>top left
trying to cinjur the John Maus bit from the MDE show with black and white, woodsy backgrounds
>top left
again trying to capture the final scene in that famous skit with the breakdown at the end
>red hat
sam has been wearing these ugly, dumb things for years, and often that exact style with gimmicks with (zoomer filter incoming) parappa the rappa icons in the same place
>knife school
no explanation needed
>bottom left
shamelessly ripping off y2k aesthetic and 90s album art/magazine art that Sam has been putting in happy world daddy, his twitter, and generally reviving/paying homage to for the past few years