Every year we watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” and every year Sally’s request for Santa to bring her “tens and twenties”—intended at the time to be a ridiculous sum, to show how commercialized Christmas is—becomes less unreasonable.
Actually, I think a year or two ago it flipped, and started to seem like a comically low amount. I’m just waiting for my kids to ask why Charlie Brown is so disgusted by such a small request.
My fist experience with peanuts was the school forcing us to watch the special “why charlie Brown, why”
So I’ve always considered it to be kinda of depressing. Also I’m not sure why exactly they needed all students to see that special… Was there alot of leukemia bullying going on back then? Was i supposed to be checking myself for leukemia? What message was I supposed to be taking from that beyond “life kinda sucks sometimes”
No idea. It’s the second most confusing inspirational story we were subjected to at that school.
Edit: off topic but if anyone is curious about the #1 confusing story: Local rich guy on career day. All is kids in the auditorium. He tells us a story about growing up poor but admiring a rich man’s Rolex. He worked and saved for several summers. He bought a Rolex and showed his father. His father smashed it and tossed into the fire. Now he’s rich but never bought another Rolex. No clue what the point was. If you work hard you can achieve your dream? That people will try to smash your dreams? Spend money wisely? Sometimes father’s are dicks? No clue. Someone thought it was important enough to bus all three middle schools over to hear it. Again all I learned was that life can be kinda shitty. I’m nearly 40 now. Never forgot that story, never figured out the point. If you’re out there local small town rich dude… The fuck was the point of that story? What message were you trying to drive home? Over 25 years …always remembered it, never figured it out. What was the idea you were trying to pass on to over 1,000 kids because you certainly didn’t foster change, only a lot of confusion.
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Arrested Development aired from 2003 through 2008. The average price of bananas during that time was around $0.62/lb. The average price currently is still $0.62/lb.
So…. No. Not “good old days.” Is more like same old days- if all we are using is a banana for scale.
I’m afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run… So to speak. Now I’m left with sort of a mess on my hands.
Yo I paid $4 for like a handful of kale the other day
My rabbit preferred romaine hearts, cheaper too I think.
I stopped watching when they were mocking one of the characters for having an anxiety disorder. The writing and structure are clever, but that show punches down way too much.
That’s the point. Just like with the price of bananas, the show pokes fun at how old money families can be so disconnected from reality.
We were invited to laugh along at the guy collapsed and hyperventilating on the floor, no thanks.
That’s fair.
Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.
Hey man, that joke is a little dark …
… Waiiiit a minute!
See that’s actually funny. The sentence can be interpreted on multiple levels, there’s an element of surprise when you figure it out, there’s wordplay.
“Haha guy is on the floor having a panic attack” has none of that.
Compare to “there’s always money in the banana stand”, which is a brilliant setup and payoff. That’s the kind of stuff that makes me love a show. Wish it had worked for me overall.
That reminds me of the time I stopped watching always sunny in Philadelphia because they made fun of a guy with rickets. let’s keep it above the belt comedy shows. No cheap shots.
Always Sunny is almost nothing but cheap shots, and it consistently makes me laugh and then feel bad about said laughing.
I was being facetious. Well technically it wouldn’t … Doesn’t matter.
What you are saying was exactly my point. It’s a show about bad people doing bad things. It’s a bit silly to be like “they did a bad thing so I stopped watching” because… Well… That’s the show, that’s the point of the show.
Compare that to me saying “I couldn’t get into walking dead because the wife immediately starts sleeping with the best friend after she hears (but doesn’t confirm) the husband is dead”. That might be a personal issue, people could argue I should try to move past that and enjoy the show … However it’s not me missing the point of the entire show. It’s just a personal gripe. That was my point. If I complained “they focus too much on complicated interpersonal dynamics in emergency situations” that would be missing the point of the show. It would still be fine not to like it but changing it would remove the whole point of the show. That’s my gripe with the comment.
Complaining about a detail of the show is fine. Complaining about the entirety of a show is also fine. Complaining about the entire plot of the show like it’s a minor detail is just saying you didn’t understand the show.
