As a teenager I tended to ignore their stuff (they were ubiquitous at the time and I was a kneejerk contrarian) - but when I heard "Who You Are", some years later, somewhere in my early 20s, stoned as fuck of course, it really hit, and I still love it.
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He is a bad person and he should feel bad.
So, I didn't live through the 70s either, but:
So actually - the comic had a little more "grit" to it than the cartoon and the Warburton versions.
Could it be - and this just a guess, so, grain of salt - that Comedy Central is deliberately trying to move out of the political satire business? Or at least, the more partisan variety?
I loved the silly Godzilla movies as a kid (the original - well, 'elegiac' was not a feeling young me sought out in monster movies), but even back then I knew the "human" parts of the story were dull and pointless filler. I sat through those bits so I could watch the monsters fight each other and break model cities.
Using a fictional show as an example of real violence to defend a guy for really kicking a coworker is some… interesting mental gymnastics.
So everything I know about Rambo (beyond its ubiquitous parodies) is from the college professor that also introduced me to Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Kafka.
But so given the undeniable reality of this movie, and "A Talking Cat!?!", and given that "Sausage Party" (it might be better than "Foodfight!", who knows!?) also exists and also Donald Trump(+!?!?!)… um.
I remember guffawing like an idiot at this show as a kid, while not "getting" any of the stuff this article is talking about. At (maybe?) the same time I was adoring Animaniacs and the like (also not getting any of the heavier stuff that show was getting at). I never knew about its cast and crew.
So, I never did read the comic. The show has been… erratic, is a fair word, I think - as far as the whole "wasting time" argument goes anyway - but I, for one, am pleased that "prestige TV" has entered its gonzo phase so quickly. Think of how weird film noir could've gotten if we'd hit "Kiss Me Deadly" sooner than '55!
There's some line. I'm gonna mess it up. I think Joyce said it, I think I read it in a bio, about shit interwar kingdoms, about how he wished more nations followed their example by just staying out of things and being pointless.
Every time somebody mentions "branding" (and related topics) in an earnest way and like it's a good thing my soul dies a little, which I *think* is the opposite of what she's trying to do with Goop.
Doh. You beat me to it by like five hours, I just posted a link to that article. That's what I get for posting before I click the "load additional comments" button.