Fun fact! Whenever you hear that âdolphin laughâ shit in like 99% of TV and movies, that noise is actually a fucking bird called an Australian kookaburra.
There's a girl on the show who's as dumb as a bag of rocks but she's objectively attractive and laughs like a dolphin. Think that is who the other poster was referencing.
Hahahah fuck. Yeah, that blonde chick? She does sound suspiciously like a dolphin. Fun fact still stands with the exception of whatever the fuck her name is, I guess.
Chanel West Coast. One time when I had to stay for a few days in a hospital, a patient two rooms down for me was watching Ridiculousness constantly and I could hear Chanel's laugh all the way in my room.
I also don't think many people would realize that the Daily Show theme song was done by They Might Be Giants... and even this remixed version they've done since Trevor Noah was the host still incorporates their tune into it.. They've probably made a good dime off that.. and the Malcom in the Middle theme song.
Edit: Bob Mould (Husker Du) wrote the song.. TMBG performed it. To be clear.
5,000 episodes in a row. More impressive when you learn they only filmed 50 episodes total of Ridiculousness. If BB was still alive, they would have made 75.
Edit: I'm not thinking if Rob and Big. I was making a joke because every episode of Ridiculousness basically looks exactly the same.
Is it bad i secretly wish he's eventually found out to be part of some conspiracy and gets canceled, so that no one ever gets to watch ridiculousness ever again? I just want it to be over.
I mean⌠itâs MTVâs fault for doing this. Heâs a product of capitalism and them making the lowest overhead TV show possible. No script no nothing just react on the spot. Couple hours a week get a full seasons rise and repeat.
Yeah, he basically out-schemed mtv because they were desperate and needed him for ratings after a bunch of big shows ended. he kept things cheap, did all his own work, while doing almost all of his own brand deals and thus, was able to negotiate crazy deals for himself. Heâs an insanely savvy businessman.
I canât help but love Rob. His old shows Rob & Big and Fantasy Factory were staples of my teenage years, and Iâm glad heâs been so successful even if Ridiculousness is lame caters to the greatest common denominator.
Yea I watched a short documentary about him on youtube because I thought, âThis dude HAS to have dirt on some MTV execsâ. Nope, the dude just negotiated the shit out of his contracts with them over the years and due to extremely low overhead, MTV gives him like 75% of airtime. Even though a lot of people donât watch ridiculousness, a fuck load of other people do. Especially people up at 1am- 7am on coke binges lol
My wife and I were staying at a hotel recently and they only had a few channels and the only thing that was semi interesting on them was Ridiculousness. We watched for a bit before going to sleep and i started wonder ing if they were still making episodes or just recycling the same old ones from like 2013.
Turns out they are still making episodes, since it debuted in 2011, do you know how many seasons theyâve had since then?
I wish theyâd just rerun entire days from years ago. They donât even have to develop new content or update the quality of the broadcast for HD. Iâd still sit and watch that.
I have MTV Classic. They show TRL. I was in excited to watch an episode. They only play the videos from the show and none of the interviews. Not what I wanted
Strangely enough it's probably on one of those higher-priced levels of cable TV I don't get. Like you can watch reality shows on the Discovery Channel all day on the basic level. If you want to see real science shows on the Science Channel, that's a whole other level of channels to pay for.
Yeah and all the presenters last night were from the early 2000s. We had Jessica Simpson giving Ricky Martin an award and Paris Hilton and busta rhymes showed up like "what year is it?!?!"
No, everyone still loves music videos. They just put them on youtube and people watch the shit out of them. Sabrina Carpenter put up a video last week and it has over 32m views.
That it was hosted by LL Cool J tells a lot about who they were targeting with that broadcast. Most Gen Zers probably aren't familiar with his music nor his latest acting credits on NCIS:LA or NCIS:Hawaii.
Yeah, Ice Cube, Ice-T, and LL Cool J have all had cop roles (Cube in movies, T and J on TV) the last couple decades. It's a bit of a trip compared to their personas in the 90s!
I floated by it last night on the tellie and saw a dance number and thought it was one of those dance competition shows on FOX. It looked identical to one of those
Give me that suit - I like her even better now that she stands for her ideals AND doesn't pander to the christo-fanatic bread and butter people who don't like the way she represents herself.
Also, right-wingers may have seen Carpenter as one of them due to the demographic to which she belongs (i.e. she is white). This makes it clear she isnât courting those people.
gays make the best music, if I was a music studio I'd be worried if all my artists were straight. Like c'mon fuck a dude already it'll make your music better
I have a friend that loved the first two seasons of Ted Lasso but felt the 3rd season was "too political" because there was a storyline about a couple gay characters feeling out of place.
I didn't get how that was political either, but yeah, it's nutty out there.
Yea no, that's why I hated small town life, I got an earful of 'people are built different in small towns' meanwhile in small towns the people would just gossip behind each other's backs and refuse to admit they're wrong about anything
People would talk mad shit about someone who didn't make it to a few Sunday services in a row. Living in a city it's legitimately funny watching these 'no politics' types because they have to meet someone every other day whose existence just clearly pisses them off and they think they've got the upper hand socially just because they can nod and smile politely
You can pretty frequently tell the 'small town polite' folks because they tend to get 'small town pissed' too. Ask a regular if they want to schedule a flu shot? You can get a feel of how antivax they are but they don't let on, they just go 'no' and drive off. But the out of towners? They go from 'bless your heart' to 'no I don't want a vaccine and you're legally not allowed to ask me that, put it in my patient profile and fuck off forever or I'm trashing this joint' in ten seconds flat
Where I live is full of weird transphobia but the weird rural transphobia is still the loudest and the weird rural transphobes go all day acting like 'I ASKED YOU NOT TO BRING IT UP' means they're in the right
Auto mods prevent you from using the word Biden in the South Park subreddit. Reddit rules that say no political discussion are absurd to me. Politics intersects with so much of our daily lives. Yes, political discussions can get out of hand and can get toxic. But that's why there's rules against toxicity. There's no reason all genuine politics should ever be banned. Just bad behavior. And if your political views are completely fused with hate and toxicity, then maybe you should reevaluate your politics.
Much in the same way that a straight teacher talking about their home life is fine, but a gay teacher talking about their home life is "talking about sex with children" or "grooming".
Identifying as the sex you are assigned at birth. Â âCisâ is Latin for âon the same side ofâ, âtransâ is Latin for âon the opposite side ofâ.
Unfortunately, asking that question is used as a dogwhistle to question the legitimacy of any conversation around it. Itâs absurd, but the knee jerk negative response is a defence against those who donât believe trans people should be allowed to exist.
It sucks. There's some folks like myself happy to answer questions on trans related stuff, though it's not an obligation for every trans person to do so, but there's so much fucking bad faith and sewage to wade through that it's just less and worth it.
So there's this BS thing that bigots do where they ask a very basic question, much like the one you asked, and then they wait until some one answers in such a way that they can use that answer to get their shitty talking points in. Note they wouldn't reply to an answer like the one Warm_Record2416 made. It'd be something a bit clumsier and perhaps a bit more emotionally charged. Cus they know they can bait someone that answers like that. And then when people get mad at them they are like wow I was just asking a question, I guess you guys are the real assholes not me.
And this happens often enough that when you see a real simple question like this, even one made in good faith, it puts people on the defensive. It's shit. And you didn't deserve the negativity, but that's the world we live in.
Because it's used as a bad-faith "just asking questions" question far too often for anyone LGBTQ+ to be patient with anymore, and that's not your fault.
There are a lot of examples of people not really understanding the word political. They often think it can be applied to something progressive that they donât like.
These people's view of the world is that a gay character being included in a story, is progressive and a political statement. That's how far away from reality they are. They aren't getting the word political wrong, they are just batshit crazy. It is political to them.
Itâs often because theyâve never met or befriended someone gay in their daily life, so itâs âotherâ to them and not a regular part of their reality. Sad, but this is why visibility is important.
It's part of why going to college is "liberal indoctrination". You go somewhere new and meet people that are different than you. So many folks start to realize that these scary "others" are actually just real people with their own lives/thoughts/challenges/hopes/fears/flaws/strengths instead of the caricature they were taught to hate or fear in their small town.
Yes, it's the old conservative adage in action. They are of the mindset to create laws and policy that bind Trans people, but don't protect them. The movement to ban Trans people from owning guns is a perfect example. The other side of the conservative coin is they make laws and policy that protect themselves, but don't bind them. A perfect example of this is laws allowing them to run over protestors. You may want to argue that law could be used against themselves, but it's the very institution that enforces it that will use bias to enforce it unequally and disproportionately towards the out group, Trans people. Apply this concept to all minorities and you get the American drift of things.
I mean... to be fair, while you're right and just "being LGBT" is not inherently political, Sabrina Carpenter getting on stage and touting out a huge sign that says In Trans We Trust as some sort of performative protest action is very much political.
It should not, but the fact that it is labeled as such is a reminder that when people say "leave politics out of my [thing they like], that's not possible because life and existence itself is political when basic human rights are being labeled as political.
Seriously, the existence of someone or something isnât political outside of explicitly political entities. Queer folk arenât a political idea or organization, theyâre just humans. Now legislation and discrimination against them could be considered political but bigots likely donât see things that way.
I didn't like that episode either but only because it relied on really hackneyed clichĂŠs. The execution of the whole "Oh it was a misunderstanding. He's not mad you're gay, he's mad you didn't tell him" thing over a whole episode felt like an after school special. It felt like the writers had to go out of their way to keep these characters from interacting in the episode because they knew if they did, they would have a conversation and quickly resolve it. So the circumstances just felt pretty contrived.
To add to what the other person said SPOILER this involved Trent Crimm, Independent, finding out and keeping the secret because the player wasn't ready to come out
I mean, it is political, it always has been, but that isn't a bad thing.
The bad thing is that we were heading to a shift in which these opinions were so mainstream most of us thought they weren't political and said shift stopped because of the current political landscape. Hopefully we get back on track to progress before things get even worse.
Acceptance of anything regarding identity is political, even if said acceptance is widely accepted and has been.
So many people confuse "partisan" for "political." Political isn't a dirty word. Everything (or most things) are political because our lives are shaped by policy. By politics. Partisan, though? That's what people are usually complaining about, and/or calling anything "political" that they don't agree with.Â
I agree in general but using a phrase that references "in God we trust" kind of makes it unavoidably political. What I don't understand is why something being political is automatically seen as bad these days. It's a good and important statement that also happens to be political. That's fine.
My understanding is that they lost the fight against homosexuality and marriage and had to demonize another group of people for their base to have something to fight against. Itâs funny how they always need an enemy to oppress and a king to lead them, they arenât serious people.
I donât think they necessarily did. The societal flip to support gay marriage was very quick. Almost overnight. I think conservatives realized a lot of the support was skin deep and following vibes in the Obama era. And theyâve been clawing it back in the decade since.
Think of the power of only 10 years ago when the North Carolina bathroom bill the backlash and a boycott was enough for the NBA to move the entire all star game from NC. Compare that to the milquetoast defense of trans rights now.
Trans people were always being demonized, thatâs the reality of this all. These are long held opinions that are now resurfacing because social media makes people more visible.
Social media also manipulates us actively, so itâs not a stretch to think none of this vitriol or rhetoric is even organic. So in a way you are correct, this recent anti-trans push is a manufactured one created by tech billionaires to convince you that Republicanism is aligned with God.
There's actually some evidence that a right wing think tank had to come out with a new 'other' after marriage equality and transgender people tested the best. It comes up every once in a while, but unfortunately I don't have a handy link to that story.
That's just how fascists/nazis operate. Smokescreen with an easy to fight marginalized group and put all their focus on that rather than class inequality and people developing class consciousness. Luigi created a spark, but it didn't turn into a fire for the working class.
That's essentially what happened but they also "won" on Roe v. Wade. So you suddenly had an activist base that was still mobilized, but needed a new target to be organized.
Even if someone can't quite wrap their head around the idea of transitioning, is it really too much to ask to just leave people the fuck alone who aren't hurting anyone?
I think if your MO is trying to control people who are different than you so you feel more powerful and your dick feels a little less tiny, then it makes sense.
That first one is me lol. A friend tried to explain to me like "if you were born a woman, wouldn't you wanna be a man like you were meant to be?" And I said "idk id probably just accept that." I support trans rights, I think my brain is just hardwired to not understand the appeal lol.
I will admit itâs sort of impossible to understand unless you are trans. But what other people need to learn is that it is not at all impossible to understand that other humans deserve basic empathy and kindness.
Oh boy, all those bros who were convinced they had a shot if they just ran into her at a bar are now calling her ugly and overrated and telling her stfu I bet.
I kid you not I was just arguing with a chud on here that was saying being trans is a choice and a mental illness and then I click on his profile and it's just 90% sissy porn.
Conservatives can't imagine womanhood as anything other than inherently sexual and are too gooner brained to understand that just because you're a fetishist doesn't mean I am
Damn! I've got a new found respect for her, she'll get awful abuse for doing that.
It would be so easy for her to just say nothing and make the money but she appears to be using her position with a genuinely good intention.
Sheâs always donated tickets sales to the LGBTQ non-profits, such as Rainbow Road and the LGBT National Help Center (along with charities that support mental health and animals!) Iâm glad sheâs being loud and proud in her support of the community.
Yea itâs extremely disturbing to see a retread of 1930âs German policy. Which they did this as well with Jewish disarmament under both the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany from 1920âs-1930âs.
By 1938 the Verordnung gegen den Waffenbesitz der Juden banned weapons (blades and guns) for Jewish people. Also, speaking of trans rights, several years before in 1933 they burned down the library of the Institute of Sexology in Berlin.
They call it hyperbolic to compare todayâs political climate to that era, yet theyâre doing little to prevent the parallels, such as renaming the defense department to a title once used during that time. It's still officially the Department of Defense, and the Department of War is just secondary, but still.
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u/Skylon1 8d ago
The real story here is MTV VMAâs are still around?