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Aqua Teen Hunger Force -- stupid, or just retarded? Defend it if you dare

#31 User is offline   Plumberduck Icon

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Posted 13 April 2007 - 01:05 PM

As a person who enjoys the show immensely (but is as dubious as the rest of you as to whether it can work as a movie), I have to point out that the show isn't so much wholly random (on a good day) as it is connected by really weird, surreal logic. And now I'm trying to back that up by citing examples, and I can't think of any that won't sound totally, completely idiotic or incomprehensible to people who've never seen the show, so I'm giving up.

All I know is, when an omnipotent talking meatball wakes up Santa in the middle of July, and then ends up burning him horribly, and Santa, upon looking in the mirror at the wreck of his body, declares "I'm Horror Clause!".... That's pretty funny, to me.
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Posted 13 April 2007 - 03:34 PM

First of all, I agree with you. It was ridiculous that the bomb scare lasted as long as it did.

There was no good reason for the guy to not point out that it wasn't a bomb. There's really no other way around it. I don't care if he had faith in them or not, he should have tried to defuse things a little bit. He didn't even try!

And I'm not for the "EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!" atmosphere of a post-911 world either. It's stupid and it means the terrorists made us afraid. But you have to realize that some people will use any excuse to be afraid and when that happens -- and you are involved -- it is better to ease their fears than it is to call them stupid. As it is, these two losers face 5 years in prison, which probably could have been more easily sidestepped if they had given a little respect and hadn't been complete dicks about the whole thing.'

That's what I think, anyway.
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Posted 13 April 2007 - 06:16 PM

You're being charitable if you think the "Everybody Panic!" mindset of "post-9/11" means that "the terrorists" are winning at controlling the hearts and minds of Americans. Your charity is being extended in this case to the fascists at the helm, who feel that they can justify any sort of reactionary extremism by saying "post-9/11 world." Necessary to demystifying that exression is the following.

1) There is no international terrorist conspiracy. "The terrorists" is not a phrase that refers to any organisation or even any ideology.

2) You can be arrested on "suspicion of terrorism" with no concrete charge ever filed. You can be held without trial indefinitely. That is the legacy of "post-9/11." Not that a world of terror made that sort of reaction necessary, but that the propaganda machine convinced Americans that it would be ok to allow that. Sure, I'm no terrorist, they'd say, so my freedoms won't be affected. Man, what sixty years will do to a culture's memory ...

3) Post 9/11, there have been zero terrorist activities remotely on the scale of 9/11. Terrorism is limited to activities targeting American soldeirs on foreign soil. This is not a testament to the great work being done by Homeland Security; this is evidence to prove point 1) above.

Back on topic, ATHF looks to be completely idiotic and I won't watch it. I would rather pound my nuts flat with a hammer. But yeah, if these guys saw police reacting to the adverts and thinking they were bombs, then they should have stepped in and mitigated damages. As it is the damages appear to have been unintentional, but they cross a line if the damage was not mitigated when known. So it looks like the advertisers were idiots as well.
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Posted 14 April 2007 - 02:26 PM

I couldn't have said it better myself; in fact, I didn't.
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Posted 14 April 2007 - 03:55 PM

I'm thinking that I should be agreeing with joshofalltrades here, but as a result of this thread I went and watched a few episodes and found them quite funny. It isn't subtle, and there aren't any explicit gags in there, so I can understand why many people might think "This isn't funny, it's stupid", but it's the same kind of thing like Homestar Runner. You just have to have the right mindset for it. And I do, because there's something about Frylock that cracks me up.
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Posted 14 April 2007 - 05:13 PM

I'm not one to gush over Civilian number two's posts, but it seems I'm pretty much in alignment on this one. Nicely put.
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Posted 16 April 2007 - 11:50 AM

I don't like this show, I can see the elements of comedy in there but somehow it doesn't work.

The Lite-Brite thing was stupid, Police action wasn't required seeing as the devices had been up for several weeks and in 3 other cities.

It was an over-reaction and even though I dislike the show, I think their public statement, in which they would only answer question regarding hair, was hilarious.
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Posted 16 April 2007 - 02:14 PM

The show is intended to market to stoners. That's why it's surrounded by other shows just like it and is on from 11pm to some ungodly hour.
It's also cashing in on the parade of pointless arbitrary humour (thank you Conan) that has spilled out of the internet and all over eveything we hold dear.

No use crying about spilt humour.

Sorry to keep on topic.
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Posted 16 April 2007 - 05:21 PM

QUOTE (Prodian @ Apr 16 2007, 02:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Sorry to keep on topic.


Apology accepted. Just don't do it again.
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Posted 16 April 2007 - 06:00 PM

With a hammer!
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Posted 18 April 2007 - 03:23 PM

When I visited America in 2004, I was shown ATHF for the first time. I admit, that at first I thought it was a pile of poop - or perhaps it was just to awry from British humour for me to understand it, the Americans were laughing their tits off. Although by episode 3 I still wasn't that interested, by episode 5 I'd started to see the funnier side of it. Then some of it became hillarious.

To me, it's one of those shows where you have to wait a good 5 or 6 minutes in between each thing that is actually funny at all. I think the only episode that made me laugh constantly was the one with all the Pop-up ads. That was great. Also the 2-bit alien things are funny tongue.gif I quite liked the show simply because of its piss-taking of computer/internet related issues, and also its kinda funny take on other cartoons (like that crazy scientist guy at the start of most episodes)... But that's about it.

Still, I can see why some people wouldn't really like it! And in honesty if I were to watch it again, I'd only want to watch the pop-up ads one tongue.gif

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=hHsUZlJ7lug

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Posted 20 April 2007 - 02:46 PM

I just watched the movie and I have to say that it was hilarious and awesome. It was awesolarious. Go watch the movie. That is a direct order from Commander Fun.
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Posted 21 April 2007 - 06:53 PM

Well I have to say that I love the show, and I'm not fan of broad or stupid comedy. I think the humour is actually quite subtle, with most of the laughs coming from obscure pop culture references or the fact that the whole situation is so absurd (like the shows own name for example)

I wouldn't say that the show is idiotic, because that term is reserved for stuff like jackass (also funny but in a different way), if you can't laugh at ATHF then you either take life to seriously or your not keyed into popular culture enough.

Either that or its just not your cup of tea.
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Posted 22 April 2007 - 09:13 AM

QUOTE (El Presedente @ Apr 21 2007, 06:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Either that or its just not your cup of tea.


...Yeah, let's go with that.
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Posted 22 April 2007 - 01:54 PM

Jackass is not funny at all, it occupies the space between 'ridiculous' and 'pathetic'. It's an enormous piece of shit the world could really well do without. Period.

This post has been edited by David-kyo: 22 April 2007 - 01:56 PM

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