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Mathematicians developed a method for turning spheres inside out. This video explains the process.

Turning a Sphere Outside In is a parody of the 1994 educational video Outside In, created by Huggbees, and narrated by Huggbees and Team Fortress 2 streamer Scarlet__xo.

As the title suggests, the video explains the advanced mathematical concept of inverting a spherical object. Or, at the very least, it would be, if not for the uncomfortable friction between the two hosts. And, being a Huggbees video, things quickly take a far darker, far weirder turn.

For a comedic Gag Dub, this video is spoiler-heavy, so we highly recommend viewing it first before reading the rest of this page.


Turning a Sphere Outside In contains examples of:

  • Bait-and-Switch: This video starts out as an explanation of how to turn a sphere inside-out before venturing, around halfway through, into far more personal territory.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: Halfway through the video, the narrators reveal that not only are they having an affair, they're actually siblings.
    • The male narrator implies at the end that their parents are also siblings.
  • Deadpan Snarker: The male narrator often acts like one in the beginning before descending into petulant jabs in the latter half. The female narrator also engages with this on occasion.
    Male Narrator: I see. The turning number measures happiness.
    Female Narrator: If you insist...
    Male Narrator: So your turning number is probably deep in the negatives, huh?
  • Everybody Knew Already: The female narrator is terrified of her incestuous relationship with her brother getting out, but he implies that not only did her husband already suspect the truth, but their parents already knew and are in fact siblings themselves.
  • Halfway Plot Switch: What starts out as more or less the same video as the original quickly spirals into the two narrators trading insults, before the eventual reveal that they are in an incestuous affair.
  • Idiot Ball: After accepting her brother's incestuous advances, the female narrator, who up until this point has not only been the more noticeably well-spoken of the two and even wrote the theorem that proved how to turn a sphere inside-out without bending or creasing it, suddenly becomes substantially dumber, declaring that science is for nerds and there can't possibly be a way to invert a sphere without bending or creasing it, even while the animation proving it is currently playing.
  • Lemony Narrator: Both the male and female narrators, particularly when the male one starts getting snippy.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The female narrator reams into the male narrator for his substandard intelligence and his desperation to appear smarter than he actually is to prove that he is important. The male narrator can only respond with a vicious "Fuck you".
    • The male narrator later turns this around on the female narrator, stating that her love of science is not a substitute for actual human relationships, and asserts that she is "addicted to my dumb, uneducated, math-struggling, neanderthal cock".
  • Relax-o-Vision: While the narrators bicker and reveal more and more disturbingly personal information about themselves, the animations showing the titular process continue as normal.
  • Serious Business: The male narrator calls the "smiles and frowns" system into question when he points out that he can just look at the curved shaped in relation to the purple wall. The female narrator, through gritted teeth, tells him to "use the fucking smiles and frowns".
  • Stealth Insult: The male narrator says finding the turning number of two circles is easy "if you're not a total fucking moron." The female narrator replies, "Well, then; I'm surprised you figured it out!"
  • Tomato Surprise: The twist that the narrators are having an incestous affair was already known to both of them, but was hidden from the audience.
  • Wham Line: Three, each revealing more aspects behind why the two narrators are bickering with each other to begin with.
    • Male Narrator: The wavy curve is springy enough to remain smooth throughout. The same way your mattress was springy enough for me to fuck your brains out while your husband wasn't home.
    • Female Narrator: That's exactly why I'm upset, you fucking moron! This is not what a brother and sister are supposed to do!
    • Male Narrator: "Well, why do you think [Mom] and Dad have the same last name?"
  • Wrong-Name Outburst: The female narrator accidentally screamed the male narrator's name during sex. More than once. The female narrator excused it on sharing a room with the male narrator for so many years growing up, but the male narrator believes that the husband knew about their relationship, deep down.

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