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Post by mylungswereaching on Feb 7, 2024 11:07:13 GMT -5
I'll say this: tone is what matters. old-MST3K had its own problem with topical culture references that don't hold up. I remember when I first watched MST3K with The Brain That Wouldn't Die and I heard jokes like "We now join Barefoot in the Park already in progress", I had no idea what that was but Mike had me laughing anyway because he knows how to deliver the joke so everyone gets it. Also using a Twitter thread as a poll isn't exactly scientific, because you're polling among people who are silly enough to argue or pile on about how who's set of cultural references are better rather than doing the smart thing that Tim should have done and just ignore such an ironically dumb and non-self aware comment. Also it's the toxic dumpster fire that Twitter has become. But hey, whatever strokes the ol confirmation bias. The fact that I didn't get some of the references was part of the charm of the show to me. References were always part of the humor and if you have to make every reference understandable to everyone, you have to be so general it gets boring. For example, if you reference a movie it pretty much has to be something like Star Wars. Many younger people don't watch tv or movies older than 5 or 10 years old so many classics that everyone would have heard of in the 1990s like Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Story or a Christmas Carol will draw a blank stare from younger people. The reverse is also true. Fans who watched the CC episodes in their original run are mostly in their 40's or older. I post on sports sites and I've stopped counting the number of people who've said, I've heard the name Taylor Swift but I know nothing about her at all.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Feb 5, 2024 16:22:19 GMT -5
I don't have a car anymore so I walk a lot. There's an intersect I avoid as much as possible. If you push the crossing button the sign tells you to walk but doesn't stop traffic from turning right directly where its telling me to walk. I can clearly see the walk sign through a string of cars legally going 35 mph. Its like it was intentionally set up to kill pedestrians.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 15, 2024 21:52:00 GMT -5
When it hurts but it hurts so good Can you say it?
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 6, 2024 21:42:46 GMT -5
I want to lay you down in a bed of roses For tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 6, 2024 16:38:38 GMT -5
Love stinks
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 5, 2024 10:18:44 GMT -5
All's you need is love
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 3, 2024 17:49:17 GMT -5
Turn and face the strange cha, cha, cha changes
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 3, 2024 16:34:50 GMT -5
And all your ever gonna be is mean
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 3, 2024 0:19:47 GMT -5
whatcha gonna do when they come for you
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 2, 2024 22:23:12 GMT -5
I've been watching MST3k since season 1. I personally don't care about the sets, its the comedy. In the original show, the 5 on screen actors wrote the show. Each character had their own personality. Joel/Mike, Tom Servo and Crow had distinct personalities. When the actor changed, the personality of the character changed. In the Netflix episodes, it felt like they wrote a whole bunch of jokes, randomly assigned them to characters and had hired actors read them in one take. Some hit and a lot missed badly. I haven't seen the new eps but I assume that trend continued. IMO MST3k is more a stand up performance then a scripted comedy. You need a flow to the jokes for it to work at its best. Very well put. I agree whole heartedly. Their jokes stopped being a pointed statement of each other's characteristics. If you'll notice, they'll interrupt the order of who says the joke in favor of who can say that one joke better than the other. Sometimes, this will give one character more jokes than the others because of the delivery it needs. This new show will not do that because now everyone needs to be included and no one can be short changed. There is a reason why this is considered one of the big deaths of comedy. This show, especially. I don't consider the problem wokeness, I look at it as corporate comedy. Comedy by committee where the people making the decisions decide by stats like joke per minute but have no feel for comedy. "We need X percent of our jokes aimed at demographic ABC and Y percentage at demographic DEF. Our studies say we need at least 10 jokes that mention (current topic). We also need 4 jokes about cats. people like cats..."
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 2, 2024 18:57:55 GMT -5
I've been watching MST3k since season 1. I personally don't care about the sets, its the comedy. In the original show, the 5 on screen actors wrote the show. Each character had their own personality. Joel/Mike, Tom Servo and Crow had distinct personalities. When the actor changed, the personality of the character changed. In the Netflix episodes, it felt like they wrote a whole bunch of jokes, randomly assigned them to characters and had hired actors read them in one take. Some hit and a lot missed badly. I haven't seen the new eps but I assume that trend continued.
IMO MST3k is more a stand up performance then a scripted comedy. You need a flow to the jokes for it to work at its best.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 2, 2024 12:24:53 GMT -5
ABC easy as 1,2,3 or simple as do re me
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 1, 2024 23:25:39 GMT -5
Hey hey you get off of my cloud
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 1, 2024 20:04:23 GMT -5
Yo, I'll tell you what I want. What I really really want.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 1, 2024 14:56:14 GMT -5
power to the people right on
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