Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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Or maybe he's not 14, and it's just advocating birth control... THAT'S HOW YOU STOP POP EXPLOSIONS IN THE LONG RUN, THANOS...David Attenborough is part of #TeamThanos
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Batmans iz serious business.....
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Wait, he wanted to meet 13 year old Manisha?
I am now slightly less sympathetic towards that black eye he got.
GasBandit
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haha how are U all doing today
figmentPez
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Yeah, he really should have known something was up, since that's way too old not to be married already...
/indianstereotypes
Cajungal
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I love this.
GasBandit
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YOU ARE A CAD, SIR, AND I SHALL SAY GOOD DAY TO YOU!You, sir, are an uncultured swine.
It has its moments.
It's like there are two shows playing simultaneously. One for the intellectuals, and one for the fart joke people, interlaced.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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I've already made my thoughts on it known.
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Yeah, but your argument applies to most of the crew of the TNG Enterprise, too, when it comes down to it. No one wants to watch Kirk put in a solid, competent 8 hours and get promoted the old-fashioned way.
Yes I already had you down for "fart jokes." But that was long before this.
(and yes I know you fraternize extensively with the intellectuals, but you wear your fart on your sleeve)
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Not as egregiously. There's leaning on the wall and then there's hitting it with a sledgehammer. Orville is so far beyond the pale that it's beyond shattering the suspension of disbelief, for me it's downright unwatchable.
GasBandit
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Hey, I love dick and fart jokes as much as anyone. But this show is just bad.
If you're farting from your sleeve you may want to see a doctor. Or take your hand out of your armpit.
Was it conceived as a parody? Or did he just sell it that way to the executives, and then did what he actually wanted as soon as the pilot was over?
Is it any worse then s1 of TNG?
And of course, it's Seth MacFarlane, it's a wonder the crew is competent at all, i don't know what you where expecting...
GasBandit
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Just because I knew it was likely to be bad doesn't mean it isn't bad, or that it gets a pass for being bad because its creator is known for creating bad things.
I was implying that your expectations of a competent crew where at odds with MacFarlane's style... the fact that you dislike that part of his style simply means you're not an objective critic of his work.
Of course, i don't actually see you complaining about Futurama's crew being horrible at deliveries, and asking why they aren't bankrupt yet...
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Yes, but that left room for it to still be a parody, since there's nothing to stop someone from doing both in the same show...
GasBandit
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That's because the context is completely different. One of my main complaints about The Orville is it can't decide what kind of show it wants to be. If it WAS 100% played-for-laughs, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but it keeps grinding the gears as it tries to shift between madcap zaniness and anvilicious soapboxed SRS BZNS. In Futurama, the entire world is an incompetent pastiche. In The Orville, from what we've seen, it's just MacFarlane and his crew, who somehow get a pass while the rest of the universe plays the straight man.