Long may our Weird Queen reign

The movie, and novel, are just called A Scanner Darkly, but it’s likely based on the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 13:12 “For now we see through a glass, darkly.” Ingmar Bergman directed a 1961 film “Through a Glass Darkly.”

Cool World fails because Bakshi had a very specific story planned out (a horror noir set in the world of Dick Tracy/Sin City style crime/detective comics) and the studio mandated that he do a Roger Rabbit knock-off.

Animation for adults is good when applied correctly. Compare something like Who Framed Roger Rabbit to Cool World - very similar premise, both made for a decidedly not kid audience, but Cool World fails because it mistakes being edgy as being adult.

WHILE IT CAN BE READ THAT WAY, I AM QUITE CERTAIN THAT GEORGE ORWELL, A COMMITTED SOCIALIST, DID NOT WRITE ANIMAL FARM AS AN ANTI-COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. IT IS MORE OF A DESCRIPTION OF HOW REVOLUTIONS CAN BE SUBVERTED, AND ALSO MOST LIKELY ANTI STALINIST.

What, you’re not counting muppet Munch?

First, plants and the mycelium gain a taste for human flesh through traditional human burial over the ages. Then, through barely detectable pheromones, the flora subliminally manipulate humans into adopting agricultural warmongering violent societies. At this point, all the humans can do is grow plants and put each…

Please watch Soylent Green. One step further towards eating the remains with a little sugar.

That’s always gunning to be a risk.

Korea has been using human waste for fertilizer for thousands of years  

This sounds perfect to me. Up to now, I had a different idea in mind:

I only have one concern: humans are inherently lazy when they think no one is watching. It gets a bit sketchy when you hear “trust us, we’ll totally dig these bones up, macerate them, and put them back in. You’ll never even notice they were disturbed!”.

I was thinking in this process they would process the bones to keep like they do with ashes, but they use everything, nothing remains, this is cool I hope I can get to chose that for myself when time comes, I really like the idea of completely erase myself

damn

Even better — because Homicide crossed over with St. Elsewhere, Munch was a one-man nexus in the Tommy Westphall Continuum.

I always liked how technically, Law & Order, Homicide, and The X-Files share a continuity thanks to that one episode.

An absolute television legend. RIP. 

Ah man, what a shame. Munch is one of my favourite characters ever, RIP

The final paragraph of this story broke my heart.  Thank you, Mr. Fried, for working for the good cause, and I hope it helped ease your grief.

Thank you for helping to shape television’s soundscape, sir!