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Those who think that wisdom and whimsy are mutually exclusive have neither. It's vitally important to do the right thing when the consequences are dire, and to do a whole bunch of utterly frivolous silly dumb shit when it doesn't matter what you do.

localcryptidsteg

Often, the wise thing must be disguised as silly frivolous dumb shit in order to actually work

homunculus-argument

Nobody's going to let you do anything if they think it's actually going to work.

raindropsonglasss

prokopetz

I've never understood why folks are so weird about the Chocolate Guy making fruit out of fruit. Like, ideally fruit-flavoured confectionery ought to be flavoured with real fruit. You want us to go back to making artificial raspberry flavour out of beaver ass?

fallenstarworkshop

Sure but he takes a mess of strawberries... macerates them, jellies them, puts them in molds, turns them into confections the size and shape of real strawberries, colors them like strawberries... and puts them in place looking like life-sized real strawberries. My man could've just. Put the strawberries on.

miseria-fortes-viros

then he would be selling strawberries instead of being a master patissier

inbabylontheywept

just making sure that the public knows that the beaver ass being used for raspberry flavor thing is literal and not a hyperbole. that did happen.

madtomedgar

I think with the culture wars a lot of people don't understand anymore that humor changes over time and sometimes what was funny then just isn't funny now not because "everyone is offended" but because it just doesn't land, tastes have changed and the punchline doesn't read.

There's a whole scene that gets cut from every production of Tempest because it is clearly supposed to be funny, but the punchline is "widow Dido," and the best guess is that it was essentially a meme that we just don't get anymore. So the scene doesn't work, it isn't funny, it's barely comprehensible. Widow Dido wasn't canceled, society just moved on to different stupid jokes. One of the bits in Merry Wives of Windsor, a genuinely funny play, that is clearly supposed to bring the house down, and probably did in 1598, is that this one guy is French. That's it, that's the joke. Hon Hon Hon baguette du fromage. Get a load of this Frenchman. At best these days it comes off as silly and juvenile. But to an Elizabethan English person, some French guy fumbling a good English girl was hilarious.

And yeah there's also an element of xenophobia and nationalism there and that's not great, but mostly it's just not really funny anymore that French people exist, it's just like... ok? And??

And i think a lot of like. Bits where the punchline is that people are gay, Steven, or like. A woman is doing something, a Trans person exists, this guy wore a dress, isn't it sooooooooo funny that these two dudes are saying romantic words at each other ironically or acting like a couple like...

Yeah the idea that this would be funny is rooted in bigotry. But also,

It's just not funny? Like ok? This guy is wearing a dress? So what? Like ok this character hit on someone thinking they were one gender and was wrong, that's just a random Thursday in a South End bar, we've all been there? Nu?? Sometimes people are from Wales, yeah, that's how geography works?

So like. Is it actually being "canceled" or did tastes just change? Is this being ruined by sjws or woke or whatever, or is this just going the way of 2000s mustache humor?

lumiklovstad

I would like to just quickly expand on this with a very specific example: Monty Python, and the cast often dressing up in drag.

This is (usually) part of a VERY specific joke where we are rapidly losing the cultural context for it, because the bit wasn't usually just reduceable to "haha cross dressing and falsetto funny", though as with many things Python that was part of their sense of humor.

More specifically, these bits tended to be a specific left hook at stuffy middle-aged English housewives. Considering the Pythons put most of their act together when they were in college together, you might understand why they thought this was hilarious. But the housewives that lent to the stereotype that Monty Python was specifically parodying have largely gone away, so the joke doesn't land as well today because without knowledge of what those ladies were like, the only thing we have today to connect with is the cross dressing element, and that too is a joke well on its way out of the popular sense of humor. Eventually those jokes simply won't land at all but for a select few who academically understand the humor at best.

And as sad as I am, as someone who grew up with Monty Python, to watch such genre redefining humor lose its time and pass into the past... that's just how things work. Sensibilities and senses of humor change over time and that's not something anybody can, or even should, stop. After all, how many jokes that made you fall over laughing when you were ten years old could still evoke a similar reaction now?

standingonabeachatsunset

This is fascinating because while I considered some of the humour of Monty Python to be groundbreaking and common knowledge, I also realised that I haven't watched much of Python apart from Life Of Brian in a long time. And being reminded by this reblog of what they did, it will be interesting to see how much of it still works for me today the next time I rewatch Monty Python's Flying Circus.

And if I may "yes, and" this: the example of Monty Python made me realise how tightly connected to 70s/80s German middle-class society the humour of Loriot is. His sketches, and even more so: his two films, are never there to directly shock someone in the slightest, there is never a scene with someone barging into a room of uptight people just for the sake of upsetting them. Instead, the punchline is mostly created by subverting the unspoken middle-class rules of what to say in public, or how to behave at dinner or at the theatre.

There are similarities to the English sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, in that the characters in Loriot's work like to give the illusion of being more sophisticated and educated than they actually are, and they expect others to behave the same way. The ridicule happens not because someone rudely calls them out, but because they themselves fail to fulfil their own unrealistic expectations of how to behave; they fail to, well: keep up appearances.

Even writing this down makes me realise that it was absolutely well-done and on point at the time (and I still love to watch it). But in a world with a vastly different societal structure and cultural knowledge where "going to the theatre" or "having people over for coffee on Sundays" isn't a middle-class expectation (in Germany) of anyone anymore, it is beginning to lose its own context.

When a young co-worker said to me a few years ago that this humour was still slightly amusing but only reminded them of their grandmother and "no one in today's society" it hurt, but I also grudgingly accepted it.

morhath

I hate when king arthur has all these fussy little steps in the instructions and you're like "no way do these fussy little steps matter" but you try it and they do. they matter so much.

bookaddict7342

I thought you meant Camelot quests and I was like "that's fair, 'never pick a four leaf clover on the last Wednesday of the month' IS a fussy little step that shouldn't matter" but then I was like "wait isn't that also a flour company"

morhath

nooo I am not a beleaguered knight of the round table I am making elaborate focaccia 😭

saxifraga-x-urbium

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2026/04/scientists-prove-that-experimental-animation-can-cure-social-media-brain-rot/

Scientists Prove That Experimental Animation Can Cure Social Media Brain Rot

Watching only seven minutes of experimental film or animation can help enhance creativity and act as an antidote to brain rot caused by mindless YouTube video consumption, according to a recent study conducted by University of California, Santa Barbara scientists. According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter, researchers Jonathan and Madeleine Gross came up with these findings as they were designing an experiment on creativity.

They discovered that levels of creativity for the people watching the experimental films were immediately higher compared to those watching YouTube videos, which didn’t change at all. The random sample were more open to seeing the world in new ways after watching the films. Researchers split nearly 500 random participants into two groups: those who watched the animated shorts (which came from the Short of the Week platform) and those who watched the viral video content, described as “home-video-style domestic antics.”

After watching the experimental shorts, the subjects were asked to read a five-sentence short story and also sought to measure subjects “openness” and “conceptual expansion” — the researchers’ terms for a flexible, multimodal sort of thinking — by asking them to note connections between seemingly different concepts. The subjects who watched the challenging films scored much higher on both metrics.

As Madeleine Gross explains, “What it said to us is that we enjoy these kinds of [social media videos, cat clips, etc.] videos but they aren’t doing much for our brains. And the challenging shorts were having an immediate positive impact.”

So, the lesson is: Go ahead and enjoy those weird and wonderful experimental shorts that shine at all our favorite animation festivals around the world. Science has now proven that they do wonders for our brains as well!

saxifraga-x-urbium

bro and/or sis! speak not unless thy intent is delivery! place these links upon this post!

kyanite-shards

Presented in no particular order, and by no means an exhaustive list, some surreal animation history! The highlighted ones are my personal favorites :3

Jan Švankmajer

- Jabberwocky (1971)

- Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)

- Darkness, Light, Darkness (1989)

- Food (1992)

Ivan Maximov

- From Left to Right (1989)

- 5/4 (1990)

- Provincial School (1992)

- Bolero (1993)

- Wind Along the Coast (2004)

- Rain Down from Above (2007)

- Tides to and Fro (2010)

Igor Kovalyov

- Hen, His Wife (1990)

- Andrei Svislotskiy (1991)

- Bird in a Window (1996)

- MILCH (2005)

Felix Colgrave

- The Elephant’s Garden (2013)

- Fever The Ghost (2014)

- Double King (2017)

- DRY RUN (2018)

- Donks (2023)

saxifraga-x-urbium

HELL YEAH

byjove

I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

byjove

I think he could do a really good “Hello officer, how are you?” if he had to.

byjove

YEAH EXACTLY

byjove

Athena is standing behind him whispering the bylaws into his ear.

emptyheadmybeloved

hold on i need to look this up

byjove

it’s been 15 minutes have you finished reading the Odyssey yet?

byjove

translatingpostsinfrench

https://bsky.app/profile/jordandevries.com/post/3mi2dz3x5tc2y

This feels vaguely relevant to your blog? "what do you mean the calgary zoo imported a polar bear from montreal and it's only trained in french and now they gotta teach it english" "the 'calgary zoo imported a polar bear from montreal and it's only trained in french and now they gotta teach it english' T-shirt is asking a lot of questions already answered by my T-shirt."

@quebec-officiel un mot à ajouter ?

quebec-officiel

😭😭 seulement au canada

par contre je trouve très pertinente l’addition d’un autre utilisateur mdr

coldboreshooter

baygeethefirst

I love this SO MUCH

asksloyxp

Maybe if I just work harder, this empty cup will pour again

shinyrock6498

Maybe the cup needs a bit of time to rest and refill?

asksloyxp

Maybe the cup needs to lock the fuck in???

tiktoks-for-my-besties

alexaloraetheris

My favorite brand of people are musicians who hear Rush Fucking E, which isn't technically meant to be played by a human at all, and immediately picking up their instrument and going 'bet'.