Wait, what? Some people believed his obviously fake presentation about how his dancing video was a hoax, which means they thought he really did put an airline jet in a swimming pool and create a universal animatronic person to dance with him. So yeah, I’d say people who believe things when they’re presented with evidence that says very loudly “THIS IS A JOKE” could be considered idiots.
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Tell that to the White House Press Corps after Colbert.
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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
“Speed is the name of the game.”
My guess is that a lot of people simply heard that Matt had admitted his videos were a hoax, and believed it on that evidence. I don’t think those people are idiots.
I might even stick up for people who watched the hoax reveal video, despite the airliner-in-a-pool and the animatronic dancing robot. I suspect a bunch of folks who were AT that hoax reveal were duped. The laughter from the audience didn’t sound, to me, like the audience was “in” on the joke.
In any case, your point is well taken, whether anything I said above is even partially true.
I think that taking a gay guy to a straight bar, and then discussing gay sex in front of him so that he becomes embarrassed, is pretty slow-pitch softball on the part of the writers/actors.
But on the bright side, I somehow like it that scenes like this are on TV. There are a bunch of people who have a built-in disgust of gay relationships who may only be shifted from their positions by exposure to scenes in the media that portray the matter as fodder for satire or comedy.
A friend of mine showed me an episode of 30 Rock where a young lunch-delivery man is lusted over by one of the regulars on the cast – another man. He takes some ribbing from the rest of the crew, but one guy in particular really gives him a hard time. This guy just assumes that the rest of the people in the room will join him in mocking the gayness. He’s wrong, and he looks like a fool for it.
I generally hate the idea of television, but this sort of thing gives me a little hope that it serves a purpose.
I think you’re right - with the tiny alteration that rather than directly the change will come through attrition.
Oh, snap! I wish I was heterosexual too, so that I could . . . not be able to look at a man’s face? Dude, I’m pretty sure that means you’re in the closet. Or a serial killer.
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It was a recurring joke of the episode - that the three of them would get into discussion/arguments and start ignoring the fact that no sane person would discuss the things they do in front of a sane person. The know-it-all tone and the serious questions combined with the topic, circumstances (they were trying to impress him) and the setting made for hilarity.
He was portrayed as sympathetic in the IASIP episode. Actually doesn’t the same actor play a (barely) closeted gay guy on 30 Rock?
I generally hate the idea of television, but this sort of thing gives me a little hope that it serves a purpose.
You hate the idea of television? What, in your mind, is the idea of television?
Vince will slap chop your ass until you agree that it’s a no brainer.
I think he actually slap chops your nuts.
SO awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqtr_RvR3sY
Tourette’s Guy. (I promise I searched and googled)
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I always felt really bad for that guy. Idk why.
Ah, okay.
You nailed me and my sloppy language. Ouch!
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