Hey, what can you say? We were overdue.

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The part about obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto 5 is really the part that hit me the hardest. The GTA series has always been “that game” you play to go to a world where you can do all the things you can’t do in real life. The concept of real life being so crazy that you just want to live normally and obey traffic laws in GTA because you can’t live normally and peacefully in rl anymore, is perhaps the most horrifying line in this entire special…

My favorite part is the "female Colonel Sanders/easy answers" and I think it's kinda talking about the way that instead of taking actual steps to equality, companies cop out by making "female" versions of stuff and pretending that fixes it. Performative activism.

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder where the person is afraid of places that they perceive as unsafe or they can't escape from. Frequently this manifests as a fear of leaving their home.

Existential Dread, the song.

I personally think that “that funny feeling” is what he mentions in the last verse. “The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all”. Life is absurd. This human experience is weird and crazy. That’s just my take.

"The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all" is the most gut punching line of the whole special to me ...... I just wish it didn't resonate so much.

"20 000 years of this, 7 more to go." "The ocean at your door." "Quiet comprehending of the ending of it all." "What can I say, we were overdue." This is a requiem to a world we are killing and I fucking can't deal.

It’s this generation’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

I think the "derealization" part really summarizes what that funny feeling is pretty well:
"Derealization is a mental state where you feel detached from your surroundings. People and objects around you may seem unreal. Even so, you're aware that this altered state isn't normal."

Everything just feels damned, and it feels like we're collectively refusing to process it, so it ends up just feeling surreal instead.

“7 more to go” is referring to the climate clock and its predictions.

I love this song. It seems so random until you realize that they’re all essentially trigger words for what sends Bo into an anxiety spiral.

I heard Bo say he wanted to write something for Gen z. I finally got around to listening to this for the first time in front of my mom cause we were talking about how Gen z sees the world. When I heard “gift shop at the gun range a mass shooting at the mall” my heart dropped into my stomach and I was holding back tears as my mom was like “ha! There’s a gift shop at our gun range how funny is that!” He did what he set out to do. He wrote something only young people really understand. Old people think this song is funny.

That funny feeling is like cognitive dissonance.  Basically, how we perceive and rationalize contradictory information.  It can sometimes leave us feeling uneasy.  I love this song.

this one had me in tears while watching the special for the first time, especially the line "googling derealisation, hating what you find", I was extremely mentally ill as a teenager, and I remember one time googling derealisation and yeah, fuckin hating what i found. so that line really hit home for me

Todays mood:

Bo: A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall. There it is again, that funny feeling.

Chris: (Quietly) Yeah...

Impending doom is a great way to describe it

This is the saddest song in the special for me, so of course its title is "That Funny Feeling." The feeling of nothing making sense. Existential dread. Constant, nagging, familiar worry that things are not right. The feeling of everything just about to go wrong. The various allutions to climate change and the end of the world and how it is all overdue is ominous as well. But he delivers it in such a warm, comforting song. Bo does so much in this special, so much that I'm moved by and thankful for.

There's also a sad irony to the fact he recreated an outdoor campout with friends and family scene using technology, alone, indoors. That establishing shot of the LED panel and the light coming from the projector just screams to me "this is all fake".

His voice when he says " hand delivered by a drone"  it has a little robotic/drone effect on it. This song is incredible.......just wait.