide in the meat. Lovecraft, know what I mean?" Best. Quote. Ever. With a last name like Lovecraft, one has to wonder if he . . . well, if he lived up to his name in other aspects of his life. Oh, come on, we were all thinking it!

I love how he suddenly become soft-spoken and articulate when he starts quoting the book.

I have never loved a channel so much I subscribed after two videos

"You've got to warm the oven, before you slide in the meat." 😁

This....this video is a gift to mankind

I love lovecraft's work and I've noticed a spike in people talking about his work

How am I just finding these now! These are Amaz-K! This is possibly my favorite HP story! & this is the most accurate & well put together synopsizes I've ever seen!

This is freaking hilarious and awesome and so well done. Bravo! Author! Author!

This is the greatest RU-vid series I've ever seen. I'm laughing and I'm learning.

Curiosity most certainly did kill one of those cats. Killed a whole camp full of 'em! And a whole species of crazy shit before them!

“Every player know you gotta warm up the oven before sliding in the meat. Lovecraft, know what I mean?” This actually had me laughing out loud

Could you do some other works of Lovecraft?

Omg this is awesome! You totally need to do an audio book, you have the perfect voice for it.

PRAISE BE C'THULU

"Ya gotta heat up the oven 'fore ya slide in da meat. Lovecraft... know wat I mean?!" This shit made my day!!

Non-Euclidean geometry.

You are the best contributor to youtube. Incisive and hilarious. You also are reviewing a lot books I've read. I thought I was weird.

fucking finally, ive been suggesting lovecraft since the first episode lol

Hands down best thing on the internet THUG NOTES!!

Oh lovecraft I've been waiting for this!

That's some fantastic innuendo at 3:04.

I still remember that story. I was reading it in school, and the bell at the end of a class period rang right in the middle of the climactic scene. It was the first time I ever had a story get my heart pounding in my chest.

ROFL!! If English teachers these days discussed dramatic structure in terms of warming up the oven and "cooking" meat, I bet a lot more students would be excited about literature!!!! PS: I love the graphic at 1:49 and 3:23; you should think about selling graphics over on etsy or some such. Beautiful work!

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How did I NOT know you existed back in 2014??? Amazing.

I know this is a short story, but can you do 'The Call if Cthulhu'?

This is easily the greatest thing mankind has ever produced.

Lovecraft?? Hell yeah!!!!

The discussion of the language used in this book makes me think you should do Gravity's Rainbow. That book's poetic.

Lovecraft gave new meaning to disturbing.

That was so bizarre yet amusing and informative

Call of cthulhu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please please please

My favorite show of yesteryear. Please nake more thug notes.

"Hmmmm, how do I describe how alien and incomprehensible these creatures are? I'll just tell the reader they're indescribable. My work as a writer is done!" -HP Lovecraft Also, the taxonomic rank chart in this video skipped over "genus" :(

These are great. I wonder if they are, still, doing them.

Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" sure has some crazy shit to talk about ^_^

I love this episode.

whats with the rebranding?

yeah, the theme to every HP story I've read can be summed up in 4 words 'curiosity killed the cat'. Every story is about someone looking too far and deep into something, taking chances and reaching beyond either intellectually or physically or both, and paying a price of some kind for it It's almost kind of prudish, in a way. His centerpiece creations, the Necronomicon and 'The Call of Cthulu' spell it out pretty plain. The Necronomicon is a 'thing that should not be' that people regret looking at, and from the above story: ' We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.' there's always a dread in HP that the truth, whatever it is, must be something horrible. Yes, I know he's a horror writer, and there's no way a horror writer can get around that dread of the unknown and general pessimism thing completely, but HP really takes it to extremes. btw the above passage is one of my favs in all literature, in case anyone things I'm just being a critical ass

one of my favorite lovecraft story

How about Shadow over Innsmouth?

The inability to control or understand things is truly the worst thing, which is what makes Lovecraft so good.

If you want to experience HP Lovecraft, all you have to do is buy a PS4, play BloodBorne, and git gud.

But what about the giant penguins! On another note, you should do House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Really compelling read with some really interesting formatting types.

John Oliver was right, don't visit Antartica

Great video! Do one by Kafka!

Bloodborne comes to mind for some reason

i suggest doing prince and the pauper next, preferably before the school year starts ;)

I really love H.P. Lovecraft

This is absolutely amazing. Thank you so much. Also is that the third movement of Mozart’s Violin Concerto 5 in A? Choice piece, my dude. Choice piece.

2:35 I have a feeling that's your natural voice. Much clearer. I know roughening up your voice is a part of the shtick and gimmick of this series, and I understand how you can't really change things now, but personally, I prefer this over the voice you usually use. Less grating, less sounding like someone stuck your poor vocal chords through a cheese grater.

This was the greatest Bloodborne explanation as well.

please do pickman's model & cool air!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great work! Please make a summary/ analysis of Ender's Game!

I just found my new favorite thing to watch lol

This is perfect.

Now everybody roll your willpower save.

Great stuff bro

yo, Mr. Lovecraft was badass! Loved this episode XD

This was GREAT!!

I would love a thugnotes on Faust (part 1 and 2) by Goethe

This is the best thing on the internet. know-what-i-mean, yo?

"Lovecraft! Naw mean?" Nice!

I would love to see Obasan by Joy Kogawa! I'd like to your take on all the loving silence.

Thank you for delving into Lovecraft.

this reminds me so much of the tripods series

PRAISE BE TO THE DARK LORD CTHULHU! LET HE AWAKEN AND BRING FORTH BELOVED INSANITY!

Please do The Man Who was Thursday!

oh man, I wanted this one so much!

I just finished this book. This is exactly how the director in my mind played it out as the story progressed. Your analysis was spot on.

MORE H.P LOVECRAFT

This is beautiful

Would you review angels and demons or the da vinci code?

Dude, you read some crazy stuff, awesome.

Lovecraft has some damn good vocabulary.