Some things age better than others, especially pieces portraying different periods. Modern pieces are fine, but namedropping the biggest tech company for relatability points is something many frown upon, and as much as I like Smiling Friends I don't want to give it excuses for pulling a bad move.
You talk like it's supposed to be some timeless masterpiece when it's clearly a product of its time and mostly deals with contemporary meta commentary and humor.
No one will remember SF exists 2 years from now.
its an annoying and disappointing experience for anyone involved
the only thing that'd make it more annoying but realistic is if the characters made the decision based of anxiety about whether they should just go back home now, or waste time trying to figure things out but then wait for the next flight
a small detail like "the next-next flight is in 12 hours" would be realistic and i have anxiety just thinking about it
My thing was I was sitting there asking myself if they had roundtrip tickets back? Don't airlines let you upcharge to change the return trip date? This seems like the only non issue the plot could accomidate for
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It's not so much that it is timeless, but the show otherwise does little to confine itself to a particular decade. Only other example I can think of is Glep using a tablet. Satan orders food but it doesn't specifically say anything that makes it look or sound like an app delivary over the old fashioned call delivaries.
>Satan orders food but it doesn't specifically say anything that makes it look or sound like an app delivary over the old fashioned call delivaries.
homie
What about Satan vaping then? They could've gone with cigarettes since that's a little more timeless and universal whereas vapes are more of a young urbanite thing.
People basically stopped talking about it everywhere after 3 months of the first season dropping. Once Smiling Friends officially ends it'll fade into irrelevance within months of it ending.
Ah remember that timeless episode of South Park where Michelle Obama had to save the country from Randy Newman and Honey Booboo lowering the standards of American media to the public? Or how about when Al Gore was hunting Manbearpig, an on-the-nose allegory for global warming, and wasted everyones time? Timeless, right?
Isn't that even worse? With a dated concpet at least it's respectable trying to craft a story around it. A throwaway reference line can literally be replaced
"Ah we should do a group chat text or something"
"Ah we should have a bulletin board about this"
"Ah, we should have met and talked about this prior"
Literally anything can be done to accomplish the same meaning without shoehorning such a reference.
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The point is that's just a throwaway line in a conversation meant to feel real, if google collapses and is forgotten, the most a person would have to do is look up "what is a google doc" for a line that isn't even important to the rest of the episode. Only an autist would get hung up on it.
I never said it was timeless, everything is inherently a product of its time (specially South Park), what I'm saying is that getting autistic about it is stupid.
Do you also hate how old shows used old music, technology, and slang?
>Do you also hate how old shows used old music, technology, and slang?
I do not hate it, I acknowledge it is dating itself and will inevitably lose audiences if the dialog directly hinges on comprehending the reference made. A single line can be what causes an audience to tune out and break their immersion
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Well, making things for the broadest possible audience usually leads to bland-as-frick products being made.
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So what merit is talking about google docs, showing your character holding an iphone, or having them go to McDonalds doing for your art? We've discussed what's possible to lose in doing so, what's to gain?
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>So what merit is talking about google docs, showing your character holding an iphone, or having them go to McDonalds doing for your art?
wasn't it supposed to be an april fools special? the premise was that it was going to be a wacky adventure in Brazil, but then it's 11 minutes of deliberately mundane and realistic conversation in an airport before they decide to go home.
it may not be your cup of tea, but I thought it was pretty funny.
Myspace was already not even relevant when that episode came out. I figured it was intentionally using a dated reference to show how out of the loop a small town like Arlen was. For reference, Myspace hit its absolute peak in April 2008, and facebook had already defeated it for web dominance by November 2008 when that episode aired.
Myspace was already not even relevant when that episode came out. I figured it was intentionally using a dated reference to show how out of the loop a small town like Arlen was. For reference, Myspace hit its absolute peak in April 2008, and facebook had already defeated it for web dominance by November 2008 when that episode aired.
I think Koth used My Space just so they could do the whole My space joke, "You mean your house?" "no It's a website"
It would be fun if they had the slightest bit of chemistry going on but they clearly didn't have any idea about where to push the idea next and mostly just kept repeating the same beat.
A bottle episode is not an excuse to have nothing going on, in fact it needs more going on to make up for the restrictions.
I got the joke and have been in similar situations.
It wasn't funny. Seinfeld did it better.
That was unfortunately not uncomfortable in a humorous way and just in an uncomfortable way.
this
its an annoying and disappointing experience for anyone involved
the only thing that'd make it more annoying but realistic is if the characters made the decision based of anxiety about whether they should just go back home now, or waste time trying to figure things out but then wait for the next flight
a small detail like "the next-next flight is in 12 hours" would be realistic and i have anxiety just thinking about it
>Cinemaphile is the board with the least gatekeeping >Cinemaphile is also the board with the most trannies, homosexuals and pedophiles
Makes you think.
It would be fun if they had the slightest bit of chemistry going on but they clearly didn't have any idea about where to push the idea next and mostly just kept repeating the same beat.
A bottle episode is not an excuse to have nothing going on, in fact it needs more going on to make up for the restrictions.
If you intend to create a time capaule, maybe. An immersive story does best when you dont have any glaring dated concepts for the sheer simplicity of pulling yourself out to consider the time period
World War 2 is covered in grade school. Old services you wouldn't hear about today like Call Collect, Pay per View, or the notion of "Be kind, rewind"ing tapes I think is much more comparible.
Maybe that one is a little lost on some people, into the time capsule it goes.
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Looney Tunes is filled with jokes like that, and yet it's still hailed as a classic.
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People don't care about most shorts, just a few standout ones that aged well.
Funnily the opposite happened with The Dover Boys. It's a parody of something only people at the time would understand but they hated it at the time.
The losers on Cinemaphile can’t really grasp this episode because they have never actually been in a situation like that. They don’t have friends and they haven’t left their room much left the country.
its an annoying and disappointing experience for anyone involved
the only thing that'd make it more annoying but realistic is if the characters made the decision based of anxiety about whether they should just go back home now, or waste time trying to figure things out but then wait for the next flight
a small detail like "the next-next flight is in 12 hours" would be realistic and i have anxiety just thinking about it
One really underrated moment in Smiling Friends that does an akward social situation angle like that really well is when the boss in the Halloween episode was warning Pim about the forest, they both talk at the same time, and the Boss basically accepts an apology that Pim never made for interrupting him despite he made it sound like he was finished talking. I hate it when people do that.
>Going to India for a destination wedding with friends in November >Most of them are pretty casual about it >I was prepping my tickets and visa and trying to get them to confirm hotel arrangements months and months and months ago.
I travel plenty. Just not hotspot destination and big events where the concept of needing to book a hotel rather than just finding a cheap one on the road is a thing. Who wants be shoulder-to-shoulder with a bunch of tourists?
>Who wants be shoulder-to-shoulder with a bunch of tourists?
I stayed a couple of weeks longer at a beach after the tourist season ended and it turned into a legit ghost town, it was kinda depressing.
I wish there was a balance between 200% tourist season and 0%.
>I wish there was a balance between 200% tourist season and 0%.
I agree with that guy you're replying to, just pick destinations that aren't so heavily crowded.
You don't understand the joke is that it wasn't funny and if you don't find it funny you just don't get it and don't travel. You're not supposed to laugh at cartoons.
This episode just feels like you're in a group call with your friends arguing and you're not sure if you should stop listening or not. I'm honestly surprised that people who have that para-social relationship with youtubers that are fans of the show weren't saying how anxiety inducing it was since it was intentionally uncomfortable but with minimal humor to add levity. >i probably screwed up but i >you did, you DID screw up >i admit to that, i admit i probably screwed up but i don't remember that i was supposed to book the hotel >why do you keep bringing that up?! >it feels like you're ganging up on me >we're not ganging up on you dude!
It feels like the antithesis of the audience's interest.
In a properly written episode Alan would try to fix the situation in an overly controlling manner with humor coming out of that, Charlie wanders off and gets raped by a troony in the airport's bathroom, Pim has a nervous breakdown and tries to make up for his mistake by trying to buy trinkets from locals that scam him out of more money than the expensive hotel would cost. A nice ending would be Pim saving Charlie from the troony and that would make up for his mistake.
The failure of this episode is not because of its concept but because they didn't do a good job exploring the concept, it just came off as really uninspired improv.
I thought they were going to use their experience being Smiling Friends to con someone into letting them crash at their place, but when minute 2 passed and they were still at the airport I knew how the rest of the episode would play out.
The olny thing dated about it is the camera itself, if Home Movies 2020 was a thing Brendon would just use his phone and digital editing, that's it. Coach McGurk would still have a clunker car and no cell phone because he's a broke bum and would probably monolouge about how smart phones are ruining today's youth until he gets one himself and becomes addicted to porn on it
Media being a time capsule of the time they were produced in is good actually. It can be nostalgic, and it's fun to see the outdated references. You guys should stop being so nitpicky
>Until you dont understand one
No, that just makes it more interesting. Don't go watch something of a certain era and get all pissy when it is actually of that certain era.
I'm Brazilian.
When they said Mardi Gras I thought they were just making up a silly fake holiday name as a joke and I had to google what the frick that was.
Why the frick would every hotel room be booked for a fricking New Orleans holiday.
The episode is complete nonsense from start to finish, the joke is completly wrong because of that mistake.
Still liked it though.
Mardis Gras is a Catholic holiday, but it's typically in February or March.
Carnival would've made more sense.
i think what they were going for was when they called the hotel, the receptionist said that Carnival was 'like' mardi gras, so pim just said it was mardi gras
Im glad Im not the only one who thouvht this. Is there any merit to Mardi Gras in any non US country? I clearly am not versed on it.
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Mardi Gras takes place just before when Carnival would take place, so presumably that's when all the hotels would start booking up.
Mardis Gras is technically the last day of Carnival, so it'd mean all the hotels were already booked up from the start of Carnival the week before.
Carnival starts the Friday before Ash Wednesday, and Mardis Gras is the Tuesday immediately before Ash Wednesday
brazilians having issues understanding that mardi gras = carnaval
this is cathartic for me because i always thought that i was smarter than my countrymen
i understand that you're a midwit struggling to come to terms with your intelligence, but anyone with a functioning brain can understand that carnaval is synonymous to mardi gras. the minutia of it is irrelevant
But Mardis Gras literally has the day in the name? It's Tuesday. Carnivale lasts five days. Why would you call a five day festival Tuesday?
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i see you still haven't grasped the concept of words being synonymous to eachother
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But they're not synonyms, Carnival and Mardis Gras are two separate terms of the Christian liturgical calendar. One is a season and the other is a day.
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wait, but US Mardi Gras lasts almost a week too, the Tuesday is the last day of Mardi Gras referred to as "Fat Tuesday" specifically to tie into Ash Wednesday
Mardis Gras is just the celebration day before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent, so any Christian nation technically has a reason to observe it. New Orleans celebrates it because it was settled by the French before the French mainland secularized.
Orthodox nations also celebrate Mardis Gras, but since it's a religious holiday, most places don't really try to go full tourist spectacle with it. Brazil's Carnival is actually related to Mardis Gras since they're both just celebrations before the start of Lent, but Brazil decided to take the whole weekend before Lent instead of just celebrating the one day in the middle of the week before it starts.
Mardis Gras is technically the last day of Carnival, so it'd mean all the hotels were already booked up from the start of Carnival the week before.
Carnival starts the Friday before Ash Wednesday, and Mardis Gras is the Tuesday immediately before Ash Wednesday
>Makes a mistake >Refuses to fully take the blame for or acknowledge it >Accuses everyone of ganging up on him to emotionally blackmail them into forgiveness
Pim is the worst kind of person holy shit
I dunno. I didn't have any of the pretext or context, and I still got the joke right away. Hell, you can tell it's an April's Fools episode by the premise.
Why couldn’t they just find a cheaper hotel further out from the city, or actually spend time looking at hotels/hostels/B&B. They might get lucky and find and opening.
I am Brazilian but i never cared for carnival which is why i never even knew what Mardis Gras was. Now that i know it still doesn't make the episode funny in any way. maybe if it was released as an April fools joke as it was originally intended it could have been funnier.
Google docs probably won’t exist after the war so I would say badly
what war?
>he doesn't know
take your meds
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
The upcoming war with the reptile people.
That's a pretty good number.
Google Docs will be fine because it serves a utility and Google can easily sell services to the government and military in time of a crisis.
Everything ages no matter what so might as well just roll with it.
Some things age better than others, especially pieces portraying different periods. Modern pieces are fine, but namedropping the biggest tech company for relatability points is something many frown upon, and as much as I like Smiling Friends I don't want to give it excuses for pulling a bad move.
>namedropping the biggest tech company for relatability points is something many frown upon
prove it
You talk like it's supposed to be some timeless masterpiece when it's clearly a product of its time and mostly deals with contemporary meta commentary and humor.
No one will remember SF exists 2 years from now.
>No one will remember SF exists 2 years from now.
At first I read that as San Francisco and got really happy.
Look how quickly Ricky & Morty fell out of favor.
Are we in the same universe? I still see normies, stoners, alt/Hot Topic kids, and even the urban crowd wear or have R&M merch
The cool kids on Cinemaphile don't talk about it.
All 0 of them
My thing was I was sitting there asking myself if they had roundtrip tickets back? Don't airlines let you upcharge to change the return trip date? This seems like the only non issue the plot could accomidate for
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It's not so much that it is timeless, but the show otherwise does little to confine itself to a particular decade. Only other example I can think of is Glep using a tablet. Satan orders food but it doesn't specifically say anything that makes it look or sound like an app delivary over the old fashioned call delivaries.
>Satan orders food but it doesn't specifically say anything that makes it look or sound like an app delivary over the old fashioned call delivaries.
homie
What about Satan vaping then? They could've gone with cigarettes since that's a little more timeless and universal whereas vapes are more of a young urbanite thing.
ah ok, that is 100% a dated thing. good eye
People basically stopped talking about it everywhere after 3 months of the first season dropping. Once Smiling Friends officially ends it'll fade into irrelevance within months of it ending.
>namedropping the biggest tech company for relatability points is something many frown upon
Only autists like you actually.
Ah remember that timeless episode of South Park where Michelle Obama had to save the country from Randy Newman and Honey Booboo lowering the standards of American media to the public? Or how about when Al Gore was hunting Manbearpig, an on-the-nose allegory for global warming, and wasted everyones time? Timeless, right?
You are going into the extremes to help your argument when this is literally just saying the name of something.
Isn't that even worse? With a dated concpet at least it's respectable trying to craft a story around it. A throwaway reference line can literally be replaced
"Ah we should do a group chat text or something"
"Ah we should have a bulletin board about this"
"Ah, we should have met and talked about this prior"
Literally anything can be done to accomplish the same meaning without shoehorning such a reference.
The point is that's just a throwaway line in a conversation meant to feel real, if google collapses and is forgotten, the most a person would have to do is look up "what is a google doc" for a line that isn't even important to the rest of the episode. Only an autist would get hung up on it.
If the extremes are applicable I dont see the issue
What?
I never said it was timeless, everything is inherently a product of its time (specially South Park), what I'm saying is that getting autistic about it is stupid.
Do you also hate how old shows used old music, technology, and slang?
>Do you also hate how old shows used old music, technology, and slang?
I do not hate it, I acknowledge it is dating itself and will inevitably lose audiences if the dialog directly hinges on comprehending the reference made. A single line can be what causes an audience to tune out and break their immersion
Well, making things for the broadest possible audience usually leads to bland-as-frick products being made.
So what merit is talking about google docs, showing your character holding an iphone, or having them go to McDonalds doing for your art? We've discussed what's possible to lose in doing so, what's to gain?
>So what merit is talking about google docs, showing your character holding an iphone, or having them go to McDonalds doing for your art?
wasn't it supposed to be an april fools special? the premise was that it was going to be a wacky adventure in Brazil, but then it's 11 minutes of deliberately mundane and realistic conversation in an airport before they decide to go home.
it may not be your cup of tea, but I thought it was pretty funny.
Remember that King of the Hill episode about MySpace?
Myspace was already not even relevant when that episode came out. I figured it was intentionally using a dated reference to show how out of the loop a small town like Arlen was. For reference, Myspace hit its absolute peak in April 2008, and facebook had already defeated it for web dominance by November 2008 when that episode aired.
I think Koth used My Space just so they could do the whole My space joke, "You mean your house?" "no It's a website"
this
What a weird thing to get miffed about.
Guy, is that you?
dilate
You're calling everyone who criticizes SF in any thread a troony. They can't all be trannies, anon.
i still think enron jokes are funny
>They clearly are in Brazil
Why are you all upset
I mean you understand what they are saying from it, i'd say it'd age fine
All art is transient dude
speaking of sharing, can anyone share the special?
Here you go bud
https://mega.nz/file/F25DRC5Q#nZtyz5VKVx7Xl78P4qHJWtA8xq5BwqhVdRa51aNQ60c
thanks alot man
not him but thank you, I'm so glad Cinemaphile doesn't have this "secret club no spoonfeeding" mentality like other boards do
Oh it does, but Cinemaphile isnt just one person
>Cinemaphile is the board with the least gatekeeping
>Cinemaphile is also the board with the most trannies, homosexuals and pedophiles
Makes you think.
>>Cinemaphile is also the board with the most trannies, homosexuals and pedophiles
I refuse to believe that when Cinemaphile exists.
RIght? And Cinemaphile? /soc/?
/a/, Cinemaphile, and /ic/ exist
That shit was great.
probably better than you
>plane crashes
it checks out.
Lol I saw that
Everybody did. They specifically draw attention to it.
Google is an immortal god that will only die when society is destroyed.
At that point you won't care if something ages well or not.
>the characters just talk to each other without any weird shit for 10 minuts.
fun.
pure fun.
i'm really like a lot of that fun.
It would be fun if they had the slightest bit of chemistry going on but they clearly didn't have any idea about where to push the idea next and mostly just kept repeating the same beat.
A bottle episode is not an excuse to have nothing going on, in fact it needs more going on to make up for the restrictions.
This episode is actually the most accurate depiction of male friendship in the modern era I think I have ever seen
there's literally nothing wrong with shows ageing
representing a snapshot of modern life at the time it was made is a perfectly acceptable thing
If you intend to create a time capaule, maybe. An immersive story does best when you dont have any glaring dated concepts for the sheer simplicity of pulling yourself out to consider the time period
Why does every single joke have to be timeless?
Because some people don't like to be reminded that time passes I guess, remember when iphones in cartoons were seen as sacrilegious for a while?
Hell, there are still people on Cinemaphile who complain when a show has smartphones
Well do you want to make a product or work of art that loses its meaning whenever Google Docs stop being mainstream?
Knowing what Google Docs isn't required to enjoy the special. Is Bugs Bunny not enjoyable because there's a lot of wartime jokes?
World War 2 is covered in grade school. Old services you wouldn't hear about today like Call Collect, Pay per View, or the notion of "Be kind, rewind"ing tapes I think is much more comparible.
Okay then, have a grade schooler explain the "A Card" joke from "Falling Hare".
Maybe that one is a little lost on some people, into the time capsule it goes.
Looney Tunes is filled with jokes like that, and yet it's still hailed as a classic.
People don't care about most shorts, just a few standout ones that aged well.
Funnily the opposite happened with The Dover Boys. It's a parody of something only people at the time would understand but they hated it at the time.
Where I can watch it for free?
https://userload.co/f/8a6ed42e1a12
The losers on Cinemaphile can’t really grasp this episode because they have never actually been in a situation like that. They don’t have friends and they haven’t left their room much left the country.
Truth. This episode will relate most with healthy, rational and business oriented adults.
Ha ha so relatable.
I got the joke and have been in similar situations.
It wasn't funny. Seinfeld did it better.
its an annoying and disappointing experience for anyone involved
the only thing that'd make it more annoying but realistic is if the characters made the decision based of anxiety about whether they should just go back home now, or waste time trying to figure things out but then wait for the next flight
a small detail like "the next-next flight is in 12 hours" would be realistic and i have anxiety just thinking about it
One really underrated moment in Smiling Friends that does an akward social situation angle like that really well is when the boss in the Halloween episode was warning Pim about the forest, they both talk at the same time, and the Boss basically accepts an apology that Pim never made for interrupting him despite he made it sound like he was finished talking. I hate it when people do that.
>I hate it when people do that.
I can do you two worse.
>Someone mumbles something to me that practically unintelligible.
>Say "what" back at them in a loud, clear voice.
>They say "what" back.
>Calling my name from the other side of the house.
>*whispering* anon...
>*mumbling* anon...
>*Now skyward screaming* AAAAANOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
you flew to another country without checking if the hotel was booked?
I went to Japan around Christmas 2018 and had a gap in my hostel bookings from Dec 29- Jan 2. I ended up staying at manga cafes.
Happy new years
It was actually pretty great. I spent the night in Shibuya, went to a concert event and then drank and partied till 7 am.
What's a manga café?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_cafe
Ive gone on 5 hour drives with my parents before we stopped at 10pm in some town before my mom will ask us to look up a hotel
>Going to India for a destination wedding with friends in November
>Most of them are pretty casual about it
>I was prepping my tickets and visa and trying to get them to confirm hotel arrangements months and months and months ago.
I travel plenty. Just not hotspot destination and big events where the concept of needing to book a hotel rather than just finding a cheap one on the road is a thing. Who wants be shoulder-to-shoulder with a bunch of tourists?
>Who wants be shoulder-to-shoulder with a bunch of tourists?
I stayed a couple of weeks longer at a beach after the tourist season ended and it turned into a legit ghost town, it was kinda depressing.
I wish there was a balance between 200% tourist season and 0%.
>I wish there was a balance between 200% tourist season and 0%.
I agree with that guy you're replying to, just pick destinations that aren't so heavily crowded.
>Smellevision replaces television!?
How well will this age?
That was unfortunately not uncomfortable in a humorous way and just in an uncomfortable way.
You don't understand the joke is that it wasn't funny and if you don't find it funny you just don't get it and don't travel. You're not supposed to laugh at cartoons.
This episode would be way better if it was actually released on april fools day.
This episode just feels like you're in a group call with your friends arguing and you're not sure if you should stop listening or not. I'm honestly surprised that people who have that para-social relationship with youtubers that are fans of the show weren't saying how anxiety inducing it was since it was intentionally uncomfortable but with minimal humor to add levity.
>i probably screwed up but i
>you did, you DID screw up
>i admit to that, i admit i probably screwed up but i don't remember that i was supposed to book the hotel
>why do you keep bringing that up?!
>it feels like you're ganging up on me
>we're not ganging up on you dude!
It feels like the antithesis of the audience's interest.
Charlie is quick to point fingers as a character. Alan is too but he's OCD so you expect him to autistically not grasp how mean he is.
In a properly written episode Alan would try to fix the situation in an overly controlling manner with humor coming out of that, Charlie wanders off and gets raped by a troony in the airport's bathroom, Pim has a nervous breakdown and tries to make up for his mistake by trying to buy trinkets from locals that scam him out of more money than the expensive hotel would cost. A nice ending would be Pim saving Charlie from the troony and that would make up for his mistake.
The failure of this episode is not because of its concept but because they didn't do a good job exploring the concept, it just came off as really uninspired improv.
I thought they were going to use their experience being Smiling Friends to con someone into letting them crash at their place, but when minute 2 passed and they were still at the airport I knew how the rest of the episode would play out.
>implying Google is going anywhere anytime soon
who cares. Home Movies whole premise was old the minute it aired and it was still amazing
The olny thing dated about it is the camera itself, if Home Movies 2020 was a thing Brendon would just use his phone and digital editing, that's it. Coach McGurk would still have a clunker car and no cell phone because he's a broke bum and would probably monolouge about how smart phones are ruining today's youth until he gets one himself and becomes addicted to porn on it
Are you a tourist?
Media being a time capsule of the time they were produced in is good actually. It can be nostalgic, and it's fun to see the outdated references. You guys should stop being so nitpicky
>its fun to see the outdated references
Until you dont understand one
>Until you dont understand one
No, that just makes it more interesting. Don't go watch something of a certain era and get all pissy when it is actually of that certain era.
If you don't know something, look it up.
If it's good it'll be enjoyable regardless of references. This is why Blazing Saddles is still timeless whereas Epic Movie was hated upon release.
What dated references are there in Blazing Saddles?
I think it being dated fits for the sort of mundane, anti-comedy they were going for in that episode.
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>order fries
>dont pay for it
that's the WORSE crime
That Brazilian waitress will be the main villain of Season 2.
link to the brazil episode?
I'm Brazilian.
When they said Mardi Gras I thought they were just making up a silly fake holiday name as a joke and I had to google what the frick that was.
Why the frick would every hotel room be booked for a fricking New Orleans holiday.
The episode is complete nonsense from start to finish, the joke is completly wrong because of that mistake.
Still liked it though.
Mardis Gras is a Catholic holiday, but it's typically in February or March.
Carnival would've made more sense.
>Carnival
It's literally the weekend before Mardis Gras, it would take place around the same time of year
i think what they were going for was when they called the hotel, the receptionist said that Carnival was 'like' mardi gras, so pim just said it was mardi gras
brazilians having issues understanding that mardi gras = carnaval
this is cathartic for me because i always thought that i was smarter than my countrymen
mardis gras = carnival
It's the last day of it.
i understand that you're a midwit struggling to come to terms with your intelligence, but anyone with a functioning brain can understand that carnaval is synonymous to mardi gras. the minutia of it is irrelevant
But Mardis Gras literally has the day in the name? It's Tuesday. Carnivale lasts five days. Why would you call a five day festival Tuesday?
i see you still haven't grasped the concept of words being synonymous to eachother
But they're not synonyms, Carnival and Mardis Gras are two separate terms of the Christian liturgical calendar. One is a season and the other is a day.
wait, but US Mardi Gras lasts almost a week too, the Tuesday is the last day of Mardi Gras referred to as "Fat Tuesday" specifically to tie into Ash Wednesday
Im glad Im not the only one who thouvht this. Is there any merit to Mardi Gras in any non US country? I clearly am not versed on it.
Mardis Gras is just the celebration day before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent, so any Christian nation technically has a reason to observe it. New Orleans celebrates it because it was settled by the French before the French mainland secularized.
Orthodox nations also celebrate Mardis Gras, but since it's a religious holiday, most places don't really try to go full tourist spectacle with it. Brazil's Carnival is actually related to Mardis Gras since they're both just celebrations before the start of Lent, but Brazil decided to take the whole weekend before Lent instead of just celebrating the one day in the middle of the week before it starts.
Mardi Gras takes place just before when Carnival would take place, so presumably that's when all the hotels would start booking up.
Mardis Gras is technically the last day of Carnival, so it'd mean all the hotels were already booked up from the start of Carnival the week before.
Carnival starts the Friday before Ash Wednesday, and Mardis Gras is the Tuesday immediately before Ash Wednesday
holy frick you are dumb, even for a brazilian
That one waitress was cute.
you gays always have the dumbest and most autistic taste out of anyone on the board
>Makes a mistake
>Refuses to fully take the blame for or acknowledge it
>Accuses everyone of ganging up on him to emotionally blackmail them into forgiveness
Pim is the worst kind of person holy shit
I don't know
Why are people so mad about this? It's a pretty simple joke. Not liking anti-humor isn't much of a real critique.
I think if there was more hype around the show like the Spongebob Secret Episode the joke would have been funny but it was just a bottle episode.
I dunno. I didn't have any of the pretext or context, and I still got the joke right away. Hell, you can tell it's an April's Fools episode by the premise.
Whether or not it's funny is subjective.
Why couldn’t they just find a cheaper hotel further out from the city, or actually spend time looking at hotels/hostels/B&B. They might get lucky and find and opening.
I just realized they never said where they flew in to. They keep saying Brazil but never what city their in. I'm assuming Rio
The official consensus: It's funny.
Sorry if you got filtered
>You chose the worst time to go.
Oddly relatable, but I'm not sure how.
I can't believe those guys at Schlesinger's did a milkshake mixer gag. That's going to be outdated within a decade.
I don't know?
>dude what if cartoon characters talk over each other and stutter and don't say anything funny lol
very funny psychicpebbles
It's so fricking stupid. What are you trying to prove? What mold are you trying to break? Fricking lazy and unfunny
before watching the episode i read this the same way "make like a tree and leaf" is
I am Brazilian but i never cared for carnival which is why i never even knew what Mardis Gras was. Now that i know it still doesn't make the episode funny in any way. maybe if it was released as an April fools joke as it was originally intended it could have been funnier.