Revival

Revival is the twelfth episode of Classic Sam Videos overall, the twelfth episode of Arc 1: A Rogue God, and the fourteenth video to premiere on the ClassicSamVideos channel.
== Characters ==
* Microsoft Sam
* Mr. Afterlife
== Things ==
* Signs
* Orb of Light
== Places ==
* Windows Private Island
== YouTube Description ==
Microsoft Sam reads signs, but at the end, he ends up accidentally reviving Mr. Afterlife with a single word! To be continued in AWE Episode 9...
== Lore Description ==
Sam feels like doing one last episode for today, but he doesn’t know what. Mr. B suggests Episode 2 of 10-Sign Quickie, since that should be more easy content.
Sign 1: For some reason, this sign depicts a person doing a weird dance on stairs.
Sign 2: Sam wants to show this insulting sign to Mike and Mary whenever they break in…and then kill them with the ROFL-47 right after, of course.
Sign 3: Sam questions why a store would be selling a sandwich that was dropped on the floor. He considers taking over the world, making him and his diverse power known and feared.
Sign 4: Sam assures everyone that orange juice is, in fact, orange.
Sign 5: Sam tries to disprove the logic of a random protester, but realizes that there is sense in their logic after all.
Sign 6: This house sign claims that the house is protected by the good lord, but Sam says that he killed him.
Sign 7: Sam points out that the stools the signs are referring to are actually the type you sit on.
Sign 8: This sign tells people to use the other restroom if they are offended by the fact that people use this restroom for some fun. Sam wants to have creative control over this sign so he can direct these offended people to the aptly named “Offended” page.
Sign 9: The audience learns the true meaning of social distancing.
Sign 10: Sam sees the gorilla with huge lips on the dental office sign, and ends up uttering the N word out of impulse. This causes Mike’s test bar screen to show up before the full word could be heard.
Of course, the Orb of Light transforms back into Mr. Afterlife, which means that Sam has now lost access to the orb itself. Mr. Afterlife explains to the audience what just happened. He realizes that the audience may be wondering about his plans, and tells them that they shall see in due time. He does regard Mike’s plan as “interesting, to say the least.” Meanwhile, Mr. B manages to edit and release all these new episodes on the same day as when most of it was filmed. He decides to add a new section where Sam says farewell to the viewers. These are filmed on the same day, too.
Farewell Card 1: Sam tells the viewers to bear with the crew if they go on hiatus again, because Sam’s motivation is random.
Farewell Card 2: Sam hopes that the viewers enjoyed the new 10-Sign Quickie series.
Farewell Card 3: Sam says that the story isn’t canceled, unlike the previous incarnation. Of course, he has no idea what this is supposed to mean, as Mr. B told him to say this. The previous incarnation he is referring to is one of the dud TTS universes that Mr. B is not using for filming anymore.
Farewell Card 4: Sam says that the other two series are less disappointing than the community submitted errors. Sam and Mr. B do not simply ask for likes and subscriptions.
Farewell Card 5: Sam says that he may be doomed, and/or Mike and Mary are doomed. He, of course, does not know the context, but he does hope for the latter.
== Director's Commentary ==
NOTE: After all the lore revamps on the document are done, I am going to actually tend to this wiki the way I should've done in the beginning. I'm also going to remake the director's commentary bits. So, as a little disclaimer, the following isn't the final version and may even contain outdated information in some cases.
Yes, I made this one and the past four episodes on the same day. It really made up for my hiatus, let me tell you that much. After this one, there's like a mini hiatus, but it doesn't last that long. Let's go over the signs, shall we?
Sign 1: There is a common gag in TTS videos where if there's no text and just a picture(s) on a sign(s), Sam gives his own funny interpretation. That's pretty much what I did here. I think I got the "Russian Dance" thing from the comments on the Reddit post that had this sign.
Sign 2: This sign is friggin' kino, I swear. If you don't know, "kino" means good and/or based, but it is currently mostly used in, well, certain circles. I kinda do hope it becomes a widely-known term, though. Anyways, Sam, of course, turns the topic over to Mike and Mary, because for some reason, he is really paranoid about them actually invading his mansion.
Sign 3: I realized later that I forgot to make Sam read the "still okay (probably)" line. Oh well. Also, the "bullet to the brain" quote was a common thing a TB101-esque Sam would say. And Sam is starting to have megalomaniacal tendencies by seriously considering taking over the world with his newfound power.
Sign 4: Orange is a mix of yellow and red, so technically, calling it either one is correct lol
Sign 5: I think the comments of the Reddit post that contained this sign was giving the protester flack for the message for some reason. I can't for the life of me remember what they said, but I really like what I did with Sam's response here. See? He could sometimes think before saying things. Now he just needs to face the threat of impending doom to build his character. I mean what? xD
Sign 6: When Sam talks about thugs, he's once again just talking about Mike and Mary, hence why he says that he'll kill them "again."
Sign 7: Nothing really special to say about this one. Just ha ha words have funny second meanings. You know the drill.
Sign 8: Do not look up Encyclopedia Dramatica, by the way. Other than the articles about memes, that site is (or was) full of terminally-online people who love to cyberstalk and post people's dox on the articles they make of them. Also, the Offended page was full of graphic images from infamous shock sites or otherwise. I don't really care about the existence of that specific page, but don't look into it if you don't want to see that. I personally have not kept up with how ED is doing nowadays, and I stopped caring about the Lolcow spaces anyway. I stopped visiting Kiwi Farms a good bit before the site got locked behind Tor (I believe it still is, but maybe not) because I didn't just have the desire to visit anymore, and ever since I heard about how it stopped being public, I never really felt compelled to visit spaces similar to that. Yes, not even the semi-recent soyjak board; never actually stepped foot in there yet, or felt like I had to lol. I only really lurked in Kiwi Farms because I found the discourse interesting, and funny more often than not, but I didn't really take any of the views seriously. What I mean is, I didn't really adopt them to my daily life.
Sign 9: I believe I also heard the word "plandemic" from watching a Raging Golden Eagle video. I've heard that term before then, too, but I can't remember exactly where.
Sign 10: And finally, Sam's edginess hits the breaking point. After looking at the gorilla with the uncanny mouth, he said the hard-R N-word out of pure impulse. This is one of the two only times he's ever said it, but each time has been censored, like this one. I don't think I'll ever have the hard-R uncensored on CSV.
You know that test-bar screen with Mike on it? That's actually heavily inspired by a video created by Meestar Maniac Films, called "[　Ｐ　ｌ　ｅ　ａ　ｓ　ｅ　　　Ｓ　ｔ　ａ　ｎ　ｄ　　　Ｂ　ｙ　]". The test bar screen there was sort of different, with Loco Skeleto instead, but it also had the same music. I actually ripped the music off from that video alone, because I didn't know what it was, yet I wanted to use it. Well, I later found out that it's a track from Supermental, a project by Khonjin, just labeled as number 13 on Lbat1901's channel. I only really found out what it actually was when I was making AWE S3EP7. I was looking at Meestar Maniac's Very Obscure Music playlist for music I can use for a scene, just clicking on the Supermental tracks in particular because I felt like using one of them, and I noticed that thing about "Supermental OST 13". That's the only reason I found out what the music was lol. And yeah, you can tell that it made sense to put Mike in the test bar screen since he created the universe, while Loco Skeleto was there because he was trying to take over the world or something; trying to run the show, if you will.
And then, very randomly, I decided that the hard-R can revive Mr. Afterlife out of his Orb of Light form. And I decided to give him an actual look, which is just the TB101 Mike sprite except with hair and a beard, because I thought a bearded man makes sense as the ruler of the Afterlife because of the whole bearded man upstairs thing, you know. And you can tell that he of course still wants Sam dead, but he acknowledged Mike and Mary's plans as "interesting, to say the least." How did he find out about their plans? Well, it literally says that his soul came back to Mike's when he died, but even without that, he can also look in the timeline, so yeah. I don't think I really had any idea of how the story would end, hence the mini-hiatus, but trust me, it all snowballs later… That's all I need to say.