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Definitely. And, of course, the way to defend yourself from the cheese touch was to cross your fingers, toes, legs, or whatever. Elementary school was wild.
the "you pissed me off" line from the regular show had me convinced as a kid that it was a show for like. teens or adults. it only blew my mind years later lmao
Straight facts Greg was and is a horrible friend to Rowley Is a selfish Narcissistic Jerk A dick to his family And can and will use anyone to get what he wants regardless of the consequences
I'm a 2004 kid. This honestly explains so much. I grew up on diary of a wimpy kid, Calvin and Hobbes, the misadventure of flapjack, courage the cowardly dog, chowder, regular show, adventure time, and so on. It's kinda insane looking back and realizing that my generation _actually_ has an explanation for our broken humor lol
i read this entire series and dork diaries through and through- i feel like the thing about these books is that although they’re physically larger books compared to others for children, they seemed easier to read and i finished these “big” books so fast LMAOO it made me feel so good about myself
I don't get the whole "Greg is a sociopath thing" Sure, he might have sociopathic traits, but he's 13. To me he just seems like a misguided middle schooler more than anything. Now, the movies are a different story (Greg isn't a static character in them, but goes through change). Throughout most of the first movie Greg is almost a spitting image of his book-self. He is a terrible friend to Rowley. But in the movie universe these actions actually have consequences, and Rowley eventually figures out Greg's true nature and starts hanging out with another kid. Greg realizes what a good friend Rowley was, and how stupid it is to try to impress others or trying to become popular, and instead realizes that what really matters is a good friend. These actions actually carry onto the next two films where Greg is noticeabley a way better friend to Rowley than his original movie-self/book-self. The same applies with the other two movie story arcs with Greg and Roderick and Greg and Frank.
Yup your right kids are always selfish that's how it is and even the adults are selfish we are all humans who have this trait but that doesn't mean we can't change like how Greg finally realize how important your friends are then being popular is a perfect example to us that if we work hard we can achieve anything and most of all this book is realistic thats what i like about this adults think we don't understand anything but actually we can see more then they thought thats why i really liked this dairy of wimpy kid
@Yasmina varre ,I don't know how you were as a kid but I wasn't selfish as a kid... I obviously had my moments but I mostly put others before myself even back then. And "always selfish" is a huge exaggeration.
As a school librarian, circa 2008-2012 I had to keep our copies of these books behind the circulation desk and only check them out upon request. They were constantly being “jacked” as the kids would say back then. There was one 4th grade teacher about 8-10 years ago who banned her students from checked them out because they kept bullying one girl with “cheese touch.” It really was a cultural phenomenon for a little while. DoaWK is still popular but graphic novels, like Dog Man, are higher on the radar these days.
Oh wow! I didn't know that this had happened to someone else! I was also bullied by the "cheese touch" as a child (except they replaced "cheese" with my name), and to this day these books leave a terrible taste in my mouth.
I was not the target audience for these books, my brothers owned them. But even though I was a girl and too old, I still found them entertaining. It was relieving to see a protagonist do and say what every kid is thinking.
Now days any book with a normal school setting is completely bombarded with either boring characters or protagonists who think they are good doers who could not any wrong
I find it amusing how you drew in your books, because I actually drew inside of my Diary Of A Wimpy Kid books when I was growing up myself. But I was obsessed with giving all the characters super powers. I drew Greg to have flame powers, I drew Rodrick covered in spikes, I gave the dad stone skin, Manny had weird energy and laser eye powers, and the mom, for some reason lost to my child mind, had rope nose hairs.
Oh my god. I did the same thing when I was little, except with the Rainbow Magic and Judy Moody books (didn’t do it for DoaWK though cuz they were hardcover). I would add characters, and make existing ones turn into mermaids and go underwater for whatever reason…
Personally I was very fond of these books as a child. Growing up with dyslexia graphic novels and books with smaller blocks of text were so much more accessible to me.
I remember back in like 4th and 5th grade my class took the “cheese touch” to a whole new level and would chase eachother around on the playground, make rules as to where you can or can’t go and how passing the touch works (no pass backs). We played this game all the time. It’s kinda weird how a simple little book serious influenced us in at least that very noticeable way, without Diary of a wimpy kid, we never would’ve played that game. Who really knows how else the book influenced us.
i remember wanting to get these books so badly as a child and not being able to bc we couldn’t afford it or my mother didn’t wanna give me money for it i’m unsure however, now w/ my own money i have bought and read almost the entire collection. it’s funny this vid popped up in my recommended today as i literally just bought another one of the books today.
The Wimpy kid series reminds me of Catcher in the Rye in that it doesn't sugar-coat/romanticize adolescence. Both writers portray teenagers as they really tend to be: insecure and self-centered. This is why both books are so relatable.
I honestly love the art style especially when certain illustrations show more detail. The crispness of the ink looks so good especially in a brand new book
I honestly have to admit that as a kid I saw nothing wrong with 90% of what Greg did. Like as a kid I also thought I was better than everyone else and could do no wrong, like most kids I think, and so these books kinda just confirmed what I felt. For that reason I think Diary of a Wimpy Kid might have been a bad influence on me overall - I just wasn't mature enough to get the point.
You not only brought a ton of nostalgia for my childhood but also unlocked a memory of how I used to doodle on my school library books and my own notebooks pretty much all of elementary and some of middle school lol
That note about the book fairs hit in the feels. Like you sort of got into, a lot of us from the late 90s and early 2000s shared a similar childhood with similar memes and similar media and entertainment. I still have some of those Guiness world record books from those book fairs. Man I miss those days…
It really is one of the most memorable books I can remember, with one of the most charming film adaptations on top of that. It's plot, art style, characters, and general tone really embodied a sense of life that was pretty crummy. Kind of like seeing a family home on the inside with all the flaws and ugliness that doesn't get seen. People are selfish for vapid popularity and make very poor choices. People are insecure, flawed, and generally don't match the ideals of other children's stories. There are weirdos all around, including the adults, that to the eyes of kids can be seen as monsters, clowns, or role models. Yet, it also shows that despite all of that "roughness" in that period of life, we can grow. We can be better people, yet still be flawed. It also made all those cringe-like experiences appear as humorous misadventures with its writing, many of which kids at that age found engaging, or even relatable.
At first I thought Greg was your average, shy, socially awkward, a bit nerdy student, the kind every bully would definitely like to pick on, hence his nickname "Wimpy Kid", but now that I've learned he's actually a VILLIAN of the story, that really hits the fan! 😨
remember when you were young; either you've read the book or seen the movies, you always cheer for greg, then you realized when you're older, you understand rodrick and how relatable he was...
I remember every single year waiting patiently for the new diary of a wimpy kid book to come out then reading it all in 2 hours then being depressed for another year just to do the exact same thing
i rewatch those movies at least once a week as an 18 yr old and you do t even understand how much of the humor, ideas, and overall vibe is so deeply ingrained into my life and friends. it’s honestly freaking insane.
I remember this book was so popular that one year, my teacher wouldn’t allow anyone to do a book report on it. I think if she did, she’d be stuck reading 26 reports on the same chapter.
The cheese touch gag has got to be the most messed up thing i've ever read and saw. Imagine being screamed at and being avoided from everyone at this school? I would be tramatized...
When I was a kid I had a spelling test with the word “acquaintance” and I remembered a portion of this book where Greg was telling a kid he didn’t think the word had a “c” in it. I believed Greg. I got that question wrong. I have since realized Greg is not a role model
Excellent video. Grew up reading about Greg Heffleys adventures and misadventures and experiences and now that I’m much older in college it’s nice to revisit the books. Something about the witty, slightly cynical, narcissistic, nihilistic and ironic outlook of life that Greg gives is extremely refreshing. It’s also great that jeff kinney is still writing these books.
16:06 or maybe jeff kinney has been blacking out more people because its a metaphor of how greg sees the world in each book, maybe its symbolizing greg viewing the world as a dark and terrible place
Honestly I think Rodrick was the only normal one in that family. He was your standard grouchy teenager, while everyone else was either a narcissist or just plain cruel.
@dollbunny Tbh,The Mom is the worst.Her intentions might be good but she is terrible.She babys manny and always takes his side. and forces the family to do bonding,especially Greg
@@fortnitemamba1912 She always forces greg to do things he doesn't want to do. While some of it is good (like doing laundry) a lot of it is just forceful and its just plainly her just trying to force he views on Greg (forcing to him read books/ etc.) Both of the parents aren't good, but i give the Dad a pass 'cause he is friendly and funny.
@@ahorribleterribleperson Exactly.The dad is friendly and especially in the Long Haul,I pity the dad because he was trying to answer his work calls and the mom just don’t let him. I mean he needs to answer them otherwise he might get in trouble.
@@fortnitemamba1912 l I should explain what i meant by friendly. I meant friendly NOT because he is actually extremely nice to greg or that he treats greg like a friend (Cause he really doesn't). The dad puts his views on Greg all the time, just like the mom, but I think the dad is better in this aspect than the mom, because he isn't as forceful. YES, there is a book where he was gonna send greg to military school, but remember that he was willing to change his mind when Greg tried to play sports or join boys scouts *and he didn't send greg to military school just because he thought Greg did him a small favor.* Even he when force his views on greg like the mom the dad seems to be actually concerned with how lazy and wimpy his son is, unlike the mom who is like *"greg you have no friends for 5 seconds????? let's set you up with fregly for the 7th time, even though you made it absolutely clear that you dont want to spend time with him, he seems sad you should FeEl bAD GrEg"* . again the dad isn't always forceful, the only time the dad was forceful on greg was the 3rd book with the military school, the rest of the time he would mind Greg's personal space and leave his personal life alone. Thats what i meant by he is friendly. Tbh it seems the books are trying to make the dad somewhat strict and mean, but he is actually chill, whereas the Mom is written to be nice, but is just forceful and selfish and is just fake tbh.
This book series actually inspired me to be a novelist at some point and I've written maybe almost 1000 pages similar in the style of Wimpy Kid books because I was so invested in it. I still have it saved on my computer but probably will never be released
The reason those books are so popular is because Jeff Kinney doesn’t underestimate kids. He knows that we can handle a book that doesn’t have a happy ending and we like that it stands out from all these other books that follow the same format of boring beginning, exciting climax and happy resolution. We actually have brains that can process comedy and he - unlike most authors- understands that.
You also forget there’s things such as promotion and marketing. I remember when it was being released on fun brain and from the begging they hyped up a future release of a book, that might not mean a lot at first glance but fun brain was being used in school to teach on in a lot of elementary schools nation wide, meaning a large factor was the young demographic being targeted to begin with in its initial release
i remember when my school banned this book. it was 8 years ago, iirc. i can still remember that day, the despair that my classmates felt at this new development, my disappointment because the very next day i found a funny scene in one of my books but i couldnt show my friends
i had a thought; what if the blackening out of the characters becoming more prominent in the later books has something to do with Gregs inner mind and how he sees other people. you mentioned that he took more of a liking to people with similar features and also the possibility of the books depiction of other characters being based off of Gregs perspective. what if the blackening out of those characters has more to do with a subconscious view of the world from Gregs standpoint? as Greg gets to know more people, maybe he slowly realizes how different everyone else around him really is, maybe it has to do with a internal struggle of his mindset where isolation slowly blocks groups of people out only leaving very few visible at any time? another amazing video, i loved it!
I found Greg to be pretty relatable at times throughout middle school. Even though you could say he's overly narcissistic, it's a trait the most middle schoolers have to some degree.
How come I never knew that until 12 seconds ago... Anyways I do still think about how I never finished the Carrot Island or the Spy Island were plus how fun the Super Hero one was back in elementary school, good times.
It's so strange to me how hundreds of millions of people seem to have known these books throughout their whole childhood but I have never heard of them before this video I've heard the name poptropica, but just because some youtube person mentioned it
my school was so obsessed with this series that we made the "cheese touch" an actual thing. like _everybody_ knew who had it at any given time, and when out at recess/in the halls everyone had their fingers crossed, no exceptions.
At my school some kid came to the playground sometime after school hours and purposefully placed a slice of cheese on the ground. It's hilarious the lengths that kids will go in order to make things real
I feel like most schools did that, mine certainly did, and if I remember correctly we also did it on the bus, which had kids from multiple schools on it so yeah, I don't think it was a rare thing.
for me, i just loved the humor of the book as a kid. i didn’t idolize greg or use him as a role model, i just thought the situations and characters were absolutely hilarious.
Also, note how everyone in Greg’s family is drawn normally whilst Manny is drawn just as grotesquely as the other characters, with a triangle head, protruding teeth and exaggerated nose. Greg HATES Manny and views him as the antagonist in his own home, so it makes sense that Manny is drawn so differently from the rest of the Heffleys. Note: even though Greg and Roderick have their differences, Greg still very much admires his older brother for his smoothness and easy charm, hence why he doesn’t draw Roderick ugly like Manny.
When I was a kid, I was actually rooting for Greg and hoping him having better luck. This is basically the proof, that not every bad person must be a badly written character (and sadly vice versa)
I remember way back in 2011 I always thought this show seems to gear for older kids which was unusual since it was on Cartoon Network and not on adult swim
When I was like 9 I told my grandma I was watching Cartoon Network and she was like isn’t that an adult show and made me super uncomfy about watching it when I was just trying to watch some adventure time lol
I saw that very episode except it was modified to say “ticked” instead. Still, I have lots of respect for Regular Show because it’s kind of a good show for kids who are just getting old enough to watch adult animation-it’s adult enough to seem cool, but it’s still tame enough for a 12-year-old to watch without parent supervision. Also, LOVE the amount of respect the writers of Regular Show have for the good ol’ SEGA Master System.
this is going to be so long 😭 but the impact of the diary of a wimpy kid had on me was huge, and shaped pretty much most of my childhood. i was in primary school when i heard my classmates talking about it and my dad bought it for me. i was a nerd, my dad introduced me to journaling (which i still do) when i was in 4th grade and when this series came along, it influenced my writing forever. i loved the cult like fanbase which encouraged so many children in my school to gather and orchestrate a literal event of the cheese touch. i loved how i felt after i read this book in one day. during free breaks in the class, us girls and guys would gather and unite to discuss about the books and there was a particular guy in our class who could draw immaculate comics and he had this notebook where we once wrote an entire new wimpy kid novel with a whole ass new plot woth contributions chipped in from every other classmates it was called the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ice Cream Machine" where it included greg wanting to make money during the summer holidays so he made homemade ice cream to sell in his neighbourhood, the book also included a personalized ice cream recipe by the cartoonist himself and it became a huge hit. each of us in the class would borrow his finished product and took several days to copy it down on our own notebooks and would return it to him, and he'd hand his book to the next person in line. i remember i would secretly stay up past my bedtime and writing it down in an empty notebook in the dim light. back then staying up late for several days doing this without my parents knowing felt like such an accomplishment. we'd also give him our wimpy kids books so he'd annotate it with little doodles and at the back of the book, there would be a surprize game like a maze that he'd draw for the each of us. dude was such a blast, he wrote other books with new plots about a totaly different version of the twisted wizard and a version of the book series but from rodricks pov. it was such a fun time. i'm in college now and i still read the collection that i own when i feel down or miss home. moreso i even keep in touch with the new releases amid my plato's and dostoyevsky's and helps hugely when i'm in a book slump :))
I also like the fact that when Greg did something bad he wasn’t immediately caught and you think oh he got away with it but then 20 pages later he gets caught and that’s so realistic.
I do think that he's an add, but it's just too realistic for Me to hate him. Then again I could never get into the books, but that scenario where Rawly gave Greg his jacket and he chased kids with worms. I wouldn't have fessed up either because I would have felt too bad, and I wouldn't have told Rawly it was me.
i remember when third wheel first came out. i was in 3rd grade and my whole class had like a “library meeting” i don’t remember why but i remember her talking ab books that were gonna be new in the library and i remember her giving us this excited look and she finally pulled out third wheel and every one started cheering so happily. i miss childhood ngl
I remember reading both Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate and liking them both but over time, Big Nate became my favorite. The stories were very wholesome and taught good lessons. And the author decided to end the series, unlike Jeff Kinney where it seems he's just writing the books for a paycheck.
it’s probably laziness, so this is a big reach, but i like to think as greg grows up, his “need” for other people gets smaller and smaller and he stops even regarding that they’re people. everyone slowly turns into a silhouette including his family and friends just because he doesn’t bother to care about them anymore.
I'd argue in the new books he is less of a jerk. Or at least there is less emphasis on his sociopathic behavior. Idk, at least what I read in old school
The saddest part is how much he bullies Rowley as soon as he has any happiness. Although Rowley is what we deem as a loser, he is the most confident person. He has Josie pink bike, dances at parties with his mother and generally isn't trying to be popular but Greg will do anything to strip Rowley of everything that makes him who he is and yet still hates him. Edit: Damn yall really hate greg #gregisoverparty
Niko Bellic yeah but i think he was really cool for that. it’s not like he was overly dependent on her like most mama boys, he just genuinely really loved his mom & wasn’t embarrassed to have a fun time w her in front of people without caring what other people thought
Didn't read it but from the description it kinda reminded me of a book series "Little Nicolas" by René Goscinny. Don't know how well known this series is in the rest of the world since it's a french book but it was really popular among kids here in Poland. It followed a group of students going to a boys only school who were kinda mean to each other most of the time. They didn't actively hate each other and they did stuff together all the time but most of the stories involved somebody beating somebody up. I think that was kinda the reason why these short stories resonated with so many kids. It managed to capture how classmates often act with each other. They were not evil characters. They were just kid characters that actually have the morality of a kid
3:45 i love the example you chose here because i remember reading this as a kid and being like "what the FUDGE did i just witness?????????????????????????????????????????????????"
This is probably one of those books that looking back had a negative impact on my personality. It go me reading a lot when I was young though so I guess that’s a benefit
