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Nightmare Fuel / Bo Burnham: Inside

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Inside is arguably Bo's darkest special, which is saying a lot if you're familiar with his other material, consisting of nothing but Bo working alone and losing his mind over the course of a year.


  • "Welcome to the Internet" has been described as a fully accurate Villain Song for a disembodied network system, and not for no reason.
    • Alongside the innocuous internet content that Bo mentions (a tip for straining pasta, making a psychologist appointment, a quiz to find out "Which Power Ranger Are You?") he rattles off fetish-related content (feet pictures, NSFW Harry Potter Fan Art) and some truly disturbing options (instructions for how to build a bomb, "send a death threat to a Boomer," mentions of dead children and beheading videos and advice like "You should kill your mom" and "DM a girl and groom her")...with no delineation. It all goes by so fast that some of it might not even register on the first listen.
    • The Evil Laugh halfway through. It starts out as a sinister chuckle, then morphs into an insane cackle worthy of The Joker. Bo's Scary Shiny Glasses certainly don't help, nor does the fact that it comes right after the slower, more emotional chorus, with some viewers comparing the scene to a villain presenting hope to someone only to rip it away and crush their spirit.
    • The grim realization as the song goes on that the internet has not only failed to make the world a better place, but it has made everyone anxious and alienated from each other. Even worse than that, the malevolent forces it was partially created as respite from have not only infiltrated it, they've won.
    • It's also worth mentioning that one of the shots towards the middle of the song has a reflection of the camera in his glasses, which create a single red dot in the center of each eye...
  • There's a brief scene of Bo mimicking a generic, modern YouTuber outro of thanking the viewer for watching and to subscribe to the channel, all while being unnaturally cheerful and holding a knife. He doesn't do anything with the knife, but it's very unsettling, especially when he stops talking and his Stepford Smiler persona drops.
  • The part of the ending, with him frantically trying to get back inside while the only sound is laughter, is absolutely anxiety-inducing.
  • The Inside Outtakes' alternate take of "Goodbye" ends with Bo zooming into his projector's lens as it displays images of fire. Sounds of fire, laughing and screaming are heard, and before fading to white a brief shot of one of Bo's earliest YouTube clips appears. Did his younger self die in the hypothetical fire?
  • Something which is as chilling as it is deeply upsetting. The "Inside Deluxe Box Set" has a message written on the runout of each vinyl that, when read in order, go as follows:
    DON'T LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
    TRUST ME
    EVERYBODY DIED
    THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE FOR YOU
    TRUST ME
    STAY INSIDE, KID. STAY INSIDE

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