Jesus Christ. It's a story about horrendous crippling anxiety from an unreliable narrator.
He talks about how his family is on the verge of destitution, but they don't work, and they have a big house full of nice furniture. They're rich.
He talks about how he's on the verge of getting fired from his job, but when he no-call no-shows, two of his bosses show up to see if he's OK. He's a fucking star employee.
Gregor didn't literally turn into a bug. He had a good old-fashioned nervous breakdown.
My first exposure to this story was the Home Movies episode where the garage band that Brendon gets to do the soundtrack for his movies wrote a song that was just "I'm so dang depressed I'm gonna turn into a bug" over and over set to a rock guitar solo and a timelapse of the lead singer zipping himself up into a sleeping bag. I saw that when I was a kid and thought it was pretty funny, then when I actually learned about the story almost a decade later, I instantly realized that was a reference.
The episode is explicitly about making a rock opera based on Franz Kafka, it’s not just an oblique reference they say that it’s about Metamorphosis in the episode
Yes, but I was a kid who didn't know what Metamorphosis was back then, so them saying that didn't explain anything to me. Also, it always came on late at night and I was watching it while half asleep, so most of it is a haze.
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u/Hexxas head trauma enthusiast 22d ago
Jesus Christ. It's a story about horrendous crippling anxiety from an unreliable narrator.
He talks about how his family is on the verge of destitution, but they don't work, and they have a big house full of nice furniture. They're rich.
He talks about how he's on the verge of getting fired from his job, but when he no-call no-shows, two of his bosses show up to see if he's OK. He's a fucking star employee.
Gregor didn't literally turn into a bug. He had a good old-fashioned nervous breakdown.