WHY is CLUE? (truth & the philosophy of the whodunit)

well that is just a coincidence on December 13th 1985 movie theaters across the United States loaded up their film rooll and powered up their projectors and there were patrons that were clamoring through the dark deafly avoiding mysterious sticky substances on the floor they sit down and a film begins to play right it's a who done it it's got all the twists and turns of a classic locked room my and 2 weeks later it's Christmas Eve family members all gather around the table they fight a little bit and then they start discussing the film and suddenly there are some discrepancies that are popping up in the stories about the ending of this film I thought it was the Communists says the daughter no no no it was the butler who did it says the father what about the woman in the kitchen screams the mother tensions are rising people are fighting and suddenly the lights go out the video essay is swears frantically moves to turn them back on and a blood curdling screet wait all right that's enough okay [ __ ] that I don't actually know what's going on here to be perfectly honest I don't have any idea what I'm doing here I'm pretty sure that I'm supposed to be making a video about clue but truth be told I don't know what the thesis of this video is supposed to be because it's just like [ __ ] let me hold on I know what you're thinking but I promise that was just a coincidence it's not nearly as weird as it seems our house is very old and it's not like there was a scream or okay [ __ ] fine I'll do the [Music] video part one the facts so I took a look through the index cards that came with my mysterious letter and we have Aristotle communism Christian spelled incorrectly eat games games games value a red herring linguistic nightmares stupido also spelled incorrectly and then we're back at Aristotle what we don't have however is a thesis statement because the thesis index card just says [ __ ] you turn up the gain on your audio so evidently someone in this room room in this case being representative of the vaguely quantifiable Nexus point in which the separate concrete realities of both me filming this video you watching this video and our m mysterious letter sender all exist at the same time that room someone in that room does not want me to tell you about clue someone in that room stole my thesis statement which is really cruel because we have not had a thesis on this channel all year a note for the viewer bis has made a total of three videos this year evidently we're on our own here and I guess we're just going to have to figure it out so without further Ado victim clue clue is first and foremost aboard game in the 1940s British musician Anthony Pratt was inspired by the many murder mystery parlor games his clients partook in during their private music gigs like murder which I'm sure if you were in Girl Scouts or boy scouts or you know attended a party in elementary school you probably played it at one point and also the booming popularity of detective fiction helmed by Miss Agatha Christie herself he teamed up with his wife Elva to design a board game that was in a similar style they presented it to the British game manufacturer wadington who immediately purchases it and provides the trademark name cludo which is a play on words with the Latin word for play being Ludo which I think gives us warrant for games games games right the infamous house design of the game Clue was based on the tutor clothes hotel in roding Dean Brighton and Hove early editions of the game were actually called Murder at tutor clothes now you might be England 1940s yeah you'd be correct World War II puts a damper on the board game manufacturing industry cuz World War II puts a damper on everything people weren't exactly tripping over themselves to produce copies of Battleship if you know what I mean they were much more concerned about producing nuclear weapons so even though Pratt does get the patent for the the game in 1947 the game itself does not actually get published in the UK until 1949 meanwhile waddington's American partner Parker Brothers licensed the rights to create the American version where they dropped the dough and just went with clue because Americans are far too busy eating french fries and spying on the Russians to ever understand a Latin reference the magic of clue or cluto compared to other sort of Crim solving mystery games that had been attempted up to that point is really in its Simplicity the who done it that always ends in a who a what and a where a Mrs peacock in the library with the Candlestick situation there's a fixed number of potential who it what's it and where is it right that fixed number being 324 but still so here's kind of how the game works you start with the cards there are 36 cards total six characters six weapons six rooms three of them are drawn at random and placed in a little envelope in the middle of the board one person person one object one room it was that person in that room with that object who killed Mr body Mr body is the victim of the game it was technically Mr Black in the original UK version but I think everybody is in agreement that Mr body with 2DS is infinitely funnier all right so you put those cards in the middle the rest of the cards get handed out to everyone else players then roll the dice to begin moving their pieces around the board accordingly and anytime you enter a room you get the opportunity to posit a theory deduction about who done it but it has to include the room that you are in so if you end up in the billiard room Billiards is just pool you have to suggest that it was you know Colonel Mustard with the revolver in the billiard room then Colonel Mustard wherever he may be on the board whoever is playing him has no choice but to come to the billiard room so that's kind of how you like move the pieces around my cat wants to come in so you move Colonel Mustard into the Billard room and you say Colonel Mustard in the billiard room with the revolver if anybody else who's playing the game has the revolver then they should kind of sneakily and subtly show the other player that they have it so you can say like hey brosi you are wrong it was not Colonel Mustard in the billiard room with the revolver because I have the revolver therefore you now know that the revolver is not in the envelope it is not the culprit hence you have deduced one less part of the ation and you just keep doing this until you know ah you guys complain about my audio it's her fault and you just keep doing this you keep doing this until someone says I know what's in there and they make the guess and if they're right they're right and if they're wrong they lose everybody else gets to keep playing and they know for a fact that the cards that you guessed are not correct so it gets a little easier or harder depending on how you look at it there are all kinds of fun little secret passages so there are advantages to playing like Mrs peacock who starts close to the conservatory the conservatory has a secret passageway to the lounge Mr Plum starts close to the study the study has a passageway to the kitchen the kitchen is notoriously difficult to reach on the board so it benefits you to play for play as Mr Plum the game is a hit people love it and eventually someone is like let's make a movie and thus the process begins okay that's probably not exactly how it goes but that is close enough originally the plan was to make a stage play and it would be like an interactive experience that is extra funny if you are a member of my patreon and are getting the patreon only video that's coming with this but I digress the stage play doesn't last particularly long it goes through many many many different screenplay stages so much so that by the time they're actually like writing the credits they don't like fully know who wrote the script at one Point Steven sonheim yes that one and Anthony Perkins who had done the script for the last of Sheila they worked on a version of clue but eventually they settle on John Landis who was also the executive producer who had provided like the bulk of the ideas for what eventually became the screenplay and they co-credited Jonathan Lynn who directed Michael Jackson's Thriller music video and also An American Werewolf in London the cast also went through like quite a bit of shuffling around at one point Carrie Fisher was supposed to play Mrs Scarlet but she went to rehab and like just didn't really tell anyone and she was like no they're going to let me out for to do the movie so it's going to be fine and then the production company was like no like that's that's a liability so long we don't have time for it so they shuffled in the woman who was supposed to be playing Mrs White Leslie and Warren and she played Mrs scarlet and they brought in meline Khan to play Mrs White this is insane to me if you've seen the movie this is insane the idea that anybody else could have played Mrs Scarlet is Bonkers it's absurd the idea of anyone else being Mrs way is Bonkers absurd they also had several other actors lined up to play wodsworth before they settled on that one guy from Annie Tim Curry a strong part of me wants to continue pretending that I only know Tim Curry as that one guy from Annie but in the interest of not being strung up in the Village Square by the gay community and out of respect for the fact that Tim Curry has stated that clue is one of his favorite movies I will also acknowledge that he was Dr Franken verter in Rocky Horror Picture Show Rocky Horror Picture Show by the way for those of you born after 1998 whose parents had no taste that is the show that they do in that episode of Glee with the gold shorts and the motorcycle and the Touch Me song half naked students John Stamos get it got it we're all on the same page great brilliant okay let's go other people in clue uh because there are other people in glue include uh Michael mcken who plays Mr Green um Eileen Brenan is the phenomenal Mrs peacock Christopher Lloyd plays Professor Plum Martin mul is Colonel Mustard the lead singer of the punk rock band fear is in it for a hot minute and so is one of the Hex Girls so it's a stacked cast right they gather this stacked cast they make the movie it's phenomenal it completely flops at the box office no one cares about it for like 10 years suddenly becomes a cult classic all the gays are on board 40 years later I'm making a video essay about it in my bedroom production check plot what the [ __ ] is the plot of clue um okay so a bunch of people get invited to a mysterious dinner at a Mysterious Mansion by a mysterious person and for a mysterious reason they all go they they show up one by one two by two and are each in turn given a Code Name by the butler at the Mansion the butler Wadsworth their code names the names of the characters in the board game are we getting it I'm sure you can see where this is going Colonel Mustard shows up first then we get Mrs White Miss Scarlet's car actually breaks down so she does a little foot pop moment on the side of the road and catches Professor Plum's attention he and her then drive together meanwhile Mrs peacock arrives and so does Mr Green followed by scarlet and Plum arriving in the pouring rain also Wadsworth has [ __ ] on his shoes I took the ice out by the way are you happy are you happy I'm drinking lukewarm gin lemonade for you anyway they all sit down to this very awkward dinner of monkeys brain soup or some [ __ ] and they're all just like time to meet your host Mr body Mr body is played by the lead singer of fear leaving which makes the phrase Mr body is leaving hilarious also his lines are like mysteriously dubbed over in the film and we don't know by who or why did you know you were meeting us oh yes what were you tell precisely merely that you were all meeting to discuss our little Financial arrangements and I watched a documentary about this movie so Mr body shows up and we find out that he did not actually invite them he is not in fact their host in reality it was wodsworth the butler who invited them why did the butler invite them you ask I will tell you the butler invited them because he is being blackmailed by Mr body I don't think I told you that everyone else is also being blackmailed by Mr body that is why they all showed up he wants them all to like team up and take down Mr Body by like singing a song or something however Mr body is a man who has successfully blackmailed seven people he does not fall for this he is kind of like haha [ __ ] you look I got you all presents and these presents of course are a dagger for Mrs peacock a rope for Mrs White a wrench for Colonel Mustard a pipe for Mr Green a Candlestick for Miss scarlet and a revolver for Professor Plum murder weapons he gets them all murder weapons as gifts and he basically tells them I got you murder weapons as gifts because I'm going to turn the lights out real quick and one of you is going to kill wodsworth for me and then we can call it even flicks the switch a gun goes off the lights come back on and surprise there's a body on the floor double surprise the body is that of Mr body it's not wadsworth's body it's Mr body's body Mr body's body is the body on the floor got it good which is like a problem this is a big problem because wodsworth having anticipated his plan to go off without a hitch uh has already called the police he's already called the police and told them to show up in 39 minutes so they have about 39 minutes to figure out who killed Mr body before that happens or else the bus will explode that's the setup the film continues there are several more murders before it all wraps up several more times yeah so this film has multiple endings if you didn't know that or pick up on that from like the beginning intro bit there are three endings to this film and when it was originally in theaters supposedly they gave different endings to different theaters so if you went to see it in one city you were going to get ending a if you went somewhere else you were going to get ending B that was the joke at the beginning get it and this is in fact the origin story of the Mandela effect and mass hallucinations however when it came to like VHS and later DVD releases they were like okay let's just like put them all in fine you caught us we gas lit all of America America 1985 a time when we were very vulnerable because they just changed the recipe for Coca-Cola sorry sorry about it um so you get the three endings it's like here's what happened how about this but here's what really happened and that's the gist of it that's that's the film that's the setup and that's the overview we are going to get into the nitty-gritty with all of the spoilers and everything so the movies is 40 years old if you're concerned about spoilers bootle it I don't know what to tell you it's just it's it's a gay little C trip of a movie it's an absolute treat it's such a good time it's my favorite movie to show people it is also probably Aristotle's worst nightmare which is why I think that he is on this list suspect Aristotle the thing that you need to understand about Aristotle is that the man had no chill whatsoever about anything ever nothing was nothing just was everything was a big deal he was just one of those learned philosophy men [ __ ] around in ancient Greece from like 384 BC to 322 BC and much like myself that man could not shut the [ __ ] up to save his life he was the king of why and had opinions on everything public speaking boning your best friends how many sides does a triangle have you name it he probably wrote some [ __ ] about it and if he didn't one of his students did when it comes to like me media analysis the best place to usually start looking for Tau flavored Clues is probably going to be the Poetics the Poetics is a tretis tretis just means lots of words on one thing nowadays we would call it an Instagram post like a really long Instagram post in which Aristotle a man who has never written a play breaks down how to write a play can you not hold for cat in narratological plots and Aristotle's Mythos Elizabeth belar writes of the Poetics that it begins with a clear statement of goals right concerning the poetic art itself and its forms what sort of power each one has and how one should organize the plots if poetic composition is going to be good and again of how many and what kinds of Parts it consists and similarly concerning the other things belonging to the same method of inquiry let us speak beginning according to Nature first from first things Poetics 1447 a 8 through3 Aristotle goes into some specifics specific plot beats things that make a good tragedy specifically however Aristotle does also offer these sort of structural guidelines for creating a good plot we don't have time to get into it but just understand that good for Aristotle just was a lot heavier than it is now right like it just meant a lot the idea of something being good that word has a lot more weight than it does today so a good plot Aristotle says is a whole and two has magnitude whole means that it has a beginning which by his standards does not necessarily follow anything else but which does have something that necessarily follows it so that on Medias Paradise Lost [ __ ] we talked about in the last video no doesn't work doesn't work for him you can't start in the middle it has to start with something that you don't need any prior information to understand what's going on middle which is all of the things that necessarily follow the beginning things happen things things happening things happening the middle and has something that necessarily follows it the thing that necessarily follows that middle is the end singular necessarily follows the middle but does not necessarily have anything that follows it unless you know you're writing a sequel I guess I don't know know I didn't you'd have to ask Aristotle about that so that's you know whole it has to have all of those things in order to have magnitude however you can't [ __ ] go on and on magnitude refers to the size of the plot it should be no longer or shorter than absolutely necessary the removal of one element from your plot should dislocate the entire thing if something is in there it should be in there because if you take it out everything else crumbles that's magnitude it's confusing because it makes it sound like it should be bigger it should not be bigger magnitude is cutting to the chase not doing whatever I've been doing on this channel for 2 years needless to say writing shooting and cutting together multiple plausible endings back to back at the end of a film not exactly what he had in mind it's not really what anyone would call necessary I think I don't think it's necessary by anyone's standards Leon golden writes that Aristotelian tragedy has as its Essence a significant illumination of the pitiable and fearful dimensions of human existence to achieve this illumination an action must be presented that is plausible and persuasive in human terms one that is governed by what Aristotle calls necessity and probability because Aristotle was a math nerd and all of this was less about like having a good time at the theater and more about like the greater good of humanity like I said man had no chill creating a good plot is important for Aristotle because it means that your audience will be able to experience what he calls the proper pleasure of tragedy which is this like cleansing of the emotions pity and fear it's catharsis you're cathar all over the place you cathart cathed and cathar those feelings allows you to be a better person because you don't have them anymore I think is the point so it's like not really about how to tell a good story as much as it is about how to elicit a specific response from your audience in order to save the world Aristotle of course was talking about tragedy right and is clue a tragedy no I guess we could say that clue flopped because it doesn't adhere to the traditional Aristotelian plot structure therefore it doesn't elicit those feelings of pity and fear it doesn't give us catharsis it doesn't make us better people end of video however clue while it may have flopped at the box office is in fact hilarious am I right in thinking there's nobody else in this house no then there is someone else in this house no sorry I said no meaning yes no meaning yes he believe that you were all thoroughly unamerican are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests I need any help from me sir that's right much he had threatened to kill me in public why would want to kill you in public I think she meant he threatened in public to kill her oh was that his final word on the matter maybe he was poisoned you P the black manil how many husbands have you had mine or Li yours nobody nobody that's what you mean Mr body's body it's gone all right I am I'm shocking I'm Shing I'm sh well there is still some confusion as to whether or not there's anybody else in this house I told you there isn't there isn't any confusion or there is anybody either What's Happening Here in clue that makes it so funny is the dialogue is employing a lot of tactic ambiguity for example the phrase he told me he was going to kill me in public why would he want to kill you in public no I think he told her he was going to kill her in public that is called an amphib which is a fallacy fallacy is just like I'll put the definition for fallacy up here with this little linguistic nightmares index card so it's a fallacy that relies on ambiguous grammatical structure in order to confuse and mislead its audience right in how to win every argument the use and abuse of logic Matson PRI writes to become a skilled perpetrator of amphiboles you must acquire a certain nonchalance toward punctuation especially commas you must learn to toss off lines such as I heard Cathedral Bells tripping through the Alleyways as if it mattered not a wit whether you or the bells were doing the tripping you should acquire a vocabulary of nouns which can be verbs and grammatical style which easily accommodates misplaced pronouns and confusion over subject and predicate sorry I said no meaning yes no meaning yes so what's happening when you use syntactic ambiguity and amphiboles for comedic purposes or not is that someone is manipulating your understanding of your own language they are using your language against you the sentence the old man the boat for English speakers plays directly on the assumption that you The Listener and reader are going to interpret things a certain way you're going to interpret old as an adjective as a description of the man the old man and you're going to think oh it should say the old man is on the boat or the old man apostrophe s the old man's boat however what it really means is the old as a noun the old people man the verb control navigate do whatever the [ __ ] you do on boats the boat man the shs that kind of [ __ ] it plays on the fact that you're expecting a certain outcome it's a plot twist a little small linguistic plot twist tragedies not particularly big on plot twists linguistic or otherwise I mean edus does have to answer a riddle but the answer is just edus so the classical tragedies are imitation not of human beings but of actions and of life that is a quote from the Poetics 14500 A6 but it's like adjusted we are talking about a carefully controlled logical progression of actions governed by necessity and probability not extremely convoluted dialogue deliberately intended to mislead and confuse you so I think it's probably safe to say that we are no longer in the realm of tragedy when working with clue we're dealing with something that is a lot less Aristotelian and a lot more Christian christe Christie and like AG Agatha Agatha Christie Agatha Christie it's a different genre okay that's what I'm getting at here is that we're working with a different genre than the Aristotelian tragedy does that mean I probably didn't need to go into all of that detail about Aristotelian tragedies probably genre is like a big thing Oregon State University associate professor of rhetoric Professor not even going to try that one sorry sorry sir describes the genre as typified rhetorical action rhetorical rhetoric Aristotle the art of persuasion how we use words and language and speech to elicit specific responses from our audiences typified means that you can like categorize it right it is a characteristic or represent resentative of something so when the professor is talking about typified rhetorical action when he's talking about our features that repeat again and again over time with few differences in part because audiences expect certain things to happen or because they want certain kinds of experiences these are the things that we use to recognize a murder mystery as a murder mystery things like red herrings red herrings things that look like important clues that are not actually important Clues and are just there to confuse you and Lead You Down the wrong path someone trying to solve the murder a locked room which is is exactly what it says it is except for all the times that it's not a weapon which is a weapon a victim secret identities we'll get into it but it's basically a whole bunch of completely unnecessary junk thrown into a story that Aristotle would absolutely hate because That clouds up all the action these types of stories this genre of the murder mystery who done it detective situation is just a beast of a different color right and we could spend a very long time trying to parse out exactly what constitutes detective fiction what constitutes crime fiction where exactly clue falls in the genre Spectrum umbrella thing we could do what Laura cron does in her amazing pink aisle of crime fiction video which is you know create your own term that encapsulates everything that you're specifically going to talk about analyze the reasons for those distinctions in order to effectively communicate our point but she's much better at this than I am so so we're not going to do that you're just going to have to keep up it's you know Murder Mystery crime Thriller detective fiction who done it story Town that's where we are that's what we're dealing with because at the end of the day there is one thing that sort of connects all of the stories we're going to talk about today and all of this kind of crazy genre sub genre situation one question that transcends Medium time period plot structure characterization one question to rule them all and that's who the [ __ ] done it changing the outfit breaks the meta continuity of the mystery format part 1.2 The Who so we have six characters in clue right we have Mrs peacock Mrs White Miss Scarlet Colonel Mustard Professor Plum Mr Green and then we have the butler Wadsworth we also have their host Mr body and IET the frenchmaid played by Colleen Camp and the cook played by Kelly nakahara and that is everybody who is at the house at the start of the film we will later meet a motorist just means a dude driving a car stops to use the phone a police officer a singing telegram and also an evangelist cuz I can't make a video without Christianity popping up at some point and that's like a lot of people to keep track of especially when at least seven of them are all in scenes together constantly because clue is what we call a locked room mystery because as you can imagine the characters are locked in a room it's room again relative term inclue it technically refers to like the entire house mansion thing because wadworth locks them in at the beginning quite literally but like in Knives Out The Glass Onion it like refers to the whole island sometimes it's a boat a secluded estate a train anything like that any place that is enclosed where we have like upwards of six people and a crime that's a locked room mystery and these locked room Mysteries typically have way more than like six people we're talking like 8 15 12 and so that is actually one of the biggest challenges in trying to adapt these like murder mystery who done it detective crime thriller books into films and TV shows because if you have 8 10 15 12 people in 180 Pages you don't really have time to go into all of the Gory detail Tes and all their sorted Back stories you don't get to do a lot of character development so the characters that these like filmmakers are working with are uh dull as rocks somewhere between like Jeff Bezos and that one guy who's trying to give himself his son's blood we're talking like dead-eyed robot people characters who fit really well into boxes who seem like they might be interesting but like are just not they're very boring and that is a fact that I learned the hard way which means I guess that we should probably talk about Agatha Christie at this point suspect agie Agatha Christie the Godmother of what Google calls murder mystery detective story crime fiction Thrillers Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christy lady Malin the most excellent order of the British Empire herself was born on September 15th 1890 and died January 12th 1976 and girle wrote like it was nobody's business she wrote a novel for practically every year of her life it's like 80s something mystery novels it's insane she also once like faked her own disappearance and subsequent memory loss just to like have a break allegedly prolific right Infamous fantastically hugely Larger than Life presence of a human type person thing woman writer extraordinaire that's that's agath the Christie she is been captivating readers for Millennia so she's famous for these locked room Mysteries and these surprise twist endings including famously murder on the Orient Express in which a quirky by 1920s standards private detective Hercule poo pero parrot poot poit whatever Hercules is trying to solve a murder whilst they are stuck on a stopped train because of an avalanche or some [ __ ] I don't know I didn't read the book don't look at me like that I tried I tried I really tried I've tried several Agatha Christie novels over the years and especially over the last 3 months of making this video I mean over the years that I happen to be learning a lot about this topic that I'm being forced to make a video about I just can't get into it I just they're boring they're super boring I the characters are boring they talk too much which apparently is the point so like obviously it's a me thing but I didn't read murder on the Orient Express but it's fine because other people have according to Ena rayark's analysis of conflicting revelatory strategies in Murder on the Orient Express literary subtleties often become obscurities as they flicker by on screen christe's characters are far too flat and the novel too deficient in effect to provide enough dramatic substance to keep a 2-hour film moving too much character distracts from from the plot it distracts from the mystery instead we get stock characters we get the nurse the maid the escort the actress the professor the Widow social standings right class types the challenge of the film version of these hunet is balancing characters that are interesting and compelling enough to be on screen and like watch for 2 hours without their characterization distracting from the task at hand which is crime solving and this is something that I think clue does very very well because first things first you may have noticed the characters in clue are not dressed like their board game counterparts that is because within the clue Universe the CL Universe if you will all of these people have lived completely separate lives and are mysteriously invited to this dinner because as we come to find out their lives are not so separate at all they are all being blackmailed by the same Mr body person it's only when they arrive at this mysterious dinner Mansion thing that they are given these code names and told not to reveal any information about their identity for the audience this gives us a way to identify them without actually forcing us to kind of process any information about who these people are we are completely separated from who these characters are without actually being separated from them as potential murderers we don't actually like officially learn anything about the characters until like this far into the movie and Mrs peacock in the spirit of this dinner table much like a gen xer on an airplane decides that this is when she should start talking well someone's got to break the ice and it might as well be me I mean I'm used to be an host just it's part of my husband's work and it's always difficult when a group of new friends meet together for the first time to get acquainted it's super annoying to everybody else but very convenient for us because this is how we find out that everybody at this table lives in Works adjacent to is married to someone who works adjacent to Washington DC peacock is a senator's wife Mrs White is the Widow of a nuclear physicist for the Department of Defense and also an Illusionist but he wasn't a very good Illusionist Colonel Mustard is a colonel I guess Miss Scarlet doesn't say anything specifically at this time she just says DC Professor Plum is like a psychiatrist I think and Mr Green also works for some like government Corporation thing I don't [ __ ] know there you I'll put the clip in of what he says he does they all work in Washington I work in Washington too if you know the movie or you know anything about murder mystery crime fiction Thriller who done it you probably know that that's not like the whole truth because if the characters in Greek tragedies are models for Humanity and vessels for Action necessary plot developments the characters in the murder mystery thriller crime who done it fix fiction novel thing they are vessels for Secrets containers of smoked glass which obstructs and distorts recognition of what is being revealed anyway those Secrets especially in the case of Agatha Christie concern either criminal guilt or social identity they really have different names occupations personal histories or relationships to the other suspects or the victim than their initial testimony acknowledges they're cheating on their wife they lied about their name they know somebody in the room that they didn't tell you that they knew the first time they've all got little secrets but the thing about these secrets is that none of the characters are like particularly psychologically affected by these secrets they're not being like torn up inside by the reality of what they've done and the shame that it will bring on their family for Generations they're not keeping it a secret because it's awful they're keeping it a secret because they don't want to get caught they're acting out of like fear of exposure and potential repercussions for their secret being unse secreted so what are the characters in clue keeping secret oh please I've never heard anything so ridiculous I me nobody could blackmail me my life is an open book I've never done anything wrong well Mrs peacock takes bribes for her husband's vote on like government matters Mrs White has killed the [ __ ] out of her husbands he was always rather stupidly optimistic man I I'm afraid it GES a great shock to him when he died but super killed them like super super killed them husband should be like Kleenex soft strong and disposable you lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies flies are wom are most vulnerable right except The Illusionist he disappeared Miss Scarlet is a Madam she runs a escort service in DC on a specialized hotel in a telephone service which provide gentlemen with a company of a young lady for a short while oh yeah and Colonel Mustard is one of her clients we also later find out that evet the French maid is one one of her Girls Professor Plum did the thing with his female patients that you're not supposed to do and Mr Green is gay as [ __ ] I work for the state department Mr Green is a homosexual and I'm a homosexual and he's proud of it but he knows that his government agency will not be happy with the amount of ass that he is eating so he is like I got to keep it on the down low so that I can stay low right and so that's also like what they're being blackmailed with is those secrets that's what Mr body knew before Mr body ended up being the body on the floor and wodsworth too wodsworth was being blackmailed because he had a wife who killed herself because she was being blackmailed because she had friends that were socialists socialists oh my and it's 1950 something this is not technically speaking true of every single crime mystery murder Thriller who done it detective story thing ever written ever in the history of humanity but like most of them don't wallow in the psychology of their characters that is a direct quote from Agatha Christie by the way she writes at the time of the 1914 War the villain was never the hero the enemy was always wicked and evil and the hero was always good it was crude and simple and they had not begun to wallow in Psychology guilty in this sense in the world of the who done it murder mystery thing is more of a state of being rather than a feeling it is evidence or acknowledgement of previous wrongdoing not a psychological after effect of bad behavior and this worked really well for Agatha Christie because you can put in more characters which gives you more suspects more possible endings more opportunities to surprise the reader and it ends up being sort of cemented into the genre even you know after the world wars once we all begin really wallowing in the psychology of our characters because we do we do wallow in the psychology of our characters much more today even you know within the genre again I'm going to mention Laura Cron's pink aisle of crime fiction video because it's so fun it's so good the Gone Girl girl on the train that genre which is like very psychological right there's a lot there's a lot going on in that you know alcoholic divorce solves a Cold Case thing hardboiled detective fiction is also a thing that exists and I just think it's really funny to call something hardboiled because hardboiled eggs are actually very finicky and like very easy to [ __ ] up but the term hardboiled is used to describe sort of tough detective fiction where you know the detective usually has like a dead daughter or a dead wife that has like caused him you know trauma and he just needs to solve this one case and then his dead daughter dead wife trauma will resolve itself I think broad Church true to detective the American version of fraud church that we don't talk about there's got to be more what else is there Criminal Minds to a degree but that is like a different that's a different end of the spectrum than you know things like clue and knives out right so we're just going to we're going to focus over here okay if you look at Glass Onion you see we have the selfish social media Mogul the corrupt politician the manosphere dude the CEO which are the kind of social stereotypes that we have today right there's obviously more of a visual element clue as well we get to take in posture and speech patterns and tone so we get to see Professor Plum be super handsy with Miss scarlet and we get to see Colonel Mustard looking very confused all the time and little things that you know give us more information but the the big parts right the weight of who these characters are is found in the lengths to which they go to keep their secrets secret that is where the narrative deres its energy from that is where the story gets its juice tension and suspense and Intrigue in these stories comes from how far these characters are willing to go to try and keep their secrets secret from the detective however there's no detective in clue we don't have a detective there is no sleuth no one is sleuthing there's no mystery gang Mystery Ink Mystery Machine Scooby-Doo Scooby gang no salit Squad inight no like well-dressed gayco man with a Southern draw and cute outfits walking in no Sherlock Holmes Walts and around wreaking havoc on teenagers in the 2010s none of that no instead we just have these people who are like barely people to begin with a bunch of personified balls of anxiety running around like chickens with their heads cut off off trying to solve a murder and I think in order to understand why and how clue works so well as a detective story without a detective we need to understand first what the role of the traditional detective is and where it came from Agatha Christi is from the Golden Age of crime Thriller who done it detective novel fiction story things she perfected an art that existed before her so we need to go back a little further and talk not about the Godmother of detective fiction but the founding father because that my friends is Eep suspect Edgar Allen Poe get it e Eep I'm a comedian top tier this is top tier quality content that you are receiving Ed gr and Poe Ed gr and Poe in 1841 cemented into place the form of the locked room detective murder mystery crime thing kicking off the genre with the murder in the room org murders plural and before before you say anything the fall of house syester is going to have to get its own video okay that's just the thing I the community has spoken I have heard you I I've heard your voices me and Mike Flanigan me and Mike Flanagan are like this okay we are on the same track all the time and that that show dropped like right after my succession video on deals with the devil dropped so everybody started commenting thinking that that's what that video was about then I suddenly get an influx of comments on my midnight mass video about how I should talk about fall of House of Usher and I've already written the majority of this video essay by this point including this whole section on Edgar Allen Poe and talking about murder and the room org and I thought about putting it in I thought about trying to talk about it here I watched one episode and I was like this is so good I mean I knew it was going to be good but I was like I can't it felt wrong to only include a little bit of it so you have to wait for that that said murder in the rorg which I think it's murders I'm going to keep saying murder deal with it murders in the rorg is uh not particularly important to what we're talking about today however while I was researching I came across this quote about 19th century uh you know psychology and you know detective crime fiction that describes you know Edgar alen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan doy's detectives as hunting antagonists disturbingly like mirror images of themselves a quote that is infinitely funnier when you know that the antagonist of the murders in the room morg is an escape durut tang and I felt like you needed to know that okay which means that now I have to go into a brief summary of the murders in the rorg because if I don't you're all going to leave the video to go Google it and I don't want you to leave I have abandonment issues so the murder and the Rumor unnamed narrator tells us that he is going to [ __ ] with our brains because basically the detective whom he has a very standard 19th century homoerotic friendship relationship with that guy [ __ ] with his brain when he was telling him the story about this whole crime so he's going to do the same to us because hurt people hurt people and so he tells us about these two people that were murdered right this young woman's body is found like stuffed in a chimney and her mother was found decapitated in the courtyard the apartment is still locked and nothing is stolen suspicious and like nobody gives a [ __ ] until the cops arrest some guy and then detective dupan which I thought was dupin until I saw fall of House of Usher detective dupon is like no no no no no no you can't like arrest somebody for this because the only way that somebody could have gotten in is if they scaled the lightning rod and climbed through the window and like who do we know is famous for scaling lightning rod anyway stuff happens they find out it was an escape durang 70 years later Edgar Wallace and Maran Cooper write King Kong now for context this is 1841 the United States won't write into law any kind of A Treatise on what exactly does or does not count as evidence until 1896 okay uh German philosopher Ern block describes the emergence of the detective novel as entirely different from the traditional ingredients of the past it follows the entrusted pursuit of evidence and the narrated understanding of its meaning so while I'm not saying that there was no such thing as an evidentiary trial before the 19th century I am saying that crimes were like super duper not solved the way that they are today before the 19th century nobody would have considered the monkey according to the United States Department of Justice which is kind of an o [ __ ] the need for evidence in a trial is like a uniquely anglo-american development that became necessary when people started swapping out the the church's whole like trial by battle trial by fire thing for like a trial by jury in like the 13th century obviously however [ __ ] happens history is history and everywhere power changes hands colonizers colonize Henry VII starts killing his wives Crusaders Crusade it's a whole thing we're not doing the history of law but eventually we get to like 1623 okay and 1623 in uh Boston Massachusetts is a wild place to be trust me and the colonists there the colonists basically decide that all criminal facts and also matters of trespass and debts between man and man should be Tried by the verdict of 12 honest men to be impanel by Authority in the form of a jury upon their oath make 12 people decide who done it and then in 1630 John Billington becomes the first Man convicted of murder in a jury trial and he's convicted based on what is described as plain and notorious evidence I'm not saying that he didn't do it I'm just saying that evidence in the 1600s basically just meant witness and Vibe and we all know how that one turned out we're getting off track prior to the 19th century evidence just was not scrutinized the way that it will be later even though we have a jury trial barring like witchfinder major generals there is not like a person whose job it is to collect and analyze evidence there was no one person assigned to like catalog everything and tell the story of how it happened the way that Detective do it's a new dawn it's a new day right industrialization means that we all have like a [ __ ] ton more time on our hands in the 19th century and everyone is far too thin and frail to be daydreaming about you know slaying dragons or anything like that the days of hand-to-hand combat as Louisa niggard writes have long since passed the problems confronting human beings are increasingly those of knowledge and cognition it's time for a new type of hero the appropriate hero would seem to be the analyst the detective the individual who is able to penetrate deceptive appearances and to cut through reams of contradictory evidence and conflicting testimony to arrive at the truth someone who is a loner someone who is autistically coded someone with extreme attention to detail and an affectation for impractical headwear someone who is not particularly interesting someone who is not emotionally invested someone who is most importantly above all not a [ __ ] [Music] cop part 1.4 the done suspect detecting so cops are like notoriously bad at their jobs right in addition to being the products of a bastard system designed to enslave black men that has spiraled into a heavily funded pseudo militia where violent power hungry individuals can exert their power in whatever way they see fit without any consequences they're ALS Al just like really bad at it I saw a video like a year ago that has never left my brain it was like a ring camera video of a pizza guy who was just standing there trying to deliver a pizza and suddenly there's a police chase going on behind him and the cop is running after this guy he's not going to catch him and the pizza guy is like oh God the pizza guy just like sticks his foot out trips the guy who's being chased and then the cop is able to run in and assault him I mean arrest him and the reason that I saw this video was because I unfortunately still have a Facebook account and it was going around with the caption like hero pizza guy saves the day Pizza Man assists arrest Pizza Man arrests perpetrator something like that and I just like at first glance it they're it's it's it's fine but like I just like a pizza guy should not be better at catching criminals than the cops right like a pizza guy should not be better at your job than you I don't and they do this in crime documentaries too right which is Bonkers it is Bonkers okay it's bonkers the way that they frame true crime documentaries these days and by these days I mean all the days I hope you don't like True Crime because I'm about to ruin it for you I'm about to ruin true crime documentaries for you because once you see this you will not be able to unsee it these true crime documentaries they will spend like five episodes you know 45 minutes like a third of the programming graphically describing the horrific crime in question and how difficult it was for you know the lead detective to face how hard it was for them to you know see the the graphic pictures to talk to The Grieving Families how you know terrifying it was for the community for the individuals affected they just they milk the harrowing emotional experience of everyone involved in these violent crimes for all that it's worth and then they will with their full chest be like and after 45 years 29 victims all brutally beaten and dismember remembered with a chainsaw and dental floss finally one man decided to talk to another and they found a footprint that led them to cracking the case like what that is insane that is an insane take to have that that you that not stopping the crime before it happens means that the people who are supposed to be preventing crime are good at their job I don't care care if you've been in the FBI for 45 years I'm saying this as a person who has a fuing my favorite murder tattoo that I would like to get covered like I was in True Crime I loved True Crime and I just can't like I can't fathom it anymore and I just like can you like can you imagine if we did this for any other profession can you can you imagine if a plumber was like yeah I spent 12 hours looking at these pipes turning them on and off and breaking them further and flooding the entire house but eventually eventually I got it we would not be making documentaries about that plumber that would be a bad plumber you would refuse to pay that plumber you would write a terrible Yelp review of that plumber they would not be interviewing that plumber for People magazine and inviting that plumber to give speeches and be on podcast okay serial killers are not that smart they have never been that smart people who commit crimes are not that smart they have never been that that smart Ted Bundy was not that smart he escaped jail and immediately got caught multiple times not because he was a genius because nobody was watching him they are not that good at murdering that is a lie that you have been told by the cops with the exception of Ted kazinski these people are not that smart they're not so smart that you couldn't catch them okay cops are bad at preventing crime and they are even worse at solving it DNA facial recognition databases all of these things that's what solves crimes not the police and for the record I understand that this is not like the worst thing about the American judicial Justice police system but it is still true and it is relevant to why we are here today the portrayal of police in these murder mystery hunic crime Thriller detective fiction things at least in the United States is evidence of the fact that the police have never been good at what they do or are supposed to do the detective in the crime Thriller murder mystery who done it genre is almost always exclusively a private one they are not law enforcement and when they are they are usually fired for being an alcoholic or having a dead kid right if and when police are involved in these stories when they do make an appearance it's usually for one of two reasons one it's to run in at the end and make the actual arrest or two to act as contrast slf foil to the detectives unorthodox methods they either there to frustrate the detective with all of their red tape or their just refusal to listen to the smartest person in the room who was always the detective Goldman writes that police as the official Defenders of the status quo are most often portrayed as bumbling if not corrupt even when the detective hero are themselves police there are conflicts with less competent underlings or superiors or the police hero himself is somewhat corrupt and incompetent there are a couple of police officers in clue collectively they tick both of these boxes so in each of the endings they do sort of bust in to make the final arrest but there is a police officer who shows up and ends up being one of the murder victims before his ultimate demise however he is portrayed as a bumbling idiot he is completely unsuspicious of the goings on Falls easily for the moment where all of the characters pretend to be making out with dead bodies he is uh very dumb very naive and gets killed and that's like his whole thing if you've seen the movie you know that there is in fact another cop situation going on and we will get there but for now it's the methods that the private detectives use that differentiate them from the police right they can tell by the mud on on someone's shoes which part of London they are walking through and differentiate the scent and style of tobaccos that's from Ernest block um a philosophical view of the detective novel they use small incidental signs to piece together the truth which means that these books often have a lot of random trivia in them because the detectives just like know [ __ ] like they just know what the different smells of different cigar brands are like they just know they know like how deep a pool is is I don't [ __ ] know they know like random [ __ ] these methods and facts and knowledge however either go sort of completely unnoticed by the police or outwardly rejected by them the detective can be looking at the sort of trivial pipe right in front of the police officer who sort of dismisses the action completely and it's like that's not important and it turns out that the pipe can only be what bought in one place at one time by one person in one room and boom murder solved that's kind of what happens in Murder at rorg is they arrest this guy and dupon is like that's not possible and they're like me we're just ignoring the fact that the window was unlocked and no one could have scaled that except for a monkey our detectives however are the Goldilocks of lawbreaking they aren't beholden to things like warrants or you know fruit of the poisonous tree or anything like that they can do whatever they want both perau and Sherlock Holmes let perpetrators walk at one point without arresting them the new type of detective offers protection for the rashly accused victims of the routine of police and thus embodies the characteristics which according to radbrook should distinguish the jurist above all deliberation there are like attention to detail willingness to focus on the little things those small tiny details highlight their commitment to truth presenting a virtuous independent person acting as a strong contrast to the routine police the point of the detective evidently is to contrast the police to be unprofessional to be unofficial in order to be effective so it stands to reason that while most of the detectives are white men with funny hats and itic memories or alcoholic cupcake shop owners anyone can technically function as the detective in a who done it this is getting serious in detective fiction and the historical narrative o Gorman writes that the detective seeks a solution to a mystery or Mysteries the solution is arrived at through the scrutiny of material evidence and careful questioning of Witnesses in short through a process of retracing and recovering the past the detective is bound by an obligation beyond that to any human individual an obligation to truth dupon tells us as much or rather the narrator describes as much in the murder at rorg that dup's ultimate objective is to only the truth which is fine except like what is truth suspect truth itself truth is a weird and interesting concept especially in philosophy because it is both like the most important objective but also like no one is concerned about it at all we want to search the truth but at the same time like if we find it then philosophy is over and I feel like most people like having a job in philosophy it's very hard to get so we want truth but a very specific kind of Truth a very specific kind of truth that like doesn't exist and I think we all know that it doesn't exist but like intellectual Wild Goose chases are the point of philosophy that is the official encyclopedic definition of philosophy wild intellectual Goose chases you don't need to look it up trust me so when it comes to figuring out what is is true there's like a lot going on and I'm trying to make these videos more concise so first you have to decide what it is you mean when you say true what does truth mean and then you have to decide how you find that truth you have to figure that out and then you have to figure out how you prove that the truth that you have found is in fact the truth that you decided you were looking for in the beginning which is difficult because how you find the truth and how you prove the truth are not always the same thing and this is like big for epistemology which I was really into in school it's the study of knowledge and how we know what we know or what we think we know because typically when we say that we know something what we mean is that we believe that thing to be true and so you have to justify that belief why do you believe that the sky is blue because you can see it and trust me not everyone is Keen on taking that as a justifiable answer so when dupon says that his obligation is to truth what he is saying is that his only objective in solving the murder is not necessarily to bring Justice for the victims it's not for fame and Glory it's not because it's the honorable right thing to do it's because no one knows what happened in that locked room therefore no one knows the truth and his only obligation is to uncovering that truth hands off everything else you know hello the characters inclue however if we remember only have an obligation to themselves so whereas the detective the sort of emotionally detached Sherlock dupon perau traditional detective is not like emotionally involved in the story at all the characters in clue are like very much involved remember their ultimate goal as like stock sort of vessels for Secrets is to keep those secrets so they that's their first objective their only objective is to get out of there with all of their secrets intact the only reason that they have to try and solve this murder is because the cops are going to be there in 39 minutes and none of them trust each other enough to walk away and never say anything again they don't actually care about what's true but philosophers philosophers definitely do philosophers spend a lot of time painstakingly trying to explain how and why they think they know something to be true and the most common way that they do this is through a logical argument I promise this is going to be important logical argument premise premise conclusion right if then therefore so for example in clue wodsworth argues that monkeyy brains is a Cantonese delicacy not commonly found in Washington DC right that is the first premise that is the law that is a thing that he believes to be true second premise Mrs peacock says that the recipe she is eating is her favorite that is the case that's the second premise example therefore three Mrs peacock has had this recipe before that is the conclusion and that conclusion sort of leads him to decide that she must have killed the cook there are a lot of assumptions being made here and other premises sort of being added into this like whether or not the cook is the only person to have ever made that recipe but broad Strokes more or less this is a deduction deduction one of the many things that Steven Moffett has taken from me did deductive reasoning that is what wodsworth is using here and deductive reasoning is like the best kind of reasoning as far as philosophers are concerned deduction is how you come up with the truest true answer that has ever Tred in its entire Truity it is how you find the most super duper best super fact concrete reality thing ever it's it's it's how you figure out all the a priori [ __ ] a priori is just a fancy way of saying what comes first it means a lot of different things in different contexts but for the most part what came before will suffice say for example you are standing in front of a tree because philosophers [ __ ] love trees you're trying to figure out if this tree has fruit or not on it just pretend that you can't see the top because of clouds or whatever just roll with it when you are asking this question does the tree have fruit it already does or doesn't that is not going to change in the amount of time it takes you to guess that is an OP ory fact it's already happened you just don't know the outcome so you are trying to figure out this a priori fact without climbing a [ __ ] tree cuz that is a waste of time so you put together the following logical argument you say one all trees bear fruit two I am standing in front of a tree and I am of you know sound mind and body and all that three therefore I can conclude that this tree in front of me has fruit however you may already be typing a comment about the fact that not all trees bear fruit that's a silly little assumption for you to make and therefore I would tell you that yes you are correct we don't know that all trees bear fruit not all trees bear fruit therefore this argument is valid but it is not sound we don't really need to be going into all of this do we the argument is valid because it makes sense within itself it is not sound because it doesn't make sense within the world if you wanted to make it sound you would have to prove that first premise you would have to prove that all trees bear fruit now in reality this would be very easy to disprove because I live in Philadelphia and there are many a tree here that has nothing to offer me however let's say every tree that you check has fruit you just keep checking trees and every single [ __ ] tree is just like apples for days right you're just like drowning in in apple juice living your best life checking every tree on the face of the Earth that still wouldn't technically speaking be enough because you would have to also check all of the trees that have not grown yet which you can't do we can't check the Trees of tomorrow so you would have to use inductive reasoning to say that every single tree that I have encountered on this planet has fruit I ran out of phone space pardon the angle change but therefore all trees most likely will bear fruit and you would be reasoning ah posteriori what comes out after the will most likely part of that sentence predicting the future it's a whole thing you don't need to know about it it's not at all relevant to what we're talking about anyway murder mystery thriller who done it stories aren't concerned with a posterior because no one is concerned with a posterior they are concerned with an AR priori fact you can't solve a murder that hasn't happened yet at least not in this genre one of the central characteristics of these murder mystery crime Thriller who done it story novel things is in addition to the sort of hunt for Clues and the unmasking of the guilty party is the fact that the events of the actual crime right the what happened in the room work for example or what happened when the lights went out and clue they are being wrestled from what Ernst block calls their pre- narrative State pre- narrative doesn't necessarily mean before the film or novel starts so much as it means before the main Narrative of the film or the novel starts and while there are some cases like the last of Sheila or knives out um Glass Onion where the murder does actually happen way before we meet anybody for the most part it usually occurs right near the beginning It's usually the second thing that kind of happens so for the most part this a priori event this prear ative thing that came before really just means that we weren't there for it right it happened when the lights were out it happened in another room it happened somewhere that we as the you know reader or audience or Watcher were not privy to right and therefore it is a blank spot that we all have to now fill in and that is again where the narrative picks up where the story really begins when all of these characters have to start keeping their secrets because there is a detective or a pseudo detective or a detective like figure pressing them to find out what happened they're trying to figure out if the tree has fruit and to effectively do this honuts usually employ a double narrative this means that there is one narrative right that is unfolding at the same time as another narrative right one is the story of the sleuth or the detective investigating the story of the characters trying to keep their secrets that's the main narrative and then you also have at the same time The Narrative the story of what actually happened when the lights went out that story is the one that the detective is building in the main narrative and it's unique and interesting because it's not like a story within a story right we're not pausing and you know figuratively or literally Tim traveling back to reveal what happened it's not withering Heights like we're not we're not hearing the nurse tell the story that Catherine told that blah blah blah blah blah blah blah like we're not going that far down into cognitive reality or whatever it's not a story within a story so much as it is the story of someone telling a story which does not sound like a very effective storytelling device can you imagine if you were watching Barb's Rapunzel and instead of getting to like go back and dive into the world of Barbie as Rapunzel you just had to listen to Modern Barbie tell that story verbally to the little girl in the beginning and then the little purple dragon puts her foot through the floor and then they're like oh my God what's going to happen and then later the the big dragon yells at the little dragon for that and then Rapunzel finds these raspberries I think or they might have been strawberries and she uses them as paint that would not be nearly as fun however if you would like me to give you a recap of Barb's Rapunzel by memory I am more than happy to do so anyway right look it's all about going back and piecing together an event that happened beforehand block writes in the detective novel The Story arrives at the scene of the corpse contrast with rasnov which is from Crime and Punishment who we see murder the pond broker or we see alrick Rob the gold I don't know what that's from if however new murders occur in the course of the detective story they constitute yet another black mark often hampering the resolution of the case so basically we have this already concealed truth this initial murder and as the story progresses we are running around retracing our steps trying to piece together what that truth is and if bodies start dropping left and right that makes the narrative that we are trying to piece together increasingly more complex we are constantly trying to outrun the story that we are telling and the additional murders become not only additional crimes but additional evidence and so we get to see all of these characters in clue who are already kind of stressed and overwhelmed by the pressure of having to be the detective and the suspect then also realize that they are potential victims and panic as you would and so they sort of at this point all lock all of the murder weapons away in like a chest armoir cabinet uh the thing from Beauty and the Beast they lock they lock it away in there then they break off it to search the house in pairs because a they can watch each other and B if one of them ends up dead then they definitely know who the Killer is seems like a decent risk to take so the truth goes from being just this AR priori thing this thing that happened when the lights were out when Mr body was killed to this a posterior thing of who is going to be next who could be killed next who could be doing the murdering again and if we're treating a priori truth as something that can be known which is a debate all unto itself and we assume that deduction is in fact a way to successfully get to this answer to find the truest true of all truths that is the central crime that as Goldman says must always be reconstructed from Clues uncovered in the ongoing action that first narrative and then we add on top of that this search for who could be doing The Killing who could be the next victim we add on this search for an a posteriori truth an aposteriori is inductive reasoning it's not deductive reasoning it's not 100% knowable the way that op priori is then the truth inclue is both knowable because it's O priori and unknowable because it's a posteriori who's going to be next it makes this knowable truth completely unknowable you know if this is confusing that's fine I'm also confused the idea that an escaped Aang atang killed two women in 1841 is like insane that's not something that anybody would have ever guessed and like Edgar and I were having a moment in 1841 so I don't know how people responded at the time but I feel like it must have been a bit frustrating and Edgar alen Poe is an interesting example because he was you know very cynical about everything so he probably delighted in the fact that this was like a very big deception and frustrating for his audience but because this cements the genre because this is you know the more or less agreed upon beginning of detective murder mystery who done it locked room crime Thriller stories it became a staple and deception this thing that is traditionally like not very fun now becomes this vital tool in this kind of storytelling not just mystery not just suspense but like outright lies Lane Cooper writes that an excess of delight occurs when the regular advance from an antient to consequence brings a sudden addition to our knowledge when by a rapid unlabored logical inference the desire to know the truth is satisfied in order to really experience that satisfaction we have to go down several incorrect paths we have to be deceived we have to to be played with in order to allow that desire for truth to build the same way that Agatha Christie not wallowing in psychology as a result of the world that she lived in helped unlock this element of detective fiction going forward that sort of like uh desire to [ __ ] with people that PO had helped create this method of of manufacturing suspense and people trying to recreate that is how we get all of these tropes right clue plays on all of these right someone who everyone thinks is dead is not dead Mr body someone who is missing turns up dead also Mr body why would anyone want to kill him twice seems so unnecessary the most likely suspect always is the first victim that one small thing that the detective thinks is a little odd turns out to be really important later this is one of my favorite recipes I know Madam the DC thing the government nuclear physicist communism red herrings right those things that seem like they're going to be important but really are just there to pad the video time and distract you to keep that one mysterious pre- narrative crime hidden until exactly the right moment I mean that whole that whole Aristotle bit like red herring right not at all relevant it's not like edus was running around trying to solve a murder that happened before the story started [ __ ] okay so maybe he was like a little bit but hear me out suspect edus Redux you know if I had known the edus was going to come up again I would have saved my index cards from the last time because I it's occurring to me that maybe stupido isn't misspelled it's just edus backwards whatever quick rundown if you didn't watch my succession video which you should because I'm it's my favorite so edus is King of Thieves right edus is King of Thieves and there is a plague but we're not worried about that because we are on our way and we are going to go see a prophet right edifus goes to a prophet he asks the prophet how do I get rid of this plague that is mysteriously similar to the plague that disappeared as soon as I showed up to town 20 years ago the prophet is like you sir have to solve the murder of the previous King because the previous King was murdered at a Crossroads like right before edus showed up in town and married his wife which wouldn't be a problem unless you are edus who happened to kill a guy at a crossroads right before you rolled up into town and married the king's wife edus is like [ __ ] that might have been me what do you know like it was wamp wamp he hobbles off into the distance with his incest babies that's the whole thing so like technically speaking yes I guess it does center around uncovering a narrative that happened before the story started which according to Goldman is one of the central elements of the murder mystery crime Thriller who done it novel fiction thing and so if we really really wanted to we could I suppose map the story of edus onto the bone of a who done it structurally speaking however no one is factchecking edus okay no one is running DNA tests on that man's evidence and you know what not going to lie to you doesn't make sense there are holes in that man's story it's found out pretty early on that like the story of Li's death lias is the king is like quite similar in fact to the story of how edus arrived at the Kingdom to Maria's wife it's also uncovered that like edus was only running away from home because he found out that he was destined to kill his father and marry his mother who were these farmer lady men people that he liked which is a very specific prophecy that was also given to lias and jasta when they had their first baby the prophet was like that baby is going to kill you and marry you um and they sent that baby off to be and we we put all of this together in like the third or fourth scene of the play so why doesn't it end there why does edus then go out to investigate this highly specific set of circumstances why does he even bother I'll tell you it's because he thinks that there is a chance that he didn't do it a how many pages do I have left I think I just have to power through the problem here is that the witness is this Shepherd who claims to have survived the attack on lias he was there he said some guy tried to kill everybody he got away edus however left no survivors at the crossroads before he came to thieves which means that the math does not add up and Sophocles was not an idiot Carl Hashburg writes in who killed lias the clearest evidence that Sophocles was aware of the difference in the murder stories is that he has edus himself bring them up and comment on them pushing them to the center of our attention about halfway through the play and those discrepancies lead us to at least momentarily believe that maybe possibly edus didn't do it thus edus discovers or thinks he discovers all sorts of things true or untrue that Creon is plotting against him that terius is basely involved in the plot that he the hero could not have killed his father and married him his mother fulfilling the article since he discovers that pbus and merup the people he thinks are his parents are dead that pus and merup are not after all his parents that the man he killed at the crossroads was his father and the queen he subsequently married was his mother and that teresis has said he himself edus is the our csed defiler of the land whom he has been seeking he discovers the answer to the riddle of the Spinx which is edus but the discrepancy between the stories of what exactly happened at the crossroads when lias was killed is never really resolved and as a result edus probably wouldn't hold up in a modern-day criminal trial cuz that discrepancy could and probably would qualify as Reasonable Doubt you know at least in theory because the story is not congruent if everything doesn't add up then we didn't really solve anything if there is any reasonable doubt we have failed Our obligation to truth and I I find this really interesting because if we fast forward to like the big sort of classical tragedy Revival that happens you know with Billy shakes we start to see in real time this like reassessment of the importance of Truth in narrative right we start to see it sort of become part of the conversation at the very least because it doesn't [ __ ] matter in edus like how we know it's the truth it just matters that it is like we know but then we look at something like Othello where basically like ael's got like a shitty best friend who steals his wife's like handkerchief and uses it to convince a that he slept with his wife or somebody else slept with his wife U which then prompts a to kill his wife and then AO feels really bad about it and I think he kills himself if I remember correctly uh desdamona did not cheat on oel she was not Unfaithful and the fact that he kills her based on that false evidence kills kills her for a crime that she did not commit is like a big deal like sure othell didn't know that the evidence was false but like that's just cuz he didn't check like he didn't check hard enough and he didn't believe her when she was like I don't know I lost my handkerchief a while ago and the handkerchief the handkerchief is like a big [ __ ] deal in that play it's like the whole it's like a whole thing it's the like physical material evidence is like the thing of the play they talk about it all the time there is symbolism the whole shebang and it's a false piece of evidence still a tragedy just like you know edus only there is a greater emphasis on not only like what the truth is but how you know that it is the truth because of the moral implications of the actions that are taken in the name of that truth Hamlet killed the wrong guy that one time and it uh ruined everything taking things at face value and not investigating further leads to Great moral failures unnecessary suicides more murder kissing your mother even like the the comedies the crossdressing ones taking things at face value leads to consequences mostly hij Janks but like consequential hij Janks nonetheless right Sophocles had to know that there were holes in the edus story unless it is a translation thing and we are all overthinking everything in which case fine that's a very fair assessment I may have been known to overthink a thing or two or edus really is supposed to be a murder mystery and we are supposed to be questioning the validity of everything presented in order to reflect on our own susceptibility to false testimony or it just like literally wasn't important it's not any more or less valuable for edus to have discovered the truth and moved from ignorance into knowledge via the eyewitness testimony of some guy then it would be if there had been like DNA technology involved in proving this truth it the importance and the sort of value value of that evidence is the same because the truth Remains the Same the prophecy was already given edifus already killed his father and married his mother all of this stuff is a priori it happened already it's not changeable and so yeah the most logical rational necessary probable explanation is not that there were two babies who were prophesized to kill their father and marry their mothers and not that there were two murders at Crossroads completely unrelated to each other around the same time is not that edifus happened to show up right after the king died and there was a plague that disappeared just like the plague that he's trying to get rid of now no the most rational explanation is that it was just edus just one one answer to the riddle one baby one truth all right look I know that we are veering like dangerously close to bamama rush documentary levels of tangent Tre but the point here is that edus is not made worse by the fact that his evidence doesn't add up it's still just as good it does not affect the catharsis experienced by the audience the effect that the play is going for whereas if the evidence in a murder mystery who done it crime Thriller detective book comic flip story does not make sense and does not tell a congruent narrative story within a story then it's a bad murder mystery who done it crime Thriller drama detective thing which is a problem because people already think the genre is trash to begin with oh is that a sharp increase in quality or are you just happy to see me part two the evidence don't touch it that's evidence oh not for us we have to find out who did this we can't take fingerprints any examination of the crime genre soon reveals the impossibility of maintaining a clear division between guilt and innocence law and the criminal Gil Play Smells Like an ethic section to me suspect the ethic buckle up let's start at the bottom there's a body in the library a body in the study a body in the kitchen a body in a place where a body should not be 99.9% of the time that is bad murder is wrong right except for when it's not but for the most part it's wrong so if you're seeing a body in a place where a body should not be it's safe to assume that something nefarious is going or has gone on Julia Christ says in 1982's powers of Horror that a corpse is the utmost objection objection just being like a thing that we we all hate but we hate it specifically because it [ __ ] with our head right it's a thing that we hate because it makes us very uncomfy it disturbs identity system and Order Troy Bolton wanting to be in a musical was fundamentally disruptive to Corbin Blue's psyche it made him question the nature of his existence and the truth of the world around him stick to the status quo objection and Christa uses the example of a corpse as the utmost objection because it is death infecting life itself so it is a sharp reminder that we are mortal and we are going to die turn into ugly dead lifeless sacks of meat it reminds us of our own feeble mortality it triggers a cognitive dissonance we talked about cognitive dissonance a lot in my bite Mass video where two conflicting realities and beliefs are are sort of at war in your brain and this is uh not fun really really not fun and like an inherently stressful and unsettling experience psychologically except of course for when it's not everything all right yep two corpses everything's fine because the detectives in the murder mystery who done it genre novel fiction type things uh they don't wallow in Psychology right the initial crime the first murder either happens literally before we even get there or it happens so quickly that it fails to evoke any pity for the victim as Goldman writes it will fail to evoke moral outrage as opposed to interest in the narrative these who doneit take the Social Status Quo the clean and pristine box that is society as it stands and they shove a [ __ ] body in it then they force you to sit there with that body and a bunch of people who may or may not be the cause of that body being a body but they do not however force you to engage with the cognitive dissonance normally associated with things like bodies in places that bodies should not be you don't have to engage with the morality of any of this we don't have time for that there's 15 suspects I'm not saying that you can't ever put yourself in those shoes and you can't ever look at a murder mystery like and then there were none and say like what would I do if I was the Butler and like reflect on IM morality you can if this channel is about anything it's about the fact that you can read anything into anything but like murder mystery hunit do not do that instead the murder mystery crime Thriller fiction Noir who done it genre derives its moral and ethical stance and moral and ethical engagement from the detective's idiosyncratic ethical code that is what we are engaged with eleno Gorman writes the moral stance in relation to events is articulated through the type of narrative that the detective sees fit to tell about them the detective whose ethical code remember is an obligation to truth more often than not it's not psychology it's not empathy it's not the status quo it's truth one of the other things that you notice in the murder mystery crime Thriller genre is that more often than not as soon as a character announces that they know who the Killer is or have found a clue or becomes like a prime suspect they like immediately end up dead look at clue this happens to the police officer dead the phone guy motorist Dead one of them is my old boss right he says one of them is my old boss dead this structure the fact that people keep dropping dead when they might solve the crime the fact that the suspect pool gets smaller and smaller is actively discouraging any kind of moral reflection outside of that presented by the detective because if we get too bogged down and distracted by everything else that is going on all the morality and psychology and blubbering then we lose sight of the important thing which is truth H dunets actively do not want you to consider your own morality not because they have the right moral stance but because it would distract from the form it would distract from the act of unraveling the mystery from The Narrative that the detective and by extension the author is carefully weaving for you as the reader or Watcher the form of the mystery novel depends on communal guilt both between everybody who is present until the moment we figure out who actually done it and between you as the reader the author as the deceiver everyone involved in this situation has to remain both guilty and innocent morally neutral until the moment that the truth can be revealed it is Schrodinger's murderer where does that leave clue the detective story without a detective clue is working within a genre where the ultimate obligation is to truth and the moral and ethical code is decided by a singular character one person who Waits until the appropriate moment to tell us exactly what happened and what we should be feeling one character who tells us the truth when you write a detective story without a detective you are taking out the moral Center taking out the One Singular truth that that character provides and you are spreading that function that function of being the moral Center being the truth decider being the detective across multiple characters then that does kind of necessitate having multiple truths so let's talk about the endings I guess true or false true who are you fy Mason so the three endings right the first ending that we get is Miss Scarlet having been secretly selling government secrets to the highest foreign bidder right she's not a communist no Mr Green communism is just a red herring like all members of the this profession I'm a capitalist and she orchestrated having IET kill everybody else and then she killed AET and she gets caught because Wadsworth secretly works for the FBI and had her arrested I think and this is admittedly the weakest ending the second ending is that Miss peacock killed like pretty much everyone we know this because you told us at dinner that we were eating one of your favorite recipes and monkeyy brains though popular in canton's cuisine are not often to be found in Washington DC and communism communism was just a red herring both of those endings are fine right they are both sort of fine they fit the narrative that is presented and they have like a little bit of a Twist so they're very good they're good murder mystery endings they're decent they do the job the real ending however is the best ending because it doesn't just provide a little bit of a twist it provides a whole ass twist a real genuine twist that you could not have seen coming no matter how well you know the genre because everybody [ __ ] did it short disclaimer yes it is in fact possible that you could have figured it out and guessed that everybody killed somebody but it was still a bigger twist than the other two so just let me have my moment everybody killed at least one person I don't actually I don't remember off the top of my head who killed who for exactly what reason but I'll put a little we'll put a little diagram and play some clips you knew that Mr body was still alive even psychiatrist can tell the difference between patients who are alive or dead so you pretended he was dead that's how you were able to kill him later you killed the cook she used to be your cook and monkeys brains though popular in canton's Cuisine are not often to be found in Washington DC must when we saw the MERS at the front door wrench ran to the conservatory entered the line through the secret passage killed the motorist with a blow on the head like that this is incredible not so incredible as what happened next got the rope from the open cupboard and throttled IET Scarlet seized the opportunity and under cover of Darkness crossed to the library where she hit the cop whom she'd been bribing on the head with a lead pipe true or so it must have been Mr Green who shot the singing telegram the gun is missing whoever's got the gun shot the girl but if you want to know who killed Mr body I did in the hall with the revolver and in line with the fact that the detective's role is spread out to all six of our characters so then is the role of the murderer spread out to all six of our characters which also preserves the Integrity of the game in which any character could have done it at any time none of them suddenly become the canonized murderer in the story of clue right the clue nerse clue that is a board game and a musical yeah clue is a musical they made a clue Musical and they didn't call it clle the musical and if you want to hear my thoughts on that nightmare you will have to subscribe to my patreon because I don't have time for it now it's a good it's a satisfying ending is it a beautiful ending though in many ways is yes murder mystery crime Thriller hunit are beautiful in the way that buildings are beautiful they're beautiful in the way that architecture is beautiful they're beautiful the way that math is beautiful math is a is a process it's a thing that you are constantly working on and Goldman has described a interpretation of aesthetic value that relies on you know cognitive engagement engagement in all of our senses emotional imaginative and perceptual the art of the who done it is in the discovery the turning over of leaf after Leaf it's in the deliberate misdirection and confusion the red herrings the double narrative it requires active participation from the reader or Watcher and that is where the value of these stories is that is where the aesthetic value comes from this is not a story meant to manipulate your emotions and feelings it's not meant to better you you as a person emotionally and morally it's meant to engage with you cognitively it's a puzzle it is a race it's you versus the detective versus the author versus the murderer this is a participatory experience this is a game this however this is not a pipe suspect semiotics semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and how we derive meaning from the world around us us and the gist of it more or less is this you have a sign sometimes called a signifier that is anything that represents or indicates another thing that other thing is an object now the object can also be called the signified but that is the thing being represented or indicated it does not have to be a physical thing for example like a red octagon shape we all kind of know means stop even if it does doesn't say stop on it that red octagon shape represents the concept of stop it is the sign to the object it is the signifier of the signified which is stop the painting this is not a pipe is often used as an example of you know this is a picture of a pipe it is not an actual pipe it is a representation of the concept of pipe what does this have to do with clue um let's look at this one moment from clue where wodsworth says that he is going to expose himself I was going to expose you I know so I choose to expose myself please there are ladies present we know that he is saying I am choosing to expose myself as the bad guy we know that without him saying as the bad guy Colonel Mustard however does not Colonel Mustard despite having all the same context that we and everybody else in the room has says this please there are ladies present Colonel Mustard misinterpreted the language that he was given he misunder understands the reference and this is not so much a linguistic problem as it is a semiotic one the two are very related because the question of whether or not words are signs is a thing so in clue Colonel Mustard is interpreting the sign of I am going to expose myself as having a necessary relationship with Dro and trout and showing off your helicopter propellers in reality though there is no necessary consequent relationship between exposing yourself and whipping it out in public because you can expose yourself in many different ways that is a semiotic tool that is being used to create funny in film funny on screen make funny that's they're using semiotics to make funny so later semioticians start to sort of suggest that words themselves are not so much signs with direct equivalent definition definitions but rather interpretations they are a set of instructions if you hear father you are being instructed to look around for the child a set of instructions is also a set of interpretations and an interpretant is not only a sign which substitutes and translates an earlier sign it adds something more in some respect and capacity to the sign it interprets through the process of interpretation the context of the first sign grows to say like if I clean the kitchen that instructs you to interpret that the kitchen had previously been dirty clues in The Meta context of who done it are signs and signifiers they represent something else dirty footprint signals to you that a dirty shoe walked there a missing key indicates to you that somebody stole the key that there was a key previously the clues are not just representative of one thing they are instructions that add to the context of themselves however homonyms uh I can't think of a single homonym oh my God I need to look up a homonym this is ridiculous think about like weight and weight the weight was wrong do you mean you waited the incorrect amount of time you weren't supposed to wait that long you were made to wait longer than you should have been or do you mean that the weight of something that you are weighing is incorrect because the scale is broken just like you can't establish the meaning of the homonym until it's placed in context the reader of murder mystery who done it crime Thriller fiction detective things does not know until the end which Clues were actual Clues which actually represented something that mattered for the narrative the clues can't be understood until the end end when everything is explained by usually the detective all of the endings that we get include the fact that communism is a red herring they include the fact that somebody wasn't there when they were in the kitchen they include most of them the fact that Mrs peacock liked that soup that can either mean that she killed everybody or it could mean that she killed the Cook or in the case of Miss Scarlet's ending it could mean nothing at all because she didn't kill anyone that time clues in the murder mystery who done it according to notes on the Semitic analysis of detective novels by Julian graphy and I resin that the detective novel is a construction in which no reality stands behind the sign the clues might not [ __ ] matter look at this exchange between wodsworth and Colonel Mustard am I right in thinking there there is nobody else in this house no then there is someone else in this house no sorry I said no meaning yes no meaning yes look I want a straight answer is there someone else or isn't there yes or no um no no there is or no there isn't yes please well there is still some confusion as to whether or not there's anybody else in this house I told you there isn't there isn't any confusion or there isn't anybody else either or both just give me a clear answer certainly what was the question is there anybody else in the house no even with the context in that scenario we don't know what they're [ __ ] talking about clue does this several times it consistently consistently points out to us that we do not understand everything that we are being told I'm not the butler but I'm a butler in fact I was his Butler so if he told you it tells us over and over and over again that there are multiple interpretations to everything that is being said well you tell them it's not true it's not true is that true no it's not true so it is true a double negative double negative you mean you have photographs that sounds like a confession to me in fact the double negative has led to proof positive I'm afraid you gave yourself a word are you trying it constantly reminds us that we are not infallible we are not all knowing we are not clearheaded emotionally detached detectives who can see through all of the rubble we are six guilty people running around like chickens with their heads cut off and this matters because clue has three endings with three plausible explanations three possible plausible explainable justifiable endings built out of the same Clues three different contexts built using the same signs and symbols three separate realities constructed out of the same set of signs and symbols part three Elizabeth sits back and thinks we know that clue violates everything that Aristotle said made a good story and we know that that doesn't matter because clue is not trying to tell a story that is evoking any kind of specific emotional engagement it's trying to engage cognitively however in having these multiple endings it is also kind of violating its own format right it's kind of violating the rules of a murder mystery who done it which is that there should be an answer one answer sure you can say that one way is how it really happened but it's no more justifiable or not justifiable than any of the other two endings that you gave us we're supposed to be playing a game we're supposed to be solving a puzzle being led very deliberately to a singular answer a singular truth because we're human beings and we are full of cognitive dissonances and we like it when things make sense we like to watch the cans slide into place we like to play Tetris we like to watch things line up and watch things make sense we are desperate for truth we participate in the who done it because we want to know always looking for that a priori truth Truth for what came before it is not a coincidence that almost every religion and spiritual practice has some kind of creation myth has some kind of Genesis story some explanation as to how the hell we got here and what we are doing scientists weren't trying to prove the Big Bang happened cuz they were bored it's because we want to know we need to know it is a natural human response to the absolute uncertainty of the human existence we can never really truly ever possibly know what is going to happen tomorrow there is no way for us to know with any degree of 100% accuracy a posterior truths we can make very very very good guesses right like I'm would bet my life on the fact that the sun is going to rise tomorrow but like if it explodes in the middle of the night then like I'm [ __ ] right and this is the reality that clue forces us to confront if you go to a movie and it's a who done it and you play the game you engage cognitively with the puzzle that is presented to you and you get an answer you get get that satisfying answer and you go to your friend the next day who also saw the movie and they got a different equally satisfying answer then what the what does your answer even mean what value does your answer even have none it has no value that would be super super super [ __ ] frustrating and I can imagine not recommending anybody else go see that movie cuz if it's not going to satisfy that desperate itch in your stupid little monkey brain then like why am I going to recommend anybody else go spend their 25 cents on a movie ticket I don't know how much movies cost in the 80s I mean clue is a movie that forces you to confront the complex nature of reality and truth so I can see why people didn't didn't jump on board at first but if you're cool if you're you know fun and gay and already existentially confused and forced to confront the cognitive dissonances in your reality anyway and you rent this movie out at the VHS rental store because nobody else has taken it out because everybody else is stressed about it you are probably going to [ __ ] love it and that is clue clue is not just a departure from traditional storytelling structure it is a departure from traditional who done it structure it's a departure from the whole who done it genre in general it specifically plays on all of the tropes that people who love who dun itss and murder mysteries are already familiar with it takes all of the things that we're expecting all of the rules of the game that we already know and throws them off the side of the yacht it does not give a [ __ ] [ __ ] I mean it laughs in the face of its own format it is hilarious and really really fun if you know the rules of the genre but like not everybody who played clue once or twice as a kid went on to continue to read and love mystery novels I [ __ ] loved clue I was a monster at clue when that game came out I dest destroyed it several wars were started multiple International conflicts erupted as a result of my playing clue but like apart from the time I drove her getaway car Agatha Christie and I are just not were just not on the same page so there is a decent chance that a lot of the people who went to go see clue on that fateful December Day in 1985 there is a vend diagram of people who know and are familiar with the clue franchise and people who know and are familiar with the rules of the genre it is based on it's a large ven diagram but it's a vend diagram filled with nerdy little book dorks cozied up by a fire reading they're not going to the [ __ ] movies okay so it flops at the box office because the camera died we're back to my phone but this is the home stretch it flopped because Sarah and her girlfriend were too busy cozied up playing clue being cute little gay nerds to get out to the movie theater you know who was free enough to go to the movie theater boring people critics people who read literature people who like French New Wave people who are too wrapped up in the value of emotional engagement to sit down and think about Aesthetics in a different way people who like to to be the smartest person in the room people who are too pretentious and too prideful to be willing to be beaten they don't like to lose to the literature that they are reading they don't want to miss signs and symbols they don't want to engage with signs and signifiers that have no reality people for whom the whale could never have been just a whale so if you take all of these people who you know study aesthetic value who've studied this literature and who are writing critiques and you you present them with something that plays explicitly on the tropes of what they consider to be the scum of literary genres right the trash empty calories junk food of literature then yeah they're going to be super [ __ ] snobby about it but if you put that [ __ ] on DVD and you send it off to to all the Nerds and and you send it off to all all the little all the little queers running around in the '90s all of the people who spent the80s being you know 5 to 15 years old reading Choose Your Own Adventure novels if you give this movie to them they're going to [ __ ] love it and that is clue clue came out the same year they changed the recipe for Coca-Cola and we were too traumatized as a society to deal with that truth be told I couldn't really come up with the third one but but this is my video on clue U I hope you enjoyed it I hope you enjoyed that little section that was filmed in 4k where is my cat is going after this camera I hope you enjoyed the section that was filmed on this I have a camera now wild um I don't really know how to use it but we'll figure it out um I was only able to purchase this camera uh on Black Friday because of the support of you guys watching this video and my patreon supporters which like the the difference in just the like few hours that I was filming with this is insane it makes it go so much faster I am so grateful speaking of patreon the sources and like bibliography for this whole video will be on my patreon for free you do not have to be a subscriber to see the sources they are completely free to everybody if you do want to sign up to my patreon however you can see the exclusive video that I recorded about clue the musical because it's Bonkers and I couldn't fit it all in here and there are several other reasons why I can't put it on here but I hope you enjoyed this I uh am very excited about my next couple videos um some of them I have been working on for for like over a year it's going to be very very fun and um yeah thank you for this incredible Year I hope this comes out before the end of the year if this doesn't come out before the end of December this is going to be ridiculous but thank you for this incredible year January was kind of when my videos started to get some traction and things have changed very quickly and very rapidly since then and I've been able to do so many things that I didn't think I would ever be able to do and I am just incredibly grateful to have been given this opportunity and to have had such um a wonderful year with all of you and yeah so uh let me know what you would like me to make videos about let me know your thoughts and uh let me know your favorite character in clue what is your favorite ending to clue I would love to know um okay that's it bye I prefer Kipling myself you like Kipling Miss Scarlet sure I'll eat anything well he just lies around on his back all day sounds like hard work to me they know who I am I don't think so you've never identified yourself to them I believe I came into money during the war when I lost my mommy and daddy put them up put them no who would want to kill the cook dinner wasn't that bad how can you make jokes at a time like this it's my defense mechanism some defense if I was the killer I would kill you next oh I'll catch you fall into my arms ladies first no thanks the door's locked I know then unlock it where's the key the key is gone never mind about the key unlock the door I can't unlock the door without the key let us in let us in let us down let us please go go I know I you're a communist no Mr Green communism is just a red herring I hated her so much it it the it flame Flames flames on the side of my face I did in the hall with the revolver okay chief take him away I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife and

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