The creators of “The Muppet Show” discussed this exact trope, and how it works. The key, they found, was not to make the joke that Fozzy Bear was a bad comedian; that was just sad. Rather, what they had to focus on how Fozzy Bear, a bad comedian, screwed up the joke. When they did that, they got utter hilarity:
Yeah, this is one of those magical moments where my undergraduate philosophy training helps me out again, because one of the founding concepts in philosophy of language helps you parse out what the racists are doing.
The conservative majority on SCOTUS is not united on the “Fuck it, he’s a Republican” front. Roberts, in particular, is very invested in appearing fair-minded and principled.
“And as much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don’t think you’re the end-all. I don’t think you’re the one person that gets to make a decision. We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other side saying there’s not going to be a surge and that we can safely open the economy and the facts will bear this…
Have to second (eighth?) what everyone else is saying: running is great for your body, but bad for your joints, especially at the knee and ankle, and the more you do it, the more wear and tear you inflict on those joints.
Plus, it’s easy to disguise your intent. Walk up to Dick Cheney with a pie, and pretty much every agent he has in range will drift in your direction. Walk up to him with shoes, and that’s just normal.
Er, sort of. It’s important to remember that the show is not the books, and in the books, the only guy who is going around insisting that thirteen year olds be wedded and bedded is Tywin Lannister. Which everyone in the books is subtextually signaling is very weird, and very wrong, and are only textually going along…
Makes sense. I know that one time I got food poisoning surprised the heck out of me. After all, I definitely didn’t have food poisoning before I ate that dodgy bit of leftover Thanksgiving ham, so how could I have gotten it?
Well, to be entirely fair, I think if this current crisis has shown anything, it’s that governance is every bit the discipline medicine or, say, starring in a reality television show is. And because it is its own discipline, it’s entirely possible to be successful at one, but completely incompetent at the other. So on…
Judges would have also accepted:
Yeah, I was thinking something somewhat similar as a workaround to the one main sticking point for the X-Men’s entry into the MCU.
“I wish that I could make a movie about the New Mutants, come hell or high water!”
Yeah, it just occurred to me last night that I still hadn’t even seen my stimulus check yet. I mean, fortunately I am still working (have to go into the office, though), so I didn’t need to receive it, but that should have showed up by now. I don’t even know who I’m supposed to complain to about that.
Once in third grade, my father off-handedly mentioned that under the Constitution, we didn’t actually have to stand up and do the Pledge of Allegiance. So me being the third grade dink that I was, the next day I stayed seated for the Pledge at my local private school, and was promptly sent to the pastor and the…
Yeah, the only quibble I’d have is that false imprisonment is usually a tort rather than a crime, though of course IANAL licensed in the state of Georgia, so I couldn’t say for sure.
McConnell has already said that he intends to ignore that “rule” with respect to any opening on the court in the next term.
Point of order: without attempting to slut shame in any way, no one who has any kind of anxiety about disease transmission has unprotected sex with a porn star they just met. I’ll be the first to say that porn stars are people too, and they deserve to have a sex life outside of their job. But they also understand,…
