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[–] [email protected] 104 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Same in the UK if you take sunak and Boris, and India with modi and gandhi :)

[–] garfaagel 77 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Idk who this Cervantes guy is, but I suspect Misters Hanna and Barbera would like a word with him:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Final Boss of Soul Blade

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The originator of the format

Everyone should have a Sancho because we're all tilting at windmills.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Do I look cool naow?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh god this show was REAL!? I watched it once when I was really sick and thought it was a fever dream.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They cannot be bargained with. They cannot be reasoned with.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

They can't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Do you remember the show about the clown girl and the big red(?) couch?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The big comfy couch? There's a cat called snicklefrits

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Weird looking dick and balls. Why is there no hair growing out of the knob?

[–] brown567 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Man, they look so... human. You don't see that in film anymore.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

yeah it's a holdover from the early days of movies and vaudeville... think Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Spanky and Alfalfa, the list goes on and on...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago
[–] jballs 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That one didn't work out so well.

[–] jballs 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah one of them was a bit murdery.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I realize this is a joke but there's something real here about contrast making your characters more memorable or something

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Silhouettes are important in character design after all

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

the show is "katjakaj och bentebent"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Troy and Abed in the fruiiiitboooowl

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The sidekick trope has been a prime mover since vaudeville, maybe before

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The word “prime mover” being used outside of the train community brings a smile to my face :3

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Sheldon and Leonard in Big Bang Theory.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Just jumping in to say that c/lemmytellyousomething should definitely be the name of an advice / self-help community on here

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

This may be the only true fact on the internet

[–] brown567 8 points 3 months ago

Larry and Bob in Veggie Tales

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_act

Because someone has to be pedantic here!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

when kids think they were the first to discover something

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Key and peele

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm definitely an orange.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Drake and Josh

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