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olderthannetfic · 5 months

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Until I read the comments on that one post I had no idea the Bechdel Test was a joke and wasn't supposed to be a serious measuring stick by which you gauged if something was feminist or not. Everywhere I'd ever heard it brought up, it was brought up as a very serious thing, and it was a failure of media if it didn't pass it. I remember the debate about Mako Mori from Pacific Rim and if she was a character you were "allowed" to like as a progressive person despite the fact that Pacific Rim doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, the discourse, the discussion of if the director was sexist for not writing in another woman for her to chat with about non-men related stuff, the camp of people trying to insist that having a fully realized character arc and being as developed as any of the male leads = good writing even if she doesn't talk to another girl...

And I've also had the remark about my writing not passing the test, just not to my face. I searched my fanfic's name once, curious to see if anyone was discussing it outside of tumblr and AO3, and found a Tiktok complaining about it not passing the Bechdel Test. The top comment was "motherfucker YOU don't pass the test but we still watch your ass". I cackled and moved on, but neither the commenter, poster, nor I had any awareness this wasn't Feminist Media Critique 101 theory and was, in fact, a goof.

Right now there's a segment of fandom debating if Blue Eye Samurai is feminist since when Mizu and Akemi talk, they do bring up men, since, y'know. Women aren't considered people with rights in their era in Japan and thus it's something they mention instead of only talking about being cool girlboss badasses who never bring up gender. If something doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, a smug segment of the internet high-fives itself and congratulates one another on being More Feminist Than Thou.

They then get really angry if you disagree, even though by this metric, Sleeping Beauty (the original animated one, where Aurora has only 16 lines of dialogue) is more feminist than Blue Eye Samurai.

*DYING*

Okay, so, nonnie....

Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) was a long-running comic and major piece of lesbian media. I grew up buying compiled volumes at the bookstore. To be honest, that kind of 90s-ish lesbian culture isn't really my scene despite me being bi, but it was very nice to have this slice of life-y somewhat realistic, occasionally somewhat parody, look at the queer communities around me. It's up there with Tales of the City for me in terms of being a window into a particular culture and time and place.

If anybody is interested in queer history, in addition to looking up factual info, I think a read of the complete Dykes would give a really good overview of how people were thinking about things and what issues came up a lot. You'll see things like Barnes & Noble increasingly putting feminist bookstores out of business in the 90s, attitudes towards porn in lesbian circles—all kinds of cultural issues of the day.

I drifted away as I got later in my teens and found more genre fiction I cared about, but at one point, this comic was a very welcome antidote to the glurgey coming out stories that made up a lot of the more realistic media.

Anyway, here's the comic itself, reproduced in its entirety because I think it's important to actually understand the context.

This is from 1985, so the era of Rambo, Conan, and Death Wish, each of which you can see being made fun of here. It's based on Bechdel's friend Liz Wallace's actual rule for seeing movies.

That's it. That's the origin of this whole stupid test.

"LOL, fuck 80s action movies". That's it. That's the joke.

The fact that blockbusters still routinely fail to pass in the 2020s is shameful, but that was never the point of the strip.

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sadquickchristmassnowman · 6 months

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Hiiii I have a community question I wanted to ask!!

Abed mentions all sorts of movies and tv shows through out Community, but I just wanted to know if maybe you have like a list of which ones are real and which ones he seemed to like more than others.

I can only think of the dark knight because of the dvd Annie broke, and the Star Wars movies (except he apparently hates the prequels) and cougar town!

great question! sorry for the delay on a response.

so, he mentions/references an insane number of movies and tv shows throughout the series, and I unfortunately do not have a list of every single one. although, I am (VERY slowly) working on an in-depth episode-by-episode analysis of the entire series, and listing every pop culture reference is a subsection in that. but that's not helpful right now. moving on

I don't have the picture, but there's this questionnaire abed filled out (outside of the show, it must have been uploaded to a website as promotional material for the show). he says his favorite movie is a tie between:

ghostbusters (1984, comedy/horror)

an american werewolf in london (1981, horror)

back to the future (1985, sci-fi/comedy)

blade runner (1982, sci-fi/action)

stand by me (1986, adventure/comedy)

stripes (1981, comedy/war)

star wars (1977, sci-fi/fantasy, also called "a new hope")

star wars: the empire strikes back (1980, sci-fi/fantasy)

star wars: the return of the jedi (1983, sci-fi/fantasy)

ferris bueller's day off (1986, comedy/drama)

jaws (1975, thriller/adventure)

raising arizona (1987, comedy/crime)

jurassic park (1993, adventure/sci-fi)

seven (1995, crime/mystery)

the matrix (1999, action/sci-fi)

the goonies (1985, adventure/comedy)

the breakfast club (1985, comedy/romance)

real genius (1985, comedy/sci-fi)

better off dead (1985, comedy/romance)

the fog of war (2003, documentary/war)

pulp fiction (1994, crime/thriller)

(btw if anyone knows what I’m talking about and has the screenshot please rb with it! I cannot for the life of me find it lmao)

I believe this is a list he apparently made in 2009, either in the first few weeks of school or right before the school year started. so it's possible he would answer differently as the series progressed. also, I do take some of these extra-canon things with a grain of salt, as on the same form he said his favorite place on campus was study room D or something, when obviously they definitely meant to write study room F. so, the credibility of my source for this information isn't exactly rock-solid. although, he does mention a lot of these movies on screen, and expresses love for many of them (the most notable ones probably being star wars episodes IV-VI, the breakfast club, and pulp fiction)

as you can see from the list, abed particularly loves american movies from the 80's. just a trend I thought I’d point out.

here's a few others he mentions loving, or just pretty notably references:

the dark night (2008, action/crime, as you mentioned)

rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (1964, musical/animated, is the whole basis of 2x11 abed's uncontrollable christmas)

the shawshank redemption (1994, horror/crime, is the basis for his plot with troy, annie, and shirley in 4x05 cooperative escapism in familial relations)

freaky friday (I believe it's the original one from 1976 specifically, but it's been remade a bunch. comedy/fantasy. it's the basis of abed and troy's story in 4x11 basic human anatomy)

rambo/first blood (series starting in 1982, action/thriller. abed talks about how messy the progressive series titles are in 3x14 pillows and blankets)

ocean's eleven (2001, crime/thriller, the basis for the heist scene from 3x21 the first chang dynasty)

hearts of darkness (1991, documentary/war, abed mentions it while pointedly filming dean pelton's production of his greendale commercial rather than helping with the commercial itself. similarly, hearts of darkness filmed the making of apocalypse now)

apocalypse now (1979, war/action, see the above explanation)

die hard (series starting in 1988, action/thriller, abed mentions wanting to do a die hard homage for christmas multiple times throughout season 4)

good will hunting (1997, thriller/romance, troy and abed's story in 1x24 english as a second language is filled with references to this movie. abed is doing homages on purpose, troy is not)

my dinner with andre (1981, comedy/drama, abed does a very elaborate homage at jeff's accidental expense in 2x19 critical film studies)

indiana jones (raiders of the lost ark, temple of doom, and the last cruscade only. he mentions loving the first three indiana jones movies in 1x04 social psychology)

aliens (1986, action/adventure/sci-fi, he and troy dress up as an alien and ripley in 2x06 epidemiology) (side note, I believe they're specifically referencing aliens, which is a sequel to alien. could be wrong though)

blade (1998, horror/action, they watch it over the course of 3x15 origins of vampire mythology after troy and abed assert multiple times that it is an amazing movie)

I think he generally talks about movies more than he talks about tv shows, but he does mention quite a few of them. some notable mentions are:

friends (1994, sitcom, mentions at least twice)

m*a*s*h (1972, sitcom, mentions in passing in 1x05 advanced criminal law, and references throughout 1x13 investigative journalism)

the cape (2011, action, mentions throughout 4x13 advanced introduction to finality)

who's the boss (1984, sitcom, is the premise of his whole storyline in 2x20 competitive wine tasting)

LOST (2004, sci-fi, mentions at least twice)

obviously there are a LOT more, but I just tried to list some of the most important ones, plot-wise and for understanding of his character. hopefully I’ll be able to get back to everyone with a super long list of every tv show and movie he ever mentions lmao, but that'll take a while. (there are lists online that say they list every movie and tv show abed has ever mentioned, but ngl I don't 100% trust those, so I’ll make my own lmao. but I put the link to one of them if you're curious. here's another one too)

at this point anyone who has seen community knows there are some really really big ones that I haven’t mentioned yet. pieces of media that are INTEGRAL to abed as a character. I was saving them for last lmfao. they are:

kickpuncher

inspector spacetime

cougar town

if I had to pick a holy trinity of media for abed, it would be these three things. these are EASILY the things he talks about the most, which is interesting, as both the kickpuncher movie franchise and the inspector spacetime series are completely fictional, and only exist in the community universe. (this is probably so they can show abed actually watching some of the shows/movies he talks about, without the obvious copyright issues that come with playing clips from an already existing movie/tv show on your screen. they kind of do that with blade in 3x15, but they only play vague fighting sounds, and never show their tv on our screen. anyway. not relevant.) to answer one of your questions from the ask, I believe those two are the ONLY fictional pieces of media abed talks about. as far as I know, everything else he mentions is real, including cougar town.

kickpuncher is obviously reminiscent of sci-fi/action films from the 80's, like robocop. like I said earlier, taking their place so that they could have a more substantial role in abed's on-screen life without any copywrite worries. it's a whole franchise, so there are multiple movies: kickpuncher, kickpuncher 2: codename: punchkicker, kickpuncher 3: the final kickening, kickpuncher: detroit, kickpuncher: miami (?), and kicksplasher (?). kicksplasher is apparently shown as a poster on abed's wall, and I’m assuming it's from the same franchise, although that could be wrong. the point is there's a very elaborate universe for kickpuncher, and it's a big part of abed's, and later troy's, film taste. the first time they mention it is in 1x15 romantic expressionism, when abed, troy, shirley, pierce, and chang all get together in abed's dorm room to make fun of stupid movies together. it's funny that it was introduced as a stupid movie to watch ironically, then troy and abed both end up genuinely loving it lmao. classic

inspector spacetime is obviously reminiscent of doctor who. they're both british sci-fi series that have been running for decades. doctor who uses a police box to travel the multiverse, while doctor who uses a telephone box. doctor who has malicious daleks who chant "exterminate," while inspector spacetime has blorgons who shout "eradicate." the concepts of the shows are obviously the same, with the actor for the doctor changing every season, etc etc. they're essentially the same exact show, but, like I said before, changed slightly so they can world-build without getting copywrited. there is something a little bit silly about this, though. it's definitely a continuity error and it's up to everyone whether they want to accept it as canon or not, I guess, but there's an episode where abed is actually wearing a doctor who t-shirt. (it also references bill and ted, but the doctor who part is what's relevant.) here's some pictures:

awesome shirt tbh, but it is a little bit funny that is essentially makes it true that doctor who and inspector spacetime both exist in the community universe. and, these pictures are from the cold open of 4x11 basic human anatomy, which is way after inspector spacetime is introduced to the show (3x01 biology 101). so, is inspector spacetime just a rip-off of doctor who? is abed a fan of both shows? if he is, clearly he likes inspector spacetime better. anyway. I would guess that this wasn't intentional. but that is definitely a tardis on that shirt. maybe it's just a classic season 4 continuity mistake. oh well. I guess that's just how the cookie crumbles. anyway.

cougar town time! yes, it's a real show. I didn't think it was but it is. what's not real is cougarton abbey, the short-lived british remake that britta gets abed into in 3x01 biology 101. but yeah. it has 6 seasons and is streaming on hulu, if you're interested. I’ve heard it's not good but who knows for sure. something cool about cougar town is that abed is actually in an episode. let me be clear: not danny pudi. ABED. it's similar to the story abed tells about being invited to the cougar town set and shitting his pants while having an existential crisis about the layers of reality. here is a youtube clip of the scene. I found out about it while stalking danny pudi's wikipedia page months ago, you know, a typical sunday afternoon activity, and I saw a cougar town credit on there. I didn't even know it was a real show at that point so you can imagine my surprise lmao. anyway. idk if you knew that already but it's one of my favorite community easter eggs. so funny.

okay! I hope this is enough information to suit your needs, and I am once again opening the floor to anyone who wants to add anything 💯 this was fun, thanks for the ask, and stay fresh everyone ✌️

#classic sadquickchristmassnowman blunder of writing an entire goddamn essay to answer a simple fucking question #also just to be clear george lucas went back and fucked with the original star wars trilogy #so unless you really put some work in to find the original versions of the original trilogy #you won’t be watching the versions that abed loves the most #sorry my indoctrinated me into his elitist star wars opinions #but I’m keeping it in the tags as to not clutter up the information with more of my senseless yapping #anyway #community #nbc community #community nbc #abed nadir #media analysis #community encyclopedia

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abi-sail · 1 year

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Van der Linde Gang Favourite Movies

Arthur: Gone With The Wind

Bill: Brokeback Mountain

Karen: Scarface

Tilly: The Hunger Games

Sean: Dodgeball

John: Bee Movie

Dutch: Slumdog Millionaire

Pearson: Enter The Dragon

Molly: West Side Story

Trelawny: Shanghai Knights

Swanson: The Miracle Maker

Sadie: Rambo (2008)

Micah: Twilight

Javier: Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

Lenny: Coming To America

Charles: Animal Planet

Uncle: Dumb And Dumber

Grimshaw: Atonement

Mary-Beth: Pride and Prejudice

Kieran: The My Little Pony Movie

Abigail: Clueless

Hosea: Django Unchained

Strauss: The Wolf Of Wall Street

Jack: Shrek The Third

#red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption #john marston #arthur morgan #dutch van der linde #micah bell #sadie adler #lenny summers #javier escuella #bill williamson #sean macguire

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immayonaise · 2 months

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I just found out about the word's ugliest dog stuff and... Like bro wtf decided it would be a good idea? "Let's decide which dog is the ugliest!" because that's the best fucking thing to do with your life. Peanut (voted in 2014) for example, my dude survived a fire as a puppy and was rescued from an abusive household. Just to be voted the world's ugliest dog, if that isn't the most shittiest thing I don't know what is. His owner entered him into the contest said they didn't see him as ugly, but that doesn't explain or help your reasoning to why you enter your fucking dog into an "World's ugliest dog" contest. Everyone who voted for Peanut, I will wish pain upon them and I will not feel sorry.

It fucking sucks that people are doing that, people are out there acting like it's a good fucking thing the dog won the contest and they're FUCKING PAYING THE WINNERS LIKE THAT SHIT HELPS AT ALL. Like no, just no and go die in a hole. It's not okay in my opinion.

Mr. Happy face (2022), Scamp the tramp (2019), Zsa Zsa (2018), Martha (2017), Sweepee Rambo (2016), Quasi Modo (2015), Peanut (2014), Walle (2013), Mugly (2012), Yoda (2011), Princess Abby (2010), Pabst (2009), Gus (2008), Elwood (2007), Archie (2006), Sam ( He fucking won three times which pisses me off even more. 2003-2005), Rascal (2002), and any other dog that had to win/go through those stupid ass contest. None of you deserved it, I wish shit like that never existed. I wish people who make things like that never existed.

I'm sorry for Zsa Zsa (Died two weeks arfter "Winning"), Sweepee Ranbo (Died in October 2016), Yoda (Died eight months after "Winning"), Gus (Died in November 2008 by cancer), Elwood (Died in November 2013). Who had died, probably not even knowing, that they were the ugliest dog in the world at one point or still considered a "winner" at the contest. I'm also sorry for every dog that entered that contest and each alive "winner" to the stupid contest.

#rant post #personal rant #I'm so sad for Peanut and the others #Like WTF contest like that is such a fucking shitty thing to do

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maximumspider · 5 months

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[Kirby Super Star] : Capsule J

Like most characters you encounter in the Kirby franchise, Capsule J is both an adversary and an ally for the players.

Capsule-J made it's first and only appearance in 1996's Kirby Super Star. If inhaled by Kirby, the pink poof copies their jet ability.

In 2008, a remake of Capsule-J's debut game, Kirby Super Star Ultra was released. While this remake brings back all of the copy abilities from the original version including jet, Capsule-J doesn't make an appearance.

So then how does Kirby acquire the jet ability in Super Star Ultra? Enter, Capsule-J2. Capsule-J2 most assuredly replaces Capsule-J because of the latter's resemblance to Konami's Twin Bee character.

Capsule-J comes from a different era of video games where titles like The Revenge of Shinobi would outright copy designs from well known characters like the Terminator, Batman, Godzilla, Spider-Man and Rambo.

Three years after his debut, Capsule-J2 would reappear in Kirby Mass Attack. Five years after that, a third jet character, Capsule J3, would appear in 2016's Kirby: Planet Robobot.

This tidbit from WiKirby.com may give us a clue as to why Hal Laboratory felt the need to reintroduce another "Capsule" character:

In Kirby Super Star Ultra, the internal filename for Capsule J2 is "capsulej", suggesting that Capsule J2 may have replaced Capsule J late in development. Additionally, it appears that Capsule J2's sprites used Capsule J as a base, since the lower half of it resembles an edited version of the original sprite. In Kirby: Mass Attack, its file specifies "j2".

So, it may be that HAL Laboratory was never satisfied with J2's appearance because they might've been quickly thrown together midway through development.

As such, when it came time to model a 3D character with the jet ability for Planet Robobot, they opted to outright replace J2 with J3. This is all just speculation on my part, though!

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Sources:

Kirby: Planet Robobot (3DS) Capsule J3 model uploaded by Former Patroller (website: WiKirby)

Kirby: Mass Attack (DS) gameplay screenshot uploaded by NerdyBoutKirby (website: Kirby Wiki)

Kirby: Mass Attack (DS) title screen screenshot uploaded by Flapco (website: MobyGames)

Popn' Twinbee Rainbow Bell Adventures (SNES) Twin Bee sprites uploaded by Random Talking Bush (website: The Spriter's Resource)

The Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis) Boss sprites uploaded by Deathbringer and Yawackhary (wesbite: The Spriter's Resource)

The Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis) Enemy sprites uploaded by Deathbringer (wesbite: The Spriter's Resource)

#kirby #kirby super star #kirby super star ultra #kirby: planet robobot #capsule j #capsule j2 #capsule j3 #HAL laboratory #nintendo

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watching-pictures-move · 7 months

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Movie Review | Tunnel Rats (Boll, 2008)

One of the essential pieces of Uwe Boll trivia is that for a while there, he got his movies funded with the help of a German tax loophole that allowed investors to write off the entirety of their investment and only pay taxes if the movie showed a profit, or in layman's terms, more or less doing The Producers for real. This movie was made after that loophole had been closed (thanks to the attention he ended up drawing to it) and his movies had stopped getting wide releases in theatres, and shockingly, it looks and feels like a "real" movie made with some care. The more charitable read is that Boll's newfound financial realities re-energized him as a filmmaker. The less charitable read is that he did this with the same enthusiasm as Ruggero Deodato bringing out the cast of Cannibal Holocaust when he was put on trial for allegedly making a snuff film, and probably needed to prove he could actually make a "good" or potentially profitable movie. I do not know the contents of Boll's heart so I will refrain from speculating.

What I will say is that the relative polish results in an uncanny valley effect that does not work in the movie's favour. Because it looks and feels like a "real" movie, you start comparing it against other "real" movies and it can't help but come up short. Boll cycles through a host of Vietnam war movie cliches, and while cliches are cliches for a reason, he isn't able to breathe any new life into them. The first half is just an endless parade of characters pouring their hearts out about life back home or telling others to shut up in response, with most of the interest coming from guessing who's gonna get KIA'd later in the movie. It also doesn't help that many of the cast members look like more famous actors that you wish were in the movie instead. There's knockoff Michael Biehn, knockoff Anthony Mackie, knockoff Casey Affleck. The only one who makes an impression is Michael Pare, doing a pretty good Tom Berenger impression as he commits a war crime in the opening scene, punches it out with a subordinate who disagrees, and then goes on about all the shit you have to do in war to survive. I will say that Boll deserves some props for trying to humanize the Vietnamese, even if he does so by arguably mimicking the same G.I. cliches.

Things do get better in the second half when Boll springs Viet Cong attacks on our boys, if only for the sheer level of violence. Boll is obviously taking after other war and action movies from the era, but unlike Saving Private Ryan or Rambo, his action scenes feel rather shapeless instead of chaotic and frenetic. That being said, there's some pretty nice gore in this courtesy of Olaf Ittenbach, and you kinda wish it leaned further into pure exploitation instead of trying to be a legit war movie. I should also note that Boll's usually shitty blocking is less of an issue here, as many of the scenes are either in tunnels where there isn't a lot of room to move around, or in the jungle, where the density of the trees limits the heroes' movement. And while the movie is shot with an unappealing desaturated high-contrast colour scheme and the tunnel scenes are often incomprehensible, Boll does manage some decent shot compositions.

So this is what it looks like when Boll tries. Boring as shit in the first half, sorta watchable in the second. Here's a participation medal.

#film #movie review #tunnel rats #uwe boll

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adultswim2021 · 9 months

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Robot Chicken #59: “President Evil” | September 28, 2008 - 11:30PM | S03E19

Man, I simply don’t care for this TV program. I’m also a little tired of the needlessly exhaustive way I cover it. Sure, I have the good taste to skip an inconsequential channel flip segment here and there, but me going sketch by sketch?? Just so I can briefly describe it and then be sassily dismissive of it? Who needs it!

This one has Dig Dug, but real. This one has a sketch where a dad is mean to a doll. An Oceans movie but it’s more guys (some of them weird). And, I guess I’ll type slightly more about this one: A Tiger Woods sketch which I didn’t find funny until the end, when the reveal is that it’s a Nike-style ad and the slogan is “Tiger Woods: Mostly Chinese”.

The show does what it often does by having the final sketch contain a bunch of themed-sub-sketches. This time it’s nasty young people in a movie theater, shown very briefly between parodic movie trailers, but for some reason the Dig Dug sketch and the Oceans sketch isn’t part of it. Hell, they show ads in movie theaters, so the whole episode could’ve been this, and then they could have called it “Robot Chicken goes to the Cinema! Ah! What luck!”.

The sketches in this are: A Michael Bay movie but it’s only explosions, a Gerald Ford movie that’s just him falling down the stairs in slow motion, A genre parody called “Young People on a Rythm Team”, one where Yogi Bear kills people and then Boo-Boo gets revenge called Ram-Boo-Boo, and they all fucking suck. The Yogi one is especially bad; it’s just Yogi killing people and then Boo-Boo as Rambo is basically tacked on to the end of it.

The last trailer is 2001: A Space Odyssey but with boobs added to it, and this is accomplished by having a Playboy model named Robin Bain appear over the movie via greenscreen, with her shit out. This is pretty bird-brained, and even though I like almost any nude woman, I think Robot Chicken should stay in it’s lane when it comes to stuff like this. That being said: I checked the DVD to see if it was uncensored. It is. Huh! I suppose this is technically a first for Adult Swim, then, even though one had to wait until DVD before seeing them.

Anyway, I looked that woman up to see if she’s done any you-know-what with a you-know-what, causing it to you-know-what all over her you-know-why scenes, like the kind I like, but this cursory googling revealed that she is mostly a writer/director now, just like I'm not. Good for her.

EPHEMERA CORNER

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MAIL BAG

I have a list somewhere of the weirder things turner S&P bleeped out on [AS]. My favorite one is "Bush Meat" from Black Dynamite. Stupidest one has to be a Loiter Squad episode where a character mouths a swear word in a silent film and they bleep it out even though there's no audio. Kinda related, I think pretty recently they cracked down on on-screen gun suicide, or at least when you actually see them pull the trigger. They cut it out of a Lupin VI episode. I could talk all day about S&P.

Those are both insane! I remember a showing of Back to the Future II (not on Adult Swim, obviously) that bleeped "butt-head" in a scene where Future Biff and 50s Biff say it to each other over and over, but later left in "ass". That stuff is so puzzling.

Kon writes:

Robot Chicken got cancelled because zoomers these days don't even know what action figures are, maybe they should bring it back with freaking IPADS, okay???

If they brought back Robot Chicken but it stared iPads and I could pick the shows that were playing on them??? I would be IN HEAVEN. If I could make Skibidi Toilet be on every screen, even better

it so funny to call robot chicken RC it make it sound like you are talking about the soda lol

If you like that you're going to love my soda-themed parody of the National Anthem, it goes like this:

♪ Oh Say Canned R.C.

That's all I got.

you omitted the best part of that final sketch which is the co-worker non-chalantly saying "hi larry" as he's about to gun mr. henderson and carol down.

Sorry, my friend Brayden, who probably wrote the last bag mail, is going to call me out for reusing my old "Oh Say Canned R.C." joke which I did on a message board with 5 people on it probably like ten years ago. He is probably testing to see if I will steal from myself. I just wanted to say right here and right now that it is my right and my prerogative to do whatever I want with all words. ALL. WORDS. Anyway, yes, that is funny, and it's a reference to McLean Stevenson's celebrated follow-up to M*A*S*H, Hello Larry.

the guy who plays Larry is a real star, sad he shot himself to death, removing himself from the canon.

I hope I mentioned this elsewhere, but Tim & Eric sung that guy's praises to high heaven on various commentaries (the Valentines Day Watchalong most recently). I don't know, I just like the idea of them finding a capably funny actor in the midst of all the eccentrics they cast. It is my favorite thing to think about.

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #robot chicken #Youtube

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humanhost · 9 months

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Out Now:

"Springtime For Blongo"

by Rick Weaver & Mike Host

With Bandcamp Friday comes a new download/cassette record release, "Springtime for Blongo" by the duo of frequent 2000's era Human Host contributor Rick Weaver and Human Host founding member Mike Host. "...Blongo" is their first release together under the Weaver & Host name, and the first time the pair have worked together on a full length record since the 2008 Human Host album "Creature Mountain".

Reasons for the less spacey moniker are not easy to summarize. The best way to distill the album's energy is to say that fantasy and reality were more balanced than usual for both artists as they created this mercurial set of songs (plus one lengthier semi-improvised composition) from 2021 to early 2022. This period was marked by dramatic moments of life and death for people all over the world. It was a time that provoked more thought than usual, but just as much mystification as any other moment in the Host's ongoing adventure into the realm of fantasy realism/real illusion.

Invisibility is usually at the heart of all Human Host works and inspirations. That's why when MT6 Records released the first HH full length in 2004 the group titled it "Invisible Arteries". "Springtime For Blongo" does not ignore the importance of invisibility, but tangible things became harder to ignore as the album was being made, so some noticeable acknowledgement of this had to come through in how the artists chose to credit themselves. Hence, a less spacey project name was born.

But the music of "Blongo" is far from strict in its relationship to this planet or any other physical thing. The record's press release makes sure that no one would ever mistake this record for anything other than a Host-adjacent gesture of interdimensional goodwill:

'Rick Weaver & Mike Host have been serving the globe as an unlimited imaginary partnership for 20 years, collaborating with the multi-media project Human Host and beyond (e.g. Zack Kouns, Lucas Rambo, old table, Form A Log, Feast Of The Epiphany, the Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts archival project). The duo takes pride in what they do and they accomplish this by never rushing through a creation. They make extra sure that whoever comes in contact with their work is charitably confused, happily unable to remember what they wanted in the first place. Weaver & Host's healing state of confusion illuminates existence long before any of their creative work is ever released to the public.

Rick Weaver & Mike Host specialize in residential and commercial contextual installations using the finest in hand made melodic ingredients. Additionally, free of charge, Weaver & Host's music will accidentally provide decoding, root expansion, and unidentifiable repair services.

If you're looking for a premier melodic experience, "Springtime For Blongo" by Rick Weaver & Mike Host is the album for you. It's out now on Entropic Records.'

You can hear highlights from the album streaming for free at the Entropic Records Youtube channel:

You can mail order your cassette copy direct from the duo by contacting either one of these email addresses:

[email protected] or [email protected]

As HH is on a lengthy hiatus from live appearances, you may purchase copies of the "Blongo" cassette at the merch table at any Fleece Eater show. Fleece Eater is a new-ish band featuring Mike from HH on drums. You can find out where their next shows are via the F.E. Instagram account: @fleece_eater

You can get digital copies of "Springtime For Blongo" from the respective Bandcamp profiles of Human Host....

...and Rick Weaver

...and from Entropic Records' website:

Additionally, a single from the album ("Blongo" lead off cut "Moonlight Mosaic") is available as a download via the Human Host Bandcamp profile.

image credits (top to bottom) :

Detail from the cover art of "Springtime for Blongo"

and,

the full cover art from the "Moonlight Mosaic" single release

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