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  • Freddy Got Fingered is just… mostly in bad taste.

    But man, the nature of the beast is like 20 years ahead of its time in terms of irony culture.

    I guess I should explain more. Tom Green was known for pioneering the style of annoying street skit that Eric Andre would later employ. If you’ve heard The Real Slim Shady, you may already know that it was cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

    Some studio head said, “This kid can make us some money! Let’s give him $14 million to make a Tom Green movie!”

    Another finger on the monkey’s paw unfurled, and Tom Green made a movie that only Tom Green could make. Kaufmanesque, it’s been said.

    You may have heard of the Golden Raspberry Awards, the bad movie awards, an ironic twist on the Oscars. They do invite their nominees, but naturally few show to the awards. Freddy Got Fingered swept the awards, winning five Razzies in total.

    Tom Green showed up in a limousine, rolled out his own red carpet, thanked the awards as he had made exactly the movie he wanted to make and they recognized that, then played kazoo onstage until he was physically dragged off.

    I adore it.


  • South Park S3E10, Korn’s Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery.

    The whole episode is a Scooby-Doo parody, and it’s alright. But the joke that got me thinking was this:

    Jonathan Davis: All right gang, we have to split up and look for clues!

    Stan Marsh: How should we split up?

    Jonathan Davis: I know! Let’s have everyone who enjoys having obstacles in their life which they can overcome go this way, and everyone whose insecurity sabotage their potential to overcome those obstacles go that way.

    [Everyone says “OK!”, then splits up into two roughly equal groups]

    Kyle Broflovski: Wow! That was easy!

    They just all knew which group they were in immediately. Got me thinking about which group I was in.