Yeah, there was a lot of affection for camp at that point in US History. It was a big part of mainstream entertainment, so of course the intentionally absurd stuff like sexploitation was going to lean into it.

The really freaky thing about Hodgman's character, whose name I think started with a C? It's mentioned like once, in quite hushed tones… anyway the really freaky thing is how close he is to what we now see as real medicine.

Yeah, but at the same time, it's more reliably funny than Rifftrax. I kinda get the feeling that a big part of that is down to the fact that CT is basically Mary Jo Pehl (IE the best part of the post-Joel years) while Rifftrax is just meh.

Of Course Barbarella and Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill! were regarded as campy when they came out. Probably even by their creators, judging by Russ Meyer's love of lurid self-parody (Lookin' at you, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls)

The story isn't what's funny. if you want to get to the core of what is funny in the film, it's the juxtaposition of the banal against the absurd and grotesque, which is fucking ancient

Wow. Cinematic Titanic must've gotten all the funny people in the divorce settlement.

Not really? Comedy horror has been a thing for years and years and years. The Reanimator films, or the Return of the Living Dead films…

If having to do something new is required for something to be really funny, then like all of those movies are disqualified too other than maybe anchorman. Shaun, after all, was basically a big budget do-over of the Spaced zombie episode.

I actually didn't find either of them that funny. Especially Team America, since so much of the material was re-hashed from South Park, where it was pretty much always rawer and funnier.

The only one of those that might be funnier than Bridesmaids is Anchorman, and that's close IMO.

God just go with Mindy Kaling's idea from her book.

Yeah but that was a deliberate ploy. We were supposed to believe it was the dude with teh laptop and then realize "Oh wow it's Rory"

There's a difference between lacking confidence because you're basically a nebbish and lacking confidence in a cliche rom com way. The difference being that the former is pitiable and believable while the latter just makes you think "cor, Moffat's really leaning hard on Coupling, huh?"

He lacks self-confidence and assertiveness? He's a bit of a bumbling dork and his whole life up until the show starts has been in the Doctor's shadow.

No it's just one of my favourite anthologies?

Fan photos taken of finale filming show Danny being partially cyberized duder.

So what you're saying is that disconnected swatches swatches something something floaty dresses she came softly create a coherent character. Yeah. I'd buy that if I had major head trauma.

I'm gonna drop a big spoiler near the end of this post. Final paragraph. I don't wanna spoil anyone who isn't into spoilers.

First off, no, I don't really think it's unreasonable for him to show some spine in the face of the Doctor in a season where showing spine to the doctor is increasingly treated as a very important virtue.

Let's talk about Danny Pink then. Let's talk about the Talented Tenth.