Holy liquor! We have one bad week at the girder factory and I come back to find 40 pages in the bob thread?? Well, time to catch up, 10 pages at a time...
I would love for just once Bob and
Patrick Sean Tomlinson get into an argument.
"Who is this child?"
"Why is this thing bothering me?"
"Listen here, kid-"
"Aww it thinks it's people."
Just round and round, it would be a glorious feedback loop of kindergarten dialog.
Being a democracy didn't prevent America's politicians from inflicting the kind of damage upon the country that very few absolute monarchs in history have ever done upon their own. Heck, the first thing John Adams did when he got into power was to go full mad tyrant and persecute anyone who approved of the French Revolution. Monarchs are no more destructive than democratic politicians are. As for the kings, most monarchs are just bean-counters with a crown, being forced to balance the interests of the peasants, the lords, and the established church, while making sure all three classes either needed them or supported them one way or another. Few of them ever go mad like Nero, and those who do end up getting overthrown by their lords or shanked by their guards. Just look at Byzantium. Unpopular Emperors get deposed rather quickly.
To be completely pedantic, a lot of the "virtues" of monarchy and the "vices" of democracy are really a result of differing technologies. When it takes a day or two for new to arrive via horseback from the furthest reaches of the kingdom it's just a practical challenges of tech kept a limit on the King's tyranny.
North Korea and China are apt demonstrations today of how badly a monarchy could have gotten with modern tech at their cruelty's disposal. (Even if they want to avoid being monarchies in the most pedantic sense.)
So to sum up: do not take as a positive what was temporal happenstance.
Wandavision isn't even the best "mindtrip" superhero show.
Legion was better, and it managed to keep up being trippy for it's entire 3 season run, while Wandavision only kept it up for 3 episodes.
Whoa - is Legion already over? 3 seasons? Seemed like it just came out. Where does the time go...
Geez, Bob, now you're ripping off jokes done by writers of the babylon bee and axe cop!
The "new" hotness amongst the SJW-aligned media, who are playing by cancel culture rules of engagement, is that if you can find a person who thinks "government policy A" was conspiracy, any criticism of "government policy A" is automatically conspiracy, even if the claim is never made. If you didn't like that policy, you automatically align with the kookiest kook they can find, even if you lay out that you don't think the government caused COVID, just mishandled it, you are automatically in the group that thinks snow isn't real.... even if the Supreme Court later agrees and strikes down said policy, if you called it Unconstitutional at the time due to a conflict with the First Amendment, you just got lucky, you REALLY wanted it gone because you think the government is trying to put microchips in the vaccines.
The technical term for it is "nutpicking" - basically whatever side you are on is associated with the worst, most crazy member of your side. (and if you don't have one, give us a second to invent one)
The collapse of gatekeeping and rise of social media giving every nut a voice basically means this is the new normal and there's no side of it subsiding any time soon.
Bobby anticipates a "sexy" character in
Powerpuff Girls.
Geez, Bobby...
bleedman already did it. (I hate how Bob is such a hack - constantly stealing from others without ever giving them credit)
P.S. That was literally the 8th comic.
I love MST3K. I prefer Mike over Joel. The new stuff on Netflix is almost insufferable. Don't get me wrong, the jokes are funny but they never SHUT THE HELL UP! I'm reminded of the gag from the Plinket review of Ghostbusters where a producer played by Rich tells Paul Feige played by Jack that if nobody's talking then nobody's laughing. Any time that no one on screen is talking the riffers are bombarding you with jokes and never give you or the jokes any time to breathe. It's super disappointing. The Rifftrax stuff has become incredibly formulaic. "Oh that's X. I'm sorry, by X I really mean Y.". The first has no restraint and the latter is just lazy. Comedy is hard, I get it, and today so many people are unable to understand it that putting in the effort seems hardly worth it.
Now that I think about it I don't know if I've ever seen Bob talk directly about it outside of a Big Picture he did years ago when Joel announced the kickstarter. I know there was a little bit of a push two or three years ago to denounce MST3k because it helped raise a generation of people, read men, who only mock art, read Ghostbusters and other trash, and tare it down. I wanna say he retweeted Sady, now troon Jude, Doyle when she complained about it.
As you'll notice on the mst3k/rifftrax thread, I fear part of what is slowly killing Rifftrax is the woke infection as more and more "jokes" get closed off as appropriate so they keep having to make the laughs from a more narrow pool.