What is American Culture? 

The commercials in radio stations are what hits me especially well

@OceanBlue GTA is not about any of the issues you just mentioned

YESSSS

Satire isn't it. Just happens to be funny as hell also.

Wonderful when you realise its a scottish game lol

For real how much stuff can you say happens all over the country where as the south is uniquely southern, the Midwest has their culture, the north east, the western plains and rocky regions as well as the Pacific Northwest, California, Hawaii, Alaska which are completely unique to themselves oh and who could for get the south west, this country is so big we can’t have one big unique culture whereas Germany, France and England are basically the size of some states such as Montana,Colorado and New York.

Also a lot of american culture is exported thus people dont seem to realize how american their culture is.

Also when you grow up in a certain culture all your life, of course it's going to seem bland to you because it's the norm.

In fairness, pretty sure there is a big difference between Bavarian and Berlin culture as well. Poland has a pretty strong east/west split I think. Each Japanese precinct is incredibly different. And China is just so huge that from Yunnan to Wuhan to Manchuria sees some huge differences.

No your culture just suxs.

And the ironic thing is the American accent is closer to Shakespeare's English than modern British.

Unless of course there Asian or African. Then the accent is even more stereotypical.

@@ZachariahMBaird yep, but try telling that to most Brits. That usually doesn't go well haha

@@ZachariahMBaird not true. Its closer to other british accents than recieved pronounciation. West country british accent is probably closest to shakespearian english, which southern states english is a modification of. If you want something closest to british english in general of that period rather than just shakespeares english, then look at either the scots language or scottish english. I believe the fact you state comes from the idea that british people started quickly changing their accents in the 1800s to sound more ‘upper class’, however this is only true for london and some of the south eastern counties of england, where recieved pronounciation has become more common. American accents have of course also become more distinct during the period of the 1800s, just like the accents of australia, new zealand and canada, which would make the accents of those countries just as close to shakespearian english, if it was true.

@@ZachariahMBaird it really isn't it's like a west country twang not American sounding in the slightest

There are a couple of shows like that for me. I think shows like The Middle, Raising Hope, and My Name's Earl, while not always as encompassing or accurate to that middle class aesthetic, require a bit of that American knowledge and experience. My parents often joked about how similar some of our experiences were to instances or themes in The Middle.

Not really middle class though...

@@glimblombo Raising Hope and My Name is Earl are so close to true that it hurts.

@@Vykk_DraygoAgreed, lol!

Curiously enough Malcolm in the middle is really popular in Mexico (I think is popular in all of latin America). To this day is still airing in Mexican public television.

Caerulei exactly

I'd even go as far as to say there are strong regional cultures within the US that Americans don't know they share until they have lived in other parts of the country. This culture for me was Midwestern culture, which is most visible in the warmth and frequency of interpersonal interactions.

@@trentludwig5402 I am from peninsular Washington, I moved to the mainland and had a bit of cultureshock, then moved to California and had a bit more culture shock, although San Diegans are much kinder than Seattlites. When I move to Texas I assume I will once again go through a culture shock.

I feel like americans have this notion that they "don't have a culture" because, in many ways, american culture was so exported abroad that it kinda became "international" culture. Every song or movie that makes it big in the US also becomes popular in other countries, so it makes it harder for americans to see it as part of their own culture. But make no mistake, while stuff like rap music or super hero films are popular everywhere, they only came to exist because of very particular element in US society, and as such should be seen as part of american culture.

@@guilhermecosta5171 That's so true. K-pop and K-dramas were heavily influenced by American music and soap dramas of the 70s.

I was going to mention that too, as a kid I spent a lot of the 90's in Europe, so it wasn't until I got older and started to get more of the references that I started to find Animaniacs funny.

In Brazil, "Pink and Brain" are more famous than "Animaniacs"

@@emmetbrown6328 Ironic, since that's the segment that has the most cultural and political references.

@Trainfan1055 I know... right...?! Even *_I_* - as a Canadian - didn't understand some of the jokes and popular cultural references in the _Anamaniacs_ animated T.V. series!

“No no no, fingerprints”

There's a big separation in the U.S. (and many other countries) where you find that a lot of accents (or at least noticeable features of accents) go away when people live in cities. I'm not sure how true this is, but I think it's something worth paying attention to. For example, I have family in southeast Texas who all have very thick southern accents and who all talk and laugh very loud, but then when we went into a city like Houston or San Antonio, a lot of the accents were gone. Not entirely gone, but very noticeably less or different. I have a friend who grew up in Austin Texas who has no southern accent at all. I have another buddy from San Diego California who doesn't sound like the stereotyped cali surfer kinda guy at all (we did meet a few who did sound that though, but most people just sounded like Americans from the west). His mom is from the midwest though, and she still has some features of that accent (like saying the word "bag" like "behg" or phrases like "oh say"). I think all of this goes to say that a big part of American culture is how varied the people are here. Lots of people from the midwest are descendent from Scandinavian people, or how lots of people from the east coast are descendent from Irish or Italian people. This goes for other cultures as well, like how in the U.K. there are crossovers with Indian culture because of U.K. imperialism in India. India restaurants were commonplace when I was in London. Fusions of cultures make up dominant culture too. That's the end of my rambling. Had to get all that out of my head I guess lol

I hear they argue about Sub vs Dub as well

I’ve read that before too, but always thought it was just a joke someone made. Would be pretty crazy if true though.

He's the ultimate Sariryman

Wait, what?

just like we have weeaboos, they have ameriboos

Most popular old movies are. The 80s john hughes or sitcoms like full house or the aesthetic of the show “that 70s show” Most pieces of media that take place in America’s past basically.

I was going to say John Hughes movies or Better off Dead or other Savage Steve Holland movies

Fun fact: I have a deep love for Converse shoes for the simply fact that Benny ( think the Sandlot character's name is) has this epic scene where he prepares for a chase scene with the beast dog Goliath by taking out a brand new pair of Converse shoes and carefully tying them up. I think that's why I also love lacing shoes too (as opposed to slip ons).

Except i’m american and i hate those movies

Yeah, I distinctly remember watching the sandlot like ten billion times in school when nothing was happening

Wh-what?

How do you sub Boomhauer?

@@Justanotherconsumer the same way we translate ancient Egyptian

Seriously?

@@Justanotherconsumer I've actually watched King of the Hill with subtitles on and it's a lot of "uhs" and the sounds he makes. Helps for sure though.

It still is

Modern Fallout is pretty blehh today, Bethesda doesn't understand the game.

What do u mean used to be

I have never played. What would be the best one, from my perspective?

@@JJMcCullough I'd argue that Fallout 2 is by far the best one, especially if you're into older games and don't care about messy visuals or complex systems. If you would rather just have a fun experience with some amazing writing, Fallout New Vegas is also great.

The other 10% were already pissed at him anyway, so he might as well go big or go home.

Canada is America junior. It’s just a fact. JJ has made several videos about Canada’s similarities with the states and he’s vocally criticized Canada’s anti-American nationalist movement. Anyone who would be offended by that probably stopped watching a while ago.

I think that's a simpsons reference

The other 10% is France jr.

I know Trudeau makes us all seem like we’re uptight, but i think most Canadians would just laugh at that .. because we know we’re better than some offensive asshole online anyway (;

Over The Garden Wall is fantastic and does a great job blending influences from colonial and early American New England and the “Oregon Trail” period of prairie life.

I LOVE OVER THE GARDEN WALL!!! You’re absolutely RIGHT!!

I will check it out

Pedantic correction, but the song is called "The Day the Music Died". People called it "Bye bye Miss American Pie" for a long time, and now most often "American Pie" since the movie with that title came out ... But it's very specifically centrally about the plane crash that killed some valued musicians, and I feel like that focus gets lost when people increasingly stop using its real title. Again, I know this is super pedantic lol. Anyone will still find it by searching up the wrong title, so 🤷

American pie makes me cry.

I’m from Albuquerque and they depict our city quite accurately. It’s crazy how they even refer to it as “the duke” or “duke city” which is something only native Burqueños (people from Albuquerque) would really get

@@Taekwon-Brando I love how you refer to the people living there by a very Spanishified word. No me quejo, es nomas gracioso. Se hablan así acá en México también.

@@Seth-mu3wo hahaha i honestly love all of the slang that we use here, your average southern New Mexican accent is pretty much Spanglish and native mixed together

They're his favourite!

Weebs

@林 yeah that's hotdogs and hamgurgers.

i never understood the joke when i watched it and still dont. could someone explain this joke in GLORIUS detail. merci en advance

@@uncledanni9352 4kids had an annoying habit of trying to call onigiri (rice balls) various other foods, because they thought kids were too stupid to understand a food they may not have seen before.

The era of 90s kids movies. Moat of which were set in the past.

I've probably watched that movie a thousand times. It was a 'go to' for teachers who came to class hungover and wanted the lights dimmed down and the kids to be quiet.

That movie got me into playing baseball

It’s funny. I watched this movie a lot as a kid, but never really understood it. It’s definitely iconic, but I think it’s a very ethnically, class and region specific film. It’s the same thing with A Christmas Story.

YES!!!!!

"Freaks and Geeks" was and is a criminally underrated show. It's my #2 among the shows I'm most angry about getting cancelled too soon.

Well, the premises for why he becomes a drug dealer is because he can't afford healthcare. So, it's not something that would be believable in many other cultures.

Because it’s vapid and poorly emulates it’s predecessors?

Yeah

Dang what is the portrayal like?

@@music79075 it's an rpg that reinterprets a lot of the stereotypical iconography of suburban american life as fantastical. The writing is absurdist comedy that's also very endearing

@太郎山田 It's not England

@太郎山田 bro the place they live in is based off Ohio

@太郎山田 coming from an American. EagleLand is clearly a blatant parody of America and it’s bald Eagle mascot.

What Hollywood thinks Midwestern local government looks like, I suppose.

@@iammrbeat Midwestern? Doesn't the show take place in Oregon?

Baby Inuyasha Pawnee, Indiana

@@iammrbeat you know people from hollywood actually come from some of these places they write and make movies about, right? these are not all aliens just imagining things that don't exist.

@@mariacheebandidos7183 True, if Hollywood just bs there way through a show viewers would know and stop watching. Its not like a movie you can get away with that in movies.

It's because America is relatively young and doesn't have 600 years of artists and composers to define America. To put it into perspective, America was independent like 50 years before the railroad was invented

Here’s some examples for you, for music some of the greatest music genres have come from America like blues,jazz,hip hop,rock and roll, and rock, don’t know much about architecture, and depends on what you mean by art? Paintings? There’s quite a few paintings you can google, do you consider movies to be art as well? If so then America definitely has some of the greatest movies ever made. For the Books that would be uniquely American is The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) and The Catcher In The Rye, foods unique to the US is based on region, you have shrimp or sausage gumbo and jambalaya in the south as well as American style bbq’s with specific ways to do it depending on the state and you have seafood boils, you’ve also got great seafood on the east coast too like lobster rolls and clam chowder and you’ve got buffalo wings and American style pizza in New York, Detroit and Chicago you’ve got Tex Mex in the west and a bunch of other stuff in the west coast (too much to list)

​@kevinprzy4539 can sports count too? Like baseball

Reminding my self NY, California and Texas aren´t the whole US helps....having lived in the UK, I even kow there is more to your country than a Queen, Choclate box houses and London.

fiona fiona don’t forget Florida, then you really have the big four. I was on a trip a few months ago in London, were a local and I got to talking, he asked where I was from and I told him Maryland. He had no idea where that was, and I don’t blame him, that’s an issue when you're from the 9th smallest state.

A British friend of mine had a laugh one time when I told him that the American stereotype of the Brits was bad teeth. He told me the Brits typically depicted Americans as enormous teeth.

Big Hamburger Country

@@LordBitememan you can thank Austin Powers for that 😂

That show is absolutely brilliant

Many Americans don't really get it though either. They just think it's vaguely funny.

Static Shock should also be there.

Not even someone from America will always get it. I personally love the Boondocks, because, well, you know, its fucking hilarious. But, as you said, the Boondocks is more of a representation and satire of black American culture. And me, being a white guy, often times find some of the jokes going over my head. More often than not I get it, because black American culture and white American culture still both arose from the same landscapes, but even then being American is not always enough for something like the Boondocks, because America outside of our overarching culture also has several other subcultures mixed in.

I love boondocks because as a white boy who grew up in black communities I love the satire on a culture I've always felt apart of but sort of on the sidelines

The most American thing is yelling at people over giving me a wet hotdog

American here, thanks for bob the builder

A fun way to freak out British people is to point out how heavily we had to Americanize Thomas the Tank engine into "Shining Time Station" in order to make that bland show of steam engines and class obedience remotely palatable here.

@@JJMcCullough How dare you insult Britain's favourite train cartoon.

@@JJMcCullough Oh that reminds me! Theodore Tugboat!

J.J. McCullough , I got freaked out when you typed: Americanize. That “-ize” looks rough. The “-ise” is smooth and comfortable to look at.

Put some respect on WIERD AL'S NAME

i like ole JJ but dissing Weird Al man... starting to have second thoughts... lol

PUT SOME FUCKING RESPECT DOWN HE IS OUR TREASURE AND U BETTER GET WITH IT

Weird Al is American Hero

A true Icon of Music

!!!

@@Keroppi19 thanks! ✨

If you own the original dvd box sets they have a manual that looks like a composition notebook that break down all the references in every episode of that season. It’s pretty insane!

@@Colyde25 WHAT!! I need this, even though I only own one DVD player that I hardly ever use 😂 Just as a collectible thing (and to read the guide book while watching the show!!!!)! Adding that to my wishlist! ✨

@@Colyde25 omg really? i need that 😭 i’m such a gilmore girls stan, i grew up on that show.

also yes the references, i still don’t get some of them lol. every time i rewatch gilmore girls, i find myself understanding some of the references and jokes i didn’t understand the last time, especially as i get older lmao.

I love Bojack Horseman.

I’m currently watching BoJack Horseman for the second time

Lol!

Then you end up thinking the original American writers have an impressive grasp of Latino pop culture, or that they find it fascinating

I remember MAD on cartoon network. I loved watching spy vs spy

White Noise mostly true however while rockstar games is based in America the game is made by rockstar north witch is based in Edinburgh so it’s a British American game

But GTA is actually Scottish.

Krombopulos Michael Scotland is in the uk

Krombopulos Michael rockstar games is an American company and rockstar north is the one that develops the game they’re in Scotland

Also, the song “Californication”.

As someone who grew up with ned's declassified and then went into middle school, that show was made about middle school for 3rd graders. People in my school liked it, but we all pretty much agreed there is pretty much nothing accurate about how it portrays middle school. Honestly, I feel the best representation of american middle school is ironically how south park portrays elementary because those kids act like teenagers but they do kid like things, that's how middle school really is. Another good example is All grown up, but that's really others' experiences than my own.

Yeah American middle school or where I grew up Intermediate school is a lot more chaotic then high school.

I think there's a difference between what different countries consider "middle class". In the UK MITM's family would probably be considered upper working class, because they are relatively poor and often struggle for money, but are not completely destitute. Middle class here is going to nice restaurants and skiing holidays, and having a well kept semi or detached house in the suburbs. Upper middle class would be an upgrade to a bigger house, somewhere in the half million to million area. Upper class is the million pound mansion and above.

*british flashbacks*

You’re not wrong

&c &c. As far as taxes go, we don't play rule of the chief/warlord. Here in Hawaii, certain politicians seem to try to be a chief. There are a strong bloc of would-be quiet, competent technocrats. Each one of these two archetypes are soaked in corruption, and broadly derive from our diverse cultural archetypes. The staid New Englanders are largely extinct as a force.

Also you have to zone areas, while old cities aren't built like that. It's just bad planning to have all the shops be 50 miles away on the other side of a highway.

12% you say? Hol up where’s my ar-15

Ironically, America bashing has become a pretty quintessentially American thing

I've realized over the years that most Americans actually know more about their own country than do non-Americans, in spite of that being so popularly claimed to be otherwise. Which is a normal thing, really. It is normal to be more knowledgable and accustomed to your own country. But after traveling the world and hearing oversea opinions and knowledge on America...I've come to the conclusion that America has been sensationalized and warped in the media to such an extent that people actually know very little about the country, despite how much the think they know from consuming so much American media. I think the most ignorant, bizarre idea is the claim that Americans "Have no culture." They say this as they swim in it without even realizing. For perspective, imagine if in an alternate reality, Japan had America's same status and influence, and foreigners followed the idea that they have "no culture" while wearing kimonos, eating Japanese food, and using Japanese language and common behavioral customs. If you are American and suddenly come to this realization, it's a very surreal one. You live in the one of the most known, yet unknown of countries in the world.

@@AnnaHans88 america is very twisted and sensationalized internationally. Which mean our culture became almost a default one.

@@AnnaHans88 The British empire spread its language worldwide, also other cultures (like the French and Italian) have a far superior influence in shaping the current global fashion and cuisine than the USA does, nonetheless I believe that Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the music industry used to be America's most influencing exports but as stated in the video are now pandering to global audiences and the Chinese regime.

@@ObsidianJayMusic yeah but african nations have a culture and most them popped up in the 50-60s

Both people who've never left and people who've never been

Exactly

@@Kessekom What region of the United States are you from?

@@clovismerovingian2239 I wouldn’t doubt the pacific states

@@Kessekom No? Lmao, lots of people have lots of heritage from other culture mainly because of Immigrants.

I thought the same thing. I was like THAT is what it means to be American. Right there summed up in a few seconds. Lol that’s the freedom people speak of

@@thenicflynn well it's the rationale for existence for our nation-state.

And Belgium to France

It wouldn’t really be the uk and Ireland I would think more England and Wales

Nathan Tolladay Those aren’t independent countries though

And The Netherlands is to Germany

Red Eye I think Austria and Germany would be better

Mr. Daw it is very American and you can tell because of how hopeless and brutally honest it is where every half decent person dies and the dishonest survive and even thrive and that overall the old way of freedom essentially dies painfully and slowly leaving behind anyone not with the times and that even if you win you lose

RDR 2 is such an amazing game..

Grand theft auto 😂😂

@@Aj_Cartier GTA 5 especially. That's like modern America. That game takes a good jab at American politics and economics. While these replace names for places like California with San Andreas and Los Anglos with Los Santos. The 3 main characters give you a good inside perspective from essentially 3 unique and 3 very large groups of American backgrounds and their criminal connections. I would argue GTA 5 is a take on modern America and RDR is a take on old America or pre-modern times.

The Fallout series would also be a good candidate

The Fifties.

Lorena Vodniza that’s very true. I’ve met a lot of foreigners who have learned a lot about American school culture just by watching almost any television show.

That's interesting, cause I never know how much is accurate and how much is exaggerated. (The whole cliquey subcultures thing, for instance. Is that exaggerated or do people really sort themselves into boxes like that?)

@@eoghan.5003 Students are cliquey, but this idea that the cliques are so rigid, and so clear (ie, to the point of everyone dressing the same, having 100% of their identity derived from the clique, the clique being named, and extremely well-known across the school, etc) is an exaggeration. It becomes a useful storytelling device to have all these clear-cut rival gangs in films like Heathers, or TV shows like Glee.

@@eoghan.5003 People who were teenagers in the 80s tell me high school cliques were very real. I guess that's because friends are made through similar interests ex. If you're in a certain club, you're more likely to make friends with other people in that club. In my school most of my classmates make friends first and then bring them to the club that particular students like. That's what I did. Cliques in my school just don't exist. The basketball players don't only have basketball players as friends. There's no such thing as jocks only being friends with jocks, geeks with geeks etc... even though it is probable and makes sense to a degree.

Eoghan Connolly It’s very exaggerated, trust me. There a lot of overlapping between different groups in my high school. High school in American tv shows in my opinion is not accurate at all, they’re not really supposed to be so who really cares?

Yeah, old Looney Tunes cartoons certainly had a lot of references to 1930s-1950s americana in it. You ever seen that old one called "Hollywood Steps Out" where the whole cartoon is nothing but a rapid-fire cavalcade of caricatures of early 1940s stars?

@@tylerbaldwin9513 yep i was thinking about that one the most. It even has a J Edgar Hoover cameo with that g-man pun that would be lost to foreign people and people in the US

I think it's funny how rabbits are only associated with carrots because Bugs Bunny eats them when he says "What's up, doc?" which is itself a reference to a movie that was popular in the 1930s.

Even the 2011 Looney Toons Show

@@CornmanC Was it?

Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

@@dallyh.2960 yeah lol

oh god why

A smart girls guide to surviving middle school 😫💅

Our culture from my state is never trust a politician ever, and that deep dish pizza is great. And the rest of the state agrees with the former, while hating those who say the latter for different reasons.

Yes and if it’s not the entire state it’s a couple states that form a “culture”. Obviously California and Texas have their own cultures but where I live New England (which consists of any state east of New York being Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine) is considered to share many cultural elements, while also having very noticeable state based traits. Just an interesting country when it comes to culture and it be cool to see what states “identify” with each other the most.

Hallmark tried to base a movie in Minnesota-Wisconsin area. It was shot in another state with no research in to the culture. It was so jarring they said Minnesota-Wisconsin locations but everything else wasn’t Minnesota-Wisconsin.

Yah in many ways the US is more akin to the EU then a nation

@@James-ep2bx The United States is essentially a more functional version of the Holy Roman Empire. We are 50 separate nations that could easily Balkanize into three to a few dozen separate nations. Discounting English and Spanish, most states have rather commonly spoken third languages, for example.

You’d be surprised how much American cartoons spread. It’s the same why anime is kind of just every where. Every really really Japanese stuff like that dragon maid show.

@@RusticRonnie Come on, we both know you know the name of “that dragon maid show” my friend. ;)

The Diner, or really any sorta greasy spoon kinda place, is probably the most ubiquitously American thing I can think of. Everyone has eaten at one of these kinds of places, or will at some point.

@@georgewilliamson5667 glad I'm not alone in that. I love that feeling you get eating breakfast at 5am in a diner, I'm just never sure of its heartburn or nostalgia.

Absolutely nothing beats a roadside diner

@@z_zoom11 Probably a little bit of both if we're being realistic

Sadly, my native city only has one left, little anthonys, but its a popular place, soooo...

I think you aren't wrong because there isn't a lot to American culture. The States are a hodge podge of immigrant cultures all slammed together.

@@PierzStyx What?

@@innitbruv-lascocomics9910 he puts it rather weirdly but I guess he wants to say that America is a very big melting pot of culture that came from natives and immigrants (including the colonists) So there might not be a uniquely American culture that goes thousands of years back but it would be wrong to say America has no culture at all.

Not true at all

*Duology

FancySC *Quintology

@@JJMcCullough Anything higher than 2 is kinda retarded, ngl.

FancySC LoL, I live in Winnetka!

Yeah I love Forrest Gump also I can see how many references to American culture there are. Great idea for part 2

@hooray yyy lol the whole damn movie

@hooray yyy the Vietnam war, the American dream (starting the shrimp restaurant), the civil rights movement, the aids epidemic, Nike shoes etc

hooray yyy what about him joining a football team

King Caiser Apple :D

Shifty fast talking salesmen have been a recognized American "Type" since the 18th Century at least, back to the 16th? Mixed with or interacting against sectarian Christians.

How much Americana is Skinamarink(even though its located in Edmonton)

ABSOLUTELY. Bang on 90s-00s decade. Freaks n' Geeks being a 00s decade riff of the 70s and 80s, like Stranger Things is today.

Malcolm in the middle is 👌👌👌👌

Malcolm in the Middle is huuuge in Mexico! A lot of the meme culture here has been influenced by that show!

Theres a lamp store in Ireland called illuminate

@@leggedit because illuminate means to light up, as does illuminati

I know illuminati is actually a religious german group started around the 1700s

@@leggedit wow! They were sure ahead of the curve then on the whole electricity thing. Did they learn to see the future about stuff like electricity through their religion?

Yea I think so I dont know much about it

"Portlandia" is somehow both more realistic _and_ cartoonishly exaggerated than "Gravity Falls."

gravity falls takes place in oregon

I moved from Alberta (mid-western Canada) to Minnesota (mid-western USA). The culture is very similar. It's different, but less so than western Canada vs eastern Canada or the Pacific northwest vs southern USA.

The Institute for Canadian & American studies- Soviet Union side.

North American culture is kind of uniquely unified (in general ) but that doesn’t make Canadians any less distinct. Canada is not a “spawn/extension of America” i wouldn’t rely on any meaningful deep cultural analysis from this kid. He only talks about cartoons & video games. Effectively he unwittingly short changes the wealth /depth of great American culture. So any American oughta be insulted by this presentation (depends on their education & knowledge level, of course).

More like America-Lite

@@alexwyffels9788 A hybrid of European and American culture

So Sam and Max is more American than you?

Stranger Things and Supernatural (at least the original first five seasons) fit this description too.

How dare anyone say that of Weird Al

Weird Al is love, Weird Al is Life

This was my one big complaint with this video. Especially since the immediate comparison is Jonathan Coulton. I like his music, but almost all of Coulton's songs sound the same. They really aren't that interesting musically. The big draw of Coulton is his lyrics and unique humor and nerd culture appeal.

His music is still pretty cringey, but I'm pretty sure it's intentionally cringey

It's like it's a gay thing. Known several gay guys who don't like Weird Al :(

And just straight up urban legends and cryptids

I've never actually watched that show but this description has peaked my interest quite a bit haha

@@yungdomino4718 it's actually pretty interesting!

That's more like an alien showing his people how humans act through a romantic drama.

How dare you insult one of our greatest national treasures

As an American i never realized that parks and rec had “satire” necessarily, in the sense that to me it just seemed normal, like I live on the coast and not middle America like Indiana, but I 100% could believe that these people with these personalities are real, existing and acting and reacting the way they do in real life somewhere in the vast country of the United States

That show is popular in the UK and Canada so it's weird to call it a super American show.

@@YujiUedaFan Well it’s a show made in the US about Americans in the American mid west with a lot of characters that hold American values like Ron who loves guns,hates big government and dislikes the queen of England so yeah it’s definitely super American.

Not really

HI MR BEAT OH MY GOD!!!

Elements of it for sure, but there’s more to it than that.

Weird seeing you here Mr. Beat

It's the Beat!

bugleboy624 I think he was giving that he’s stereotyped as cringy, not that he actually thinks weird al is cringy

@@timolson4809 Weird Al is great! But he obviously represents one, very traditional type of American comedy musician.

weird al is cringey, "fat" and "eat it" are extremely overrated parodies that make no observations about the original song or really anything and sound like parodies my dad would come up with off the top of his head.

@@blew1t I just heard his version of "Royals" by Lorde. It was called "Foil" and was about aluminum foil.

Weird Al is great, but also pretty cringy. Have you heard Albuquerque? I mean, that was deliberately this terrible song that just wouldn't end. (I say that even though I quite like it.)

Kamina Pearl I loved everybody hates Chris lol I think Brazilians can resonate with it because it shows people of color and everyday life in NYC which Brazilians in metropolitan areas can probably take a little bit away from

Growing up in the US myself, my experience is that how American media portrayed high school was more accurate to what middle school and junior high was like IRL.

The sports part is not true they .make it seem like if your the football captain you always where your schools sweater and get all the girls and shit which is so stupid

That's how high school actually is in America