Funny / THE MONUMENT MYTHOS

Moments pages are Spoilers Off, as per policy! You Have Been Warned.

While the series is mostly terrifying, the sheer insanity of the Alternate History can turn the Surreal Horror into Surreal Humor occasionally.

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Main series:

• The ending of WASHINGTONWORMHOLE has the Washington Monument hunched over in a way that makes it look a lot like a flaccid penis, compared to its normal stature. Even better when you remember Family Guy's joke about the Obama monument.
• The entirety of DEANDEMOCRACY is generally lighthearted compared to the previous videos, and basically comes off as literally everyone sucking up to James Dean. Hell, even Stanley Kubrick praises James Dean and calls his sabotaged address where the audio is cut out the "greatest silent film ever made."
  • James Dean in general tends to create funny moments, such as constantly wanting to go racing with Nixon or responding to genuinely shocking revelations with extremely abrupt statements ("Rocks won't shoot her down" when questioned about why Freedom was moved to the Grand Canyon, "I'm surprised" when George Washington was found alive in the Delaware River).
    I'm surprised.
  • A subtle joke in DEANDEMOCRACY: the final scene focusing on Dean's first address takes place on April 20th of 1969. In other words, 4/20/69.
• Heck, the idea of Richard Nixon of all people racing cars is rather hilarious.
• Rockefeller's justification for using Canyon Crowns to power his Rockefellers, as documented in ROCKEFELLERREVELATION:
  They did not rebel, for they could not speak. They could not leave, for they were chained. And best of all, Crowns were incapable of forming unions.
• SUEZCANALCRAB is to season 2 what DEANDEMOCRACY was to season 1, being a lighthearted video that pokes fun at extremist groups and several other political figures, as well as having one of the goofiest premises an episode has had so far.
  • President Clinton's first response to the Evergiven being stuck isn't to planify a secure way to displace it, but rather to nuke the Suez Canal and hope it gets unstuck.
  • The people's reactions to the Evergiven suddenly gaining legs isn't one of fear or desperation, but rather treating the entire situation as a mild inconvenience. It really comes to show you how used the public is to the anomalies at this point in time, while also being hilarious.
    "It just got up and left. Why is everyone so confused?"
  • The entire ADA stampede is treated, for the most part, as a mass scale Retail Riot rather than a serious event, with remarkable moments being about 30 different people "calling dibs" on a deluxe barbecue system.
    • The visuals add on to it, such as when the statement "a group of adults attempted to calm the children," is followed by a rendering of dozens of stick figures swarming the scene with rifles.
• While ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE is a very intense episode, being both the finale of season 2 and the culmination of various lore aspects, Maize's statement in the video description is hilarious, given how utterly nonchalant the company is towards the end of the world.
  Statement from Maize: Toodle-oo! Type your last words on TWTTR! 🌽
  Comment: Imagine someone says his last words and the answer is just "ratio."
• Also from ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, in the depiction of Operation Thunderbird, Freedom nonchalantly cutting down a random tree once it escapes its containment.
• In MUSKMARS, Elon Musk, in his infinite wisdom, has finally managed to colonize Mars, start a mine of Martian glass, inadvertently unleash a massive serpent on a crash course back to Earth… and implement a drawing feature to TWITTR. People use the last addition to draw crude penises in replies.
• In DEANDEVIL, it's revealed that Rod Serling is an FBI Agent, which is at once completely ridiculous, and yet strangely enough, entirely believable.
• CLIFTCHAOS features a surprise appearance from Cthonaut A, who addresses the Earth with a mildly profane "The Reason You Suck" Speech, as if to reflect how utterly insane the series has become:
  I had to save a goddamn teenager from being murdered by the Vice President.
• AMERICAATTACK features a real television report on the arrest and mugshot of former president Donald Trump, with a disturbing image of a mutilated, eyeless Trump replacing the normal mugshot. One of the commentators then says that it strikes him as similar to the cover of one of Trump's books, which seems utterly perplexing until we see that the image in question is from the original cover of American Psycho, which is both extremely appropriate and even more baffling. It suggests that either Trump stole the cover image of American Psycho for his own book, possibly because he saw it as a good self portrait... or that Trump wrote this universe's version of American Psycho as an autobiography.
• In MONUMENTMONSTER, Trump recounted when he watched the anomalous film also seen by Leonard West Morlin that might have caused his bleeding eyes. The first thing he says about its contents?
  It wasn't Hollywood. Maybe A24, I don't know.
  • Additionally, Trump's voice in this universe is absurdly deep and composed, still spouting the same simplistic gibberish as in our universe.

The Nixonverse:

• After Luna gives a beautiful and multi-layered speech about humanity's weaknesses and strengths in THE QUEEN OF THE LUNARIANS, it's quite funny that John Glenn's first instinct after this is to immediately get Ed Dwight to shoot her. With what appears to be a stereotypical Ray Gun nonetheless.
• The explanation of the genocidal plan known as the "Peace Equation" in JESUS IN VIETNAM is overlaid with very loud happy royalty-free sounding music that reeks of Stylistic Suck. The explanation itself is presented as a cheesy propaganda film that names Vietnam as "Bethlenam" and calls it the "first saved state" following its "redemption."
  • The addition of stock images of people rapidly jumping up and down in joy certainly adds to the amusement.
• The misspelled words in THE D-DAY KNIGHT RETURNS can be kind of funny sometimes, considering that similar misspellings are often used in internet memes.
• The Knight's handwriting in the D-DAY KNIGHTFALL can be quite funny when you consider that the same Knight that saved lives during D-Day and killed Alice Avenue has a child's handwriting.
  • Furthermore, the Knight's reasoning for killing Alice being that he "lost his temper" is quite funny since it makes the Knight sound like a 5-year-old.
  • It's also never stated whether or not the Lunarians changing human language affects superheroes, implying that his handwriting and spelling was just as shoddy before all of that happened.
• NIXON IS GOD ends with a shot of all the main characters drawn as adorable chibis. Yes, including the Crescent King and the Knight (who is wearing the Horned Serpent's skull as a hat).
• While the credits of THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX aren't closed out by a remixed instrumental of "Party In The USA" like in ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE and a creepy instrumental tune plays instead, the background of the credits is of what appears to be Alex himself thinking about the three first men on the Moon. The kicker? All three are Ed Dwight wearing a small fedora while chatting with each other.

Meta and out-of-universe:

• One of Alex's earliest videos - Mister Manticore - lists someone named "Jake McNamara" as being responsible for the music. Is this the very same Alex who would steal antique photographs since they were "the one thing you can't replace?"

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