Literary Analysis is how I make sense of the world

"Fine, I'll deliver the amulet. I have to go to the Priory to record the residents anyway."

"Am I a worthy knight? Sir, I am a census taker. But sure, I'll make a pilgrimage; I'm on the road all the time anyway."

"Well, it's pretty close to nightfall and nobody's going to be answering their doors for the census, I guess I can go kill those goblins for you."

"Ugh, people went into that Oblivion Gate? Damn, guess I have to go in to record them if they're still alive. Might as well try to close it while I'm in there. The things I do for my job."

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

so many responses of “its nice that you’re privileged enough to be able to steal from Target willy nilly!” and that’s not at all what this is about. like, yeah, shoplifting and loitering and graffiti and breaking the rules is, obviously, part of “do crime”. but they’re not parts you have to do.

would you help someone get an abortion where it was illegal?

would you help a trans friend get healthcare that had been criminalized?

would you shelter someone fleeing persecution, even if the law said not to?

would you help a gay couple stay together when the state decided their relationship was unlawful?

instead, would you report someone else for breaking the law? will you snitch on your hungry neighbors for stealing food? on your homeless neighbors for sleeping where they’re able?

Why is the guy named 50

This is from Breaking News, a show of @dropoutdottv (the successor of college humour from YouTube if you remember that, though I wouldn’t associate them because there’s a vastly different sense of humour now, thank gods for that).

So essentially in breaking news they get a group of comedians together, usually 4, who act as news anchor but they’ve not read the news before. the script is meant to be funny/jarring/make them laugh and they lose points if they laugh. If you read the ticker tape at the bottom that’s the scripts there’s reading on the promptor live for the first time.

This particular clip is from a segment called True Facts about Grant Anthony O'Brien II (the tall dude on the right). It’s a running joke to make fun of grant’s sexcapades, weird eating habits (he eats a lot of wet food), and how tall he is (technically no one knows how tall he really is). So, to answer your questions 1. he said it on air because it was on the promptor because the writer of the episode knew about this story about Grant. The entire episode is filled with… well, true facts about Grant Anthony O'Brien.

2. name of the news anchors is part of the script usually to make them laugh as well. read the script below and you’ll get the joke :))

I literally did lmao, signed it with my face