Whizbang posted:

Isn't it past your bedtime peepums?

Mikedawson posted:

Alaois posted:

no sir he clearly said "every other MaxFun show" so that means every other MaxFun show dammit

Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:

Lol fuckin Jesse, he's got good taste and a bad face and I like him and I also want to push him into some mud.

Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

https://twitter.com/JustinMcElroy/status/748553058498404352

Will the VR Zone claim another of the brothers???

Ariong posted:

Does anyone have a link to the remastered version of Griffin's Maximum Fun Drive jingle?

SpacePig posted:

Yeah, 3 is a lot more fun to gently caress around in. What was wrong with 2 on PC, though? I don't remember any problems at all, much less it being "almost unplayable".

Travis343 posted:

I don't think there's rocket launchers in either of those games

Guy Mann posted:

People keep shamelessly ripping off the Dark Souls episode of Monster Factory and it's ticking me off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a90MEIBI2iA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s7GXnX0lSM

Guy Mann posted:

The MBMBaM Facebook group is a roller coaster I'm not always prepared to ride.

dijon du jour posted:

This week on Car Boys: some lovely tasty vehicles get chewed up and spit out, but have these boys bitten off more than they can crush? Find out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YDGk3unnbs

Democratic Pirate posted:

I don't know what I'm gonna do once the McElroy boys have McElroy babies soon and the stream of content slows down a bit.

Hello Meow posted:

Shrimpin' ain't easy! I'm a huge queef.

spacetwinks posted:

1. delivery. this is one of those ethereals of comedy that’s hard to really center around, but like, you know it when you see it, hear it, right? their delivery is solid, confident, they do not hesitate to say ‘boy’, they are confident with the word ‘boy’, they are proud (and that may be the true sticking point here) when they say the word ‘boy’. the way they say boy matters. if ‘boy’ was said aggressive, derisively, it changes the entire context.

2. speaking of: context! the mcelroys create their own context here. saying “boy” itself may not be funny, but mcelroys create a context around it that creates a mental sort of short path of “mcelroys say boy”. when the mcelroys say the word boy, after enough watching or listening, you’re not thinking of the word “boy” all on its own, but you’re thinking of all those other times the mcelroys have said “boy”.

think of the Rule Of 3. obviously, the mcelroys go WAY past 3, but the idea behind it - with the rule of 3, you are creating a history, a context, as you approach that 3rd performance of the same joke. you are drawing on the audience’s memory of you saying the thing, not just the thing itself, and so create that shared context when you say it again. without that context, the joke is different performed singularly. or, like… take a joke performed in threes in something, then remove the first two occurrences. how weird is the third performance of that joke now? the context is cut out. it might still be FUNNY, but it’s not the same, right?

perhaps you can think of it as a catchphrase, but thankfully, the mcelroys don’t use it so much as that as just an anchoring word to attach other ideas and feelings around. they don’t just say ‘boy’, they add a ton of descriptors around the word ‘boy’, creating a vivid sort of image in your mind, even as you’re watching that image before you play out. add in that they tend to say it in an adoring instead of a derisive fashion, and this goofy earnestness creates a kind of laughter in us.

by saying the word ‘boy’ so much, the mcelroys give you, the audience, expectations and understandings of the word boy said by these three specific people, quite different than how it would be taken by others, or in other situations. can you think of a context in which someone saying the word ‘boy’ would actually piss you off? sure you could.

but thanks to the constant repetition, the mcelroys progressively build in this learned context to when they say boy, then modify it with all those descriptions, and then their delivery clinches it.

that is, if you find the joke funny at all, which you might not! but either way, there’s a lot of tools of comedy going on almost invisibly when the mcelroys deploy the word ‘boy’ into their podcasts, videos, etc.

ALFbrot posted:

The only thing better than comedy is amateur deconstruction of it

ALFbrot posted:

Yes

The Modern Leper posted:

If that were a regular SA post it would be emptyquoted over the next page to make sure that the author couldn't edit it out.