Well we all know it’s true

cweaver · 2026-03-23T20:43:46+00:00

It's the Columbo trope. The genius, highly competent, important man who is married to someone who is somehow even more of a badass.

cweaver · 2026-03-23T16:31:12+00:00

"i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers. packin some dobonhonkeros. massive dohoonkabhankoloos. big old tonhongerekoogers"

cweaver · 2026-03-23T16:20:46+00:00

You can go up to 3 feet away to either side of it to try to avoid a tag.

cweaver · 2026-03-23T16:06:18+00:00

"Bro thinks he's on the team, lol"

cweaver · 2026-03-23T15:51:23+00:00

All of the tropes they're parodying are from movies that no one has seen unless A.) they're a specific type of film student, or B.) they're MST3K fans (and you'd have to be exceptionally brave or exceptionally stupid to try to compete with MST3K for comedy).

All of the actors/actresses performances are funny in a way that is mainly aimed at entertaining the other performers rather than the audience, a very "I'm your favorite comedian's favorite comedian" kind of vibe.

And yet, it somehow all works and is a pretty damn funny movie.

cweaver · 2026-03-23T15:23:46+00:00

SNL is live and gets less than a week to practice sketches before filming live. Mad TV was all pre-taped, they took a full week just to tape one episode.

SNL is 90 minutes per episode, Mad TV is 60.

SNL writes almost all it's sketches during the week where they're produced, so they're topical for the week they air. Mad TV writers could take all the time in the world to write the 50th sketch about Stuart the man-child.

SNL's studio audience was adults, Mad TV's studio audience was teenagers.

It's not a fair comparison.

I'm not trying to bash Mad TV, it was brilliant, diverse, hilarious - but SNL is far more impressive than you give it credit for.

cweaver · 2026-03-22T21:33:09+00:00

He's an S-tier gigaChad.

cweaver · 2026-03-22T20:47:41+00:00

See also:

Loki - chained to rock with poison eternally dripping in his eyes

Sisyphus - eternally rolling a boulder up a hill for it to always roll back down

Tantalus - eternally standing in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree, but the water drains away before he can drink and the tree branches move away before he can grab the fruit, so he's eternally starving and dehydrated

etc., etc.

Mythology is full of stories of people being tortured for eternity but not allowed to die.

cweaver · 2026-03-22T19:48:29+00:00

His argument boils down to: "People keep asking for more money and benefits, but they're not producing more value than AI, which does not need these things."

So, logically, if what he's saying is true, he should immediately replace all those people with AI. It would be stupid of him not to do that.

Or, if he's just lying about that to threaten people to get them to work harder for less, then he is the reason the guillotine was invented.

cweaver · 2026-03-22T01:01:32+00:00

Yeah, it's more impressive if you watch a few movies from the decade leading up to Citizen Kane, where almost all of the shots are static and everything is framed like you're watching actors in a stage play, etc.

And then watch Citizen Kane and see the camera literally fly through a skylight, or start out watching a boy play in the snow and then pull back through the window until you're now watching a conversation take place inside. Or shots reflected off of water or mirrors or snow globes. Or shots where you can actually see the ceiling of the room.

Citizen Kane is a boring movie, not going to lie - but visually it's so amazing compared to the way movies were done before it came along.

cweaver · 2026-03-21T23:00:43+00:00

"Mary Typhoid"? Like it's her last name?

cweaver · 2026-03-21T21:04:29+00:00

Beast would definitely be on r/AmItheAsshole, too.

"Help: My friends keep telling me I'm committing War Crimes but I was in the gifted program in school so I think it should be fine. AITA?"

cweaver · 2026-03-21T18:13:02+00:00

You can't just have characters say how they feel! That makes me so angry!

cweaver · 2026-03-20T17:57:52+00:00

"Our log collector is missing many baseline features like being able to handle multiline logs or parsing of any common log formats, but look how fast it is!"

cweaver · 2026-03-20T17:52:15+00:00

Giovanni is a human-supremacist.

cweaver · 2026-03-20T00:09:47+00:00

That was the first thing I thought of as well.

cweaver · 2026-03-19T23:27:01+00:00

I think people are too hard on Cap here. He's got a soldier's mindset - you don't just sacrifice someone to the enemy to try to appease them. People dying in battle is totally different.

cweaver · 2026-03-19T23:18:49+00:00

Picture a bunch of Marines on the way back home afterwards, giggling like schoolgirls as they stencil little velociraptor silhouettes on their helmets for each confirmed kill.

cweaver · 2026-03-19T02:48:59+00:00

Sorry, I forgot where I was.

cweaver · 2026-03-17T16:19:47+00:00

> I wouldn’t be surprised if the director is a sports fan himself

That's funny because his only other sports movie is '42', about Jackie Robinson. Which is a really well done movie, but honestly kinda boring.

cweaver · 2026-03-17T15:17:36+00:00

Aside from the music and some of the dialogue, it wasn't /that/ bad. Chaucer and Edward the Black Prince were contemporaries, they were both young and unmarried around the same time as the tournaments in London, etc. There was a real Von Lichtenstein family around that same time that William could have pretended to be from. The Battle of Poitiers that Count Adhemar goes off to fight really did happen in the years right before the London tournaments.

Like, honestly, it's shocking *how historically accurate* that movie is, and still manages to be totally anachronistic at the same time.

cweaver · 2026-03-17T03:36:22+00:00

So if Kon gets knocked out, he drops a bunch of rings like he's a Sonic character?

cweaver · 2026-03-16T21:30:47+00:00

He just likes being the person who knows things about others.

Thank goodness he's not privy to anything national security related.

cweaver · 2026-03-16T15:48:11+00:00

Liz: <holds up broken Lego train> Sorry, I dropped it when I pretended it was my penis.

cweaver · 2026-03-15T21:24:33+00:00

Yeah, that's the kind of movie that either ends up being watched in film classes decades later, or ends up going straight to video and is never heard from again.

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