Walden Sucks
A short comedic sketch about Henry David Thoreau

Walden is one of those lame books they make you read in high school.

It’s basically the diary of a man, Henry David Thoreau, who lives “alone” in “the wilderness" for two years.

This book is boring and nothing exciting happens, but that’s not even what makes it lame. Walden is lame because Thoreau conveniently omits the fact that during his experiment with “solitude,” he often entertained guests and lived a short twenty-minute walk from his parents’ house. He even had his mother bring him groceries, among other chores.

Leave it to a 19th century white dude to unironically write a “manual on self-reliance” while his mother is quite literally doing his laundry a few doors down.

This sketch practically wrote itself.