By: Ben Johnson
Oh man, that’s hilarious and weird and great. If you haven't seen this you have to see it. What a refreshing and original concept, what a delightfully deconstructive
descent into the violent madness of postmodern decay which we take for granted
as the cultural status quo. What a far, far better way to spend one’s time than anything else. What a funny, funny, necessary thing this is. Boy, I cannot get enough
of it. I have watched it more than once already and plan to again quite soon. I need things from media, I am a consumer of media, I believe in needing and consuming media. But not just any media. Only stuff like this. This is like the only thing that's doing it for me. I'm that discerning. I'm like off on my own freaky desert island, I'm so discerning.
When I tell you that I like this, I am telling
you that I actually like it. I watched it, and while I watched it, I enjoyed
every second of it. I did not find it nihilistic or pointless. I did not feel
as though its regurgitation of television tropes from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
was a form of pandering. I did not feel as though the violence portrayed was
sexualized or misogynist in a way that was a parody of a parody of a parody, somehow
managing to wheel all the way back to real again in a more disturbingly
self-aware version of sexualized violence and misogyny, where those qualities
are engaged as an active choice for no discernible reason by the creators of this thing, who seem
to want me to think that they know what they are doing with choices like that, and whose motives I do not question because they are brilliant and they made this.
I am not just saying I like this because I like that somebody with money gave money to somebody else so that they could make this. My liking this is not aspirational or capitalist or opportunistic. I actually like this because of who I am, okay?
I am not just saying I like this because I like that somebody with money gave money to somebody else so that they could make this. My liking this is not aspirational or capitalist or opportunistic. I actually like this because of who I am, okay?
I found the complete disruption of standard comedic
and narrative timing mesmerizing and not at all less interesting than watching a fly trapped between two windows slowly bash its own brains out in an attempt to escape.
When I view comedy, I do not prefer to have my
expectations toyed with in interesting ways so much as completely shattered and
broken while also I am looking at cool stuff. I am hip to this kind of thing. I
thought the most recent season of Louie was the best one yet because it was not
overtly funny or entertaining. I get that. I think that’s great. Louie CK is a
genius. Everything he does is great, not just some of the things he does. Every
single thing he does. Is great. Especially recently.
I like it when comedy is edgy. I need something
with an edge to it. I have been there and done that, and if you’re going to get
my attention, you need to do something edgy like how this is edgy. I like how
it just keeps building, piling every possible thing onto a premise that doesn’t
technically refer to anything other than a sort of dim nostalgia for the dead-on-arrival formatting of long forgotten syndicated programming. That’s the kind of thing that will get and hold
my attention and make me laugh and make me think, because I am sophisticated
and I have devoured so much comedy and various pop culture media, my nerve
endings no longer actually connect to fire up signals in my brain unless I’m
witnessing something patently upsetting and unnecessary. I think that is a sign
that I am cool. The emperor’s new clothes look great in this video.
I’m sorry, but I just can’t bring myself to
laugh at anything that happens in an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts are not
funny. I refuse to find it in any way funny that the Brad Garrett character has
to touch his chin with food before he eats it. I mean, I don’t even know
those details except I saw them by accident on a Tumblr like four years ago
when I was a zygote.
Have you seen “stuff to give up on?” It’s
making a case for my top ten Tumblrs. Just kidding, I’m only on Snapchat. And
Tinder. Saying the phrase “top ten tumblrs” is funny. I’m on Facebook
ironically.
My best friend from high school went to college
with Jim Whetman, and if you don’t know who that is, I honestly don’t think we
can continue this conversation. Just Google it. Wait, no, don’t Google it. Bing
it. I’ll wait. Of course I’m not going to actually wait for you to Bing Jim
Whetman. You know that, right?
My favorite YouTube is a ten hour loop of Bill
Cosby saying “pudding” over and over again. I watch it all the way through at
least once a week, usually on Wednesday nights. It gets SO GOOD around hour
seven. It’s worth it. Especially on Molly. LOL, there is no such thing as
Molly. LOL “LOL.” I’m LOLing LOL so hard right now, I’m like LollapaLOLza. I like that joke structure because the joke is that I made a joke worse than the bad joke you might have been expecting. I'm kidding, everybody knows the only funny joke is murder.
I
have a tattoo of the crying laughing emoticon. I’m thinking of adding the gun
and the air cloud to make it a crying laughing suicide, but I’m worried
everybody will have that in like a year.
I would get a tattoo of a bird holding a banner
that says “Iron And Wine” if that wasn’t actually funny. Maybe when I’m like
50. Roll up to the tattoo place in a rascal scooter and a nose hose and get an
Iron And Wine bird tat when I’m 50. Oh shit that’s good. I’m putting that in my
Google Inbox calendar. "Get Iron and Wine tattoo on respirator, die, set appointment for 50 years from now." Golden.
My favorite part of this video is the lizard
doctor on the space show and the part where Snarf has to hit the button and the
part where it repeats mansion and falcon over and over.
I’m cool. I use the word “cool” to describe
things such as myself. Get it? Cool. This is a cool video. I am in the middle
of dying, and that is the only information capable of comforting me. Doritos Locos Locomotion. Kaleidoscope full of Skeletor faces. Cackling Marge Simpson Disaster \\\\\
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