Narrator: "This, is a bucket." Mark: "Dear GOD!" Narrator: "There's more." Mark: "NO!"

Mark usually: finds any useless inanimate object, befriends it, and carries it around even if it causes insane inconvenience. Mark when given a useless object to befriend and carry around: "I could throw this across a room and couldn't care less."

I cant take it anymore, whenever I fall asleep at night with autoplay turned on. every single time I wake up it just appears.... every single FUCKING TIME IVE WOKEN UP THIS FUCKING VIDEO ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE PLAYING. IM CANT FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE

57:52 "in effect, we have demanded that our entertainment be the collapse of ourselves." that line actually goes so incredibly hard, like in the beginning of his speech i was like 'ok yeah i think a good majority of people are socially aware of this' but that line was just too metal to ignore

Me: "Wow, nearly 4 hours? He must have found a bunch of endings!" Mark: *enters broom closet* Me: "oh, nvm..."

I realize now why the Stanley button is so emotional. The narrator tells you to roleplay as Jim so that hearing the name makes you feel personally validated. But all this time, you've already been roleplaying as a man named Stanley. That's what the narrator called you. And now that he's gone, the Stanley button hits way harder. Because your name IS Stanley, and you didn't realize it until now. Sorry if this is phrased badly, I'm sleep deprived

24:47 The Dancing in the Elevator kills me everytime 🤣

I love that the narrator is British in the first and second game. You can tell when he yells "UNFUNNY?" That just cracks me up 😂

Fun Fact: The Bucket was originally only supposed to make the Narrator include it in every other dialogue in the game. Changes dialogue from "Stanley" to "Stanley and the bucket" but after awhile, more and more devs start getting more creative ideas on what to do with the bucket. In the end, all of that snowballed so much that it halted the game's development for an *_ENTIRE YEAR_* and is actually the reason the Ultra Deluxe version was delayed in the first place. All because of one singular bucket...

"Have you ever sat down in one place and not moved for an entire year?" "Yes" Man covid really did a number on us all.

“Don’t cry because it’s over, cry because it happened ” -Wise words from Mark

Mark: I could throw this bucket down the hallway and I wouldn’t care less Jack: My bucket

The scary part about the narrator going insane in the skip button ending is that the last time we see him he’s repeatedly saying the sentence “the end is never the end is never the end” But you think he’s only just now started but he’s been saying that for hundreds of years now on repeat

The fact that he hit the narrator right back with the "He died on his keyboard, could the next narrator take over?" 😂

sometimes i come back just to watch his flailing elevator sequence. 24:51 - 27:51 . I have an organic chemistry exam this morning and i got this stuck in my head. thanks mark

Watching this video late at night and passing out / waking up to random parts is the most disorienting experience ever but in the best way possible

I can just imagine Amy hanging out downstairs, and just hearing a muffled "I LOVE HOLES"

and she backflipped all the way to work.

25:58 Mark really channeled his inner evil minion

I finished it 3 hours 38 minutes and 29 seconds. That epilogue was brilliant, bewildering, beautiful. I’m so glad that we were able to go back to the hole and it was a fitting way to go. Speaking of which, I think it’s time for another visit down a wormhole with infinite choices in space.

That entire section with the skip button was more terrifying than like 90% of horror films

Mark: **sits in an elevator for 20 minutes listening to the same 4 minute song clip** Also Mark: **screams in pain while the narrator monologues about the skip button**

The explanation he gives around 23:00 reminds me so much of how Karen from Shameless talks 😭 the facial expressions are spot on.

This is the first time I’ve ever seen The Stanley Parable. This was fascinating

Narrator: **slowly losing his mind** Mark: **enjoys the beat**

Narrator: *dramatically explaining the horrors of mind control.* Markiplier: “I like this box..”

The bits where you traverse the deserts and the fields, and where you get the test achievement, I never expect to feel such profundity in Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe of all games, but it gets kinda deep with the transition to the desert with the metacommentary on how we perceive the past with rose tinted glasses and it wasn't all perfect, and how time erodes everything away eventually when you use the skip button, even the concrete holding up the building disintegrates eventually, everything is temporary even concrete, so don't shy away from new trying new things, along with all of the other messages the can be gleaned from the skip button ending, like, damn that's so deep. You really feel some straight up majesty when you traverse the desert and instead of the narrator, there's the music. Kinda makes sense the game's creator's so capable of true profundity when you realise it's the same guy who made The Beginner's Guide which is even deeper, and much, much darker than The Stanley Parable, but still...

I have come to a realization about this game. When the narrator goes on about needing a vessel..... What if Stanley is the narrator. Someone so bored with his life that he is narrating his imagination? A game developer at his desk, supposedly restricted in his creativity. Living through his dreams of making or playing a video game at the desk. The player is his invisible guest, or "vessel" for his narrations. Much the same as acquired DID, but much simpler. The ideals of simply sharing creativity. The game isn't a fever dream, or the possible ramblings of a serial killer. It's the story of the developer of the game. Lost in corporate policy and practice. And making this game in his head first. The game is making the game is making the game is making the game is making the game is making the game! The end is never the end is never the end is never the end because the end is making the game!

I love that Mark keeps pausing what he's saying to let the narrator talk, like he's being so polite but keeps getting cut off bc the narrator never leaves a chance for him to respond. Highkey adorable

“What’s your favorite Markiplier moment little Timmy?” “I liked the part where Mark descended into madness from elevator music for a LONNNNNG time”

I need the narrator to write my essays. He can yap infinitely and i need that.

1:01:11 one thing i wish the devs would’ve added is a short first-person animation of Stanley getting up from off the floor, because realistically he would’ve fallen over and been totally unaware until “waking up”

The fact that the first "ending" Mark got was the "broom closet ending", makes me happy.

“I have made it and I’m not lying” Now please let my family go mark

The most frightening thing happened to me while completing the skip button ending - after my first playthrough, popping up in the 427 room, Narrator's starting dialogue appeared to be that one in 1:43:07. It wasn't just chilling, it wasn't just the shivers down a spine, it was a complete terror for me to hear after all the happenings. At the time I didn't know the line appeared coincidentally, not related to the previously played ending.

I watched Marks original lets play when it came out, but didn’t have a system that could play the game back then. Now I have watched this video and played the UD edition. It has all come full circle for me, and I also appreciate how you grew as a person and creator. You got a tremendous amount of recognition for these lets plays and you deserve it.

Mark accidentally activating the controls when he wanted to follow the story properly absolutely killed me.

Stanley Parable new content be like: "This is a bucket" "Dear god.." "There's more" "No..."

The Grinch: "I'm a psycho!" *followed by* 26:15

Mark in the elevator was my favorite moment

The Narrator: Is able to create an entire Memory Zone, teleport Stanley, insert the 3rd door at the two doors room, etc. Also The Narrator: "Stanley, the door is gone, it's completely gone."

the fact that when mark is in the elevator and you can hear narrator hum and say all together now very softly is a nice detail

24:40 Leaving this here so I never have to wonder where this is in the video because it speaks so deeply to my ADHD soul. I need to always know where it is in this video at all times.

"i have made it and i am not lying" probably my favorite line of dialogue in the whole game 👍

Narrator: "I'm beginning to have feelings for the bucket." Mark: "This is getting weird." Also Mark: "Hold on I need to hit my computer."

It is almost heartbreaking how you can tell the narrator is going utterly insane but you're forced to just sit and watch it happen. you can't respond, you can't comment, you can't comfort, you can't do anything you just have to let him lose it over someone's comment. It makes me think this is how the creator felt like they had failed to make the game and was trying their best to do what was right for the game.

To answer Mark's question at 1:01:43, he was in the room for about 3 million years, the building would have enough time to decay the way it did, and the earth would have enough time to turn into a deserted wasteland of nothing but sand and rock.

Did anyone else notice that when Mark went down the infinite hole, the developers used a Shepard's tone in the background? It's very quiet, but you can hear it pretty good at 1:18:14 and a few seconds after that. You might have to listen close, but it's there! I just thought this was a neat touch, though Shepard's tones are used for psychological torture in most cases

Narrator: "This, is a Bucket." Mark: "Dear God.." Narrator: "There's More..." Mark: "Nooooo...." edit: holy crap 1k likes! thanks everyone!

"don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened" - Markiplier 2022

28:01 it’s been a year but I still come back to this vid just bcs the evalator scene makes me happy no matter how I was feeling before . Literally crying of laughter rn

For some reason, this video is always playing when I leave UKposts on after falling asleep. Now that I'm watching it, I'm glad it has been :]

Jack: “I want a bucket!” Mark: “I like this box!” It’s the simple pleasures for them 😌

Narrator: is this a bucket? Mark: no it’s a tractor Narrator: no it is a bucket Mark: *confusion has entered the chat*

I love coming back to watch this when I’m going to bed because of the narrator voice and marks voice it’s so soft and calming

1:59:48 wasn't expecting Stanley to fall into an episode of the Magnus Archives

Mark: “I’m going to follow what the narrator wants me to do” Not even 5 min later: *pisses off the narrator by going in the broom closet*

Mark : I could kick this bucket across the hallway and care less Also Mark: I WILL GO TO HELL AND BACK for this tiny box 📦

Rocking out whilst waiting for the elevator will forever make me feel valid.

24:50 this is the best part lol. I keep coming back to this

The Skip Button ending hits kinda hard. Imagine being stuck in a room for thousands of years being unable to leave and yet always being awake and aware. Given the narrator is a concept rather than a living person he couldn't really "die" but he clearly ends at some stage. All he had was his thoughts and the empty vessel of the only companion he knew in that universe. The fact that he stops reacting to Stanley coming back is probably the biggest indication of his insanity at that stage.

Imagine that nothing was actually wrong and Stanley just came into work on a holiday

Everytime when i fall asleep to UKposts I wake up to this video

i watch this every night to fall asleep, like i am right now, and sometimes end up staying up longer than intended watching still even tho i’ve watched this video maybe 100 times now lol. marks voice is soothing + this game is so interesting and unique and cool in general

Something I think makes the skip button ending sadder is the fact that it takes place in the memory zone. What goes on in the environment is somewhat reflective of the narrator's mind and memories, so when the narrator fixates on the negative reviews and the skip button, the door leading out of the room disappears; he mentally and physically traps himself in the room. At the end through all the silence and suffering his mind goes almost completely blank, the memory zone is barren, the only thing left being a broken memory of the skip button.

Mark trying to justify himself accidentally activating the nuke: "I'm not evil, I'm just stupid, really stupid"

1:02:55 mark: “did you lose yourself-“ me: “lose yourself in the music the moment, you own it, you better never let it go”

I like how he presses the butten to get out of the elevator hoping to go somewhere. When he saw the same room from befor he just went back in to dance. That was funny as hell

"I have made it and I am not lying." Mark is really finding all the intense endings

This is the story of a man named "Mark". Mark worked in his house, where he was a UKpostsr by the name of "Markiplier." Mark's job was simple. He sat at his desk, playing video games and making videos. He played whatever games his audience wanted. Whatever they wanted to see him play, Mark did. This is what Mark did every day of every month of every year. And though others might find it tedious and soul-rending, Mark relished every game he was requested to play, as though he had been made exactly for this job. And Mark was happy. And then one day, something very peculiar happened. Something that would forever change Mark. Something the internet would never quite forget. Mark had been recording a video for nearly an hour, when he got several hundred notifications from others about a new game release. Nobody had asked so much for one game. Never in all his years of UKposts had this happened; this complete surge of requests. Something was very clearly wrong. Shocked, Mark decided to look up this game, trying to see what the want for this game is. But as he found the game, he saw it was a re-release of a different game. Nevertheless, Mark downloaded the game, and started to play.

the irony of the skip button is that you want to skip past the narrator’s dialogue, but once he’s silent for that long all you want to hear is his voice again

31:27 he sounds exactly like a horse in rdr2 when he makes that noise 😭

Mark: *goes on a tangent about how we didn’t do what we were supposed to in “In Space With Markiplier”* Also Mark: *stays in the Broom Closet despite the Narrator telling him to get out*

I can't believe Mark got the broom closet ending!

Elevator dance sequence is the most relatable thing I've seen from Mark...

1:23:36 just this whole sequence is a mood

Narrator: "was this the only reason he was happy with his boring job? that his emotions had been manipulated to accept it blindly?" Mark: "I like this box"

NAH RIGHT BEFORE THE "WHO FARTED CUP?" IHAD FARTED, TIMING BROTHER. .

mark.... your dancing abilities are beyond human comprehension

Mark: "Yeah, I don't really care about that bucket" Jack: *_"BABY WANT BUCKET"_*

“I have made it and I am not lying.” I am filled with the irresistible urge to draw Stanley falling in a void, reaching for his bucket.

Watching Mark jam out to elevator music is officially now one of my favorite memories of him. 😂

When Mark absolutely lost his mind while jamming to the elevator theme is such a mood. I mean after completing an entire project like ISWM being able to just go caveman brain and not think about anything else but dancing is amazing

3:35:25 The Narrator: "Take care, Stanley!" Markiplier: "Take care, Narrator!" ...Knowing this is going to be the last interaction between the two, presumably forever... I'm really feeling stuff.

The joy of walking away momentarily only to come back to mark dancing to the elevator music 😂 gotta rewind and enjoy the full ordeal lmao

This video has come back up in my autoplay dispite me watching for a total of 6 times now

narrator: *long, beautiful monologue about regret, existentialism, and the eventual decay of every living thing in the universe* mark: SKIP

Narrator: "...For Stanley would disable the controls once and for all." Mark: "You Right" *Activates the controls*

i always wake up to market plier for some reason when ever i leave the tv on at night

I woke up at 2 AM with this playing and I was so confused

Ah yes, another 3 hour video of Mark slowly descending into insanity

"You can't buy that sort of happiness Stanley, God knows I've tried" is such a criminally underrated line

This voice actor better have been paid verrrrrrry well for their hours and hours and hours of work.

Like how Mark is making a movie version of Iron Lung, someone needs to make a movie about the Stanley Parable.

"Don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened." -Mark Fischbach (Masochist)

Mark has lasted so much longer through the 'skip button' monologues than anyone else I have seen

25:00 is such a legendary moment

another one of those games that I'm seeing for the very first time . It's a nice office no boss getting on your case about things and since it's empty you can take long lunch breaks here too .

I love how most people go wild for the bucket the instant they receive it, but Mark quickly got sick of being told by the Narrator how much he (Stanley) apparently loved it

God the existential neverending skip button was terrifying in a horrible way.