Stranger Things
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@blakeyrat said in Stranger Things:
@kt_ said in Stranger Things:
And they were almost completely un-TV-able.
Maybe but they don't shoot a guy in the dick (with all appropriate special effects) through a woman's dress in the first 15 minutes.
Nah, they waited for like half an hour to get there.
Reminded me of this anecdote: when rumors spread that one of them was gay (and of course they all knew it was Chapman) they got an angry letter from someone. They responded: when we find out who it is, we’ll shoot him.
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@blakeyrat said in Stranger Things:
I'm not sure if I'd call it funny exactly... on paper it's a comedy, but. I dunno.
It's been years since I last saw it, but from what I remember, I think I'd call it something of a black comedy. Or at least dark.
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@el_heffe said in Stranger Things:
Apparently, nobody ever uses a mouse with a GUI.
Not at the time Stranger Things is set, no. I remember the first computer mouse that appeared in our house (a Genius): it came with a holder that you could hang on the wall or stick to the side of your computer, to stow the mouse when you didn’t need it. (And I still have that mouse, even.)
@blakeyrat said in Stranger Things:
Then again, when I was a kid in the 80s, there was a Robocop TV series, and Robocop was also un-TV-able. So go figure.
RoboCop the movie is from 1987, the TV show from 1994 (I had to look that last one up). I think I saw a few episodes and didn’t like it much, whereas I still think RoboCop the film is great.
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@gurth said in Stranger Things:
RoboCop the movie is from 1987, the TV show from 1994 (I had to look that last one up).
1994? No I meant the one from 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop:_The_Animated_Series
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@blakeyrat Oh, that one — never watched it, so it didn’t occur to me it even existed.
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@jaloopa said in Stranger Things:
@gurth said in Stranger Things:
Then everyone pauses for the laugh track, standing there as if to say, “See how funny that was?”
Most of them are actually filmed in front of a live audience.
Is that still true? I had thought that practice died out in the 90's.
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@blakeyrat said in Stranger Things:
It'd be funny to the Korea and Vietnam vets it was intended for, I wager.
And it was inspired by Catch-22 which took place, of course, during WW2.
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@boomzilla Catch-22 is similarly one of those "funny" works that's really really scary if you think about it too much
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@blakeyrat BTW I always wondered if Network was inspired by Milo Minderbenders "everything is a business" philosophy. Seems like the 1970s version of the same warped way of looking at things
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@blakeyrat said in Stranger Things:
@boomzilla Catch-22 is similarly one of those "funny" works that's really really scary if you think about it too much
I believe that was by design. Just like Gulliver's Travels or A Modest Proposal, it's satire. Biting satire.
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@benjamin-hall well duh.
The terrifying nightmare chapter where Yossarian is wandering around in the red light district makes that obvious