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Chapter timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:58 1) The Love Triangle
7:54 2) The Supporting Cast
11:12 3) The Lore
17:31 4) The Birth of Vampire Diaries
20:35 5) The Dating Tree
25:20 6) Magic Jewelry
28:15 7) China Beach
30:28 8) Product Placement
33:05 9) LJ Smith
38:14 10) Caroline's Singing Career
40:31 11) The Villains
51:08 12) Good & Evil Switch
56:04 13) Vampire & Human Switch
1:01:36 14) Dead & Alive Switch
1:04:30 15) Raising the Stakes
1:10:49 16) Characters I Hate
1:19:38 17) Good Stuff
1:23:41 18) The Video Game
1:31:43 19) The Clothes
1:33:52 20) The Vampire Diaries
1:35:50 21) Surprise
1:41:05 22) Elena Leaves
1:43:48 23) The Elena Problem
1:56:44 24) The Bonnie Problem
2:11:22 25) Where Are They Now
2:17:25 26) Missed Opportunities
2:24:52 Conclusion
Since I spent $3 to watch that clipshow retrospective I actually earned -$3 on this video.
Caroline's dad: Yes, I'm gay. Yes, I'm homophobic. We exist.
Well to be fair internalised homophobia does exist
Blair white the transphobic trans person
@@frogg4711 lol are you serious?
@@donaldhysa4836 yes
@@donaldhysa4836 she hates on every trans person who isn't as pretty as her. Did you see how she lied about the trans athelete to make her seen terrible and also mocked her looks
i love that they're like "i've been 17 for hundreds of years" while looking like they're 33
"I became a vampire when I was 16. Wich is why I always look 16. In those days, of course, life was though for a 16-year-old."
@@tereselindblom6494 Loved that line. WWDITS is a treasure.
If I saw those guys claiming to be 17, I might also ask them "how long have you been 17" but for more catty reasons.
@@pentelegomenon1175 lmfao 😭
@@pentelegomenon1175 lmaoo fr fr
Why? Why is this my comfort video? I've never watched Vampire Diaries, and yet, this 2.5 hour EXPERIENCE is like a bowl of chicken noodle soup for me.
Easy watching
SAME. i put it on when i need a cozy blanket type of media on
Same boat, it's my favorite bedtime video
i watch a jenny nicholson video every night and it's literally the only way i can fall asleep
same, i watch this video when i’m trying to get stuff done :)
"What's this, there's something hidden under the Bonnie problem... OH MY GOD, I FOUND MY RACISM POST-IT" some of the best satirical moments ever perhaps
One of the highlights of the video, if not my favorite moment 😂 I think about it whenever VPD comes up
1:41:05 even better that there was foreshadowing… shes a master
Caroline's dad said "gay rights but only for me"
Conservative white gays
Woah. Ellen Degeneres.
@@BARALover96 LMAOO
Is it gay or homophobic?
Yeah, I don't know where they were going with that metaphor and I'm not sure they did either.
THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN TO THE FRONT LINES
AND SHOWED THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR
@@kateb6699 I N T H E M I R R O R O F M Y M I N D
And screaming tweens right behind them
It's like they never heard of M*A*S*H...
Okay I hate the show seriously No offense or disrespect to the good lady here , but I must say she’s work pretty neat And **THIS** comment is the best!
Caroline's Dad dying by refusing to be figuratively gay one time is hilarious
"I can't, I'm just too STRAIGHT" gets me every time
ok i never watched the vampire diarrhea, but let me tell you that line got me iNtErEsTeD to the point where I would force a friend to watch and make me an unhinged summary #plus1vampirefan
@@arinasabirzanova1517 the vampire diarrhea
@@MxSherwood the blackest of poops
Based and morality pilled.
The number of times I've fallen asleep to Nina Dobrev screaming, "No, Jenna!" thanks to this video has surely had some sort of psychological impact on me.
I think you're still better off than me, who has fallen asleep and/or woken up to the China Beach ad more times than I can count because of this video.
@@geromyreI appreciate Jenny’s dedication to the joke, and the song grew on me after a while 😅
Same
@@LifesNeverHumDrum~ through the mirrors of my mind ...
@@ericakat6322 TIME AFTER TIME I SEE REFL-
Honestly the whole "people will notice they're not aging" thing only works if you stay in the same place for like, 15+ years? Plenty of time to raise a child. You can just say you have a good skincare routine. It's so weird when vampire media has them moving like, every other year because "people noticed I wasn't aging" like dude it's been A YEAR and age is a GRADUAL CHANGE that is VERY HARD TO NOTICE AS IT HAPPENS
Like even if they're suspicious what are they gonna do about it lol if you live anywhere but this one racist town in virginia that believes in vampires no one would even think of calling you one
Everyone keeps talking about how Tom Cruise or whoever hasn't aged, they don't start taking about burning him at the stake. Maybe they just got bored of making up bullshit skincare routines.
Like, just say you're addicted to botox and you just don't like talking about it.
Put small streaks of grey in your hair what are they gonna do tell everyone you have a youthful face
If we're generous and assume that they actually look 17 in-universe and are pretending to be 17 then sure, but why would you? Say you're graduated and just look young. Going to school for the rest of your life is a hell of a disturbing lifestyle choice, come to think of it.
Imagine your best friend calling the unexpected death of both of your parents a “blah phase”
"ugh she's still talking about it omg it's been two weeks let it go already"
"ah,you're being such a bitch, I miss when your parents were alive!"
@@secretname3897 Lilly Moscovitz says hi
Imagine your best friend calling the unexpected arrival of vampires in your life a "blah (wait for it) blah phase".
This is so funny to me
The line "Relax, I'm gay AND your brother" enters my mind completely unprompted often
I often think about Jenny saying that verbena smells like celery that’s mad at you. The first time I heard that, I laughed so hard that I couldn’t breathe.
As a queer dude, I'm tempted to start using that line on my sisters, unprompted and out of nowhere, just for fun.
@@aliendeathrockerI think you should do it everytime they ask you any question. “Did you do the laundry?” “I’m gay AND your BROTHER”
@@panadocoughsyrupi wish i was gay just to say that every time someone asks me something
@@javierlopez9789 I’m a bisexual man, so I almost get ownership of that phrase, but not quite. God could’ve added a little more spice to my sexuality but noooooo now I’ll never get to say it.
“readily available womb” is the worst line ive ever heard
Lizzie had to get her unerring ability to swallow her own foot from somewhere.
Nod nod
I don’t recommend reading the handmaids tale in that case
Sounds like it's from an a/b/o fanfic
It makes my skin crawl.
"so if we are tracking the metaphor, caroline is figuratively gay and caroline's gay dad is figuratively homophobic" IM LOSING IT
I really do not think that they were having that in mind when making it
@@HIDAN228 I thought that thats what they were going for. Like the constant talk of 'I can't change who i am' and The torture that literally mirrors conversion therapy
@@HIDAN228 it was very clearly intentional.
Dude yeah that “conversion therapy” part triggered me so much. It was so horrible
I honestly didn't know how to feel when that episode came out, it was so clear what they were going for
"He goes from indiscriminately killing supporting characters to making soulful pencil-drawings of his favourite horse" is the kind of character development all villains should have.
For an origin story it could go in reverse.
I call it the "Arthur Morgan Special."
Klaus's character arc: 1) Indiscriminately killing supporting characters 2) Draws a horse for Caroline 3) Indiscriminately killing supporting characters 4) Opts to not kill Caroline's boyfriend 5) +1 Daughter 6) Opts to not help Damon torture a dying woman 7) Indiscriminately killing supporting characters but this time it's on The Originals 8) Therapist girlfriend dies 9) Fun father-daughter bonding over finger paints and murder 10) Dies
@Najawin who among us hasn't convinced our children to torture their exes to alleviate magical bloodlust?
I almost did a spit take when I saw that drawing.
“Her cop mom and jock boyfriend have to save her from her evil gay dad” Iconic.
no matter how many times I watch this, the comparison of Damon and Lightning Mqueen's line delivery cracks me the hell up
Can't unhear it 😂
Stop DEFENDING me
I always listen to this video in the background or to sleep so I’ve never actually watched some parts - I always thought that last clip was actually Damon LOL
every time
this was my favourite too 😂😂😂
I’d love to see a vampire romance where the vampire tells his lover that she looks exactly like his wife from a century ago and then he shows her a picture of his dead wife and she just looks fucking nothing like her
10/10 comment
Lmao, like kind of a Taika Waititi comedy about immortal vampires with shit memory. They act like they're world-weary, wise and have seen everything first-hand but in fact every single smug recounting of historical & personal events are like wildly inaccurate. Show flashes back to the vamps in the 1700s or whatever then cuts to present day where they make the exact same mistakes over again bc none of em can retain a single life lesson over the centuries.
@@amartyakejora5451 honest to god it would even make SENSE! It would play into the "unchangeability" of a vampire as new memories would mean the brain changes
That is more or less the witch subplot from what we do in the shadows
@@Killroy007 I mean that's kind of a theme in Dracula, played straight--the fact that he's learning and changing freaks out the guy who knows about vampires because vampires aren't supposed to be able to do all that, so Drac is a much bigger threat
You forgot the hilarious fact that Stefan and Damon's actors now sell bourbon together
I love knowing this now. X3 Not sure why it seems so hilarious to me, but it does. Thank you.
That's so specific I love it
and it’s called brothers bourbon which i find kinda cute
I now want to imagine them sipping the deep red liquid from fancy glasses and playing up the blood angle to the max. XD
A better love story than Vampire Diaries.
The wildest thing about the weird Confederate vampire trend is that there were a ton of Southerners who enlisted in the Union army -- not the majority, obviously, but not a statistically negligible amount either. If you have your heart set on a courtly Southern gentleman vampire, he doesn't have to have fought for the right to own humans as property.
I demand vampires have their own George Thomas or Montgomery Meigs!
It would make a lot more sense for them to have been evil vampires. If you can own people as property you basically have a free and legal bloodbank.
Or ffs just make it a conscription. Dont have the guy proudly join up voluntarily
@@leaffinite3828nah, fighting for the pro slavery side is bad whether you’re conscripted or voluntary…
@nirvanaheights idk if i think thats necessarily true, but i do agree that the show doesnt really have any reason to compromise when they couldve just had him fight for the union. Im just saying that if for whatever stupid reason they felt he had to be part of the confederacy, dont make him happy about it. Or show us the change in his character from then to the shows events explaining why he wouldnt do that anymore. Do something!
Julie Plec mistreated Kat Graham (Bonnie’s actress) and is part of the reason she was often written out of the show and never given a good opportunity to be happy. The actress has also said that she started losing her hair because they made her wear so many wigs for so much longer than is healthy to wear wigs, because god forbid they let the one black character wear her hair naturally.
When I think I can’t be more upset about how dirty the did Bonnie/Kat it gets worse 🤬
the irony of "I stan Julie Plec, I guess" while absolutely ripping into the racist practices that were absolutely her fault
jenny: VPD means VamPire Diaries my simple brain: Vampire Police Department
this is like when i see jfc and i think john f cennedy
Vampire Police Department? I'd watch that show.
Write that show.
I would watch every episode of Vampire Police Department with near-religious devotion and loyalty.
I am already a fan of this imaginary show. Someone please make Vampire Police Department happen.
Having the "Racism" post-it hidden beneath the "Bonnie" post-it was A+
Genius
It was genuinely incredible
And...was that planned all along? With Jenny I could believe either way.
Better set up and pay off than the actual show
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2:08:46 "but this is fiction; the writers could've simply written anything else" i felt this on a spiritual level lmao
I feel this sentiment enough I’m tempted to have it written on my grave. The writers. Could’ve. Simply. Written. ANYTHING ELSE-
exactly what i thought when i watched shadowhunters and had to witness clary and jace.
and it could be said for other shows like GoT i just don't see why they need these weird tropes. honestly they must be into it or something...
@@kitenlovar699 Eh, I mean. I don't think that's always entirely fair, writing dark subject material doesn't necessarily mean you have a fetish. I mean I think GoT does it tastelessly and is overall a bit shit, but the tropes can be done well- and no subject matter should be completely off limits to write about.
@@BE-fw1lr in the case of cassandra clare's Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments though, it did indeed start out as a ron x ginny incest harry potter fic before she edited it into a novel so in her case i think it probably is a fetish of hers
Thanks, Jenny. This video really helped me find my biological mother on Bing.
Omg ☠️😂
So, you googled her on Bing?
"I bing'ed it"
I just woke my cat up laughing at this 😂
30:52
"Chill myself?" "What is that stoner talk?" This show deserves an Emmy. Whatever they're paying the 80 year old man who wrote that line, it isn't enough.
can you blame her, he was smoking the devil's lettuce.
800 year old man. They got A real vampire and he's terrible at his job
This comment makes me laugh every time I rewatch this video, which is too often
@@PanAndScanBuddy If I was an 800 year old vampire writing for a tv show about vampires I too would be bad at my job, on purpose. For my own amusement.
i feel like i just graduated with a masters degree in vampire diaries after watching this
accurate!
You must be from California
@@hanssprungfeld8487 uh no? the fuck
At the very least, a BA
Fr
i love the detail of wuthering heights being written by "ellis bell" which is the pen name of Emily Bronte cause she couldnt publish it under a woman's name, so i think that implies stephan has an original copy of the book and is just Giving it away to Elena! which is wild and fun!
Yessss
oh my god i really like that
I love the detail that Elena didn’t know that Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Brontë.
I wish pizza vampire wasn't invited in and he just kept going on to be the pizza guy full time until a couple seasons later when pizza is ordered at that house again
By then he's already adapted to his job, so he settles down to live an honest life as a pizza delivery man.
@@siomhagormley #need
@@siomhagormley eventually he is the CEO of a pizza megafranchise and is asked how he got started, then he remembers what happened
I would read/watch this story so hard
“Take naps. Get a boyfriend. Your boyfriend is the devil. Better the devil than single am I right ladies?” Jenny this video is a masterpiece you deserve an Oscar
Absolutely. That, the blood beverage, the outfit changes, the spider moving and staring into our souls. China Beach!
Jenny, please put "Better the devil than single am I right ladies?" on your next merch line 😂😂🙌
@@jackrussel999 *_The spider moving"_* OMG I KNEW IT! Finally someone acknowledges that I'm not just a paranoid arachnophobe! 😭
“Oh my god I found my racism post-it!” Lol best payoff for a joke.
It was such a slow burn, but it was so worth it.
And pinned under "The Bonnie Problem" nonetheless.
@@Prederick Yes! The entire Bonnie section, I followed up every issue with a whispered "it's the racism" to my roommates. That post it reveal at the end was so perfect!
I knew we gonna get a payoff soon when I saw the star hat
Mastery, I tell you.
I need to put this video essay on a dvd, so that even if sharks chew through the cables that hold the internet, I will always have a way to watch this.
Your comment was a completely wild ride. Also, I would opt for a thumb drive over a DVD. I only have one device that even accepts DVDs and it only plays DVDs when it feels like it.
Use any format you can think of, backups of backups
Honestly? Same.
Please if you ever turn it into a DVD make sure you put the China beach ad every 30 minutes
Absolutely underrated part of this comfort video is the VIDEO GAME SECTION. Everything about it sends me every time. Jenny calling it a “depression simulator” will never not kill me.
That game reminds me of one of those DVD Rom games from the early 2000s where the game is embedded on the DVD of whatever movie and it is only playable once you insert the disc into your laptop.
But she called it an oppression simulator...
Jenny's "Oh no! I need a lot of money!" always makes me laugh even if I'm drifting off to sleep. Also "Oh my God, I know that! I know that!!"
@@Goodbutevilgenius No? Captions say depression.
@@EvilLisaEvillisa I don't know what captions you're looking at, but the English one (not auto-generated) says "oppression".
damen looks like how i imagine onision imagines himself
I CHOKED NO THIS IS SO TRUE
NOOO I HATE HOW TRUE THIS IS
this is SENDING ME
OMG TRUE
Underrated comment
As a non American, Vampire Diaries made me think American schools had dances every few days
Small towns might have them more. I went to high school in a small town that had them so often that we didn’t usually bother dressing up for most of them, only we have to call them “parties” since calling them “dances” was too sexual. Yeah. One of those towns.
like the top reply, it's definitely a lot more with the south in the US. dances are a big deal, ask any Texan about their school prom. I'm from Chicago and they're really not a big deal up here, it's just a red state thing ig
XD I wish, jkjk parties are just socially awkward.
@@slightlyoffensivedadjokes Yeah def, I live in the North, and we have one like once a year if that.
We had a homecoming, what's called a "sockhop", a Sadie Hawkins dance, and a prom. This was every year.
Making “take naps, kill the devil, get a boyfriend” my version of “live laugh love” in the sense I’m gonna get household decor made with that phrase on it
Bahaha
I'd hang that on my wall.
Genius!
I'm partial to "take naps, get a boyfriend, the devil is your boyfriend", myself lol
I'm sorry but Elijah's entrance 45:22 is literally like "mom i frew up 🧍"
nice profile picture
the way i WHEEZED at this bc it’s SO TRUE 💀
This video is the most relevant China Beach has been in 30 years.
I hope Jenny's next video is about China Beach so bad.
Or ever
@@swordsmithing how dare you hide this in a reply
@@Frannie2199 I don't think I can handle the moral responsibility of making this suggestion its own comment, thereby pressuring Jenny to actually sit through China Beach. I couldn't do that to a person.
how dare you, it's the show that put women on the front lines and showed the other side of war
Have I ever seen The Vampire Diaries? No Am I going to watch this entire video? Yes, absolutely, unquestionably EDIT: the reason I commented this four days ago and the video is only a few hours old is that it has been up for Patreons since then :)
Same! Haha
I know nothing about this topic, was actively put off by vampires for years during the craze, and am invested a massive sized helping of 0% into this story, and it's characters but I will nod along in agreement the entire time
I havent seen almost any of the things she Ever talks about I still watch the hell out of it
same LMAO
Same here!
The fact that they had a character with survivor’s guilt have their survivor’s guilt confirmed to be accurate, and they chose to basically kill themselves, is pretty incredible. Incredibly stupid and irresponsible.
Not too much unlike Miraculous Ladybug presenting a character who's set up to have an abusive father, where you'd predict the ultimate culmination of his arc would be to break away from familial abuse and heal and learn to live for himself, only for the show to turn around and say "actually he's not even a human, he's just a human-shaped homonculus and is physically unable to go against his 'father's' orders". Or how 13 Reasons Why basically redeemed or narratively praised every single teen character that died throughout the series, thus communicating that dying or offing yourself in your teen years will only make everyone love you, which is, yknow, not a good thing for a show about a teen offing herself to do. I don't know why some writers can't resist making the most irresponsible choices for their kid/teen audiences.
@@ArtsyStarletaI mean, the first one doesn't seem that bad to me... can't really expect people to care about a mere human-shaped homunculus.
@@ArtsyStarleta How many seasons of Miraculous Ladybug did I skip? WTF?
@@ArtsyStarleta (genuine question) how old are you ?
@@DEARPEDAGOGYsame question for you I'm curious
Every time I rewatch this video it makes me want Jenny to do a video on supernatural even more
Don’t disrespect my boys! Yeah, I know it fell apart at the end
God, no. Don't put her through that.
@@cassandrahill6153 At the end? Sweetie it started going downhill after season 6 and was pretty much unwatchable by season 8
She did a kind of video on it on her patreon
on her patreon she did a video reviewing it but solely based on the promotional photos. which was insane cause there was a lot she got right.
THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN T-
cute fraud
This was the funniest part. I cracked up everytime they cut to China Beach.
ITS THE MAN-
Jan Misali?!?
Oh my gosh it’s Jan Misali
The Damon and Bonnie “best friends” thing was closer to gay representation than the gay dad
I am not sure I understand you fight. A boy having a girl best friend is gay?
@@hassanalkhalaf1115 (no, it’s just that there’s an EXTREMELY common trope/assumption that gay couples are just “really good friends” and the clips from Damon and Bonnie saying how they’re “such good best friends” are common lines amongst characters that are very obviously into each other but they’re gay so the writers don’t wanna commit)
@@Cosmo-Young Yeah It's like a weird straight version of queerbaiting (Straightbaiting ig?)
@@juliamiranda8305 ah yes, I call that "giving-our-black-supporting-character-fulfilling- -relationship-with-the-lead-love-interest-baiting"
mlm wlw solidarity
I'm a black woman, was a teen watching vampire diaries and fell in love with show. Bonnie of course was my fave, and loved seeing someone like me as a strong witch. However, I did wonder why Bonnie and Damon never happened, actually wondered why Bonnie was either not on screen or every relationship she had was a failure or they died. Now that i'm older (still watching vampire diaries till this day) and I understood why and what happened to kat graham, really makes me sad. They didn't give her character what she deserved smh
She was such a hit and miss character, they could have done so so much with her and it always made be angry that every time they didn't know what to do they just killed her or some family of hers and sent her off screen
Let’s say Matt, a now cop by the finale, gets turned into a vampire. In this specific universe if he gets a search warrant to a human’s house, would he be allowed to go inside??????? This question has sparked fights within my friend group.
Once he shows the search warrant at the door, people would invite him in, so indirectly or not it would.
@@zawrator4457 But what if they live alone, like that one guy?
@@zawrator4457 cowardly answer
depends on whether vampire magic considers the state legitimate
@@baintreachas ?
I wished you had talked about how every vampire murder is just written off as a cougar/bear attack. My friend and I joked about a 'lost episode' where the National Wildlife Federation comes to Mystic Falls to investigate why they have a 50,000% higher wildlife-related death rate compared to every county in the entire world. Damon would fake alliance with them, and Bonnie would make up a new ability to save the day, of course.
Lol, underrated comment.
Every murder in a teenage vampire series is a cougar attack, in some sense, no?
@@MegaJotie Well done, sir or madam!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer does a similar thing where supernatural deaths are written off as either "feral dogs" or "gangs on PCP". Why the feds haven't rolled into town to stop the PCP gang murdering at least four people a week is anyone's guess.
@@masterplusmargarita At least in Buffy, they make it obvious that the authorities know about vamps and are keeping them under wraps.
The funniest thing about Caroline is that everyone thought she would die, but she stayed longer than the protagonist lol
I was so young when I watched this show and I remember my sister was more into if so watched much longer than me and she was telling me the whole Bonnie's gay dad plot and I just responded "she's still alive?". I feel like that is one thing I will give vampire diaries credit for (even if they may have not meant to) they set Bonnie up as a character that is typically killed off quickly die and subverted that
i always thought of her as the kinda shadow main character. I liked Elena fine but Caroline was easily my favourite. Elena was a blank slate for the fans to project on but Caroline was the person who seemed to have the most actual story, development and progression.
Caroline is surprisingly pretty cool/interesting, I love her as a bubbly positive vampire it's fun
Let's not talk about Matt
The best line in the series: Stefan: caroline, you and I will never happen. 7 seasons later. Stefan: well damn 😅
When assembled correctly, this bell becomes, like, a mystical, SUPERbell.
I love how Jenny sets up the huge emotional and dramatic stakes of the moment near the end where Bonnie figures out how to end the spell and when Elena wakes up and sees her there and asks her how she did it, Bonnie just has this casual "It was super easy. Barely an inconvenience!" energy when answering her. Watching a Jenny Nicholson video is an unparalleled experience.
Wow wow wow... ... ...wow.
Breaking unbreakable spells is tight!
I gotta say, having one of your most powerful villains set up an apparently no-win scenario for your heroes, only to have one of your heroes fix it in a single line of dialogue that amounts to "lol I just leveled up I guess" is a pretty ballsy move.
Don’t forget, Jenny made a pitch meeting video before it was cool.
The phrase "I Bing'd it" has such a vile energy to it
Read this as 'I binged it' at first lol
You realize...google is a disgusting beast and monopoly that made you feel that way
@@leilaniz5909 and it works better than bing on every conceivable front
"I Bing'd it on my T-Mobile HotSpot which works here in a dank cave where cell service can't possibly reach."
I "bing'd" it means you sarcastically mocked something.
The whole "a vampire can't go into a house without being invited' thing, would have done Bella some good, with Edward coming into her room and watching her sleep
Seriously! Why do we just ignore how creepy that is?!
True Blood also used this piece of lore and I enjoyed that. Especially when people would have to say the line "I rescind my invitation" as angrily and dramatically as possible, and then the vampire would involuntarily run out of the house at Flash speed. Also, it's funny that they deliberately threw out other very common pieces of vampire lore - garlic doesn't affect them, crosses don't affect them, I think you can still see them in mirrors IIRC, etc. - yet kept THAT, of all things.
Plus in the first book Edward was 104 years old and Bella was 17 That’s an 87 year age gap. That’s getting a yikes from me
@@doubletrouble5448 I mean, Klaroline has a waaaay bigger age gap…
@@doubletrouble5448 true, but Friendly Space Ninja points out a tiny gem: vampires no longer age, physically _or_ mentally, after they've been turned. Imagine being 17 and thinking like you're 17 for the rest of forever. I remember being 17. I hope no-one else remembers me being 17. 😬🥴😅
Im so glad you talked about Caroline’s dad plotline. I was always so confused as to why they made that choice. The literally SOLE gay character on the show promoting conversion therapy was CRAZY
He must have been a Republican.
Thank you for addressing the disgusting bias towards Bonnie’s character. Kat Graham (the actress for Bonnie) was the most talented actress and even musician of the entire cast and she herself expressed how incredibly disappointing and demeaning it felt to play a character who wasn’t even a priority, though she presented as a main character Edit: also, Julie Plec was incredibly racist to Kat Graham, the actress who played Bonnie, so you might want to unstan her🥴
Definitely need to unstan Julie Plec
Hold, never watched vampire diaries, which one is Julie Plec?
@@panadocoughsyrupshe’s one of the main writers for the show!!!
@@cosmicmysteryy Oh jeez. What did she do to Bonnie actress? (I don’t know why I care lmao but STILL I GOTTA KNOW)
@@panadocoughsyrup I don't know much. But I think at some point she desperately tried to fire Kat for unknown reasons and only stopped after Damon's actor threatened to leave as well.
They did Bonnie dirty. She could have been the best character - but they just made her a problem solver who’s always getting her heart broken.
Bonnie was the best character wdym?? The fact that she was so powerful and sacrificed her happiness and literal LIFE every time was so heartbreaking. Kat played her so well and her emotions were so raw.
And she still is the best character
They did almost every poc dirty, tyler technically isn't poc for some reason, but Michael Trevino was done dirty, same with Marcel in the originals and so on
@@harshasewlani5312 yeah, definitely my biggest qualm with the show is the lack of representation and when POC and LGBTQ+ characters were introduced they always got the short end of the stick :/
I thought Bonnie WAS the best character. She was selfless and not doing dumb things to constantly ruin the plan. She was my favorite
She leaves out the part where Bonnie is trapped alone in a prison world and eventually driven to suicide. The writers basically used her as a human punching bag.
Seriously she deserved so much better
Bonnie is the best and has it worst.....some screws up...Bonnie rescues them, suffers, gets nothing...(repeat as necessary)
But they always went running to her when things hit the fan. It was so crazy how when Elena lost her brother she was allowed to grieve and push it aside in such a horrible way doing bad things to people but when Bonnie lost her grams she had to help them out straight away and that happened anytime she was going through something.
@@allegraanegra455 Bonnie suffers and swallows so much. She is the true tragic hero. How she put up with the lot calling themselves her friends is beyond me. Me in her place? I would have turned them into toads at some point. Elena, my oh my..... No matter who or how or what Rebekka is/was, Elenas murder of her was pure evil.
I'm not implying anything,, but I feel like the storyline of the one main BIPOC character in these 2000s-early 2010s shows always has a relatively simple story.
i need jenny to do this with supernatural. it would be like five hours and i would watch every second
I’d kill to hear her talk about Jared padaleki for even a moment because there’s a lot of real estate there for some witty opinions hahah
she did a ramble on her patreon where she pretended to be an expert on the show and recap it season by season with nothing to go on but the promo images
As someone who watched SPN and still has War Flashbacks to when I was deep in the paint, I would never wish that upon her 😂
@@ididntknowtheyhadwifiinhellstill my favorite video she's ever done. worth the patreon $ alone
I can't believe nobody has mentioned the "household soap dish" at 27:47! Like, who has that many bars of soap...? Just like, in your bathroom at all times? I count 6 visible unique bars of soap, and that soap dish is deep enough to hide at least 6 more!
Wait... an epilogue of a CW show where a brother dies... and the other grows old with a wife... and then they're reunited in heaven... did Stefan's car go to heaven too?
Depends, is it gay in Spanish?
It sure did, we see his bestie with it in the finale, which is funny but also sad since we also saw how it "died" earlier in the series
Homophobic gay dad was sent to superhell
I can only imagine what it’s like to read this comment and the replies with zero context.
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle it's a wild ride, I can tell you
scariest thing about this vampire diaries video is never knowing when china beach is going to appear
“Through the mirror of my mind…”
If you've watched it enough times, it becomes less stressful and much more fun to anticipate :P
“THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN TO THE FRONTLINE!!!”
“And dared to show the OTHER side of war”
Not really. It's whenever the clip she's showing is clearly the scene before a commercial break.
since everyone is commenting their favourite lines from this video that pop into your head randomly, the british guy doing an american accent part makes me laugh every time. the nasally way he says ‘yurr farthurr’ is so fucking funny
+1 to this. Everything about his alien cadence lives in my head year-round.
Your father 🤖
This whole video is insane, but “Killed by the Village People” has to be my limit 😭 Isobel legitimately sounds like text-to-speech.
also let’s talk about how bonnie was the personified version of the “strong black woman” stereotype. all the characters constantly relied on her for EVERYTHING and she was so tired but everyone insisted she be constantly strong even tho they’d all be dead without her.
Yes!!!
fuckin truuuuu they did bonnie so fucking dirty mannnnn,
Also Magical Black Person trope
@@Kelekona although i do agree with this, also, a lot of witchcraft was created by black people and so i feel like they tried to be as historically correct as possible by making bonnie and her ancestors black. but i do agree.
@@scarlettrg911 sure though looking at how they dealt with other cultural topics i think your giving them a lot. I never watched the show in full (my sis did so ive seen the odd episode out of context) but i think people are a bit turned off that she had to be relied on for everything AND she didnt get a satisfying ending/story line. From what it sounds like if they had used her character better i dont think people would have mind that she had to help everyone else alot .. you know if they had given her something equally worthwhile to do.
"So it won't work if you get hit by a bus, but it WILL work if a vampire is driving the bus" sent me to the Other Side.
Dw I got a mummy hand!
I actually love that. It feels like the sort of specific wording that a genie could get behind. The magic works if you're killed by a supernatural being, it's that simple
This is like Yu-Gi-Oh's "send to the graveyard" instead of "destroy" lmao
@@tesserarius5899 it does feel exactly like genie logic, but dont say it too loud or the producers will come back for another spinoff.
Would it work if a vampire compelled a bus driver to get into an accident?
Crying uncontrollably when the crow comes back in the finale is so real
Love this video. I watch it monthly lol. One thing that people might not know is that literally all of the actors who play villains wanted Bonnie as a love interest… it was always shot down. The guy that played Klaus wanted it and they gave him Caroline lol. Another fun fact: the guy that plays Klaus is married to the lady that played Bonnie’s mom.
I had to look this up and found out that in the Originals, Klaus is Marcels DAD and that’s who’s going on adventures this is insanity
"i'm gay AND your brother" is probably the best expository dialogue i've ever heard
"Somehow, Palpatine has returned" is QUAKING
“palpatine is gay AND your brother”
@@vicbetz9760 I support you Palpatine
@@vicbetz9760 that’s my new favourite sentence
"Excuse me, I'm homeless, I'm Gay, I have AIDS and I'm new in town" Strong contender
Caroline: If I had a nickel for every time someone dated me to further an evil scheme, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Don't you mean Bonnie?
Omg what show is this quote from?
@@zoejnobaptiste3332 it’s from Phineas and Ferb, Dr. Doofenshmirtz says it
@@addieg.3381 ahh thank you.
i’m pretty sure that caroline dated klaus in a scheme to take him down, actually 😭
I appreciate Jenny getting so mad about how that publisher treated LJ Smith.
the “i think i’ll fall over” then cut to her being yeeted off the stairs was A1 editing
This video is long enough to be nominated for an Academy Award. Just saying.
Only if China Beach is nominated for a supporting role.
"There are many reasons why you should consider giving _THE Vampire Diaries Video_ your vote for Best Motion Picture and I have structured them . . . into a numbered list."
I mean, getting to 40 minutes is not the problem, the real issue is renting a theatre in New York or LA to screen it for an entire week. After that, let the campaigning begin
Wait how did you comment four days ago if this video was posted 2 hours ago Am I going crazy What
@@igamewhenimbored7696 The video was uploaded a few days ago, but was inly up in some countries due to copyright shenanigans Jenny documented on Twitter
My favorite "Being Bonnie is a thankless job" moment is in season one, when Elena and Bonnie are kidnapped, and while the baddies let Elena lounge on the bed in the motel room, Bonnie is stuffed in the bathtub.
Or that time on season two when she "died" and had to hang on the truck of Daemon's car for who knows how long pretending to be dead, like... yikes lmao
@@annabeatrizzimmermann7708 OK hold up what are you talking about? Season 2 what episode?
@@Courtney_BlakeIt was episode 18 “the last dance” I don’t actually remember this episode lol, but the wiki says “Bonnie fakes her death in order to protect Elena. Damon was the only one aware of Bonnie's plan to fake her death, both because the others would have objected if they found out the truth, and because they needed everyone to believe it in order to properly convince Klaus that she was really dead.”
@@moni-in-mini7471 Thank you! You're right lmao it was when Klaus came to town in an "Alaric suit" & Bonnie fought him off at the decade dance. She had to pretend to be dead lol!
Rewatching this and I still laughed SO HARD when Tyler’s mom said “oh a compliment ☺️I think I’ll fall over” cut to her being FLOWN off a staircase. Very rarely do I laugh that hard from KZhead videos anymore
This video is a work of art, the recurring jokes never get old because Jenny has the BEST comedic timing. And I LOVE that she mentioned the on-the-nose music choices early on because now I'm noticing it in like EVERY scene she plays and it's hilarious One of my all-time favorite rewatch videos, and I've never watched vampire diaries, I was more of a twilight kid haha
A bit late but as someone with ADHD. I wouldn't want to be a vampire. I can see myself putting off a meaningless task and being like "Oh yeah I've been trying to do that since the 1500s"
Dude same 🤣 ADHD makes life so much harder but it's not all bad. I look at it as a super power with drawbacks
I've never related to anything more than this comment
This needs to be a book series or a tv show
@Agent Bubble i think it’s very perspective heavy. my friend with autism + adhd always tells me (adhd + depression) that my adhd makes me who i am and he likes me the way i am, but i would definitely get rid of it if i could. like okay yes, sometimes if i’m really interested in something, i can do amazing things with my super-concentrative power but it sucks 99% of the time💀i would throw away this smoothbrain shit immediately if i could lmao
@Agent Bubble Part of it comes with learning how to discipline and be yourself w an adhd mind, in mind. It's easy for me to turn some boring tasks into a game or an opportunity to just hangout in my own head. I've also found that people find me kinda interesting, since I naturally have a different way of verbalizing thoughts. Obviously the other sides of those coins is that I can forget to self care when I'm toiling away, and people can also find me very intense. It's all about perspective. It's hard to view it positively all of the time tho 😕
the "I'm gay AND your brother" line makes me laugh so fucking hard bc it's so obviously written by someone who a) doesn't have siblings and thus has no idea what sibling dynamic's like, and b) has never met an lgbt+ person in their entire life; it's so ridiculously hilarious
"lgbt+ person" who says that lmao
@@Gerald0613 people referencing those who are lgbt+
@@Gerald0613 did you have a stroke?
@@Gerald0613 yeah wtf are you talking about LMAOOOO
@@Gerald0613 tf are you talking about?
"Every vampire media should feature Dracula" Agreed. Even the pay to win "choose your own adventure" mobile game that I play (it's a guilty pleasure) had Dracula. He was a fuckboy and you had to buy a microtransaction to have a one night stand with him, and he bones you on the ceiling lmao
More media that isn’t about vampires should feature Dracula. Public domain is a wonderful thing, we don’t utilize it enough as a culture.
Drop the game title
@@julien4305 It's called "Choices" and the story I'm referencing is called "Bloodbound"
THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT WOMEN TO THE FRONT LINE...
The girls confessing their love for each other then exploding in a fiery blaze 2 seconds later has me HOWLING
presumably they both go to turbo hell afterwards
@@rampagingFurniture we can only hope, those filthy sinners!!
This show might take the crown from SPN for homophobic gays
NOT Turbo Hell!
thats the kind of representation we want 😤😤😤
"The writing style on the fan wiki is too beautiful to understand" is one of the kindest backhanded compliments I've ever heard.
This was the best way to say it. I started watching this show recently and I was trying to understand what was happening/going to happen, and I went to the wiki to try to understand... it somehow made it worse!
@@MostlyMom I'm deeply shocked that people are starting to watch this show now -- and yet I am very tempted to continue watching where I left off in the 11th grade
@@user-vl8ws4wd7o I think some people have started watching it so they can understand Legacies - except Legacies is somehow more convoluted
@@flawedsanity interesting! Thanks, I hasn't considered that
I'm a RIPPER! A ripper doesn't STOP
"When properly assembled, this bell becomes like a... mystical super bell" 💀 who wrote this line
Every time Jenny calls The Vampire Diaries "VPD" I can't help but think of it as Vampire Personality Disorder
Underrated comment 💀
im thinking vampire police department lmaooo
I mean, if she just called it "The VD" that would be worse 😬
Vampire police department
@@lauraj4001 If strangely appropriate for some reason
Purely liking for the transition from Bonnie saying "this year is gonna be kickass" to Elena having multiple mental breakdowns and witnessing the deaths of EVERYONE she loves....magical
Start of 2020 Vs actual 2020 energy
"Nice Work Bonnie" is the new "Thanks Obama"
Jeremys death scene she showed was by far the funniest
I'm purely liking for the China Beach ad break (especially during eternal flame and the charred corpse at 40:20)
@@oldaccount7370 😂😫 so true we all cried like Elena this year
the setup and payoff of the racism post-it always get me, never gets old
"Actual footage of Kai placing Elena under a sleeping curse" and "These guys are helping" was missed the first few times I watched this video.
“You need to chill yourself.” “What is that, stoner talk?”
Visible cringe
I thought he said "kill" and I was like WHOA-HO-HO THERE
I had to stop the video and take a walk around the house, then I laughed
But tristan you MUST chill!
@@Mngalahad I see you are a man of culture 😂
At this point I feel like “The CW” is a genre unto itself
Sorta like how Disney is its own genre. Weird but you're totally right.
nonsensical, painfully melodramatic, questionable and inconsistent writing, trope-filled, refuses to end, and every single character's actor is conventionally good-looking but only 5/10 are actually good at acting bc they aren't just models the producers falsely promised a career to? we love to see it
@@washedblue Same happens with the music world, the reality is that you only need a catching asset and that's enough for an audience, entertainment sadly or not isn't something to get philosophical lectures and deep intel from.
@@washedblue yeah that’s basically it.
Back in the 1930s-1950s, every Hollywood studio had what was known as its own "house style", because each studio cranked out over 40 movies per year, mostly with the same slate of actors, directors and writers under contract. By the 1960s, the studios mostly distributed independently produced films, so no longer had a distinct house style anymore (except for Disney which was still producing every film in-house in those days). I've seen the modern Hallmark Channel compared to old Hollywood, in that they likewise produce about 40 films per year, all using the same production company, and a slate of recurring actors, and most of the movies have the same style.
"Team pizza vampire!" is a really underrated line. 🍕🧛♂️
You know a video is good when it's 'most replayed' section is at the very beginning. I have watched this at least a dozen times and it WILL be a rewatch for me until I die.
The power of Jenny Nicholson: getting me to watch an almost 3 hour long video about something I don't care about. All hail
Yes she's a funny little evil genius
I couldnt give two shits about vampire diaries but i cant miss a jenny video
I'm just waiting for a three hour deconstruction of China Beach
ive been waiting for this video so long even though I dont care at all 💀
Exactly!!!
Someone needs to make a video exactly like this but with Once Upon A Time because I actually watched that show religiously and would like to be entertained for another 2.5 hours about how stupid it got
Yes I need this too
OUAT isn't good, remotely, but the cheesiness of the sets/effects and the performance from Lana Parilla and Robert Carlyle make it worth it I think. Although, Snow White might be the most flawless human to ever exists in the history of TV to the point of exhaustion.
Lindsay Ellis refered to it as "Disney's own big AU crossover fanfic"
Oh god. This show is my guilty pleasure at the moment. I'm only a bit into season 4 and the Frozen plotline is exhausting lmao is it even worth watching the rest?
@@neutralman9124 yes! Agree 100 percent. And Lana’s outfits were always the strongest or went the hardest. A video by Jenny would make me finish the series after whenever a version of Snow got evil, the writers tried to give teen Henry something real to do, or some goofiness
as someone who was in middleschool while all of these teen shows were airing, I felt like the most uncool, boring kid because I never watched any of them and only knew them by name. It's been a healing experience to find out every single show I thought was the cool edgy teen show of my time (pretty little liars, the originals, glee, gossip girl, lost) are all in reality incredibly ridiculous and I wasn't missing a thing
As someone who was also in middle school when these shows came out and felt like the boring kid for a long time before succumbing to the peer pressure, I can guarantee you that it really feels different when you experience them as a dumb pre-teen. And even now as a rational pre adult the nostalgia I just got from reading some of the shows you just quoted (you forgot teen wolf btw) makes me wanna go back to thirteen all over again
@@itpatritia oh im sure they are priceless in entertainment value, even if i watched them for the first time as a engineering student lol. but i certainly had a very skewed idea of what they were like, i thought all of them were this deep tight knit plot, hunger games level of writing and message, like with every new villain you would actually sit tight and tense up thinking what could happen, basically i never thought they were allowed to be campy and fun lol (here be the consequenses of being raised by a very "only black and white movie are good" dad. i grew up on charles chaplin and the lost fucking horizon, it was as a boring to a elementary school child as it sounds!!!) also omg definetly teen wolf and shadowhunters, i was the weird wolf kid and i used to think their werewolves were so ugly LOL considering my now love for werewolves i might check it out and see all the teen angst and cheese for myself
As a costumer, I personally take offense to the clothes and thank you SO MUCH for calling out the importance of GOOD costuming hahaha
It's a testament to Jenny's storytelling ability that I have never seen this show and have literally no investment in it, but almost jumped out of my chair in excitement when the crow came back.
I literally almost cried, i love that crow
Same!
i deadass gasped
Maaakiii
I can't believe they worked the crow into the budget! I hear the crow took a paycut just to be there.
59:03 So cool that they got Jenny Nicholson to play Evil Jenny Nicholson in this scene. 10/10 acting.
I would love to see just once a vampire romance where the teenage main girl asks the vampire how long he's been 17 and he replies "30 years" and it gets awkward as she realizes she's just dating a young looking middle aged man.
enzo: *is locked in a cage* the song: *LoCkEd iN a cAgE*
@@joshroehl6098 Go fuck yourself
Despite all his rage?
Did anyone else get visceral flashbacks to Beastly and the super literal pop music over scenes in that too 😂
@@rhonab6698 yes! FAALLING IN LOOVE...
@@rhonab6698 I think that was just something we did in the early 2000s. I'm suddenly remembering it from Charmed and Bones and all kinds of shows. I didn't question it at the time of fan-made music video tributes.
LMAO the flashbacks to Jenna's death scene and Elena yelling "NOOO JENNAAA" every few minutes had me cackling even though I cried watching it the first time 💀
Same! It’s different when you’re not immersed lol it’s just so dramatic
I've never seen the show but she just like stood so still saying that line that it was funny as hell
@@averagechannelname9969 yeah she couldn’t move because there was fire around her
@@tehelaibatehe how close to her was it? I mean like I think she might've been able to move her arms or something from the clip but she was standing like 🚺?
@@averagechannelname9969 it was all around her in a circle cast by a witch. so since she’s a human she would get burned but even if she was a vampire or a supernatural creature she wouldn’t be able to get out of it ( I think I might be wrong )
A summary of this video: *NOOOOO! JENNA!* 🎶Through the mirror of my mind~🎶
Rewatching this after watching Paul Wesley as the new Kirk in strange new worlds feels absolutely surreal. Took me forever to realize where I'd recognized him from ... that vampire show I've never watched.
HAHAHA i'm glad i'm not the only Star Trek fan here. Yeah I watch this video from time to time just for fun and I was like, "Wait a minute...IS THAT JAMES KIRK?" rofl
Julie Pec is actually the reason why the Damon Bonnie pairing didn’t happen. Julie wanted to kill off Bonnie but Ian (Damon actor) threatened to leave the show if she was killed off. So Julie made it her mission to make Bonnie “boring”
Bonnie's treatment was so sad, so disappointing. They sent her off to Africa not even a region just Africa :(
Wow.... This is awful....! Thumbs up for Ian somerhalder though!!!
Who's Julie, the director?
@@ms.keisha4165 shes an executive producer
This is so gross, Kudos to Ian though for being a stand-up cast mate to Kat Graham (Bonnie)