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If you read the 'recipe' for the pea on a plate, it specifically says that if you have more diners, to add one pea for each, but be sure to not let them be too close to each other. I think this signifies how each character is kept largely isolated from each other save in a very superficial way, and that Eddy was suddenly aware of that lack of real connections.

the best part about welcome home is that you can tell clown made this not to get popular but because he has a story to tell. its why everything is so charming. nothing is done just for shock or scares.

54:08
“Friends, I shit you not, they put a mug inside the Jello.
Funniest shit I’ve ever seen!”

It just occurred to me:
The pea on a plate is an eye. The pea being the iris, and the plate being the rest of the eye.

Annual reminder that Barnaby's VA deserves a raise

That Eddie sequence was so anxiety-inducing. This project is so special.

Also, CATASTROPHE CROW PLAYABLE EDITION HOLY CRAP

I noticed something, at first I thought the static in the background while Eddie dissociates beyond the veil was supposed to be an artifact of it being recorded off an old TV/broadcast. But i went and watched the video on the website and it sounds a lot more like the static you get if you leave a turntable playing after the record ends. Maybe thats the problem: the story is over, but Eddie is still aware.

I think the ending of the mailman's special episode is also important in relation to Wally. People notice that Eddy has become unresponsive relatively quickly, but nobody seems to comment on Wally's stillness and unflinching stare away from the focus of the conversation. So it's not just an artistic framing that Wally acts "like an unmanned puppet" in these scenes--it's an in-universe affliction of some kind that Wally has had for long enough that the other characters are used to it. As though the same event or entity that lets Wally reach out to us has also made him unresponsive and infirm in his world.

In the full video, the audio of santa doing absolutely unspeakable things to that ham in the background while the guy continues to narrate killed me. 😂

There was an eclipse today.
This is cause for celebration, with Home, of course!

"I'll use the youtube chapter system..."
So that was a f*ckin lie

the long, long hanging empty scenes of eddies consciousness is so uncomfortable and tangible. its super well done. rly cool to see bigger and cooler things coming out of this project, its insane how much love is poured into it in all places. so excited to see where it goes next

Did…. did you get Barnaby’s Va to help with the video?! That’s amazing. There are no cats in welcome home so he has to be talking to you!

54:02 The sheer absurdity of a whole freaking mug in the jello is just hilarious

Wally is easily in my list of Top 10 Favorite Little Guys

"you ever dissociate at the christmas party so hard you see through into the underlayer of reality" LMAOOOO

I love when Barnaby acknowledged NM by addressing him as "whiskers" 😂😂😂

My personal take is that the Wally that has no energy and sits there staring is actually "Home".  

When Wally says, "You know me.  You look into my eyes."  That's Home talking.  Home has somehow found a way to hijack people and see through them and Wally was its first host, possibly a willing one, maybe not from the image of him in the dark reaching up almost plaintively towards Home's window.  Home can't really make the body function much beyond staring, though.  Home is part of the community, it's the name of the show, they tell you it's alive, but doesn't get to participate in anything really.  It sits there staring.  So first it started trying to communicate through silent phone calls to the others.  Only Wally knows what is really on the other end and talks to it.  But maybe Home is getting bored only having one perspective.  Wally's eyes alone aren't enough.  So they have a house warming party.  A party that celebrates sometime getting a new home.  Eddie is already emotionally vulnerable due to feeling left out all day, and then he's inside Home for the party.  The look on his face, to me, was that he could hear or sense something was there.  And then he sees Home's eyes staring at him. They show us that when he's agitated, he fidgets a lot.  But then, with Home watching him, his fidgeting slowly stops and he becomes as lifeless and unresponsive as Wally.  He just stares.  That's the house warming, I think.  Home has another host and a new pair of eyes.

I am consistently impressed with this kid's commitment. The insane unworkable cookbook is an especially nice touch because I had one of those "cookbooks for kids" books when i was a child and it was filled with visually stunning but completely illogical and inedible recipes that no rational person would ever make. To see that kind of granular detail reflected in a free internet project display a serious level of craft and care that I always hoped for but never found in other unfiction.