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Rigged Death Trap posted:Whwn do you not need to take potshots at modern capitalism flintstones theme but unironic
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# ? May 26, 2020 23:38 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 01:28 |
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The Virgin Flintstones "Fred is sad about genocide" vs The Chad Dinosaurs "Watch the main cast have to come to terms with their impending death and global extinction due to rampant unregulated capitalism"
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# ? May 26, 2020 23:56 |
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the same authors of that flintstones series wrote one starring snagglepuss as a closeted southern playwright in the 50s who gets targeted by HUAC. it genuinely had me crying at a few parts. madness.
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# ? May 27, 2020 00:17 |
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Isn't that basically copping to crying at the pony Auschwitz picture
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# ? May 27, 2020 00:37 |
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I never thought it would suck to be a gay man in the south in the 1950s, until I saw snagglepuss
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# ? May 27, 2020 00:37 |
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Pick posted:I never thought it would suck to be a gay man in the south in the 1950s, until I saw snagglepuss Quoting for the quote thread.
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# ? May 27, 2020 00:41 |
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Pick posted:Isn't that basically copping to crying at the pony Auschwitz picture it might only be a matter of degree, but that definitely wasn't the first time i'd cried about anything the comic brought up for me. my grandfather was blacklisted, and i know plenty of people who've been shoved into the cracks of society for various reasons. also i am a big weepy loser who feels pain and likes Langston Hughes and Tennessee Williams. it definitely was the first time i cried about a hanna barbera character dying, but that was also very funny. the deadpan melodrama of the series is hysterical for most of it, and then, occasionally...
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# ? May 27, 2020 00:56 |
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Doc Hawkins posted:the same authors of that flintstones series wrote one starring snagglepuss as a closeted southern playwright in the 50s who gets targeted by HUAC. There are so many openly gay comic people that struggle to get work, hiring a straight white guy to make a comic about the gay experience in America is some major cringe even before you factor in him having Stonewall all be white cis men.
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# ? May 27, 2020 01:16 |
dont tell people how and when to feel emotions.
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# ? May 27, 2020 01:19 |
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Hihohe posted:dont tell people how and when to feel emotions. you should feel mad when that happens
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Sleeveless posted:There are so many openly gay comic people that struggle to get work, hiring a straight white guy to make a comic about the gay experience in America is some major cringe even before you factor in him having Stonewall all be white cis men. all great points. i don't know whether all of the animal people code as white (though i guess one is a cop), but all of the ones that are allowed to matter are definitely men. there is one memorable woman - a villain - and several sad but understanding beards. the comic is gay, but it's also about red-baiting, and the way our government destroys those who believe all people deserve life and dignity, and the way we toss countless children down the gullet of moloch. that's a thread of thought that consistently hits me where i live. actually, stonewall in general can also gently caress me right up. the comic was nearly a perfect storm for me. but why is it a comic? why are they animal people? well, just because they had the license and they thought it would be funny and their (apparently straight and white) friend asked to do it. gently caress me for bringing up this comparison since it isn't worthy to touch the hem of Maus's robe, but maybe Maus is slightly better comparison than the pony picture. although i wouldn't have shared that i teared up reading Maus, because I wouldn't think anyone would find it funny.
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# ? May 27, 2020 02:17 |
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mind the walrus posted:lmao there are still nerds talking about how this book was so deep just because it took potshots at modern capitalism sucking when it didn't need to The original Flintstones show was explicitly a commentary on capitalism and class structure and consumerism, that's what the show is about. It wasn't pitched at kids either, it originally aired at 8:30pm on Fridays between Harrigan And Son (a sitcom about a father and son team of lawyers) and 77 Sunset Strip. Here's an episode which is explicitly pro-Capitalism propaganda where Fred learns to love his lovely low paying blue collar job and discovers that the manager class are the true unappreciated heroes of the workforce: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pb0re The series featured a whole bunch of societal issues that you'd never expect in a show aimed at kids. In one episode Barney and Betty were super depressed about their infertility issues and they went through a whole bunch of red tape to try and adopt Bamm Bamm and ended up losing a lengthy court case for guardianship to a rich well-connected couple (which has a whole Perry Mason parody) and Barney was so upset that he attempted to commit suicide: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pbe3a (Subsequent spinoff series were dumbed down a lot so they appealed more to kids)
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# ? May 27, 2020 04:52 |
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i don't really mind you just left yourself wide open. all's well, friend
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# ? May 27, 2020 06:35 |
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There was just as much pop culture before the last 50 years as there is today, it's just that people used to let most things die and came up with new stuff. Most things, not everything by a long stretch. Remakes and rehashes and plagiarism is as old as people.
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# ? May 27, 2020 06:37 |
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That's yabba dabba dark
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# ? May 27, 2020 06:45 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There was just as much pop culture before the last 50 years as there is today, it's just that people used to let most things die and came up with new stuff. the song "yes we have no bananas" started as a vaudeville showtune before being repurposed as an irish union call-to-arms
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# ? May 27, 2020 06:50 |
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canyoneer posted:That's yabba dabba dark
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# ? May 27, 2020 06:58 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:the song "yes we have no bananas" started as a vaudeville showtune before being repurposed as an irish union call-to-arms The Irish Banana Famine sure did a number on folks.
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# ? May 27, 2020 07:56 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There was just as much pop culture before the last 50 years as there is today, it's just that people used to let most things die and came up with new stuff. The Flintstones itself was a rehash of the TV show The Honeymooners which in turn was rather heavily influenced by the radio series The Bickersons. The Flintstones was also packed full of pop culture references (such as the Perry Mason parody I mentioned earlier)
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# ? May 27, 2020 08:22 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The Flintstones itself was a rehash of the TV show The Honeymooners which in turn was rather heavily influenced by the radio series The Bickersons. The Flintstones was also packed full of pop culture references (such as the Perry Mason parody I mentioned earlier) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIIxtRQv5sk
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# ? May 27, 2020 09:15 |
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canyoneer posted:That's yabba dabba dark I'm not gonna just let this pass by
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# ? May 27, 2020 09:35 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:the song "yes we have no bananas" started as a vaudeville showtune before being repurposed as an irish union call-to-arms Well unless you have training in how to defend yourself from a man attacking you with a banana, you are fffuuuuuucccccckkkkkkked. https://youtu.be/rVVTO2VmIBE
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# ? May 27, 2020 09:55 |
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:The Irish Banana Famine sure did a number on folks. You laugh but they grow more bananas in Iceland than they do in Ireland.
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# ? May 27, 2020 10:31 |
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Inceltown posted:You laugh but they grow more bananas in Iceland than they do in Ireland. I've bought Icelandic bananas in Ireland before, but I'm bougie and prefer them from Waitrose.
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# ? May 27, 2020 11:25 |
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:what can I say, I like his stuff Chillgamesh posted:Where can I find the Ultra Greatsword this item description is attached to
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# ? May 27, 2020 13:37 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The Flintstones itself was a rehash of the TV show The Honeymooners which in turn was rather heavily influenced by the radio series The Bickersons. The Flintstones was also packed full of pop culture references (such as the Perry Mason parody I mentioned earlier) The original finale for the Flintstones iirc is basically a take on Moonraker. (Which has a surprisingly sensible take on an ordinary guy who happens to look like James Bond being asked to fill in for him- politely saying no and that they'll have to find someone else actually qualified for the job. Of course that doesn't stick) On topic: I've always liked bad taste metaphors. teen witch posted:E: yeah clearly this person is having a severe mental health Ghost Leviathan has a new favorite as of 13:48 on May 27, 2020 |
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The difference between the pony holocaust and these posters is the pony holocaust guy never stopped to, like, consider the holocaust before. The goon saying that Flinstones made him cry is crying because he has considered the effects of blacklisting before and a current piece of writing reminds him of what he’s come to feel about it. You’re effectively arguing that you can’t feel emotion about historical fiction without being the same as a dude who didn’t realize the dead at Auschwitz were real people.
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# ? May 27, 2020 15:20 |
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Pirate Radar posted:He was living in his own personal Lovecraft story in which the eldritch, indescribable horror was his own drunken actions at what I’m sure came to be referred to in hushed tones heavy with meaning as “the company party”, and instead of ever getting a direct description of what he did, all we heard was that everyone who had looked directly on it was driven, inexorably, as if gripped by an unearthly spirit, to fire him immediately
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:10 |
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emotionally devastated by an etching of tinky winky in the angolan civil war
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:13 |
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Pick posted:emotionally devastated by an etching of tinky winky in the angolan civil war I know, imagine being emotionally effected by art, right? Or having a story remind you of things you have experienced before, or real life situations?
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:19 |
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SiKboy posted:I know, imagine being emotionally effected by art, right? Or having a story remind you of things you have experienced before, or real life situations? Yes, art. A children's cartoon in a comic book form.
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:24 |
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ChubbyChecker posted:Yes, art. A children's cartoon in a comic book form. You're telling me now they stopped pictures and stories being considered art while I wasnt looking? Man, I should pay more attention. Are we still good with music and sculpture?
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:29 |
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SiKboy posted:You're telling me now they stopped pictures and stories being considered art while I wasnt looking? Man, I should pay more attention. Are we still good with music and sculpture? are anime figurines art? in this discursive essay, I will
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:35 |
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Jeza posted:are anime figurines art? in this discursive essay, I will Of course they are. The more important question is, is what they do over at r/cummingonfigurines art?
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:38 |
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I mean, if piss Christ was art...
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:39 |
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Somewhere Takashi Murakami just started sweating
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:41 |
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You're all falling into the same trap that all the nerds did when they got super mad at Ebert saying video games aren't art. Of course video games are art, forums posts are art, Saturday morning cartoons are art. Art doesn't mean something is any good. Like we've been socialized with the idea that calling something art lends it this veneer of upper-class respectability but honestly almost everything is art. It's just that a lot of art is garbage.
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:45 |
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I want you all to remember two things: 1. You are a work of art!!! 2. purple death ray posted:It's just that a lot of art is garbage.
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:50 |
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Or perhaps, it is garbage that is art
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# ? May 10, 2024 01:28 |
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more like FART
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# ? May 27, 2020 16:57 |