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CUTENESS OVERLOAD! ABORT! ABORT!
still my favourite DCU moment, to be honest.
"Oh GOD, I'm DEPRESSED."
Ugh...douchebag Lantern. I can't help but feel like they only let him into the League because the alternative was to let him go around being a superpowered asshole.
That's actually not as untrue as you think it is. :P
With that said, Guy grows up a lot during JLI and there's a period where he isn't a douchebag at all (Granted, it's because he hit himself on the head)
and yeah, JLI was rather silly. Awesome, but silly.
Also, I find it interesting that, as Mister Miracle pointed out, Batman was also being an ass and provoking Guy during fights and such, making him screw up.
^^ why do i still laugh at that joke
oh god that reads like a "Getting slapped by women for dummies" book.
Terribly uncreative. Such jokes only ever work as a spontaneous remark, not as a told joke.
What's the least funny kind of comedy to you guys? For me, it's lazy writing. Pop culture references, spontaneous randomness and stuff like the above has no effort put into it.
"Fate accepted" is my dog's response to pretty much anything anyone ever does to him.
I think the thing that bothers me the most is lazy metahumor and references, but I do like shit like Community, which is entirely based around pop culture references (And making them funny in the context of a community college, of course)
That's the thing though, Community actually does something with them and makes them make sense in context; merely presenting a reference is not funny by itself.
Pop culture references can be terribly funny, provided there's actually a punch line.
It's why the best Robot Chicken sketches (with a few exceptions like Scooby-doo at Camp Crystal Lake) are generally the short one-off puns or quick punchlines.
The problem is many times it's just 'Hey remember this thing, guys?'
Even that can be awesome if it's something really obscure, because then just remembering it at all is like a game.
Pop culture references can actually be really, really funny if done well.
The Simpsons in its golden years, for example, pretty much lived off of them, and many episodes were standard sitcom plots that were twisted into something stranger and funnier.
My favorite browser game, for example, is Kingdom of Loathing, a farcical game filled with so many references to pop culture that it takes thousands of wiki pages to document them all, and the writing is absolutely hilarious.
Kingdom of Loathing pulled it off not only in sheer volume, but in sheer weirdness of how they happened.
naviii~, my hips are moving on their own~
Well, I'm now glad I didn't spring for the Know-It-All Brothers' evening tutorial.
Hey, remember the Donkey Kong Country cartoon?
HAHA NO SLEEP FOR YOU
I love how in pokemon they can create all sorts of cheap and wide spread teleportation and spatial compression technology and widely available healing, but nobody has freaking flashlights.
^And here come the nightmares.