(tense music)
(alarm beeping)
- Ah, YouTube time.
I've been asleep for five years!
Wait, what if in that very first "Sander Sides" episode
I went to sleep and never woke up.
Have all my memories with the Sides these past five years
been a dream?
Nah but that would be wild right?
(upbeat music)
What is up everybody?
We have recently rounded the corner
of making these Sander Side videos for five years.
Half a decade of self examination
through essentially talking to myself.
And honestly, like truly honestly,
the scripting aside.
It is really cool to see how much growth
a person can achieve in that amount of time.
I have worked to understand my anxiety,
realized my capacity for deceit.
Philosophically debated selfishness
while considering Machiavellian like principles.
Went to the mall.
Don't underplay that one
that one's really big for me.
And Lord, we ate a lot of jam.
Not quite sure how that played
such a huge part in this series, but it did.
And these talks have meant a lot to me.
Like every facet of me.
You know, in television five years is about that time
that they would make one of those
really self-indulgent interviews with the cast
where they'd laugh and talk about their favorite moments
on and off screen.
And that's exactly what we're going to do.
Wow we sure have had some wild times. Huh?
And I know there are those out there that want to know
what your thoughts are on five years of Sanders Sides.
- It is hard to believe that it's been five years
of these discussions.
Mainly due to the fact that
we've only had a little over nine and a half hours
on screen together.
If you don't count our interactions
that are not considered canonical to the core series.
But even then my point is,
I don't think that we deserve the celebration. Cheers.
- Happy birthday.
Sanders Sides would be in kindergarten now.
Oh my gosh it would be going off to its first day of school
making its first friends eating the chalk.
Oh my gosh.
Okay I'm making myself cry again.
Oh gosh, who left this juice out?
- Hello? I'm Roman chronically single, I'm a Gemini
and I like long duels on the beach.
- [Thomas] Roman. - I'm sorry.
What is this again?
All right just be sure to get the best side
of this best side. Right?
(laugh) that one's for the promos.
Oh, five years and we're still going strong
with the word play, right fellas (laugh).
- [Thomas] Roman.
(crying)
- I'm sorry, I'm so sorry
I'm just so woefully unprepared for this, our anniversary.
Thomas' viewers amazingly graced
with five years of me
and the others sure.
Hey yeah congrats guys.
Five years of putting up with me.
It has felt much longer than that.
Mostly because I've had to deal with them too,
but you know, I guess all that stormy weather
got us to this miserable point. Huh?
Can I go?
- Mmh yes happy five years.
Five drama free years.
It really is astounding how these
little meetings of the mind
lead to clear and concise conclusions
that leave everyone so happy and angst free.
- Okay Janus I know that this is like your whole thing,
but this is a positive look back on
how far we've come.
So your recent appearances on screen have been
fun additions.
Do you feel like your gelling with the cast?
- Oh yes.
Let's see.
There is my new bestie Patton.
Who's always been so good at keeping you in check.
I'm sure you'd be totally lost without a man child
who ties a cat hoodie around his neck.
- Ah, (laugh) Jan said that huh? That jokester.
He knows how easily cold my shoulders get,
call them my coulders.
- And Logan.
Ah, you can totally see how he's your sense of reason,
especially when he makes mistakes.
- Okay it's just very interesting that
Janus would be so quick to bring up that point
when the odds of a mistake happening again are
infinitesimal, huh?
- Roman.
You know, despite our differences,
I personally see ourselves in this lovely friendship
akin to me being the Voltaire to his Rousseau.
- He said that about me?
I don't have enough information
to decide how I feel about that.
- And Virgil.
Well, there's not much to say there,
except that I do so love the consistency of his makeup.
(laugh)
- That father mucker.
- [Remus] Hey, hey, check it up.
I'm Roman getting my best side.
Am I right?
- Ooh I can't believe this is how I'm finding out
where your emblem is.
Hey Remus. Can we sit correctly, buddy?
- Who says there's a correct way to sit?
You ever think about that man?
- Remus. - Expand
your (beep) mind, bro.
- Can you just...
Everybody has given their thoughts
on the past five years of the series.
Do you have any thoughts you'd like to add?
He asked knowing he'd regret it.
- Oh you mean the three videos that I was in?
Yeah, they were fine.
Nothing like what's coming up.
- What?
- Oh honey, you got a big storm coming...
Aah stop, geez.
You couldn't just tell me to stop.
Kill a guy for being excited, why don't you?
Really? Why don't you?
- Mm-hmm, okay, all right.
So he was insulting me...
I hate that guy.
A favorite memory from the show?
That is just so hard.
There have been so many wonderful moments with everyone.
Shoot, even Janus and I have been getting closer.
The other day, he gave me half his sandwich.
- I mistook him for a, a garbage can.
- Quite a lot has changed in the past years.
Not only with you learning
about Janus's and Remus' existence,
but also in how we conduct our day to day.
Some examples being
us generally talking to each other more respectfully
and leaving behind past toxic behaviors.
Of course there's still work to be done on that front.
The talking may be there,
but the listening is another story.
- Oh, boo the others used to be mean to each other.
Do you know how bored I was
before you decided to confront me?
All I did was walk around and look for stuff in your head
to (beep) with.
There was this one sick ass room
I have found to hang out in
called the mind palace, big echoy place.
I can't believe you decided to ditch it after one episode.
So wasteful.
There was actually one amazing perk
to not being in the spotlight for a while.
Anytime they are left to deal with a stubbed emotional toe,
Remus and I had the opportunity
to indulge ourselves in something truly devious.
(upbeat music)
- [Thomas] Heading back to my room for a sec guys,
I forgot my pants.
- [Remus] Get out, get out.
- That's who was using my DDR.
I thought it was a ghost.
- Oh, hell yeah, you got my nickname down there.
You know, you should add pissy to Roman so we can match.
You know, like Princy (laugh) classic.
- What, what is that?
- That was Remus.
That mother loving Mustachio mug bug.
Excuse me a moment I have to go
healthily communicate my feelings with my brother.
(glass shattering)
- I'd say communication for me is better, totally.
A hundred percent able to communicate my feelings now
like a champ, no problemo.
- Uhhuh, Uhhuh.
- The the abstract stuff helped a lot though.
You know like those puppets.
Surprisingly didn't hate how those were used
to handle an issue.
- Oh yeah. - Yeah.
- I was wondering, do you ever still...
- Sometimes.
- I couldn't find him might have gone back to
hiding in the walls.
Who broke this vase?
- Hey, nice call back.
- Don't use the word call back around me.
But since we're on the topic of performing,
one thing I'd like to see more of, songs.
We need more musical numbers.
As a theater kid.
- Theater man, I'm an adult man.
- I feel musically constipated.
I mean, do you know how hard it is
to talk about the last five years
and not make a Jason Robert Brown reference? (laugh)
That one's for the fellow theater kids out there.
- The songs are fine.
If you don't count the 12 days of Christmas rewrite.
- Ah yes the songs.
Grammy winning numbers you all break into.
Emphasis on the you all
because I've been absent for every single one.
And I could not be more happy about that.
- Ask Janus about our song lies.
- It was a song about lies and I wasn't there for it.
- Well then shut up.
What did Virgil say about my 12 days of Christmas rewrite?
This is about the Bubblegum shrimp thing, isn't it?
Look the muse doesn't always come to visit.
I can't be expected to pump out metaphors and similes,
like some simile making thing, see.
The shrimp line was a last minute addition
and I have no clue where it came from.
- Oh yeah I whispered that to him in a sleep.
- I need to cool off switching topics.
If this is our little cast special
shouldn't we talk about the newest addition to our cast.
- Newest addition?
- Thomas I'm talking about Nico.
- Oh gosh, Roman.
- Nah come on Thomas.
Hey, I know that I'm getting along a little bit better
with Scare-amore but he needs to let me
speed things up a bit all right.
We should be on like a millionth base with Nico already.
- Yeah millionth base okay.
What is that like space marriage
officiated by Gandalf and (beep) Dumbledore.
- That's exactly what it is.
Wow he got that like right on the money.
- (laugh) yeah, Nico.
He seems nice.
Looking forward to getting to know him.
- I am intrigued to know what his interests may consist of.
Maybe math, sports, metal micing,
sorry biking metal.
- Oh, okay.
You know, can I be honest about something?
I know we've all moved past it but
that time when we were still pretending to be straight
and you all were flirting with a fake, Valerie
still haunts me.
- Well, I think that I was going for more like
a sexually ambiguous.
It wasn't that bad.
(laugh) right?
- Not our most feminist moment.
- I've thought about it every day.
- Okay well, we'll make better memories
and we'll forget about it eventually, hopefully.
- Oh, if we're talking new memories,
then maybe when you get a puppy, like a real puppy,
that will be my favorite moment.
Ooh I miss having a pet.
- Why does everyone care so much about
what happened to Sack Julie The hamster.
Folks she's gone.
She mysteriously disappeared
and no one has a clue where she went.
Shh.
- Are you implying that she's under your hat?
- No I'm implying you all use your brains.
She's gone.
- I know you've had a lot of successes
in the past five years, but do you have any regrets?
- Do I have any regrets? Hmm?
Do you want me to go alphabetically or--
- What? Me regret (laugh)
(soft music)
I have one regret.
(soft music)
- Wait, that doesn't look like Lee and Mary Lee's wedding.
Did you print out a stock image?
- You didn't take any photos.
I needed something to look upon whilst I lament.
- I do regret throwing that paper at puppet Roman.
It was immature of me.
- Oh, I also wish I'd thrown paper at Logan first
that would've been sweet.
- Regrets?
Oh, I have a few like
not sharing my feelings with the others,
especially when I was sad.
We could have had so many boys nights
with ice cream.
- I also regret starting Logan off on that whole
falsehood bit.
- Falsehood.
- Regrets?
- Yeah I don't know why I'm asking you that question.
My bad.
- Also the boiled carrots.
- Gosh, one huge regret I have is
a lack of attention to detail.
- Oh, Janus don't be so tough on yourself.
- No, it's all right. I've grown.
- Oh great.
- And lastly yeah, yeah.
Achieving consciousness.
That was that was a big one.
- It's amazing how much can change in five years.
I'd like to think that I've grown.
It's been nice getting to understand each other better,
at least.
Patton and Logan and Virgil.
- Virgil's come a long way.
I hope he knows how much we love him.
- We could not function without him as we saw.
- Think fast.
- Oh my sweet cold sprouse, what...
- That really hurt.
- Oh, gross.
I don't know what I'm supposed to say to that.
I guess it's nice to know that
they think they feel that way.
- Oh, we're like a big happy family
and I'm the dad and Logan's the mom.
- Why am I the mom?
What gender roles are we pushing here?
- I know they're probably thinking I'm like the son,
but I'm not.
I'll be the gay IMO cousin.
- I will be the son.
The hotshot who's only dream is to be a star.
- I feel like I'd be a fresh outta jail uncle.
- And I'm the sassy aunt who talks (beep) about everyone.
- (laugh) I know this is a pretty intense question to ask
but what do you think is next for us?
- You tell me.
- We seal the deal with Nico
and we live happily ever after (laugh) it was simple.
- I think things are just going to
keep getting better, right?
If we keep communicating.
- Probably something else I'm going to hate.
- Oh, who's to say heartbreak, betrayal.
You won't be bored I can tell you that.
- And I shall be learning to better receive acceptance
and praise.
- Wow Remus.
That actually sounds really healthy and productive.
- Thank you.
Acceptance and praise are the names of my vibrators.
- Okay and that's my cue to wrap this up.
Thank you all for talking with me guys.
I seriously don't know where I'd be without you.
There's not much else to say except happy 5th anniversary.
- [Everyone] Happy 5th anniversary.
- See stick surgeries,
what everyone else say?
- So yeah, a special might look a little,
something like that.
A walk down memory lane,
saturated with too many self referential jokes and anecdotes
that would surely ostracize any non-fan watching.
But we really have gone through so many changes.
I mean, heck compare Logan's behavior
at the start of the series to now.
Sorry, nope.
Done with the self-referential anecdotes.
I guess what it's got me thinking is
how will they change in the years to come?
How will they grow?
How will I grow?
How will any of us grow?
Of course there's no knowing how we're growing.
All we can do is keep an open mind
and an open heart
and keep checking in with ourselves
because we still might not know
if we know ourselves as well as we could.
Until next time, take it easy guys, girls
and non-binary pals.
Peace out.
- [Announcer] Would you like to escape to a wonderful world?
(soft music)
With heroes, villains and more to unfurl.
(soft music)
Ridiculous battles and super cool magic.
Perhaps dare I say something angsty and tragic.
Prepare yourself for
(dramatic tensed music)
- Hope that you all enjoyed that trailer
because I'm excited.
I don't know why I added that, but I was excited.
And I hope that you enjoyed this video.
First and foremost,
I got to give a huge hand...
Nope, not literally.
A huge round of applause to our writer's room
that worked with us to make this script.
You all had a huge hand in that...
Nope, not literally.
A huge hand in the creation of the jokes
and stuff that went into this particular video.
If any of you are interested in joining our writers' rooms
to help flash out videos or offer jokes
or any other insight,
you can check that out on Romans tier over at our Patreon,
patreon.com/thomassanders.
It's a lot of fun check out anything and everything
that we have to offer over there.
Any of your support is hugely appreciated.
Also I am very excited to announce that we got to work with
six incredibly talented artists
to make our very first Sanders Sides themed calendar.
It is freaking gorgeous.
Get it for the year 2022 to help organize
and just look at beautiful art.
Thank you for everyone who had a hand in this...
No, not a literal hand in this (laugh).
All right that's enough announcements.
I'll let you go.
Thank you a again, so much for every bit of support
that you all have provided these past five years.
I love you all so much.
I've said goodbye enough. Bye.
And that last goodbye. Doesn't count.
(tense music)
- [Thomas] Oh, there's my snack (laugh) how'd you get here?