This reminds me of The Dilbert Hole, a profane take on Dilbert's watercooler mirth. Scott Adams didn't take too kindly to it.
Also, MRA Dilbert - Dilbert with quotes from the author himself.
The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
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#62No, this is the best Lasagna Cat, complete with FF6 mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELOiYgR2aI
What ever happened to the guy who made those? These were so well done. Got me into the GI Joe parodies too. I honestly haven't run into anything on YouTube this good in over 5 years.
FWIW, DJ Douggpound (Tim & Eric, Pound House, et al.) did some editing and voices on those. His new stuff is brilliant -
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#63What's with the starting diss of Charles Schulz?
Some people (myself included) find Peanuts insufferably boring and not all that funny.
Once you realize that he was America's greatest absurdist, it's breathtaking.
Also, the collection Chip Kidd designed is a great doorway into understanding how it could have become so popular. [1]
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#64No, this is the best Lasagna Cat, complete with FF6 mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELOiYgR2aI
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#65This reminds me of The Dilbert Hole, a profane take on Dilbert's watercooler mirth. Scott Adams didn't take too kindly to it.
I ran across The Dilbert Hole strips embedded in some guy's weird webcomic where he took photographs of Plasticine animal characters and pasted them over photographs of the real world. I can't think of the name of the strip, the only title I remember is "Winter Pageant". At one point the Dilbert strips got replaced with redrawings of them (probably when SA "didn't take too kindly to it") and then I totally forgot about it until today.
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#66Even if Garfield Minus Garfield is a little weird, I think it's fascinating how the absence of the cat creats such a obscure melancholia. Some of the stripes even become philosophical.
Or conversely shows how easy it is to make non-sense that can be interpreted as deep or meaningful. Makes me think of India's guru culture or the US's new age stuff. Its like our minds are hardwired to trip a fuse when we see something on the level of zen koan or similarly weird or meaningless. Another example is 'cut up books' where you randomly paste together strips of sentences from other books or newspapers and e…
>when we see something on the level of zen koan or similarly weird or meaningless.
Zen koan are anything but meaningless. They are in fact purposefully designed to evoke certain meanings...
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that Peanuts isn't funny, but it's darker than it looks. If happiness is a warm puppy in the Peanuts-verse, it's because people are often cruel and hateful, and life is full of endless disappointment. Just like Garfield, really, in that it's supposedly light fare that's deeply melancholic under the surface.
I 'read' a friend's compendium of Peanuts and was shocked at the cruel, dark humor of the initial years. It really was aimed at adults until Snoopy started to become more prominent and the strips played for laughs rather than insight into society.
I read some of the Peggy Jean (Charlie Brown's girlfriend from 1990-1999) strips. It's brilliant comic gold, filled with both hope and cruelty throughout. I don't think Schultz ever played anything for just laughs. His brilliance was he captured all parts of humanity, light and dark, in his strips, even until the end.
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#68The best musical analog I can think of to this would be Simpsonswave (as compared to the whole of the vaporware genre).
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
What ever happened to the guy who made those? These were so well done. Got me into the GI Joe parodies too. I honestly haven't run into anything on YouTube this good in over 5 years.
They were made by FatalFarm which has done a lot of really great stuff in the last few years, including some absolutely brilliant work for Key & Peele. Most of their work is online: http://fatalfarm.com/ They have a series of "alternate TV intros" you need to watch right now: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL92CAF6B8AE655C2C The "Ducktales" one is the best. Probably NSFW.
The Ducktales one is definitely the best, I can no longer hear the theme music without thinking of it.
The Robocop one has got to be the absolute boundary of what is allowed on YouTube.
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#70The best musical analog I can think of to this would be Simpsonswave (as compared to the whole of the vaporware genre).
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