Lost is the 376th episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Dan Murrell, returning for the first time since the Friends honest trailer. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2004 drama television series Lost. It was published on December 15, 2020. It is 10 minutes and 11 seconds long. It has been viewed over 100,000 times.
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From creator J. J. Abrams comes an iconic turn-of-the-century TV show that became a pop culture sensation, featuring a first season that had viewers wondering "What's in the box?", and a time-traveling final season that left most fans disappointed and confused.
Felicity (shows the opening to the 1998 TV series Felicity)
Oh, and also...
Lost
Wow, J. J. did that twice? How does that even happen?
Prepare for a zeitgeist-defining drama that started with one simple question...
Charlie: Where are we?
...then ballooned into so many more...
Sayid: What is the black rock?
Hurley: What do the numbers mean?
Locke: What is the monster?
Michael: Who are you people?
Hurley: Did that bridge just say my name?
Sawyer: What is a Nigerian priest doing on an island in the South Pacific?
Sun: What happens to pregnant women on this island?!
...that even the creators eventually got tired of answering them...
Charlotte: What do you mean, "get back here"?
Jin: What do I mean...? (shrugs)
...eventually folding in on itself like a question singularity, as the writers booby-trapped this tropical hell with literal mystery boxes and one mystery whose answer is still an actual question mark.
Hurley: I want some frigging answers!
Us too, dude. Us too.
Return to the Island, a mysterious monster-inhabited deathtrap that no one will shut up about...
Juliet: Welcome to the Island.
Ben: Everything I did, I did for the Island.
Locke: The island killed him.
Eloise Hawking: The Island isn't done with you yet.
Widmore: The Island isn't done with you yet.
Jack: The Island is not done with us yet.
Sawyer: Yeah? Well, I'm done with this island.
...and meet these plane crash survivors, who probably shouldn't have flown the same airline that got hijacked in Executive Decision.
Pilot: This is Oceanic 343 Heavy, requesting emergency landing.
There's Sun and Jin, this grifter too, the millionaire, and Locke's knives...
Boone: Whoa.
(to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme) ...the music star, the confessor and scary man, here on Gilligan's I-- Ahem. Sorry, w-where were we again? There's Jack Shephard, the tortured doctor who ultimately turns out to be a likeable hero; Sawyer, the tortured con man who ultimately turns out to be a likeable hero; Sayid, the tortured former torturer who ultimately turns out to be a likeable hero; Kate, the tortured murderer who... ultimately turns out to be a likeable hero; Charlie, the tortured drug addict who-- Hang on, these are all the same people! Even the objectively evil mass murderer gets a redemption arc!
Locke: I forgive you.
Ben: Thank you, John. That does help.
Eh, oh well; I guess we still have Nikki and Paulo.
Nikki: (while fighting a gunman) Razzle-dazzle! Hah!
They suck.
Witness a show trying to figure out what it is in real-time, as it veers wildly from a character-driven drama about plane crash survivors...
Jack: If we can't live together, we're going to die alone.
...to a gritty showdown between two warring factions...
Boat Captain: This is our island.
...to a whole season set mostly in cages...
Sawyer: You okay, Freckles?
Kate: (nods)
...to a mystery driven by clue-filled flash-forwards...
Karen Decker: They're referring to you as the Oceanic Six.
...to a sci-fi show about time travel...
Daniel: I'm from the future.
...to an epic final battle between two immortal brothers who fight over pulling the... plug out of the Island, which will unleash evil somehow (?), while our main characters all meet in the afterlife so they can go to... Heaven? Really?
Juliet: It's complicated.
But every time you're ready to walk away and swear you'll never watch again, the show will deliver a moment so epic...
Charlie: I love you!
Megan Pace: I love you, too.
Jack: We have to go back!
Juliet: Come on, you son of a bitch! (detonates the bomb)
...you'll forget they devoted entire episodes to Jack's tattoos, Charlie's visions, zombie Sayid, and Hurley trying to start a van. (Hurley screams in delight as the van finally starts)
But no matter which era of Lost you're watching, get ready for six seasons of stories that all unfold basically the same way, where we start with an extreme close-up of someone's eye, then someone comes running out of the jungle...
Edward Mars: (pointing a gun at Kate) Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You stay right there.
...right before it starts to rain (Locke smiles as it begins to rain), then someone beats the crap out of Ben (montage of Ben getting beaten up), someone tells Locke what he can't do (montage of Locke saying "Don't tell me what I can't do!"), Kate cries (montage of Kate crying), and there's a team meeting where Jack gives a speech...
Jack: "Every man for himself" is not going to work! / Everything's going to be okay. / It's going to be okay! Everything's going to be all right! / Just have to be patient, okay?
...and leads a group into the jungle, where something happens that causes them to... (montage of characters yelling "Run!" and running away), until a mind-blowing episode-ending reveal punctuated by a Michael Giacchino music sting that sounds like every sound ever made all played at once. (sinister music plays over Locke's "corpse") Lost! What? I can't be the only guy that shouted "Lost!" every time, right?
So get lost and revisit one of the shows that ushered in an era of peak TV, that was doing audience-favorite antiheroes before Breaking Bad, genre-driven viral marketing before Heroes, and unpredictable character deaths long before Game of Thrones Red Wedding-ed its way into your heart (Michael shoots Ana Lucia and Libby as Melisandre screams), all from a creative team that gave us the geniuses behind 2009's Star Trek (J. J. Abrams), HBO's Watchmen (Damon Lindelof), and Netflix's Daredevil (Drew Goddard), who are also the same "geniuses" who brought us 2019's The Rise of Skywalker (J. J. Abrams), Ridley Scott's Prometheus (Damon Lindelof), and Netflix's The Defenders (Drew Goddard). How can the same people do things so good and so bad? Unless... (while sinister music plays) their plan was to intentionally destroy all the established franchises from the inside, paving the way for groundbreaking original television like... <GASP!> Lost!
Starring:
- Matthew Definitely a Fox (Matthew Fox as Dr. Jack Shephard)
- Professor X (Terry O'Quinn as John Locke)
- Middle Earth (Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace and Evangeline Lilly as Katherine Anne "Kate" Austen)
- Who's the Fictional Band That's a Hit With All the Fans? (Charlie: Driveshaft.) You're Damn Right.
- The Snaq from Iraq (Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah)
- Gambit (Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford)
- The Campfire Diaries (Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle)
- The Love Boat (Elizabeth Mitchell as Dr. Juliet Burke)
- Dude Perfect (Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes) (montage of Hurley saying "Dude.")
- Ben, Solo (Michael Emerson as Benjamin Linus)
- Billy Dee Williams? (as Himself)
- No New Pope Yet? Aww... (The Smoke Monster)
- Concussions (montage of characters suffering head injuries)
- Final Destination (montage of characters telling Locke he is going to die)
- The Miracle of Birth (montage of female characters in childbirth)
- Friendly Locke (montage of Locke telling characters hello)
- Nicknames (montage of Sawyer calling characters nicknames)
- A Writers Room in Obvious Need of Therapy (montage of characters talking about their relatives)
...and...
- Michael Talking About His Son (montage of Michael mentioning his son)
Lost (No, Really, I'm Totally Lost. Can You Explain It Again?)
The honest title for Lost was ‘Lost (No, Really, I'm Totally Lost. Can You Explain It Again?)’. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.
Maybe Jin would've survived if he just learned to STAY OFF BOATS! (montage of boats exploding with Jin still onboard)
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Production Credits[]
Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Title Design: Robert Holtby
Written and Edited by: Dan Murrell
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert & Joe Starr
Post-Production Supervisor: Emin Bassavand
Director of Video Production: Max Dionne
Associate Producer: Ryan O'Toole
Executive Producer: Roth Cornet