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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1475465
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1475465
The aptly-named Jeremy Boreing
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That mug is striking fear and terror into the hearts of Disney executives./s
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Call me crazy, but comedy flows from irony and incongruity. And in order to appreciate irony and incongruity, and thus to get the joke, one typically needs to fundamentally understand the reality that is being made fun of. Few if any who bring to the experience a belief that the moon is made of green cheese or that Hillary Clinton is a vampire will get the joke methinks. Bless their hearts .
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To where, pray tell, has this alternative arrived? To a niche in a niche market or the tip of the propaganda spear when King Trump regains his throne? Yeah, right.
These be turgid efforts by turgid peeps.
But we gotta keep an eye on these creeps. This is a peak season for opportunists.
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Is it entertainment if it only presents what viewers expect to see?
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Sooo I’m stuck on the name Bentkey. I still use a metal key to unlock my back or front doors. If my key gets bent it won’t get me into my house.
And as God as my witness they’re never ever, no way in Hell, every going to displace Disney.
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Hallmark Channel, ever watch it?
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There are already plenty of cartoons out there for white-wingers. Here’s one where they get to root for the vulture:
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It will be interesting to see how long this venture lasts. Because Bentkey is starting soooo far behind Disney. Disney has had almost a century to develop and produce product for the audience, first with movie cartoons before TV was invented, and then later full length movies, and TV shows.
Just because we have all these wonderful modes of getting content to the people, that means that they don’t have a captive audience like Uncle Walt did.
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I was thinking of starting a Porno Disney but then decided the whole idea was fucking Goofy.
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Have to admit the vast majority of teevee gives me narcolepsy. There is a story being told, that is interrupted to sell me pills, cat litter, pizza, new vehicles, ambulance chaser law firms, and beer. It kinda distracts from the story and it’s off to dreamland.
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Well you could start with Chip n Dale for the female audience.
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One of the first things Cargo Jr. watched on the TeeVee was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, made 60ish years prior in 1937. He actually feel off the couch onto the floor laughing.
They know what they are doing.
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Like Disney, but with pray-ins and mass shootings
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“Teevee gives me narcolepsy”
I actually had to take a nap yesterday in the middle of watching “Leave the World Behind”.
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OT Because Texas can’t get anymore misogynistic.
Industrial accident and chemical explosion leader is not enough.
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O/T: Forget it Jake, it’s Texas
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily halted an order allowing a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant to get an abortion — reversing a lower-court ruling that marks the first case of a pregnant woman seeking a court order for the procedure since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year.
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