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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > [Mod Challenge] Last Man Standing "God help me, but I am emotionally invested"
 
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McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005

Tatum Girlparts posted:

I wanna hit this actually, because I've seen this comparison made before. Archie, in All in the Family, is the bad guy. Or rather, the wrong guy. Like yea sometimes he makes a valid point, but mostly it revolves around 'hey dad we're bringing our black friend over' 'WHAT THE WHAT A BLACK?!' 'Jesus dad that poo poo's embarrassing' and then the black friend proving to be a totally normal dude. Archie wasn't Carroll O'Connor's mouthpiece because Carroll O'Connor always thought the joke was Archie was a piece of poo poo.

In Last Man Standing Tim Allen is basically playing Tim Allen, and he's expecting the audience to go 'yea he's right, we ARE turning into pussies by having empathy and not being racist sacks of trash'. It's not THE WORST THING IN THE WOOOOOOOOOORLD, I really doubt this show is popular enough to enter the public mindset at all really, but it's worth saying 'Tim Allen is a sack of crap and he thinks you are too', whereas in All in the Family it was more 'Carroll O'Connor thinks we're better than Archie Bunker'. Sure there were assholes who thought he was right, but there are always going to be assholes who think the rear end in a top hat character is the hero (see: Breaking Bad, Mad Men, most AMC shows actually, goddamn AMC you sure hammer that nail).

Ugh, thanks for making me aware that the evolving pop culture is very likely to forget the context of All in the Family and end up looking at it the same way people look at the 60s Batman series, except worse because they'll think everyone in the 70s were racist shitheels cheering on the ignorant bigot.

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 I wonder what Home Improvement-era Tim Allen's reaction would be to Last Man Standing-era's Tim Allen. It seems that he's devolved into the exact thing he used to parody.

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Jan 16, 2005

FactsAreUseless posted:

Are you going to review Work It and Man Up?

Can Lowtax be sued for medical expenses related to mod challenges? Because I'm pretty sure that would cause some kind of bodily harm to occur.

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