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Odradek · 2014-11-09 05:48:47

Odradek · 2014-11-09 05:48:57

I thought we should have one.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-11-09 09:01:59

ohgodwhat

Tanya · 2014-11-09 13:07:42

I came here expecting Gordan Ramsay.

Obā-san · 2014-11-09 13:23:20

actually this was pretty good

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-11-09 13:45:33

Amazing.

Odradek · 2014-11-09 20:29:38

naney said:
actually this was pretty good

yes

Tre · 2014-11-09 20:55:23

I don't think I understand anything that just happened but I love it

Mandelbrot · 2014-11-09 22:24:36

my only regret is that I didn't see the way it was meant to seen: while staying up ridiculously late watching surreal cartoons and possibly being high out of my mind.

Seeing it after it's gone viral takes away from the experience a bit, because knowing it's gone viral spoils half the joke

Calica · 2014-11-09 23:18:42

why'd they spoil it in the youtube description

Aliroz · 2014-11-09 23:43:54

I clicked on it from the thread... Did not see that coming.

Princess Alice · 2014-11-10 05:19:09

I admit, the timing was pretty spot-on

Because right as I started to think "ok, they've worn out this joke" they changed it up

glennmagusharvey · 2014-11-10 05:40:21

i just watched that whole thing, and it started as an amusing parody, then it became an overly long gag, then it just became bizarre and unfunny

Anonus · 2014-11-10 05:44:09

Nobody noticed that the city was Denver

I couldn't watch more than a few minutes of it

Odradek · 2014-11-10 07:29:41

glennmagusharvey said:
i just watched that whole thing, and it started as an amusing parody, then it became an overly long gag, then it just became bizarre and unfunny

Calica · 2014-11-10 10:20:54

the real frog is better than just upscaling that one

Salix Babylonika · 2014-11-10 10:34:08

this is the thing people are hailing as a deconstructive look at the poison of nostalgia?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-11-10 10:36:57

I mean it was funny and weird (and what else is a Williams Street short supposed to be), but I'm kind of baffled by the sort of praise I've seen people heap on it.

Odradek · 2014-11-10 10:41:03

Magic Jane said:
I mean it was funny and weird (and what else is a Williams Street short supposed to be), but I'm kind of baffled by the sort of praise I've seen people heap on it.

It's kind of a more professional Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, plus some Lynch weirdness.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-11-10 10:42:09

Odradek said:

Magic Jane said:
I mean it was funny and weird (and what else is a Williams Street short supposed to be), but I'm kind of baffled by the sort of praise I've seen people heap on it.
It's kind of a more professional Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, plus some Lynch weirdness.

That's

a very good description of it.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-11-10 10:44:28

Yeah, that's kind of what I got out of it too.

Calica · 2014-11-10 10:52:02

Magic Jane said:
this is the thing people are hailing as a deconstructive look at the poison of nostalgia?

they are? but, like, nobody has nostalgia for fucking full house, it's the most mocked comedy ever

Salix Babylonika · 2014-11-10 11:41:21

Lilly said:

Magic Jane said:
this is the thing people are hailing as a deconstructive look at the poison of nostalgia?
they are? but, like, nobody has nostalgia for fucking full house, it's the most mocked comedy ever

I really could've sworn I saw people saying stuff like that on twitter but in retrospect it might have just been one person.

Whoops.

Calica · 2014-11-10 14:15:34

i'm not doubting that someone said it. i'm doubting that the things it's mocking are things that have anywhere near as much genuine nostalgia as relentless mocking

glennmagusharvey · 2014-11-10 15:21:10

Odradek said:

glennmagusharvey said:
i just watched that whole thing, and it started as an amusing parody, then it became an overly long gag, then it just became bizarre and unfunny

okay, the creepy part is funny in the same way that the xkcd comic about knights who say ni is funny.

like, it wasn't funny when i heard/read it, then it wasn't funny when i thought about it afterwards, then i concluded that someone else found it funny but not me.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-11-10 15:23:34

i wish that copyright law were friendlier to derivative works with non-parodic premises

so that there would be more of those

rather than just heapings upon heapings of parody

Odradek · 2014-11-10 15:23:57

glennmagusharvey said:

Odradek said:

glennmagusharvey said:
i just watched that whole thing, and it started as an amusing parody, then it became an overly long gag, then it just became bizarre and unfunny

okay, the creepy part is funny in the same way that the xkcd comic about knights who say ni is funny.

like, it wasn't funny when i heard/read it, then it wasn't funny when i thought about it afterwards, then i concluded that someone else found it funny but not me.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-11-10 15:25:18

well i was entertained by the first half of the video, where it eventually became multiple different genres

glennmagusharvey · 2014-11-10 15:25:38

actually if that gag had gone on for even longer, i would probably still be amused by it

glennmagusharvey · 2014-11-10 15:25:43

who's lynch, btw?

Odradek · 2014-11-10 15:27:42

glennmagusharvey said:
who's lynch, btw?

frog

glennmagusharvey · 2014-11-10 15:28:33

oh

i see

Obā-san · 2014-11-10 15:41:24

dae eraserheasd

nohaynicklibre · 2014-11-10 18:10:29

I feel that someone took two different ideas (what if there was a stereotypical 80s sitcom theme song that just kept going and going and eventually turns into other stereotypical 80s shows; and what if a serial killer managed to sneak into the saccharine world of an 80s sitcom and started killing the characters?) and combined them into the same short, where I feel it would have been better if they were just two shorts.

Obā-san · 2014-11-10 18:12:43

Honestly after watching it a few times I kinda feel the same way?

Though that may be the point, it's designed to disorient people stoned out of their gourds watching Adult Swim at like 10 at night

Anonus · 2014-11-10 18:14:00

10 at night? I thought people who were stoned out of their gourds watched Adult Swim way later than that

Odradek · 2014-11-10 18:14:04

this is the perfect comedy for a violent civilization that’s totally fucking lost it

Obā-san · 2014-11-10 18:15:01

(*shrug*)

Odradek · 2014-11-10 18:16:14

naney said:
(*shrug*)

shug

Odradek · 2014-11-10 18:16:19

shg

Odradek · 2014-11-10 18:16:22

sg

Obā-san · 2014-11-10 18:16:51

sig

Obā-san · 2014-11-10 18:17:28

sign

Salix Babylonika · 2014-11-10 18:21:03

naney said:
sig

take off every

Section42L · 2014-11-10 20:06:40

Okay, I’ve watched it now.

I’m not sure that sci-fi part needed to be in there, but the rest is good.

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